Script to force an combat animation

[Malonn]

Apparently certain animations can only be forced under certain conditions.  Like when a weapon is drawn.  I'm trying to force an actor to stagger even when their weapon isn't drawn.  It can be done, I just don't know how.  Deadly Reflex does it, but I don't feel like combing through and trying to figure out his scripts. 

 

I've tried SetAlert.  But that forces the actor to draw their weapon.  I want them to stagger from an non-combat idle animation.  I'm doing my own shield bash script and I want the actors to stagger any time I bash them.  Not just when their in combat.  Any help would be appreciated.

[Malonn]

I knda found a mod while searching the Nexus that helped me solve this problem.  For anyone intereted it invloves adding an animation for stagger under the correct directory.  That way NPC's stagger when called to via script because that animation is available to them.  The mod is "Idle Stagger and Recoil" by Migck.

 

I guess there's no way to do it via pure scripting, which had me beating my head.  Anyway, thanks for any potential help that was coming.

[jamochawoke]

Hey Malonn, keep us updated on your progress. I'm extremely interested in stuff like this.

[Malonn]

I got it working by placing the stagger.kf animation file into the "_male" directory.  Now when calling a NPC to stagger via script it works even if they are not in an alert state.  Idle states now work.