#sims 2 modding

[heathensimmer]

Hi there, good evening!! I'm not sure if this is something you are open to answer to, so feel free to ignore this ask with no hard feelings as I understand and value your personal time!

I'm a total noob when it comes to modding anything, never done it in my life, but I'm severely autistic and it came free with the package the audacity to think that anything is possible if you are crazy enough to make it real lmao, and I'm very determined (and the right amount of crazy) to make it real!!!

Recently had an idea to convert walking canes from ts3 to ts2 to play disabled adult sims, I have yet to read through the basic instructions I gathered regarding modding for the game and object/animation conversion (and also interactivr objects) so I know that it's possible. What I'm here for, is to ask you, not only as someone who has more experience and knowledge in modding but precisely because you made the ts3 to ts2 traits, these questions:

1) Do you think this would be possible based on the game mechanics when it comes to modding?

2) What steps do you recommend me to prioritize to be able to mod it? (For example, I know i that there is SimsPE and that I will have to learn blender as well, etc).

I mentioned the traits mod because I thought about the viability of doing it with the same mechanics (that I know nothing of so this is just a wild guess), attaching the walking cane animation to a Sim throught a buyable item (Maybe even add random debuffs in random days confort to simulate flare up days, idk).

Overall, just to make it clear, I'm not looking for others to do the hard work and have everythint spoonfed!! I'm 100% determined to learn evertyhing from scratch I'm just in need of some guiding from community seniors >:3!! And if you think you don't have the answers I'm looking for, but knows someone(or somewhere) that might, would you please send me their way?

Thank you for your time in reading this!!!

1. I didn’t make the traits. Hexagonal Bypramid made the traits. I just make mods that allow them to function. If you get a cane working, I’d be happy to add trait functionality.

2. It’s gonna take a lot of trial and error, not just reading and resources although those are helpful. But yes I think it’s possible.

3. Join TeaAddict’s discord! Another good one is SimForge where there are workshops that talk about what you’re interested in and Tea just started modding courses. Meshes and so forth. Personally I dabbled in animating and custom functional objects and even trying to make a possum npc instead of a skunk. It all kinda went sideways and I never picked it up again.

[melsie-sims2]

hello! i'm loving your medieval bacc! you mentioned in your ruleset doc that you changed your sims fertility in acr. i want to do a 2 days = 1 year lifespan, what tutorial did you follow to change the fertility? thanks!

Hi!! I'm glad to hear! I've been having so much fun playing!

I didn't follow a tutorial, I just understand how to edit the BCONs in SimPE at this point after doing it a lot for other mods. I don't really know if I'm skilled enough to explain this well, but I can tell you roughly HOW you do it.

I'm sorry if this is unhelpful, but I'll try my best!

So first you're gonna want to open the ACR - Main file in SimPE.

Depending on how you've configured your stuff, it might look similar to mine. I haven't changed much from the default setup. You have to click on "Tuning - Casual Romance - Pregnancy Odds".

That's the data you're gonna wanna edit.

The <=22 means Sims that are below 22 days old. If you do "Show my Token Stats" in game, you can see how old the Sims are according to SimPE, so you can judge at what age they become adults, and where you wanna start messing around with the percentage.

According to ACR, my Sims are technically 14 days old when they become adults, because ACR/SimPE doesn't count birthdays. So from the time they're 14 days old to 22 days old, their fertility is 65%, which you can see is the number on the left where it says "Dec". You don't need to worry about the "Hex" box, it'll change automatically when you tweak the "Dec" one.

I gradually drop the % down with every day, and then around 32-33 days old it starts dropping by 5% so that by the time my Sims are in their mid to late forties, the fertility is practically zero.

I have it at 1% for a few days so that my 40-45 year-olds COULD possibly get pregnant, but the odds are very unlikely (and dangerous, when paired with my childbirth death mod, which is also set up where older sims have a higher chance of dying).

If you do 2 days = 1 year, I advise you start at whatever you want your fertility to be at 22 days. I did 65%, and then only drop it down a percent every two days. So <-22 and 23 would be 65, then 24 and 25 would be 64, and then just go down until you reach 0%. (You might not be starting at 22 in your file, I think I edited mine and either added or removed days).

OH! And one more thing: you're gonna wanna always use the casual menu when woohooing, even when you're trying for baby. If you use the "relax > woohoo" option it won't use the ACR settings to determine odds, at least I don't think.

If you need further help, I'm sure someone more qualified than me might be able to add some more info in the comments?

Happy Simming! 💚

[eisbae-r]

Funny Placement Flags

We I need more objects with *nodding*

Ok for bat to fly over.

[prim 0x0002] Expression (My 0x0028 (flag field 2) Set Flag flag# Literal 0x000D (Ok for bat to fly over))

Place On Lava.

or [prim 0x0002] Expression (My 0x0052 (Placement Flags 2) Set Flag flag# Literal 0x0007 (Place On Lava))

[ashtonlc3]

Tips and tricks for locating specific BHAVs in the objects.package file

Sometimes finding the right BHAVs is more difficult and time-consuming than actually modifying them. So today I am going to share with you some of the tips and tricks I use to navigate the objects.package file.

Part 1: Find your group number

The first thing I always do (after opening the objects.package file) is find the group number of the object I am modding. For your everyday household objects like showers or computers I use the filter resources window and filter by semiglobal group.

And voilà, now we have our group number and have narrowed the search from 50,000 to around 200 BHAVs.

If you’re modding something a little more niche like service NPCs, you will have to use simantics resource finder.

A little trick for finding the group of these niche objects is to search by OBJD name instead of by BHAV name. I’ve found that this significantly reduces the number of irrelevant results.

From the names of “Phone call - Service - Butler” and “Outfit_NPC_Butler” we can eliminate those two groups, leaving 3 potential group numbers. This narrows the search down to around 130 BHAVs.

But what if you’re modding a BHAV that isn’t directly tied to an object or a type of sim? Well, the latest mod I made changes the way the game calculates the wages of OFB employees. On paper it doesn't sound like something that would be tied to a specific object. Which is half true. The math is done by a global but all the other BHAVs that control employee pay are in fact tied to a specific object. Controller - Business - Employee Management. Controllers and tokens are objects and can therefore be located by OBJD name.

Even though most BHAVs are object specific, there are still some groups that don't contain an object. If you've searched through every OBJD name you can think of and you still can't find the right group number, then you might have to search by BHAV name. In those cases, use search terms that are niche but still relevant to what you are modding. For example, toilets are the only object in game that can be unclogged. So searching for BHAVs with “unclog” in the name will only show results for BHAVs in the toilet globals group.

Part 2: Follow the code

Once we have our group number we can start looking for specific BHAVs. How we find those BHAVs is going to vary depending on the type of mod you're making. For mods that alter specific interactions the best place to start is from the pie menu.

The guardian BHAV controls who can do the interaction and the action BHAV is where the interaction happens. Open the action BHAV and follow the code from node to node and open up any BHAVs that are called with the "view BHAV" button.

Your action BHAV will take you to BHAV B which will take you to C then D and so on. If you hit a dead end, go back a BHAV or two and go in a different direction. Eventually you will end up at the BHAV you want to edit.

For BHAVs that aren't linked to a specific pie menu interaction, search through the BHAV names until you find one that sounds close to what you're looking for and start reading the code from there. One problem with starting from a random point in the chain rather than at the beginning is that in SimPE it's easy to go forward but nearly impossible to go backwards. If only there was a "view calling BHAV" button. Well actually there is… okay it's not a button it's a program but you get the point.

The BHAV Finder by Pick'N'Mix can be used to identify all the BHAVs that call a specific BHAV. Simply put the BHAV's instance number in the "OpCode" box and the group number in the "In Group" box, hit "FIND BHAVs" and you'll get a list of every BHAV that calls it.

Before we finish, here's a bonus tip. Extract every TTAB, BCON or BHAV you come across as you go from BHAV A to Z. You might not end up modifying that resource but you might need to use it later when you are modifying your BHAVs. I'm constantly having to go back into the objects.package file and look for something I didn't bother extracting the first time I saw it. It gets old real fast.

Questions are always welcome. Happy simming!

[ashtonlc3]

Poll Time

So, I've been in the kitchen cooking up some mods (keep a look-out on ModTheSims) and I think it's about time for a new tutorial.

What are you guys in the mood for?

Tips and tricks for locating specific BHAVs in the objects.package file

Object IDs vs neighbour IDs; what's the difference and why should I care

BHAV to BHAV communication; why aren't my BHAVs listening to each other

Other (feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments)

Voting ended onMay 12

[fireflowersims]

Because my PC is currently out of commission thanks to filesystem and probably hard drive issues and to keep myself sane, I should probably just write out some random things about Sims 2 modding, eh?

If you're wondering about how to do anything Sims 2 modding, the answer will probably be found in an old MTS thread from 2008

If it can't be found on MTS, find a modder to ask. We're around and know stuff

Take naps, get some food. Modding is brain work, let it recover.

Most zoomed in thumbnails in deco are from people cloning the fruit bowl and it's easy to fix. Just go into the CRES, go to ThumbnailExtension and delete that entry you see in there. Commit, fix integrity, save and recompressorize

When modifying the footprint, you can also go up instead of just on the x and y axis.

You can make columns higher than 3 stories. I did it twice, then somehow forgot how. Anyways, just clone the ones from my Prince of Persia conversions if you want 4 or 5 story columns. They work as intended and all.

Just clone your NH deco from custom. Everybody does it bc NH deco is unfindable via Object Workshop

Don't give your NH deco a long name when cloning because it gets added in front of the name of the one you cloned it from. It can get out of control very fast.

NH deco doesn't usually need its GUID changed when you clone it

You can fiddle around with where your NH deco can and cannot be placed and how it behaves on/in water

The real description of NH deco is in the text lists

You can texture reference basically anything with a TXMT including objects and NH deco. You can even combine it with repository for Ultimate Space Savings

If your object texture is white and covered in text, your texture name in your TXMT is misspelled or your TXTR has gone missing.

The Sims 2 sometimes handles 3D coordinates reversed. (-1 is 1, 2 is -2). It's relevant for slots, bones and TXMT's

Pixelhate's wonderful TXMT pdf's are wrong about one thing and that is texture animations. It's all about the UV maps

Some BHAVs primitives are 0-indexed, some aren't. 0 is either treated as the first number or non-existent oopsie error

Just screenshot your BHAV and annotate every node if you're not sure how it works

You can label your locals and params. There's a button in the BHAV editor to make labels. Use it to keep track of things

Don't check "university ready" when fixing integrity. It breaks custom animations for one.

Some of these deserve more explanation, but that requires energy and a file system that isn't malfunctioning. Enjoy!

EDIT: Bonus tip: don't be me. Make a regular backup. Once a month or smth. File systems can get messed up which will make things disappear including my Homecrafter

[teaaddictyt]

Hi and again thanks for your Cafe Mod which took mu neighborhood by storm! I absolutly love it! (especiallu when I nver succeeded in running a "classic" restaurant in the Sims.

I have a modding question... I use this mod from Chris Hatch (this version : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o3_B4t25eeHNxyHJPxoE5AQQ4HNE_umu/view?usp=sharing ) and it turns out it's not compatible with the buy/build enabler from Cathair (this version : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MDzdDgJYpLyoefag2tFFkAwhO7uq6Asn/view?usp=sharing ).

The load order doesn't make any difference so they probably have to be merged but I have no idea how to do it (I suspect that the conflict occurs at the loading of the lot but that when my skill ends...)

Do you know how it can do it or point me to resources?

And thanks again !!!

Hi!

This is a really common conflict that is SUPER easy to solve (I promise).

It exists with any version of Chris Hatch's "Visit Sims" mod. The conflict is in the BHAV "Sub - Load Upon Lot Transition"

To resolve, make sure Chris Hatch's mod is loading last and open it with SimPE, go to BHAVs and locate "Sub - Load Upon Lot Transition". Click on it to open in Plugin View.

Once open, on the side menu hit the "sort" button

Scroll down the BHAV (it's a long one) to node 0x63 (99) which says "Generic Sims Call (Disable Build and Buy)"

We only have to change this one line.

With this node selected, go to the side menu and click the hammer / tools icon to open the pop-up wizard:

Hit the arrow to open the menu, change it to "enable build and buy" (the next option on the list)

Hit okay.

Commit the BHAV, and save. You're done.

Build / Buy should now be enabled on community lots. You can either mark the conflict as resolved, or delete the "sub - load upon lot transition" BHAV from the BuildBuyEnablerBV mod 😊

[dreaming-of-galaxies-and-stars]

Does anyone with simpe and modding experience know how to modify sophie-david's Opportunity Pack? As i would like to disable the "gain Interest points" but I have no modding experience so i have zero idea how to do it...