What determines weapon holding ?

[seekingthesun]

I've been try to convert a weapon. I'd like to impose a pistol holding pose to what was originally a rifle. What governs this?

[TrickyVein]

Keywords.

[seekingthesun]

I know that. How could change the weapon's position while retaining the animations?

[TrickyVein]

A weapon's animations are the weapon's position.

 

Keywords that begin with Anims followed by <whatever> are what determine how the weapon is held. Build reference info in xEdit and you can see exactly which keywords weapons use which match what you're trying to do.