Programmers PLEASE!

[Allbait]

This is about animation swaps and deformities... So everyone knows that to fix a deformity you need to go in brawlbox and copy the traslations from the T-stance and place it in the first frame of the animation that was ported and you gotta do it to every bone... So to skip the annoying constant copy and pasting is there any programmer that can PLEASE make a program that automatically does this copy and pasting? Every time I port animations I wonder WHY ISN'T THERE A PROGRAM TO DO THIS YET? 

I suck at explaining what I want but I think the idea got through... right?

Please and thanks BTW

[Lecapria]

i had this problem too, i think that hasnt been done bc it would change the positions and rotations as well. Sometimes they want certain animations to be dirrerent int some ways, and to make a program that only changes the length and width of an animation, (having taken C++ college coarses and in AP java programming) would be very difficult. They would have to ave the original programming for Brawl box and the names of the variables for the characters which would be looking at SSBB in code form that would not be fun. i know someone whos been programming all his live and is extremely smart. were getting together this weekend and i will introduce him to brawl box,and see if he can do anythihng for it. Hes so smart he MADE a 3d printer and got a scholarship for it!

as a summary, it hasnt been done bc thats something really advanced and would take 100s and 100s of added code to a program we didnt build.

[Allbait]

I had this problem too, I think that hasn't been done because it would change the positions and rotations as well. Sometimes they want certain animations to be different in some ways, and to make a program that only changes the length and width of an animation, (having taken C++ college courses and in AP java programming) would be very difficult. They would have to have the original programming for Brawl box and the names of the variables for the characters which would be looking at SSBB in code form that would not be fun. I know someone who has been programming all his live and is extremely smart. We're getting together this weekend and i will introduce him to brawl box,and see if he can do anything for it. He's so smart he MADE a 3D printer and got a scholarship for it!

As a summary, it hasn't been done because that's something really advanced and would take hundreds and hundreds of added code to a program we didn't build.

Part in red: It would NOT change the rotations because the rotations are what make the animations; the translations are to edit the location of the bone in relation to the one before it. Editing the rotation would be changing the animation but changing the translation would be to change the way the model looks in the animation.

Hmmm let me make it simple...

Each character has their own translation for example Zelda.

And all of her animations keep the same translation as her T-stance obviously.

Frame 1 controls the translation of the whole animation BTW

Which is why when you port it to another character the animation causes deformations, because each model has a different set of translations.

When I give Marth Zelda's Wait3 his model will use the animations translation and the result is this:

So how do you fix it? Simple you copy the values from Marth's T-stance (the spoiler before the one before) and place it in the first frame of the ported animation. The result is this:

This is a bad example because the deformation isn't as apparent, but trust me, its there.

The problem is that you have to do that for every bone in every animation which is a lot of copy and pasting.

Part in yellow: I'm not saying to add to brawlbox... I'm saying make a whole new program

Part in pink: The hundreds of coding is nothing compared to the hundreds of copy and pasting's, especially if its a skilled programmer making it.

I think that making a program to do this is possible, tricky and time consuming, but possible.

[DarkPikachu]

hmm...
I think I'll do this myself when I get around to it >_>

I program in Py, but sadly I'm not a total expert at it...

but this is a good idea, and I might make a prog
once I get into CHR0 files...
(I really need a CHR0 importer for blender)

I'm working on REFF and REFT files right now...
(Pikachu's Final Smash)

but yea

[Pik]

I'd support this, many times I've found myself wishing for a program like this.

[Lecapria]

all im saying is it would be difficult and time consuming. and the "part int red" is what brawl box can do as far as copy and pasting

[DarkPikachu]

all im saying is it would be difficult and time consuming.

actually...
brawl's format is actually quite simple...

so really:
difficult... no
time consuming... maybe

brawl's format:
everything has a header of at least len(16) to len(64)
and is offset based, with a relocation table.

it's complicated, but simple...
(alot to explain to get an idea of what I mean by that)

[DarkPikachu]

a note on the CHR0 format (without looking)

if my theory is correct, the format should be similar to this:

CHR0 header len(32 or 64)
relocation table (offsets to bone data)
anim data (bone data)
string data (bone names)

if correct:
each bone should contain a len(32) header for the number of frames and such...

data is most likely 32bit
locXYZ, rotXYZ, scaXYZ
in hex:
loc: '00000000 00000000 00000000'
rot: '00000000 00000000 00000000'
sca: '00000000 00000000 00000000'

all that would need to be changed would be the loc (trans) on a specific bone, from a pecific bone...

process cannot be entirely automatic due to bones such as 'TransN' or 'HipN'
their location is changed at times...

but at least it still beats 'Ctrl+C'/'Ctrl+V'

I suck at GUI's though, so I'm not the best man for programming :/
I can provide info if need be

[??_?]

hm, so in brawlbox if you go to frame 0 (1 back from 1) it is the T-stance.  Wouldn't it just be easier to make brawlbox make every translation in frame 0 a keyframe and then be able to hit copy under transform all?  Seems easier than making a new program, sorry to stifle any motivation here tho

[DarkPikachu]

hmm...

you can try it...
but create a backup first, just in case :/