AnimX

Please see AnimJ for an explaination on what an Animation file actually does and what this does.

Binary structure

An Animx is encoded in raw binary, and as such is a little difficult to decode.

The format is as follows in order as of version 0. (All is written and read by the System.IO.BinaryReader object):

Name	Type	Summary	Notes
Magic Word	String	"AnimX" to specify this file is Animx
File Version	Byte	0 to most recent for Version of file.
Track Amount	7 bit int	A number that says how many tracks are in the animation
Global Duration	Single	How long the animation is in seconds
Name	String	The name of the animation file
Encoding	Byte	The encoding of the rest of the file	0 means read as normal default binary reader, 1 means LZ4S stream, and 2 means LZ4S memory stream
Track Array	Track Array	The track types and their data	See Decoding Tracks

Decoding Tracks Binary structure

When the decoder is decoding tracks, it uses the Activator class to create a new object of the track it is trying to decode.

Every iteration during the Track Array reading, it will read a starting byte.

Version 0

Name	Type	Summary	Notes
Track Type	Byte	If TYPE is equal to 1, it is a Curve track type, if it is 0 it is a Raw track type. see Type:TrackType.
Value Type	NONE SEE NOTES	is equal to Track Type >> 1 (a bitshift)	This doesn't read a byte for this file version strangely. just sets the variable for Value Type for what is explained in summary.

Version 1

Name	Type	Summary	Notes
Track Type	Byte	converts the number directly based on the enum values of Type:TrackType
Value Type	Byte	Uses #ElementTypesTable to convert to the proper type

ElementTypesTable

all bytes are in Little Endian

Values

Name	Value	Description
bool	0	Byte with starting 1 bits being the value
bool2	1	Byte with starting 2 bits being the value
bool3	2	Byte with starting 3 bits being the value
bool4	3	Byte with starting 4 bits being the value
byte	4	Byte
ushort	5	2 Bytes
uint	6	4 Bytes
ulong	7	8 Bytes
sbyte	8	1 Byte
short	9	2 Bytes
int	10	4 Bytes
long	11	8 Bytes
int2	12	8 Bytes
int3	13	12 Bytes
int4	14	16 bytes
uint2	15	8 Bytes
uint3	16	12 Bytes
uint4	17	16 Bytes
long2	18	16 Bytes
long3	19	24 Bytes
long4	20	32 Bytes
float	21	4 Bytes
float2	22	8 Bytes
float3	23	12 Bytes
float4	24	16 Bytes
floatQ	25	16 Bytes (x,y,z,w)
float2x2	26	16 bytes arranged by rows starting at top left down to bottom right.
float3x3	27	36 bytes arranged by rows starting at top left down to bottom right.
float4x4	28	64 bytes arranged by rows starting at top left down to bottom right.
double	29	8 Bytes
double2	30	16 Bytes
double3	31	24 Bytes
double4	32	32 Bytes
doubleQ	33	40 Bytes
double2x2	34	32 Bytes arranged by rows starting at top left down to bottom right.
double3x3	35	72 Bytes arranged by rows starting at top left down to bottom right.
double4x4	36	128 Bytes arranged by rows starting at top left down to bottom right.
color	37	16 Bytes which is 4 floats for RGBA
color32	38	4 bytes which is 4 bytes for RGBA
string	39	starts with a 7 bit encoded int with the amount of string bytes. each char is 1 byte also known as UTF-8. NOTE: This begins with a nullable 1 byte boolean if being written as part of a string animation track value. (aka Discrete or Raw string animation track)

Tracks

It then decodes the track data based on one of the TrackTypes.

Raw

Name	Type	Summary	Notes
Node	String	See AnimJ
Property	String	See AnimJ
Amount Of Frames	7 bit integer	See AnimJ on what frames are. these are encoded with no empty frames between.
Interval	Float	See AnimJ
Elements	Array of Value Type from #Decoding Tracks Binary structure	A list of encoded binary values stacked on each other Amount Of Frames times.	See #ElementTypesTable on how to decode each value type

Discrete

Name	Type	Summary	Notes
Node	String	See AnimJ
Property	String	See AnimJ
Amount Of Frames	7 bit integer	See AnimJ on what frames are. these are encoded with no empty frames between.
Frames	Array of Frames	list of Frames that first starts with a binary encoded float for the time position, then followed by a binary encoded Value Type from #Decoding Tracks Binary structure. this repeats for Amount Of Frames.

Curve

Name	Type	Summary	Notes
Node	String	See AnimJ
Property	String	See AnimJ
Amount Of Frames	7 bit integer	See AnimJ on what frames are. these are encoded with no empty frames between.
Separate Interpolations && Tangents	Byte	See AnimJ for what these do	Starting bit represents if it has different interpolations per frame, second bit represents if it has tangents
Interpolations	Byte array	Has a length of Amount Of Frames and the numerical value of the Type:KeyframeInterpolation enum.	NOTE!!! ONLY IF: Shared Interpolations is true this will be written!!!
Shared Interpolation Type	Byte	A byte representing the numerical value of the Type:KeyframeInterpolation enum.	NOTE!!! ONLY IF: Shared Interpolations is false this will be written!!!
KeyFrames	List of Frames	list of Frames that first starts with a binary encoded Value Type from #Decoding Tracks Binary structure, then followed by a binary encoded float for the time position. this repeats for Amount Of Frames.
Tangents	List of Tangent pairs	List of tangent pairs that starts with a binary encoded Value Type from #Decoding Tracks Binary structure for the right, followed by a binary encoded Value Type from #Decoding Tracks Binary structure for the left. this repeats for Amount Of Frames.

Bezier

NOT SUPPORTED YET.

Using the data or encoding the data

Using the data or encoding the data can be done by using Python's struct library or a programming language with the binary reader of your choice.

Make sure to use LittleEndian when reading and writing the binary.

Tools that can decode and write AnimX easier

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