Animation Tag Help Request

[ri4ndjeif]

Hi, I am not the most experienced when it comes to Skyrim mods but I was hoping to get some advice on animation tags in Sexlab that has been frustrating me for a while. So I have been trying to get the bound animations to actually play when my character is bound but it is very inconsistent when it actually works.

 

From what I can see :

Player    NPC

F          F or M    Works most of the time

M            F         Works maybe 30% of the time (depends which mod initiates scene)

M            M        Works never

 

I think it has to do with the animation tags and what animations Sexlab decides to grab at the time. So my question is, how can I stop Sexlab from selecting none of the bound animations and instead just ignore M/F tags and just play one even if it won't make quite as much sense? I would rather see any animation play rather than the solo one. I have tried looking through SLATE but I can't seem to make anything change? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I am just not sure what to do.

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

 

 

[bnub345]

Sexlab doesn't filter bound animations on its own afaik. Both DD and ZAP have their own filters which you can access from their MCM pages, but that only works for the default bound anims in those packs, which are quite bad in my opinion. The sexlab utility plus mod by osmelmc has it's own filter system that should be better than either ZAP or DD, maybe try using that. 

[ri4ndjeif]

Thanks for the suggestion, I think you mean the Sexlab Utility mod from this link? If so I got that installed but now it just overrides the DD setting for bound animations no matter what and now none of the bound animations seem to be working. Furniture ones now seem to be working which is interesting but not really what I was looking for. Any ideas what setting I want to change? The utility mod doesn't seem to have its own mod tab and just adds windows to the standard sexlab one as far as I can tell?

 

 

[ri4ndjeif]

I managed to figure out some of the settings for the sexlab utility plus so it is back to the original problem state. However I also figured out a workaround for the original problem, if I go into sexlab and change the registered genders of the characters around it will function. However after every scene it resets the genders back. Does anyone know why it is doing this and how to change the sexlab genders permanently?

[Qviddhartha]

Sorry I have nothing constructive to say on the topic. I'm just taking an opportunity to gripe.

The animation selection mechanism is sorely deficient in SL. Tags just don't do the job. There is so much more to say about an animation than can reasonably encoded with include/exclude tag lists. Animations tell a story. It's not only about genders and aggressors/victims. To compound this, the registry system is also limiting (at least in LE).

What does work, currently, is supplying animations for some of the more common mods. As soon as you try to get past simple scenarios (masturbation, love, prostitution, servitude, defeat), you are left with bad compromises. Watching a slave suck on a strapon just doesn't work for me, but turning off strapons leaves too many gaps. Adding furniture, DD, orgasm restrictions and the like compounds the situation.

Well, that's my point of view.

On the other hand, if you try to encode more information about animations, to support a better selection mechanism, you run into a combinatorial problem. The number of cases you need to handle becomes unmanageable, and nobody can supply animations to fit all the cases.

IMO, the selection mechanism needs to be redesigned, to: (1) allow mods to alter it, apart from SL itself and the animation collections, and (2) allow mods to query whether a selection criteria can be fulfilled so that it may avoid creating situations that would lead to impossible criteria. In my own WIP mod, I made a custom registry and selection mechanism in order to get the animations that fit my story line. It's a huge amount of work sorting through all the animations to fit my >80 (and counting!) selection criteria. I use many animations with the wrong genders or in contradiction with other tags supplied by the animator, overriding strapons, schlongs and strip options to fit my needs.

Well, I don't know what this selection mechanism would look like. Like I said at the start, sorry I have nothing constructive to say :-/ Oh, I can at least add that I wouldn't bother writing this if there were not so many great animations!

ri4ndjeif, I hope you eventually find something that works for you.

[ri4ndjeif]

Ok so I have continued looking into this and none of my log files have anything valuable but the command console messages might be pointing in the right direction. It seems like what is happening is at the end of every scene the Actor Alias is reset which causes the assigned genders to also reset. This indicates to me it is on the Sexlab side of things but I haven't been able to find more info about this. Any idea how I can stop the Actor Alias from resetting?

 

In addition I also noticed the Alias seems to be logging the characters genders and what they actually are not as they have been set previous to the reset regardless but the animations still play correctly. Not sure at all why that is.