More to the .pcc

[Gildor]

It's artist's decision - where to put animations and where to put meshes. They are can be placed into different packages, single animation set may be used to animate different meshes from different packages. It is not an umodel error - this is UE architecture. Check other files and you will find all animations.
Possibly you have seen prerendered cinematic - in that case animations may be missing at all.

[esr911]

Im not sure how familiar you are with different Mass effect animations within udk, so It may be harder to explain.

But there are known sets that they use:

-Cinematic(Not pre-rendered, but specific animations for a certain cinematic)
  -These animations are useless for the most part, because they are miles off null and are designed to work for some other program Bioware must have coded in.

-Standard
  -These include the different in game animations such as combat, idle, and different npc or talking animations that they use.
  -All these animations start with the name of the character(HMM for human male, HMF for human female, etc) and then one of the following:
         BC_animname
         FC_animname
         WI_animname
         DL_animname
         DP_animname
         CB_animname
         EX_animname
         WG_animname


So far I can easily get at the cinematic ones, because all the pccs are lined up with different sections of scenes. But I have yet to even spot any of the standard animations when I know they have to be somewhere.

For example, I extracted a Human Female package, and it only extracted HMM_CB animations. So far, every single package I have extracted, it only extracts the HMM_CB animations.

 I have no idea though, I know its nothing wrong with umodel, I am just trying to figure out why bioware arranged everything so oddly, and where they hid these.


 Thanks

The easy solution would be to import every PSA in UDK, and then choose a female or male mesh, and try every Animset, until you find what you are looking for. I know it's there because I remember seeing it. I just don't remember what package right now. Remember Bioware or any company for that matter doesn't organize the assets in a friendly way for people to extract it, and view their content, that is not in their consideration.

..:: ESR911 ::..