[Oblivion] MAO - Mayu's Animation Overhaul

MAO - Mayu's Animation Overhaul
Current Version: 1.2







Description:
MAO changes the Animation paths of all NPCs to custom folders. That way, Players can use custom attack replacers without being copied by all other NPCs. Different (fighting) Idles are also possible now.

Current Bugs:
none

Currently working on:
Compatibility Patch for Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul

Coming up next:
Compatibility Patch + Addon for MMC(Midas Magic Companions)
Compatibility Patch for Blood & Mud

History:
While testing Mods for Beni, I noticed the flaw of all NPCs using the same animations. I thought of a possible workaround and quickly came to the conclusion to just move a folder with the skeleton to another location. MRI(Mayu's Race Idles) was born. Beni helped alot with finding and elimination bugs in the 1st release. Without him, it would take me months untill I could find the solutions. He also created a low-end version for ppl who experience performance problems and instability.
Later I had the idea overthrowing my work for a better and now more experienced concept,with the 2 main objectives: make it easier to add custom NPCs and remove the performance and stability issues. So I started to work on MAO.

Credits & big go to:
Krisis1451 - MMC Compatibility
Keter Sephirot - Seph's Dual Wield addon; I couldn't contact you because of your full mailbox, please let me know if you're ok if I'm using (parts) of your mods for MAO
Sotobrastos & dev_akm - OOO Compatibility
Ryan - Blood & Mud Compatibility
WarJunkie - Finding and Mentioning the AU crash
UK47 - Beta Test
Strange Angel - Beta Test & creation of "MAO Functionality Demonstration 1 & 2"
Beni - Spell Singer addon; Inspiration, testing and many bug fixes for MRI, the base of MAO
Bethesda - for creating such a modable game

This sounds awesome, when can we expect it to be released, its one of the things that always annoyed me about Oblivion. How many attack animations are you intending to add in.

Is there a beta we can try out meanwhile. My mouth is salivating.

planned release for MAO fixed 0.5 will be this sunday.
The Animations will take much longer, I started with something which needs more improvements. I won't make any announcements for it yet. You know, I'm learning for my MCA atm which take so much time, I barely can finish MAO, playing is a no-go atm...

I'm doing a web design course too at the moment, know what its like. Keep up the good work though. Your mod sounds excellent, just what Oblivion needs in my opinion. I'll be looking for it on Sunday.

Thanks Dark Mayu

I can't wait to get this !