#hobbiesandinterests

[greenplumbboblover]

(Original post from my Patreon)

Hiya Everyone!

Some might have followed all the cool things that I've been slowly but carefully been working on :) I figured I've worked on plenty of things to make it worth another post!

I don't have much to offer regarding individual interests yet, since I've been mainly focused on the basics of 'leveling' up the interests passionate score at the beginning of participating in an hobby/interest.

1. Visually seeing a sim's interests score

I wish I could've added this to the relationship panel, but that would mean this mod would become a core mod just for this UI piece :p So I decided the best approach would be to click on any sim and showing which interest your sim has OR showing what interests your sim has discovered. It's a bit easier to find out than the trait 'discovery' of another sim :)

To do:

Adding actual score numbers OR percentages into passionate/dislike

Adding a button that shows the hobbies linked and how far your sim is into that hobby (Novice, Intermediate, Master)

Clean up the UI a little (Top space needs to be way less, text is not 100% centered.) Maybe adding icons for each Interest? And adding the name of the sim whose interests you're currently checking out.

2. Debate About...

A social Interaction! If your sim loves the interest AND has finished the Research (which means your sim has now 11 points into said interest), then your sim can debate the interest with others!

It pretty much works the same as discovering a trait of a different sim; through this, they can find out if that sim HATES or LOVES that interest. And shows the animation accordingly to that. They'll also leave a notification. Another cool thing is, if you find any sims that are compatible with the interest AND your own sim has a passionate score of under 13 (20 is still the max), they can get skill points to higher their passionate score!

If a sim does know that another sim loves said interest, they'll just be talking and nothing interest will happen.

There is however a 25% chance (which can be tuned) That they can convince a sim to at least try the interest and you'll be giving the other sim a passionate point into that interest. This will only work if the sim you're talking to is between 10 and 13 points.

Two Compatible Interest sims:

Two Incompatible Interest sims:

(Which is Ironically Gunther and Cornelia :p I actually ported their pre-set interests from TS2, so they have a lot of conflicting interests... So that's on EA lol)

When Successfully convincing a sim to try an Interest....

Pie menu:

3. Rant About...

While Talking and debating about an interest your sim is passionate about is cool and all, sometimes a sim just needs to rant about that ONE Interest they absolutely hate (and maybe the entire town is into!)

(Fun fact: most of Sunset valley's sims are super into the Environment because of their traits or TS2 interests > TS3, except for Agnes Crumplebottom... I guess she was destined to also grump about people's interests rather than just love...)

Rant about's animations are pretty much just the 'complain about' animations. However, as you might have guessed, if 2 sims hate that interest, they'll show you and express the happiness of finding another sim who hates it. If its a sim that loves it, they'll let you know they don't appreciate the rant...

Here are Bella and Mortimer loving their little rant about Sports:

4. Convince To Pursue...

If that 25% success rate is not working on a sim you absolutely want to go into that interest, Or because they simply just happen to be exceeding over that 9 (or lower) or 13 (or higher) score, then this is a great workaround!

If your sim is a master in at least one hobby and are 100% passionate about that interest, then they might have a chance on getting that sim actually interested into trying. Of course, this comes with a 'success' score which is depending on the following stats:

Compatible traits with the interest (if incompatible, then that will subtract points from the final score too!)

Their relationship score

Any skills they've been up to that might fit with the Interest type?

No worries about the chances though and having to calculate all this yourself on a spreadsheet, the interaction will exactly show how much chance your sim has on convincing said sim!

5. Books!

Part of researching an Interest is reading! Unfortunately, I'm still looking into a way to get them to work properly in the bookstore, but for now, your sim can look for them in the Library :)

(I might have had too much fun with the titles :p)

The very first time your sim finishes it, they'll be getting an interest point. After that, it's 0.10  per reading (Also tunable). So it's possible to use it as a 'skill book' basically, just not the main element of participating in an interest.

Each interest-only has 1 book.

6. Magazines

You might remember from TS2 that each hobby has a magazine you can get. However, that can only be purchased in a magazine rack or being phoned up for a subscription.

However, I felt it was more suitable for it being a phone interaction or through a computer. Plus, it's just more or less a "nowadays" thing.

I was thinking of also making the magazines you get per week accessible to read on your computer/phone, but that yet has to be implemented.

About the magazines:

Each interest has a magazine that you can subscribe to. That magazine will be getting a randomly generated title. Now it may happen that "issue number 44" has the same title as "Issue number 3" because of that. But then, if you've ever had a magazine subscription, you might have noticed that magazine companies have a tendency to also re-use or recycle already written articles/sections in newer magazines whenever they seem fit.

Of course, you can only purchase any magazine interests you've actively been researching ;)

And after that, the computer will let you know all the details!

(I still need to fix that weird cancel button thingy :p)

And in case you're scared that you're not sure which magazines you have a subscription with and what's a new interest you can get it for...

The interaction will be greyed out ;)

And then just wait till Tuesdays to find your magazines!

I'm still working on a new cover for each different interest type magazine. Otherwise, I might just use TS2's :) But currently, they just got the comic covers!

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And that's about it! A lot of the things changed are very 'behind the scenes', like rewriting the instantiation of interests and fixing bugs and glitches while I was playtesting it :)

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Elvis paid $4 to Sun for his first demo record, which was a present for his mama.

[greenplumbboblover]

(Originally from my Patreon)

Heya everyone!

Hopefully things are going well with you all! Today I figured I'd show off a bit of what I've been working on :)  It's all themed around the 'environment' interest, which as mentioned in a previous post, is the first interest I'll be entirely working on ;)

Townie Interests Manager - General

The townie interest manager is a 'helper' for, well, pre-mades living in the town! It gives them random interests when you first load the world with this mod.

Some pre-mades are 'remakes' from TS2, I figured, would it be cool to make sure that those sims are somewhat true to their ts2 interests? And so, those sims now have interests that work with their TS2 interests!

All of these townies (aka pre-mades) have 'Dislike' and 'Passionate' (or neutral even)  that are all true to them:

(Remember 0 is absolutely disliking the interest, 20 is absolutely loving the interesting, 10 is neutral)

For premades, these interests can always be tweaked to your own personal liking of course! I'm just basing most off of the traits and skills :)

Townie Interests Manager - Autonomy

Currently, this is still a HUGE WIP of course! And currently, I'm testing it with in-game objects before I wanna try it with other mods out there and my own items that I'll make for this mod (See documentation: Google Docs )

I'm still expanding the 'autonomy' for this of course, but currently, I'm implementing the autonomy for sims to go to hobby lots (or any community lots that has their hobbies on it). They can also, of course, choose to do it at home :)

So how does this work then exactly? Well, in the picture above you might have seen 'Hobby lot: None' (which looks different with an actual lot though :p)

Here's the progress in an image format:

Of course, you can change or remove it ;) I do have to make the 'removing' part a bit clearer though. For now, you have to choose 'none' for that to work. Not so practical really.

What happens after setting a lot as a hobby lot?

From there, there's a 50% chance a sim will decide to visit that lot, or rather do their hobbies at home :) Since Entertainment currently does literally nothing, I'll demonstrate it with Environment:

For these sims, they'll need a gardening skill higher than at least 1, and there need to be at least some plants on the lot! Nraas SP seems really helpful here, as it does skill sims up automatically depending on their traits :)

(NOTE: this will NOT affect any households you're currently playing with, just families that you're currently not playing with. I'll make sure there's an off/on switch for families though :))

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Here both Jocasta & Gobias have decided they wanted to do some gardening in their own garden!

And here, I turned the Library into a hobby lot for Environment! And so Judy decided to visit it! :)

Testing blunder:

At some point, I actually forgot to 'blacklist' residential lots from being 'harvested' (since if you have no hobby lots, townies will just go to any community lot that has plants on it :)) And because of that Gobias kindly kept stealing/tending other sim's gardens :p

That no longer is the case though :p Gobias won’t steal your harvest anymore lol

How will this be useful?

First off, I'm personally really happy that Jocasta, for example, is *actually* tending her garden! I remember how before this mod, no one would tend their gardens and they were just... well, there!

So now, even if you're playing your family, and you're maybe following them driving to work, you actually see your neighbors do stuff! 

Plus! your neighbors will actually skill up the skills they might need for their life wishes or just the storyline in general!

Stocks

As mentioned in the documentation, you can ask, in this case, the gardener sims here what they harvested and see their stock! This is extra great if your sim is a chef! All you got to do is check their stack of whatever-you-need, get anything with the best quality, and buy that, then make that perfect dish!

They may also donate some vegetables to you if they exceed over a certain limit (this is also so that the save game doesn't get bloated in huge MBs :p)

Researching an interest

Something for your own simmies! Now, because of some comments, I've seen on how people play their games, I figured this is the best way to proceed: Gatekeeping the interests.

What do I exactly mean by that? Well, if your sim is 'neutral' in an interest (So 10 points) they'll have to 'study' said interest they want to participate in :)  That way, it's also less annoying too, when your sim is gardening for example, that the interests mod keeps bugging you about selecting a hobby and stuff :p

How it works:

Either on the computer, or your phone, your sim can go to Lyra's Interests & Hobbies > Research X interest.

Depending on what thing you're researching, your sim will show thought bubbles on what they're researching! So if you ever forget, just check the thought bubbles!

In this case, it's 'Health' ;)

Another way is of course to check the queue and hover over the task :p

Want to speed up the progress?

The research progress is somewhat like the 'writing a novel' progress. However, I coded mine in such a way, that it's keeping in mind that sims are reading things, rather than writing ;)

So, Bookworms and sims who read over 50 books (so if both, you're extra lucky! :p) will research things quicker by 10%.

Neurotic sims, on the other hand, that's -5% of the overall speed, since they really wanna know all the nitpicky details on how, what, why, where, etc.

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And that's all for now! it's not super impressive, but it was a hard job linking things together though! Hopefully, you all liked this first progress log! :)

[greenplumbboblover]

A working prototype! & official documentation & where to go from here...

Heeeeelllo! It’s been aaaages since I wrote anything on this mod for all of you! Now, you might have remembered that ages ago I did share a dialogue image of exactly the same stuff on it, but back then this wasn’t actually working properly. So rewrote it, and the basics are now working as an interest and hobby! :)

Documentation:

For some of you it might have been a while since you’ve read and seen anything on what this mod is and I finally came around to make a documentation file of what the mod will be doing. Ideally after the release of the mod I of course want to make a quick ‘this is what you can do’ pdf & Google docs, so you can look those things up without any internet as well ;) Sort of like those old fashioned manuals that would come with physical copies of a game.

The progress excel sheet will be here soon! Here’s the link to the documentation:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mx7A6Us6I4gjYNf4Nd83sXINz-0yTZrSHp6WSHL-f9A/edit?usp=sharing

(NOTE: Everything in here regarding things that will be included is merely a ‘base’ of things. The ideas like a Catwalk will come after the mod is released)

Where to go from here:

I’ll be typing away and coding each interest individually. So when I’m done with the ‘Environment’ interest, I’ll continue with the ‘food’ interest, etc.

Each time I finish an interest, I'll be sharing this with you all to test out and find any bugs I might have missed! 

Keep in mind that this would mean that at the start it might feel a bit empty, mod-wise, but eventually we’ll get there!

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Also! I just want to say MANY THANKS to everyone who replied with their ideas! If you’re not finding any of your ideas in the document shared, don’t be worried, because I'll be making ‘additional mods’ for the other ideas (aka, basically DLCs or ‘expansions’ for this particular mod ;)) I just picked and chose what would be cool as a base for this mod :)

[greenplumbboblover]

Whee! We’re one step closed to a release! :)

I added the functionality for enviroment-interested sims to place solar panels on their roofs. The solar panels you can also buy in buymode but will rotate depending on what the roof’s angle slope is. I made a script that does all the calculations for me when placing it down ;) (See 2nd image, bottom, that one, if I let go of it in buy mode, will rotate like the others)

I also put the entire progress of it here for the patrons (all tiers): https://www.patreon.com/posts/interests-solar-44763704

[greenplumbboblover]

:D

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HOT DAMN!

[davidmullins4]

🌟 Getting To Know Me Better! 🌟

Hey everyone! 👋 I wanted to take a moment to share a bit more about myself since my last post. I’m [Your Name], a passionate [your interests, e.g., traveler, foodie, tech enthusiast], and I love connecting with like-minded people here!

✨ Fun Facts About Me:

I’ve traveled to [number] countries and can’t wait to explore more. 🌍

My favorite hobby is [your hobby], which always keeps me inspired! 🎨

I’m currently learning [something new, e.g., a language or a skill], and I’d love tips from anyone who’s done the same! 📚

I’m looking forward to sharing more of my journey with you all. Let’s connect and inspire each other! 💬💕