Injected Animated Armoury

Adding Animated Armoury support to a mod currently requires either making the mod dependent on Animated Armoury or incorporating Animated Armoury's keywords into the mod via a patch. While this can be worked around with Keyword Item Distributor or scripting, these aren't ideal solutions in all instances. Injected Animated Armoury addresses this by adding a selection of injected keywords which can be incorporated into a mod without requiring Animated Armoury, along with an accompanying set of updated DAR condition files which include those keywords. If an author chooses to include both the keywords and condition files in their mod, their weapons will benefit from Animated Armoury's animations if it is installed and active, but will otherwise use vanilla animations.

Installation

Install with a mod manager of your choice.

For best result, we recommend deleting the original DAR condition folders that come with Animated Armoury (everything in the meshes/actors folder).

Injected Records?

Injecting records into Update.esm is a way of sharing common records across multiple mods, without requiring a single master file (aside from Update.esm) or compatibility patches between them. For more information, please see the Injected Record Registry and the Injected Record Dev Reference ESPs page.

The Keywords

Injected Animated Armoury shares its the injected keywords with several other mods, such as Object Categorization Framework; as such, if you also have any of those mods installed, any weapons these keywords are added to will also benefit from such mods' functionality. These keywords directly correspond to a set of Animated Armoury animations (e.g weapons with WeapTypePike will use Animated Armoury's pike animations). Note that, like the original Animated Armoury keywords, these would normally be used in conjunction with a vanilla WeapType keyword (a halberd would have both WeapTypeBattleaxe and OCF_WeapTypePole2H_Swing, for example).

• []OCF_WeapTypePole1H_Thrust (FormID 01CD0100)

  []OCF_WeapTypePole2H_Thrust (FormID 01777772)

  []OCF_WeapTypePole2H_Swing (FormID 01777773)

  []OCF_WeapTypeRapier1H (FormID 01777774)

  []OCF_WeapTypeQuarterstaff2H (FormID 01777775)

  []OCF_WeapTypeClaw1H (FormID 01777776)

  []OCF_WeapTypeWhip1H (FormID 01777778)

  []OCF_WeapTypeKatana1H (FormID 01777779)

  For Mod Authors

  In order to incorporate these keywords into your mod, Update.esm will first need to be added as a master file. Once that is done, you can use SSEEdit to either manually add the keywords to your file, or copy them into your file from the "Injected Animated Armoury - Keywords" plugin file available in the Downloads section. With the keyword