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15th Feb 2022 at 5:04 PM
Last edited by FloTheory : 17th Feb 2022 at
5:07 PM.
Converting animations from TS4 game
Step 1 : We are going to extract TS4 animation we want in a
.blend format.
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Launch S4Studio
Note : Do this step if you don't already have a project listed under "My Projects"
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Set up S4Studio
Add your creator name here
Click on "Settings"
Set up your Blender & Sim 4 game path.
Now that this is done, click the "Clip Pack" button under "Animation" and after that click on the "Animation" button.
Create a save file for the package, for this tutorial I named it "Test".
This is what you'll see :
Select the "Clips" tab.
Click the "EA Clip" button.
Note : Here you must select the "age" group you want for the animation (but the gender is not important)
Note : We're almost there, you're about to have access to all TS4 game animations (if you own the EPs, packs etc...)
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Press "Export"
The list of all TS4 game animations pops and we are going to select the first one for this tutorial (a_ageUp_adultToElder_part1_x).
As you can see, this is how we get the
.blend file we need for our animation (a_ageUp_adultToElder_part1)
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Press "Save"
Note : You can double click on
.blend files to see what the animations look like in Blender.
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Here is our animation in a .blend format
Step 2 : We are going to turn our
.blend into a Sims 3 animation file.
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Launch Blender 2.79
Note : If you did the Setting up Blender part, you have what are called
rigs.
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Open the Sims 4 to Sims 3 RIG.
File > Open > RigBase ts4 to ts3_FACE_V2.blend
This is what a
rig looks like and this one is the Sims 4 to Sims 3 RIG (RigBase ts4 to ts3_FACE_V2.blend)
Note : Zoom it out using the mouse scroll.
Now we are going to add our S4 animation
.blend to the RIG (a_ageUp_adultToElder_part1).
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Click "Append"
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Click on our .Blend file.
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Then click "Action" and select the animation.
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Finally select our animation (a_ageUp_adultToElder_part1).
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Click "Append from Library".
It takes us back here.
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On your keybord, Press "A" twice (the RIG turns blue) then press 'I'.
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"Animation" now appears under the RIG on the right.
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Right click "Animation" and select "Set Action".
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Click on our animation (a_ageUp_adultToElder_part1).
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Our animation can now be played.
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Click on RIG to see all the coloured left part appear.
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If the animation stutters, place your cursor under the coloured stripes, " press "A" twice and "V" then select "Auto-Clamped".
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Correct the timeline lenght to your liking by changing the number in the "End" section.
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Now click on the little eye next to RIG to make it disappear.
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And click on the little eye next to AfRig to unhide it.
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Then click on the AfRig.
Play the animation and stop it at the end.
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After that press A (the RIG turns blue) and press "I" to put a keyframe at the end of the TimeLine.
This is the final step !
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Export as a Sims 3 animation with a name starting with "a_" because this is an adult animation.
I called it a_ageUp_adultToElder_part1
Choose where you want to save it and click "Save Sims 3 animation"
Here is what we obtain : a CLIP file that can be added to the Sims 3 game
Next we will see what our new Sims 3 animation looks like on a Sims 3 RIG.
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Open the AfRig or the AmRig
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Click on "Load Clip".
Find our Sims 3 animation and click on "Import Sims 3 Animation"
You can now play our animation on a Sims 3 RIG to see if everything is ok. You don't need to save it if you don't change anything, just quite Blender.
Note that there is often a problem with the S4 to S3
eyes animation.
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This short tutorial talks about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOCy5vIuz3g&t=105s
This S4 to S3 animation conversion tutorial ends here.
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This tutorial explains how to load our CLIP animation to the S3 game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OLeuptfFco