Just a little bit better animations for the hand to hand build (first-person)
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📋 About This Mod
Fight with a real brute force.
This mod introduces a completely new first-person animation for characters who rely on hand-to-hand combat and brute force. The goal is to enhance immersion by allowing for more aggressive and realistic movements during fights. Now, you can feel every punch, as you overpower your enemies using sheer physical strength. And don't forget to throw your weapons, because real xxx don't need it. :)
Ok, joke aside.
I made this for my new playthrough together with:
"Just a little bit better animations for the mage build (first-person)"
"Just a little bit better animations for the beast build (first-person)"
And I wanted it to be more expanded, to have more then three attack animations (the mirror animations) like those seen in the video.
But currently now clue how to do this, so this is the best I could do.
I did try different styles, poses but only these work out to be ok, it is not easy to animate on that character rig from 2002 trust me!
And again huge thanks to Greatness 7 for his plugin and preparing this mod for the game.
h2h Idle - I was aiming towards TES I Arena, because I really like that realistic pose, smooth loop.
hhUnequip - Smooth loop and better pose, also did a little animation on the fingers.
hhUnequip - Smooth loop and better pose, also did a little animation on the fingers.
hhSlash (moving left/right) - Smooth loop and better pose & animation.
hhThrust (moving forward/backward) - Smooth loop and better pose & animation.
hhChop (in place attack) - Smooth loop and better pose & animation.
hhWalk - Better pose.
hhRun - Better pose.
hhSneak - Better pose.
hhJump - Better pose.
Installation (and recommended to use with OpenMW):
Put the "xh2h.kf" file under Morrowind\Data Files\animations\xbase_anim. 1st
This mod was created for the male character build, it will work also for the female but the poses are not correct, it does not look that good.
For non OpenMW users use https://www.greatness.dev/merge_kf/ to create your own merged file.
P. S. Hope you like it, this is it from me, maybe in the future I will try something more to do but for now I'm done.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Morrowind Mods
- Author
- MiroslavXO
- Version
- 0.2
- Downloads
- 2,486
- Endorsements
- 43
- Category
- Animations
- Created
- 3/14/2025
- Updated
- 3/17/2025
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