No string values showing up in my career mod
Hi everyone! I'm fairly new to this site and completely new to creating mods for Sims 3, so I'd appreciate any help.
So, I tried to create a career mod for a teenager in my Sims 3, using
this tutorial, except I made a few changes mentioned in
this one to make it a part-time job for a teenager.
Everything was going fine until I actually put it in the game. So, according to the manual, I put the package in the folder and run the game to see the career numbers to replace them by the hash of its name. So I do replace it, but then after restarting the game, the career still shows the "JoinCareer6482936629blahblah". Okay, no big deal. I join it. And, well, my sim can join the career, go to work, get paid and everything, but the message boxes for all of this stuff appear blank. Even the drop-down with work tones shows empty lines but you can choose between them. I'm pretty sure there's no syntax errors in my mod files and everything should work, but it doesn't.
Another thing happens on "Replacing the Blank String files" section. I have my string files named as in the template like "Strings Blank English" and "Strings Blank UnhashedKeys" and the tutorial doesn't tell me to change it. If I replace them via
S3PE according to the manual, the "Blank" names remain. If I leave it as is, the above situation happens. If I try to rename the instances and update their FNV64, the mod just doesn't show up in the game at all. Like, if it's not changed, I get the message box with the list of found scripts after loading the main menu, and I get that Join Career option in-game. If it's changed, then the mod is not in the script list in main menu and the rabbithole has no option to join.
Finally, I got a mod that is similar to what I want but basically has different tones from what I want, different rabbithole, different strings etc. And if I try to change it the slightest (even a single letter in the Strings file that is not referred to by anything), the mod also stops showing in the game.
So my suggestion is that something goes wrong on the last two steps - creating an STBL for strings and registering the career name in the game, but I don't know what else to do, tried to debug it for quite a while but the solution keeps slipping away.
I have the latest
S3PE version, Steam version of Sims 3 with 1.67 patch, and Nraas Master Controller which, I believe, includes Nraas career manager (although I tried to install the career manager separately too and it didn't change anything).