How to create custom furniture that trigger custom animation

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This took me a while to find. I decided to re-post the instructions provided by whippingirl. I also added numerous keywords so this post can be easily found via google.

 

How to associate or link custom animations to custom furniture in creation kit

http://www.loverslab.com/topic/34321-skyrim-furniture-solved/?p=862018

 

This tutorial assumes you know how to export your custom mesh from 3d studio max and then edit the nif file.

 

keywords: BSFurnitureMarkerNode, sit, nif, nifskope, fu -a, fnis, isFurnitureAnimType