Turning a Sim into a townie

[AnnaM]

I'm full of questions these days...

I have a few Sims I've got bored with. Rather than smiting them, I thought I would turn them into Townies, so they'd still be around but I wouldn't have to do anything about them. So I've searched this forum for some tips, and I found various references to making townies in the "empty neighbourhood" tutorials.

All of them suggested using Inge's teleporter shrub for turning a CAS-made sim into a townie. My question: is there something wrong with using the NPC and Townie Maker (the dead tree that spawns with testing cheats and Ctrl-click)? Does it cause fireballs, hairloss and/or impotence? ...because it looks simpler, and doesn't require installing extra hacked objects...

[jrd]

I never took a look at the tree's code, does it even have an option to turn Sims into townies?
Marking someone as a townie is a simple matter of changing the family ID, so I suppose if it has the option, it is safe. I can't see how even EAMaxis would screw it up.

[J. M. Pescado]

I'm pretty sure the tree-maker spawns NEW townies, rather than making existing sims into townies.

[AnnaM]

I am stoopid and I need more coffee.

I had seen the option "Make into townie...", which opens a radial menu of names, but I hadn't noticed that it does not include any playable Sims. It seems to include townies (strange) and *dead* sims, for some peculiar reason.

Anyway, feel free to nuke this thread and so destroy the evidence of my subcaffeinated stoopidity. I'm off to get Inge's shrub.

[Gamblor]

There is a painting object mod I downloaded a long time ago that gave you the option to change Sims into townies or NPC but I can't remember where and who created it or if I still have it around.

[jrd]

Inge's teleporters. I've updated them a little some time ago, they should still be here in Taster's Choice (I think), or over at MTS2.

[SnootCB]

Actually I use the Maxis NPC & Townie maker pretty frequently.  And yeah, you can use it to turn playables into townies, easily.  The trick is, they have to be in the Sim Bin.  Then their name will show up on the tree's pie menu, usually either at the very first or very last of the list.

[Sleepycat]

I just use InSIM to do it now but I've used Inge's teleporter shrub too.  Sometimes I make 'extra' kids into townies once they become adults.