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Test Subject
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#1 Old 8th Sep 2016 at 1:43 PM
Default Annoying idle sim animations for Sims 2 Ultimate Collection
A little while ago I was given the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection onto my Origin account, since I was planning to reinstall all my Sims 2 games but realized that one of the EPs has gone lost. With this came a couple of idle sim animations (I'm talking about the ones where you have free will turned off and they stand around and do those movements) that are more annoying and distracting than before, such as when they keep lifting their heads up and breathing in the air. My main purpose for playing the Sims 2 now is to film videos for YouTube, and having to constantly try to avoid these stupid animations when filming is making things much harder than before.

So is there a way to remove them somehow? Via a mod, or anything? Just the new ones that came with the Ultimate Collection. Anything from before that I can handle.
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Mad Poster
#2 Old 8th Sep 2016 at 2:10 PM
It's from Mansions and Gardens. Twojeffs made a mod to disable all of them called No Shade Eyes Salute. It's under the AL directory at Simbology.

I use the sims as a psychology simulator...
Mad Poster
#3 Old 8th Sep 2016 at 2:14 PM
First of all - the WCIF area is here: http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=557

The 'breahting into the air' thing is a M&G animation. My sims do it too, and I don't have the UC. I think maybe this might work: http://modthesims.info/d/327040

The ones where the sims do random things like play with a Rubic's cube or read a book while walking are due to hobby interests from FT. Here's a bunch of other mods that can remove or edit those, plus various other idles: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=13.0, and http://www.cyjon.net/node/212
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#4 Old 8th Sep 2016 at 2:19 PM
You can also remove the sniff flowers animation if you want as well. http://modthesims.info/d/329480

The M&G animation is shielding eyes from the sun.

Both those can either be stopped or changed. One mod makes it so sims only do the shield eyes occasionally and there is a replacement to the bum up in the flower beds, a food smelling animation.

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Test Subject
Original Poster
#5 Old 8th Sep 2016 at 2:20 PM
Thank you very much. I hope it works.
Test Subject
Original Poster
#6 Old 9th Sep 2016 at 3:50 AM
Okay I tried it out. It looks like the mod by treeag doesn't just remove the M&G animations, but every single one. They just stand there and blink now. They don't even adjust to the hands on hips or crossed arms poses. That's not really what I wanted. But I guess if there's no other way I'll have to deal with it?
Test Subject
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#7 Old 9th Sep 2016 at 7:09 AM
And they're still doing the breathing when they're sitting in chairs.
Top Secret Researcher
#8 Old 9th Sep 2016 at 9:09 PM
You must have some kind of conflict(s) because I use all of the things mentioned above and it all works for me.
Look up Paladin's HCDU (Hack Conflict Detection Utility on Simwardrobe.com), download it, run it, it might tell you why you have that weird behaviour. (Well, not you, your sims^^)

(So that's:
NoAutonomousSmellFlowersMG
NoShadeEyesSalute
TreeagNoBaskNoDeepBreath)
Mad Poster
#9 Old 10th Sep 2016 at 11:40 AM
Use the Twojeffs one. It doesn't remove anything else.

I use the sims as a psychology simulator...
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