I'm looking to edit existing character animations for the L2 Interlude client.
What I did successfully so far:
Exported the files files from animations/Fighter.ukx (to get the .psk and .psa files)
Imported a couple .psk + one .psa file to Blender and made my changes to the animations.
Exported the resulting .psa file (which ended up being the same size as the original file, so everything should be fine).
I downloaded multiple different UnrealED editors - the one from UT2004, L2Editor posted by lordofdes here, L2Editor posted by 911reg.
From there on I had trouble with converting back to .ukx.
Below are different methods I've tried and failed.
Method 1:
Made a new .ukx file inside UT2004's UnrealED, containing only my edited .psa file and 1 .psk file
Converted my .ukx file with Gildor's tool
Placed the resulting file in the animations folder
Used L2FileEdit to change the LineageWarrior.int file in the systems folder in order to reroute to the animations I edited
Started up the game, but the changed animations were replaced instead with a simple walking animation for some reason
Method 2:
Tried the following workflow with both L2Editors (911reg's version and lordofdes's version) (using and not using Gildor's UnrealED patches)
Trying to open the original Fighter.ukx file resulted in some of the L2Editor variants crashing.
With the ones that didn't crash, I saved the .ukx file with another name (even tried adding my custom .psa file but the result was the same as below).
There was file size difference between the .ukx I made and the original .ukx.
I tried both substituting the .ukx file as is in the animations folder and after I encrypted it using 911reg's version's encdec.exe
In both cases the game crashed when I was about to go to the character screen (made sense since the file size should have been the same).
What am I missing here?
Is it at all possible to edit the original character animations?
