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Better Sit Idle
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Better Sit Idle

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Have you ever noticed how, when you sit in this game, your arms become uncomfortably glued to your sides? Have you ever sat like that in real life? It's awkward! Plus it makes your character's arms look absurdly short. A few years ago I fixed it for myself and now you all get to reap the benefits.

All this mod does is patch the .frames files for both characters and armour, meaning 99.9% of modded races and armour that use standard humanoid .frames files are compatible out of the box. Frackin' Universe has several armour sets that have their own .frames files, and these are also patched.

Specifically, this simple mod replaces the sit idle's front arm with the walk.2 frame, and the back arm with the run.3 frame, making it appear as though characters are resting their hands in their laps, as every normal biped with arms sitting down in a chair does. (If your character has no arms, they will not benefit from this.) If you happen to come across an armour or species that isn't appearing correctly, let me know; it's a simple 2-second fix to just copy the frame patches into the necessary folders to provide support and I'll update right away.

FAQ:
- Is this server-side or client side?
It's client-side, other players without the mod will see the original sit but it shouldn't blow anything up.
- What species is the character in the preview image?
A personal resprite of the Saturnians race. For a very similar resprite, check out Window Novashrimp's "Make The Saturnians A Cuter Yet Mothy Race" and "Make The Thaumoth A Cuter Yet Mothy Race" mods, we used the same art as reference. That said, I may upload mine someday as we went about the antennae completely differently, they let you use a range of different antennae shapes, whereas mine only has one type of antennae but due to this I was able to make them show through hats.
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14 Jan @ 5:37pm
Unsupported Species Or Armour
TitaniumVulpes
25 Comments
Hyperdino 8 Feb @ 2:36pm 
This mod is awesome! BUT it does have some issues with Arcana. It causes some weird interactions with some of their furnitures and apparently causes a liquid error?
✦VixenTheMajestic_Kitsune✦ 18 Apr, 2024 @ 1:21pm 
which races is compatible or not compatible?
Fakus 17 Jul, 2023 @ 3:22pm 
Bug REPORT!

When you use bed or chairs its fine but something like telescopes and furniture that uses the stand character for "sitting" :steamfacepalm:

Btw love the sitting mod, I dont know why but its really good...
Chad "The King" ThunderCuck 11 Feb, 2023 @ 2:42pm 
such an obvious fix that it shocks me they left the characters arms hanging there like a zombie for so many animations. playing this game vanilla, your characters riverdance all over the place.
<#008080>Azai 3 Sep, 2022 @ 3:21pm 
:)
TitaniumVulpes  [author] 3 Sep, 2022 @ 1:05pm 
@<#FC0FC0>Azai Awesome, thank you! I'll add that to the description.
@Silver Sokolova I am honoured <3
@Krystal ! It's a personal resprite of the Saturnians race, but you can get a very similar resprite using the Make A Staurnians A Cuter Yet Mothy Race mod!
Krystal ! 28 Aug, 2022 @ 10:21am 
Off topic but what race mod is the character in the mod pic?? I love the idea of a like butterfly race
Silver Sokolova 10 Aug, 2022 @ 5:37pm 
This is one of my favorite mods of all time
<#008080>Azai 17 May, 2022 @ 3:48am 
Works with clients that do not have the mod, clients that do not have it will not see the sitting pose tho.
TitaniumVulpes  [author] 7 May, 2022 @ 4:03pm 
@<#FC0FC0>Azai Oh, I'm actually not sure if it's client- or server-side. I don't have anyone to test it with right now, but last time I played with a friend we both had it installed, so I'd recommend erring on the side of caution and having everyone on a server have it. I'm not sure what would happen if some people have it and some don't, but worst case I assume it might crash if someone with it tried to sit near someone without it. I could be wrong, but unfortunately I can't test it myself at this time, so I'll tentatively say server-side for now. If anyone knows for sure one way or another that'd be fantastic information to have!