Possible reason for "missing" "XYZ Flesh" animations

[SpiritusIgneus]

A few people have reported that the Formless Flesh has missing animations. I think I've found the reason for it. The animations aren't missing - they just aren't referenced properly in the files for the Unstable Flesh and the Formless Flesh.

So, I was fighting the Inchoate Flesh on a new save file (in my old one, I've beaten all the bosses), and I noticed that the morphing animation was working properly. I thought "Huh? When did this get fixed?" It then occurred to me to actually look at the game files*, so I did. I then noticed that in the "formless_xxx_y.art.darkest" files (where "xxx" is the name of the "portion form"** and y is a letter [A, B, or C] corresponding to the difficulty level), there is an entry titled "shape_shifter" at the bottom of the file. In all of the "formless_xxx_A.art.darkest" files, the value for it is '.fx_name "fx\formless_mutate\formless_mutate.sprite.skel"', while in the others, it is simply '.fx_name "transform_flesh"'. I hypothesize that changing "transform_flesh" to "fx\formless_mutate\formless_mutate.sprite.skel" in every file would fix the issue. I couldn't confirm this myself, though - I've only just defeated the Brigand 8 Pounder on my newest save file.

*Note: For those who don't know, the configuration files for the monsters, including bosses, are located in <steam directory>\SteamApps\common\DarkestDungeon\monsters\ . The ".art.darkest" and ".info.darkest" files can be opened with Notepad, or any other text editor.

**Note 2: For those who don't know, the Formless Flesh is technically 4 separate enemies that share their HP. That's why each portion dies separately when you kill it. Also, the different forms of each portion are different enemy types.