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Sims 4 wicked whims making animations plus#

When I animate, I like to keep the keyframes in a good place, since if you have them too far apart from each other, the animation will be too slow, and if they're too close together, the animation will be too fast. I'll be making the toddler do a simple wave, as this is a very easy and simple animation at first. But it'll eventually become easy after a few tries

Step 4 Actually making a nice smooth animation This prevents weird or unwanted moved bones when you pose your rig in another keyframe. This does help a lot, by also loc-roting all the bones of your rig, not only just the bones you moved. Then, press A until your rig turns blue, now go to 'Pose:' and select Copy, then Paste.

Sims 4 wicked whims making animations plus#

Now that you've posed your rig, select the other little plus located at the other side of where the right plus was, just next to the dopesheet. This is what the little button at the bottom does, it automatically loc-rots the pose/bones for you. In this case, I'll be posing my toddler similar to how they look in-game:Įach time you move or rotate one of your sims's bones, a keyframe will appear wherever the green line is, in the timeframe. What you will do now, is pose your rig in a desired position. You can do the same sort of thing with other bones in the body, but for now we'll be working with the 4 bones only. Basically what this will do is make it so you can select either a hand bone or foot bone and move it around without it stretching from the rig's body. Do the same with the rig's other hand or foot bones. Once that's done, select one of your rig's hand bone or foot bone and go to bone constraints located in the properties tab on the right hand side, go down to where it says chain length and change it to 3. Now, here comes the part that will be the most useful for animating, select one of the spheres, and then shift + select the hand or foot bone that it has been placed on and then press Ctrl + shift + c and select inverse kinematics.Īfter you've done that, delete all the spheres by pressing 'x' on them. Scale it down by pressing 's', then, while still having the sphere selected, press Alt + D and drag the cloned sphere to one of the rig's hand bone, do the same with the other hand bone, and finally add 2 more spheres to the feet bones. The first thing you'll need to do, is click the little red button below the timeframe, then select the two little spheres where it says 'Pivot Point' and change it to Individual origins and change the start number in the timeframe from 1 to 0.Īfter that, press Shift + A and go to mesh > UV sphere, this will add a UV sphere to the scene. If you open your sim rig for the first time, and see it's all white, click on the plus sign at the top right hand side, and a bar will open, scroll down to 'display' and change the option from either singletexture or multitexture to GSL. * Blender, the CLIPTool plugin and the sim rigs:

For the more advanced ones you can skip step 1, and if you want step 2 and 3 too and get to the actual smooth animating in step 4 and 5.

Sims 4 wicked whims making animations how to#

(You can learn how to install the clip tool plugins here: ) For the beginners this will be a good place to start out, since I will also be guiding you on setting up your rig, as well as exporting it and testing it in-game.

Sims 4 wicked whims making animations mods#

You will also not learn how to install mods nor get the requirements. In this tutorial you will not learn how to install blender, s3pe, the clip tool plugins or the sim rigs. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to make a good smooth animation, as this tutorial was requested. Tutorial: How to make a smooth animation - Step by step guide.