Creatures missing animations

[ProvidenceXz]

The problem is still lingering without any solution in the community :sad:

[soupdragon1234]

COMPLETELY remove animation mods including all and any loose files and FINIS, then verify Steam cache.

[ProvidenceXz]

I actually SOLVED this problem after my post yesterday! I extracted files in Update.bsa and added them as a mod in Mod Organizer. Then deleted the original BSA file. Boom! It worked! I didn't delete the three .txt files as Fore suggested tho.

[Smashingdugongs]

In my game, chickens and goats and rabbits and deer etc worked fine, but skeletons, wolves, horses, dogs, spiders etc all just stand still and turn hostile, but can't actually do anything. But I found a solution! Go to skyrim/data/meshes/actors and there will be a list of folders for all the actors in the game. within each of these, there SHOULD be 2 folders, called "behaviors" and "characters". These will each contain a .txt file called (creaturename)_template.txt. However I noticed that specifically within the folders for the broken animation actors in my game, these had an extra file called (creaturename).hkx. There was also an empty folder for "animations" (where the sexlab stuff would've been had I not deleted it).

 

I don't know anything about programming so I don't know if it's dangerous to do this, but deleting the .hkx files and leaving just the .txt template files restored all the animations for the affected creatures.

Anyway, do that for all the actors that have that problem and it should be fixed, it worked for me!

[rymapu987]

I found the filenames for each creature with an error in FNIS and changed it back to a .HKX file, they had .hkx.vortex_backup.