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How to pick & choose animations from different packs then merge into a custom SLAL pack?


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Posted (edited)

Pretty much what the title says
I've downloaded Billy's, Bakafactory, Nibbles and Funnybiz's packs but I only want some of the animations each of them has
I know I could just select and register them ingame but I want to avoid loading the entire pack since FNIS is also giving me an error about "too many animations" whenever I choose all 4

What's the procedure to do something like this?
Also, is there an external application that can let me directly open the hkx files to view them instead of having to preview them inside the game one by one?

This is what FNIS tells me exactly, which happens if I choose to load nibbles

Spoiler

Skeleton(hkx) female: XPMS2HDT (126 bones)   male: XPMS2HDT (126 bones)
Patch: "GENDER Specific Animations"  
Patch: "SKELETON Arm Fix"  

Reading Babo bigguy V1.0 ... 
Reading Babo Human V1.0 ... 
Reading Babo Zaz Standalone V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_Human V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanDD V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanFurniture V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanFurnitureInvis V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanFuta V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanLesbian V1.0 ... 
Reading FlowerGirlsSE V3.0.2 ... 
Reading FNISBase V7.6 ... 
Reading FunnyBizBound V12.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizFemDom V1.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizFun V12.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizGroup V8.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizLover V7.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizMtb V3.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizUn V12.0 ... 
Reading NibblesAnims_Human V1.0 ... 
Reading NibblesAnims_Object V1.0 ... 
Reading PM_Figure V?.? ... 
Reading PM_FigureWP V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Funny V5.1.1 ... 
Reading PM_Gun V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Inori V?.? ... 
>>Warning: AnimationList found in  "Animations\PM_Niceday", but no corresponding Behavior file. Incomplete mod IGNORED.<<
Reading PM_Ninja V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Samurai V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Sit_Lay V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Tifa V?.? ... 
Reading PM_TripleH V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Witcher V?.? ... 
Reading SexLab V1.64 ... 
Reading SexLabAP V1.64 ... 
Reading SexLabAroused V2.9 ... 
Reading SexLabCreature V1.64 ... 
Reading XPMSE V7.2 ... 
Reading ZaZAnimationPack
ERROR(2026): Too many animations  3167 (..\..\meshes\actors\character\animations\ZaZAnimationPack\FNIS_ZaZAnimationPack_List.txt):  + -o Zazdrumgreen_Loop  Zazobjectdrumloop.hkx AOZazDrumGreen



If I don't the update goes through with 439 warnings about missing zaz animations
 

Spoiler

Skeleton(hkx) female: XPMS2HDT (126 bones)   male: XPMS2HDT (126 bones)
Patch: "GENDER Specific Animations"  
Patch: "SKELETON Arm Fix"  

Reading Babo bigguy V1.0 ... 
Reading Babo Human V1.0 ... 
Reading Babo Zaz Standalone V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_Human V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanDD V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanFurniture V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanFurnitureInvis V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanFuta V1.0 ... 
Reading Billyy_HumanLesbian V1.0 ... 
Reading FlowerGirlsSE V3.0.2 ... 
Reading FNISBase V7.6 ... 
Reading FunnyBizBound V12.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizFemDom V1.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizFun V12.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizGroup V8.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizLover V7.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizMtb V3.0 ... 
Reading FunnyBizUn V12.0 ... 
Reading PM_Figure V?.? ... 
Reading PM_FigureWP V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Funny V5.1.1 ... 
Reading PM_Gun V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Inori V?.? ... 
>>Warning: AnimationList found in  "Animations\PM_Niceday", but no corresponding Behavior file. Incomplete mod IGNORED.<<
Reading PM_Ninja V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Samurai V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Sit_Lay V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Tifa V?.? ... 
Reading PM_TripleH V?.? ... 
Reading PM_Witcher V?.? ... 
Reading SexLab V1.64 ... 
Reading SexLabAP V1.64 ... 
Reading SexLabAroused V2.9 ... 
Reading SexLabCreature V1.64 ... 
Reading XPMSE V7.2 ... 
Reading ZaZAnimationPack>>Warning: Animation file missing: ZazAPOA001.hkx<<
>>Warning: Animation file missing: ZazAPOA002.hkx<<
>>Warning: Animation file missing: ZazAPOA003.hkx<<
>>Warning: Animation file missing: ZazAPOA004.hkx<<
>>Warning: Animation file missing: ZazAPOA005.hkx<<
...
... A bunch of warnings later
...

>>Warning: Animation file missing: zazHorizontalPoleBondageOutdoor.hkx<<
>>Warning: Animation file missing: zazBuried.hkx<<
>>Warning: Animation file missing: zazJailStockAnimation.hkx<<
 V8.00 ... 

All Anim Lists scanned. Generating Behavior Files...
 2 GENDER modifications for Animations\male
 3 GENDER modifications for Animations\female
Alternate Animation mods: 1 sets: 16 total groups: 30 added file slots: 170 alternate files: 164

Creature Pack not installed

 8209 animations for 35 mods successfully included (character).

 439 Warning(s).

 

Edited by Waffle_McQuack
  • Waffle_McQuack changed the title to How to pick & choose animations from different packs then merge into a custom SLAL pack?
Posted (edited)
23 minutes ago, Dorabella said:

You installed animations without the necessary requirements 

 

Those 439 warnings, they say a lot. Click consistence check to view errors 

That's just the zaz pack missing and one of the other animation packs, I'm assuming, trying to load those animations
It's not really a huge issue

Mostly I'd like to make a separate pack myself, with only the animations I want to keep but it'd be my first time tinkering with skyrim mods/animations

Edited by Waffle_McQuack
changed nibbles, it's another pack
Posted
37 minutes ago, Waffle_McQuack said:

That's just the zaz pack missing and one of the other animation packs, I'm assuming, trying to load those animations
It's not really a huge issue

Mostly I'd like to make a separate pack myself, with only the animations I want to keep but it'd be my first time tinkering with skyrim mods/animations

Ye gods. "I'm assuming" - based on what? Those errors and warnings are there for a reason. Deal with them.

There's little point in trying to create your own custom SLAL if you can't install perfectly good packs without FNIS getting upset.

 

As for the animation limit there is mod which over comes this.

For LE

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/100672

 

For SE

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/31146

Posted


Thanks for the limit increase tip 
Thing is about it tho, that's not the main reason I got for making this post
While having more space is nice I simply don't want to be loading entire packs when I could just curate a personal one with whatever I like
That's my aim
Get X animations from billy, Y from nibbles, some from baka and just put them into a new "WafflePack" so to speak
Mainly to have a cleaner setup



Also, the assumption was due to all 400+ referencing missing animations with a ZAZ prefix to them although I never had said pack
Installed it and they're gone, now everything loads with no issues (also thanks to the mod you link)

41 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Ye gods. "I'm assuming" - based on what? Those errors and warnings are there for a reason. Deal with them.

Posted

Well now that you have Zaz installed corectly you should be able to uninstall it cleanly without the error messages popping up. Assuming that you don't actually want Zaz.

 

I'm not sure how simple/difficult it is to make a SLAL pack as far as I know not many on LL bother doing it. There is also the problem of finding the info on how to do it.

There is a (simpler?) way to edit out the animations you don't want from an existing pack but again, finding the info on how to may be tricky.

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Waffle_McQuack said:
48 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

I'm not sure how simple/difficult it is to make a SLAL pack as far as I know not many on LL bother doing it.

 

 

The process isn't difficult, but it is TEDIOUS.

 

I'm sure a lot of ppl do these and just don't share them since none of the stuff in them is really "yours".

 

You can look at a SLAL pack and reverse engineer how they're made easily enough.  General process is this:

 

1) You have all the relevant .HKX files in the correct folders

2) A FNIS list in each folder listing all of the files and the animations they're tied to.  (This is how the system knows an animation under \werewolfbeast goes with a corresponding animation under character\animation

 

Make sure to rename everything within the lists to match the new naming convention.  You can leave the animation .hkx with the same names, but it'll generate (harmless) consistence issues when running FNIS.  The animations in the lists need new names though so that they don't overlap with existing animations or cause SLAL/Sexlab loading errors.

 

These first two can just be a matter of taking a pack you want and trimming out everything that you don't want in it.  Make sure to use separate folders than the original to avoid consistence problems.  Just rename the folders from (for example) "Billyy_CreatureHumanoids" to "WaffleSLAL" or whatever.

 

3) Run "FNIS Generate" through whatever mod manager you are using.  This creates a behavior file that links all the individual hkx files into something FNIS can use later.

4) Manually edit the jsons for the SLAL pack to make sure they reflect the animations you are wanting and do not include those you don't.  Observe the same renaming conventions you used earlier.

 

I would recommend not just using the same folder names since you may want to install a new SLAL pack to see what is inside and not have to re-register everything.  (For instance Billyy updates monthly and you don't want to have to redo this every month.)

 

Once this is done, run FNIS as usual and you should see your pack included in the list.  Then within the game, the new SLAL stuff should be there.

 

Other than running "FNIS Generate", nothing about it is esoteric.  Just time consuming.

Edited by Seijin8
Colors and more info and spelling errors, oh my.
Posted
6 minutes ago, Seijin8 said:

 

The process isn't difficult, but it is TEDIOUS.

 

Thanks for the info. It's not as bad as I thought but still more than I'd be interested in doing. 👍

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Seijin8 said:

 

The process isn't difficult, but it is TEDIOUS.

 

I'm sure a lot of ppl do these and just don't share them since none of the stuff in them is really "yours".

Thanks a lot for the info

Do you know anything about external viewers for the animations by any chance?
Tried something called hkxposer but either I'm slow or it doesn't support sl animations
Worst case I'd have to just go through each of them in-game, which is tedious but would work tbh

I was just slow, had forgotten to install HCT

Also, yeah I wasn't gonna redistribute the final pack for obvious reasons, like you mentioned
It'd just be a collection I'd maintain for myself

Edited by Waffle_McQuack

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