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So I'm a beginner to Milkshape and whenever I open milkshape it's just the blue skeleton whenever I open it. I have a picture of how it looks on my Tumblr. I asked on there and no one answered so I'm hoping that someone on here can help me.
Are you trying to get rid of the skeleton, or do anything to the joints?
If you want a clean Milkshape window without anything, and without a skeleton, you need to do "file --> new". This is often important if you're starting a new project.
You can also turn off the skeleton in the Joints menu, by ticking a box - but it's still there, just hidden.
If you want the joints a bit bigger (can be useful for animation), or if you want to fix a large blue "line ball mess" that can sometimes happen, try this:
File --> Preferences --> Misc --> Joint size "0.010000" (if you want it smaller you can try "0.001000") --> OK
Are you trying to get rid of the skeleton, or do anything to the joints?
If you want a clean Milkshape window without anything, and without a skeleton, you need to do "file --> new". This is often important if you're starting a new project.
You can also turn off the skeleton in the Joints menu, by ticking a box - but it's still there, just hidden.
If you want the joints a bit bigger (can be useful for animation), or if you want to fix a large blue "line ball mess" that can sometimes happen, try this:
File --> Preferences --> Misc --> Joint size "0.010000" (if you want it smaller you can try "0.001000") --> OK
When I opened the game, it was already empty. I just added the file many of the sims 2 tutorials on youtube said to add which is the, UT Female Skeleton. In the tutorials, there doesn't look like that. It's not just the blue lines, I'm confused about why it's doing that. I think I just used the wrong base. Thank you for being helpful :D
I've got no clue which skeleton you've opened up in that picture over on your site, but I'm 100% certain it's not a TS2 one.
Make sure you're using a tutorial for making TS2 poses/animation, if that's what you want to make. Also make sure you're using TS2 animation bases/skeletons, or the animations won't work for the sims ingame. The method for making poses/animations for TS3 or TS4, or any other game won't work for TS2. You can use basic animation/posing principles, of course, but how to transfer the poses from Milkshape to ingame is a process you have to follow.
And a list of stuff you might want to know before you start making poses (click the spoiler)
Always activate the ANIM mode before doing anything with the joints.
Don't touch the auskel joint, it's supposed to stay in place (don't rotate, don't move).
If you want to rotate the whole sim, use the "root_rot" joint. If you want to move the sim, use the "root_trans" joint. Select these two (one at a time) from the list under Joints. Make sure to not move the "root_rot" joint or rotate the "root_trans" joint, or you'll mess up the animation.
Don't move other joints than the "root_trans" joint. The other joints can only be rotated.
If you do the wrong things with these three joints (auskel and root x2), you usually have to start over, because fixing joints in Milkshape isn't the easiest thing.
Make sure to select everything you want to set a key on (usually the whole skeleton, "select all" works better than marking the joints manually) and "set keyframe" before turning off the ANIM mode again.
I've got no clue which skeleton you've opened up in that picture over on your site, but I'm 100% certain it's not a TS2 one.
Make sure you're using a tutorial for making TS2 poses/animation, if that's what you want to make. Also make sure you're using TS2 animation bases/skeletons, or the animations won't work for the sims ingame. The method for making poses/animations for TS3 or TS4, or any other game won't work for TS2. You can use basic animation/posing principles, of course, but how to transfer the poses from Milkshape to ingame is a process you have to follow.
And a list of stuff you might want to know before you start making poses (click the spoiler)
Always activate the ANIM mode before doing anything with the joints.
Don't touch the auskel joint, it's supposed to stay in place (don't rotate, don't move).
If you want to rotate the whole sim, use the "root_rot" joint. If you want to move the sim, use the "root_trans" joint. Select these two (one at a time) from the list under Joints. Make sure to not move the "root_rot" joint or rotate the "root_trans" joint, or you'll mess up the animation.
Don't move other joints than the "root_trans" joint. The other joints can only be rotated.
If you do the wrong things with these three joints (auskel and root x2), you usually have to start over, because fixing joints in Milkshape isn't the easiest thing.
Make sure to select everything you want to set a key on (usually the whole skeleton, "select all" works better than marking the joints manually) and "set keyframe" before turning off the ANIM mode again.
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16th Jul 2022 at 9:56 PM
Help! Milkshape help needed.
