Animation filenames, what do they mean?

SirBatince

Hello

I am venturing a bit in BGEE nearinfinity modding and I would like somebody to explain to me what the bam names actually mean?

For instance



Here, I gather MDGU would be Monster Doom Guard, but what's all this a1 a2 stuff? And the E ones? I can only guess CA is "cast".

NPROHG1 is apparently one of the townsfolk but I do not understand why they would have another set called "PROL".

Thank you

argent77

The naming scheme of creature animation files can be quite complicated. You can find a good description in the IESDP.

SirBatince

Thank you for that link.

I think I may have run into some weird hard-code, but MDGUinv.BAM refuses to show a paperdoll. I've tried with various other monsters and it works just fine. I've tried MDGU1inv.BAM aswell with no success

kjeron

@SirBatince the 6400 block doesn't appear to support paperdolls.
You can clone it in the 6600 block, and the paperdoll will work (as -1INV, -2INV, -3INV, -4INV).

SirBatince

@kjeron I'm not sure what you mean with "cloning", I'm rather very inexperienced with NI.

kjeron

Doom Guard is animation 0x6405 (from ANIMATE.IDS).
Copy file 6405.INI as 6630.INI.
Add entry to ANIMATE.IDS:

0x6630  DOOM_GUARD_W/PAPERDOLL

Use the new animation (in your creature or op53).
Add your paperdolls as MDGU1inv.BAM, MDGU2inv.BAM, MDGU3inv.BAM, and MDGU4inv.BAM.