Does anyone know (using the construction set) how you'd make a damage skill effect and add it to a ring/robe? I really like the hand-to-hand animations before you get your skill up to 100. So I'd like to know how you'd make a script effect to make it 99.

I tried draining the skill of hand-to-hand in the construction set via the magic-enchantments but it wouldn't let me attach the effect to a ring.

This is annoying but Im hoping someone has this one figured out. Thanks

Update: ok, so after experimenting I was able to attach a drain hand-to-hand effect on a custom ring. I added it properly after my friend showed me how.

But here's the thing; the animations won't change. I liked how my character used an uppercut animation before his skill was at 100. How do I get this back?

Plus, how do I stop the shader from glowing red when I equip my ring?

This has me (and my friend) both confused and cant figure it out, thanks

Attach this script to the ring:

scn StopDrainShaderScriptBegin Gamemodesms effectDrainend

That should stop the shader from playing.

Your a genious thanks it worked

The only problem I have now is that I can't get my old animations back. Can you help me??

So can you please help? anyone?

I'm not completely sure if I can help but try opening the console by pressing ? and enter:

player.setactorvalue handtohand 99

This is the bare script you would run to make your hand-to-hand skill 99. If when you run it through the console it fixes your problem, attach the following code to the script the Vyper submitted, between the begin and end functions:

if ( player.getbaseactorvalue handtohand > 99 )  player.setactorvalue handtohand 99endif

Hope this helps.

~Blessed be

As far as I know the thing is, once you advanced beyond the point where you got another perk, there's no way back. Even down-leveling won't help and won't make you loose the perk.
There sure should be a way to undo the perk so you're back at the previous set of animations, but I don't know of any right now. :shrug:

What Drake has said is what made me unsure my solution could help you. I'm afraid that, even with my recent little burst of research, I know of no way you can revert the "perks" awarded for master level unless they are removed when you drop below 100 and, therefore, master level.

Best pray to your Gods that Drake is mistaken.

~Blessed be

Well, I guess you *could* delete the new animation. It would either revert to the old one or crash your game every time you used that power attack :shrug:

Have you installed any animation replacers that affect hand-to-hand? If so, you can simply copy the animation you want and rename the copy so that it overwrites the attack animation you don't want.

The animation files all end with .kf
3rd-person animations are in oblivion\data\meshes\characters\_male
1st-person animations are in oblivion\data\meshes\characters\_1stperson

But, if you are using a vanilla installation, these folders may be empty or may not even exist. In this case, you'd need extract the animations from Oblivion - Meshes.bsa. Then you could rename the animations however you wanted. For example, if I wanted to replace the master forward-power-attack animation (handtohandskill4attackpower.kf) with the uppercut (handtohandattackpower.kf), I would delete handtohandskill4attackpower.kf, copy handtohandattackpower.kf, and rename the copy to handtohandskill4attackpower.kf.

UPDATE:

1st, thank you guys for all your advice, but so far I've had problems with the methods you suggest, but I still would like your advice as I need to add some info:

Ok, I noticed that when you go to jail, your hand-to-hand DOES decrease! So there MUST be a way (script?) to ensure that when you drop down a skill, the animation drops too.

Is there a way, based on the jail-skill-decrease mechanism, to change the animation via dropping said skill? I'm convinced there must be. Alas, I am a novice modder so I cant work it out. Anyone?

Open the console in game (the ~ key) and type Player.SetAV HandToHand 99 and press enter. I don't know if that will work for the H2H animations, but it does remove the Marksman zoom perk.

Thanks for replying

ok, just to clarify (because I forgot to mention) the console command does work. But I tried the script that LtmattMoo suggested (where I was meant to combine his script with yours) and it has no effect in-game.

I make a lot of saves so I really dont want to rely on the console. is there a way to make the Player.setav handtohand 99 workable via a script? because the one i tried above doesnt work. you can try it for yourself to see also.