Automatically Closing Blinds (Static Blinds)

Hi everyone!

I had so much fun doing the last pair of day/night changing blinds that I decided to do another one!

About This Content
These blinds are the same as the Static Blinds from the base game - but they are not static anymore! During the day (6AM - 6PM), the blinds are automatically opened and are closed only at night (6PM - 6AM).
There are two objects contained in the .zip-file with different behaviours for the day period:

• The blinds are fully pushed to the side ("fully_open_non-static_blinds_automatic")
• The blinds are tilted ("half_open_non-static_blinds_automatic")

If you are wondering about the one blade on the right with a different texture: The original EA model has different texture coordinates for this blade than for the others. I decided not to change this, so the texture is possibly a bit inconsistent here.


Facts

• Found under "Decor" > "Curtains & Blinds" or "Bathroom"/"Dining Room" > "Curtains & Blinds"
• Price 300§
• Needs the Supernatural EP

How does this work
The blinds use the "Commonwealth Court" painting, which was added with the Supernatural EP, as a base. If you're not familiar with it, the image in the painting changes based on the time of day. These different images are represented by geostates. For example, bookshelves also use different geostates - based on how many books have been added to the shelf, the shelf is displayed slightly different in-game.

This content uses geostates to decide what parts or faces of the object are displayed, making the blinds appear closed, tilted, or fully pushed to the side. As with the painting, the game then automatically selects a geostate depending on the time of day.

For the closed version, I adjusted the EA blinds a bit by tilting the blades more to provide more visual cover - we don't want anyone peeking in during the night!

Polycount

Variation	High	Low
Closed State (=EA object)	492	264
Tilted State	484	264
Pushed to the Side-State	430	200

Credits

• Automatically closing curtains by martoele (inspired the idea to create the automatically changing blinds)
• Reddit comment (provided the nudge in the right direction regarding the functionality)
• s3oc (used for cloning the supernatural painting)
• s3pe (used for fine tuning of the created object)
• TSR Workshop (used to create the different geo states for day/night)