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X-Ray Engine: Action

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About​

This page describes the X-Ray Engine: Action panel. This panel stores animation parameters for skeleton animations (*.skl Anomaly Modding Book, *.skls Anomaly Modding Book, *.omf Anomaly Modding Book, *.object Anomaly Modding Book, *.ogf Anomaly Modding Book) or path animations (*.anm Anomaly Modding Book)

Location​

Dope Sheet window > (in blender versions 2.77 and 2.78 in the Graph Editor window) > N-panel > X-Ray tab

Context​

The number of parameters depends on the type of object

If the object type is Armature, all parameters except Bake Mode (Auto, On, Off) will be available and all operators will be available

If the object is not Armature, FPS, Bake Mode (Auto, On, Off), Use Custom Thresholds, Location Threshold, Rotation Threshold, but no operators will be available

Parameters​

X-Ray Parameters​

Parameters that are read or written to files during import/export

FPS​

Frame rate of the animation. Usually equal to 30

Speed​

Animation playback speed. You can speed up or slow down the animation

Accrue​

Blend-In

Falloff​

Blend-out. The value must be less than Accrue. If it is not, the engine will calculate its own value for Falloff, which will be less than Accrue by a minimum amount

Type FX​

TODO

Bone Part​

TODO

Start Bone​

TODO

Power​

TODO

Stop​

Stop at end flag that stops the animation after playing. If off, the animation is played cyclically

No Mix​

Animations will not be mixed

Sync​

This flag is used to indicate that this animation will synchronize with another animation depending on the Bone Part

Foot Steps​

TODO

Move XForm​

TODO

Idle​

TODO

Weapon Bone​

TODO

Motion Marks List​

This list stores the names of Custom Properties bones that will be used as Motion Marks. Motion Marks support *.object Anomaly Modding Book, *.skl Anomaly Modding Book, *.skls Anomaly Modding Book, *.ogf Anomaly Modding Book, *.omf Anomaly Modding Book formats for CS and CoP. To save them to a file, you need to set CS/CoP format when exporting. The Marks Bone parameter specifies the bone whose Custom Properties should be used. The elements of the list are the names of Custom Properties of the bone. Custom Properties need to be animated so that the animation (action) has animation keys for this property. If the property value in a particular frame is zero (or False), then the current frame does not belong to the label interval. For all other values, the keys belong to the label interval.

Addon Parameters​

Parameters that are used by the addon inside blender, or during import/export, but are not read or saved to files.

Bake Mode (Auto, On, Off)​

Animation bake mode during exporting

  • Auto - Automatic mode. The addon itself will calculate whether to bake or not. If the object or bones with animation have constraints, baking will be used, and if there are no constraints, it will not be used
  • On - Enable baking
  • Off - Disable baking

Use Custom Thresholds​

Use arbitrary threshold values for position and rotation during animation key filtering, instead of the default value of 0.00001. Arbitrary values are specified using the Location Threshold, Rotation Threshold parameters

Location Threshold​

Threshold for the position

Rotation Threshold​

Threshold for rotation

Operators​

Copy​

Copies animation parameters to the clipboard. The parameters are saved in text form, which can be saved to any text file

Paste​

Inserts animation parameters from the clipboard that were copied with Copy or from a text file. You can paste copied parameters from any other open blend file

Export *.skl​

Exports one current Action (which is selected in Dope Sheet) to *.skl format.

Sources​

Blender X-Ray Addon Wiki on GitHub GitHub