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arcusaren
10 years ago

Playing Custom Animations

I want to create a new animation for use in a custom interaction, but the game doesn't seem to recognize my custom animations. I tried referencing the animation by its clip name in the ASM file, but nothing happens. I then tried creating an exact duplicate of an existing animation that I knew worked with the ASM file, changing only the clip name and the instance ID, but the game didn't recognize that either.

Just to be clear, I'm referencing the clip name in this bit code: controller="@ClipController(clip=MyCustomAnimation, loop_count=#1)"

How do I tell the game to associate "MyCustomAnimation" with my animation instance? Any help would be appreciated!
  • SimGuruModSquad's avatar
    SimGuruModSquad
    10 years ago
    Hey @BeeKeepers ,

    Sounds like what you are doing is correct, you should just be able to replace the names as you have done and the game will pick up the changes. I have attached a sample package that illustrates this: unzip and install this mod and Sims will be in the t-pose in CAS. All I did was put an "x" in front of all the clip names in the CAS state machine which makes the point to non-existent clips and so the game unable to find them and we fall back to the t pose.

    Hope the example helps. My suspicion is that somehow your modifications are not getting picked up by the game.

    -SGMS

    P.S. Note that on the next patch, all statemachines will be converted to binary XML, similar to how tuning was converted to binary XML. The game will still be able to read plain XML but the data in the shipped package files will be in binary.

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