Hi.
It's seam to be a user's rights troubles. try to not use any folder under "Users" folder, or "program files"(s).
If you want to test something in the current folder you use, you could try to edit permissions of the folder.

Why aren't you using blender?
That's easier than doing it in an xml.

If you just want to swap just animations in the ean use eanorganizer. That's also a lot easier.

No problem \o/

Hi.
-"Load EAN files and merge bones declaration" you say you didn't use ean file on emdFbx, so you don't care about this.
-"Notice: There is all bones declaration in Ean file. In an ESK file, there is less bones than in EAN files." same for that (same reasons)
-"fbx model but the file was about 62MB in size" yes , it's because I tryed to keep texture Definition on mesh, it's alittle bit complicated. sorry for big files and more time to import into blender. but it's not a big deal.

"Viewing the model in both Blender and Xenoviewer the sword appears on his right hand in the correct position. However when it is loaded in the game, the sword is on the floor and doesn't react with his hand at all. " Blender, Xenoviewer, Unity (as a fbx viewer) and the game doesn't react totally the same on blend weights. also, I'm not sure the sword as a emo really using skinning animation, may be it's the object witch foloow a bone animation (Node's animation).
As lots of people having done the kind of thing you want to do, I suppose there is a trouble when you merging the mesh of hands and swords in blender.

I should advice you to not merging them in the first place : Just move the sword's mesh next to the hand's mesh in hierarchy, it will be added into final emd after fbxemd.exe (the hierarchy is follow the emds structure).
the second thing to check is "the emo having a blend indice and weight ?" to know that, you should convert sword.emd into xml with XenoXmlconverter, and check if there is the flags for Blend.

So, if there isn't, you have to add skinning stuff on the sword's mesh into blender. normally fbxemd detecte that and add the flags (you could check that with xml version after fbxemd). But it's will still the problem that yours material, with a certain shader (program), will not deal with skeleton. So, the better thing, may be, is to clone a material in emm of the hand.emd, use the name of the sword (in hierarchy in blender, the name of the mesh is the name of the material used in emm), and adapt the value and textures to give the same result of the original material of the sword.

If you want to first test on yours merged mesh, I advice you to check weights on bones, and keep in mind, it's could only have 4 bones influence on each vertex maximum. blender could deal with more, Xenoviewer force to have all weight added == 1.0, so it's could be yours problem.

Hope it's will help you.
if there is a point you don't understand, say to me witch one.

have a nice day/night.

Hi Feraz.
Tools target Blender because it's free so lots of modder are on it.
I also can't take care of all differentes version of 3dsmax. But some people success to use the tools with some of.

In yours particular case:
-"that doesn't export in the right position the models" I think it's could be a missing Root Node ("EXP_XXX_000" for esk, "XXX_BAS_BONE" for ean). So the first thing to do is to check the presence of that bone (in Xml version of esk or ean). Compare with the original one and add if missing.

-"sometime with some files generated with emdfbx the program crashes," you have to be more specific, please. because it's a every day tool for lots of modder.

"when I import them on 3DS Max 2010 the tool crashes." try Unity as a fbx preview, please, to check if the Fbx is well done.

"with thing exported with the new fbxemd is they are flipped badly" in Blender, we have to export with Tpose to have good link between bones. if you don't care about animation (and it's hard to edit on 3dmax because of none gesture of animations layers), just keep the Tpose on the first keyframe. Hope it's will solve yours problem.

Hi.
"but is possible to optimize a bit the tool for 3ds max too?" it's very difficult because of difference of behaviours on different importer/exporter version for fbx.
you will say "it's the same for blender". yes, but , as it's free, people could give the last version at any moment. it is not the case of 3dsmax.
Some of people use 3dsmax and it's work , but it's a newer version than 2010.

Please try when you can Unity as preview, also for yours Fbx exported from 3dsmax. It will give you more informations on yours two problems.

"the second thing to check is "the emo having a blend indice and weight ?" to know that, you should convert sword.emd into xml with XenoXmlconverter, and check if there is the flags for Blend."
=>
-download XenoXmlConverter. Extract into a folder without spaces into the path.
-drag your xxx.emd file on this tools
-open the xxx.emd.xml in yours favorite textEditor or XmlEditor (as NotePad++ by sample).
-Look after "VertexDefinition" tag. if you have "BoneBlendWeight" into it, you have blend indice and weight in vertex definition.

take a look on the file , you will better understand the emd format. same for others format the tool deal with.

Blend information is for "link" vertex to the bones. if you have "BoneBlendWeight", there is 4 bones influences on each vertex with some weights.
So, if you need only 1 bone influence, you should put a weight 0.0 to others bones.
Xenoviewer and some software adjust the 4st bone to having sum of 1.0 for weights.



"if this is incorrect and if you don't mind, could you please explain what you mean by this?"
-Material use a "shader" (all people on modding talk about "shader", but it's "shader program"). you have it into emm file.
-"shader (program)" use a vertexShader and a PixelShader (and some of also a GeometryShader, but you don't care here). See sds files (into adam_shader folder).
-In vertex shader, (so, for each vertex), it read the blend indice and blend weight to modify the position of the vertex from bones's matrices.
-The game use blend indice and blend weight to do some skinning animation, that for move some vertex differently from some others vertex on the same object (that the case for all characters emd). If you don't have to do that (<==> moving all vertex of a object in the same way), you just have modify the matrix of the object, that Node's Animation, and in this case you don't need blend Indice and blend weight.

-So IF the material of sword_a don't use a shader with skining informations, you must use another shader or material. To know that, it's simple : if you don't have "BoneBlendWeight" in vertexDefinition, the material of this don't have shader witch deal with skinning animation.
-SO IF you allready have "BoneBlendWeight", you don't have to do anything on material. may be just copy the sword_a material into the emm of the target emd (if you have moved the mesh/geometry of the sword into hierarchy of a emd in blender).
-IF you don't have "BoneBlendWeight" in vertex definition, you should copy a material like hand and make few adjustement (The Next part).




For adding a material into emm for character, the things you need to know:
-xxx.dyt.emb having color degrades for display difuse colors and specular and reflexion coefficients.
-it's a texture with 32 lines (of 4 pixels each) grouped by 4 lines. each group is for 1 part of the geometry (so 4 part/4 material look like maximum), like Bust have armor and skin by sample.
-there is many files in xxxx.dyt.emb, each file is about a slot's version into game's character selection (you choose a character, and after you could choose the version of the character).
-the first line is difuse color degrade, the second is for reflexions. (if I remember well, easy to check)
-To choose witch group to use, it's the value MaterialScale1_X in emm, it's a integer [0,3].
-xxx.emb have namy textures. to choose the one to use it's "EMDSubmeshDefinition" tag in emd files.
-the real "how it's used" depend of the pixel shader.
-but in most of case for characters, it's about :
-one texture for damage in red, blood in green, pencil stroke in alpha.
-one texture for skin marks (ex: Cell, Aple).
-if you have more than two texture in emb, is for the same kind of things for others part of emd.

NOTICE: use the last version of embPack to keep good order of files.

In yours case, if you have to use another material, cloned from a character's material:
-check if you have a empty group in a dyt of the emd, else change of emd.
-clone a material in emm.xml, rename it by the name of the mesh/geometry in hierarchy in blender (sword_a).
-change the MaterialScale1_X to target a empty group in dyt (index begin from 0).
-fill degarde of the group in all files in dyt.emb:
-adapt for first line color.
-for reflexion, you should copy a armor, or another metal material look like.
-copy the new textures for xxx.emb (hope it's look like ones for character, like my description up), better to add also the filename into the xml generated by the last version of embPack, to be sure of order of yours new files. keep in mind the index (start from 0, if I remember well) for the next step.
-in yours new xxx.emd.xml, change the "textureindex" of each "EMDSubmeshDefinition" tags in the sword part.

Hope it's Ok for you.