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In Iksar-2HS-animation-related news... Someone asked me about my "fix" earlier today, and I decided to set up a test server on my new machine and poke around a bit. And I stumbled onto a real fix.
And it is dumb.
I made a tool back in April on
page 2 of this thread to allow replacing any iksar animation with any other iksar animation. The 2HS animation -- which we've established has perfectly fine animation data, the client just fucks up while loading it -- is C03. As it turns out, if you replace C03 with itself (that is, replace C03 with C03)... it gets fixed. What really happens is that the animation data gets moved from the middle of the datafile to the end of the datafile. The position of animation data is not supposed to matter. But, there you go!
The iksar archery animation also has a similar but smaller problem (the feet displace oddly instead of animating as they should) which can also be fixed by replacing C09 with C09.
It's possible that the way the client was corrupting these animations is somehow related to their position in the file, and that different animations will be corrupted now. But I looked over all the non-social iksar male animations, and they seem to be fine with the fixes to C03 and C09 applied. A few other models are defined in the same datafile -- looks like iksar female, barbarians, and a few NPC models -- but I'm too lazy to look at all of those right now.
In any case, hoping a few interested people will try it out and report any problems. If you've used any of my tools to replace your iksar 2HS animation already you should have a "global4_chr.zae" file in your eq folder; make a copy of that and rename it to "global4_chr.s3d", replacing the existing s3d to restore the original animation data before applying the new fix.
I'll probably whip up a one-click fix tool sometime this week if no other animations get obviously fucked up by fixing the iksar ones.