Morroblivion

There are no fully working spear mods.  Soolie's is the first to actually see the light of day, and it's only just dropped last night, with some very obvious issues.

If it wouldn't be much trouble, could someone explain to me why creating animations and exporting them so the CK is so much trouble?
I know programming, modeling and animating(the things required for the process of the development of these animations), so you guys can get technical if you want.
It seems to me as if the game isn't capable of supporting new animations or something, because I haven't seen people bring up the actual work as a problem, it seems more about being incompatible with something.

Okay i'm going to sound like a lazy pile of crap for this but why not just use the two handed sword animations like Morroblivion? They didn't detract from the 'immersion' (really hate that word, its so overused) and you can still include custom kill animations without a ton of fuss. 

Also the javelin animation that soolie used is quite clearly just a rip of the Rieklings throwing animation, while obviously reworked to fit a human it follows all the same points. It's still impressive that the mod exists it's not exactly a technical breakthrough that was promised.

Why should we get our collective panties in a wad over what is really only a minor part of the game? How many of you actually made a spear character in Morrowind? Seriously. Aside from the spear of bitter mercy they were all just terrible and unusable. The Daedric spear did less damage than an ebony long-sword, that's just madness. Not to mention the reach of the spear was so negligible that you still had to smoosh your face into every enemy to land a hit just like every weapon. 

Conclusion? Screw you I don't have to conclude anything. But really the two hander animations would work more than enough for the spears and no one is going to care since they'll be too busy enjoying the splendid landscape. Did anyone really make a huge fuss over Morroblivion just using the two hander animations? Nope.

Try swinging a spear, it looks ridiculous and makes anyone wanting to use it not want to.
From what I've heard it is indeed meant to have custom animations for the spears (or so the mod claims) which should be separate from the standard one handed animations (can someone please confirm/disprove this? Jorgen have you downloaded and tested it?). This is the part which is important and is indeed a working breakthrough if true (even if it may or may/not not use eham's method).

If this is true, then the script he uses to get these unique animations working can work for our own custom animations.

In short

1. need to figure out if indeed spear animations are unique animations that do not replace any existing 1 handed animations. If false then Fearsome Mudcrab is right about it being improperly advertised and there's nothing here.
2. If true, then we need to get our animations dept. (Deadman?) to round out the rest of the animations (possibly reworking the one handed ones from this mod if it speeds up the process?)
3. overhaul this mod to use our animations with our own two-handed spear weapon type. This part from my brief poking around shouldn't be too difficult, especially with we get in contact with the mod creator.

@taerkalith:  Soolie's mod only gives spears unique power attack animations, though I think all the javelin animations are unique.  I haven't tested it yet primarily because of the 26 steps required to run it, and the bug reports that are still rolling in.  I plan to watch for updates though.
I believe Deadman001 already has someone working on the animations themselves, it's just a matter of the tech being sorted out.  Last I heard about that, Eham had shown alexanderb how to do it, but he's apparently missing something that Eham had or was working on.  And of course Eham's been gone for over 3 months now, and Alex is MIA recently.  So there's a bit of a quagmire on that end.

What's his official word on it?

From the one working video above it seems he is able to have custom un-sheath animations. If this and the power attack animations are truly unique and don't mess with swords that would be the proof.

I know the situation with eham and alex and we're not likely to get eham back and with alex busy with other stuff this could be the easiest way to do it once we have the animations done.

We still don't seem to have proof here about if they're truly unique or not though and from watching the youtube videos available I have yet to see any one handed weapons wielded in them. I get a sneaking feeling these ARE replacements contrary to his claim, but we do need someone to test this out. It could be he just lacks animations.

Ok so, Soolie's mod is apparently built off of another mod called 'PC Exclusive Animation Path' by xp32.  It uses custom races and scripts to access new animations (a method I was actually pondering at one point), with apparently some unresolved bugs with actual attack animations among other limitations.  So it's pretty messy.

And also it's 1 handed only. If we get spears there are only two reasonable ways about it - either only two handed, or two handed with one handed option if you take a shield (some long spears probably shouldn't have that ability). Having it only one handed doesn't make much sense and looks ridiculous when not using a shield. And also the animations Deadman made, as far as I know, are two handed.

Hey I just saw this topic pop up. The mod that he is talking about requires two other mods to work properly (PCEA and Fores animations). Also the animations only work in third person. If y'all are really looking into using this mods assets for spears, I would suggest waiting a bit. The installation is tedious (24 steps are you kidding me?) and it requires a third mod just so it can work in first person. Sorry for the long post but I suggest waiting until the mod is more developed before implementing this.

What about, Duke Patrick's Spears In Skyrim by Duke Patrick AKA SpookyFXcom?

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1503574-relz-duke-patricks-...

I hear AlexB is back. We may have a way forward if he finds time for it (fingers crossed).

We're bypassing FNIS. We looked at soolie's and it isn't up to our standard. Instead we're using Aerisarn's streamlined method to do custom new animations that don't work as a replacer.