I don't think bumping this is a problem. Any bugs/problems should be posted here, too so I can check them out.

And while we're at it: The last release now supports importing animations. Geometry won't be imported but all objects will be represented as nulls with animations.

Hmm, OK. I'll try to get an animation into SWBF1 later today or tomorrow. Just have to refresh my modding-memory a bit...

And if you munge it with the SWBF2 animation folder it crashes, too?
EDIT: I think zenasset.exe needs at least one material to work. So add a small primitive(eg a cube)to the scene(you can hide it) then try again. Pandemic used a cube as root for the celldoor.

So the animation works for SWBF2 but not for SWBF1?
You could try using the parameters from Jabba's Palace munge_animation.bat.

BFBuilder\Assets\Shipped Add On\DataTAT3\Common\Animations\munge_animation.bat
@REM called from $\Animations\subfolder\
@REM   all params are passed to zenasset
@REM   if there are more than 9 parameters to pass, you can enclose all params in double quotes

@setlocal
@set PATH="%CD%"\..\..\..\..\ToolsFL\Bin;%PATH%

zenasset /multimsh %~1

binmunge -inputfile *.zaa -chunkid zaa_ -ext zaabin -outputdir %2\munged\
binmunge -inputfile *.zaf -chunkid zaf_ -ext zafbin -outputdir %2\munged\

del *.zaa
del *.zaf

@endlocal

The zenasset ... line is different from the zenasset line in the SWBF2 munge_animation.bat.

Thanks.
I totally forgot about the templates. The template packs are uploaded on the google sites page, too. You can either 'install' them through the Expansion Manager(in XSI: ZE Tools>General Tools>Expansion Manager) or just import them as dotXSI. Installing let's you import them via the ZE Tools>ZETools... window.

I have added a small tutorial on how to export animations(the example is similar to a door) to the guidelines:
https://sites.google.com/site/andescp/zet_m

edit by Led:  Here is a video about how to install them
https://youtu.be/NvDMErhwm9Y

and here is the download (large) that includes softimage, ZETools, and software needed to run ZETools.
http://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=1371


XSI ZETools is a plugin(biggest part written in python) for XSI 6.0+.
It should do pretty much everything the Pandemic exporter could.

I update the gametoast topic with every new release, so that's the best place to get the newest download/info/support:
Gametoast topic
Here's the 'homepage':
http://schlechtwetterfront.github.io/xsizetools/
The latest version is maintained at github:
https://github.com/Schlechtwetterfront/xsizetools/