Faster Vintage Car
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New Gizmo by Don Babilon: Faster Vintage Car
Description
This mod changes the speed of the Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car, a premium item that came with the Store world of Roaring Heights. It's a very simple XML tuning file.
The default speed of the fully fixed car is slow, and I mean very slow. While I don't really mind slow vehicles in The Sims it has always felt slightly odd that the sound makes it seem as if something is hindering the car from driving at its full supposed speed. It felt and sounded wrong. I changed that.
And now the car goes from this:
To this:
Resources changed and possible conflicts
Thankfully the speed tuning for the car comes in its own XML file: Instance 0x6C4B7286A32C65BC inside the 0xfd5bc411259c4a70ae7c8568439bd853.package file.
This also means that this mod should only conflict with another mod that changes this very file. All other possible tuning changes to the car should be unaffected, as they are separate.
Requirements
Quite obviously you will need the Store object for this mod to have any effect.
Installation
If you installed the object as sims3pack this mod will go into your usual mod location. If you installed the object as packages you will probably have to place the mod in an Override folder instead.
I decided to not provide any other flavours because, honestly, this mod is so simple that anyone can open it in S3PE and change the two values to their liking. I expanded the comments inside the xml to give the intial values there, too. But here are some possible examples of other tunings:
The Fixer-Upper shares the sound files with the VFN Kompensator from the base game and the La Matea sports car from FLS. They are also in the same price range between 36,000 § and 41,000 §
Their values are as such
VFN Kompensator: speed=55, acceleration=25
La Matea: speed=65, acceleration=37
The Margaret Vaguester, the fastest base game car, has an acceleration=33 and a speed=100. So you could practically add any values within that range, if you want the vintage car become a secret race car.
Credits
Credits go to Queen Inge Jones and her Prince Consort Peter for giving us S3PE and nonamena for their tutorial on making XML tuning mods. If anything goes wrong with my mod then it's nonamena's fault
Terms of Use
If you upload this mod somewhere else as your own and charge money for it make sure to send me an invitation to your funeral after you've succumbed to alcohol and hookers because of all the money you earned from it.
Description
This mod changes the speed of the Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car, a premium item that came with the Store world of Roaring Heights. It's a very simple XML tuning file.
The default speed of the fully fixed car is slow, and I mean very slow. While I don't really mind slow vehicles in The Sims it has always felt slightly odd that the sound makes it seem as if something is hindering the car from driving at its full supposed speed. It felt and sounded wrong. I changed that.
And now the car goes from this:
To this:
The default values for the car are an acceleration rate of 5 and a speed of 18. That's the same speed of the Renault Twizy car from the Store and slower than the Sloppy Jalopy car from the base game. I changed it to an acceleration of 15 and a final speed of 40. That's still not very fast but feels much better. The values are the same as the Heartbreak Hot Rod truck that came with Fast Lane Stuff and I think are appropriate for a vintage car.
The reason for making this ridiculously simple mod was that the mod by zerbu that changed the speed of the car, too, was deleted and I thought that others might find some use for an alternative version.
The reason for making this ridiculously simple mod was that the mod by zerbu that changed the speed of the car, too, was deleted and I thought that others might find some use for an alternative version.
Resources changed and possible conflicts
Thankfully the speed tuning for the car comes in its own XML file: Instance 0x6C4B7286A32C65BC inside the 0xfd5bc411259c4a70ae7c8568439bd853.package file.
This also means that this mod should only conflict with another mod that changes this very file. All other possible tuning changes to the car should be unaffected, as they are separate.
Requirements
Quite obviously you will need the Store object for this mod to have any effect.
Installation
If you installed the object as sims3pack this mod will go into your usual mod location. If you installed the object as packages you will probably have to place the mod in an Override folder instead.
I decided to not provide any other flavours because, honestly, this mod is so simple that anyone can open it in S3PE and change the two values to their liking. I expanded the comments inside the xml to give the intial values there, too. But here are some possible examples of other tunings:
The Fixer-Upper shares the sound files with the VFN Kompensator from the base game and the La Matea sports car from FLS. They are also in the same price range between 36,000 § and 41,000 §
Their values are as such
VFN Kompensator: speed=55, acceleration=25
La Matea: speed=65, acceleration=37
The Margaret Vaguester, the fastest base game car, has an acceleration=33 and a speed=100. So you could practically add any values within that range, if you want the vintage car become a secret race car.
Credits
Credits go to Queen Inge Jones and her Prince Consort Peter for giving us S3PE and nonamena for their tutorial on making XML tuning mods. If anything goes wrong with my mod then it's nonamena's fault
Terms of Use
If you upload this mod somewhere else as your own and charge money for it make sure to send me an invitation to your funeral after you've succumbed to alcohol and hookers because of all the money you earned from it.
Filename | Size | Downloads | Date | |||||
DonBabilon_StoreCarFixerClassic_SpeedTuning.zip
Size: 550 Bytes · Downloads: 6,834 · 26th Oct 2014 |
550 Bytes | 6,834 | 26th Oct 2014 | |||||
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Install Instructions
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Packs Needed
None, this is Sims 3 base game compatible!
Other Information
Type:
– Other
Tags
#Store, #fixer-upper, #car, #vintage, #speed
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