The Sims 4 Video Tutorial: How to make an Object Tuning Mod (Moderate way) by Bakie

Thank you for this great Tutorial Bakie 
shrub toilet 

LoooL looks fantastic, I agree with Bakie!

Hi simmiller ,

I suppose this is something for upcoming Halloween? I'm also making a mod with spiderwebs, but you can't talk to them in my case :P
Anyway, I also took a look at the talking toilet one time, but it looks quite complicating for me too.

As for the food plants, did you checked the "Show Debug items" checkbox?
As for finding the food plants after that, type "GardenPlant" into the search bar, you will find a lot of food plants this way.

I looked at one of them at took a look in the super affordances list too to find this interaction: "<T>13419<!--Gardening_Talk_To_Plants--></T>"
If it works adding that line to your object's super affordances, you can also try to change the interaction text.

Start with copying the code in front of it, so "13419" and place that into the search bar when extracting tuning, you will get this specific interaction.
Then follow my tutorial about changing in game interaction text which can be found here:
Tutorial: How to change In-game (Interaction) Text

Hope this can help you get a bit further with your project.

Bakie, I'm close. I'm using the Hi Tec toilet tuning, and have removed quite a bit of it, but I can't seem to make the web unbroken. Here's a pic, just FYI. 

Converse Error In Game


I'm having trouble getting the pic to show so I linked it in the meantime.

Hi Bakie,

I know you're a busy man, and I put this on the bottom of my list for now, but here are my 2 latest attempts at adding tuning. However, I didn't get to the part where I put everything in one XML file, nor have I changed any data names on this one. I recently went through an online XML course to help me better understand our tuning, and it helped a little bit. There was someone else who had added interactions to an object, similar to what I'm trying to do, but I can't find the post anymore. I've tried so many ways to get this to work, and I know I can, but figuring out the XML format is making me bonkers 8-| If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated! And then you'd have a new tutorial video to make!

Thanks for your time :D

Web with Talking Spiders
Web Connection

Bakie

Hello Bakie . First of all, thanks for all your efforts and dedication to making these cool tutorials.

I'm trying to add custom tuning to an object I'm making, similar to the Vet Podium from Cats & Dogs: sims go to it and click around on the tablet before checking their pets.
Problem is, I just want this animation of clicking around on the tablet, without all the vet stuff, and then maybe playing a custom sound.

  
Right now, I'm trying to figure out what I can do with the super affordances, or if I can make custom ones to fit my object.


How do you think I should proceed to do this?

EDIT: I watched one of necrodog 's tutorials where he extracts tuning of an interaction and then edits it. But in my case, I don't know which parts of the interaction to keep (the simple animation of touching the tablet), because the Vet podium has alot of venue-specific code (PetOwner, customer, etc.). I don't know which one to start with, to just extract what i need and take out the rest.



Here's the interaction I extracted.

Will do. I don't think I mentioned that I cloned the Vet Podium and replaced it's mesh and textures with mine. So now it works like a normal Vet podium and sims click around on it.
Now I need to just figure out what to remove without breaking it.

Thanks for the reply