Thin Book Tuning Fix
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This fix came about after I looked into making some magazines for my Sims to read, seeing as how popular they seem to be as of late.
I couldn't understand why the Spa workers could hold and read the Spa magazines without issue but when regular Sims tried, they would handle the book as if it was a thick book and it would stretch in their hands when opened.
It turns out that the Sims Team have got some of the tuning for thin books wrong and listed them as regular books in the game code instead.
Info
Books in The Sims 4 can either be thick books or thin books. They are referred to in the coding as "book" or "bookThin" respectively. For most of the thin books in the game, the development team have forgotten to set the value to "bookThin" and instead left it as "book." This has the effect of making thin books stretch to the dimensions of a thick book when opened and read, as well as meaning that Sims use the wrong hand carry pose.
This fix overrides the affected tuning to correct these mistakes. There are 14 tuning overrides in all, listed below.
This fix can be treated like any other piece of CC as far as installing and removal goes. Just unzip the archive and place the .package in your mods folder. If EA ever get around to fixing it then you can just delete the file.
Notes
The following tuning resources have been altered with this fix;
bookThinRWCareerIntMag_01*
bookThinRWCareerAstrMag_01*
book_Herbalism_Beginner
book_Violin_Beginner
book_VideoGaming_Beginner
book_Programming_Beginner
book_Painting_Beginner
book_Piano_Beginner
book_RocketScience_Beginner
book_Writing_Beginner
book_Guiter_Beginner
book_fun_NoRetailDisplay**
book_Skill_Acting_Beginner
book_Skill_FlowerArranging_Beginner
book_Skill_FlowerArranging_Intermediate
book_Skill_FlowerArranging_Advanced
book_Skill_ResearchDebate_Beginner
book_Skill_Robotics_Beginner
book_Fabrication_Beginner
book_Fabrication_Intermediate
book_Fabrication_Advanced
book_Skill_RockClimbing_Beginner
book_Skill_Skiing_Beginner
book_Skill_Skiing_Intermediate
book_Skill_Skiing_Advanced
book_Skill_Snowboarding_Beginner
book_Skill_Snowboarding_Intermediate
book_Skill_Snowboarding_Advanced
Prop_CradleBook
Any other mods that alter the same tuning will conflict.
EA Books Fixes/Edits by BrazenLotus will conflict but also includes these fixes. Be sure to remove this file if you download her fixes (which I highly recommend).
If you already have CC magazines or books in your game that are broken in this way, if they are using EA tuning then this will also fix those as well. If they have custom tuning then the creator will need to update that themselves.
* These tunings are used by books which appear in the debug catalogue and seem to be reward books for the International Spy and Astronaut careers.
** This is the tuning used by the Spa Day magazine and San Myshuno tourist map found in the debug catalogue.
Updates
19-03-23 Added Rock Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, and Fabrication books. Also attempted to fix the incorrect carry posture of Bookworm walk-bys. (I've been unable to check if this has worked since they occur randomly.)
10-06-20 Added affected University skill books and removed Cooking and Charisma books which appear to have been fixed.
26-02-19 for StrangerVille.
Additional Credits:
s4studio
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| MM_ThinBookTuningFix.zip | zip | |
| MMthinBookTuningFix.package | package | 67998 |
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