Originally Posted by orangemittens

P2F, you can use either of the two rigged meshes Mesher has posted in this thread:

http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...25#startcomment

male mesh in post 5, female mesh in post 42. Or you can use the mesh Wes posted in this thread. Any of them are going to be fine for you. You really are best off updating your Milkshape to 1.8.5 though. If you do, the same holds true, you can use any of the rigged meshes posted by Mesher or Wes.

Originally Posted by WesHowe

This is typical of game animation systems. 'tweening applies from frame to frame, per joint, regardless of whether the frames actually came from the same animation. So your last frame had the sim seated, and the first frame of the next animation had the sim standing. I don't know the timing details, but the game just applied interpolation between the last and first frames.

So a long sequence like one of the exercise routines would best be broken into a series of animation, standing-to-seated, then various seated limb movements, with grimaces, and a final seated-to-standing. With planning this could look very smooth.

The original design of the AnimTool used a rigfile.txt as a specifier (if the name rigfile.txt is present, that will be used without having to navigate to it with the file dialog). It was made that way to allow for the ability to add or remove joints as the conversion was performed.

If a joint is not keyed in an animation, the previous position will remain. I had hoped to have the ability for someone to make an animation that had just the arm animated in a wave, for example, so that the animation could be played on a sim seated or standing and the arm would be the only thing that moved.

However, revising rigfiles is certainly not a simple enough process. I am toying with some other ideas, maybe a checkbox config dialog built into the AnimTool, perhaps with saveable/loadable presets, to turn joints on and off (for conversion purposes). Because while I could write CLIP exporters/importers for MilkShape and/or Maya (but not easily for Max or Blender), I wrote the AnimTool instead as a converter because I wanted something available that was not wedded to any particular program. The fact that we have more MilkShape users (while somewhat limited, it is cheap and easy to learn) around than anything else is likely the main reason there is so much more anim work being done using MilkShape.

Enough chatter, Wes... back to work.

Originally Posted by ssproductions

I managed to quickly edit an existing animation, a seated animation and did an arm wave type motion. When I tried to trigger it in the animation player the sim stood up first.

Originally Posted by WesHowe

This is one of the things I would like to fix. If you have a full set of joints in the rigfile, then they all get written to the CLIP file regardless of whether they have any actual frames, and this makes the animation cycle through the bind pose. I feel there must be a better and easier way to manage the configurations, it does not seem to be issues with how the data is converted, but rather what skeleton parts are or aren't included in the actual CLIP file that is created.

<* Wes *>

Originally Posted by lenglel

Has anyone else noticed this:
When I import from a clip with the latest animtool, the animation is on the floor,
but if I import using RothN's TS3animator it's correctly oriented.