Yeah, it'd be cool if you could have AwesomeMod without having AwesomeMod. Core mods fuck with my game, man.

I’d like to see a mod where sims can order groceries like they can in Sims 2. Except the delivery would be ingredients for specific recipes that are randomized with every order, like Blue Apron or Hello Fresh, with the recipes delivered based on a sim’s cooking level and whether or not they’re vegetarian. Eco friendly sims would also get a negative moodlet from using the service because of all the packaging. Combined with ani’s No Food From Fridge mod it would be perfect for sims with busy schedules or who are just lazy lol.

Actually, having a delivery system overall would be cool. Sims could order rare things like ingredients, fish, or recipe books exclusive to vacation worlds. Then they’d have to wait days for them to be delivered or pay extra for two-day/overnight shipping.

Even sending gifts or letters to friends and family through the mail would be nice to see. The base is there with the love letters from Seasons, Maxis could’ve easily expanded on it.

More unique careers would always be cool- imagine a fishing, business, or military career where you sim might be away for a week or so (rationalized for gameplay)- or more realistic pathways for film or music- where you have to be skilled and lucky enough to breakthrough, and a clear career pathway is unclear.

Could potentially drive some unique storytelling!


I think this is entirely possible from another angle- as custom TV channels are possible (see Arsil's news channel), I wonder if it might be possible to just extract all the movies from TS4, and combine them into a new 'Simflix' TV channel.

With that done, a potential second step could be to disable channel choices in the Larger Than Life Movie Screen, though that would be harder to do.

Link to the tutorial:
http://modthesims.info/t/396117
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=349447

- There is only one thing worse than a r@pist.
- A ch-- racist.
- no! what?!

Oh, and btw, as I'm reading this and finding this bit you're talking about TIL....
*goes to the sims 3 mod directory, clicks & drags slowly awesome mods to the trash cute while doing it in a petrified-shakingly hand fashion* Maybe I'm hypocrtical as being the one that downloaded omgwtfbbq, I could never think pescado would go to that length as to doing a mod of a p*do one. Better hoping the animation of that trait interaction with such life stage is not that wicked.

I don't especially like being a Pescado apologist, but that is not at all what he did and children have nothing to do with this. Children cannot have that kind of activity, it is hard-blocked by the game core.

The pedo trait is a punishment given to YAs and older who attempt romance with teens, even ones they were already in a relationship with when they were both teens at the same time. I think this "solution" is totally unacceptable as well, but not for the reasons cited. For heaven's sake, my mom was still technically a teen when my dad turned 21, I was already born by then (conceived but not born out of wedlock I know, the horrors), and I hardly think their relationship was unsavory in any way but in this case my dad would have gotten the label. It isn't meant to be fun to play with, once a sim has that trait assigned to them it cannot be removed for life, they are not allowed to be around young sims, and they are banished from most careers. It can ruin games, especially those where we have used Woohooer to establish and nurture such relationships.

This is an example of heavy-handed core mod craftsmanship that cannot be worked around if the mod was in play at the time, and is part of why I no longer use the mod myself, but it's not something evil by most definitions of the word. And if the player prefers to keep teen-older relationships blocked like EA standard does, neither Awesome nor Woohooer need to be set to unblock them.

I did some digging on custom TV channels after I made that post and it turns out converting from the Sims 4 would be fairly easy.

The video clips are already in .avi format, so we’d only need to convert that to .vp6 (.video) format so the Sims 3 can read it. There’s a program that does this that I can’t remember off the top of my head, but it seemed fairly straightforward in the tutorial I read. Any video clips longer than 30 seconds would have to be cut up into smaller clips, but with any luck the Sims 4 video clips are parsed the same way. Then it’s just a matter of adding them to a playlist so the clips run sequentially.

As long as there’s no limit to how many videos can be in one playlist, a “Simflix” channel wouldn’t be too terribly difficult. The only question is would the playlist start over every time a sim turned on the TV? Depending on how long the playlist is, some videos may never be seen unless a sim is binge watching for several hours. This is something I’d really like to see tried out.

Some more tutorials:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=567671
http://www.modthesims.info/m/showthread.php?t=498130

Hmm, the only tricky bit is that the AVIs are seperate from audio- finding and matching up the AVIs was simple enough (they were each split in two), but we'll need to find the right audio tracks as well.

Edit:
Video tutorial for making the transition clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBa88YCteJ0
Netflix: https://panzoid.com/creations/322338
Alternate, more generic title (maybe more suitable for both home and cinema): https://panzoid.com/creations/315465

Great thing is that it looks like it supports custom fonts, so it can be in Simlish!

If the AVIs have no audio then they may be stored as MP3 files within the ClientFullBuild1.package. Although, in the custom channel tutorial (default replacement) I found for the Sims 4, the video and audio were merged together with VP6 Converter before being turn into a AVI, which would imply that the original AVI files also contained the audio. Were you able to play the AVI clips?

Good job on finding the transitions btw. I’d have to say I’m partial to the Netflix transition, but that may be a trick of brand recognition . Being able to change the font to Simlish is a huge plus!

The Sims 4 custom channel tutorial:
https://modthesims.info/t/533897

A transition as in? Where are the video clips split? I would put commercials or news bulletins in there as was the case in TS2. I've been doing loads of little screen tests and experiments with Premiere and After Effects to get some wonderfully dated-looking '80s idents and commercials . They're a great source of cheesy tropes, even if it's all just for my own amusement.

Yet another reason to have mixed feelings about TS3, by the way. And that's not the most 2009 thing I've said this year, no, but rather the result of EA just not caring as much about things like how Sims watch TV, play games, and listen to music.

Was able to make two versions- a Netflix one and the second, more generic one (that might fit into the movie theatres better)- I think they look great!

I was able to play the AVI Clips in VLC Player, but no sound came out- though it did give me some codec warnings, so I wonder if the music is in the files, just that it isn't coming out.

@Alunn Here's the current link to the files (movies + intros) I have: https://mega.nz/#!FIhX1KDK!d5O798bJ...Xn5MPkm0RV66D-g

This is one of the rare cases where an error message is a good thing! Luckily, the audio file is present in the AVI files, we just need to get it to play. I pulled this quote from the Sims 4 tutorial regarding the error message (the creator says that the process is near identical to what is needed for Sims 3 custom channels):

So we need to make the audio into a WAV file using VirtualDub and the process above and confirm that the audio matches the videos. I’d do it myself but I’m unfortunately stuck with a Mac at the moment, which isn’t compatible with the program.

I also played the videos using VLC and each movie is 2 minutes a piece. The upper limit for clip length seems to be around 30 seconds, so each movie would have to be divided into 4 parts, and there are 10 movies total. If we add a transition at the beginning of the playlist and then between every movie, that gives us an extra 10 clips and 50 video clips altogether with a total runtime (IRL) of 21 minutes. As long as the playlist doesn’t have a time or clip cap this won’t be too difficult.

Both intros in Simlish look great! Now I’m leaning toward the generic one it really fits the movie theater theme.

Now this is a blind assumption, but is the premium content movie screen considered a TV coding wise? As in, if I were to make a default replacement for the movie clips in the genres (comedy, horror, etc.) would that also change the regular TVs? If they’re separate, there’s the possibility of making two versions of a potential mod, one using the regular television and the Simflix transition and the other utilizing the movie screen genres and the movie theater transition (as not everyone has the premium content)

You may have to take a look in the object files to see if it's the same scripting attached!

It has its own moodlets and interactions, so it could very much be- I personally wonder if you could sort of hijack the interactions so the interactions play selected clips instead? That means that you could have several genre channels that are 'hidden' for normal TVs, but are only played for movies, and then the normal 'Simflix' for normal TVs.

https://store.thesims3.com/productD...=OFB-SIM3:62503

You may want to start a new thread in the Modding Forums here: http://www.modthesims.info/f/547/

I wonder- is it possible to make a stove that can clip into a countertop and still function normally?

Curious to know as I want to make some microhouse stuff like hotplates.

Around the Sims has some conversions of Sims4 Tiny Living.

https://aroundthesims.tumblr.com/tagged/ats3-update

Hot Plate:

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/di...-by-petunia-mae

http://modthesims.info/t/615916

Thanks!

Those are nice, but they have tables attached to them, will take a look to see if it's possible to play with footprints and get rid of the tables.

Edit: Like these ones: http://modthesims.info/d/127495/any...eramic-hob.html

That would be great! Would love to have something to work like a large oven but not take up so much space or set anywhere!

Oh how I long for new skills...

• Yoga/Wellness skill (I know about the yoga mod here, kinda jealous of the Sims 4’s animations for this)
• Media production skill
• Expanded video gaming skill (full blown skill, not just hidden)
• Herbalism (extension of the alchemy skill)
• Pottery (extension of the sculpting skill)
• Sewing skill
• Flower arranging skill
• Singing skill
• *Parenting skill

Most of these boil down to me wanting more hobbies for my sims to take up and more ways to make money off of those hobbies. Some general wants:

• More custom recipes/snacks/drinks!
• More harvestables
• Being able to blog from the computer (don’t know why this isn’t in-game already)
• New scholarships/grants
• New self-employed careers
• New lifetime wishes
• New traits
• New rabbitholes (a pipe dream, I know)
• Sending/checking emails
• Child/Teen sims can hack their grades
• Donate to charity online
• Magazine subscriptions
• Pen pals
• Personal diaries
• Expanded publishing options for writers
• The return of hobbies/interests
• Fleshed out attraction system (NRAAS Chemistry? Never heard of it )
• Reworked fame system
• Online matchmaker
• Arts and crafts for toddlers/kids
• New baby food for toddlers (the default one is gross looking)
• Do laps in the pool (for athletic sims)
• Push-ups and sit-ups added to workouts (I know there’s a mod for it, I’d just like it to be integrated into the workout interaction)

And probably more I can’t think of right now.

*(I actually do have an idea for a possible parenting skill, although it would depend on if one could unlock the special interactions associated with the daycare profession)

A mod that would allow dogs to swim in the ocean would be pretty neat. It just makes sense to me that they should be able to since they already can swim in pools.

I wish there was something that added the sound of clip-clopping hooves when horses are walking/trotting/galloping on roads and such. It's just kind of bizarre to see a horse trotting silently along a cobblestone road. :\ The horses are so well done otherwise -- well, aside from their crappy routing, that is -- that I'm surprised this was overlooked. I wouldn't consider it a small detail, after all.

I really wish there was a wagon option for horses that allowed non-riders to be driven to a destination. Don't even care if sims disappear into a black box, just being able to take them around would be so useful.

Especially with non-road historical worlds, it would be great for those who don't want to use cars.

I wonder if Cloudwalkersims' horse trailer could be reverse-engineered as a wagon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ1lTeweKzA

https://danjaley.tumblr.com/post/18...-are-historical

No idea how this looks in game.

And about traits I said perhaps someday a clever modder will break this because things was not possible in the sims 2 years ago became now , look at what Nrass done look what Pescado done and all modders already. Just time and patience.

i wish we had a mod to plan parties.... were you could name what kind of party, pick a dress code, and pick actives. One would argue that you could kinda do that, but with it as it is you can only have the parties in that game ...you can only have " house parties" and pretend that it's a baby shower and so forth and so forth..... even if we could just change names of parties for example throw a house party and change the name to baby shower and they will have a memory of a baby shower although you only threw a house party ..... also holidays i have master controller but i love to be able to add extra spooky day but add an extra holiday and change the name a choose the activities.

your so appreciated though. I hope you know this.

Yeah. I don't know where he finds the time or energy, but I'm damn glad he does. I'm assuming Igazor is male, that is, and now would be a bit late to be finding out he isn't.