Locomotion Animations

Locomotion Animations

Locomotion animations are the animations used by sims to move across the game tiles whether they are walking, running, swimming, or flying. They are stored in the ANIM resource, and used by Behaviour Functions through their references in the Text Lists

Text Lists

References to these animations are made in Text List 0x84. Locomotion animation entries in a text list are a little bit different from a standard reference. An entry should take up 6 strings, in this order:

0:Turns(Walk)
1:Steps(Walk)
2:Blends(Walk)
3:Turns(Run)
4:Steps(Run)
5:Blends(Run)

Heres an example of the swimming locomotions:

0:swim-TurnInPlace,swimSlowTurnAndGoShort,swimSlowTurnAndGo,swimSlowTurnAndStopShort,swimSlowTurnAndStop
1:swimSlowShort,swimSlow,swimPose
2:
3:swim-TurnInPlace,swimSlowTurnAndGoShort,swimSlowTurnAndGo,swimSlowTurnAndStopShort,swimSlowTurnAndStop
4:swimSlowShort,swimSlow,swimPose
5:

Notice, you can use animations more than once. There is no running animation for the pool, so the regular swim animations are used in its place. Also, there are no blends, but notice that space is left where they would be.

Naming

The locomotion animations have prefixes to their names so they can be more easily referenced.
<Age Group><Sex><Name><Type>
In referencing, you only put the Name+Type, and depending upon the sim's age and sex, the others are selected by the name prefixes.

Age Groups

e - Elder

a - Adult

t - Teen

c - Child

p - Toddler

Sex

male

female

Type

Pose

TurnAndGo

TurnAndStop

TurnInPlace

Step

StepInPlace

Blend

Existing Names

Type 1:

walk-alt0-normal

walk-ghost

walk-levitate

walk-reaper

swim

Type 2:

walk-alt1-normal

Type 3:

walk-alt2-sexy

Type 4:

walk-alt3-pregnant

Type 5:

walk-alt4-happy

Type 6:

walk-alt5-depressed

Type 7:

walk-alt6-angry

Type 8:

walk-alt7-skip

Type 9:

walk-alt8-sneak

Assigning Locomotion Animations

Locomotion animations can be assigned through behaviours using the primitive 0x0072.