Cheat sheet: Rigs and animations
Where rigs and animations are stored
Summary
Last documented update: January 6 2024 by manavortex
This page lists file paths and properties for various rigs and animations. Use the Table of Contents or your browser's search (Hotkey: Ctrl+F
) to quickly find what you're looking for.
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.anims
For general documentation on how animations work, see Animations
Anims description | Path in game files |
---|---|
Player female inventory animation | base\animations\ui\female\ui_female.anims |
Player male inventory animation | base\animations\ui\male\ui_male.anims |
.rigs
First person
First person animations are used solely on the player character (V). There's one rig per body gender:
name of rig | Path in game files |
---|---|
player_male | base\characters\entities\player\deformations_rigs_ma\player_man_fpp_deformations.rig (pulled from player_ma_fpp.ent) |
player_female | base\characters\entities\player\deformations_rigs_wa\player_woman_base_deformations.rig (pulled from player_wa_fpp.ent) |
Third person
While most rigs are called man_xxx
, they're also used by NPCs of the female body gender.
Name of rig | Used by | Path in game files |
---|---|---|
woman_base | female body gender, default body shape | base\characters\base_entities\woman_base\woman_base.rig |
man_base | male body gender, default body shape | base\characters\base_entities\man_base\man_base.rig |
man_child | children of any body gender | base\characters\base_entities\man_child\man_child.rig |
woman_child | - | base\characters\base_entities\woman_child\woman_child.rig |
man_big | any body gender: big folks, e.g. Jackie, River, Rhinoโฆ | base\characters\base_entities\man_big\man_big.rig |
woman_big | - | base\characters\base_entities\woman_big\woman_big.rig |
man_fat | any body gender: fat folks, e.g. Dexter | base\characters\base_entities\man_fat\man_fat.rig |
woman_fat | - | base\characters\base_entities\woman_fat\woman_fat.rig |
man_massive | Smasher | base\characters\base_entities\man_massive\man_massive.rig |
Face
The facial animations are linked in the .ent files under base\characters\base_entities\xxx\xxx.ent
. They are otherwise referenced from an entAnimationSetupExtensionComponent inside the .app file.
Deforms
Deforms can be found under base\characters\base_entities\*\deformations_rigs
.
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