.hkx animations

[theonlyalangator]

Hello Everyone,

I'm sorry for my ignorance. Im asking this on behalf of my son. He's 12 and found your website and downloaded some of the user Mods (A few of the Vanargand attack animations) after he watched a Youtube Video. I've spent the last day and a half trying to get them to work (he was so excited about them he spent the last of his allowance to buy skyrim on PC just to be able to use some of the incredible mods developed by your community). I've downloaded the latest versions (as of yesterday) of and NMM and SKSE. I've watched several videos (thank you to Gopher for the awesome walkthoughs on both) to get NMM and SKSE setup, and I think those are good. I redownloaded those Vanargand mods through vortex (activated and installed them after gathering missing mod info etc), but I dont see them reflected in plugins. After launching the game through SKSE launcher, the animations are still the same. After further research, As i understand it, the .hkx files are supposed to replace the ones in the Skyrim data folder? Do I have to manually edit each character race I want the animations to work on and delete the vanilla animations? I've scoured the web for guidance on what to do, but they all seem to assume that im supposed to know what i'm supposed to do with the .hkx files. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Thank you all so much in advance!