Open Animation Replacer

I started working on this plugin while Dynamic Animation Replacer wasn't updated for the most recent Skyrim version, and nobody knew whether it would ever be. Shortly after I started, DAR suddenly received an update, and by that point I've already made significant progress on my plugin as a replacement for DAR. I've decided to continue, focusing on adding new features and ensuring extensibility.

There's been quite a few things that animators wanted from an animation replacer that DAR didn't support. DAR is also closed source, so nobody else can update it when the original author is missing, which has already proven to cause quite a mess when it didn't receive an update to the most recent Skyrim patch for a long time, with people downgrading their game version because they couldn't use some of the amazing animation replacers available. That's most likely going to happen again - for a while now Skyrim has been receiving regular updates on the private development branch on Steam - which means that another (big?) patch is probably on the way, which might require SKSE plugins to get updated. Being closed source also meant that nobody else could contribute to the plugin. Felisky (DAR's author) has stated that they don't have time to mod anymore, so we can't really expect any new features for DAR in the foreseeable future. Dynamic animation replacement is an incredibly powerful concept that enabled so many cool mods, and I believe it deserves to be iterated on and developed further.

This plugin is not a reverse engineered modification of Dynamic Animation Replacer. It does not include any of Dynamic Animation Replacer's code, aside from the parts that interact with the game code itself and can only be done in one way. It is my own work, based mostly on my own research into the game.

In the later stages of development of this plugin, when I was already pretty much done with the core and have been focusing on the in-game editor, DAR has been reverse engineered by someone else and posted on GitHub (and later even ported to CommonLibSSE). You can compare the source with my own and see that everything is pretty much completely different.

Open Animation Replacer has a SKSE plugin API that lets other plugins add new conditions, thus allowing other authors to extend the possibilities without having it all depend on the original author. New features to the plugin itself, done as pull requests on GitHub, are very welcome too.

While this plugin is intended to be a successor of Dynamic Animation Replacer, with full backwards compatibility and new features, please consider downloading and endorsing DAR if you haven't before. The original idea was Felisky's.

I'm very excited about the new possibilities, and look forward to mods utilizing them!

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