Can Simms characters walk?

[mcavner]

They can do everything else - it seems walk should be in their list, but it isn't. When I try to program walking - I can't access their body parts. How are we supposed to make them walk?

[antmj2317]

Great question. Here's my take on it.

Alice 3 is capable of playing prebuilt animations, much as it was in Alice 2.2(some objects did come with animations)

EA gave it's Sims assets to Carnegie Mellon, however this wasn't a complete package. It appears as if they gave them the animation files, textures and models.

You can still use the basic animations(move, turn, roll) on the Sim as a whole because it is still a 3d object, however, moving parts would mean access to the models bones creating in maya.

The alice team would need to do whatever it does to access the rigging structure of a model for the sims, which I don't think was part of the deal when Alice and EA 'joined forces'?

[xxledzeppelin2x3]

yehh 3.0 still has a lot of bugs and isnt fully complete i think in the end they will be able to but right now its just the beta version.

[mcavner]

It just seems silly they can do situps, jog in place, etc. but they can't walk!

[The-Wizard]

I guess they're working on that, aye ;) ?

[xxledzeppelin2x3]

haha, yes, but the makers of ALICE are still working on a lot of things they just put kind of the basic things that 3.0 will have to offer so you know what's coming, but yeah there are still many things to be finished!