Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 - The Modding Dungeon Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Modding General Question about CharacterSetAnimationOverride

Full credit to LaughingLeader for this one.

You need to have your weapon unsheathed to have it play properly. You can achieve this via CharacterSetFightMode, and then ending FightMode upon the animation completing (which you will need to time seperately)