Metal Gear Solid 5 (MGSV) animations

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id-daemon, any news your research?

[id-daemon]

The research was suspended about a month ago. I'm working on other projects.

I have no reports if anyone ever tried the published tool.

[JohnHudeski]

also it seems the floats are xor'd or encrypted

There is not a single occurrence of the float 1 in the whole thing. That is a flag

Ah, thats what are you talking about! No, nothing is encrypted here.

It seems you only reversed simple animations before. Because no serious animation engine will use plain floats. They use 8/16 or variable-bit integers. Like for one bone it can be 14-bit x,y,z , for next bone it will be 17-bit x,y,z and so on.

I did do one with half floats but 14-bit is new to me 17-bit is even stranger
What type of bits does MGSV use?
I think I can re-purpose my half-float reader for this.

[id-daemon]

What type of bits does MGSV use?
I think I can re-purpose my half-float reader for this.

As I said, they use VARIABLE bits. I mean it. For one bone it can be 14-bit, for next bone it will be 17-bit. Number of bits used for each bone track is recorded in bone description structure inside of each anim.

[JohnHudeski]

What type of bits does MGSV use?
I think I can re-purpose my half-float reader for this.

As I said, they use VARIABLE bits. I mean it. For one bone it can be 14-bit, for next bone it will be 17-bit. Number of bits used for each bone track is recorded in bone description structure inside of each anim.

Thank you so much. I think I can apply this to a bunch of other games I have been stumped on
For anyone looking for info on variable bit floats look here Riot Games example

[id-daemon]

New version of the tool. Now supports all human animations from Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain. Use the appropriate EXE for your game.

[id-daemon]

New cutscene tool added. Phantom Pain cutscene support! All characters (including dogs, horses, etc)

[id-daemon]

Update! Diamond Dog MTARs.

All other tools updated (minor bugfixes). Humans may had problems with toes, some cutscene roots fixed.

[Amagakuro]

Hello there and thank you for this tool \o/
Unfortunately i'm getting this error when trying to open 3 out of 4 executables (only one seems to be working/not crashing is mgs5_pp_cutscene), can't really understand what's the problem~
I think the error can be translated like
"Exception not handled: System.IO.EndOfStreamException: impossible reading outside the end of stream"

[id-daemon]

Hello there and thank you for this tool \o/
Unfortunately i'm getting this error

You are prob. trying to export anims using PP FMLD file. This will not work, because tool expects bone names to be there, and they are only in GZ files. You currently need GZ human model for it to work.

[Amagakuro]

Hello there and thank you for this tool \o/
Unfortunately i'm getting this error

You are prob. trying to export anims using PP FMLD file. This will not work, because tool expects bone names to be there, and they are only in GZ files. You currently need GZ human model for it to work.

Ohh, i thought that this

For Phantom Pain also use the same GZ model, because the skeleton is the same, and it has bone names.

meant "also" and not "must", infact i used .fmdl file from PP.
Well, thank you for clarifying

[Aesop]

Heya!

So I'm trying to get a hang of these tools.

Two things: when running this .mtar through the tools it crashes after exporting a couple of .smd files. Using sna2_main0_def.fmdl from GZ in the same directory.

I did manage to get player2_cqc.mtar to extract, however I can't load the .smd's, 3DSMax spits out that it's an improper format. Is it due to the tools I use to import? Here is a sample of the .smd

If so, could you tell me what tools I should use?

Also, any updates on the alternative to Cra0's tools with proper weights? I read somewhere that you have a maya script, could that be released for now or sent to me? Thanks![

edit: I can load them into Blender now, but they come out all messed up. http://i.imgur.com/GX70wi1.png trying them on quiet

[id-daemon]

Ok, I didnt test many PP MTARs, so its possible some of them crash. I will check that later.

As for 3dmax, maybe its because I'm not putting "end" in the end of SMD file. I don't have max, so can't check it.

When loading SMD into blender, you must select "create new armature", if you are not appending the animation to the existing model.

[Aesop]

Ok, I didnt test many PP MTARs, so its possible some of them crash. I will check that later.

As for 3dmax, maybe its because I'm not putting "end" in the end of SMD file. I don't have max, so can't check it.

When loading SMD into blender, you must select "create new armature", if you are not appending the animation to the existing model.

A student copy of Max is available if you wanted to take a look.

Yeah, I tried this but the animation just always ends up with this happening : - / http://i.imgur.com/MdRotsF.png

trying with SoldierGZ_layers.mtar -- could it be an issue with the .mtar I'm using or the sna2_main0_def.fmdl I'm using? (here it is: https://a.pomf.cat/hlmiie.fmdl )

I also tried with these but it just messes up: http://i.imgur.com/zomPXSQ.png
I'm using it with "Import Animations" checked and I'm appending it to target.

[id-daemon]

Don't append it to target. Make it "create new armature". Also note that the model is usually many times bigger than required for animation. Depending on the export you're using it may be 34 or some other scale. You need to scale them to same size before connecting model to skeleton.

[MReaper]

Hello everyone!

Could someone please provide some files so I can test here?? If not ask a lot I would like some files (templates and animations) so I can test before having to buy and install a game I already have on the console. Thank you very much for the attention, I am waiting for answers ...

[id-daemon]

New PP human tool version.

Changes:

- support for MTARs that were broken before (failed in the middle)
- added "end" in the end of .SMD so 3dmax now can import them

[id-daemon]

New tool for PP Walker.

Supposed to extract walkergear2_layers.mtar
Needs mgm0_main0_def.fmdl model.

I can't setup blender's IK constraint to work correctly here, but maya can handle it.
Also, wheels are connected to the middle of the leg and this makes it impossible to export correctly to SMD.

[Zuppermati]

Hello. I'm new here so if I'm breaking some rules I'd like to apology from the begin.
Anyway:

Expectations

What I got trying to decode PT animations (raw drag and drop of the file into the program you shared)


Using reedus or lisa's models instead than snake's won't change anything. Since I saw that you managed to extract them correctly, could you tell me the exact procedure you used?
Many thanks in advance.

[id-daemon]