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WIP: SimMotion Sitting (and a warning)

Added 2021-05-11 11:49:43 +0000 UTC

This is not a download post! There's nothing attached to this post but pictures.

I'm working on sitting animations for SimMotion. There are a lot! I thought the game had a base "sit" posture and amended the upper body for different activities, but no. That means sitting updates will probably be completed and released in batches.

Why the warning? Well, there are two issues with sitting overrides.

The first is there's a limit to how much I can move the penis and balls. They have to move up to account for the pelvis rotating down, but there's only so far they will happily go before they distort.

The second is to do with differences in furniture. The game uses the same sitting animation for each object - chair, couch, cooler, etc - even though they're different heights. Behind the scenes, the game is altering the sitting angle in a way I can't replicate. An override that looks good on a dining chair might look so-so on a living chair.

Adding to that, there are differences in shape between items of the same type. Some couches are okay, some are too high. I know Maxis has internal guides for object shape/scale, but they seem a little soft on how strictly you have to follow those rules when it comes to seating.

So, just a heads-up so people know what to expect for SimMotion. I've included a bunch of screenshots of a sim sitting on various seating, so you can see how it looks for yourselves.

Now back to editing!