[1st person animation exported from 3DS Max not playing in-game]

 

I wanted to chop an unused vanilla Ripper animation to three sections: Start, Loop, End

The unused animation had 95 wholesome frames and I only exported first 25 frames to use it as Ripper's initial attack animation.

I followed the steps in F4 Animation Kit and idk why it isn't working.

Any help would be very much appreciated...

[Someone please teach me how to import animations to 3ds max]

I use Max 2021 and all plugins in AnimationKit aren't working.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16694/

I can work with animations once I learn how to import & export bones and keyframes in 3ds max but I just can't get through that step.
Anyone please help...

[[offtopic?] Modding FO4 made it impossible for me to enjoy other games.]

I spend a lot of time messing with mods and I feel like modding the game itself is a content for this game.

No other games would ever allow the gamers such freedom of changing the game itself, considering the gaming industry is becoming more "console friendly(anti-modding)" and rely on gacha to extort "lite gamers".

[How to make ripper use an "unused" equip animation]

Inspired by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MayJU_y-5o0

 

 

First thing I did was toying around with keywords in FO4Edit.

By adding "ma_machete" keyword to ripper I could attach machete mods to ripper.

It gave the same unfolding equip animation like the video except the weapon still had crappy original ripper attack animation.

 

After that I thought:

'if I swap machete blade's.nif file with ripper blade's .nif file can I trick the game into playing that cool animation but still use the ripper blade?'.

Unfortunately it didn't work and I thought 'maybe there is something special in the .nif file itself that triggers the hidden animation'.

 

So I tried to compare machete blade's nif file with ripper blade's nif file, looking for different flags, or whatever clues I could find.

But nope, as an unexperienced modder I coudn't get a slightest clue to actually notice the difference between those files.

 

Lastly, I opened Ripper.nif in nifskope and there was "16 NicontrollerSequence" section with name "Bladeopen".

 

Since the animation is already there, can I just make the game play that animation when equipping the weapon?

I really hope there is an easier way(simply changing values in FO4Edit or nifskope) to do this without involving hkx files or other complex stuff.