How is Appearance/Animation mapped

[vanatos]

Hi,

 

How is the appearance (of your character in-game) mapped?

 

For example THIEF_FEMALE_HUMAN is this mapped to the .bam file?

 

I have looked at the animate.ids and an anisnd.ids, but they don't seem to map to what i expected.

 

Primarily this question comes because i found that Imoen (and female thief appearance) has changed from BG2 to BG2EE

[lynx]

The IDS is just a map to a numeric value, the real filename mapping is hardcoded in the engine. GemRB has it partially reversed in avatars.2da and EEs (maybe only the second) in some other file.

 

https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/blob/master/gemrb/unhardcoded/bg2/avatars.2da

[vanatos]

oh that sucks, is it possible to put the original .bam into the override folder, renaming it into the CHFT--.bam files and it would override?

[lynx]

Sure, it would have to be an explicit exception for that not to work. Make sure you use the same animation format/orientations and probably also the cycle/frame counts.