LE Animation won't play in CK/Skyrim

[johnskyrim]

I've created a quick weapon mod based on the Lava Dredger from World of Warcraft, it has moving "gears". For reference, I looked at the nif files of the Dwarven Gear Swords mod and managed to get my nif animated by using the structure of:

NiNode

-NiTransformController

--NiTransformInterpolator

---NiTransformData

--NiTriShape

-NiTriShape

--NiTriShapeData

--BSLightingShaderProperty

I have tested the nif within the Creation Kit and Skyrim and it isn't displaying any errors or crashing the game. Collisions are also working.

So I'm left quite confused at this stage. The animations are very simple rotations, I'm just not getting why they don't work in-game if everything else seems to be correct?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I was planning on releasing this yesterday but this problem has me stumped. It's more a barrier because I might need animated areas on a weapon in the future.

- John