How to make a Sims 4 Pose Using Sims 4 Studio

Hi sweetsorrowsims,
If you just need a single frame, you can:
1) Move to that frame in the timeline view.


2) With that frame (pose) showing in the 3d view
 
and your cursor in that view, press "a" (twice if necessary) to select all joints. 
 

3) While the cursor is still in the 3d view, press c (not ctrl+c) to copy the joints to the clipboard.

You can also use the arrow-clipboard icon in the lower right corner of the 3d view.


4) Then *in the same blender session* use file -> open to open the blender file you want to paste the pose into.

The pose will still be in the clipboard since it's the same blender session, just with another (your destination) file open within that session.

5) Look at the timeline view in the file you just opened. Make sure the "Active Keying Set" in your newly opened file is set to LocRotScale (or at least LocRot).


6) In the timeline view, select the desired frame to paste the pose into.


7) Move your cursor into the 3d view and press v (not ctrl+v).

The pose will be pasted from the clipboard. You should see your copied pose appear at this frame.
You can also use the clipboard-arrow icon in the lower right corner of the 3d view.


8) Now commit the pose to this frame by pressing i (for insert) to insert (save) the pasted keyframes into the frame.

If you are successful, you will see a message in the info window saying: Successfully added ___ keyframes for keying set LocRotScale (or LocRot if you selected that above).

Now when you move through the timeline your new pose should be at that frame! :D

Above, I show several images with messages like bpy.ops.select_all(action="TOGGLE"). To get that to show up, drag down the Information window bar:


It's possible to copy whole sets of frames using the dope sheet view. I am going to try that a few more times before writing that up.

Hi sweetsorrowsims I am using Blender 2.70a in case your version is different. I'm going to edit my post to add some screen shots.
Hopefully they will clarify things regarding copying a pose from one file to another.

Maybe it's something I just haven't run into, but I don't recall seeing an issue where a bone (elbow in your case) wasn't positioned in game as expected.

One thought, do you have a copy of the pose as your last frame in the blender file? I think OM has mentioned this, but it makes sense to paste and insert all your bones from the desired pose into the last frame in the blender file (it can be a copy of the first pose for the CAS trait animation, e.g. musicLover, that you are working on). 

Hope this helps.

 Woot woot woot!  

I figured out how to get blender jaw movement (talking, etc.) working in packages!
The key was to get it to work beyond the original timeframe of the animation you are replacing.
The key variables in SuppressLipSync for this are F1,  Header1, Header2 and Timecode. Details follow.

It even worked for an animation that didn't originally have the SuppressLipSync event!
Still haven't found out how to make a package from scratch that does the animation with jaw, but you can modify a package that already has the SuppressLypSync event (override one of these).

Here's how to insert that (or any) working package into a clip pack!

Oh Joy!


1) Open the Warehouse tab of a package that has the SuppressLipSync event:


2) In the Data tab, click the Edit Items... button to the right of Events


3) In the left hand pane of resulting window, select SuppressLipSync from the list.


4) In the right hand pane,set the parameter F1 to the duration in seconds for the SuppressLipSync event.
This must match how long you want your jaw animation to be enabled, typically the length of the whole animation minus the Timecode value (typically 0).
For example I have an animation that is 91.67777 seconds long, so I set F1 to 92

5) Then, set the start time using the Timecode value.
It is 0 in the example above, meaning start at the beginning of the animation.

IMPORTANT! If you are editing a package that doesn't have a SuppressLipSync event and you insert it as a new event (see below), then
You must set the values for Header1 and Header2. The defaults of 0 crash the game!
Header1 00000001
Header2 00000100

The values above are from the SuppressLipSync events I found so far in animations by Maxis (e.g. react leg slap, react deep breaths). 

I happened to notice that when Sims 4 Studio adds the SuppressLipSync event...


All the values are zero.
  

So, F1, Header1 and Header2 must not be zero.
Note, I didn't test  F1 of zero since the Maxis animations all have a positive value for this field.
I also didn't test what happens if you set F1 to a value smaller than Timecode (i.e. stop the event before it begins :P)

Hello vipsamoo

If I understand your question then to get rid of a keyframe you can click on the number your keyframe is on and at the same time click alt+i and you will have the option to delete the keyframe. Click here

If you are asking how to get your sims face back to default bind pose then right click the dots you changed and change the location and rotation numbers back to;

x- 0.00000
y- 0.00000
z- 0.00000

w- 1.000
x- 0.000
y- 0.000
z- 0.000

If neither of those answer your question, someone will be along to help you out

hi is there a way to transfer poses/rigs from say DAZ3d or poser to blender using a sims rig ?

Is there a tutorial on how to make objects example an open and closed book and to add it to a pose? orangemittens