I found a really strange and reproducible animation bug involving Fresh Animations / FA Player while aiming/shooting bows in third person.
At first I thought Leawind Third Person was directly causing it, because the bug becomes WAY easier to trigger with that mod installed.
But after more testing, I realized:
- it can still happen in vanilla third person
- it still happens without Leawind
- and it can also happen with other third person camera mods
So third person mods seem to amplify the issue rather than directly cause it.
How to reproduce:
- Enter third person
- Aim a bow
- Rapidly rotate the camera
- Release the arrow while turning
With Leawind installed, simply firing arrows several times in third person is usually enough to trigger it consistently.
The result is:
- arm twisting
- shoulder snapping
- jittering
- broken arm poses
It almost looks like the arm bones get pulled apart during fast camera movement.
Current setup:
- EMF
- ETF
- Fresh Animations / FA Player
- multiple third person mods tested
What makes this especially interesting is that the issue seems heavily tied to FA Player itself.
I’m wondering if this could be related to:
- arm sway expressions
- interpolation
- rapid yaw rotation
- bow pose blending
- head/body rotation syncing
Has anyone else encountered this before?
Or knows which expressions/system might be responsible?
I really love Leawind Third Person’s free camera movement and FA Player’s expressive animations, so I’d love to figure out what’s actually happening here.
by Wide-Alternative-446