Make sure to link it to the root bone by dragging the dummy under the root bone in the scene explorer.

You can do this by going to Create>Helpers>Dummy. If after correcting all of the bones, but there are still some missing such as camera bones or animobjects, you can simply create a dummy with the name of the missing Make sure to do this for all misnamed bones. This is because the bone names are case sensitive, so the capitalization must match up. Looking at the output log to reference bones that are missing, you’ll see that it says “LThigh” is missing, but in the scene, you have “LTHIGH”. Select Tools -> 'New Scene Explorer' and a list of all of the objects in the scene will pop up. The easiest way to fix the missing/misnamed bones is to open the Scene Explorer.

Copy the error log and put it into notepad because we can’t edit the scene with the Content Tools open, so close it, and click 'yes' to save the configuration set. If so, it means that some of the bones are missing from the scene, or are misnamed. Then select the skeleton text file we made earlier.įrom this point, you may see a set of warnings get spit out by the output log Under Build Rig select 'From File' and select Use File Order. Select 'ExportSceneHkx' under Configuration set. (Not the one included in the Fallout 4 animation kit, I’ve made my own set) A new window will pop upĬlick File -> Open configuration set and Load the provided custom F4Animation.hko (found at the top of this page) Open up 3DS Max, Import a new file, and now import the skeleton.nif file for your desired actor, this is the same place we found the skeleton.hkx.Ĭlick Havok Content Tools along the top of 3DS max and hit “Export”. Once you've isolated all the bones, you can save the file as skeleton.txt, or whatever other name you want to give it.

Then, at the top of the file, add these two lines: It's easy to do this using notepad++, as seen here: Look for hkaSkeleton and delete everything that isn't the bone definitions. The only way to get the order is taking the 64bit skeleton, so you must take it from the XML. The bones have to be in a very specific order. We do this by starting with the 64bit skeleton.Īfter deciding what character you want to convert (found in MESHES/ACTORS), find it’s skeleton.hkx file in the CharacterAssets folder.ĭrag the skeleton.hkx in to HKXPackGUI and hit HKX XML We’ll be using HKXPackUi (located in the animation toolkit) to convert the animations in to FBX, but in order to do that, we need a 32bit skeleton.hkx file.

Part 3: Converting 32bit animations to FBX.

Mars - Starting this site and helping with this tutorial.īizz - Figuring out the process for making 32bit skeletons, writing this tutorial. ShadeAnimator - Fallout 4 Animation Kit, original guide for importing animations in to max

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