TUTORIAL - XML 2 (For The Sims 4)
HIERARCHY
Xml files follow a hierarchy.
Let's look at a couple of things in S4S:
In the left window, S4S shows you the line number an...
2020-12-23 21:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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UP - Cyclelegs No House Fires
I was told this mod is causing problems and needed updating, originally updated it here I since stopped using it because I made another ...
2020-12-23 17:47:21 +0000 UTC View PostTUTORIAL - Traits
In our Constructor Tutorials we also met traits... it's the first thing we met, in fact.
Traits, too, can do a lot of things:
But they ...
2020-12-23 14:04:13 +0000 UTC View PostMOD CONSTRUCTOR TUTORIALS
AND RELATED
This is going to be the main Post for all the tutorial about the Mod Constructor and related to it.
CONSTRUCTOR SPECIFICS
TUTORIAL - Commodities 2
In answer to the question:
This is an interesting question. There are a lot of times Maxis does this in different ways, and I can think not one, bu...
2020-12-23 11:17:07 +0000 UTC View PostTUTORIAL - Buffs
We started Messing with the Constructor, we met
TUTORIAL - XML (For The Sims 4)
This will be a very basic tutorial, but there are a couple of mistakes I see complete beginners always do, so I think addressing this very basic thing is important.
2020-12-23 03:24:47 +0000 UTC
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BG - Faster Eating and Drinking
Cyclelegs version has been outdated for a while, since then I have:
Redone the mod from scratch because it was faster than updating it;
Included Toddlers;
Made said Toddlers focusing on fucking eating when eating and not dropping...
2020-12-22 11:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostTUTORIAL - Commodities
This is going to be a bit more advanced and a break from the Mod Constructor tutorials, we'll just be looking at Maxis tuning to understand what a commodity is, I think already did something similar but let's look at them in deep. Because they're ...
2020-12-22 08:22:13 +0000 UTC View PostTUTORIAL - Mod Constructor 3
LET'S START MESSING!
We saw what the Constructor is and can do for us, and we saw the comparison between the constructor UI and a loose xml from the game. We'll now start doing something from scratch, and this is going to be a very, very s...
2020-12-22 06:32:50 +0000 UTC View PostTUTORIAL - Mod Constructor 2
PERSONALITY TRAITS - Options.
So, here we get into some actual modding. And, we'll not start in the Constructor, we'll start from a Maxis Xmls. Traits have a lot of options, they can do a lot of things, and when we get int...
2020-12-21 10:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostTUTORIAL - Mod Constructor 1
INTRODUCTION
What is the Mod Constructor?
The Mod Constructor is a modding tool made and maintained by Zerbu, specifically studied to be user friendly and allow anyone to create... actually a lot of important things like traits, as...
2020-12-21 07:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostOk, let's talk about this shit...
The Sims "Community" again, yep. Because I've been seeing this since I started modding this game. I come from a community where most, if not all, the tools and mods are shared freely and the donations are never forced, this is also because whateve...
2020-12-21 05:22:04 +0000 UTC View PostLower Salary
Reduces the salary for jobs by 50%.
GTW - Children Call Sick / No Playful Illness
Children can't call in sick at school... why?! - enabled.
Also, I hate the Gas and Giggles stupid sickness.
2020-12-18 02:32:12 +0000 UTC View PostVampires - Pass Out Animation Replacement
This mod requires RoM
I was asked if it would be possible to replace the Pass Out animations for every interaction that use the Energy loss one (the ridiculous one) with the Pass Out animation of the cauldron... so technical...
2020-12-17 07:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostBG - No Hurt and Grudge for Toddlers
It's a bit weird for a 4 years old to have a grudge or being hurt for days... as it is weird for an adult to have a grudge on a 4 years old.
Added a loot that had escaped
2020-12-17 05:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostSome news about the patch...
...and a couple of things more.
1- I got my hands on the new XMLS and checked things, no mod should need updating, not even the two I thought.
2- While my tutorials will still be open to everyone, I'll not an...
2020-12-10 22:20:49 +0000 UTC View PostInfo on 8th December Patch
We're up for a big patch on 8th December that will change the way Skintones and Makeup works, this will very likely cause problems with a lot of CCs and Mods.
Just to inform all of you, I'll most likely not be updating to this new patch if n...
2020-12-06 18:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostJust a question about a possible bug...
I couldn't find but a question on reddit about it, but no report to EA Q&A... Apparently, during winter now the snow doesn't stick, at least in Windenburg. I don't know in other worlds... basically Maxis released a whole EP about snow and brok...
2020-12-02 21:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostBG - No Autonomy on Motives Distress
What bugs me since the first time I played this game: it's so hard to kill sims because they will try to auto-solve motives when they're in distress... what pushes your sims to take a bath or eat when the bar hits the critically red level... been ...
2020-11-30 16:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATED - Deadly Dickensian Sicknesses
IMPORTANT
UPDATED: Dickensian Sicknesses: fixed pets getting sick, sick pets will have no way to progress past the stage one, if you have a sick pet past stage one, remove the sickness as it will cause errors with the deat...
2020-11-29 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTESTING - Sim To Pet Sentiments
Releasing this on testing because it needs to be played to say that it works properly, but from what I saw it works quite fine.
This is a simplified version of Maxis system, because I didn't want to override anything nor I wanted to add cust...
2020-11-29 01:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostLittle sneak peek on something I'm... kind of working on
I got a tester to test this for me because my testing this morning failed, but I got the notice just now that it worked:
you can get an idea even i...
2020-11-28 20:24:53 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE - Brew Herbalism Remedies with the Cauldron
Added the medicine for Deadly Dickensian Sicknesses, this one is updated too to add the recipe for the cauldron, update both.
SE - No Forced Slow Experience
Here is my WTF moment today.
I started noticing this bullshit yesterday during testing on one of the sims I'm playing:
I didn't mind it much ...
2020-11-28 16:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE - Deadly Dickensian Sicknesses
I made a bunch of updates to the illnesses and rebalanced things around a bit:
2020-11-28 13:56:21 +0000 UTC View PostTwo Fixes for Off The Grid
- Fix for utilities draining power when off the grid, this bug has been around since...
2020-11-27 20:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostPlasticBox Teapot Update - Off The Grid
I think I'm the only idiot that would spend one afternoon on something so stupid... I also made a song about this while working on it ("2020-11-27 15:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
SE - Some Sentiments Last Twice
Sentiments are fun but some of them go too fast, as usual Maxis balanced it for Normal life span, if you have a custom time length in MCCC is even worse. So I doubled the time they last, I left out the ones that have reasons to be short (like the ...
2020-11-27 10:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post