Extended player animations

This mod brings various in-game animation fixes and improvements to Arthur/John and NPCs.

Extended Player Animations

🎮 **Extended Player Animation** (formerly known as "Extended John Marston Animation") is a module dedicated to repairing/improving/adding various in-game animation-related content, aiming to improve the player's visual experience.

🌟 Module development history

Originally the sole purpose of this mod was to fix and improve John Marston's in-game animations, making his moveset as separate and unique as possible from Arthur's. But as development progressed, there was less and less stuff to fix in John's animation, and I started adding and fixing more stuff than was originally intended.

This mod now brings fixes and improvements to **all content** and **all characters** (animation-wise) in the game, not only improving the experience when playing as Arthur or John, but also reducing frustration for players playing as NPCs, allowing them to use unique NPC animations without running into too many issues, giving role players more freedom.

While this mod still favors John (for good reason), it now includes a lot of cool extra content!

🎯 Main functions

Core improvements

• 🔧 **NPC Play Improvement**: Guns can now be reloaded correctly when playing as an NPC
• 🚶 **Character Uniqueness**: Arthur's animation no longer appears in John's move set
• 🌊 **Environmental Adaptability**: John has exclusive "movement" animations for various terrain types (swamp, river, ice, snow, etc.)
• ⚔️ **Status Animations**: John has exclusive animations for various situations (combat, stealth, drunk, casual, grass, first person, etc.)

John’s exclusive optimization

• 🩺 **Posture Improvement**: John visits the chiropractor and straightens his back in idle animation
• 😴 **NEW ANIMATION**: John now has new "tired" running animation
• 🧍 **UNIQUE ACTIONS**: John now has his own unique leisure idle and walking animations
• 🏃 **Sprint Improvements**: Improved John's sprint animation by using better and faster animations as a base

General fixes

• 🎭 **Facial Expressions**: Fixed weird facial expressions after collision
• 🏪 **STORE ANIMATION**: Fixed an issue where the shop wardrobe would look tired when entering through the catalog
• 🔥 **Special Case**: Now sprints correctly while burning
• 🎯 **First Person**: Correctly hold the "Bolt Action" and "Carcano" rifles in first person

Environment interaction

• ❄️ **Snow Improvements**: Improved snow acceleration animation in "Battle" mode
• 🌧️ **Weather System**: Fixed an issue with John playing the "Rainy Day" idle animation indoors
• 🏔️ **Terrain Adaptation**: Fixed the problem that the left and right slope animation could not be played when tired, low health, low death eye, etc.

🛠️ Optional files

Extended weapon animation

• 🔫 **Weapon Animation**: Restored John's beta aiming animation
• 🎮 **Environmental Reaction**: New animations react to various environments and situations

RDR1 animation

• 🕹️ **Nostalgia Experience**: John’s animation is closer to the style of RDR1
• 🎯 **Classic Actions**: including adjustments to animations such as walking, jogging, sprinting, etc.

📥 Installation requirements

**Required Tools:**

• ScriptHookRDR2
• Lenny's Mod Loader

Once the installation is complete, just drag the "lml" folder directly into the game directory. The installation process for optional files is the same, replacing everything when asked.

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This module brings comprehensive improvements to the animation system of "Red Dead Redemption 2", making each character's movements more natural and unique, greatly improving the role-playing experience of the game! ✨