Chris Hatch modded Rebecah's horses so they could be directed when ridden and even be ridden off lot. So I kind of hoped that could be done with a stroller.



I could probably pull the mesh from TS4 if you want. I have the base game. It would be really cool if you could stick a baby/toddler in a carrier and take them to a community lot.

But doesn't that just affect visitors? I want it for playable/controllable sims.

WRT the stroller/baby carrier discussion, I am not sure what combination of mods I have but I have toddler walk to lot. It is impractical because they walk/crawl so slowly so it's best to make the adult carry them to the portal and then give the interaction. It's OK for tiny lots, like a small 1x2 or 1x1 playground.

You know the glitch where the toddler or baby gets stuck to the adult's body, like they are carrying them, but the sim can do other interactions? I have been wondering probably since base game whether or not that could be modded to add a "baby carrier" around the toddler/baby but give them full use of their arms. It would probably clip a little bit, but I don't really mind that. It was something I had in mind when I made the co-sleeper mod but it's too advanced for me to figure out. I don't think the TS4 baby carriers would be in the right places, though.

I am thinking similar to these IRL baby/toddler carriers in terms of the "stuck" positions. Although the cradle carry isn't really recommended any more (people commonly do it too loosely and put the baby's airway in danger) it doesn't hugely matter for pixels :D

High chair position would probably work for the TS4 baby carriers, as long as you could slot the toddler in somehow. I think that the back carrier is better for toddlers than it is for babies. I remember my brother being carried around on Dad's back in one of those when he was a toddler.

Is this mod available anywhere? Pretty please, asking for myself...

I've no idea. The wording makes it seem like it affects all Sims, not just the visitors. Have you tried the mod?

Thanks, but I was able to get them last night. Sims4Studio kept erroring out the last time I tried to extract them, but that must've been fixed.

Found the post here. https://modthesims.info/showthread....043#post5638043

Oh, thank you!

I've had Beck's horses forever, but when they broke (because she never updated them) I was bummed out-my medieval pixels need their horses if they are equestrians (traits) and this mod-coupled with the rest of her files, make them rideable and usesable again!

It works wonderfully, and with her other files for feed, water and resting, it's exactly what the horse-people needed!

I didn't know that the originals were broken. Is that just the horses or the rest of her animals?

As far as I know, it was her horses (she did have other 'rideable animals) that gave the worst problems, and after she'd labored on them for a very long time, she publicly stated that she would not update or change them.

I had her original horse files, and they did give off horrible jump problems. Chris's modification of them is a very welcome thing.

I do have her others, and I'm tempted to do testing on them, just to see if they give the same problems, and if I'm correct, they probably do, because they were based on her horses, from what I remember.

It's too bad that the site itself was never recovered by others when she died-it would have been good to have them available to update now.

However, there are a lot of her files at SFS and one of them were her horse recolors, but I don't see the original..and here's where you can check for yourself :

Sims 2 downloads:
https://simfileshare.net/folder/48648/

All of her folder, under "Rebecah"
https://simfileshare.net/folder/48599/

Chris Hatch did alter some of her other animals to work with Vicky. I don't know if he also updated them. https://modthesims.info/showthread....059#post5938059

If someone figured out how to do this, I don't think adding a custom pose/animation for the toddler or baby would be the biggest problem.

I've been playing around with making poses and accessories for slings (babies and toddlers), but it's still very much in a trial and failure stage, mostly because I haven't had the time to sit down and work on it, but also because the slings haven't exactly been the easiest to work with (body-hugging accessories move a lot. Poses + moving accessories = messy)

That part's done. We're obviously still at a very rudimentary stage, though. But if someone wanted to lend their talents to some animations, that would be welcome. There's no hurry to get it done. There's an actual human toddler in my home, so this project might stall as the coding gets more complex.

I wonder why there's such a massive number of guests here right now. Apparently 89 people (bots?) are in this thread.

That would be cool. Computers, TV's, Dishwashers, Refrigerators, Washing Machines (with another mod), Lamps could be repaired.

If the pixels have a high enough (should be maxed out, to be precise) mechanical skill, they can fix the household appliances and the computers, TV's-I've never seen that refrigerators or lamps need to be fixed.

But the piano can be 'tuned' as well.

I stress the 'maxed' out skill, because from what I personally know those evil trash compactors are deadly. More than a few times the professional repair person has gotten zapped by that trash compactor, and they're at full ability to fix things...

I remember seeing somewhere in the code that pregnant sims cannot be zapped while fixing electronics, and I wasn't able to get them to be zapped forcing them to fix them in-game, so it may be safe for them to fix the trash compactor and etc.

There's some weird sense of humour on impregnating Sims just to make them better repairpeople.

IIRC base game lamps have a broken state, but no code to cause them to show it.

I was thinking more so, like the Junk Car, building them from the ground up. You know, you buy a used refrigerator from the Junk Yard and you turn it into a brand new one .

So your light goes out and you can't fix it?

Consumerists love him! This is a SENSATIONAL (emotional) Non-ClickBait Story about Tutorial Joe - the man who buys a new lamp as soon as the light bulb goes out!

No, the light just never (or extremely rarely) breaks. Sometimes people post pictures of it e.g. this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sims2/comm...break_that_way/

We got the animations necessary, when they made exercise bikes. I had wondered in the past, if something like a bicycle (or other "vehicle" could have been something that sims, in a strange way, wore... hear me out...

The sim would still move around the lot but how does one do that with a bike (or a snowmobile, or a quad, etc.)... I was thinking, much like skis, the sim could "wear" them, for all intents and purposes. The sim would sort of "put it on" and move around the lot. It wouldn't require an NPC (what makes objects movable) because your Sim is the PC (as in, player character; as opposed to the non-player character, aka NPC). Your sim's "clothing" would be the bicycle... possibly even the stroller, but that'd require a slot that could contain another sim... Hmm, like carrying a baby, so that would seem to indeed, be possible!

It's sort of the magic of having something be one thing, literally... while it gives off the appearance of being something else.

Am I making any sense? Are you guys able to pick up what I'm laying down, or is it too convoluted to follow?

I mean, why can't your sim walk around in the equivalent of clothing that gives the appearance of a bike, a quad, a snowmobile? The object would exist as an object, and your sim would, in essence, put it on and move around while wearing the said object, in a different state. It's no different than wearing a helmet, like the noodle soother (which would've been the better way of doing hats, because then you don't have to worry about the hairstyles!).

I'm hoping this makes sense... Things aren't always what they seem... but perception is reality, and if it seems to be riding a bicycle, instead of wearing a bicycle and moving around the lot, then it is exactly what it is that we wish it to be!


-gE
>=)


ps -
- the ID card is definitely doable, because it's been done by whoward as noted previously!

You make sense, and your idea is one that I've tried to make happen many times. The problem is, like I mentioned earlier in this thread about the stroller, nobody has successfully made a custom locomotion animation. Locomotions aren't just regular animations; they have something special in them and so you can't just take the exercise bike animation, slot the Sim into a bicycle and have them move their legs while moving around the lot. Every so often, I try to figure out what locomotions need to work properly, but reverse engineering files isn't part of my skillset.

Other animations would be an issue. They would "wear" the bike (or other item), but they would also wear that item wherever they went. Works for a very limited set of animations, and most of the time it works much better for storytelling purposes (animations/posing, if you need the item to follow the sim in a controlled manner for a shot) than for regular gameplay.

Wearable centaur costumes come to mind. Kinda works as long as the sim is just standing around, but when they sit, lie down, or do anything that causes body bending or rotation, the wearable item also does the animation. Often ends up looking hilarious.

Kinda like this:

(reeeeeeally old picture from my first year of simming. I think that image will forever live in the back of my mind somewhere )

Been toying with the thought of for instance wheelchairs, where the bottom half of the body (clothing) is the wheelchair, but then you've got the added problem of height (a sitting sim is lower than a sim walking around, even on wheels, and a very tall wheelchair would in most cases look kinda strange). There is a version of this for Professor X (synapticsims, I think?), but it's a flying wheelchair, which makes more sense, height-wise. Getting it to look good where the wheels meet the ground for anything other than standing (if that - would need some sort of height fix) would be quite difficult.

Not even TS3 managed to get the strollers working perfectly. The sims keep popping the babies in and out depending on which obstacles they meet, and flat ground seems to be what's working best.