Does anyone know if the animated activators at Hubris Comics can be made functional?

Located under meshes\clutter\questitems:

MQ03printingpress01.NIF
MQ03printingpresstread01.NIF
MQ03printingpressbook01.NIF

The first two are referenced in the game and do not appear to do anything when playgroup forward is applied.
The last one was not used by Bethesda, but curiously enough works fine.

Makes me think Beth disabled the animation in the first two NIFs, but I don't know enough about Nif transforms to figure out what they did or how to make them functional again.

This one, while it does have an Animation Manager->Sequence the sequence itself does not control anything there for this one is not animated.



Both of these are set up and function correctly.

I always wondered if there was supposed to be more to the Wasteland Survival Guide quest. And how Ms Brown magically published all those books instantly.

Somebody with animation experience should be able to help get those meshes working again.
Interestingly, the 'tread' NIF does animate in Nifskope, sort of. But not in game.

Yes there was. If you look at the quest you'll see that there is some additional dialogue that hasn't been used. The player originally was supposed to go to Hubris Comics and have the Guide printed there. For some reason they cut that out, but they left alot of other things behind. There might even be enough left over that someone could resurrect that part of the quest.

Actually, I was hoping to use the detritus left behind to print my own book. Hey, if Moira isn't going to use it...