(TS3) New animations in progress, need some help and guidance.

[Guest Redabyss]

Hiya,

just decided, today, to ventur in the world of sex animations and Blender. I learned some things, and I managed to do this ATM.

 

https://s22.postimg.org/t4dmao481/image.png?4

 

I'm well aware of what it is the timeline, I've watched a tutorial on how to do facial expressions, etc., and I wanted to post this topic here so, if some kind soul wants to help me, I can progress my ability faster and maybe someday contribute to TS3.

 

First of all, how do I save the project so I can continue it some other time?

And, how do I create the next frame for the animation? I get the timeline thing, but, for the moment, I don't know how to create the next frame for the animation. 

 

Doing pretty good! The animation looks kinda crappy but somehow enjoyable. It's really boring having to rotate everything, but it's more doable than I thought. For now I might be able to complete a package!

I would like to know: how do I delete a frame, in the timeline, that I don't like?

 

 

[Nezumi12]

i have no experience with Blender or making animations for Sims 3.

however, i have some experience with other animation software/games. in several of the editors i've used, there is a frame-by-frame mode and you can select, cut, delete, copy, etc the individual frames.
if you're using key animations, you can change the number of frames between keys to make them shorter, or even delete animation keys, if you want to get rid of issues with in-betweens.

check the program's menu/help/tools to see if there's something like that built in.

 

hopefully someone with experience with Blender and Sims 3 animations can answer this, since i doubt my suggestions will be all that helpful.

[millionserved]

You can delete a single keyframe by selecting that keyframe on the timeline and pressing "spacebar" then choose "delete keyframe".  Afterwards when you press "spacebar" on a keyframe in the timeline the option to "delete keyframe" will come up.  Also if you want to delete multiple keyframes you can go to the dopesheet and select the keyframe by clicking on the top dot of the column for that keyframe and selecting the keyframes that you want to delete then pressing "spacebar" and choosing or typing in "delete keyframes".  You will see that you can also press "X" for deleting multiple keyframes when you are in the dopesheet.  Keep in mind that the amount of keyframes you set up for a rig can be specific to that rig so, for example, you can accidentally end up setting 9 keyframes for the female rig and 3 keyframes for the male rig if you aren't careful.  With that being said if you delete a keyframe using the timeline it may delete the keyframe for that specific rig.  If you delete a keyframe using the dopesheet it should delete the keyframe from both rigs.

 

Below are pictures so you can get an idea of where the timeline and dopesheet are located.  Also a closeup of the dopesheet so you can see what I mean by the dot at the top of the column.

[Guest Redabyss]

I'm really grateful to you guys for your replies.

For anyone wondering: unfortunately, I need way too much time with university, this and the next years, to be able to steadily improve and dedicate myself :/ I was getting decent, but I don't have the time I thought I would have. I'm really sorry.