Normal Swimming

Well I'm not sure what's causing my sims not to swim. Took out all of my mods, cleaned my cache, started a vanilla game and still the same thing. Thanks for all of the help guys!

@Beardedgeek, okay. No biggie. *shrugs*

"Beardedgeek;c-17133006" wrote:

"GoldenBuffy;c-17132527" wrote:
You know what (I think I'm having a brain fart lol) Can sims only swim like that in the ocean? Are they stuck doing the "doggie" paddle in pools?

That's not doggie paddle. That's breast stroke.

I agree! I'm assuming an English/US English thing here, since 'Freestyle' is what we would call front crawl here in the UK. And doggy-paddle looks, well, like a dog swimming. Dogs definitely don't do breast-stroke!

Linguistics aside, all my sims use the faster stroke when going farther, and the slower when just ambling about. All of them have some levels in fitness though, so I'm not sure where the new animation kicks in. Or what mods might conflict!

the further out in the ocean they go, the more the swim style changes. shallow water= wading, next level water= doggie paddle, next level water= breast stroke, and deep water & distance swimming= Freestyle. the higher fitness skill you have the more of these styles are available, including speed.

"magooo63;c-17134281" wrote:
the further out in the ocean they go, the more the swim style changes. shallow water= wading, next level water= doggie paddle, next level water= breast stroke, and deep water & distance swimming= Freestyle. the higher fitness skill you have the more of these styles are available, including speed.

Yeah I think you need both fairly deep water and high fitness for "crawl".