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Post by scipiogarling on Jan 31, 2022 8:55:08 GMT -5
First-time modder here! Inspired by the work of others, I'm making some alternative versions of readable books (both Skill books and 'leisure reading'). I'm currently having no trouble cloning and re-skinning/naming objects to suit my tastes or getting them to be purchasable and usable in game.
But I can only copy the books that exist in the game as they are; I don't know how to change their tuning or categorizing (i.e., Children's, Master, Nonfiction, etc). That's a bit limiting, as the tuning for only a few of them is evident (to me, at least) It would be nice to know how to alter (or even perceive!) the categories and tuning. I've tried to puzzle it out on my own, but I'm clueless.
Even better would be able to add more selectable book categories in the game (e.g., History, Science, Drama) so that so many books wouldn't be 'genre-less'. But that is probably asking for more than the game can do!
Any help will be appreciated
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Post by mauvemorn on Jan 31, 2022 11:15:58 GMT -5
Hi. The book's full name should give you an idea of what it is/does. For more information, you can check its tuning. If you want an object to have the same properties as a specific book, you need to simply copy-paste the name of its tuning. If you want to modify the tuning for a specific object, read this tutorial
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Post by scipiogarling on Feb 2, 2022 17:02:13 GMT -5
Thank you, Mauvemorn. Having done that, I'm much closer to understanding to how the process works generally. If it were something else I were trying to change it might be enough! But not really any closer to understanding how it works in the case of the books since nothing in the xml seems clearly to indicate what's determining the genre of the book or what its emotional impact is.
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Post by scipiogarling on Feb 9, 2022 1:25:57 GMT -5
I am now able to copy existing in-game books, rename/recolor them, and change their genres or add additional genres to them. I have even succeeded in making copies of books that would ordinarily not be purchasable from the bookcase, such as a Conspiracy book or a Sim-authored book, available. Unfortunately, doing so turned them into 'regular books' and overwrote the properties that I wanted them for to begin with. Specifically, there are Sim-written Emotion books for two emotions, Confident and Sad, for which there are no pre-made Emotion books. If anyone can tell me how to make those books appear as regular pre-made Emotion books, or how to get a regular book to have the same (or any other) Emotional buff, I'd appreciate it.
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Post by scipiogarling on Mar 30, 2022 18:09:33 GMT -5
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Post by teamothy on Aug 11, 2022 5:45:06 GMT -5
Hey, that's wonderful! I will download the horror one as soon as I get to my PC. I am also stuck with making something like this, and since I have not seen many people making writing mods, I wanted to ask you if you can help me figure out if my idea is possible. So instead of making a custom readable book, I want to make a new genre or perhaps alter an existing genre for Sims to write, such as fanfiction and maybe make it emotion-based such as Sad books that you have to be in a sad moodlet to write; but instead flirty for fanfiction etc. Or I can just edit the Romance into Fanfiction. HOW do I make this lmao I am super new but vvvv determined |
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Post by scipiogarling on Feb 5, 2023 23:19:40 GMT -5
"I want to make a new genre or perhaps alter an existing genre for Sims to write, such as fanfiction and maybe make it emotion-based such as Sad books that you have to be in a sad moodlet to write; but instead flirty for fanfiction etc. Or I can just edit the Romance into Fanfiction. HOW do I make this lmao I am super new but vvvv determined "
I feel your pain. No one could give me any lead on how to create a new genre. It would require creating a new tag within in the game for it; how to do that remains beyond me. It would require a script that changes the defaults in the game; other people clearly do know how to do that but i can't get anyone to share how the knowledge would be applied in this situation. I gave up on trying to CREATE a new Horror genre and simply built into my mod that it RENAMES "Mystery" as "Mystery/Horror". The good news is: Sims can already write Sad Books if they are Sad: that happens at Level 2 of Writing skill. So you can have them do that all day. And they will findable as "Emotional Books". But that's as far as it gets. Especially since books that Sims write don't go into the general pool of books that can be bought anyway. So searching under that new genre wouldn't find any of those books at all. Given the obsessive attention over some aspect of the game (like recipes), the emptiness of BOOKS in the game still astonishes me....
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Post by naiyafinn on Jun 19, 2023 21:45:24 GMT -5
Good evening, I was wondering if anyone here could help me add a custom buff to a book I retextured. I would like for a funny quote of some sort to pop up after reading the book. Thank you.
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