Ministry Samurai - Red Guard Animations

A bunch of the Red Guard Samurai's animations retargeted for Wolf. This mod covers a lot, from basic attacks, to defense, various Combat Arts, and other miscellaneous animations (<1. 002).

I've decided to redo every single animation for this mod, from attacks to movement, and other things. Attacks are now all timed to be exactly like vanilla attacks, so gameplay should be a lot, a lot better than before.

Attack speed was the biggest concern for me. Fighting in Sekiro is a lot quicker than Souls games, and Wolf is a lot weaker than his enemies. Souls games have a large variety of weapons that all move at different speeds, while Wolf has (mainly) one. He needs to move and attack fast to keep up in fights. In this mod and my others, I did try and speed up retargeted animations to better suit Wolf, but it was not good enough. I've also redone my Red Guard moveset, but I'm not sure about the status of Isshin's. I started working on Isshin's first, but after a while I was dissatisfied with it. Another key thing to focus on is the movement of the animations. They need to move like Wolf's attacks (in my opinion) to feel proper (i.e. distance covered per attack, it's another major concern I should've seen long ago).

I redid my Lone Shadow/Red Guard movesets because they're my favorite enemies in Sekiro, and I've wanted to do them for a long time. I left my previous versions unattended because I lost interest in modding, and now I think I will start working on things again. I'll probably leave up my other movesets for now, but know that I will probably redo them as well, making them fully match the speed of Wolf's original attacks and fixing some other things.

Issues

• []The game crashes on startup if too many .hkx files are replaced. Since we downgrade from 2018 Havok to 2016 with an unofficial tool instead of directly exporting to 2016, this happens. My current solution is to only replace offensive/defensive animations.

  []The Left Weapon will be active in most animations (e.g. Wolf performing a deathblow where he holds his Kusabimaru with both hands). There are a lot of animations for Wolf, and I don't feel like going through every single one of them and adjusting them to solve this. I'm glad enough to have finally solved the Left Weapon shown in Friendly areas problem that's bugged me. And adjusting the animations with the OverrideWeaponModelLocation TAE already present was time consuming enough.

  Merging

  Animations

  • []It's probably best to open up DSAnimStudio and preview the animations for yourself; there's a lot I've changed.

    I've named many of the TAEs for easier navigation and reference.

  TAEs (1. 002)

  []a00 (Sheathed animations, search for OverrideWeaponModelLocation)

  []a100

  []a102

  [*]a103 (Sheathed animations, search for Overr