Smarter Robot Vacuum
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Created by BraveSim
Uploaded: 6th Aug 2019 at 4:29 PM
Updated: 19th Sep 2019 at 8:13 AM - Confirmed mod is up to date with latest patch (no re-download needed)
Updated: 19th Sep 2019 at 8:13 AM - Confirmed mod is up to date with latest patch (no re-download needed)
Description
These mods were created because I would notice the Robot Vacuum completely skipping over piles of trash, fur piles, or puddles. To minimize compatibility issues, it has been split into three packages, along with a single all-in-one package.
The SmarterRobotVacuum package removes the random routing behavior the vacuum has. It will instead go straight for anything it can clean. This also means that it is less likely to ignore piles of trash since it won't be wasting time moving to a random point to perform a "scan" (the scan has always been cosmetic, and occurs when it reaches a destination and can't find anything to clean)
The FurPileVacuumFix enables the vacuum to route to fur piles (in my case, from a dog with the Hairy trait). The vacuum was always able to clean the fur piles, but only if it's random routing happened to take it close enough to one. When choosing an object to route to, it was unable to detect the fur piles, thus they would often get missed. This was fixed by very slightly enlarging the fur pile's footprint (I have no idea why the vacuum ignores things whose footprint is too small). In my most recent test of the mod, I also found my sims were now picking several fur piles up to take to the garbage, instead of one at a time. Aside from this, I have noticed no other changes from the small increase in the footprint size.
The SalvagedTrashVacuumFix simply enables the vacuum to clean piles of trash that have already been salvaged by Sims with the Handiness skill by adding the correct tags to the object.
Conflicts
SmarterRobotVacuum changes the following XMLs:
7DF2169C!00000019!0000000000029C03.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run.SnippetTuning
7DF2169C!00000019!000000000002A46C.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run_Cleaner.SnippetTuning
7DF2169C!00000019!000000000002A482.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run_Faster.SnippetTuning
7DF2169C!00000019!000000000002A481.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run_FasterCleaner.SnippetTuning
FurPileVacuumFix changes the following XML:
D382BF57!00000000!DB9B9B51AE3EBE67.Footprint
SalvagedTrashVacuumFix changes the following XML:
319E4F1D!00000000!0000000000005890.Pile of Salvaged Trash.ObjectCatalog
The all-in-one package changes all the above XMLs. other mods that make changes to these files will conflict with these mods.
Reposting
You may repost any of my mods to other sites as long as I'm given credit
Made with Sims 4 Studio
These mods were created because I would notice the Robot Vacuum completely skipping over piles of trash, fur piles, or puddles. To minimize compatibility issues, it has been split into three packages, along with a single all-in-one package.
The SmarterRobotVacuum package removes the random routing behavior the vacuum has. It will instead go straight for anything it can clean. This also means that it is less likely to ignore piles of trash since it won't be wasting time moving to a random point to perform a "scan" (the scan has always been cosmetic, and occurs when it reaches a destination and can't find anything to clean)
The FurPileVacuumFix enables the vacuum to route to fur piles (in my case, from a dog with the Hairy trait). The vacuum was always able to clean the fur piles, but only if it's random routing happened to take it close enough to one. When choosing an object to route to, it was unable to detect the fur piles, thus they would often get missed. This was fixed by very slightly enlarging the fur pile's footprint (I have no idea why the vacuum ignores things whose footprint is too small). In my most recent test of the mod, I also found my sims were now picking several fur piles up to take to the garbage, instead of one at a time. Aside from this, I have noticed no other changes from the small increase in the footprint size.
The SalvagedTrashVacuumFix simply enables the vacuum to clean piles of trash that have already been salvaged by Sims with the Handiness skill by adding the correct tags to the object.
Conflicts
SmarterRobotVacuum changes the following XMLs:
7DF2169C!00000019!0000000000029C03.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run.SnippetTuning
7DF2169C!00000019!000000000002A46C.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run_Cleaner.SnippetTuning
7DF2169C!00000019!000000000002A482.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run_Faster.SnippetTuning
7DF2169C!00000019!000000000002A481.objectRoutingBehavior_RobotVacuum_Run_FasterCleaner.SnippetTuning
FurPileVacuumFix changes the following XML:
D382BF57!00000000!DB9B9B51AE3EBE67.Footprint
SalvagedTrashVacuumFix changes the following XML:
319E4F1D!00000000!0000000000005890.Pile of Salvaged Trash.ObjectCatalog
The all-in-one package changes all the above XMLs. other mods that make changes to these files will conflict with these mods.
Reposting
You may repost any of my mods to other sites as long as I'm given credit
Made with Sims 4 Studio
Filename | Size | Downloads | Date | |||||
SalvagedTrashVacuumFix.zip
| Enables the Robot Vacuum to clean salvaged trash piles.
Size: 335 Bytes · Downloads: 4,101 · 6th Aug 2019 |
335 Bytes | 4,101 | 6th Aug 2019 | |||||
FurPileVacuumFix.zip
| Very slightly enlarges the footprint of piles of fur so that they can be detected and routed to by the Robot Vacuum.
Size: 337 Bytes · Downloads: 3,244 · 6th Aug 2019 |
337 Bytes | 3,244 | 6th Aug 2019 | |||||
SmarterRobotVacuum.zip
| Removes the random routing behavior of the Robot Vacuum.
Size: 2.6 KB · Downloads: 3,552 · 6th Aug 2019 |
2.6 KB | 3,552 | 6th Aug 2019 | |||||
SmarterRobotVacuum_AllInOneFixes.zip
| Contains everything in a single .package
Size: 2.9 KB · Downloads: 23,858 · 6th Aug 2019 |
2.9 KB | 23,858 | 6th Aug 2019 | |||||
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Key:
- - File was updated after upload was posted
Install Instructions
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Packs Needed
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Other Information
Type:
– Fixed
: Fixed EA mistakes
Tags
#Robot Vacuum, #Vacuum, #Fur Pile, #Trash
Packs Needed
Base Game | |
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Sims 4 |
Expansion Pack | |
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Cats and Dogs |