Heather--that is what I was thinking too (although I think more than just the baby's hunger motive should be affected). I don't have an interest in male breastfeeding, but wouldn't freak out over it as long as it's not autonomous. May be the way to go, as I'm not sure if you can make an action exclusively for one gender.

It could be restricted to mothers if the action was skill or trait dependent and only the mothers in the game had the trait or skill. (I have seen custom skills before, though not custom traits.)

ETA: Just to be clear, if it was trait-dependent (I'm reading a discussion Twallan, Pescado and a few others had on the fora a few months back discussing custom traits, so it seems they could be done), you would be able to add it to existing Sims (in theory) with a Midlife Crisis reward, or with MasterController's option to change traits.

So maybe a trait called something like Natural Parent, in the vein of Vegetarian, where the Sim would have a preference for doing things "the natural way"? It could also be given to guys so that birth-giving fathers could do this, if their players were interested.

Of course, I am just spit balling here, and probably making this way more complicated than it needs to be.

That's exactly the direction I'm going. Except in that 1 hour free time I had a few days ago I only managed to get number 1, 2, and 4 done.

Dude, that is COMPLETELY AWESOME.

Yay! I can't wait for this to be released.

Really??? You done it?

Forget about the pixelation. Just release it! I can't wait! :D

Do you use the animation from TSM?

Well, if they did it would be weird, like using tht toilet for example. They blur it out so you don't see what's not happening. You would just see the mom and the baby in her arms with the baby's hunger motive going up. Which to me would be creepy and/or confusing.

The problem with censor blur is that the only available options are full body, full height, or lower body. There's no chest-only blur.

I read this from another thread http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=457215:

Is it possible to make an animation of the baby sucking from the breast? It's going to be an awesome collaboration between animater+modder.
This is his great animation for Child Piano:
http://modthesims.info/m/showthread.php?t=457342

I guess full body would be better than nothing.

I agree. Full body would do me just fine.

Yay, another problem fixed and one step closer to a finished mod.

noxnoxnox,

If I can figure out how to export the toddler mesh and rig for Milkshape or Blender since at this current moment, no one has made one, I'll be more than happy to make the custom animation for it.

It seems like it will be one of the easier interactions to create, and it will also help me practice on getting into making more two person interactions. It may take me a few tries like I had to with the piano animation, but I'll still be more than happy to create it.

Ahh I'm so excited for this! Is there going to be a baby-mother relationship gain? I think that makes sense. And a social need going up for both, bladder goes down... if that is possible. This is going to be so cool!

Thank you!! Does this mean having both infant and toddler interactions? If so, AWESOME!

No problem! I'm actually having fun creating the animations clips and have been wanting to make toddler interactions for a while.

Infant might be a little hard since it seems the game recognizes it as an object more than an actual sim. I can search through S3PE and see if there are infant interactions (I always skip the baby stage to go straight to toddler so I am not sure what interactions they have). I'll look through it tonight, and if I can't find anything, I'll ask in my thread in the Modding Forum to see if anyone knows if the infant has any animation or if it is just seen as an object.

oh my holy mother, birdyfly, your enthusiastic attitude is what we appreciate the most. There is quite a limit that EA set for us on the animation, so we'll totally understand if we can't have whatever we want I'm thrilled with the progression we have here.
There is still the matter of time to spend on creating and syncing everything though. Just can't wait

Thank you for the kind words, noxnoxnox.

I feel awful that I still don't know how to mod, but I am more than happy to give modders the animation clips so they can have it for their mod. Once I have the toddler mesh and rig, I'll start working on the interaction for the breast feeding mod immediately.

Birdyfly, I love you!!! I swear, if there's a breast-feeding mod, I will actually do the "Surrounded by Family" LTW just for the fun of breastfeeding so many kids (Except I'll cheat and put the lifespan really long for YA and A). And really, don't fret about not being able to mod - most modders can't make custom animations so we need you!!! So psyched for this!!!

So here's the first version of the mod up for testing http://www.mediafire.com/?f8k72kjcwps7u88 It has some quirks though, like the Breastfeed option would only show up if the baby's on the floor. I guess this is because I based it from the pick up interaction. I tried to based it off the give bottle interaction but for some reason the action would just drop out of the queue. I haven't got the time to find out what's wrong with that so I used pick up interaction instead. Oh, and there's no animation, maybe it'd be great if birdfly could add an animation because I know some people hate censor blur.

I asked if someone would be nice enough to extract the toddler mesh for me in the meshing section here: http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...3&goto=lastpost

Fingers crossed that someone will answer. I'm thinking that it's slow in the modding and meshing forums due to people wanting to wait until Pets is released until they start to work on their mods so it will be updated for the Sims 3 Pets patch.
I am also trying to get my friend, who has been working with Blender, to help me out with creating animations for the community. He doesn't play the Sims 3, but he offered to help out so he can practice with Blender more.

OK, I'm tagging as found then.

Please create a thread in Modding if you guys want to continue discussing the download linked above for its initial Alpha testing, features and so on...

Interesting developments to say the least, I'll be tuning in.