Visual Effects
May I ask what resources contain visual effects such as candle flames etc? And then what techniques we are likely to need to create or edit these?
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"AlexCroft93;c-16950067" wrote:
Hi guys! Any news about the SWB file's editing? Is it possible to edit those files? As SWB files are the same of sims 3, is it possible to import sims 3 effects in sims 4?
Hey! I took a quick look at it and S3PE, S4PE, and S4S do not support editing of SWB files. This means that you would need to either reverse engineer that file type or ask ModdingSimGuru for a binary template. Once you gather that, you would need to fork S3PE and S4PE and add support for it yourself. With that, you wouldn't be able to directly copy Sims 3 files (as they might have a different header), but if they have the same file structure, you could port it 1:1.
Now, with all of that information, I'm pretty sure effects use additional files for textures and operating them in-game, as well as, the effect might need to register somewhere to be available. That is if you're planning on adding new effects and not making overrides.
I have not looked at the existing tool for editing Sims 3 effects, but if that tool is open source then it shouldn't be too difficult to port it to Sims 4, if the same file structure is kept.
This would be an awesome thing to have, to include custom effects for objects and animations, but the amount of work required for this might not be worth it unless you're really dedicated.
I feel like there is a workaround for using effects that I've seen around but I can't recall where or what it was.
