CAS Animation Edits

Updated 23/11/2024

• Rebuilt the mod from the ground up, with better animations and behavior.

Overview
This is a revamp of my old CAS Animation Edits mod that I released a couple years ago.

The mod aims to resolve a couple annoyances with the behavior of Sims in CAS; I've edited the CAS jazz script file and tweaked a number of EA animations to make Sims move around less while you're working on them, plus a few extras.

It won't make Sims stand completely static! There are already some great mods out there which achieve that, so I decided to focus on giving them better animations to improve the overall CAS experience.

Features

Gender-neutral animations:

• "Greeting" animations when creating a new Sim are no longer different between male and female Sims; instead, they will play a custom greeting animation.
• Female Sims no longer stand with their heads tilted to the side; they now use the same idle animations and reactions as male Sims.

Better Idles:

• Sims stand still more when idle, rather than constantly gesturing and moving around. They will only react to changing body sliders and picking traits.
• Improved facial animations: less smiling, no eye movements when zoomed into a Sim's face. Much more comfortable for editing facial features and taking screenshots. :P
• Toddler animations have been replaced so that they will stand up.

The camera needed to be adjusted to zoom into the toddlers' faces correctly; I've included an extra package that combines Buhudain's edit of Shimrod's CAS camera mod with the toddler values from criisolate's Closer Camera.

Known Issues

• Some trait animations will snap back to the standing position once finished. This is an EA bug and not caused by the mod itself.

Compatibility

• This mod will conflict with any other mod that edits the ingame\sims\soloanims\cas\animation\cas.jazz resource in JazzData.
• The camera mod will conflict with any other mod that edits the CASCameras and CASCamerasWS INI resources.

Additional Credits

• s3pe: Exporting/Importing resources, creating the package file.
• SmoothJazz: Editing the jazz script.
• Blender: Tweaking the animations.
• joninmobile's No CAS Facial Idles: Served as inspiration for this mod.
• Buhudain's edit of Shimrod's CAS Camera and criisolate's Closer Camera in CAS: Combined both mods into one as a fix for the toddler zoom.
• Adobe Photoshop: Creating the preview images.
• miiko's Polaroid Graphics Bundle: Elements used in the preview images.
• Franzilla's Handwritten Simlish fonts: Used in the preview images.