Making A Fridge Pie Menu For Bar Drinks

Okay so I need to take the instance number of my fridge_grab snack and put in in my sim data instance line? Also I did do this before but, then the pie menu disappeared :(

Sorry for my delay in getting back to you! This took awhile to troubleshoot and real life intervened.

Okay, here we go:


The fact that the group and instance numbers for your custom Sim Data file matched the group and instance numbers of the original Quick Meals pie menu category is why your custom Grab a Drink pie menu overrode the the Quick Meals pie menu category, causing it to disappear.

But the fact that your Grab a Drink pie menu disappeared, once you fixed that issue, indicates that there is at least one other problem with this file.

I took another look and after troubleshooting, I found a couple of issues.

Before I begin, I want to emphasize that the problems below generally were not immediately obvious (at least to an amateur like me), so I understand your frustration in trying to get this file to behave.








The line of code linking your Interaction Tuning file to the Pie Menu Category Tuning file likely isn’t being read by the game.

In the tutorial that you linked, the example used was for creating a new pie menu category that appears when you click on a Sim or on a Sim’s pet. You’re trying to insert a pie menu category onto a fridge object to begin crafting another object.

Here, it is not an apples-to-apples comparison. MizoreYukii flagged this in the original tutorial by noting that usually/generally, the pie menu category is somewhere around the place of the screenshot, but she also indicated that one should read the TDESCs or look at similar interactions to find out where it’s located in the interaction tuning file.

As it happens, in this case, the pie menu category is stored in a different place in this type of interaction tuning file.

Let’s look at the interaction tuning file that you modeled your interaction on: fridge_GrabSnack_PieMenu. If you look at lines 12-25 of that file, you see that there’s no line of code that resembles what's in Line 13 of your interacting tuning file.




fridge_GrabSnack_PieMenu interaction:


Now ctrl-F for “category” in the fridge_GrabSnack_PieMenu interaction tuning file. There are two results.




Now toggle over to your interaction tuning, and scroll down to Line 77.



To resolve this:

• Delete Line 13 from your Interaction Tuning File.


• Paste the tuning ID of your pie menu category to replace 74277 in line 77 in the Interaction Tuning File.


• Paste your interaction name to replace fridge_GrabSnack in line 77 of the Interaction Tuning File (the latter is not necessary to get the text to show up in game but makes your life easier if you have to come back to this tuning file later).

Steps 1-4 above should make the pie menu category show up in game. Step 5 is to fix another issue I found when testing the file.

You might want to consider using Scumbumbo’s XML Injector and creating a snippet tuning file that injects your new interaction into specific fridges, instead of modifying the object tuning files of the fridges as you did here.

The problem with directly modifying game resources, like object tuning files, is that it means that your mod will conflict with any other mod that modifies the same game resources and will likely cause errors.

The benefit to using the XML injector is avoiding this problem altogether, and it means you don’t have to make edits to 15 object tuning files, just 1 snippet file.

The Modders’ Documentation provides a guide on how to inject interactions into objects on pages 4-6.

Let me know if you have any questions!

I did exactly as you said and now when I click on the fridge no options come up at all