Skeletal Animation Editing

This page is an introductory page that will describe how to edit skeletal animations from Hedgehog Engine 2 games that utilize the .pxd file formats.

Required Tools

• Blender

• PXD Animation Tools add-on for Blender
• Hedgehog Engine I/O extension for Blender (for having a model to animate with)

Installation

Blender

• Download and run the setup executable of the latest supported version of Blender (version 4.4.x as of this wiki page) from either the official site or from the official Steam page if you'd like to stay automatically updated.

PXD Animation Tools

• Download PXDAnimationTools.zip from the tool's latest GitHub release page.

• Run Blender.
• In the upper left corner, navigate to Edit > Preferences...
• On the left pane of the preferences window, select the Add-ons tab.
• In the upper-right side of the window, select the v shaped drop-down button, then select Install from disk...
• Navigate to and select the downloaded PXDAnimationTools.zip file, then click the Install from Disk button.
• You should now see an add-on entry for Hedgehog Engine PXD Animation Tools with a ticked checkbox to the left.
• The tool is now installed, and the preferences window may now be closed.

Hedgehog Engine I/O

• Please see the dedicated installation page for HEIO.