Yeah, and thats even tho it could have been really easy to just add them in and polish them up. Unfortunately the studio is more focused on making crap 5$ kits than actually improving the base game because of their monetary system.
@@TomaszRyszkowski righttt, its even worse because a lot of these animations are nearly complete if not fully done. It most likely would not be too difficult to add these...I wouldnt know, though.
Same. I kinda get removing many of the romance options for kids, because kids don't flirt, they have crushes at most. But playing with makeup is totally something a little girl would do. (I didn't, but some kids do).
@@KaspYAR maybe! Could be something you would place by a fence to jump over it, because if you look close enough when the animation plays out, the sim jumps high enough for it to be over a fence
I thought it looked like a test for rigging! (In case someone doesn't know, rigging is like putting muscles and bones to a figure, it helps to animate, but if done incorrectly, it can make the movement look broken, inhuman or just bad)
@@anitaaranceta780 that was my thought too! making sure the rig is set up correctly on the model is an awful experience so having an animation like this speeds that up a bit at least. plus id imagine it works well on clothes too
I could see it getting icky real quick. From children getting the flirty mood (which basically means "horny" for adults), to a child's crush aging up before them leaving them with a romantic relationship with a teen or even adult
@@Finn_sisjon there's a lot of people who get uncomfortable with children having crushes, especially with other children of the same sex. But if it's done a certain way it can be alright but I guess the Sims team wanted to play it safe. Personally, I don't care about children having crushes, I think it's cute
@@complainer406 yeah, we all know that an adult or teen sim being flirty essentially means they're horny so seeing that with a child would be 😅. But I guess they could have had a different emotion for children though it would probably be too much work for EA
@@baoziday5178 I think they should have a buff called "tummy butterflies" or "they LIKE-LIKE me back!" under the happy moodlet to make things better. That would be so cute honestly. I wish they implemented it. The romance bar could be "budding romance" permanently until they are teens. I wish I learned programming cuz i would do it myself if I could.
They should have added in childhood crushes. It just seems realy cute how kids can be romantically stupid and wholesome at the same time since they dont fully understand what love is yet or how to approach it. Though i would say that i hope that some day the future, they would do one sided romantic relationships where only one sim has a crush and the other isnt interested.
I think its because kids in sims 4 look like they are around 8 and normally kids dont really get romantic feelings at that age but childhood crushes mod did make it way cuter just making it child age partners (what I mean is, very realistic to if real children dated each other)
@Ilivepuppys that's kinda what I ment abiut romantically stupid. They dint understand romance and all and just be stupid. All they realy feel are crushes and butterflies. And other times, they just find having a partner as a cool status
@@bigboomer1013 you call people who reply to you stupid? They will never add this as a feature since it hits to close to pedo, making kids get crashes and act them out. But you truly are a shithead, calling randoms stupid.
@@Ilivepuppys i mean starting back in kindergarten kids play with the idea of relationships. they’re super innocent and random. by 8, crushes are a thing. especially with puberty. obviously kids won’t have deep relationships, but silly fun ones and that would be cute to implement
This is kinda cool to watch tho because you realize how much testing animations need to be added to make just a couple simple animations. As someone studying game design and development this was interesting to watch. Love your content Abi!!
THE CHILD ROMANCE IS TOO CUTE, kids play family all the time and whatnot. I wish they kept those animations🥲, like the child sims can get married" to their best friends and have a sentiment like "child sweethearts" or "first loves" or something like that. Hopefully the rumored romantic pack coming, there will be ALOT more actual good romantic interactions with sims, children included. I would def like to see more before animations like the sims 2, those were great
@aikesscs Kids get crushes too, like a lot of kids start to realise they "like" other people from as early as 8 yo if not younger. Childhood crushes could be introduced into the game quite easily, but instead of it building "romance" it builds friendship or a new relationship like trust or something. Not everything is sexual you know.
@@aikesscs I think some sort of crush thing would be nice. Obvi not dating or anything but I got my first crush at 5 and having kids be able to gossip about their crushes w their friends or get nervous sentiments around their crushes would be cute
The sound test looks like how you react when you have your ears tested at a hospital, giving a sign everytime you hear a sound. My guess it is from an unused feature from the Get to Work doctor's career.
I love your choice of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl trophy gallery music as background for this. It's like a gallery for the things that *almost* made it into the game.
The baby to toddler aging up by itself is so sad looking 😭😭 I had forgotten it was my sims baby’s birthday and it literally happens to her that interaction and I just felt so bad about it! Poor baby learning to walk by themselves 😭
I miss the interactions on bed too. On a positive note, I see a lot of new (to me) and fun animations, while I play a werewolf. When they fly into a rage, things get wild. :)
theory on the front flip animation, it might have been used to test animations that change a sims location once the animation ends, making the portal part of the name make a little bit more sense. i don’t know why it’s a front flip though lol, probably just a developer messing around
The Doorbell animation likely doesn't work because it expects a target for the inverse kinematics to be specified, since it can't find one, the animation fails. This is the same for those bed animations, it doesn't know the other sim exists when you force the animation, whereas in the actual game with actual use it would.
Good point for the bed animations, but I don't think that's the case for the doorbell. I tried playing several existing object-related animations with the mod and most of the time their arms don't deform because the lack of any "target" objects like most physical social animations. They'll still act like they're using it properly even though the objects are absent, so I think I still believe that the doorbell animation is just that unfinished.
I don't think the animations are broken. I think that the mod you use for it just separates the code for multi object/Sim animations and since the reference to the other is removed, the location to snap to is lost. For example, the code for touching the shoulder gets confused because of the mod, seeking out "shoulder" but the only shoulder available is your own. It's too complete an animation to be a bug made by EA prior to scrapping. And because there is no doorbell to touch, the Sim's arm doesn't lift at all.
Oh yes, I'm fully aware of that. The same thing happens when you play used animations using this mod that have sims "touch" other sims, like regular hugging, kissing, carrying, etc. The pose player mod shows its limitation when it comes to these types of animations
The animation that shows them cranking something goes back to previous Sims versions where they had an organ grinder, where an entertainment Sim would play a crank organ to make music, I believe it was in the original Sims and maybe in Sims 2, not sure about Sims 3, but since the animation is in Sims 4, perhaps they were going to have an organ grinder but changed their minds, also some of the range of motion animations are used by an exercise mod that lets sims workout to music on a radio, I recently got the mod and have been seeing some of my sims doing a morning workout doing some of those motions, I just never knew the animations were always in the game.
This was really cool, Abi, thank you for making it! All the scrapped animations for interactions that were in previous games just make me sad. I hope they fix and implement some of them, especially the bed ones.
Really interesting video. In most, I can only offer speculation. However, in 5:08 part, the animation (at least how it seems to me) isn't unused as children who have A in school can brag about their grades. They use this animation when doing so. 5:19 This one is called "Give Cold Shoulder" or something like that. That interaction can be used to reduce the romance bar, so yeah, in the end, this goes unused. Get Together's unused animations are interesting. After all, this expansion pack came with emotional texts and used to have the interactions to influence relationships (now it has been brought to the base game). It seems like they were going for more phone interactions (wanting to bring back break-up texts from The Sims 3). Remember, one of the things they were thinking of bringing to the pack was phone covers (seen on the cover), but they didn't make it in the end and eventually came with a base game update. So, either the interaction wasn't completed or they feared that the phone menu was going to be very cluttered. Plus the Test Reconciler Junk, it seems like they were going to add in some interaction where sims tries to mediate a fight between two sims as for me, it looks like they are near a fight. It's interesting indeed, as influencing relationships, as I told, was part of the pack. Trying to fix bad relationships eventually came with Parenthood, but it didn't include active reconciling. "Test Animation Portal" on 12:02 is random, but I have a theory. In previous games, when a NPC sim tried to get to a place they couldn't, they'd just teleport. The Tragic Clown in The Sims 1 even has an animation where he puts a hole on the ground and jumps into it to teleport. In The Sims 4, they don't do that. So, unlike in previous games, you can get a repo-man go away without taking any items by removing all the doors allowing them to enter inside the house. It's base game after all, so my theory is simple: this one could have been used by NPC sims to teleport. That would make repo-people even scarier! Oh, they have no access... Oh no! Chess ones, I feel like sims could have been able to clean the board without sitting down. But yeah, cool video. And even those I though have to be in the game were quickly debunked, so good job on that too!
Idk if anyone will see this as I've commented 2 weeks after the upload, but certain animations (like the massage one) will look broken because the animation is trying to find the bone points for the other Sim, for example the animation for bed relaxing massages. This is also why if Sims are too far it'll look like the other Sim is breaking their bones. It'll only properly work if it's in an actual interaction.
Because EA wanted to rush the game out and make money rather than care for quality. Something which ironically could have made them more. A good quality game has a long shelf life. I can't see anyone wanting to play The Sims 4 in future after a decade of frustration and disappointment, but The Sims 1, 2, and 3 are still being played 24 years after the release of that first game. :-)
@@SevenEllen I still want to play The Sims 4. Even though it's been like 6 years to me, I still find myself playing it for hours... but yeah, I wish they put love in The Sims 4.
SUCH a shame they made so many animations but they got scrapped. What an absolute waste! How many times are players complaining about repeated animations and they've had this massive this whole time we had no idea about.
Those bed interactions must be modded in someday since we basically got the prerequisites for it already, given the "Relax" Option and the animations for it.
Honestly, the only reason they don't add them is probably because of bugs and the chance of child/adult romance to show up. Since, that has already come up in some people's plays (rarely and randomly) because of bugs
Very well made video! I love that you provided a link to find these animations and included mods that provide the features being listed that aren't provided in the base game! Awesome job!
I'm really counting on a part 2! I don't know why, but seeing cut animations from games really makes you want to find out more about them and what not!
The 13th one is what we call "Animation gymnastics". It's a way for the animators to check on the weightpainting inside the animation software and more importantly, the game engine (weightpaint is what allows the animation skeleton to "stick" to the 3D mesh). This gym allows the animator to see if everything moves correctly and that there's no parasite weightpaint. The gym consists in moving every animation controler in every angle possible for every rig that has been created in order to have the best result possible and test what movements are possible on the said rig. Thus, this animation is more a technical animation than a gameplay one ! :D (Source : I'm an animator myself)
I always wanted an exact full single gameplay that will start from Sims 1 and to Sims 4. It will be edited in a single video to watch here. The gameplay will have all same characters, same setups and same choices. The comparisons and intrigued have me wanting to see this type of videos.❤ I know I am not the only one wanting to see. Thanks. A series of this will be amazing. I hope I explained this correctly. ❤❤❤
its really sad that all of those animations didnt make it to the final game. they are so cool, especially the childs romance, its so cute, and its such a wasted potential to see those broken sims more alive.
its also creepy, the kids in game look about 7 to 8 and at that age kids dont get boyfriends and girlfriends, they may get crushes but normally they dont go anywhere
@@Ilivepuppys have you ever been in elementary school? Little kids having "boyfriends" and "girlfriends" is entirely normal. Of course it's nowhere near as committed and serious as the relationship between adults or even older teens, but it's totally a thing that happened. Heck I even remember people getting fake-married in the playground when I was in school.
@@lucyla9947 its not really the biggest thing that TV makes it out to be, I remember my schooling and kids didn't even begin to date till highschool and the kids who even mentioned dating was called sluts (boys too) its just not the biggest thing and tbh it made a better childhood, for my Primary school life. Assuming your American so maybe your all crazy horny over there but I know in Australia we hardly even mentioned those words till highschool
@@V33raGh0sty tbh only TV I saw that, me and my best friend use to do cart wheels and handstands at lunch together and got called gay, so if your younger hopefully kids are less shit.
1st , I thank you for continuing these videos and for all the work and explorations and deep dives into contents. This is done along with your main aspiration in the medical field. Whoa!! All your videos are so humorous, entertaining, and educational. Love them all! I hope all stays well with you and you receive all you hope for. Great job, (again)!!
The cutest animation that I've seen so far is an infant's transition from sitting up to laying down on their back, and it it the cutest thing I've seen in my ENTIRE life.
For the standing chess animations, it seems like sims were going to be able to set and unset the table for playing before sitting down in a chair. (I could have sworn these animations were used in the sims 4, but I guess not!) Also the template oneshot/use object looks like the sim is using a Jack-in-the-Box toy, though it could just be something completely different, maybe it was a test animation to test sims picking up and using objects in development.
Now that i think of it, the bed intimate list of unused animation might have been added while developping the lovestruck ep, could be plausible since an ep normally takes 1 to 2 years of dev
The bed animations have been there ever since the game was first released. Even the “pillow talk after woohoo” mod that use these animations was made on 2016.
@@onlyabidoang oh.. Well they are probably going to add them in the pack or in the BG? Idk I slap myself if they don't ike they just need 2 lines of code
@@ravenID429 I was thinking about how some simmers see infants and toddlers and claim they are the same size in the game. But the toddlers are clearly bigger.
Awww, the animation of being broken up with by text is heartbreaking. I almost want it in the game, but then, I'd have to see the smile on my Sims fade... Maybe the standing chessboard animations are for cleaning up the table even if you have no intentions to play ? Something like "ok, playtime is over now, let's tidy up". That's certainly something I could get behind, homes are never messy enough for my taste in this game... Also, the children's "range of motion" animations would be cool, *if polished*, in a context where adult Sims teach kids to be active. You know, as a "look at what your body can do" thing ? I think active adult Sims could use that type of bonding experience with their children. Lastly : standing desks would actually be nice ! I had never thought of that, but I'm sure active Sims would love to not sit when they have to work on the computer ! They could get a moodlet from it, I'm sure. I really appreciated how you did research for this video, but also mention mods that come close. It's very interesting, and I wish more Sims video were so thorough and thoughtful.
The test portal animation kind of reminds me of the animation used to enter the entrance to the carnival area from makin magic in the sims one, but with a frontflip
animation at 14:58 could be an animation for a meat grinder or wheat mill, as those things use that kind of crank (also kinda looks like they're sharpening a pencil but i dont think it's that)
it still makes no sense to me, as a person who spends a lot of time reading in bed or laying around looking at my phone, why any sort of relaxing-on-bed related interactions (whether alone or with a partner) weren't included in the game. especially when sims 3 had a ton of them :/
Adding to the theories regarding the front flip animation -- I think it's a version of the animation they ended up using to have Sims get into boats in Island Living! Because Sims don't climb into the boats like normal people in the game -- they disappear and flip into the boat! So maybe it's related to that? Also, yes, can we please have some of the bed-related romantic interactions in the game, we need more cute romance content (that isn't made by Pancake and MizoriYukii).
Lol, the elevator music version of the Smash Bros Brawl theme threw me off so bad. It fits perfectly, but I didn't realize what was in the background until about 1:25.
My Xbox once booted me from the game just because an update had been released 5 seconds ago… Though I lost over an hour of playing, I saw all my sims do this on reload. 0:20
I haven't played Sims 4 in a while, but the child romance animations look a lot like the teenager ones, if not the exact same. Especially the "Go Steady" animation.
Your videos are fantastic! I loved this! Is there a way to get a list of all social interactions in game? Like the list of animations you have? I feel like there's a lot of individual interactions out there that I have missed and it would be cool for you to do a dive into some of the overlooked ones (like cross pack interactions and stuff).
Thank you! Try checking out the "XML Extractor" tool for sims 4. It lets you extract all the game files into a list of notes with the coding lines inside, like interactions, animations, etc. If you're not familiar with modding or programming, it might be hard to navigate at first but you'll get the gist of it eventually
I think why they didn't utilize this cause with the Sims 4 they brought out a whole new engine and system. Some of the animations look like they could've been copied from old games. I noticed in Sims 2 and 3 that they did use the same animation just with a different flare tweak. I think maybe they realize that maybe they can't incorporate copies due to the engine. An old game that I played came out around the Sims 3 era and they just announced a second installment (I know that long wait and the game is actually unplayable unlike the sims 4) they stated that it was so hard trying to incorporate some old animations, codes, and voice lines due to a new engine. they said that engines are more high-tech than before and also that it took a while to get the hang of things with the old animations. They looked like what some of the broken animations looked and said it was so hard to correct them. I believe EA probably had issues and it is believable due to them being an old company that had its huge peak back then. PC companies tend to have more issues like this. Let's hope they bring out new animations like the relaxing and sitting on knees now. This year and last year they seem to bring out stuff that was wanted for so long. It seems they realize they need to push these out if they want to keep their fanbase. Not like a other company franchise that I dealt with💀💀
Let's hope someone mods some of these romance animations into the game because it's really stupid for EA to not implement these.
Ikrrr the animations are so cute!
EA will finish them in another 10 years and put them behind a $5 Bed Intimate Interactions Kit.
Im praying someone will!!
@@DarkeningDemise stoppp that’s so true
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These animations just remind me how many missed opportunities there are
Yea.. :/
Yeah, and thats even tho it could have been really easy to just add them in and polish them up. Unfortunately the studio is more focused on making crap 5$ kits than actually improving the base game because of their monetary system.
@@TomaszRyszkowski righttt, its even worse because a lot of these animations are nearly complete if not fully done. It most likely would not be too difficult to add these...I wouldnt know, though.
Same. I kinda get removing many of the romance options for kids, because kids don't flirt, they have crushes at most. But playing with makeup is totally something a little girl would do. (I didn't, but some kids do).
13:08
Child: sits down
Toddler: starts floating like a malicious presence is handling them
Infant: time to break dance
Reminds me of that one old anime meme song.
Infant be like: GEDDAN
That front flip animation gives me hope that maybe someday we could have a gymnastics skill in the game
The front flip animation looks like it could've been apart of werewolves where they could jump or flip over fences
@@madmadsgamingyeah it definitely looks like they're flipping over something, maybe a box?
@@KaspYAR maybe! Could be something you would place by a fence to jump over it, because if you look close enough when the animation plays out, the sim jumps high enough for it to be over a fence
i think the cheer skill is the best we will get
@@anastasia.noelle you’re probably right but I’m gonna keep hoping anyway
The range of motion animation looks like something to test clothes
There's actually an exercise mod that uses some of those animations where sims can workout to music.
I thought it looked like a test for rigging! (In case someone doesn't know, rigging is like putting muscles and bones to a figure, it helps to animate, but if done incorrectly, it can make the movement look broken, inhuman or just bad)
@@anitaaranceta780 that was my thought too! making sure the rig is set up correctly on the model is an awful experience so having an animation like this speeds that up a bit at least. plus id imagine it works well on clothes too
my sim wont STOP SHOWERING IN THE RAIN I NEED THE NEVER NUDE TRAIT 😭
They only do this if they have the erratic trait.
@@LoveMe0516 that makes so much sense LMAO
@@quentin932 lol I just found this out a few weeks ago 🤭 I don’t give my sims that trait anymore 😩
The fact that children having crushes was scrapped is kinda sad but understandable
Why understandable?
I could see it getting icky real quick. From children getting the flirty mood (which basically means "horny" for adults), to a child's crush aging up before them leaving them with a romantic relationship with a teen or even adult
@@Finn_sisjon there's a lot of people who get uncomfortable with children having crushes, especially with other children of the same sex. But if it's done a certain way it can be alright but I guess the Sims team wanted to play it safe. Personally, I don't care about children having crushes, I think it's cute
@@complainer406 yeah, we all know that an adult or teen sim being flirty essentially means they're horny so seeing that with a child would be 😅. But I guess they could have had a different emotion for children though it would probably be too much work for EA
@@baoziday5178 I think they should have a buff called "tummy butterflies" or "they LIKE-LIKE me back!" under the happy moodlet to make things better. That would be so cute honestly. I wish they implemented it. The romance bar could be "budding romance" permanently until they are teens. I wish I learned programming cuz i would do it myself if I could.
13:20 THE INFANT DOING VOGUE 💅💅💅💅
LMAO😂😂😂
GET DOWN!💃🎶
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LMFAOO NOT VOGUE 😭😭😭
SCREAMING
They should have added in childhood crushes. It just seems realy cute how kids can be romantically stupid and wholesome at the same time since they dont fully understand what love is yet or how to approach it. Though i would say that i hope that some day the future, they would do one sided romantic relationships where only one sim has a crush and the other isnt interested.
I think its because kids in sims 4 look like they are around 8 and normally kids dont really get romantic feelings at that age but childhood crushes mod did make it way cuter just making it child age partners (what I mean is, very realistic to if real children dated each other)
@Ilivepuppys that's kinda what I ment abiut romantically stupid. They dint understand romance and all and just be stupid. All they realy feel are crushes and butterflies. And other times, they just find having a partner as a cool status
@@bigboomer1013 you call people who reply to you stupid? They will never add this as a feature since it hits to close to pedo, making kids get crashes and act them out. But you truly are a shithead, calling randoms stupid.
@@Ilivepuppys i mean starting back in kindergarten kids play with the idea of relationships. they’re super innocent and random. by 8, crushes are a thing. especially with puberty. obviously kids won’t have deep relationships, but silly fun ones and that would be cute to implement
@@niaram did you just say puberty happens at 8? No it doesn't, I cant even read the rest of your comment from that dumb response
This is kinda cool to watch tho because you realize how much testing animations need to be added to make just a couple simple animations. As someone studying game design and development this was interesting to watch. Love your content Abi!!
Thank you for the kind words man! Really appreciate it. And good luck to your studies as well 💪🏽
@@onlyabidoang Thank you!! you the best!! Keep testing this game man!
THE CHILD ROMANCE IS TOO CUTE, kids play family all the time and whatnot. I wish they kept those animations🥲, like the child sims can get married" to their best friends and have a sentiment like "child sweethearts" or "first loves" or something like that. Hopefully the rumored romantic pack coming, there will be ALOT more actual good romantic interactions with sims, children included. I would def like to see more before animations like the sims 2, those were great
Yeah... Hopefully they will never add that😷
@aikesscs Kids get crushes too, like a lot of kids start to realise they "like" other people from as early as 8 yo if not younger.
Childhood crushes could be introduced into the game quite easily, but instead of it building "romance" it builds friendship or a new relationship like trust or something.
Not everything is sexual you know.
@@aikesscs I think some sort of crush thing would be nice. Obvi not dating or anything but I got my first crush at 5 and having kids be able to gossip about their crushes w their friends or get nervous sentiments around their crushes would be cute
@@BrightWulphI had a boyfriend at 8 😅
The sound test looks like how you react when you have your ears tested at a hospital, giving a sign everytime you hear a sound. My guess it is from an unused feature from the Get to Work doctor's career.
I love your choice of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl trophy gallery music as background for this. It's like a gallery for the things that *almost* made it into the game.
It's too good to pass up. Such a fire soundtrack for this kind of thing 🔥
The baby to toddler aging up by itself is so sad looking 😭😭 I had forgotten it was my sims baby’s birthday and it literally happens to her that interaction and I just felt so bad about it! Poor baby learning to walk by themselves 😭
I was so unpopular that neither of my parents attended my birth--
I miss the interactions on bed too. On a positive note, I see a lot of new (to me) and fun animations, while I play a werewolf. When they fly into a rage, things get wild. :)
theory on the front flip animation, it might have been used to test animations that change a sims location once the animation ends, making the portal part of the name make a little bit more sense. i don’t know why it’s a front flip though lol, probably just a developer messing around
That actually makes sense too! Nice theory 👍
The Doorbell animation likely doesn't work because it expects a target for the inverse kinematics to be specified, since it can't find one, the animation fails.
This is the same for those bed animations, it doesn't know the other sim exists when you force the animation, whereas in the actual game with actual use it would.
OHHHHH so that's what that "IK bone object" error in sims 2 stands for
Good point for the bed animations, but I don't think that's the case for the doorbell. I tried playing several existing object-related animations with the mod and most of the time their arms don't deform because the lack of any "target" objects like most physical social animations. They'll still act like they're using it properly even though the objects are absent, so I think I still believe that the doorbell animation is just that unfinished.
I don't think the animations are broken. I think that the mod you use for it just separates the code for multi object/Sim animations and since the reference to the other is removed, the location to snap to is lost. For example, the code for touching the shoulder gets confused because of the mod, seeking out "shoulder" but the only shoulder available is your own. It's too complete an animation to be a bug made by EA prior to scrapping. And because there is no doorbell to touch, the Sim's arm doesn't lift at all.
Oh yes, I'm fully aware of that. The same thing happens when you play used animations using this mod that have sims "touch" other sims, like regular hugging, kissing, carrying, etc. The pose player mod shows its limitation when it comes to these types of animations
The animation that shows them cranking something goes back to previous Sims versions where they had an organ grinder, where an entertainment Sim would play a crank organ to make music, I believe it was in the original Sims and maybe in Sims 2, not sure about Sims 3, but since the animation is in Sims 4, perhaps they were going to have an organ grinder but changed their minds, also some of the range of motion animations are used by an exercise mod that lets sims workout to music on a radio, I recently got the mod and have been seeing some of my sims doing a morning workout doing some of those motions, I just never knew the animations were always in the game.
I think you're talking the organ grinder NPC from the sims 1 unleashed where he performs with his pet monkey! He was such a memorable NPC
OH GOD I THOUGHT THAT MEANT GRINDING HUMAN ORGANS HELP
@@blanekaboomhelp same 💀
organ grinder made me double take
Lol cranking something
This was really cool, Abi, thank you for making it! All the scrapped animations for interactions that were in previous games just make me sad. I hope they fix and implement some of them, especially the bed ones.
Really glad you enjoyed the video! 😊
oh my god the infant at 13:16 make me laugh so hard, little guy was dancing his heart out it looked like
Really interesting video. In most, I can only offer speculation. However, in 5:08 part, the animation (at least how it seems to me) isn't unused as children who have A in school can brag about their grades. They use this animation when doing so.
5:19 This one is called "Give Cold Shoulder" or something like that. That interaction can be used to reduce the romance bar, so yeah, in the end, this goes unused.
Get Together's unused animations are interesting. After all, this expansion pack came with emotional texts and used to have the interactions to influence relationships (now it has been brought to the base game). It seems like they were going for more phone interactions (wanting to bring back break-up texts from The Sims 3). Remember, one of the things they were thinking of bringing to the pack was phone covers (seen on the cover), but they didn't make it in the end and eventually came with a base game update. So, either the interaction wasn't completed or they feared that the phone menu was going to be very cluttered.
Plus the Test Reconciler Junk, it seems like they were going to add in some interaction where sims tries to mediate a fight between two sims as for me, it looks like they are near a fight. It's interesting indeed, as influencing relationships, as I told, was part of the pack. Trying to fix bad relationships eventually came with Parenthood, but it didn't include active reconciling.
"Test Animation Portal" on 12:02 is random, but I have a theory. In previous games, when a NPC sim tried to get to a place they couldn't, they'd just teleport. The Tragic Clown in The Sims 1 even has an animation where he puts a hole on the ground and jumps into it to teleport. In The Sims 4, they don't do that. So, unlike in previous games, you can get a repo-man go away without taking any items by removing all the doors allowing them to enter inside the house. It's base game after all, so my theory is simple: this one could have been used by NPC sims to teleport. That would make repo-people even scarier! Oh, they have no access... Oh no!
Chess ones, I feel like sims could have been able to clean the board without sitting down.
But yeah, cool video. And even those I though have to be in the game were quickly debunked, so good job on that too!
Those are some well-written speculations! I'm glad you find the video interesting too 🔥
I wish some modder could extract some of those animations or activate them for their mods, that would be very useful.
That portal one is probably meant for exiting a portal, with the choppy-looking start being hidden inside an object
Idk if anyone will see this as I've commented 2 weeks after the upload, but certain animations (like the massage one) will look broken because the animation is trying to find the bone points for the other Sim, for example the animation for bed relaxing massages. This is also why if Sims are too far it'll look like the other Sim is breaking their bones. It'll only properly work if it's in an actual interaction.
OMG. Plaese sims bring these in the game. These animations are mostly ready so they really should finish them and bring in.
children were planned to have crushes??? omg why would they get rid of that 😭
Because EA wanted to rush the game out and make money rather than care for quality. Something which ironically could have made them more. A good quality game has a long shelf life. I can't see anyone wanting to play The Sims 4 in future after a decade of frustration and disappointment, but The Sims 1, 2, and 3 are still being played 24 years after the release of that first game. :-)
@@SevenEllen I still want to play The Sims 4. Even though it's been like 6 years to me, I still find myself playing it for hours... but yeah, I wish they put love in The Sims 4.
Really appreciate your investigative skills in this one!! Would like to see more behind the scenes / back-end content like this 😮
Thank you! Glad you like the video! I'll be sure to brainstorm some more ideas like this then 😊
SUCH a shame they made so many animations but they got scrapped. What an absolute waste! How many times are players complaining about repeated animations and they've had this massive this whole time we had no idea about.
Those bed interactions must be modded in someday since we basically got the prerequisites for it already, given the "Relax" Option and the animations for it.
I feel since it hasn't been it must be harder than we think, maybe not possible for modders to do
childhood crushes would be so cute...instead of flirty they could get a new emotion with another name
Honestly, the only reason they don't add them is probably because of bugs and the chance of child/adult romance to show up. Since, that has already come up in some people's plays (rarely and randomly) because of bugs
I'm interested to see a part 2 and 3 or however many videos you'd need to make to showcase ALL the unused ones :)
Very well made video! I love that you provided a link to find these animations and included mods that provide the features being listed that aren't provided in the base game! Awesome job!
Thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it 😊
This was very interesting, I hope eventually they put back some of the romantic animations, great video.
I'm really counting on a part 2! I don't know why, but seeing cut animations from games really makes you want to find out more about them and what not!
The 13th one is what we call "Animation gymnastics". It's a way for the animators to check on the weightpainting inside the animation software and more importantly, the game engine (weightpaint is what allows the animation skeleton to "stick" to the 3D mesh). This gym allows the animator to see if everything moves correctly and that there's no parasite weightpaint. The gym consists in moving every animation controler in every angle possible for every rig that has been created in order to have the best result possible and test what movements are possible on the said rig.
Thus, this animation is more a technical animation than a gameplay one ! :D
(Source : I'm an animator myself)
3:24 self love is the best kind of love
I always wanted an exact full single gameplay that will start from Sims 1 and to Sims 4. It will be edited in a single video to watch here. The gameplay will have all same characters, same setups and same choices. The comparisons and intrigued have me wanting to see this type of videos.❤ I know I am not the only one wanting to see. Thanks. A series of this will be amazing. I hope I explained this correctly. ❤❤❤
its really sad that all of those animations didnt make it to the final game. they are so cool, especially the childs romance, its so cute, and its such a wasted potential to see those broken sims more alive.
its also creepy, the kids in game look about 7 to 8 and at that age kids dont get boyfriends and girlfriends, they may get crushes but normally they dont go anywhere
@@Ilivepuppys have you ever been in elementary school? Little kids having "boyfriends" and "girlfriends" is entirely normal. Of course it's nowhere near as committed and serious as the relationship between adults or even older teens, but it's totally a thing that happened. Heck I even remember people getting fake-married in the playground when I was in school.
@@lucyla9947 its not really the biggest thing that TV makes it out to be, I remember my schooling and kids didn't even begin to date till highschool and the kids who even mentioned dating was called sluts (boys too) its just not the biggest thing and tbh it made a better childhood, for my Primary school life. Assuming your American so maybe your all crazy horny over there but I know in Australia we hardly even mentioned those words till highschool
@@Ilivepuppys bro what? XD bro in like 3rd grade I would see kids from my class making silly lil fake weddings with rings made of leaves XD
@@V33raGh0sty tbh only TV I saw that, me and my best friend use to do cart wheels and handstands at lunch together and got called gay, so if your younger hopefully kids are less shit.
I really want the romance interactions. They would really help to add to realism in the game
Lets hope that a generous creator will take these hidden animations and make them functional for gameplay. amen
I didn’t know that there are those animations :O that’s so cool
1st , I thank you for continuing these videos and for all the work and explorations and deep dives into contents. This is done along with your main aspiration in the medical field. Whoa!! All your videos are so humorous, entertaining, and educational. Love them all! I hope all stays well with you and you receive all you hope for. Great job, (again)!!
Aww man you're too nice. Thanks for the kind words! Really appreciate it 🥺
Didn't noticed bed relax animations were missing.
Hope they bring that back.
The cutest animation that I've seen so far is an infant's transition from sitting up to laying down on their back, and it it the cutest thing I've seen in my ENTIRE life.
Wow. Impressive video, even by your high standards. So comprehensive, so much uncovered. Love it!
Thank you for the kind words! Appreciate it 😊
For the standing chess animations, it seems like sims were going to be able to set and unset the table for playing before sitting down in a chair. (I could have sworn these animations were used in the sims 4, but I guess not!)
Also the template oneshot/use object looks like the sim is using a Jack-in-the-Box toy, though it could just be something completely different, maybe it was a test animation to test sims picking up and using objects in development.
13:23 **Donkey Kong Arcade death jingle**
Number 13 is so creepy, like some kind of zombie robot cult that turns into jelly at the end...
Now that i think of it, the bed intimate list of unused animation might have been added while developping the lovestruck ep, could be plausible since an ep normally takes 1 to 2 years of dev
The bed animations have been there ever since the game was first released. Even the “pillow talk after woohoo” mod that use these animations was made on 2016.
@@onlyabidoang oh.. Well they are probably going to add them in the pack or in the BG? Idk I slap myself if they don't ike they just need 2 lines of code
gotta love the frequency of videos/shorts ❤
2:59 The only thing you can do while relaxing on the bed is watching TV & that’s it
12:16 Maybe this was for the highschool years pack for the cheerleaders?
13:41 my first thought was getting arrested? Get to Work detective carrer maybe?
The missing age part sounds like it’s supposed to be the sim playing an animation to alert the devs if some error happens
Dude the kids taking pictures are so cute 🥺
It was! I wish littlemssam would incorporate some of these into her first love mod.
I always love seeing new videos from you! You're my favorite Sims RUclipsr
Thanks man! Appreciate it 😊
Omg I would love to see the lists of animations for the other games too this stuff is so interesting
Sooo Im thinking that animations probably are the new animations of lovestock
12:46 That toddler is huge compared to the infant!
13:07 why are child arms so long?!?
@@BadaBing511I think that’s pretty normal proportions
@@ravenID429 I was thinking about how some simmers see infants and toddlers and claim they are the same size in the game. But the toddlers are clearly bigger.
Awww, the animation of being broken up with by text is heartbreaking. I almost want it in the game, but then, I'd have to see the smile on my Sims fade...
Maybe the standing chessboard animations are for cleaning up the table even if you have no intentions to play ? Something like "ok, playtime is over now, let's tidy up". That's certainly something I could get behind, homes are never messy enough for my taste in this game...
Also, the children's "range of motion" animations would be cool, *if polished*, in a context where adult Sims teach kids to be active. You know, as a "look at what your body can do" thing ? I think active adult Sims could use that type of bonding experience with their children.
Lastly : standing desks would actually be nice ! I had never thought of that, but I'm sure active Sims would love to not sit when they have to work on the computer ! They could get a moodlet from it, I'm sure.
I really appreciated how you did research for this video, but also mention mods that come close. It's very interesting, and I wish more Sims video were so thorough and thoughtful.
Crush annimations would have been cute for the kids- but probably more appropriate for a pre teen life stage.
Its normal for kids to have crushes. Even at like 5.
I think that "portal test animation" is actually a cheerleading exercise animation for those mats you get one of the packs.
i had no idea that there were unsued animations! thank you for this video! this stuff is so interesting to me
That cas anim at the start might be good
Also a new features about child romance also looks good (not mods)
Your Sim A-Posing and moving through the house is nightmare fuel, thanks XD
I wonder if these romance ones are going to be used in Lovestruck
it might sound crazy what im about to say..
The long range of motion animation with the kids was way funnier than it should've LMAO
i’m subscribed i love your content so much. never give up ❤️
7:25 maybe they would tidy it up first before getting seated?
I almost forgot About this channel for a while And then revisit. Its a tradition! great video.
The test portal animation kind of reminds me of the animation used to enter the entrance to the carnival area from makin magic in the sims one, but with a frontflip
animation at 14:58 could be an animation for a meat grinder or wheat mill, as those things use that kind of crank (also kinda looks like they're sharpening a pencil but i dont think it's that)
Why in the world did they choose to not add the intimate bed interactions? Because it’d be too much detailed gameplay? Smh
Awwwwww the puppy love🥺 I wish they’d done that in one of the games
Same
I wanna do some animations I'm blender in the sims 4 and this gives me inspiration
it still makes no sense to me, as a person who spends a lot of time reading in bed or laying around looking at my phone, why any sort of relaxing-on-bed related interactions (whether alone or with a partner) weren't included in the game. especially when sims 3 had a ton of them :/
the bed animations would be so cute to have! :( I loved those in the sims 3
Adding to the theories regarding the front flip animation -- I think it's a version of the animation they ended up using to have Sims get into boats in Island Living! Because Sims don't climb into the boats like normal people in the game -- they disappear and flip into the boat! So maybe it's related to that? Also, yes, can we please have some of the bed-related romantic interactions in the game, we need more cute romance content (that isn't made by Pancake and MizoriYukii).
Lol, the elevator music version of the Smash Bros Brawl theme threw me off so bad. It fits perfectly, but I didn't realize what was in the background until about 1:25.
I think the standing chess animations are for when sims clean up chess tables, cuz I've definitely seen sims clean up chess tables while standing.
The bed animations must be for the lovestruck dlc!!!
the portal animation looks like from sims2 bon voyage where the ninja has teleportation abilities
The portal test animation looks like the sims 2 ninja teleportation in my opinion 👻
My Xbox once booted me from the game just because an update had been released 5 seconds ago… Though I lost over an hour of playing, I saw all my sims do this on reload. 0:20
The template oneshot and use object animations would work well as base animation for a wild west gatling gun to work off of.
You know, I'm horrible, but I listen to this and think how maybe the game might run better if they removed these things that aren't used.
I haven't played Sims 4 in a while, but the child romance animations look a lot like the teenager ones, if not the exact same. Especially the "Go Steady" animation.
Your videos are fantastic! I loved this!
Is there a way to get a list of all social interactions in game? Like the list of animations you have? I feel like there's a lot of individual interactions out there that I have missed and it would be cool for you to do a dive into some of the overlooked ones (like cross pack interactions and stuff).
Thank you! Try checking out the "XML Extractor" tool for sims 4. It lets you extract all the game files into a list of notes with the coding lines inside, like interactions, animations, etc. If you're not familiar with modding or programming, it might be hard to navigate at first but you'll get the gist of it eventually
i can’t believe we missed out on those bed romance interactions >:(
I miss the bed interactions from the sims 3
14:47 this animation reminds me of using the meatgrinder
The CASP poses are used for Styled Looks in CAS
Really? Because I never saw a single one of them in the styled looks section of CAS
I think why they didn't utilize this cause with the Sims 4 they brought out a whole new engine and system. Some of the animations look like they could've been copied from old games. I noticed in Sims 2 and 3 that they did use the same animation just with a different flare tweak. I think maybe they realize that maybe they can't incorporate copies due to the engine. An old game that I played came out around the Sims 3 era and they just announced a second installment (I know that long wait and the game is actually unplayable unlike the sims 4) they stated that it was so hard trying to incorporate some old animations, codes, and voice lines due to a new engine. they said that engines are more high-tech than before and also that it took a while to get the hang of things with the old animations. They looked like what some of the broken animations looked and said it was so hard to correct them. I believe EA probably had issues and it is believable due to them being an old company that had its huge peak back then. PC companies tend to have more issues like this. Let's hope they bring out new animations like the relaxing and sitting on knees now. This year and last year they seem to bring out stuff that was wanted for so long. It seems they realize they need to push these out if they want to keep their fanbase. Not like a other company franchise that I dealt with💀💀
It'd be disappointing if the intimate bed interactions won't be brought back to the game with Lovestruck.
I asume some of These will in some Form come back im Lovestruck
these animations are so cursed. i loved it
13:20
I see that baby wanted to do a Geddan dance.
the 3d animator in me is particularly appeased right now :p
The front-flip is my fave, wish someone knew how to use it to override the walking animation LOL 😂
I don’t understand why children can’t have crushes and such on each other