In this tutorial i will show you how to create your own trails.

Video of a trail i made at Copperdale high school.
I have also uploaded my files if you want to check them out. Place the .package file in your mods folder and the world file in the corresponding folder where your
game is installed, make a backup before overwriting your file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xa...iew?usp=sharing

Required:
Sims 4 Studio
Wicked Whims (used to display sim information)

Required Packs:
EP13 Growing Together
EP16 Lovestruck

First you will need to map out an area you want your trail to be, this is done with spawn points.
To find spawn locations read my guide https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=685938

Newer versions of Sims 4 Studio have renamed Maxis World Pipeline 1 to World Spawner Info

Have your sim stand in a location, get the position for the start then move to the next point.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bj...iew?usp=sharing

Once you have noted down all you positions make sure to save them.

Copy which map your going to modify to your desktop (only copy .world files from Delta folder)

Make a folder named WORLD BACKUP place a copy in this folder.

Open the .world file that is on your desktop with Studio, quickest way is to drag and drop the file onto studios desktop shortcut

In Studio click tools > Hash Generator

Locate World Spawner Info if you click Type it will put all entries in alphabetical order.

click Edit Items.

Click Add

In the hash generator type a unique name such as MYWAYPOINT_01
You need to do this for all GenericWaypoint_ or spawn points. Each one needs its own unique name, so the next one would be MYWAYPOINT_02.
Copy the FNV56 into L1 field



ObjectDefinitionId put the Hex(Instance) of the first waypoint
You can find these at the bottom of this guide. Copy and paste the whole Hex, studio will shorten it.

Position put your waypoints position numbers.

Orientation input Identity into the 1st and last waypoints anything in-between just leave them as 0,0,0,0

Scale 1

Once you have the 1st waypoint setup click copy and make as many copies as you have waypoints then just go back through them and adjust all their properties.



Once finished click save.


Now locate World Object Data

Some worlds don't have Lot:0, if this is the case just click add



Group = FFFFFFFF
Instance = FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Type = FFFFFFFF

leave InstanceDecimal studio will auto fill it.

Leave the rest as well


Click edit Items on Locators.

This is almost the same as what was done before. These need to mirror the World Spawner Info

Click Add

DefinitionInstance = Hex(Instance)

Instance = 6383E18C8E9ED3D6

Type = D382BF57

Orientation = Identity (1st & last only) or 0,0,0,0

Position = waypoints position numbers

Scale = 1

Click copy for as many waypoints and refill all the info in the copied entries.

Click Save once finished


Now you will need to edit XML files.

Open Studio, click Create 3D Mesh, then click Object.
Search for Local Information Board
you can use other boards but for this guide i will be using the one from Lovestruck
The other boards will be using different tuning files as well

Click Tuning > Customize > OK

Once that's done click Tools > Extract Tuning...

Extract all these files to your package.
groupWalkingTrail_headToSign_solo_EP16World_CentralSquare_jog
groupWalkingTrail_headToSign_solo_EP16World_CentralSquare_powerwalk
groupWalkingTrail_headToSign_solo_EP16World_CentralSquare_reflective
groupWalkingTrail_headToSign_solo_EP16World_CentralSquare_walk
groupWalkingTrail_walkWith_picker_EP16World_CentralSquare_start_jog
groupWalkingTrail_walkWith_picker_EP16World_CentralSquare_start_walk
groupWalkingTrail_walkWith_picker_EP16World_CentralSquare_start_powerwalk
groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare
situation_groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_jog_solo
situation_groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_powerWalk_group
situation_groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_jog_group
situation_groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_powerWalk_solo_npc
situation_groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_powerWalk_solo
situation_GroupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_walk_group
situation_GroupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_reflective_npc
situation_GroupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_walk_solo
situation_GroupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_reflective
situation_GroupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_walk_solo_npc
groupWalkingTrail_stopPoint_chooser_jog
groupWalkingTrail_stopPoint_chooser_groupWait
groupWalkingTrail_stopPoint_chooser_reflective
groupWalkingTrail_stopPoint_chooser_powerWalk
groupWalkingTrail_walkSolo_jog_EP16World_CentralSquare
groupWalkingTrail_walkSolo_powerWalk_EP16World_CentralSquare
groupWalkingTrail_walkSolo_reflective_EP16World_CentralSquare
groupWalkingTrail_walkSolo_walk_EP16World_CentralSquare
groupWalkingTrail_HeadToSign_leader_EP16World_CentralSquare_powerwalk
groupWalkingTrail_HeadToSign_leader_EP16World_CentralSquare_jog
groupWalkingTrail_HeadToSign_leader_EP16World_CentralSquare_walk
groupWalkingTrail_WalkAroundWith_leader_EP16World_CentralSquare_powerwalk
groupWalkingTrail_WalkAroundWith_leader_EP16World_CentralSquare_walk
groupWalkingTrail_WalkAroundWith_leader_EP16World_CentralSquare_jog

Not all these files will need much editing most just need to be relinked to each other so your not overwriting the original files.
I'm not going to walk you through the whole editing a tuning file thing lots of guides on that already.
Here is one on starting a tuning file.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-start-38023976

The short basic guide click Data
Name field, next to the file name just input you name with : at the end and at the end of the file name just put _01 or something.
Do this with all files, studio will auto fill the TuningId, Instance and the XML part as well.

You could extract the original untouched files to one folder and my edited files to another then use something like winmerge to compare them so you can see what changes i made.

Depending on if you used less than 19 waypoints you will need to reflect that in
groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare

all the numbers in <T n="waypoint">*</T> are the decimal of Hex(Instance)

In the hash generator if you put 412348 in the decimal field it will return 0000000000064ABC which is GenericWaypoint_00
These are the 1st three entries which i have commented on with their corresponding waypoint.




as you can see they are all link together.

This one is the end entry as you can see GenericWaypoint_18 is connect to GenericWaypoint_00 if doing a full lap.




If you don't remove the unused entries, if you have MCCC it will throw a lot of errors, if you don't have MCCC you may notice your sim do a quick T pose then reset.


Other than just linking all the files together the only file files i have really edited are
situation_groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_jog_group
situation_groupWalkingTrail_EP16World_CentralSquare_jog_solo
groupWalkingTrail_stopPoint_chooser_jog
I have removed animations that get played on certain waypoints EA/MAXIS use these animations on waypoints to hide when sims are looking for the route
as you can see in the video when the sims stop for a few seconds these are more noticeable on corners/bends.

This is from a situation tuning file.
as you can see it has a starting and ending waypoints which of course what are used to define the start and end.

the entry in the middle is the animations that will get played on the assigned waypoint




Here are the spawn/waypoints. You may be able to combine these once you get the hang of making trials to make larger ones.