Animation and Pose Help

Oh I love this idea!!! I actually came here to ask a question. Do you know of any tutorials out there that will teach me how to incorporate a sim holding an object that can be added to the poss though buy mode and not CAS?

@GoddessSims After having a quick trawl through the web I found two videos that cover aspects of this:

How to Use Poses with Props by ElectricBF Sims Go to about 1:40 for the main section on moving items into place in game.

Sims 4 Tutorial Pose making (accessories etc) by Shibui Sims. This goes into far more of the construction side of things within Blender.


As ElectricBF says in her tutorial, holding down Alt whilst moving objects is also really good in game for tweaking object positions beyond the usual "hit boxes", and can allow you to really customise your creations to a much greater extent.

As far as I know there is no way as of yet to completely seamlessly intergrate objects into poses or animations using pose player. Someone would have to try and write an ingame mod that opperates in a simillar way to the interaction tunings you have for pre-existing reading and cooking animations, where "props" are called to be a part of the actions.

Hope this helps

@Mia_ Thank you so much!!! I'll look at them better when I get home this evening.

I downloaded a dancing animation for adults and children, and I wanted my teen sim and child sim to dance in sync but one always starts a little earlier than the other. I tried contacting the person who made it but they haven't answered yet

"jennabennawenna;c-16422572" wrote:
I downloaded a dancing animation for adults and children, and I wanted my teen sim and child sim to dance in sync but one always starts a little earlier than the other. I tried contacting the person who made it but they haven't answered yet

Are they run through pose player?

If so get both parties to use a static pose first, then pause the game, que up the dancing animation, then whilst still paused cancel the static pose from the action que. Once you unpause the game the two animations should start at the same time.

Out of interest which dancing animation is it? Could you put up a link to the creator? I'm always intrigued to see dancing animations, havn't tried to tackle them myself yet and I love seeing how others go about setting up rhythms and stages.

Hello Mia.. so I want to ask you a question about the animation I just created. The problem is... when I tried to test my animation on the sims (two sims), they didn't spawn at the position I wanted. In the blender, I positioned the male character laying on the bed at time 2 and positioned the female character standing beside the bed. When I tested it out in the game by using the sims teleporter statue, they just started doing the action at the same position as the located statues. The male sim just did the action while standing and not laying. How can I fix that? Maybe I miss something. Btw, this is my first animation and there is not much information on the problem I faced and I am too tired to explore myself right now. Thank you. :)

Hi @coregurlz

Sounds like b_ROOT_ bone has been moved accidently during your time in blender. Either that or the rig was first moved as an object in 'object mode' rather than 'pose mode'.

Best way to check for the second issue is to select any bone from either of your rigs in blender then switch to 'object mode' down on the lower toolbar of the 3D view window, then hit the keys alt R and alt G. If either hotkey moved the rig in any way then leave it where it has been moved to, and reposition it back to the location you want in 'pose mode' using the b_ROOT_bind_ bone.

The first problem is a little bit more complicated and requires you to go to the outliner and reveal hidden bones. Try the 'object mode' fix first, if that doesn't work drop me another message and we can go through the other fix.

@Mia_ Oh wait, I think you are right about the 'object mode'. I did remember that I positioned the characters while they are in 'object mode' and not in 'pose mode' because I didn't know it at first but when you mentioned about that, I completely understood my mistake. I will try to follow your suggestion and I will inform you any news. Thank you so much for the quick reply! :blush:

@Mia_ Sorry for the late response. It really work! But I want to ask another question. I used propagate to make the same position for all the keyframes but I don't know if it's suitable or not. Is there any proper trick to achieve the same purpose? It took pretty long time to positioned all the character's node properly. If you are facing the same problem, what will you do?

@coregurlz Does your animation feature IK? If so have you already 'mapped' out your empty target points?
If the answer to both is yes I would avoid using propogate.

As a general rule I prefer to manually manipulate the keyframes within the Dope Sheet, it allows me greater control of the timings and movements. Personally I us Shift D whilst having the key frames of the bones I want to remain static in the animation selected in the dope sheet, then I move duplicates along the timeline.

I hope that makes sense.