OAR Authoring

What this skill does

Open Animation Replacer (OAR) replaces Skyrim animations at runtime based on conditions. An animation mod ships one or more replacer mods, each holding submods; every submod is one config.json with a priority integer, a set of conditions, and the .hkx files it can swap in. When a base animation plays on an actor, OAR finds the highest-priority submod whose conditions are true for that actor and plays its animation instead. OAR is the successor to Dynamic Animation Replacer (DAR) and reads DAR's legacy folders directly, so a load order mixes both.

Authoring here means: writing or editing config.json/user.json, building condition sets, setting priorities, overriding an existing mod's conditions via user.json, and reading legacy DAR _conditions.txt. Interpreting means answering "what does this do", "which submod wins", or "why isn't this animation playing".