Black Ops III

Custom Traversal Animations

How I created custom traversal animations for heights that were not provided.

Prerequisites

This is how I personally made my animations. There may be other solutions for other software, or maybe even something much simpler I missed

Blender 3.6
I found that importing xanims in Blender 4.0 or above caused errors with the plugin
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Importing Existing XAnim

Open Blender 3.6 and select File > Import > Import XModel
Navigate to Call of Duty Black Ops III\model_export\base_character and open bo3_base_character.XMODEL_BIN
Select File > Import > Import XAnim
Navigate to your Call of Duty Black Ops III\xanim_export\ai\zombie and open the closest XAnim to the one you want to create

Modifying Existing XAnim

Select Pose Mode and then select the armature's tag_origin

Open the Graph Editor

_{Do this in a new window if you know how. Not necessary but helpful for seeing what you're doing}

Double click the Z Location (tag_origin) to highlight the vertical height graph

You may want to play around with the graph more than outlined here. This is intended to be a very simple guide to get something working

Press S (scale), then Y (vertical), and type the amount to scale by.

To find the amount to scale by, take your desired height and divide it by the height of the existing XAnim. For example if I want a 200 high jump and I imported ai_zombie_base_jump_up_160, I would do 200 / 160 which is 1.25

You'll notice the start of the line move up from 0. To fix this select any of the keyframes that were originally at 0 and copy the value of the Active Keyframe

In my 200 from 160 example, my value is -0.508683 m

Press G (move), then Y (vertical), and type the inverse of the value of the active keyframe

In my example this would be 0.508683

Exporting Modified XAnim

Select your entire armature and press A to select all of the bones
Select File > Export > Export XAnim
Ensure Binary (Bin) is selected, Use Notetrack is unchecked, and Export All Actions says (1 actions)
Export to Call of Duty Black Ops III\xanim_export\ai\zombie and name it the same as the one you imported, but with the height number changed

In my example this would be ai_zombie_base_jump_up_200.xanim_bin

Open APE, and copy the XAnim into your GDT and name it to match the file name
Select your new Anim File
Use it in your node_negotiations or wherever else you'd like!