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I'm converting a skeleton and animations from Jedi Academy to Star Wars Battlefront 2. I got the animations into XSI just fine (except they are all attached together). I exported a basepose.msh and an idle.msh animation, but the munger did not spit out the .anims, .zafbin, or .zaabin from them.

I looked and the basepose does match up with the animation. Here is my ZenAsset.log. What could be going wrong? It is not a human skeleton (but it has less than 64 bones). The parent to them is named scene_root instead of dummyroot but I don't think it matters (and I renamed the default XSI Scene_root so it does not conflict).
EDIT: the basepose has a keyframe on 0 and 1 and that did not change anything.

EDIT: could it be because the JKA animations aren't made in the root + bone + effector style (whatever that is called) ?

Make sure only the bones are keyed. None of the effs or roots can be keyed.

Thats the thing. There aren't any roots or effectors. Just nulls that are animated. I will upload a screenshot.

EDIT:

You need to have a model weighed to the bones, that's 1 major error. You don't seem to understand much about animation in general and I don't have time to teach such things as I'm currently trying to do a total conversion for JA. The thing you're referring to is that the skeleton is not set up as a SI|3D chain which is the only type of bone chain SWBF2 takes but a null skeleton will work, you just can't use the XSI 2D/3D chain.

As far as that I can't help you much just because I don't remember much about modding this game, it's been quite a few years since I've done any modding on this engine.

If anyone though wants to help me reach my goals of making a KotOR 1/2 based space map I may be convinced to build a skeleton rig for this game using the unit template as a base to make easy animation like I did here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cfTPSe4gek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomRkTTDMUk

I do have the model weighted to a skeleton. I am just trying to export the animation by itself. Ive made animations with the normal swbf2 skeleton just fine.

I dunno then, my knowledge on this despite being the first person to get animations working in this game has kinda faded, it's been so long I can't remember what might be causing your errors.

I also, on the other hand used the original Pandemic exporter with XSI 5.11 rather than the newer exporters you guys now have so I don't know if that could be causing problems. If I remember right the dialogue box's for the 2 exporters were quite different, both with different options.