Laugh animation

[Bluegunk]

Skyrim has a laugh animation that looks more like a sudden onset of multiple bone fractures.

 

Anyone know of a good replacement?  I haven't been able to track one yet.

[FauxFurry]

Unfortunately, there only seem to be poser mods which play laugh animation rather than replacers. Perhaps GunSlicer will eventually make some after covering the other base game animation (the progress of which is actually fairly advanced at this point)? 

[Bluegunk]

On 8/6/2025 at 10:42 AM, FauxFurry said:

Unfortunately, there only seem to be poser mods which play laugh animation rather than replacers. Perhaps GunSlicer will eventually make some after covering the other base game animation (the progress of which is actually fairly advanced at this point)? 

Thanks for answering!  Looks like I'll have to cope with the corpse-like twitching of Bethesda's original for a while longer.  

[belegost]

On 8/6/2025 at 11:42 AM, FauxFurry said:

poser mods which play laugh animation rather than replacers

That means an animation file is there somewhere. Would it not be possible to simply rename the file to whatever the vanilla animation name is used and place it in appropriate file path as a loose file, run FNIS and presto!

 

I did something similar with shout animations long ago. Even went as far as attach it to DAR conditions so it only plays for females.

 

Shouldn't be too difficult to do, once you locate the exact multiple bone fracture file name.

Edited August 14, 2025 by belegost

[traison]

43 minutes ago, belegost said:

...whatever the vanilla animation name is...

 

meshes\actors\character\animations\idlelaugh.hkx

 

Not tested.

 

44 minutes ago, belegost said:

...run FNIS...

 

Behavior files do not need to be rebuilt for simple hkx file replacements.

 

On 7/31/2025 at 7:56 PM, Bluegunk said:

Anyone know of a good replacement?

 

Have you considered Fallout 4? Is there a laughing animation in that? Fairly certain Cathedral Asset Optimizer can convert to SSE/AE.

[belegost]

1 hour ago, traison said:

Behavior files do not need to be rebuilt for simple hkx file replacements.

But it won't hurt to do it just in case.

 

In fact I have my mod manager run it automatically every time any animation mod is being installed or removed. I don't even need to think about it.

 

It just works (tm).

Edited August 14, 2025 by belegost

[Bluegunk]

1 hour ago, traison said:

Have you considered Fallout 4? Is there a laughing animation in that? Fairly certain Cathedral Asset Optimizer can convert to SSE/AE.

 

That's an idea. Thank you!

[traison]

30 minutes ago, belegost said:

But it won't hurt to do it just in case.

 

True, especially with Pandora it's hardly even noticeable time-wise.

[belegost]

1 hour ago, traison said:

Pandora

I'm not opening that.

[Ribssy]

On 8/1/2025 at 2:26 AM, Bluegunk said:

Skyrim has a laugh animation that looks more like a sudden onset of multiple bone fractures.

 

Anyone know of a good replacement?  I haven't been able to track one yet.

Hi I was actually looking too, and just thought id let you know there's a few in Get stripped again! RS_MockGiggle and RS2_Surprise1 2 and 3. Hope this helps

 

[Bluegunk]

That's excellent! Thank you for letting me know and providing the link. I'll take a look!