Aikea's Animation Hacks - Age Fix
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Uploaded: 27th Mar 2024 at 3:26 PM
Updated: 18th Aug 2024 at 5:25 PM
Updated: 18th Aug 2024 at 5:25 PM
This is a slightly modified replacement for the two paintings originally created by aikea_guinea at Insimenator:These are invaluable when it comes to filming machinima since they store the largest number of in-game animations (750+ per each). There is one serious problem, though - they work properly only for adult sims.
If you try and use them for teens, you'll notice that all the interactions are mismatched: you tell the teen to jump over a wiggle, and they drop a food tray on you or something.
Tech Explanation
Here's how it works by default:
Here's with my fix:
Do keep in mind that there are some animations that will still not work for teens/elders - it'll throw an error if you have testingcheats enabled. That's because not all the animations exist for teens in the first place. The majority, though, works fine.
Huge thanks to ocelotekatl from blueheavensims and Pick'n'mix who have instructed me on how to do this.
All the credit goes to the original author of the hacks - aikea_guinea. All I did was remove a couple of resources.
If you try and use them for teens, you'll notice that all the interactions are mismatched: you tell the teen to jump over a wiggle, and they drop a food tray on you or something.
Tech Explanation
That is because all the animations for these paintings are referenced in 4 string lists (one per age group: 0x0082 for child, 0x008A for teen, 0x0081 for adult, 0x008B for elder). For some reason, the values within these lists do not match, which causes the game to play a different animation for a different age group.
Luckily, you don't really need all the lists since the game will default to using Adult animations anyway. And so my fix was simply to remove the unnecessary lists for anyone but Adults.
Luckily, you don't really need all the lists since the game will default to using Adult animations anyway. And so my fix was simply to remove the unnecessary lists for anyone but Adults.
Here's how it works by default:
Here's with my fix:
! IMPORTANT !
Make sure to remove the original paintings if you install the fixed ones.
Make sure to remove the original paintings if you install the fixed ones.
Do keep in mind that there are some animations that will still not work for teens/elders - it'll throw an error if you have testingcheats enabled. That's because not all the animations exist for teens in the first place. The majority, though, works fine.
Huge thanks to ocelotekatl from blueheavensims and Pick'n'mix who have instructed me on how to do this.
All the credit goes to the original author of the hacks - aikea_guinea. All I did was remove a couple of resources.
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aikeaguinea_LIS_AnimationPainting2_agesfixed_animbox.zip | zip | |
aikeaguinea_LIS_AnimationPainting2_agesfixed_animbox.package | package | 222676 |
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aikeaguinea_LIS_AnimationPainting1_agesfixed_animbox.zip | zip | |
aikeaguinea_LIS_AnimationPainting1_agesfixed_animbox.package | package | 234403 |
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Uploaded: 27th Mar 2024 at 3:26 PM
Updated: 18th Aug 2024 at 5:25 PM
Updated: 18th Aug 2024 at 5:25 PM
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