The Great NPC Car Glow-Up - Modern Default Replacements of NPC Vehicles

Hello world!

The Problem™
For years it irritated me that inactive sims, like mixologists, bouncers, shopkeepers, and other townie sims without a vehicle, would spawn one of two cars - a Sloppy Jalopy or a Big Lemon.

There is no way to change this, as no matter what, even if you replace the cars in the inventories of those sims, when they de-spawn and re-spawn, they'll have one of these cars again.

This wouldn't normally be a problem, but they leave these cars everywhere, and if you're trying to play a game set in the last decade, these cars just look really out of place.

The Solution!
So, what this mod does is replace the model and textures of the Sloppy Jalopy and the Big Lemon with those of the Wornado Triage and the Tofunda Wagon, respectively. The idea was to keep the cars as realistically more affordable models, while being newer and more in-line with today's common car colors (unfortunately, most new cars are white and black!)

These are default replacements, and will replace every instance of the Sloppy Jalopy and Big Lemon in the game world. Every NPC who would have been using the old cars will now use the new cars, no replacing them manually needed.

Hovering over them and viewing them in the catalog still lists them as the Sloppy Jalopy and the Big Lemon, but they will show the icon of their new models. That's because they are now the official versions of those cars, the game doesn't know any different.

Note that this does not affect the cars that specific service sims drive, such as maids, the repo man, social workers, etc.

Additional Info
Since I figured that you might want to still have the old cars for gameplay purposes, I cloned them and gave them the exact same title, description, and price as the original cars. They will appear in the catalog with a CC icon, but they are identical to the originals. Buying these for your sims won't affect the NPC cars, because the game sees them as new, separate cars.

This means that if you have sims that currently own a Jalopy or Lemon, they will be automatically replaced by the mod. You would just need to sell their current car and buy them one of the cloned versions.

This is an entirely cosmetic change, and removing the mod from your Overrides folder will return NPC cars back to their normal appearance!

This mod has been an on-and-off WIP for me since literally the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics (though doesn't it feel like that was just yesterday?), and I'm so excited to share it now! It was an extremely time consuming process to figure out how to make this work, but here it is now.

Hopefully, this helps breathe new life into your game and beautify your parking lots!

Default Replacements - Place in your Overrides folder

• riverianepondsims_default_SloppyJalopy_NPC_ModernCarReplacementMod_v1
  
• riverianepondsims_default_BigLemon_NPC_ModernCarReplacementMod_v1
  

Non-Default Clones - Place in your Packages folder or CC Manager of choice

• riverianepondsims_SloppyJalopy_EA_Clone_ForUseWithNPCModernCarReplacementMod
  
• riverianepondsims_BigLemon_EA_Clone_ForUseWithNPCModernCarReplacementMod
  

Credits
Inge and Peter Jones - S3PE Lyralei for her default replacement tutorial
Milkshape
TSR Workshop S3OC (Sims 3 Object Cloner)
The Great American Eatery Pack by TLK4EVR (lot used in the preview images)
Sim Acres by The Sim Depot (world used in the preview images)