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About this mod
Adds over 80 variants to "folded arms" animation overlay (offsetarmscrossed.hkx) according to NPCs armor type, personality or role in society. Works with NPC from mods as well. Open Animation Replacer folders with .hkx files, no esp/esl!
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Arm Movement Animations (OAR mod) is an addition of more than 80 conditional dynamic replacers for offsetarmscrossed.hkx animation overlay in game.
This animation is often gets activated for NPCs in dialogue and replaces arm movement from idle animations or gestures currently playing, resulting in characters seem less lively. That is not what I want in my Skyrim, especially with interesting characters like Sheogorath.
To help it I created Immersive Folded Hands mod, at the start DAR and OAR only allowed to add conditional variants of offsetarmscrossed animation. Now new OAR features made it possible for this mod to add so much more, I even had to change the name. Immersive Folded Hands becomes Arm Movement Animations because there are so much arm movement, it is rarely folded.
AMA replaces static folded arms animation overlay with rotation of:
Better gestures in 2.1.0 version:
Lucien follower with A makeover for Lucien
Compatibility
Just like my other mods PCG is technically compatible with everything.
Mods that change proportions of bodies are compatible, but will affect how animations from this mod are displayed. For example with FK's Diverse Racial Skeletons mage offsetarmscrossed will look off with tallest and shortest races.
How to install
This mod works without Nemesis or FNIS. Open Animation Replacer needed only.
At any time in your playthrough add main mod archive to your mod manager and follow it's standard installation process. Don't forget to make mod active :)
If you don't like some animation from this mod, you can just disable OAR submod with it! Select NPC, use OAR animation log to know what and where, disable in User mode and save.
How to uninstall
At any time in your playthrough remove mod files in your mod manager.
How to update
At any time in your playthrough download new main file version and replace all files with a new version files.
How to fix issue with Windows not reading files
If during/after installation some sort of error pops up or animations in your game can`t play and you see static pose instead:
Mod Organizer 2 users - rename mod folder in your mod manager to "AMA OAR" and it will fix this
Other mod manager users - extract the zip file and rename the "Arm Movement Animations (OAR)" named folder to "Data", repack and install
This animation is often gets activated for NPCs in dialogue and replaces arm movement from idle animations or gestures currently playing, resulting in characters seem less lively. That is not what I want in my Skyrim, especially with interesting characters like Sheogorath.
To help it I created Immersive Folded Hands mod, at the start DAR and OAR only allowed to add conditional variants of offsetarmscrossed animation. Now new OAR features made it possible for this mod to add so much more, I even had to change the name. Immersive Folded Hands becomes Arm Movement Animations because there are so much arm movement, it is rarely folded.
AMA replaces static folded arms animation overlay with rotation of:
- short motions like stretching, scratching, looking far away and so on
- dynamic arm folding animations (with a special condition set to create an illusion of NPCs noticing player character with accordance to relationship rank)
- gestures to greet PC or NPCs
- dialogue gestures according to relationship rank (PC with NPC, NPC with NPC), character personality and many other conditions
Better gestures in 2.1.0 version:
Lucien follower with A makeover for Lucien
Compatibility
Just like my other mods PCG is technically compatible with everything.
Mods that change proportions of bodies are compatible, but will affect how animations from this mod are displayed. For example with FK's Diverse Racial Skeletons mage offsetarmscrossed will look off with tallest and shortest races.
How to install
This mod works without Nemesis or FNIS. Open Animation Replacer needed only.
At any time in your playthrough add main mod archive to your mod manager and follow it's standard installation process. Don't forget to make mod active :)
If you don't like some animation from this mod, you can just disable OAR submod with it! Select NPC, use OAR animation log to know what and where, disable in User mode and save.
How to uninstall
At any time in your playthrough remove mod files in your mod manager.
How to update
At any time in your playthrough download new main file version and replace all files with a new version files.
How to fix issue with Windows not reading files
If during/after installation some sort of error pops up or animations in your game can`t play and you see static pose instead:
Mod Organizer 2 users - rename mod folder in your mod manager to "AMA OAR" and it will fix this
Other mod manager users - extract the zip file and rename the "Arm Movement Animations (OAR)" named folder to "Data", repack and install
I appreciate very much all the tools that made it possible to realize my vision
Some of the files made by me in Blender with Animation Tools N3+28 by tktk, the rest made from animations extracted from Animations.bsa with MO2 and modified with hkxPoser by opparco, when it was needed.
And of course, existence of all my mods depends on genius Open Animation Replacer by Ershin
Do you like how NPCs in my game look? These mods contributed to it the most:
Rudy ENB CW Zangdar's Edit Lux Edition with optional bokeh
SC - Cubemaps - makes materials look mesmerizing
Tragedian's Fabulous Followers SSE
Northbourne NPCs of Whiterun Hold and all other otherhauls made by this author
Cuyima Interesting NPCs SE with Custom Hair + Tragedian's Interesting NPCs - 3DNPC Followers Reimagined
Modpocalypse NPCs - All Vanilla NPCs with highpoly vanilla hair as a base
SC - KS Hairdos Retextured - more believable hair
Female skin textures: Reverie - Skin + optionally SC - Mature Skin Specular less shiny
Male skin textures:Tempered Skins for Males - Vanilla and SOS versions or Vitruvia - skin texture overhaul for males - SE
Phoenix Flavour wabbajack modlist as a base for all this - it provided better textures, meshes and fixes to elevate looks of the game
Note: if you will use this wabbajack installation as a base for your game to add more mods on top, don`t message Phoenix about possible conflicts
Other mod recommendations from me you can find at the bottom of NPC Animation Remix (DAR) page