I'm making a ward effect that plays when blocking with a weapon. I've got all that set up, but I can't get the recolored ward effect to play properly. Like spell breaker it plays the start animation, end animation, break animation, etc, but it never progresses to the full ward animation (colored outline) and just stays at the first stage (blurred air effect).

Is there any way to edit the triggers for the animations in the creation kit or the .nif file so that it will play the whole animation, or just skip the starting 'blurred air' effect and go straight to the full effect?