Neutral VR animation for VRIK and PCEA2

Plug-ins for PCEA2 and VRIK in VR. Make the player character's combat stance animation more neutral, natural and upright.

***NOTE: This mod is designed to work with VRIK and PCEA2, this mod has only been tested in VR***

[describe]

If you are using VRIK as your VR body then you may have noticed that when performing actions such as holding a weapon, swinging, blocking, etc., the body animates in a somewhat unnatural way... This is the limitation imposed by vanilla game animations. Animations work the same way as for NPCs or player characters in third person perspective.

My purpose in doing this is to solve/mitigate the problem.

This is more of a plugin than a mod, meant to be used with another mod called "PCEA2", and therefore requires the mod and all of its dependencies to be used. After installing this add-on, you can find and activate it via PCEA2's in-game MCM menu, but be sure to re-run FNIS *Skeleton Fix* before starting the game after installation, otherwise the mod will have no effect.

[How it is made]

The creation of this plugin is a very basic process, taking the vanilla idle animation from the game and using it to replace all other animations that affect combat stance, thus creating the illusion of your character standing straighter and more stable, while allowing VRIK's inverse kinematics to fill in natural movement based on the HMD and controller position.

[Install]

[1] Make sure the following prerequisites are installed and configured correctly first:

• VRIK Player Avatar (Visit mod page for usage and installation instructions)
• New Tour for Skyrim SE - FNIS SE (Visit the mod page for usage and installation instructions)
• FNIS PCEA2 - Player Exclusive Animation (Dynamic) SE (Visit the mod page for usage and installation instructions)

[2]Install and activate this plugin.

[3] Activate the animation overlay in PCEA2 settings via the in-game MCM menu... called "VRIK_VR"

***I haven't tested this on the desktop version of the game, but if you're playing the desktop version of the game and just using PCEA2 I don't see any reason why this mod wouldn't work for you. * **

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***NOTE: This mod is intended to be used together with VRIK & PCEA2 installed, the mod has only been tested in VR***

[Description]

If you are using VRIK for your VR body then you may have noticed that the body animates in somewhat unnatural way when performing actions such as holding a weapon, swinging, blocking ect... That is the limitation imposed by animations of vanilla game. The animations work the same way they do for an npc or player character in 3rd person view.

I made this with the intention to fix/alleviate the problem.

This is more of an addon rather than a mod, meant to be used with another mod known as "PCEA2" and therefore that mod and all of it's dependencies are required for this to work. After installing this addon you can find and activate it via PCEA2's in-game MCM menu, but make sure you re-run FNIS *Skeleton Fix* before starting the game after installation or the mod won't work.

[How it was made]

The creation of this addon was a very basic process of taking vanilla idle standing animation from the game and using it to replace every other animation that affect stance during combat, therefore creating an illusion of your character standing up more straight and consistent while at same time allowing VRIK's Inverse Kinematics fill in the natural movement based on HMD and controller position instead.

[Installation]

[1] Make sure the following prerequisites are installed and configured properly first:

• VRIK Player Avatar (visit mod page for use & install instructions)
• Fores New Idles in Skyrim SE - FNIS SE (visit mod page for use & install instructions)
• FNIS PCEA2 - Player Exclusive Animations (dynamic) SE (visit mod page for use & install instructions)

[2] Install and activate this addon.

[3] Activate the animation override in PCEA2 settings via MCM menu in-game... called "V …