A selection of small mods designed to enhance the game experience by offering new options or revising existing features
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🫂 Interact in Tight Spaces
Currently in testing phase
This mod allow Sims to interact in tighter spaces. It should work with most interactions that would normally require Sims to have some space around them (like hugging or kissing, and even slow dancing, no more going outside for that !).
The good part is that this mod is very simple and won't require updates, as it's only modifying the footprint of some invisible objects that are used to determine where Sims can interact (and make them move somewhere else if there is not enough room.)
Keep in mind that it might cause some clipping on objects around them for interactions with wide-ranging movements, but nothing really bad 🤗
📸 Photography Improvements
This mod consists on three files, that provide improvement to the photography experience in-game:
DISL_Photography_InstantPhotoPhone.package: Adds an interaction from your Sim phone to take photos instantly instead of waiting for an interaction to run.
DISL_Photography_OverrideZoomSize.ts4scrpt: No matter the camera (or phone) used, you will always have access to the zoom slider and the different picture size when taking a photo.
PhotoCamera.ini: Replaces a file in your game folder (The Sims 4\Game\Bin\res) to extend the zooming and the pitch of the camera (thanks to TheSandwichMeat on Reddit for the tip!)
Tip : save a view while in TAB mode using CRTL + 6/7/8 or 9, and when in photo mode, click on 6/7/8 or 9 to get back to this view - it also works with easels when painting from reference !
🖼️ Background Replacements for Cupid Corner
A small overide that replaces the background used for randomly generated matches on Cupid Corner. I started that to remove the backgrounds related to Sixam & the Magic Realm, but I went overboard and finally decided to replace everything to feature lots & worlds I edited, and some lots from @simsontherope 😊
Currently in testing phase
This kind of mod has been done and redone, but it often comes with a lot of options and features, and I wanted to make something way simpler. Using a hidden height slider (modified from a slider initially by simmythesim I had for a long time) and a custom script, this mod makes all teenagers slightly shorter.
Their height is set every time they spawn in the world and when they grow up, so there is nothing you configure (you can use the cheat "set_height_all_sims" when first loading your save, but it's not even necessary).
Note that the height is not applied directly in CAS, you need to have your Sim loaded in live mode for the first time for it to apply.
Thanks to discussions on those topics for teaching be about scripts and sliders 🤗
🌳 Main Menu Background Replacement
This mod replaces the image used as a background for the new main menu. The shadow placement is not perfect as I had to make it work for different families sizes, but it looks good enough for me.
Thanks to Meat Ice Cream for having extracted the necessary images to replace!
🍵 More options for the Bubble Tea counter
Sims can now order (and other sims will automatically order) coffee, tea, cupcakes & croissants at the Bubble Tea counter.
Required: High School Years, Snowy Escape & Get Together and Lot51 Core Library
🎙️ Sims Sessions Stage made usable
You can now use the Sims Sessions Stage outside the event when placed on a lot: place instruments on it and Sims are able to route to the instruments, and others can listen. Of course, as band are not a thing, no chance they play in sync, but at least that can be used for screenshots 😬 You can even set some light effects!
To find the stage, ad it's not available on the catalog, you can find it in a room on my gallery under EA ID Down-In-Simsland (the room is named Sims Sessions Stage) or here as a tray file.
