Yes, exactly. If you're only interested in the animated rig, then you can export it as an FBX, and it should work.

Keep in mind that, for some reason, the scale in the export ends up being negative (-1). You need to check this and reset the transformations.

There are some issues with certain animations (especially with the hands and thumbs). Also, for some objects, some bones don’t receive animations. I can't figure out why.

How you import sims 2 animation into unity ?

How you import sims 2 animation into unity, I need this for my mod

I’m working on a way to import animations from .5an files into Blender without relying on Unity, using Ammar’s decoding as a reference.

Right now, the animation data is extracted and stored in JSON format, which is then imported into Blender to drive the rig. I’ve managed to fix the IK chain for the legs, and everything seems to be working fine there. However, the upper body is giving me some trouble—specifically, the clavicle rotates sideways instead of bringing the arms down along the Sim’s body.

I suspect there’s some kind of coordinate inversion at play. For reference, I imported the rig using @SmugTomato ’s GMDC importer. I’ve already tried swapping Y and Z values, but that didn’t fix the issue.

I know that the upper body has additional IK controls, but before I can work on those, I need to get the axis orientation right.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Ohh, cool! I've been looking into it too. So far I've 'translated' the code that parses the resource into Python, but not yet touched anything Blender related.

I'm not super familiar with their workings, but GMDC files have a section called "inverse transforms". From my understanding, they relate to the orientation and placement of joints. Maybe the plugin is importing that in a different scheme or something? You could try importing the body with DJAlex's more recent plugin instead, and compare the results.

I have noticed that that some animation has facial expressions included. Does that mean that you can make your own facial expressions with the animations?

If it's animation extracted from TS2, it works a bit differently, as it calls on already made animations existing in the game files which already have face animations (made with EAxis' rig systems), not player-made animations (which currently lack the face morphing options since we don't have access to the full EA rig system).

There are some face overlays and face animations available in the game files, which have been extracted and put into poseboxes, and can be used as overlays for other poses/animations.

I have no idea what the state of importing stuff into blender is, but at least through the models exported from OpenTS2/Unity, they do have facial morphs. You can play around with them online if you follow the link I posted to view the models in the browser above: https://playcanvas.com/viewer?load=...es/bakedSim.glb



The problem is probably exporting it out back into sims2 anim files. Sadly I have very little free time right now but theoretically if AlexCroft/Azelanne are able to build off this work it should be possible to do animations with fully custom facial expressions.

How you guys add sims 2 animation like "a2o-exercisemachine-benchpress-start_anim" to unity like this ?

You’re incredible. Since I can’t make OpenTS2 work in my Unity, I rely on your blender solution. I’m not an expert but maybe I could take a look at what’s going on. Also, I know this sounds silly, but ChatGPT has helped me A LOT on blender with python, so this might be worth a try…

I’m eager to see the finality of this either way ! 😍🥰