If there is one out now, I can't find it.
Thanks

Of course, there's tons of them. Almost any animation replacer has new weapon idles.

I'm not looking for a custom idle animation.

I'd like a mod that when you open up your menu, instead of seeing your character idling with their weapon out, they are idling just standing there.
I'm trying to do this myself, but it doesn't seem to be working.

This is impossible.
Nothing I do seems to have any effect on the game at all.
I wish it would at least spaz out and CTD -- would mean I'm doing something.

I would also be interested...if there...is...anything that does...? *cicadas chirping*

i remember doing this by accident...i had one of the special anims.esp mods installed, and a different animation for the idle in the special anims folder than in the _male folder. it's definitely possible. i seem to recall seeing a mod that did something similar on the nexus it might have been: http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14498 or http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26807

It's not possible without replacing an animation for a weapon?
These replace bow idle animations, but I use my bow a lot.
That's dumb.

i'm going to try reproducing that glitch of mine. if it works, then it would be possible without replacing an animation.

edit. i got it working. (hopefully this doesn't just happen on my rig--i use MAO i wonder if that has something to do with it) so apparently when you have specialanims.esp, if you put a different idle animation for whatever weapon you have in your special animations folder than in the _male folder, the game uses the special animation in the world, and the _male animation in the inventory. i'll post a screenshot.

http://tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/729687-1282506109.jpg <----in this screenshot what you see here, is that my character has the weapon idle from "princess stabbity" in the gameworld, but the weapon idle from "weaponskillpowerattackreplacer" in the inventory menu

I assume next, all you'd have to do, is get the default animation and rename it to the weapon idle animation, and place it in the _male folder

There's a mod that does this - I have it myself. It's called http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14498. Lucky for you I was able to look through my archive - I didn't remember the name because I combined those files with the ones with a stagger replacer to save space in my backup folders.