neomonkeus/blender_nif_scripts — comment on commit 916ec95166b98b2ebdd60e7b14000cf96edf6ca1
File: scripts/addons/io_scene_nif/import_nif.py line 531
By neomonkeus:

I agree, usually this is done to set the type for auto correction, though I was't working with armartures?