University Life Visual Fixes (Send Insulting Text, Texting Idle, Heat of the Moment Kiss)
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Created by simbouquet
Uploaded: 11th Apr 2022 at 4:29 PM
Updated: 18th Apr 2022 at 4:38 PM by skaevitas
Updated: 18th Apr 2022 at 4:38 PM by skaevitas
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This mod includes fixes for a few visual mess-ups EAxis made with University Life:
Send Insulting Text: The game is missing an icon for the Send Insulting Text interaction's speech bubble, which makes it fallback to the nonsensical green leaf. This mod creates a new resource for the game to read in order to allow it to display the icon properly.
By default, the interaction shows a speech bubble with an image of a birch leaf in it. As it turns out, this was unintended and the icon is actually not supposed to mean anything — the interaction was coded to display an icon named ep9_balloon_text_insult, but there is no such file with that name anywhere in the game's resources. When the game can't find a specific icon for a speech bubble, it defaults back to the birch leaf.
Yes, nearly a decade after the launch of UL, after all these years of none of us having any idea what that leaf was supposed to mean in such a context, this is fixed. :P
Since I don't really know what image the developers intended to use for this interaction, it was up to my imagination to choose a suitable one. I ended up going with the very descriptive smelly trash can icon.
Texting Idle: Sims can perform an idle where they pull out their phone and start texting in it. Originally, the phone's screen appears to be upside down.
![Face Slap](http://static.modthesims2.com/images/smilies/faceslap.gif)
Heat of the Moment Kiss: I'm not even sure if this was intentional or not on EA's part, but I've seen it talked about a few times before (shoutout to Jathom95 for mentioning it as well in the comments of this post!
![Wink](http://static.modthesims2.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif)
Compatibility
To see the effects of this mod, you must have University Life installed. Otherwise it'll do nothing and you'll see nothing new.
- Send Insulting Text: Rather than an override, this is a brand new resource for the game to read. There will not be a conflict with any other mod unless that mod also creates an _IMG resource with the instance of ep9_balloon_text_insult, the chances of which are rather low.
- Texting Idle: Will conflict with any mod that alters the ep9Texting_0xf944887fc818cd82 _IMG resource.
- Heat of the Moment Kiss: Will conflict with any mod that alters the Balloons _XML resource.
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Type:
– Fixed
: Fixed EA mistakes
Tags
#texting, #icon, #fix, #insulting text
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