would love the picnic basket

Yes, I used to use one way back when. Sims2, wasn't it? Oh, just had a thought pop into my head (and, no, it wasn't painful.) We do have sack lunches, why not use that?

"soko37;c-17047448" wrote:
Yes the picnic basket was a nice touch. Though if we got one for sims 4, they would have to make entirely new animations for sitting on the ground and they seem to just reuse animations with all new objects we get, or they just cut animations entirely and something just appears or disappears without them moving, so not sure if the team will give us this one back. They couldn't even manage to make proper laptop animations but just reused everything from a regular computer. So....

A bit off topic, but I think they couldn't add an animation to the laptops opening and closing because technically it appears that laptops are using the same "blocks" that they use in when creating computers in the game. Naturally because that "block" is a foundation of the computer object, it wasn't designed to have a closing monitor animation to it. If they where to create a new "block" for the laptops rather than reusing the "block" for computers then they could add animations to it. The word block has quotationson it since I can't emember what it was called, but SimGuruGraham discussed it in the Stuff Pack Project creation part of the forum.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/919338/june-4th-dev-update-learn-about-object-creation

So technically a laptop is a mimic of a computer block. I might be wrong woth this, but I think it is one of the reason why laptops didn't get an openingr/closingg monitor animation.

Speakjng of Picnic basket, it would be a hindred times better if NPC's can actually use them in the world, not just our sims.

I loved the picnic basket in Sims 2 & 3. I usually had one in my sims inventory. In Sims 3 often my university student would use it between classes if she wasn't studying on her laptop.