Native Animation Framework SF (NAFSF)

NAF adds a fully custom animation system to Starfield that can load and play the widely-supported GLTF animation format.

Requirements

Starfield Script Extender

Address Library for SFSE Plugins

Highly Recommended

Trainwreck Crash Logger

Trainwreck provides a lot of useful information if the game crashes. If you get a crash while using NAF, please post the crash log in the Bugs section with information on what you were doing before the crash occured, as well as any other mods you have installed.

Creating Animations in Blender

Note #1: Steps 1 to 7 can be skipped if you download the Blender Scene file in the optional downloads.

Note #2: By default, NAF only comes with support for the Human skeleton. For information on adding other skeletons, see the "Adding Non-Human Skeletons" section.

1.) Download this fork of NifSkope that has been updated to the latest Starfield patch: https://github.com/fo76utils/nifskope/releases (Ensure you have the Starfield Data folder properly configured in Options->Settings so it can find meshes.)

2.) Open two NifSkope windows, one with the skeleton.nif and the other with the body .nif

3.) In the body .nif, right click on the BSGeometry node and select Block->Copy Branch

4.) In the skeleton.nif, right click on the NiNode named "Root" and select Block->Paste Branch

5.) Repeat for the head, eyes, and hand models, pasting them all into the one skeleton.nif scene

6.) Select the root NiNode in skeleton.nif and then at the top of the window select File->Export->Export .glTF

7.) Import the .glTF into Blender. Important: On the import window, make sure Bone Dir is set to Blender, and Guess Original Bind Pose is not selected.

8.) Make sure you are in pose mode and animate the skeleton any way you'd like. There's nothing special to Starfield about this step, just normal Blender animation. There's a ton of videos on YouTube that explain how to animate in Blender in-depth.

9.) When you're ready to export your animation, right-click on the skeleton's Root node and choose Select Hierarchy. Then, go to File -> Export -> glTF 2. 0. (Make sure to un-select any geometry, otherwise that geometry will get saved to the glTF file, making the file size much bigger than it needs to be.)

10.) Copy the export settings in the images below. Both the .gltf and .glb formats are supported. The "Group by NLA Track" setting depends on how you made your animation. But if you're not sure what it means, leave it disabled. Optimize Animation Size can also be enabled, depending on preference.