What can cause a reload animation to refuse to play?

[Draghy]

I've tried using a custom reload animation I downloaded but in game it simply won't play. Pressing R does nothing and the animation refuses to play in either 1st or 3rd person. No ammo is added either (if the animation was missing, you'd get no animation but ammo replenishes).

 

This also happens when I try changing the Hunting Rifle animation when using the Extended Mag mod, back to ReloadA, it simply refuses to reload. However, ReloadA works just fine on other guns.

 

I've renamed the weapon parts accordingly in nifskope and the animation doesn't seem to be missing the nodes or have a wrong name. What could be causing this?

Edited January 7, 2021 by Draghy

[Mcdoye]

is the downloaded animation a ,kf file?

[dubiousintent]

My first step would be to check that the downloaded file name matches that expected by the weapon in question. (Just because the name matches some file doesn't mean that particular weapon is using it.) Then that the file is located in the correct folder and that "Archive Invalidation" has been toggled before testing to reset where the game is looking for the file.

 

-Dubious-

Edited January 29, 2021 by dubiousintent

[Draghy]

I've found out the problem, I was using the reload on one of the one-round-at-a-time reload slots (reloadW,X,Y,Z). Using a regular reload slot (A-P) fixed the problem.