How do you get the animations applied to the skeleton?

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

Applying the LE animations that I got from converting my SE animations to the skeletal mesh properly creates an XML file in the temp folder, but I can't actually apply any animations from that file to the actual skeleton. Am I missing something? Is it supposed to do this? The video tutorial that brought me here seemed to just have the animation start existing on the skeleton, but that isn't happening here. Here is my console log after I try to import the XML file

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

ok, so update on this. I just checked the system console, and when I get it to "work" and generate the temp XML file, it gives me this. no explanation for why it fails.

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

by the way, I'm using the newest version of PyNifly with blender 4.5.1

[BadDogSkyrim]

Importing animations converts to a KF first because it's an easier format to read. Creating the KF file is what's failing.

Try creating a file in that folder (C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp) and see if you can. If so, try converting the HKX to KF yourself and import that.

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

I can easily add files to the folder myself, but I have no idea how to convert the HKX file into a KF file

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

apparently the way I converted the HKX files from SE to LE failed, because I just got someone else's LE copy of Animations.bat and when I tried to import the animation from there, i got this new error

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

I should probably specify that this still isn't working

[BadDogSkyrim]

Those warnings are generally okay. Did you load the full skeleton first? I think the HKX skeleton has those nodes, but they either don't exist in the NIF skeleton or they're named slightly differently.

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

I imported the SE skeleton, since the NIF version isn't included in the animation.bat. I loaded only the skeleton.nif, though. I didn't load skeleton_breats.nif

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

Ok, i got it to import without errors, but the animations still aren't applying. The skeleton is just standing there in the default position. and importing the .kf file that I converted just results in a new collection. This screenshot is after trying to import both the hkx and the kf that I got using ConvertUI

[tony-mathias-buchanan]

apparently it works now, but I had to create a keyframe. as soon as I did, the other keyframes got imported

[BadDogSkyrim]

There was something about keyframes that threw me for a loop in the latest Blender versions--nothing showed up until I did something magic which I now forget. Likely that's what you encountered.