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Kdogfour's avatar
9 years ago

Bonedelta/Slider assistance

I have been looking at making a mod so that I can make the slider (the ability to drag it) for the belly, butt, and thighs be larger. I feel I have learned a lot with trail and error thanks to this post here

modthesims.info/t/556696

But I have no idea how to put everything together and make it work. I have messed around with the BOND files and have seen results and I know how to find certain bones but my problem is figuring out how to do this on my own. Is anyone here able to help me find out how to determine what instance corresponds to each body part? or has a list of Body Region hexs?

Thank you to anyone who has anything they can add that can help ^^
  • I recommend visiting Sims 4 Studio for help. They are very good.

    http://sims4studio.com/

    They are always happy to help, and have several tutorials on the site as well.
  • Hello there! I was the one who created that thread at the modthesims forums. Anyway, you're going off the wrong direction here, bones are used for animation, and mostly animation, making certain sim body parts change more nicely, is done through the magical and mysterious thing as Dmaps!

    Dmaps don't use bones for deformation and work by increasing or decreasing the position of a vertex. There is no butt bone for instance. Anyway, I coincidentally posted in the Dmap forum post here yesterday. Here's the forum post, by the way. forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/797774/simgurumodsquad-0xdb43e069-deformermap-resource/p1

    We only know that much, we can't actually tell how the morphs are deforming the sim for the changes to the body parts. Likewise, we don't know how to change them without guessing. (Well, at least one person in the modding community knows, I've reached out to them but they haven't answered.)


    Although the SimGurus won't be heading back to work for a while, it would be nice for you to go ahead and comment on the post so it can get more attention.
  • @simmythesim Thank you for the fast reply. I read that discussion and will try it out now. I would love to know anything more you have to offer or if you find anything new ^_^