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What idle animations you want to ask me to make?
I am open to suggestions what animations to add and what conditions to use!
Creating animations is time consuming, so immersive kind of animations will have a priority.
If you will post a link to a video with a motion you like, it will be especially helpful :)

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  1. xadris666
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    hey bro I do love the mod and I think it will be much less moving/action of idles also add some bad-ass or heavy armor type of idles too, love it bro! MUCH LOVE!
    1. CHIMgarden
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      It is nice to see my work is appreciated :)
      I was thinking about just that recently, want to make animation for heavy armor and use in NPCAR also, but no promises, because that could be time consuming
  2. Aardvark1998
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    I like how much personality your animations add to the game. Since you offered, I thought about more idle animations and came up with quite a few ideas:


    • The player kicking at dust or stones when they've been standing still for a bit
    • The player rising up on the balls of their feet to stretch their calves, again when they've been standing still for a bit
    • Peering around anxiously while inside a dungeon cell
    • Looking at the sky in awe (and perhaps a little terror) while somewhere like Apocrypha, Blackreach or the Soul Cairn
    • Holding their hand out to feel the rain and/or snow
    • Checking their watch, or the part of their wrist where people usually wear watches, if they've been standing still for a particularly long time. A minute, maybe, long enough for the camera to start spinning around.
    • Paddling or splashing around for a bit if they're standing in water
    • Fanning themself, perhaps a little bit coyly

    Some nice little behavioural touches, hopefully. There's no pressure, of course; just see what you think of them. ^_^
    1. CHIMgarden
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      I don't feel any pressure, it is all fun and games :)
      After looking at the same thing for so long I may have tunnel vision. So thank you for your ideas! 


      • I already have animation for first idea
      • I tried to use Mixamo animation for it, it looked silly...
      • Can be done and I tried it with followers. PC headtracking can make it look bad, so idk...
      • That is a good idea, have to make it from scratch tho
      • Holding hands in rain makes sense
      • I have animation like that, just will have to re-do retarget
      • May use kicking animation for standing in water
      • Mixamo has animation with fanning, I just don't know if it will be usable in cold Skyrim, but maybe only in warm dwemer dungeons

      So I can add kicking animation I already have for standing in water naked condition and kicking while on the road
  3. Ratchetkiin
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    I would love a "needs idle animations" for a mod like Sunhelm, that could look like adding idles whenever the player is tired and they would start to yawn and even doze off when you are sleep-deprived. You could also add in gripping your stomach in pain whenever you are starving or dehydrated, ofc this idea would involve looking into the mod's code to find out how to implement it but if you are up to the challenge I would happily endorse it.

    also

    Going off mcdibyoe's idea I would love to have "absent-minded idle animations" where there would be race/gender specific animations, for example, an orc/bosmer cleaning/picking their teeth, argonians/khajiits touching/scratching their tail, yawning, picking at their skin, stuff among those lines.

    thanks for making great animations :)
    1. CHIMgarden
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      This mod has tired sigh and sleepy nod animations, I can easily add Sunhelm related conditions, good idea! For dehydrated character it will make sense during rain to collect water in palms of hands and drink :)
      EVG Conditional Idles already has animation with gripping your stomach for needs mods by the way, so no need to make another one I guess.
      I agree there should plenty "absent-minded idle animations", preferably dependent on clothes and other physical features, unfortunatelly this is not something Mixamo has for my use, will have to do it myself and correct in Blender... 
    2. Ratchetkiin
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      You are already amazing for those other animations! If you could add those sunhelm conditions that will actually be the cherry on the top!

      EVG Conditional Idles already has animation with gripping your stomach for needs mods by the way, so no need to make another one I guess.
      Jeez must have been the wind on my part.. thanks for letting me know. Also, take your time no need to rush.
    3. CHIMgarden
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      Thank you! There could not be any rush because of how much time it all will take to make new animations))
    4. Ratchetkiin
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  4. deleted1396482
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    This maybe just me.. but I wish to see male player n npc absent mindedly scratches his crotch, fixing his pants or female player n npc fixing her bust line or something like that LoL somethings that once seen can't be unseen and funny. Like the player or npc sneezing then wipe their noses. picking their noses LoL
    1. CHIMgarden
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      Hey, Skyrim is in need of comic relief moments, maybe adding this kind of animation can provide it :) I know how to get crouch scratching animation from Mixamo, maybe I will do it. Difficulty here if to make it play at appropriate moment... but I can simply add it with condition "no clothes on"
      Fixing bust may be too complicated to create, but makes sense.
      At the moment this mod has wiping brow animation, similar to wiping nose visually
  5. cryptid0hunter
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    Gem inspect animation. Provided you have any in inventory and have a high pickpocketing skill?
    1. CHIMgarden
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      Thank you for idea! I don't have all the skills needed to make it happen however... I can create new animation and use OAR to insert it in game, but I don't know how to trigger animation with object to play. More knowledgeable modders can do it however! Like in Sinding prison anims actor is made to play animation with horn Delphine has and using Base Object Swapper horn is replaced with ring
    2. Djlegends
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      ah thats animobj btw
    3. CHIMgarden
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      Yep, and animobj is something I can't work with on my own. All my skillpoints were invested into Blender skill tree