Blender Motion Importer/Exporter (it does FLAGS!)

R Soul on 11/6/2023 at 20:35

A while ago Telliamed wrote some Python scripts that could convert between Dark Engine motions and BVH.

I decided to intregrate this into Blender as an addon:
(https://github.com/RSoul82/Blender-NewDark-MotionIO)

In addition to streamling this conversion (the original needed the command prompt or batch files), the Blender addon also supports motion flags.

Inline Image:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RSoul82/Blender-NewDark-MotionIO/main/Screenshots/07_flags_buttons.jpg

We could manage flags in Weyoun's editor, but editing the motions themselves is so much easier in Blender, so this is the best of both worlds.

nicked on 12/6/2023 at 16:15

Awesome work, might have to give this a try.

R Soul on 15/7/2023 at 19:19

Minor update.

There was an error when importing .cal which prevented the tempoary .bvh file from being deleted. This has now been resolved.
General info page and source files:
(https://github.com/RSoul82/Blender-NewDark-MotionIO)

Addon in zip format for download and easier installation:
(https://github.com/RSoul82/Blender-NewDark-MotionIO/releases)

edit:
The bvh delete problem was due to the file not being closed.
Also added code to correct a joint offset error for human .cal files.

vfig on 16/9/2023 at 14:40

im mostly staying off the forums until i can really get back into thief stuff, but—

this looks really useful! especially the motion flags; i had been pretty comfortable with exporting .bvh files and running a single batch file to reconvert all my .bvh's into motions, but i did not have any kind of sensible way of setting the motion flags. so i am really excited to try this out if and when i get back into dromeding