Seems like it. I cheat-created a simbot to test it, and it worked. The picking up of clothing piles seemed wonky (pick up, walk to the next, drop it, pick both up, walk to the next...), but when I let a real sim do the clean house interaction at the exact same state, behavior was exactly the same. I've never seen this before during testing, so I don't know what's going on and if this is a real issue. So, people, tell me if encounter any weird behavior.

Check the update. You'll have to edit the package in S3PE. Sorry about that, but I want to avoid adding new strings to this one and that would be necessary to add an in-game interface.

Well, I won't rule it out per se, but I don't really know what the point of that Book Club thingy is supposed to be. To be perfectly honest, I only tried it once and after getting one book nothing happened anymore. That aren't exactly the best circumstances to get me to make something in that direction as I only do stuff I find handy myself or at least can be easily integrated in an existing mod.

Yeah, great, and now if there is a bug in there, I have ruined it ALL for you and you will never trust any third party content again! No pressure at all! BTW: I'm not messing with the code. This is not a core mod. What a script mod does is less "directly messing" and more "civilized communicating".

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I've always made my sims have the "neat" trait just for that interaction

Hi this is an amazing mod that works well...except when i accidentally click it as a child it froze my game, is there anyway you can fix this, many thanks

@andrew555000: Fixed. Sorry, I never thought of testing it with a child, because they can't clean stuff and have no animations for it.

I get this message "CleanHouse - FindNearestObjectToClean() returned null". After that, my sim stop cleaning altough there are still some old newspaper lying and dirty laundry. FYI, I have all the latest patch for BaseGame/WA/HELS/AMB.

@anak_ponti: Shoot, I didn't see that thing for ages and thought it were dead and gone. That actually means that the code couldn't find a cleaning interaction for the nearest cleanable object. Are you absolutely sure that it's only the old newspaper and the dirty laundry? I have never seen the code failing to handle them past the initial debugging. I'm not sure that I can load your savegame since I don't have HELS, but do you have the means to compress your savegame (preferably 7z) and upload it to a reasonably fast filehoster (mediafire, 4shared... not rapidshare please)? I have to somehow reconstruct this issue to sort it out and the easiest way is a savegame in which the issue definitely occurs.

Thanks. Looks great!

Very cool, thanks. Will make my (sim-) life a lot easier.

Yesterday, I realized that is my save before I apply the latest patch and maybe that's the problem. Then I start a new game and wait until there are old newspaper, dirty dishes, laundry and other. Then I perform clean house and it works perfectly...no error message.

I am sorry if I bother you with my last post. Thank you very much for this great mod.

@anak_ponti: I don't believe in issues resolving themselves. Always smells fishy. I fear this isn't the last we've heard of it.

So, everyone, if you ever see a "CleanHouse - FindNearestObjectToClean() returned null" notification, save immediately and upload your savegame so I can resolve it.

If you have a full laundry basket, no washer, and dirty clothes on the floor, a sim will continuously pick up and drop the laundry in front of the basket until you command them otherwise.
Probably not something many people would encounter, just thought I should let you know.

This worked right after I installed it and all of a sudden every time I click clean house the sim jumps and moves back a few squares. I haven't installed anything new and I have the just base game.

@arfmoo: Should be fixed now.

@FaithKlovesmusic: Sorry, but that's no information I could draw any conclusions from. Jumping out of interactions is usually caused by script errors/exceptions, but without knowing where the actual error occurs, I can't do anything about it. For all I know, it could be way outside my code, because the game has a habit of throwing exceptions in inappropriate places once it has eaten a few of his babies, aka once the neighborhood gets seriously borked. You might want to give twallan's ScriptError mod a try and if it shows you an error, send me the related XML file that gets created at the same time in Documents\The Sims 3. Or you could compress and upload your savegame, so I can have a look at it.

thankyou!

My sims aren't collecting all available laundry before starting a load. Instead, they take the clothes from one basket, start the washer, then go get the laundry from another basket. Since the first load hasn't finished yet, they get to the laundry basket and queue dump. If I try to queue up clean house while the washer or dryer is running, they queue dump again.

@MzThorn: That never happened here. If there's no available washing machine, sims put dirty laundry in the next hamper just like they're supposed to. And I haven't seen queue drops for quite some time. So. Some day, and that day may never come, I will come upon this issue and then I can fix it. Or someone uploads a savegame for me to reproduce the issue.

ETA: Well, the day came and sooner than expected. Suddenly a "perfect" setup occured to reproduce it. I have no idea why this didn't happen her earlier.

LOL, timing. Thanks for looking into it. My games are good at producing voodoo, so I'm glad you were able to reproduce.

I always found it dumb, and bothersome, that only neat sims could clean their house with one click. I suppose it was EA's way of giving an extra benefit to being neat but I still think it dumb... LOL!

Thanks for this mod! It's going to make the game so much more simple and little things like cleaning up so much less time consuming on me!

Noticed my sims are no longer putting away books that have been left on the dining table as part of the house cleaning. Could this be something caused by the mod?

Also a small bug. If sims fun bar is all the way in the red, and you queue the house clean command, they will endlessly choose and drop a house cleaning task. Normally I believe they refuse to do house cleaning while they are too stressed.

As for the above bug that was posted by MzThorn, I checked my game and have noticed it too. As soon as the sim dumped off the laundry into the machine, they went to collect more laundry from other parts of the house.

Absolutely. For some reason, I have to deal with of a lot of things manually while they were handled by the same generic code in the original interaction. I'll look into it.

Now that is weird. The motive check is right at the beginning of the interaction and it should cause the interaction to drop almost instantly if the check fails. I'll look into that one too, but it sounds like it might be a toughie.

Even with the most recent version?

where to extract the .rar? please help

Extract it to your mods folder, preferably your hacks folder inside your mods folder. If you don't have either, please read the CC Basics. BTW: What .rar? This mod comes in a .zip package.

I was wondering if the interaction could be unavailable (showing up in grey) if the Sim is not in the mood for cleaning anything (like the game do it when we select directly an object to clean) ?

To be more precise. The houseclean interaction remains queued, but the item they are to clean will continuously drop and re-queue. So when they are normally too tired to house clean, it is possible to queue the house clean command, and thus they will be too tired to actually clean the object and get stuck in a loop of the cleanable object loop. As timoram26 said, when they are too tired to houseclean, the command should be grey, and if it was already queued, the parent command should drop.


I re-downloaded the current version to check. So yes it was the most recent. 20/7 18:54, however, I will clear the cache and give it another try and report back once i'm able to confirm.

*edit* I rechecked with a freshly created sim after redownloading and clearing caches. The laundry does indeed seem to be working correctly. So either I forgot to merge the new file, clear my cache or something else.

This is getting weirder by the minute. This should already be handled by the game engine. The interaction just has to indicate that it isn't supposed to run if the sim's mood is too low, and it does that just the same as all other cleaning interactions do.

I already assumed that much, but thanks for trying to be as precise as possible.

I agree. The thing is: It should already do that. I will dig into it right after sending this post. Might take some time, though. The needed code changes are probably minor, but the testing can be a bit of a pain.

Weird. That is my new favorite word. The script cache should only affect objects' scripts but not object-less scripting mods like this one. I'm not sure what you mean by merge, though. Do you actually merge multiple script mods into a single package? Sounds like an accident waiting to happen.

ETA: Ok, that should do it. I was unable to re-enact the endless adding and dropping interactions to/from the queue, but that probably got resolved together with the other glitch.