THIS MOD IS OBSOLETE. PLANK DOES IT BETTER.

FINALLY!

Control the direction of your power attacks by swinging your weapon! It works by tracking controller movements while the trigger is held on either hand. If both triggers are held it will only count your main hand's movement to figure out what kind of attack you are trying to do.

Big, clear movements will get the best result. The more movement it can track before your weapon hits an enemy, the better.

This mod does not alter the vanilla power attack system beyond adding new conditions to the power attack animations, so all perks/effects that can be triggered by a power attack should continue to work (or start working, since it was a ballache to trigger the different attacks without this).

This is my first ever mod (for skyrim), so feel free to provide any feedback for improvement.

Known Issues
Unarmed standing power attacks are awkward because punching/thrusting type attacks are not tracked yet. 
This appears to be resolved by using PLANCK. This mod already detects forward thrust motion and registers as a standing power attack. Now that PLANCK has implemented superior hit detection, this should totally work. Lemme know in the comments :)

CONTROLS

Hold Trigger ->
swing left -> sideways power attack (left)
swing right -> sideways power attack (right)
swing up -> backwards power attack
swing down -> standing power attack
swing down + left stick forward -> forward power attack
stab or straight punch -> forward power attack (requires PLANCK to work)


I don't know if this will mess with anything like sprinting power attacks, so let me know if you have any issues.

Note:
Power attacks in Skyrim VR work by having your invisible flatscreen player avatar actually perform the power attack animation, so if you suddenly notice you are moving in a direction without any input or locked in place for a short time, that is the power attack animation playing.

INSTALLATION
Install with a mod manager or manually. It includes skse plugin dll and esp plugin.


COMPATIBILITY

• Safe to add to existing playthrough.
• Not compatible with VR power attack fix , the .esp will conflict this one.
• Be careful with any mod that changes animations, as this mod esp modifies the conditions baked into power attack animations to make them respect a new global value which is managed by the plugin code.
• Everything else should be fine.
  

CREDIT

Big thanks to Shizof for sharing their source code, without it I wouldn't have gotten anywhere with this project.
Source code is available in files tab, or on GitHub