Cheat sheet: Rigs and animations

.anims

There is nothing here yet. For general documentation on how animations work, see Animations

.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

player_female

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, Rhino…

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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#647: Add info on downloading Phantom Liberty DLC files for rollback

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