More Awesome Than You!

at various times I have seen images or video of Sims or objects seemingly suspended in the air, or flying, and wonder how this is done?

Info would be appreciated.

By cheating.

Or by borkination.

LOL

Yes, thank you both but could you be more specific as to HOW to accomplish this.

Thank you,

If you could point us at the pictures or videos in question, the way in which the tricks were accomplished might be more easily divined.

I vote for glass floor tiles.

Could also be the ghostwalk. I haven't tried to do it, but I know I've seen either a hack or a cheat that lets you turn on ghostwalk for a sim.

On the borkination side, if a sim is levitating because of meditation or otherwise legitimately flying, and something goes wrong so that you have to fix the sim with a cheat (like MoveObjects,) it's possible the levitation/flying state may get stuck. Haven't had this specifically, but I just had a similar borkage happen with the swimming state, as a side effect of a problem with the baby controller. Sim was swimming through the ground instead of walking or running, would pop out of the ground to sit in a chari or pick something up, then switch back to swimming when a task was finished. Only way to fix it was to reset the sim twice.

SimMacFly potion (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=169139) is fun.

I thought you could also fix that by getting them to climb a pool ladder (make a bump in the ground, place a pool ladder, make them climb it).  The trick is to get the 'ambulation' state to reset and that's what the ladder does.

First thing I tried was getting her back in the pool, then climbing out the normal way. It didn't reset it.

Next was trying a few things that interrupted her normal state, thinking those would reset the swim effect. You know: ninja teleport, sitting in a chair and getting up again. No go.

Then, I sent her off-world with Jogging. That had no effect.

I knew from the start that reset should work, but I didn't want to lose any skillpoints or other advancement she had done that session. So, I sent her spouse off to check on his business (he has a dojo where he teaches Tai Chi,) and when he came back, reset her, twice. That worked.

For future reference, don't queue up something like "Use Pool Slide" after a command from the baby controller to fetch the kid. The sim fetches the baby, then takes the baby for a swim, making it impossible for her to exit the pool -- which was how I wound up with a sim that swam through the ground.

This could also be accomplished with invisible recolors of counters/tables/OMSPs/etc.

Thank you all for the excellent suggestions.

Gwill & Tngrspacecadet, I apologize for my cynicism. I thought you were playing with me, not providing valid info.

Aikea's animation hacks (or Squinge's Hula & More) will also let you trigger a specific animation. Whenever I have a sim falling in a picture I use the Superhero Take Off and Superhero Land animations and position the sim accordingly. Invisible floors, invisible columns, and invisible magi-splay trays are your friend as well.