Full Sim Photography Options Without World Adventures
Mod Description - This Mod REQUIRES another MTS Mod. See Bottom of Page.
The tiny size of the cellphone camera photos and limited zoom range is extremely limiting when using ingame photographs to decorate your Sim's homes. This mod unlocks the superficial features of photography from World Adventures in games without the expansion pack. The resulting photographs can be sold for money or used to decorate your Sims' homes.
I have left the cellphone camera unchanged, therefore it is necessary to download the World Adventures cameras for your game. See link at the bottom of the page.
In World Adventures there are 3 cameras which Sims can use to take photos featuring almost any ingame snapshot including images of fellow sims. Ie. You may wish to take a photo of a sim receiving their birthday cake or of your first car. This functionality is available in BaseGame however, the only camera your sims have is the cellphone. The cellphone can only take very small images which you can barely fit a sim's face in, you cannot change the size or shape of the picture and you cannot apply styles. Using the cameras in World Adventures you can take larger pictures and have a greatly improved zoom range (both of these features vary depending on the price of the camera used.)
In World Adventures, photography is also a skill that can be levelled up, and taking photographs of certain "subjects" (ie. your child, a ghost, an object etc) changes the value of the photograph and adds it to a collection displayed in the skill journal. This mod does not add this functionality to the game. If you want to experience photography as a skill/career or wish to have any photography related gameplay goals, then you will need to install the World Adventures expansion pack.
Functionality
The new photograph options unlocked when using a camera with this mod.
Sizes | Styles |
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Small Portrait | Color |
Medium Landscape | Black & White |
Large Portrait | Sepiatone |
Panorama | Vignette |
Other new functions include...
- CameraMedium & CameraExpensive will also have enhanced zooming, far in excess of any zoom available to Sims in the BaseGame.
- Camera photographs will have a value depending on size, style & camera. You may sell photographs.
- Camera photographs will cost 25§ to take.
- "Ask to Pose" is available on sims if your sim has a camera in inventory.
- You will be able to put the photos on the wall with CAStable frames.
- The photos fit much better than cellphone photos in electronic photo frames. Ambitions only.
- Photography Skill/XP/Career - See below warning for anyone who may try to unlock the skill by other methods.
- Photography Collections/Opportunities/Achievements
- Photo valuation dependent on sim skill or photograph subject
Warning - If You Do Not Read You Could Crash Your Game
There are no photograph collections or photography skill in this mod.
I have removed all the levelling up functionality from taking photos, therefore this mod is safe and will notcrash your game.
If you attempt using other mods to give your sims the photography skill whilst using this mod you will cause the sim to crash and you will not be able to click on any object with your sim.
If you have increased your photography skill using a mod such as NRAAS MasterController or any other modded method of skill gain, you will have noticed that your active sim can no longer interact with any object. You will need to select another sim (move another one in if needs be) and remove the photography skill using NRAAS MasterController - Sim - Advanced - Skill Level. To remove it you must set the level to -1.
Then you must reset the sim using Ctrl + Shift + C and resetsim [simname].
The sim will now be able to interact fully as before.
Do not try to gain the skill again!!
It is impossible for me to add the features I have deliberately left out so please do not ask.
You have been warned.
Cameras
Once you have installed Zerbu's World Adventures Buyable Cameras (see link below) you will be able to find the cameras in the Buy Catalog in the Hobbies/Entertainment category.
There are three cameras with various prices and different features.
Camera | Price | Sizes | Styles | Zoom | Photo Value Multiplier |
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CameraCheap | 250§ | Small/Medium | All Styles | Minimum | 0.7x |
CameraMedium | 850§ | All Sizes | All Styles | Medium | 1.1x |
CameraExpensive | 3250§ | All Sizes | All Style | Maximum | 1.4x |
How to Take Camera Photos
- Purchase a camera in Buy Mode. Place it anywhere on your active lot.
- In Live Mode, select the camera & click "Put In Inventory"
- If you want to take a photo of a sim, you can select the target & click "Ask to Pose" if the camera is in your inventory.
- Go into the Sim's inventory, click on the camera.
- Select "Take Photo". You will be taken to the camera interface.
- Press c to take the photo. See below for full list of Hot Keys.
- Settings - Toggle the default size or style of your sim's photos.
- View Photos - Take photos out of the camera for display/gift giving etc
- Sell All Photos - Sell all photos in the camera for simoleons
- Erase All Photos - Delete all photos in the camera.
The Hot Keys will not be displayed during "Take A Photo" but they all work.
Key | Description |
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c | Take Photo |
p | Pause/Unpause Game |
i | Toggle Photo Size |
f | Toggle Photo Style |
z | Zoom In |
x | Zoom Out |
< | Turn Anti-Clockwise |
> | Turn Clockwise |
Mod Conflicts
This mod is an XML tuning file mod. It does not add any code to the game. It requires game version 1.38. It will conflict with anything that edits Skills.xml. See below infobutton.
Modified Files
File | Instance | Notes |
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Skills.xml | 0xCDC3CFD356BCAAC7 | Very important this is very commonly editted file.This will include any mods that unlock hidden skills or allow you gain skills quicker/slower. I will add a quick tutorial on identifying conflicts & how to combine this mod with others that edit Skills.xml at a later date. If unsure, check your XML mods in S3PE thoroughly for any file with this instance |
Photography.xml | 0xC7B5D2F8B46B5305 | Conflict extremely unlikely |
Photography.xml | 0x8B614033DD63DBF2 | Conflict extremely unlikely |
CameraCheap.xml | 0xEBCB7310E55680C4 | Conflict extremely unlikely. |
CameraMedium.xml | 0x189A36FF2FF7EF9E | Conflict extremely unlikely. |
CameraExpensive.xml | 0x62B0FD300997759E | Conflict extremely unlikely. |
TakePhotographOfObject.ITUN | 0xCF90DFA3EDA8DD6A | Conflict extremely unlikely. |
ChooseObjecttoPhotograph.ITUN | 0xEF9828B7E12B02EC | Conflict extremely unlikely. |
Required Files
Make sure you also visit Zerbu Unlocked Cameras These cameras are required for the mod to work and therefore you will need to read the info available on them.
When used with this mod, World Adventures is not required for their download & I have tested the cameras on patch level 1.38.
World Adventures | Base Game* | Base Game With Mod & Cameras* | |
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Size | 5 sizes Tiny**-Panorama | Tiny phone photo only | 5 sizes Tiny**-Panorama |
Style | Color/B&W/Sepia/Vignette | Color only | Color/B&W/Sepia/Vignette |
Skill | Photography skill/XP for photos | No photography skill/XP | No photography skill/XP |
Jobs | Photography Self-Employed*** | None | None |
Opps | Photography Collections/Opportunitys | N/A | N/A |
Cost | Skill/Camera/Size affect cost | No Costs | 25§ per photo |
Value | Skill/Subject/Camera/Size affect value | All 0§ | Size/Camera affect value |
Interface | Subject & Hotkey Descriptions | N/A | Blank Interface |
*Includes having any other expansions installed, aside from World Adventures.
**Tiny photos on cellphone only; smallest on all cameras "Small Portrait"
***Self-Employed careers come with Ambitions expansion
Zerbu's Unlocked EA Cameras - http://www.modthesims.info/d/484107
It is possible that other mods that unlock the cameras might work (if such exist). However, it has only been tested with the ones on MTS.
MorePhotoOptions-NoWA-138.zip
| Enables using Zerba's buy mode cameras to take larger photos with various styles in a game without World Adventures.
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Updated: 22nd Oct 2012 at 2:50 AM - Formatting to bring attention to the fact this edits skills.xml a commonly tuned file.
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I'm starting to post some of my mods, however larger they will be quite niche and be designer for quite a specialised target so to speak.
The reason is I want to create mods that nobody has thought of, or done, for the most part. As I simply won't make it for myself if I can find it online :-P
I want to solve problems that are frequently forgotten by the mod community due to low demand but for a few can really make a difference to the game.
I'm thinking of packaging up for upload some of my older tweaks/mods/lots etc if no-one else has already fully and visibly covered them online & maybe writing some custom careers as the category doesn't seem as popular as it did in sims 2.