Missing Block Animations - male only

[vmsfallout]

While moving and holding down block, my characters shield remains down by his waist, appearing to not block at all (though he is blocking, since damage is reduced and the block sound effect triggers as well). Everything looks fine while standing still. Female characters work fine.

 

I have the following mods currently active:

 

Climates of Tamriel

Apachi Hair

Unofficial Skyrim Patch

Chesko Frostfall

SMDrop Lit Torches

Sky UI

Achieve That

Better Quest Objectives

No Skill Limit

Alternate Start

W.A.T.E.R

RND_Water patch

Climates of Tamriel Dungeons Hazardous

Climates of Tamerial Interior Warm

Realistic Needs & Diseases

moreloot

FNIS spells

ASX_Spells

StripNPCs

Caliente Vanilla Armor

Remoddelled Armor

FemaleCityGuards

Feminine Housecarls

No more butch females

 

 

I recently disabled the following after a good deal of use:

 

Hothtrooper44 Armor Compliation

Duel - Combat Realism

Immersive Weapons

SkyRe Encounter Zones

SkyRe Enemy Scaling

SkyRe Main

SkyRe Standing Stones

SkyRe Races

LiFE Lith Face Enhancement

 

I experiments briefly with the following mods:

 

Duke Patrick's Heavy Armor

ACE (all modules)

Realistic Ragdolls

Staves of Skyrim

 

 

Disabling these mods via NMM did not solve the problem. I suspect I am in need of certain behaviors and skeletons, similar to what I obtained when refining the female form, as if something is calling for the male equivalents in the Data folder but not finding them. But I really don't know. Male used to work fine, but I did use or play around with a few mods since last using a male character (most notably the last 4 mods I listed, but also many of the mods pertaining to female animations). Is there somewhere I might get male animations/meshes/behaviors which might be missing? What other solution might there be?

[Georgiegril]

Have you tried verifying your game files on Steam? If you are missing an animation as a result of one of the mods you removed, Steam should be able to replace the default animation.

[vmsfallout]

Yeah I tried that. All I got for my trouble was having my preferences reset.

[Georgiegril]

Have you tried replacing the mods that you cut? (I am looking at the combat mods, esp.)

Also, I use skyre...I recall reading on the mod site that if you are going to add or remove that mod, it is better to start a new game/clean install. I wonder if that might be your issue?

[vmsfallout]

Yeah I tried putting them back in, sometimes en mass, sometimes one at a time (not comprehensively ... just certain ones like Duel and FNIS)

 

I did start a new game, but I am not sure if I disabled SkyRe before or after (I am testing some issues with modding .. .none of which have anything at all to do with animations and such). The real puzzling part is that females work fine. I dont think there is anything about SkyRe (or most of the mods I have used) that would affect only males. Some of the mods might (like FNIS perhaps or certain combat mods), but disabling them did nothing, nor did enabling them again. It is a very weird problem, and I don't know when it started, since I only recently made a male character and discovered this.

[Georgiegril]

Maybe look at armor mods? It is puzzling.

If you start a clean install of the game, no mods, you could add mods in one at a time, run BOSS, and see how things are going before adding one or two more. Tedious, but effective. And if the problem is an orphaned script, it may not reoccur in a fresh install/new game.

[vmsfallout]

I ran the game with nothing but the Skyrim.esm and Update.esm and it is still was not working. I just reinstalled the game. Tedious, yes. And annoying. But thanks for trying Georgie

[Georgiegril]

I think if you are seeing the problem on a new installation of Skyrim with nothing else, no mods, savegames....really, it would be impossible for you to still have this problem. (Well, next to impossible. Outside of quantum physics affecting your game.)

 

So my guess is that you may have missed something when trying to reinstall. Here is what I would do: (this is based on the idea you have already uninstalled all your mods)

 

1. Go to Steam, use the delete local content option for Skyrim. move or delete you backups as well.

2. Go to your program files, delete everything under steamapps/common/skyrim (or cut/paste to a completely different folder somewhere steam wont find it)

3. Go to user/mydoc/mygames/ and do the same.for anything related to Skyrim, NMM,etc.

4. Shut down your computer completely (using the switch in the back or unplugging after normal shut-down.), wait 10 seconds or so.

5. Restart computer, reinstall Skyrim on steam (not using a backup, but rather a fresh install.)

6. Start skyrim (no DLCs) from the steam launcher--new game. Play until you get the opportunity to check the blocking animation. If it works, then start back into downloading, one at a time, DLCs, NMM, skse, BOSS, whatever you use, and slowly introduce mods. Check for blocking animation frequently, and if the problem reoccurs, then stop and immediately start retracing your steps.

 

I think your problem may have been caused by one of your mods (weapons or animations) not working properly with your skeleton or body mods after you changed some of your mods. This should not appear in a completely clean reinstallation with no mods, When you start addiong mods, I would be especially carefull adding mods that change your player's skeleton, and also weapons and animation mods.

 

Option 2-- play a dual wield character and ignore blocking altogether.