kNVSE Animation Plugin

Enables support in the engine for custom weapon animations, custom walking animations and a lot more. Now you can finally have weapons with new animations without overwriting animations for other weapons. You will most likely be installing this plugin as a requirement for other mods that e.g. add new weapons, features and animations to the game.

Installation

• []MO2/Vortex: either use the Vortex button or load the 7z file in the mod manager as with any other mod

  []Manual: Extract into Fallout New Vegas\Data\

  UPDATING TO kNVSE 3X

  kNVSE 30 accumulates over 3 years of development into a single update. There will be some issues, especially from mods that rely on broken behavior from previous kNVSE versions. There will also be some real bugs so if you spot any of these then provide as much information as you can, including the mods that are using kNVSE that are affected and preferably videos of the bug. If you get crashes post logs from yvile's Crash Logger.

  Mods utilizing kNVSE

  See the Requirements section to see a list of mods utilizing kNVSE.

  Background

  Did you know that there are only a limited amount of animation slots for weapons in this game? When Bethesda coded this engine, they designed it so that all the weapons choose from a limited number of slots named anim groups, where each anim group slot holds an animation that weapons are allowed to use for shooting, aiming, reloading etc. This was probably fine during development of the games; if someone wanted to add support for rocket launcher weapons, they could just ask one of the programmers to add a new anim group slot specifically for all rocket launcher weapons. The only issue is that there is no way for modders to create new anim groups. They are completely hardcoded inside the engine.

  This effectively means that adding new weapon types into the game is impossible. Want to mod in crossbows? Sure, but they'll need to use the same reload animations and sounds as the Plasma Pistol, making them not a very realistic crossbow. Want to create a shotgun that's a tad smaller than a normal? You might now notice that the player character is holding it really strangely, leaving space between the grip and the weapon. In fact, several vanilla weapons suffer from bad hand grips due to the one-size-fits all anim group system.

  If only there was a way to override these anim groups, so that you could have custom animations per weapon. Custom hand grips. Custom anyt