Emotion mods (an inquiry)

[Queen Bee]

If there's one thing I love, it's immersion mods. Whatever makes sense to exist in the real world, I want it in Skyrim. Everything from Realistic Needs and Diseases and Frostfall, to things like Killable and Lootable Children (because children are not immortal).

 

But one thing that's always bugged me about Skyrim is the lack of a full range of emotions. Want rage? There's plenty of rage in Skyrim. People bellow and shriek their rage as they throw themselves into battle. Want genuine fear, sadness or joy? Sorry, those emotions were ignored.

 

I'm not talking about facial expressions. Though I will agree those are a bit lackluster, even with such mods as Female Facial Animations. No, I'm talking about the whole experience, emotions that fill you up and force every part of you to move. You know the kind I mean.

 

Is it really that hard to add in? I confess, I have no idea how complex or difficult animation mods are. If it's something that's a chore to do, I guess I can understand why no one has included such an obvious immersion mod. But if that's not the case, why doesn't it exist? A lack of interest? I can't be the only one that wants this.

 

I'm not asking for much. A simple collection of emotions that range from sobs of grief and screams of terror to shouts for joy and blushes of shame. Imagine how immersive it would be for people to react to the death of a loved one by falling to their knees, hands over their faces as tears spill down their cheeks. Imagine how much more realistic the game would be if your bride to be blushed on her way to the altar, or spun in place with arms outstretched to show the world the scope of her joy.

 

C'mon, modders. I can't be alone in my desire for a richer landscape of emotions. Can I?

[Guest Omega1084]

That actually sounds good.

It's not very immersive when you kill half a dozen people and all the rest of the citizens do is look down on the dead body, say some kind of witty remark, and wiggle away before your arrow hits them.

It might end up being very complex to pull off, though.

[afa]

Well first there's the animation part, making the actual animation.

Then there's the putting it in the game part...putting it in without breaking everything else.

One that comes to mind is the nudeshy animation, there's a proof of concept/alpha of the mod that plays the cover animation when a NPC comments you are naked, but it has a tendency to breaks sexlab animation and riding animation.

The multiple idle animation mod also does similar thing and causes similar issue.

Skyrim + mods also have this weird issue with too many animation trying to trigger at once causing characters to unable to attack.