The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

[spiritovod]

The game is called The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (for indexing and search purposes). And it's built with 4.26, though currently there is no difference in this particular case.

Also, I took a look at morphs - if they're using the same approach for all games from the Dark Pictures series, I hardly doubt morphs will be supported due to the their unique implementation. Instead of two vectors per morph's delta they're using packed indices + corresponding array of packed vectors pairs (PositionDeltaThreshold and another one) per morph's delta.

[Ehlyon]

I'm actually getting "Serializing behind stopper" error with animations. Is there something i'm missing? Yes i'm appending them, not loading them all at once.

[MarkoJeff1]

how one knows why am getting this error when trying to export a character head?

[MarkoJeff1]

Everything is working now i was having a problem with the animation but learnt it cant be done show but when ever i export a head to  blender i cant seem to apply the eye texture tho its all messy seems some layer covers their eye and cant let you see the models eye

[spiritovod]

For latest game versions use specific build from this topic - no special override is required, simple choose proper engine version, and don't forget to disable morph targets as they're not supported for the game. In case of possible issues with some game versions try to use The Quarry / The Dark Pictures Anthology override.

A few notes: Animations for bodies and heads are not directly compatible, thus you can't assemble the whole character mesh in the viewer and then apply animations to it. Default position for most animations is probably tied to actual placement on the map, so mesh will be all over the place - it's not very convenient, but you can focus on current mesh position with "F" after changing animation. And don't try to add all compatible animations to a mesh with Ctrl+A (there are 11k of them) - even if you have enough RAM, it may fail for some particular cutscenes anims, depending on the mesh.

[spiritovod]

@sharppy2: Thank you for the info. I should revise the rest of The Dark Pictures Anthology games, because even after they've upgraded earlier games to more recent engine at some point, it seems not all of them are using the same changes (or changes could be rolled back), which causing errors with specific override. I've updated my post above to reflect this.

Update: All respective posts are now updated with actual info. Latest versions of "Man of Medan" and "Devil in Me" are using the same adjustments as "The Quarry" and specific override is required for them, while "Little Hope" and "House of Ashes" are using standard 4.26 and generic engine override should work for them - but in case of issues it's recommended to try specific override for them as well.