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Sorry if this topic has been breached before, but I was wondering if it would be possible to add in character animations by creating dummy spells. I noticed that you could select the animation that plays when performing a spell, so I wondered if I removed the spell's effects and changed the animation to something different if it would play without any issues. Any thoughts? I am hoping to create a short list of player "emotes" for the GM mode and this method would seem to be the easiest (as long as the spells can play any animation).

Hey Melgrimm,

that sounds like a solid way to add custom emotes! Any animation is generally supported inside a skill.
The normal flow also uses a "prepareAnimation" which plays when you first select the skill, before confirming a target, but you can skip that and make the skill cast instantly by setting "noprepare" in the PrepareAnimationInit and PrepareAnimationLoop properties.

The Shout skill SpiritVision in Shared > SkillData > Shout is a good example to look at

Sincerely,
Kevin