How to make a Sims 4 Pose Using Sims 4 Studio

Hello, everyone. I hope that I'm posting in the correct place.

I'm relatively new to posing. I've messed around with Blender a bit off and on. Thanks to tutorials here and online, I finally, decided that I was ready to take the plunge and I created my first group pose for my Sim family. I used a custom Melodine rig because the cc rigs are so much easier to use than the rigs that I can export directly from the game. Having said that, all went well.  It went better than I expected, even. That is, except for one pose.

Here is the entire group pose in Blender  (Sorry in advance for the large pics, I'm not sure how to make them smaller):



Now, here is the completed pose in-game:



This picture may make the issue a bit clearer:



The Fiona pose is correct. However, when I pose the Sims, she remains where I placed the teleporter statue. All of the other poses moved to their designated places, as expected. I don't know what the issue is with the Fiona pose. It's using the same rig and was posed the same way as all of the others. I even went back to the original pose, re-locked all the bones in the key frames, then imported them all back into Sims 4 Studio, with no luck.

Can someone please buy me a clue? What have I done wrong?

Thank you for any assistance offered.

Edited to add:  Three of the poses are meant to be looking away from camera.  The other five are meant to be looking directly at the camera.  However, as you can see, I'm having a hard time with that.  They all seem to be looking at different things.  Any tips?

Again, thanks for any help that can be offered.

and is your custom model rig kijko pose rig?
cause if this is a custom pose is going be a much longer explanation on how to fix this.

Hi cynna ok so this new rig I'm not familiar with but will learn for this purpose would you mind uploading your blend file so I can look at what might be going on, please.

Sorry for the delay, Yunanesca. I wasn't sure if I could upload directly to S4S so I have links to Mediafire.

Group Pose

Individual Pose

When I appended the rigs, I chose the ones that you showed in your screenshot.  I'm not sure why the bone_bone_shape was imported as well.  However, I deleted those and the chair, per your instructions.  It certainly makes it simpler, so thanks.

Ok first I went into your signal file
and unlocked all keyframes x 3 one -control rig and then the Rig itself and again in Object mode from rig but I noticed I couldn't do this normal way I'm used to. This rig is definitely different if this had been normal rig you would be on your way in like 5 min after posting Oh, my Unlocking these 4 keyframes. in your timeline bar.



lol, I thought when I first started learning to pose I jumped off the bridge without a paddle lol.

I noticed in the signal rig don't know if you did this or It did it automatically from how the Creator, created the control rig base made it set up like this.

Was the Auto-Keyframes were Lock in Object mode as well as original rig and the control rig this where I had to unlock x 3 and just noticing the keyframe themselves were random numbers in different amounts and I finally got all of them removed except on keyframe. I'm just going throw this out there kijko rig is nowhere this annoying to unlock but my suggest turning off the Auto keyframing button.



So you can place keyframes where you need cause you do not need that many keyframes on a timeline and that much time I only do two keyframes for pose's one starting at 1 and one at the 30 mark which gives the game time to read and get your poses set in place without one jumping out before the others are in case you have laggy net issue so to speak.

Lol sorry for long ramble but yes now that I'm finally getting to examine this pose and see if I can fix this rig placement.

You're right, I dived in head first on this one. I had a specific need for the group pose, so I just kind of went for it. LOL. I'm so grateful that there was a place to find help when it inevitably went wrong. I felt like I came so close to success, but nope!

First of all, you didn't ramble. Your explanation and your time are greatly appreciated. Being a newbie, I understood some of what you said. The rest, I'll have to work my way through.

By signal file, I assume that you mean the initial file with all of the poses in it? I only made the one key frame in that, then copied three more times. One of the videos that I watched said to do so, so I did because who am I to question? :D I'm glad that you set me straight.

The rig seems to have auto-keys built in? I didn't know how to turn it off. I liked the rig because of the way that some of the chains (?) were connected. Regardless, I'm taking your much-needed advice and going straight back to Kijiko's rig for the next project.

I would like to clarify, please: for this particular group pose, all but one of the poses were working. So, I only need to perform the procedure in your last post for the broken pose, then everything should work?

You've been very patient.