I'm trying to play the "recoil" animation on an NPC. I have a script attached to him and then a command to play a recoil animation inside an onhit event:

Self.GetRef().PlayAnimation("recoilStart")

In the wiki it says you provide the animation "event", so I think "recoilStart" is correct but it never does anything and it returns FALSE

http://www.creationkit.com/PlayAnimation_-_ObjectReference

I found the animation under here:

Gameplay -> animations
Actors\Character\Behaviours\0_Master.hlx
ActionRecoil

I cannot believe no one has tried to use these functions? Please help if possible. Thanks

Not sure if this can help. I'm still learning things myself, so take this advice with a grain of salt.

Make sure the anim you're trying to use has the correct conditions to play. Conditions keep animations from playing at the wrong time. They are listed in a box next to the animation you highlight (You'll find them in Gameplay > Animation)For instance, the recoil anim is normally in the "fight group" of anims and will only play if a weapon is drawn, and the function from previous games was SetAlert 1 (1 and 0 being flags for on and off.)

I doubt you can play animations that are defined as an action -> the only anims I have been able to call from script are the ones listed under the Loose category -> and this includes the exact same script that works calling the loose anims not working when called on an action...

Though a Dev might have an example of a working script for forcing an action animation to play.

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Also its no longer possible to call animations to play on an actor that, that animation does not belong to its race.