[SOLVED] Base Game Animation Override

I swear someone made a mod for this as well but I can't for the life of me remember who or what the name is. >_< There's two ways to search for them and two ways to block them. The first way to search is blindly searching through all the clips for the files, but sometimes EA does not name them properly, etc. so that would be more work in the end.

The second way to search is to use Show Sim Info or MCCC to document what interaction or buff the sim is currently running when performing those animations. So install them, wait for the sim to do it and immediately pause, use the options on the programs and write down anything that sounds suspicious. Once you've narrowed it down, look up the file in question. If it's an interaction it will have something mentioning animations in the file, like animation_ref. Search up that file next (which will be an animation tuning) and it will lead to an ASM/Animation State Machine. You will need to search with GFC/Game File Cruiser (under Tools, top left) to add the ASM to your package. From there, based on what state the animation tuning listed, you should be able find the state mentioned in the ASM and it will list the animations the sim is probably performing.

Then you can either A) clean the ASM (carefully) to remove the animations so sims stop performing them (or replace the references with an empty animation, probably easier), or B) override the clips themselves.

I think so. Looking at this file there is this part:
<V n="interactions" t="enabled">
<U n="enabled">
<L n="interaction_items">
<T>13485<!--MixerInteraction: idle_Fun--></T>
</L>
<T n="scored_commodity">16655<!--Commodity: motive_Fun--></T>
</U>
</V>
Try deleting that section and re-test in-game.

These are what I have when I search and I have no idea other than maybe the "getAttention" or "Dance" ones. I don't know the difference between the a, c, cd, ad, p, or al, at the beginning. I'm really lost..

Yes? I’m trying to replace animations with no reaction at all.

I think I know what to do, i just don’t know how to find the animation IDs in s4s. I can use the search bar to locate “motive_Bladder” but there are multiple animations listed with that. Finding the buff and getting the buff ID isn’t helpful either because I can't search for that.

In my post here:


That's inside the buff you found. I said to delete that section because that's one way to stop the reaction without fiddling with animations (it would be more work) and also because you want to make sure this is the actual file causing the issue.
Anyhow, the section I pointed out is allowing an idle interaction to occur, which the interaction itself is not technically the animation file. If you both re-read my first post, the animation tuning is actually referenced inside the interaction which leads to two more files before you can see what the animations clips are.
Here's what the interaction inside the buff you found looks like at the top:
<I c="MixerInteraction" i="interaction" m="interactions.base.mixer_interaction" n="idle_Fun" s="13485">
<T n="allow_user_directed">False</T>
<V n="basic_content" t="one_shot">
<U n="one_shot">
<V n="allow_with_unholsterable_object" t="override">
<T n="override">False</T>
</V>
<U n="animation_ref">
<T n="factory">34427<!--AnimationElement: Motive_Distress_Fun_basic--></T>
<U n="overrides">
<V n="balloons" t="enabled">
<L n="enabled">
<U>
<L n="balloon_choices">
<U>
<V n="item" t="balloon_category">
<T n="balloon_category">12312<!--BalloonCategory: Fun_Distress--></T>
</V>
</U>
</L>
<L n="balloon_target">
<E>Actor</E>
</L>
</U>
</L>
</V>
</U>
</U>
</U>
</V>
You can see the "animation_ref" file I first mentioned, which inside that file then leads to this ASM (all the distress ones seem to do thankfully): 1af177286b19ac4c
And you can see inside it that there's a lot of animation clips to dig through, but this is where you can find them. I would recommend maybe sticking with the buffs though if they work.

To override the buffs you can follow SpaceAce's instructions to step 3 only and make sure to hit "add to current package" once you've selected the buff(s), which if you didn't have a package going already will prompt you to make one. Once added to the package, select everything that I showed in my quote and delete it, click save and test in-game.