Wicked Whims Blender Rig Help

[Genie Ginny]

I wanted to get into making animations for wicked whims and I'm unable to open the new male or female rigs that are linked to here: 2. Download Sims 4 Rigs. I get an error (see the attached imaged) when I open both the male and female rigs. I've checked the forums on blender's site as well and it seems it could be one of two things: the files are corrupted, or they're full of 0s (which could mean it's corrupted?)

 

I found rigs from 2017 while looking for a different place to download the new rigs that open perfectly fine, just the 2022-10-18 edited rigs won't open. Is there a setting I need to toggle to get them to open or is there somewhere else I can download the rigs? Or maybe blender isn't installed correctly? I'm slightly hesitant to use the 2017 rigs since male and female bodies were updated—and also because I have some absolutely wild ideas that would need animated anuses...

[Equien]

bump. I was able to open it with the latest blender, but I don't know if I won't have problems with sims4studio later. I found two other people with this problem in the forum but no one replied so.....

[wild_guy]

These rigs files are obviously saved in the latest Blender, that's why you can't open them in an older version.

@Equien, you won't have any problems if you use the open beta version of S4S (Star or Aurora) as it supports the latest Blender.

[Genie Ginny]

Ah bless! Totally my own mistake. Installing the latest version of blender worked. Thanks so much!!

[Equien]

27 minutes ago, wild_guy said:

These rigs files are obviously saved in the latest Blender, that's why you can't open them in an older version.

@Equien, you won't have any problems if you use the open beta version of S4S (Star or Aurora) as it supports the latest Blender.

can you tell me how to show the textures in the viewport? the rigs are white even in the right shading

[wild_guy]

7 hours ago, Equien said:

can you tell me how to show the textures in the viewport? the rigs are white even in the right shading

You should have searched and learned a little about new materials system in the newer versions of Blender. It's not a couple of words to explain it here but I believe this article may help:

https://www.katsbits.com/codex/old/

Edited November 25, 2022 by wild_guy

[Mimi-e]

On 11/25/2022 at 9:51 AM, Equien said:

can you tell me how to show the textures in the viewport? the rigs are white even in the right shading

Hey there! I agree with wild_guy, if you're thinking of using Blender, you should try to look up the basics. There are tons of tutorials out there. But for this issue, I wrote this walkthrough:

It's a good idea to get a look around the pinned threads and read them even if just skimming, often the answers are already solved there. It will give you more time for fun stuff like animating instead of fighting against Blender