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Picking up the work. Did some tests on the 1.seq using 0 animation (that is charge).

13 XX XX XX
Seems to be the same as 03 XX XX XX, but only occurs as the first command in the animation

03 00 XX XX or 03 04 XX XX
Second byte seems to be controlling interpolation somehow. By changing 04 -> 00 and recording the videos I see some minor differences during the movement, but nothing really dramatic, only slight diff. Probably we can ignore this.

01 XX XX XX
Is connected somehow to the mouth animation (0A). By removing it from the charge the mouth animation started a lot earlier. Not sure it always works like this because sometimes 01 appears after 0A. Need more investigation. This flag appears rather unfrequently though.

02 00 00 00
Appears before 08 00 00 00 in the end of the animation. Only tested on charge. By removing it from the list mouth animation ended much-much earlier, so it again is connected to mouth (and/or sound) somehow. Need more investigation.

I've written the tool to edit SEQ files [attachment=1]. Here's the interface [attachment=2].

Open - select source and destination SEQ files
Save - save current state to the destination SEQ
MakeStatic - copies first frame of the animation all over the animation (kinda deprecated due to the next feature)
Edit - allows to edit the bytes manually, very handy. Bytes are in hex, each one should be separated by the whitespace/newline
ResetEdit - reverts the string to the original state

Yeah, migration could be PITA, so we better avoid it if possible 

We're using 4.16 because we rarely need anything from the graphics or blueprints UE offer. Have you spotted anything from the latest versions that affect us? Migrating to the last version may incur some costs, so we need justification for this.

p.s. if you want to try to migrate yourself and see what happens, you're welcome to do it on your local copy

Cool! Can't wait to see the heads in UE 

Have you figured out how animation works? I mean actual mesh movement.

Hello and welcome!

I encourage you to join our Slack channel where we discuss most of the things. From what you've listed I think the most usable skill for us currently is 3D modeling. We don't have a person who can spend his time on animation things in UE4 which would be valuable in the future when we will upgrade from sprites to 3d models.

We can also create remake specific web page to advertise it, however, this will be mostly required when the project itself will be close to be finished

Congratz everyone! I'm happy I found you a year ago!

Wow, that's great news! Keep us updated 

Nope, I've written it mostly for preparing pathfinding. It could be used as the full substitution, however, I don't have time to make it so. The only new thing I've discovered is proper usage if LIT files.
p.s. Let's not flood this thread with off-topic. We can discuss this either in slack or another thread

Ghabry,

Sources for everything could be found on my github account https://github.com/devast3d
Specifically BtbEditor is here https://github.com/devast3d/BtbEditor, compiled version is here https://github.com/devast3d/BtbEditor/tree/master/BtbUI/bin/Release
Feel free to do anything with it

BTW, I'm currently working on adding steering behaviors for the unit. Finished first (normally working) version today

I usually beat this map splitting the army in two equal parts on the left and right sides keeping art on the ledge. Using mortar and fire mage (to stop or redirect enemy movement) is the key to win.

p.s. Never ever used ice mage for anything. IMO it's the most useless regiment in the game

Brief update on the latest achievements.
- App for reading BTB files. Mostly for visualization purposes. One important feature is constructing walkability texture for a level. More work has to be done here.
- Using walk map simple pathfinding was added. It's in the beginning, but can already calc pathes around the level (currently using classic A*, may change in the future). A LOT of work is still required here.
- Also simple app for reading sprite file (based on previous work). Mostly for converting sprites into modern format. The reason - create some squads for imporving pathfinding.

Latest results regarding lighting import.
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Yeah, I encourage everyone to join! We are progressing rapidly 
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Hello Community!

I am the new member of the Dark Omen fan club! I've amazed that so much work has been done already to keep this wonderful game alive. After reading some of the topic on the forum I decided to dive in and attempt to create Dark Omen replica. Called the project Dark Omen Reborn! The goal is to use UE4 as the base engine, importing as much as possible from the original DO files. Thankfully there are many tools and source codes already written to help me started and even some members of the community are still active!

Below is the motivational screenshot of the first level terrain imported into UE4 already. Therre are many things to be done yet, but that's only the start!

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