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About DS Anim Studio:

  • Edits the TimeAct Editor files of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, and Sekiro (model viewer does not work for Sekiro due to massively different animation containers). These files control everything that happens on a specific frame of an animation, such as:
    • Activating invulnerability frames.
    • Parry windows
    • Applying an "SpEffect" (special temporary statuses such as ring effects, poisoning, buffs, AI triggers, etc)
    • Allowing animation cancelling
    • Setting the flag for YOU DIED and respawning
    • Creating "SFX" / "FFX" (both refer to the exact same files: visual effects)
    • Playing sound effects such as footsteps, sword swooshes, etc.
    • Invoking an attack behavior (does damage to opponent, drains stamina from player, etc all in one event)
    • Invoking a "bullet" (projectile) behavior (fires projectile, drains stamina from player, etc all in one event)
    • Invoking a "common" behavior (like attack behaviors but for simpler things such as falling on someone's head causing stagger)
    • Creating motion blur on weapon swings
    • Setting the opacity of a character (used for getting summoned into other worlds, dying, etc)
    • Setting attack aim tracking speed of a character
    • Playing a "RumbleCam" file (relative screen movement e.g. Smough's footsteps shaking screen)
    • Playing additional animation layers (e.g. all of Gwyn's animations have events to play his clothes-blowing-in-wind animation layered on top of the other animations)
    • Adjusting model render masks (showing/hiding specific parts of characters)
    • Many more that we haven't even figured out yet.
  • Shows an actual physical graph full of events represented as boxes.
  • Snaps to 30-fps increments just like the vanilla files do.
  • Allows you to add new events to animations by right-clicking (if a template is loaded).
  • Allows you to delete events by highlighting them and pressing the Delete key.
  • Allows you to modify the parameters passed to each event (click an event to highlight it, then the parameters appear in the pane on the right side of the window)
  • Has full undo/redo functionality with Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y
  • Has full copy/paste functionality:
    • Ctrl+C: Copy
    • Ctrl+V: Paste at Mouse Cursor
    • Ctrl+Shift+V: Paste In-Place (keeps original start/end times, useful for copying between animations)
  • Edits the .anibnd or .anibnd.dcx files of the games directly. No need to use BND rebuilders.

User Instructions:

  1. Run application.
  2. Go to File -> Open
  3. Load a .anibnd or .anibnd.dcx.
  4. Select an animation ID on the left pane
  5. Drag some events around or otherwise mess with things (try the bottom-right pane for editing the highlighted event)
  6. (Optional) Play with the model viewer pane on the top-right.
  7. (Optional) Play with the options in the menu bar.
  8. Hit Ctrl+S to save.

Breakdown of Game Support:

Game Edit Support Events Mapped / Identified Anim Viewer Support
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition Yes No (Coming Soon) Yes
Dark Souls Remastered Yes No (Coming Soon) No (Not Soon)
Dark Souls II No No No (Never)
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin Yes No No (Never)
Dark Souls III Yes Yes Yes
Bloodborne Yes No Yes
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Yes Yes No (Not Soon)

System Requirements:

Special Thanks

  • River Nyxx - General .TAE file structure.
  • TKGP - Made some discoveries about the TAE format + made SoulsFormats, which this application depends on greatly.
  • Pav - Tons and tons of TAE events mapped across all the games.
  • Katalash - Much help with animation file understanding.
  • PredatorCZ - Reverse engineered Spline-Compressed Animation entirely.
  • Horkrux - Reverse engineered the header and swizzling used on non-PC platform textures.
  • StaydMcButtermuffin - Many hours of helping me write and debug the shaders + reversing some basic Dark Souls 3 shaders to aid in the process.

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