[WIP] Type IX for sh5

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Originally Posted by mkiii

well for a start we cannot create gr2 anims, so unless we can merge dat animations into the sub, it will be static meshes,

That's certainly a possibility, nonetheless recently I dealt with dat (keyframed in my case) animation using S3e, and they are a bit tricky too...

Originally Posted by mkiii

not even looked at the waypoint stuff, although I remember "Vanilla" was doing things with them, with good results

If you mean waypoints for walking crew animations, adding them should be a nobrainer (they are basically bones which can be cloned and moved around), but then, a new set of crew scripts would be required.

Originally Posted by mkiii

The main drawback is not being able to create new meshes, all we can do is subset meshes into one, and then repurpose the meshes for something else.
we can only work within the capability of the tools at hand.

This is true, but should a GR2 file not have enough meshes, there is always the chance to link a GR2 model to another model stored in another file. I have not SH5 installed currently so I can't give you more details, but there is a special controller for this purpose and I think silentmichal exploited it for his interior mod

Originally Posted by mkiii

I just do one thing till it works, then move on to the next problem, spend too much time looking at the big picture and its too much work.

You are naking a good point. Facing problems one by one is the only possible approach in this case