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Post by didooo777 on Jun 7, 2016 5:52:03 GMT -5
Hello. I try to create new animations by override old one,create new or pose pack. I have problem using and adding TUNINGS in sims4Studio. If any can handle whit them and want to join in new animation projects, please write here.
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Post by eviltiptip on Jun 7, 2016 11:16:42 GMT -5
Hello, welcome to S4S forums.
What you mean by "create new animation"? and what is your knowledge about programing for sims 4?
If by animation, you mean poses(the way sims move), thats fairly easy, but to create totally new once you need to know how functions called, you need to know how to change and create tunings and wher einfo is stored.
if you taking about 2d animations in game, it about the same, only you need to know where files are stored, what there codding(or use a software made for converting sims 4 files).
3d Animation will be more hard to make, as far as i know (maybe i wrong), most of the 3d animations in game are made by joints, here you will need much more knowledge about how everything works and where every peace of information is stored and how to call them.
Most of people in this forum dont know this kind of things, and using s4s only do make stuff he automaticly make for them(in the programing level), the only one seems to know all of this is andrew.
If you a programer and you have much time, just start mess with file use google and study all you need, i messed with it little bit when i was sick and sit at home 3 weeks, but usally i dont have so much time to study all this info <:
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Post by didooo777 on Jun 7, 2016 16:49:58 GMT -5
Hello eciltiptip. I make few animations for test by replace existing in game. They are 3D and i use Blender. Programing is my poor side, i like to make 3d animations.Using sims 4 studio i noticed the Tunings and that they are Template code for gaming effects and you can use them and modify if you know xtml. You can extract em directly in package whit your work. I wonder if i use some in pose pack will they give effect? And can i combine few animation in one pack which replaces gaming animation.
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Post by eviltiptip on Jun 8, 2016 12:42:27 GMT -5
Well i still don't understand if you want to make poses or object 3d animation, to make animation for sim, its a pose thats easy, now to make an object animation is something else, to change an animation like "door open" or "garbage can" animation change is easy, to make a all new animation wont be as easy as you think.
i will give you more details: you say you see xml in tuning and you think if you know how to program it you can do the changes you like, but this is wrong, because this xml is calling other files, and S4S isnt made for changing 3d obj animation for now (i think maybe they make it later on, or maybe not, this you have to ask admin), but to really change and create tuning you need to know much.
ill give you an EXAMPLE:
when i had free time, i made a custom Tv channel, thats a 2d animation and its very easy to make, but it took me long to find everything i need, cause tuning of tv call a channel tuning who is calling a movie file, and on the way to this file, one of the xml show me the path to the movie is "examplefolder/folder/Movie.avi", i was looking for this path but it no where to find, cause it does not exist!
what i saw was some kind of history that is not there no more, and i had to find my way to that movie file, in S4S that file show up as a hex number for file name, and its a *.bin file, then i had to find whats in that bin file and how to extract an avi from there.
What i ty to say is , when S4S will make an option to change this 2d animation file, i guess all you have to do is click 3 buttons in S4S and you ready to go, but because i used studio to do something it not ment to do yet i had to use my knowledge about programing and the help of andrew and make all this for a simple task, witch now i can do in 3 mins.
so when you see animation in S4S thats for poses, and that is fairly easy , if you need help about this poses just ask, and try tutorial section you can make it no problem, if you want an object animation, start study the paths of sims 4 tuning and xml file <:
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Post by didooo777 on Jun 9, 2016 5:39:21 GMT -5
Poses are easy, yes. Whit pose player you can do animation too. But i want to make object 3d animation, that you ll start from pie menu.
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Post by AdonisPluto on Jun 9, 2016 6:22:28 GMT -5
Poses are easy, yes. Whit pose player you can do animation too. But i want to make object 3d animation, that you ll start from pie menu. Do you mean by passing the pose player |
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Post by orangemittens on Jun 9, 2016 8:47:14 GMT -5
Hi didooo777, welcome to Studio forums. Many people have asked about this issue and I do plan to post a tutorial going over a basic project that people can use as a guide to doing their own. It's just a matter of getting the time to write and post it.  |
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Post by eviltiptip on Jun 9, 2016 11:08:49 GMT -5
Hi didooo777, welcome to Studio forums. Many people have asked about this issue and I do plan to post a tutorial going over a basic project that people can use as a guide to doing their own. It's just a matter of getting the time to write and post it. you working on a tutorial for tunings paths relations? i was looking for a tutorial to show coding and tuning, but couldnt find. i need to know how to call reactions for all kind of things, for example if i make a brand new mesh, how can i make a brand new tuning for it, and how to call functions, for example when sim click it make it animate, or create a on/off button, and so ... i try to understand what coding need to be done to a new clean object to go into sims 4 and act as i wish. |
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Post by didooo777 on Jun 9, 2016 16:43:04 GMT -5
Tnx orangemittens that will be useful! eviltiptip maybe add something like this to your object:  |
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Post by eviltiptip on Jun 15, 2016 8:53:19 GMT -5
you can add interaction, you can duplicate once 2, but again, if for example u want to make a chair that fly when u interact with it, u need to create movment rout in blende, and then refer to it from inside the tunning file, but if u open a tunning file u will for every small thing your object do u got route to more tuning file, with lot of paramter that i dont know what they do
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Post by phyre on Jun 15, 2016 14:35:09 GMT -5
A little while back, I inquired about a tutorial like this in a PM to Andrew.
I am very happy to hear it is still on the "to do" list, though I understand the constraints of limited time and other priorities that keep it delayed.
In the meantime I have been working on both custom objects and custom animations and I am looking forward to this tutorial, so that my project may finally move forward. Like Dido, I too lack the programming knowledge required to get there by myself, without some outside guidance.
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