Vanargand Animations - Sneak Archery LE

This mod works for both males and females, while sneaking holding a bow, and contains the following animations:

• []idle.

  []walk in the 8 directions.

  []run in the 8 directions.

  []Turn left/right while sneaking.

  []Draw arrow.

  []Drawn arrow idle and movement.

  []Arrow release.

  It took a while to figure out, but the vanilla's diagonal sneak walk and run animations (8 animation files) were simply a re-use of their forward and backward counterparts with global 45 degree rotations, while time saving for the animator, these shortcuts came at the price of rotating the character aswell as the bow while aiming, which caused inconsistent aiming while moving and didn't look right as can be seen in the preview bellow.

  The character will now keep facing the same direction while aiming with a bow and moving in any direction, the diagonal walking and running directions now have their own strafing animations for a more consistent 3rd person aiming experience.

  This took quite the effort to pull off, for now, I will be stepping away from making further sneak animations at least for a while since I'm a bit burned out, you can find my other sneak animation mods in my nexus profile. My current project focuses on one handed animations for the vanilla and the SkySA behaviors.

  Version 1. 0 compared to vanilla        V1. 0 gameplay with AGO installed

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  The outfit seen in the previews is QuarantineCouture's Practical Pirate Outfit.

  Requirements

  • []Dynamic Animation Replacer.

    Recommended

    • []Vanargand Animations' lastest versions as I've made sure the camera won't have issues when switching to/from sneak.

      Installation

      • []Use any mod manager or manually copy the content from this mod's 'Data' into your Skyrim 'Data' folder.

      • If you're using Archery Gameplay Overhaul, make sure to load/install my mod after AGO (in Mod Organizer 2's left pane if you're using MO2).