Use NPC Animations - Eating drinking and more

DESCRIPTION This mod adds an "As NPC" option to furniture, and to animation markers if you have the Usable Animation Markers (UAM) mod. This allows the player to use an NPC animation style instead of the usual player ones. If you've seen NPCs drink from a bottle, eat a sandwich or a steak, write on a tablet etc. then you've already seen some examples of them. The animation that gets triggered will depend on the particular piece of furniture used, with many supporting several different animations.

HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM UAM? The two mods are complementary, but neither requires the other. UAM allows invisible markers to be used, but the player character is still limited to a subset of all the game's available human animations. This mod on the other hand doesn't affect the visibility of markers, but adds an option to most furniture to use the NPC animation type instead.

SETTINGS Along with the "As NPC" option you'll see on furniture, you'll also have a misc item added to your inventory, "Animation Activate Settings". You can use this to enable and disable the "As NPC" option, so it only needs to be visible when you want it. When enabled, you can also use it to force enable the eat/drink animation for standard chairs and high stools; some of the eating (sandwich or steak) and drinking (foam cup or bottle) animations assume a table is in front of the player so they may look odd if one isn't there. Force enabling these will prevent the player from using other animations with chairs and stools, so it would be a good idea to only use this option when needed, and disable it again after.

WHERE CAN I EAT/DRINK WITH MY FOLLOWER? This will take some experimentation as you'll need to find at least one chair that supports eating/drinking for them to use. The mod Command NPCs will also be helpful in getting them to use it. Most of the bar stools in the Viewport in New Atlantis support drinking, as do some in The Rock in Akila City. I know a number of the chairs in the New Atlantis Terrabrew support eating (see images for examples). Oddly just a single chair in the bar area at the Lodge supports eating, but you can use the force option to have your own character use another (see the demo video).

OPTIONAL CRAFTING ADDON I've added an optional plugin containing outpost/ship furniture, which includes most of the more interesting non-random animations. It will be listed as a separate mod on Creations, search for Outpost Furniture Addon for NPC Animations for more details.

HOW DO I PICK THE ANIMATION USED? The game will randomly choose an animation supported by the particular piece of furniture you've activated. As shown in the demo video, switching to first person and back to third again while using the furniture will often pick a different animation; this only works while you have no "prop" in your hands, if the player is using a slate, cup etc. you'll need to get up and sit down again to randomly select another.

CREDITS Made with the Creation Kit. I can be reached at Nexus Mods.