I love the readers. Such simple animations yet they add so much atmosphere. Before, the Library of Vivec looked like it had a lot of people in there who couldn't find the book they were looking for.

When you get the pose you want on the part of the timeline you want the hit "I" and select what you want that frame to save.

Loc=Location
Rot=Rotation
Scale=Scale
__________
LocRot=Location and Rotaion
Etc..
Etc..

slaves should have flinch animation like about to be strike!

Oh, so THAT's how you add a new frame, I kept clicking those buttons with the padlock icons and it kept doing weird stuff, thanks.

I knew about the "loc" and stuff though, but thanks.

EDIT: Argh, I add a new "loc rot" keyframe at frame 20, but when I pose/move the skeleton/figure it still changes the pose/location at frame one, what am I doing wrong?

I thought you would have multiple NPC's eating not just oen Orc.

Wouldn't like that at all. Definetly have them speaking softly in some weird language. you seem to have high jacked his thread.

Nope, can't nunchuck for my life (except for WII). What I do is called Poi =) Been doing it for like five or six years now.

OnTopic: I don't think that is the case, you can animate weapons to only play at certain idles however the animation file for the weapon have to be as long as the complete animation file for the npc. (or even the base animation?). This I know because I've seen Phijama do it, I have his Jester staff that plays different face animations depending on the idles.

No, like a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnunfciSr7k

(though this was just a fun suggestion for its own sake, not for the actual practicality of an animation )

when you press "I", make sure you have all the bones selected

Anyway, the idea to animate also the daedra worshipper is very good. This makes me think we can also do something for the static bandits and wizards in the caverns and something for the dreamers...
so, dear community, I am sure you are plenty of suggestions about how to animate dreamers... so share your thought...

Ok, I got it to add the keyframes properly, but whenever I move it into a pose and change the frame it just resets.

That's why you choose the frame first then pose and save the position.

I did!

EDIT: I got it to work! Horay! Now I'm gonna finish this animation, any pointers for getting it to work ingame after?
And how do I move my keyframes? Some of the stuff goes a little too fast.
^
Figured that out (moving keyframes), this is going great!

that doesn't even look slightly daedric. I would say Daedra worship is most like our real world Satan worship. I think you would have to have a sacrifice animation where someone or somthign is being sacrificed. it needs to look and sound evil.

Well, my Daedra worship animation is done, I want to test it ingame, how would I go about doing that?

Is your daedra animation cool? ^_^

It's as I described earlier, I can make a video, if I can test it. So.. how do I set it up?

you have to assign an animation group to your animation.

In Blender you can (where you load the windows "3d view", "Timeline" etc..)
load the window "Text"- ther should be a text named "Anim". In the text anim there should be something like:

1/Idle: Start
250/Idle: Stop

replace 1 and 250 with the first and last frame of your aniamtion and Idle with an Idle between Idle2 and Idle9.

After exported, you may need to use another xAnimation.Nif file, because the xAnimation.Nif file exported doesn't work properly. Use that one of the dancing girl.

In game, assign a high percentage to the idle you chooce, and 0 as distance in the AI - Wander of the Npc (otherwise teh Npc will walk around and will not execute your aniamtion)

There is no text named "Anim"... :unsure:

make then a new one. Click on Text and then New.

Ok then, I added a new one and put that stuff, now I'm not sure what you meant about the "After exported, you may need to use another xAnimation.Nif file, because the xAnimation.Nif file exported doesn't work properly. Use that one of the dancing girl.". What do I do here? Copy over some stuff?

Forgive me for my noobishness, I've never done animation before, all I knew how to do before today was rig stuff to bones...

when you export an animation file, say you call it "MyAnimation" you may decide to export all the 3 files. Blender will name them

MyAnimation.Nif
xMyAnimation.Nif
xMyAnimation.Kf.


The xMyAniamtion.Nif file exported doesn't work correctly. So, find the xDancingGirl.Nif (I don't recall its name exaclty, but you know what file I mean), copy it and rename it xMyAniamtion.Nif and then delete the xMyAnimation.Nif exported by Blender.

Do what I do. First open it in nifskope, then click NiTextKeyExtraData and go into block details, after that completely drop down Text Keys, finally edit the first Text Key where it says, "Idle etc" change it to, "Idle( a number 3-9): Start" and edit the next Text Key to say, "Idle(same as last number you picked): End". Do the same to the .kf file. Then open up the CS and attach it to an NPC, you can edit how often they perform the idle in the AI menu.

Edit: @ Cabius
I'm not hijacking Arcimaestro Anteres thread, I asked him if I can post my work here and it was fine with him.

you can do also like that, but trust me it will safe your time to write all the animation groups in NotePad and then copy and past in Blender.




Any animator is welcome Taroustheslayer made also some animations that I'll copy inspired me

Err... I'm having another strange issue, my animation appears to be playing ingame, but the guy is invisible, yet I can see that his shadow is casting the shadow which my animation is playing in.

this happens if you use the xAnimation.Nif exported by Blender....

use this file instead, and rename it xMyANimationName.Nif