Function that makes player play animation.

[PsychorGames]

This is extremely frustrating. All I want is to make the Player play a certain animation. I'm trying to play ANY animation here, but PlayIdle on the player is bugged, so I've tried snooping other people's mods for workarounds.

 

They use some kind of domino trigger effect that uses an ingestible and a base effect, but base effects can't be cast immediately on player from a quest script, and ingestibles can't run effect scripts. This is really, really, really, really REALLY annoying. For god's sake, HOW can I make the player just play a specific animation through scripting? This is bonkers. Christ. I've been trying for longer than I care to admit to get this to work.

[DoctaSax]

playidle works fine on the player ref, but you probably need to pass it to a ref variable first

ref rActor 

let rActor := playerref 
rActor.playidle TheIdle

Edited December 4, 2017 by DoctaSax

[PsychorGames]

ref rActor 

let rActor := playerref 
rActor.playidle TheIdle

 

 

Thank you. What kind of script does it need to be in? Object, Effect, or Quest? Does it matter?

[DoctaSax]

If you do it like that, it doesn't matter. Ofc, if you want the idle to repeat, the script should be one that repeats too, playing the idle over and over, until you stop (best by playidling a neutral idle first, as a reset)