I've noticed a tendency for it to put new animationgroups in a folder in the heiarchy I don't select, and sometimes it crashes when I press new. However, I still find this to be essential for anyone who takes SFM seriously, as it helps organize

Whoppermac, you'll need to delete any animationgroups.txt that's not in the platform folder. That was my problem

Try using the rig but nothing happens

Hasn't worked. It just freezes the program.

try to verify the sfm files and let me know if it still does it or not.

It was working well the first 3 times and now it just crashes SFM

It is causing my program to crash upon opening it.

Something that stumped me for a while that I solved that you should know:
If you make a new group, you CAN NOT put it in the preexisting "Unknown" group, or else it won't update and won't work. It seems that you can't create subgroups of "Unknown."

It's not perfect, but it's goddamn beautiful

does any error show up in the console when that happens

Hi! I've run into an issue with this addon as of late that I'm not able to fix somehow. For some reason, the interface for the animation rigger doesn't show up when I click to load it, SFM buffers for a bit but it doesn't open. Any suggestions or tips on what may be causing this?

I've tried redownloading the addon, but that doesn't seem to do the trick unfortunately.

You deserve a reward)

And thank you for answering, that was exactly the cause of the problem.

Yes, I was right - there was a conflict of files with the same name.

is there another sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt in usermod/cfg or any where else?

Damn, even editing this file manually has no effect.

No, it does not work. it feels like the SFM is using another text file, which is located in an unknown place.

you might need to use the option "remove bones from group file" first then try updating the groups

For some reason, after updating the groups, nothing happens. The text file (sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt) itself has been updated, new bones and their groupings have been added, but no effect after rebuilding control groups or adding a new model.

I'll let you know if I try it since using this as a back and forth helper. I look at what bones there is and I manually type them in CFG. Also for some reason it messes up the CFG like does not look neat anymore but idk if its supposed to do that.

@Mr Valrek, I just updated it let me know if its fixed or not.

Window does not pop and I get this Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1775, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1731, in setupUi
File "<string>", line 389, in autofind
File "<string>", line 625, in findparentandcolor
File "<string>", line 578, in lowercaselist
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'lower'

But I really do not want to reset my animationgroups since I have stuff already in it.

works perfectly now.
Thanks!

theres already one in there, but ok.

download this txt file https://www.dropbox.com/s/hmuta98jsgqor7i/sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt?dl=1

and place it here:" SourceFilmmaker\game\platform\cfg\"

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'platform\\cfg\\sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt'

does any error pop up in the console when that happens?

Whenever I click on the rig, no window pops up.
Any idea why?

no

I would not recommend using this too much since it can rack up your defaultanimgroup to an absurd number of lines which then end up preventing your models from even spawning (crashes sfm). Default group has around 30kb while with this,after using it couple of times to sort different models, it went up to 40mb and ended up just bricking sfm. Had to delete groups and addon just to be able to spawn models.

Thank you so much for this. This is like gods creation!! Finally I dont have to move my mouse like I was doing a surgery to select bones that dont do anything :)))

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... Help.... I am so confused, can someone please do a video tutorial?

Using that and the previous dropbox version, when I click update, it just removes 150+ of the bones I already have (making them unknown) and apparently ignoring the other bones in my txt file that wasn't in the model.
After deleting that and redownloading the current version available here, I performed the same task and the bones were placed in the desired folder (though I don't know if any background issues occured like normal).

If the issue is that I would have to redo my animationgroups from scratch again, I'd rather just stick with using it as a way to get the text information then manually enter it myself

@Edtion, try out this version to see if the problems are gone,: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vjndwacuy3c9tw/animation%20group%20editor.py?dl=1

@Edtion, its a bug most likely,it should be fixed within the week.

Is there any reason the script would create empty groups in the sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt?
When I organize some bones and folders, they sometimes go to the root directory instead of the subfolders I placed them in. Since my strict settings aren't getting saved (RigLegs subfolders end up in RigArms group), I'm manually editting the text file.

I'm seeing old groups I made earlier and the current folder I kept trying to make, duplicated with no bones listed in their hierachies.

Sorry but before I do that, I'm trying to recreate it. What I was doing last time is moving bones from the Unknown group into temporary folders of a tmp folder or just new folders. What I remember doing is c licking update and checking how they look in SFM but not getting that popup. After Closing the window (don't remember why) I tried to re-open and got the error.

I looked at the text file and there were some groups being repeated for around 18,000 lines, removing that duplication set fixed it but then I just stopped leaving the window open and reloaded after every update-check
Maybe it was the names/ordering I used that started that duplicated bug because right now it I can update without closing.
If you want, I can still add that script.

@Edtion,here replace the script file with this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vjndwacuy3c9tw/animation%20group%20editor.py?dl=1
to see if the changes i made worked, also replace your sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt with this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hmuta98jsgqor7i/sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt?dl=1

I don't know if it's a bug or just unavoidable but clicking update groups multiple times (because I don't close it) breaks your/the animgroup text file (or at least the way it's loaded, causing that error again)
If it's a bug you can fix then great, will wait for an update.
If it's unavoidable then would it be possible to disable/gray-out update or close the window after updating?

That works, thanks

@Edtion,replace your sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt with this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hmuta98jsgqor7i/sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt?dl=1

@[author]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1775, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1731, in setupUi
File "<string>", line 389, in autofind
File "<string>", line 625, in findparentandcolor
File "<string>", line 578, in lowercaselist
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'lower'

@Edtion, does any error show up in the console when you try to run it?

I can't get 1.2 to open. I was using 1.1 that I downloaded from SFMLab months ago. I deleted that and tried v1.2 then subscribed here and removed the SFMLab version, then I removed all my sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt, reopened SFM and I still get the same error:
Clicking Rig>animation group editor does nothing. with 1.2. using 1.1 brings up the window for 1.1.
I also opened player\spy model to try it instead of my other 3 models.

@OMG Theres A Bear In My Oatmeal!
Ok no problem ill wait until you fix it great script anyway ;)

@Pounder ,if you what to go back to the original set you had before go to ""SourceFilmmaker\game\platform\cfg\" and delete "sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt" and rename sfm_defaultanimationgroups_original.txt to sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt

this script is awesome though it messed up my group animations, all of my models now shows unknown, how do I fix it back? I see a groups backup how do I use it?

@Yashiro, sorry about that, this script is sort of bugy now and needs an overhaul, the next update (sometime this month) should fix most problems.

Dont work for me when i delete the model and spawn another all goes away like i did anything.
dont understand why.

Very nicely done, sir! Will be using this on a lot of the custom models I've struggled with using (although your auto rigger helps immensely with that as well).

The only issue I am having is that it only tries to replace the platform's sfmanimationgroups file, and doesn't attempt to replace any other ones that could exist in the gameinfo.txt before that one (like in usermod, as was the case for me). I know it's a pain to go through the gameinfo.txt file, but I just wanted to let you know to, if anything, check for usermod in advance to fix any potential confusion with it not working.