I wasn't sure how to go about solving this. Clearly, the SavageSims site is no more, since I downloaded this object from the Booty. I like the look of it better than the Maxis bubble blower, which it's obviously cloned from: purchasing the hookah fulfilled my Sim's desire to buy a bubble blower. And it must have the same advertising properties, as my Sim autonomously chose to "smoke shisha", which is the object's substitution for the "blow bubbles" action. But Sims can't actually perform this action: it cancels from their queue, and they stand there, repeatedly attempting to interact with the object, until I direct them to go do something else. So... if it's cloned from a Maxis object that works perfectly fine, it must have something else wrong with it.

I've uploaded a zip of the package, in case somebody with SimPE feels like taking a peek. I suppose I could have turned testing cheats on to see if an error popped up (and I still can do so, if that's of use to anyone).

EDIT - turns out, this object wasn't fully formed when it was uploaded in the first place - see Jonasn's comment below - so... unless you want a more or less deco hookah, that your Sims will repeatedly and unsuccessfully try to smoke... don't install this in your game! I'll leave the thread up for now, in case someone wants to actually tackle the animation part, but... as Lunie says, if you get it to work, upload it through the queue system, and then put a link to it in the comments here.

It is what they call a self-referencing object. It doesn't create pillows for sitting and therefore actions that depend on there being a pillow fail. It would take a significant effort to make the object work without visible pillows.

I modified it to create pillows. They can be changed to blue with the design tool. However, the object has no animated parts. You can't pick up a hose, but instead blow into nothing. The hoses rest on the ground and are static. Bubbles don't appear because the slot for them is high up where the rotating portion would be. The object is unfinished. Making it animate is a graphics work.

If you want to share fixed cc it must go thru the queue. There are exceptions for sharing here while there is testing to see if it fixes issues, but in the end Help is not for requests or sharing cc.

Gotcha, that all makes sense, and I don't even know anything about object creation! Just an unfinished thing that SavageSims probably shouldn't even have uploaded in the first place, eh? Okay, well it was worth asking about. Thanks for the explanation.

Why do you always single me out about this? Why is his CC share that is over a megabyte not deleted and similar attachments elsewhere on the board? I made it clear in my description that this is not a working mod at this point and can only be used as a direction to complete it with further work. The difference between his post and my post is 1 byte, and yet his post stands outside queue and modding forum. I wasted my time investigating and get negative relationship points for it.

Here's a working retexture of the bubble blower that can be made to produce smoke/steam instead of bubbles. https://pforestsims.tumblr.com/post...urs-and-default