I'm in a rush right now to register, but here is an anim editing tutorial:
Tutorial:
This tutorial will show you how to make dwarves chop down trees with giant golden swords!
1. The first step is to extract anim.bar if you haven't already. It is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\anim\anim.bar
If you don't have a bar extractor already, you can get one here.2. After that, open up Cheesy Anim Editor.
Then click on Choose Anim File in the top left corner. Navigate to where you extracted to (probably C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\anim\) and open up dwarf_anim.txt.3. Step 3 is to go find the place where the dwarf's axe is defined and turn it into a sword. So, look in the box in the middle left of the screen for define axe. When you find it, double click it or click on it and hit edit.
4. Next, look for where it says Visual Attachments A Axe Hatchet. Erase this, then put your cursor at the beginning of the empty line where it used to be. Then in the second dropdown in the bottom left (Attachments, Tools, Weaps), look for Visual Attachments E Guardian Sword. Lets look at this for a second. First of all, every model starts with Visual. The ES modelers were probably just anal like that . Attachments are usually things you attach to people's hands, feet, and other things like that. For example, swords.The E stands for Egyptian. There are also G and N (pop quiz: guess what they stand for).
Guardian Sword represents the sword that the guardian in the egyptian part of the campaign used.
Once you find it and select it, hit go and it will insert where you had your cursor.
Do the same for Visual Attachments A Axe Wood and Visual Attachments A Axe DoubleBit
4. Hit transfer data up to put this chunk back into the whole file (you have to do this before saving). Then hit the save button in the top right. MAKE SURE YOU SAVE IT IN C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\anim, or wherever you installed AOM too. Otherwise it wil have no effect on the game.5. Open up AOM and start the game as thor. Then tell your dwarf to chop some wood and watch what happens
6. If you grow tired of your dwarf of death, you uninstall simply by deleting the text file you save. Just make sure you never delete anim.bar. The txt files in the directory simply overwrite what is inside it.