thepancake1/_s4animtools

Create poses and animations with ease.

_s4animtools

S4AnimTools is a toolset for making animations and poses for The Sims 4. Made in mind with Blender 3.0, but may work on versions 2.8 and above.

Check out the installation guide and tutorials here!

https://github.com/thepancake1/_s4animtools/wiki

I used the following resources to help build this tool:

Sims 3 Clip Info File Structure

Sims 4 Clip Binary Template

Sims 4 Rig File Info Structure

Thanks to everybody who contributed to these resources, as well as everybody who helped test the tools!

_s4animtools's Issues

Make distinguishing between multiple actors easier so the animator doesn't get confused on which sim is which

Possible Ideas

• Tint the color of the entire sim.
• Add markers on the hands/feet of the actors that are color-coded by default, but can be changed to other shapes for accessibility.

Add option so source file name is the clip name instead of the blend file

As suggested by FlowersSimFactory.

Add tutorial on advanced ik

• Explain that forearm and calf bones can only be animated on the Z axis on Euler
• Explain ik targets, ranges, and baking IK
• Warn user about not adding world channels.

Fix Remove IK

Remove IK doesn't actually do anything anymore. Fix this.

Reimplement walkstyle support

Improved IK target selection mode

Right now you have to either unhide all slot bones, or memorize the positions of the slot bones.

My idea is something like this. Imagine this but with slots.

Cloned IK targets should keep the previous target_obj the same

Right now, it reverts to the currently selected object, which is not ideal for sim to sim animations.