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Works great, thanks. Any way to batch convert multiple files at once? I am not really that great with batch so someone could probably do better then this, but I have hktcnv, hkxcmd and a bat file in the same directory, and a sub directory which contain the hct 2012 tagfiles. I use this bat (create a new text file and just copy paste this into it then change its extension to .bat): @Echo Off for /r %%v in (*.hkt) do hktcnv "%%~v" "%%~nv.xml" for /r %%i in (*.xml) do hkxcmd convert -v:WIN32 "%%~nxi" ".\export\%%~ni.hkx" del *.xml Exit It pretty much runs hktcnv on all .hkt files in the same directory and sub directories which produces a temporary .xml file (the 2010 Tagfile) then runs hkxcmd on all the .xml files and places them as a hkx file in a sub directory called export. Then just deletes xml files in it's directory for a bit of a clean up. Not particularly elegant but it does the job.

Pretty good tutorial, but there's one last step you can do if you wanted and that is converting it to a packfile using hkxcmd since tag files are portable and not optimised for any one platform although as mentioned before the major one is it being in an XML format not a good idea to release any animation like that (by all means use xml if you want while creating, modifying, and prototyping a mod, just make sure they are binary at the very least before you go releasing anything). As a sort of step it's pretty much these two commands in command prompt: hktcnv.exe <Source File> <Destination File> hkxcmd.exe convert -v:WIN32 <Converted File> < Final Destination File> and you're done! All compressed, and optimized. Pretty easy really, could batch it too if you wanted. As a sorta idea on what you are saving by doing this: A single 171 frame animation I was working on went from a 400KB xml tag file to a 80KB Binary PackFile, that's 320KB of memory saved when it's loading the animation that can be used elsewhere. So Binarify your files, my fellow animators