Moving Background

Hi @ilikethesims30

As a player who uses a lot of umpa dance mods in my game my first thought was you are going to need a animation mod to make this work

Then I discovered while searching for a chatting inside the car mod it also states in the mod description that you also need the pose player as well and these are both available on the following links

pose player

http://linna.modthesims.info/download.php?t=438706

animation player

http://linna.modthesims.info/download.php?t=441682

both the above will show up in your game as an object which will require placing closeby to your sims you wish the pose/animation you want it to work on.

Last but not least you are going to have to download the creator animation mod (which is placed in your mods folder in my documents) to make all the animations work and come together.

The talking in the car codes that need adding to your animation player (and presumably the pose player but not sure on that) are as follows below which I extracted from the actual car talking mod to make sure it download okay (however there are a lot more than this small list i paste here)

a2o_sedan_drive_driver_x - static
a_car_driver_talk01
a_car_driver_talk02
a_car_driver_talk03
a_car_driver_talk04
a_car_driver_talk05
a_car_driver_talk06
a_car_driver_talk07
a_car_driver_talk08
a_car_driver_talk09

An example of the animation player is in this pic of my teen dance group i play with just with using the animation player object (not the pose player as not required for the dance sequences) and you can see it in front of the group as a small black box in front of the floor lights and this is what you click on and add the codes similar to the ones shown above to make my sims dance the animations i want them to.

https://i.imgur.com/9bfAjvv.jpg


I found a mod creator on youtube for the inside car chatting animation you need but I have not used this myself.. I did download the mod from the mediafire link provided and it does work and provides the mod and the animation codes (a sample shown above) you would need to use in the animation player. (and presumably the pose player)

I also downloaded the pose player from the link above and there were 3 options and I have no real clue which one might be required as I have not used or required a pose player mod before in my game as i only play with the animation player so hopefully another player may drop by and explain that better than me however there is also an instruction link under the video on youtube just make sure when you click on this link to translate the text under the video to English as it is a different language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhhhY5FFHi0

I hope you are able to make sense of some of my explanations-)

Good luck :)

A little more info on how to do the moving background! Sparky1922 has given you a lot on the poses and animations.

To get the moving background you have to do a green screen. So build a square box, paint the walls bright green and use the debug lights to brighten them. Place the animation player anywhere and type in the codes. Film the sims doing the animation with the green screen in the background. Then film the scene you want them to be driving through. You need to learn how to use the green screen settings in your editor to put the two together and edit out the green so it looks like they are driving through your scene.

I'll warn you also that you need to watch your angles. For instance, don't film anything through the windshield or you will have two separate colors of green screen and that will be hard to edit. Also don't have anything bright green on your sims or it will wreak havoc with erasing the green. Just play with it until you get a feel for it.

Here is an example of a couple on a motorcycle (Jared Frio and Lolita if you know SV townies). This was my first green screen and it started at 4:32 of this video. This was my beginner effort so not the greatest but it's probably good that you can see 'how' it's done because of my mistakes! To see perfection, watch any of Remi's videos. He's the king of green screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbDef3izVI

Gosh it's amazing what people can do with the Sims 3 and using a few mods.......

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@emorrill That's for sure! Love your new siggy :kissing:

@ZeeGee Thank you. :blush:

And I LOVE your videos! <3 <3 Anxiously looking forward to the next one. ;) :kissing_heart:

@ZeeGee

Thank you for coming along and explaining further I had no idea about a green screen or what one was so I have learned something new and while I am reasonably adapt with the animation player I have never used the pose player because I see that as something a video creator like yourself would use more for your stories and I simply don't feel I am clever enough to make that work personally but you sure are as your videos are great :)

Thank you for the extra links as well I will take a look at those as well.

Just to clarify when you wrote Edit to add: You don't need the pose player unless you are doing still poses does that mean a pose player is not necessary for the car talking animations at all then because while I was copying and pasting the info from the creator page I kept thinking why is the pose player required this appears to be more of an animation but that aside I had no idea whatsoever how the heck the animation could look as if it took place in a car as it's so much easier just turning on MOO and making sims dance together on a stage or whatever lol :)

@emorrill

Agreed there are some very talented creators on these forums I often use @Karritz video instructions as well i think the last one was when I successfully completed making/adding dive spots to other worlds than IP and felt very proud of myself in that moment after completing that lol

"emorrill;c-17236143" wrote:
@ZeeGee Thank you. :blush:

And I LOVE your videos! <3 <3 Anxiously looking forward to the next one. ;) :kissing_heart:

@emorrill Thank you for that! It is such slow going now but I'm getting there, about halfway through maybe. :)

@SPARKY1922 Thank you so much! Yes that's correct, you don't need the pose player unless you're doing still poses. A lot of creators use it to pose their sims for pictures because the sim holds the pose and doesn't move. So that doesn't work well for video. If you can use the animation player you are certainly clever enough to use pose player because the animation player is more complicated. With pose player you don't have to type in the codes and there is a mod that you can just click on the sim and choose a pose. (If it's pose list enabled which most of them are)!

I'm headed out but will add a few links later to the pose mods and some pics. :)

@ZeeGee

Trust me to choose the hardest of the 2 first that's typical lol I look forward to seeing more pics when you have the time :)

@SPARKY1922 Lol, well now you'll find it easier going backwards. :)

So here's an example of 'green screen' that I'm working on right now. I used blue instead of green because of the eyeglass reflection. You can use any color as long as the color is not in something that you wouldn't want to disappear like eyes or clothes.

https://i.imgur.com/0Edo2L8.jpg

This is a playlist someone made of Sims 3 animations:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0MBH9PczY-AAvCu3fZNniLm6BWvM2ImS

This is an AMAZING resource for animations. There are so many it's hard to get straight and this girl created a picture book of some of the best animators creations to remind you of what the animation looks like. The link to the document is in the description of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0stbZkGt5Y

Here are my two favorite pose sites, again these are still poses, no movement. I don't use them much anymore since learning to use animation for videos. You do need the pose mod to use these.

www.posesbybee.com

https://blamsposessims3.wordpress.com/

And how could I forget this! This is not a tutorial but Remi shows how he uses green screen to produce his completely freaking amazing videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48fzsSf_5-E