There's a pause where it seems like it should trigger the new animations, but they just stand there. NPCs don't seem to want to use the new animations though.

So in theory any place NPCs used to get drunk they should now use the custom animations mixed in with their normal drunk idles, right. to their lists, and gave them a random timer setting (2.0, it doesn't really matter though). I set them to play in sequence and added the cannabissmokejoinidle, cannabissmokedragonbongidle, etc. So I pulled up a couple of idle markers you see in/around taverns (drunkidlemarker, taverndrinkingmarker). Plus I don't know of many mods that touch these at all, they mostly make their own. SO, I had the idea, what if I just added the animations to the list of idles that can play in vanilla idle markers? That way if someone makes a mod that uses those the custom animations would even play there.

I got NPCs to use custom idle markers without too much trouble, but I want to avoid editing cells and conflicts in general. I want to get NPCs to smoke in taverns with the custom idles from Cannabis Skyrim (or Pipe Smoking, if you wanna count the SFW version), but really it's a proof of concept for a bunch of other stuff I could do. So I have a cool idea that should be fairly simple.

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