TEKKEN 8

[spiritovod]

@GDL: You can check this topic for general method (props to Ehlyon for finding this out, personally I never thought it would actually work). Though for Tekken most animations doesn't look correct because of retargeting and their advanced rigging system or whatever they've implemented there.

[xrevo]

no aes needed for the new demo released, still on 5.2 i think

[Ehlyon]

Can anyone please explain where I find the skeletons and animations within the file structure?

I'm getting the character models just fine at Character->Item->model->unique

That exports just fine by itself and does seem to have a skeleton after exporting, but can't load the animations in the viewer. So where is the working skeleton and where are the animations? The only mention of a skeleton I can find is at:  
Character->Item->shared->skeleton
but nothing in those folders seems to load in the viewer properly (yes I've tried 'append' in every possible order)

Please help!

If you extract the mesh alone the skeleton will be loaded/extracted anyway if i don't remember wrong.
Regarding the animations, you'll only find a few (like some char stage intro or some npcs) as, like previous tekken or soul calibur title made in UE, the fighting/commons ones are in another format, not loaded/recognized/readable by umodel.

[spiritovod]

@garywood: It's related to current limitations of the build (for games with io store packages in particular). On top of that the game is using custom approach for animations, you can read my posts on previous page for brief explanation and look at screenshot there for example of the working mesh/skel/anim combination. Though results would be hardly usable as-is, in most cases -_-"

[spiritovod]

@garywood: It's briefly explained in the linked topic (the one with current limitations). Basically, you need to append/add both skeleton asset and animations to loaded mesh manually - there is separate option for this in context menu - and then use anim search. In usual builds or with usual packages it's done automatically while doing anim search. But because of the game specifics, mentioned above, it would be hard to find out compatible skeleton and animations even with normal approach (both mesh and animation should use the same skeleton for it to work, but due to retargeting it may look strange anyway).

[spiritovod]

@garywood: On the screenshot "AnimSet" is the name of skeleton asset and below "Anim" is the name of current animation asset. Though such screenshots are more like a memo to myself that a game is using native assets for at least some animations, which may be misleading in cases when other animations are not supported. You can use flat view mode to find assets by their names and also sort them by supported types (after full scan is performed) - for example, for trying to manually load all animations to current mesh after adding skeleton asset to it, and then using Ctrl+A. The reason why I mentioned my other posts is that only "msl" assets are using native approach and can be somehow loaded, while "prp" assets are using some third-party or self-made solution and not supported. The rest was already explained.

[spiritovod]

@garywood: I didn't dig into it much, but it seems like the game doesn't use common animation sequences for movesets, despite they're used for lobby and additional props (like guns) anims. Unlike other games with unsupported animation types, I couldn't even find assets which contains possible anim data for movements, only moviescene data.