I was already thinking about making something similar but good thing I stumbled on this, save me some time and energy. I was dreading the tedious manual renaming so that different races and genders had different animation sets...
I'm having the same issue as SiniVII about power attacks not working. But I think it's because the filenames are too long to be read by the game. I guess that's a limitation for Blockhead/Oblivion though, not this Blockheadizer.
- edit: On the Blockhead posts page itself there is a message talking about the filename length limit on Windows. However... it doesn't seem to affect power attacks at all. I'm beginning to suspect Blockhead doesn't yet work with power attacks properly, but there aren't a lot of people posting about it.
No unfortunately. The issue was with Blockhead itself. On page 2 of the comments for Blockhead you can find my comments regarding it and the mod authors supposedly know, but haven't fixed it yet.
Damn! Is there another mod that gets the job done? Amazing that it's been 15+ years into oblivion and no one figured out how the engine handles animation modding for specific actors.
I...I honestly have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I just never have been able to properly modify any animations to be simply player only. I've tried the ESP method, I've tried Mayu's stuff, I've tried blockhead, no dice. I've done it on two separate computers (last year on an older one, and this year with my new one.)
I am attempting to convert sinkpoints martial arts hand to hand animation mod into a player only one. Placing the files in a separate folder on my desktop, I ran the Blockheadizer.BAT with the BLKD_PERNPC_Oblivion.esm_00000007.kf appearing on all of my files, subsequently moved them to my SpecialAnims folder in Oblivion, and subsequently could ONLY get them working when I did "player.refreshanimdata" while in first person as prior to this, it would only play NoMaaM animations which were in the _male folder. Doing the refresh in third person broke my anims and camera. Every time I put away my fists and then brought them back up again, the animations would once more reset and I'd have to hit refreshanimdata to get them working again.
I have no idea what could be causing this. The only thing I can think of might be the NoMaaM animations overlapping with this (but they shouldn't technically?) or maybe Setbody Reloaded Blockhead edition? Maybe Oblivion- Enhanced Camera?
For now I've stuck to just having the animations override every NPC as per normal, but I genuinely don't know why the blkd_pernpc does not function. I ran it through your system, I checked other mods (which clearly show other attack animations so I'm certain it's not just idles), I'm just flat out lost.
Striker879 and Reptuch suggested on a thread that archive invalidation was the culprit. But I installed SkyBSA to solve the problem and my power attacks still remain vanilla.
I also tried player.refreshanimdata on third person, however it didn't break my game. When I tried it on 1st person it also didn't break my game and replaced some of my power attacks with the modded blockhead ones. 2H claymore/big sword power attacks were still vanilla though.
Wow, this is probably actually maybe sorta kinda fucking great!
I am honestly surprised how easy it was to use. Just place the correct .bat file beside a meshes folder, follow isntructions, and presto! You got exclusive animations.
Thanks a bunch for this. Not sure why I can't get power-attacks to work though... But, minor issue, probably a specialanims issue.
I cannot get power attacks to work either. I used it on Thrust Attack Animation and it displayed the files correctly, but they did not apply to my character in game. For now I have to use the animations on all characters, which is not what I want but its all I can do at the moment.
So basically in 1066 a group of murderous Vikings who had adopted French culture and become 'christianized', invaded England. Unfortunately the Anglo-Saxon-Britons had just repelled an invasion of actual murderous vikings and in their weakened state lost the battle to these new ones, called Normans. The Normans then proceeded to pillage up and down the length of Brittania murdering, stealing and doing other naughty things. These mass murderers brought with them their new language, French, which now became the language of the ruling class. Meanwhile the native English language became that of the lower classes. Though over time these two merged into what we now call modern English, the dichotomy between 'high class' (aka murdering pseudoviking) and low class (native Britonic) vocabulary remains. This gave rise to the concept of 'swearing' whereby these lower class terms would be associated with uncouth/uneducated speech. This is why the word 's#*!' is a 'curse' and feces is not. I hope this helps!
Great program, took me a bit to figure out how it works exactly, but this makes it possible to use pretty much any animation replacers on the nexus for your character only, love it.
This won't work for me. It creates the folder but it won't copy the animations into it.
EDIT - I figured it out after opening the BAT file in notepad. The readme was unclear to me. You must place the input .kfs into a directory labeled *\Meshes\Characters\_male*. Not just *Meshes* as the instructions suggest.
Hope this helps anyone who had the same confusion as me. :)
Anyone wanting to apply animations to moonshadow elves, this is the line: ? copy /y %%f "%pout%\%%~nf_BLKD_PERRACE_Moonshadow Elves_%g%.kf"
Also if you want to apply it to a custom race, open up the console, run showracemenu, and make sure you use the exact wording given in the race selector to replace the custom race.
Awesome tool! Something was interfering with the mod The Bouncy Jump Project, don't know how and why, causing the last portion of the animation to render my character invisible. Blockheadizing the animations from that mod fixed it!
I don't get this work. I used the blockheadizer.bat to convert idle.kf to Idle_BLKD_PERRACE_a_f.kf, which it does, but It doesn't work in-game. I have the file in meshes\characters\_male\specialanims -folder. I have latest Blockhead and OBSE installed (if they didn't work correctly, OCO wouldn't work and it definitely works). Is the problem that OCO races aren't exactly vanilla ones?
EDIT: nevermind, I was just retarded. I was supposed to write "all" when asked which race. Problem solved.
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On the Blockhead posts page itself there is a message talking about the filename length limit on Windows. However... it doesn't seem to affect power attacks at all. I'm beginning to suspect Blockhead doesn't yet work with power attacks properly, but there aren't a lot of people posting about it.
I'm hoping someday somebody can figure it out.
I am attempting to convert sinkpoints martial arts hand to hand animation mod into a player only one. Placing the files in a separate folder on my desktop, I ran the Blockheadizer.BAT with the BLKD_PERNPC_Oblivion.esm_00000007.kf appearing on all of my files, subsequently moved them to my SpecialAnims folder in Oblivion, and subsequently could ONLY get them working when I did "player.refreshanimdata" while in first person as prior to this, it would only play NoMaaM animations which were in the _male folder. Doing the refresh in third person broke my anims and camera. Every time I put away my fists and then brought them back up again, the animations would once more reset and I'd have to hit refreshanimdata to get them working again.
I have no idea what could be causing this. The only thing I can think of might be the NoMaaM animations overlapping with this (but they shouldn't technically?) or maybe Setbody Reloaded Blockhead edition? Maybe Oblivion- Enhanced Camera?
For now I've stuck to just having the animations override every NPC as per normal, but I genuinely don't know why the blkd_pernpc does not function. I ran it through your system, I checked other mods (which clearly show other attack animations so I'm certain it's not just idles), I'm just flat out lost.
I also tried player.refreshanimdata on third person, however it didn't break my game. When I tried it on 1st person it also didn't break my game and replaced some of my power attacks with the modded blockhead ones. 2H claymore/big sword power attacks were still vanilla though.
I am honestly surprised how easy it was to use. Just place the correct .bat file beside a meshes folder, follow isntructions, and presto! You got exclusive animations.
Thanks a bunch for this. Not sure why I can't get power-attacks to work though... But, minor issue, probably a specialanims issue.
Here, have an endorsement!
So basically in 1066 a group of murderous Vikings who had adopted French culture and become 'christianized', invaded England. Unfortunately the Anglo-Saxon-Britons had just repelled an invasion of actual murderous vikings and in their weakened state lost the battle to these new ones, called Normans. The Normans then proceeded to pillage up and down the length of Brittania murdering, stealing and doing other naughty things. These mass murderers brought with them their new language, French, which now became the language of the ruling class. Meanwhile the native English language became that of the lower classes. Though over time these two merged into what we now call modern English, the dichotomy between 'high class' (aka murdering pseudoviking) and low class (native Britonic) vocabulary remains. This gave rise to the concept of 'swearing' whereby these lower class terms would be associated with uncouth/uneducated speech. This is why the word 's#*!' is a 'curse' and feces is not. I hope this helps!
EDIT - I figured it out after opening the BAT file in notepad. The readme was unclear to me. You must place the input .kfs into a directory labeled *\Meshes\Characters\_male*. Not just *Meshes* as the instructions suggest.
Hope this helps anyone who had the same confusion as me. :)
? copy /y %%f "%pout%\%%~nf_BLKD_PERRACE_Moonshadow Elves_%g%.kf"
Also if you want to apply it to a custom race, open up the console, run showracemenu, and make sure you use the exact wording given in the race selector to replace the custom race.
EDIT: nevermind, I was just retarded. I was supposed to write "all" when asked which race. Problem solved.