Creating HUD Hands Animation in Blender

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TheParaziT

Anomaly Modding Book maintainer

Need to know

• How working in Blender and creating animations
• Skeleton animations (*.skl , *.skls , *.omf )
• Camera animations (*.anm , *.omf )

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Beginning

• Download the Blender and install it.
• Download any set of hands from Discord or Resources Pages
• Download the X-Ray Tools for Blender
• Install the X-Ray Tools for Blender by going to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > top left > Install from disk
• Install OMF Editor

Creating an animation

• Open your hands *.blend file in Blender
• To start you need to have opened Dope Sheet editor and Action Editor in it
• If you need to use camera motion, follow the Applying camera motion section first
• Make an animation, you can find any other Blender tutorials on how to animate
• In the right side of the Dope Sheet editor, select X-Ray > Export .skl
  • Right panel can be hidden, you can show it by pressing N in that editor or select an arrow in the most right

Applying camera motion

• In 3d Viewport > X-Ray > Add > Add X-Ray Camera select HUD SoC/CS
• Select the camera in the Outliner editor
• With File > Import > X-Ray Animation Path import any .anm from gamedata\anims\camera_effects
• In the Dope Sheet editor select the imported camera animation
• Make sure the camera movement is playing
  • I noticed that when you are importing camera animation without selecting the camera, it will not work properly, so make sure you select the camera before importing (lol)
• Expand camera object xray-camera-root in the Outliner editor
• Select the xray-camera object
• In Properties editor go to Data > Lens
• Adjust FoV to your game settings (65 for the Gamma)

Creating a *.omf file

Preparing the scene

• Create new Blender project
• Import through File > Import > X-Ray Game Object any hands *.ogf file, for example, any from gamedata\meshes\anomaly_weapons\hands
• Select the imported object
• In Properties editor go to Data > Bone Collections > Add Bone Collection
• In 3d Viewport editor go to the Pose Mode
• Select all the bones in the 3d Viewport editor
• In the Bone Collections select the newly created bone collection and click on Assign Selected Bones

Exporting the *.omf file

• Import your .skl file(s) through File > Import > X-Ray Skeletal Animation
• In the Dope Sheet editor select and play your animation and make sure it works
• Export the animation through Export > X-Ray Game Motion
• Both SoC and CS/CoP formats worked for me and I haven't seen someone using High Quality Motions checkbox, so you can choose any of formats
• Select Export Mode
  • Overwrite - obvious
  • Add - adds the animation to the existing *.omf file
    • This also can be done via 3d Viewport > X-Ray > OMF Editor > Merge OMF

Managing the *.omf file

• Open the OMF Editor
• Open your *.omf file
• Refer to the OMF Editor documentation for more information on how to use it
  • Usually you want to control SDK Flags for each specific animation

Follow Script Animation Guide to learn how to use your animation in the game