Animation and pose mods, ...and how to navigate them Options

[Lena Wolf]

I am looking for a kneeling animation without the prayer component - I just want the character to kneel on a pad and sit quietly. I suspect some of the pose mods would have what I need, but when I downloaded Goma Poses, I found the files not to have descriptive names, and with literally hundreds upon hundreds of them to go through... eh... I got discouraged.

So, does anyone know a mod that contains such an animation or pose, and what would be the number or handle by which I can recognise it?

PS. This is for Oblivion, in case that wasn't clear from the forum title.

This post has been edited by Lena Wolf: Apr 17 2022, 09:16 AM

[Renee]

Yeah, you want a kneeling without prayer animation. Because I remember that too, the character kneels, but he/she also steeples their hands.

Later on I'll go on my gaming PC and see what I use for animation. Chances are it's something popular and you've already tried it, but maybe I'm wrong.

Edit: I use Actors in Charge.

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 17 2022, 01:35 PM

[Lena Wolf]

Yeah, you want a kneeling without prayer animation. Because I remember that too, the character kneels, but he/she also steeples their hands.

Edit: I use Actors in Charge.

I looked at Actors in Charge but it only re-packages the animations already present in vanilla Oblivion (+SI). There's the prayer animation but not a meditating one.

I don't have a playable Oblivion, now that I've switched to a machine with no optical drive. But I know there were several kneeling poses in Halo's CTaddpose mod. Naming conventions for the kf files were series/number, rather than type-based, so they don't help.

The simplest solution may be to create a custom one. I assume the leg position can be taken from the prayer one, and the kneeling down/getting up animations that go with would be unchanged. Where would you want the arms/hands? Maybe it can be cobbled by cut/paste in NifSkope.

Not being able to navigate those pose mods is exactly my problem... I didn't know you could make an animation in NifSkope! I thought you needed Blender for that. I can't load existing animations in NifSkope.

What I would need is simple - sit quietly. Since it's for Geralt (the witcher), then here's a suitable picture. It is basically the first half of the prayer animation - without the praying bit.