Idle Variety

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Latest: Apr 14, 2026
Uploaded: Apr 13, 2026
Version: 1.40e
Total Files Size: 6.2 MB
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Idle Variety

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Add many idle & walk animation variations to NPCs, enhancing overall atmosphere and reducing monotony.

Features

Adds over 30 idles to the game. Giving more life to the NPCs that don't use specialidle animations much, basically filling in the gaps, so they don't end up just all standing still the same way. As of 1.1, many of the walking forward animations are modified also, so there is even more animation diversity.

Named NPCs get hand picked animations. Leveled/random NPCs receive randomly distributed, character appropriate animations.

Some of the animations will continue to play during dialogue, which can help add a bit more character and create more of a sense of uniqueness when talking to different NPCs.

Patches

Idle Variety TTW Patch

Idle Variety ESPless Patches for Various Mods

Requirements

xNVSE

JIP LN NVSE Plugin

JohnnyGuitar NVSE

kNVSE Animation Plugin

KEYWORDS

ShowOff xNVSE Plugin

Modding

For base forms, just use keywords. For example, I want to make the player look tough. Add the keyword "IV_Tough" to the player. Or maybe I want to make ThisCharacter sleepy. Simply add the keyword "IV_Sleepy" to ThisCharacter.

If you want to use the animations for specific refs with a shared base form, you would have to use other method(s) to apply the animations. Check the files "meshes\AnimGroupOverride\AP_IV_Refs.JSON" and "nvse\plugins\scripts\gr_idlevariety.txt" for some ideas.

Animation List

Most animations with the suffix "Look" are animated to look around. This may look better on background characters.

Some animations have male/female variants. Some are only for male, some for female. The Classic animations are unused by any NPCs.