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I've never done this before, I've just always let the baby stage run through and let the age transition to toddler happen naturally.

So, I've done a heap of searching at various sites for mods/hacks/tips etc but with no luck. I tried to use merola's mirror to make the baby selectable and grow it up with the Tombstone of L&D (my idea, hey at least I'm thinking here....well sorta LOL) and it worked except of course the toddler will only be selectable for a short time *duh, me*

So my question is obviously...how do you do it?  :)

Have you tried the birthday cake?

Use the birthday cake. It usually only glitches up if the baby has a dirty diaper.

 :-[   Umm....so something as simple as that will worK? Well no I haven't because I'm a mean and stingy 'god' and don't give my sims cake or a party  :D

Thanks Brynne and Lythdan  :)

*slinks away quietly*

Is the birthday cake supposed to work for an immediate transition from baby to toddler? If so, I can't get it to work  :(

SimPe and the Enhanser are very helpful tools. Babies' life is  usually 2 days (3 in game). If you change the "remaining days" to 1, the same day you will have a transition. I do it all the time.

Thanks gali, but that doesn't really help me as I don't use either program

Yeah, it should transition baby to toddler. Only if it's the baby's actual birthday, though. The cake will say "bring 'x' to cake".

Ausieone, do you want a picture? - I use it since I bought TS2, never deleted it. It's from Jerry, and it can add/sustract sim days. You hang it on the wall, select the sim, and choose the option. My e-mail is in my profile.

I never use the cake anymore.  I got sick of it failing, having to buy more cakes, and having to clean up the old cakes.  I use Pescado's baby controller.  When I get the one day to go message I select an adult and click on the baby controller to 'grow up' the baby.  Using the controller means that aging babies to toddler is now a piece of ... cake.

I use the cake without problems, from the beginning. Without parties, only inviting some friends.

When you get a message that only one day is left, you buy a table (the small one), put the cake on it, select mom or dad, or one of the grannies,  click on the cake, and order: "bring x to cake". From then on, everything goes autonomously.

So what I'm gathering form the info given (and thank you all for your contributions) is that I still need to wait till the 'one day to go' message before I can age a baby to a toddler..is that right..or not?

The reason why it fails a lot of the time is because the sim holding the baby is waiting for all the other sims to come over and join in. ;) To use the birthday cake, you need to get one of the teen, adults or elders to 'bring so-and-so to cake' Once the sim is stood there waiting, go through all your other sim's on the lot's lined up actions and click off the cake icon. Then the baby will 'blow' out the candles and age transition.

If you don't use cheats - yes.

The InSimenator will allow you to grow up any baby regardless of how many days left before birthday.  It has worked every time I've tried it.

Also, I discovered that the new Lot Sync Timer has a Grow Baby up function like the one on the baby controller if your baby is within a day of aging.

Emma

Thanks..I'll try that though......

Gali.... you're comment of 'if you don't use cheats' confuses me!

Rainbow.....

I guess I'll download the Insimenator if all else fails  :)

What I think they're trying to say is there is no way without cheats or mods to age a baby straight away, but when you get the 'so and so is growing up in a day, time to buy a cake' message, that's when you can either use the cake or the baby controller if you have it.

Does the NL AgeSimsCheat (or SetAgeCheat or whatever exactly it is) work on babies? I haven't tried it on infants, but it works great on townie children so they grow up along with your playable sims. And it's easy enough.

Normally I just wait the day out, but when I used to be extremely impatient to see genetics I would use testing cheats, then click on the baby and select "set to birthday". Then you can age up with cake/baby controller/whatever.  :)

I've used Merola's painting, days left in age, babies, subtract 3 and the adults fight over who gets to help with birthday.

With my hacked birthday cake you can age up any sim at any time.  They go through all the birthday cheering and get the memory and everything, but you can do it whenever you want, no matter if the sim was only just born that moment.  And then you can decide what day the elders die using the cake too.

That is even better, Inge!!!  Wonder how I missed that???

That's exactly what I use! Inge's cake! =D There's not much point in having a baby around... and they won't eat the cake, when they are done.

It's soooooooo nice.

I tried it once a few weeks ago, right after birth. Wanted to see how the funny looking baby would look like when he grew up. This method doesn't come with growing up well/badly memories.

I usually wait until I get the babies diaper changed and they're fresh and ready to go.  I've had too many age transition atempts go down the drain because the baby crapped itself and all of the other sims got confused.

I didn't think babies got a memory for growing up well/badly?  They don't have an aspiration meter, so how would that work?  The sims that I've looked at in SimPE don't seem to have memories for growing up from a baby to toddler, just the age transitions after that.

Yeah baby to toddler don't have Grew Up memories. But the things about AgeSims is that even if it's say, teen to adult, they stilll don't get the memories.

I have the InSimenator and it works so well for that(and other things).  I always have trouble with the babies taking several attemps till they age to the point that the sim is about to collapse.  Using Insim to select the baby is good because it isn't temporary like the mirror.  You have the parent put the baby on the ground and select it.  You have the parent spawn the temporal mod(babies can't spawn) have the baby select "grow up me"(the grow up baby isn't 100% reliable)and the parent will pick up the baby and it will transition immediately 100% of the time.  You can use this at any time of the Sim's life--no waiting if you don't want.  I don't know about grow up memories with this.  I never thought to look.  I only do this when a Sim has lost their transition query or for babies.  I have wanted to age a tot early because twins were coming--the best way to do that is to use Insim to subtract days from their life so they only have one day left then choose "grow me up".

I always use InSIM to age baby to toddlers. I don't make them selectable tho, just have mom or dad (or older sibling/relative) place the baby of the floor and have mom/dad/whoever select "grow baby up" (on the temporal mod sectional of InSIM) and they pick the baby up and transition it immediately and it can be done right after they are born if you want.


Doing it any other way(cake, etc...) always gave me looping problems  ::)


Most of the time I also use it for aging toddlers to children, they get their grow up memories and I don't have to deal with it taking hours for them to transition. course with toddlers I can make them select "grow me up" so they don't even need a parent around. Warning - never age up a toddler to child until after the school day is over for children or you get the "missed school today" message  ;)


O and you can also "select age" to age them if you want to see how they are going to look when they are older without getting "grew up" memories.

Thanks for all the replies people  :)

I've decided that I'll try Inge's cake as that is exactly the type of thing I was looking for  ;D

Try the tombstone of L&D, cycle through until you see the age baby options,( I think there are 3 options) only one of them will actually age the baby. The other two I think import new characters to your family. You might want to save your game and play with this a little because I can't remember which baby option does what, but I THINK the "AGE baby"  is not the one you want, I think it is the one in lower case "age baby..." and the it gives you the option to choose which baby to age if you have more than one. I do a lot of breeding and I use this cheat a lot ;D
EDIT to add that you need to make sure babies are fed and changed before aging them and that they are not in cribs,I usually just lay them on the floor.

A bit late, but in the Tombstone of L & D, the various age baby options do the following:
Age Baby - top - teleports in a random female Townie and adds them to the family
Age Baby - middle - teleports in a random male Townie and adds them to the family
Only AGE BABY... Name - bottom & also in all caps - actually ages the baby. Somewhat belatedly, according to my notes :). Make sure you have aging on if you're trying to age a baby :).

Other oddities of debug mode:
Change Suit Naked actually changes the sim into Formal
and Change Suit Formal changes the sim to Naked or Undies, depending on Outgoingness.

Very strange...

Does anyone know what CINECAM Baby does?

Well, I guess I got that bass ackwards didn't I? :D
Rainbow, when I first got the game I went to town with boolprop and tried most everything once  (damn that NPC remote control car! lol) and I don't remember the cinecam thing as being anything that I found very interesting. I think it is only one of the cutaway scenes of a baby aging or being born or some such. But then again I could be totally wrong about that :P

I guess that explains it then, I can't get cutscenes, and all I saw was the baby grow up.  That was a while back, like you said, after I learned about testingcheats and tried everything out.  :)  I never even knew there were cutscenes in the game until I heard someone mention it on one of the boards.

CINECAM Baby makes a baby clone of the sim you shift-clicked on. The clone is created instantly and added to the family, without anyone needing to become pregnant or waiting three days. (This is how I obtained the baby in the cloning tank in my SimFreezepop "Science Genius Girl" story). It uses the same rule as self-pollination, in other words, the baby will be a genetic clone with opposite gender. It will also be named "Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl" Surname, but you can change the name with SimPE, or I think with TestingCheats, although I can't remember how off the top of my head.

Really, I must have been brain dead not to have noticed a cloned baby with the cinecam thing. I might have to go back and play with that some more ;D
And the renaming option is on the tombstone of L&D too. I love that tombstone!
Thanks Baratron

OT : So is there a list anywhere that goes through all the tombstone of L&D and the Mailbox and other builtin Cheats objects and lists what they do?
I use some of them all the time but others I don't know what they do so I leave them alone. Looks like from this thread I have a few more to play with now!

I'd about pay good money for that list.  Well, I guess I have, thinking of my subscription fees here.  ;)

Anyway, I use Merola's Multi-Painting the most.  Choose:  baby: subtract 1 day.  I think the baby is only an infant for 2 days.  Sometimes if I use baby:  substract 3 days it's like overkill and the baby gets stuck. 

Babies are infants for 3 days, but they age at 6 pm, so it may appear to be only 2 because the first day isn't very long sometimes.

Partial list here that I found interesting http://www.sims99.com/articles/boolprop-testing.php

Out of curiosity, what's the point of speeding up the transition time?  I find the time useful to build a relationship between the infant and parents.  On the other hand, I always have one parent at home or one of my own nannies in residence if both parents work the same schedule.

But I will echo that the birthday cake has always worked for my game. 

I agree, ZiggyDoodle.  I find the time valuable as well, and many times my parents are best friends with the toddlers soon after transition.  But I think some people find the babies boring and wish to age them up to toddlers as soon as possible because they are more interesting and they are controllable.

I like the baby stage too, its easy just turn on the eye in the sky and forget about them! I do get a bit impatient to see what they will look like when they turn into tuxedo clad toddlers.

TaWanda - thanks for the link!

 ::)  Limited playing time.  I only have an hour or two a few nights a week, and then maybe an afternoon or evening every other weekend to give my undivided attention to my Sims.  If I didn't speed them up a little, I'd never get anywhere. 

That's what I like about Macrotastics and JM's mods in particular.  I can set them up doing stuff I want and speed up the game to triple speed, then slow it down when I want to do something special or take pictures. :)

I use Insimenators Temporal Mod to get babies to grow up early.

I do the same thing, Rainbow.  I particularly love autosoc, the phone hack, macro:clean and "The Skillinator".  :)  I can set each member of the family to doing tasks or socializing friends, and then turn the speed up and just keep an eye on their needs.  When they get tired or hungry or need to pee, I stop the action and then send them to fill their needs.  They stay happy, and get things done a little faster. 

I also see what you're saying about the baby growing up in 3 days, not 2.  I think that the reason I thought it was 2 is because at 6 pm on the second day we can throw a party and let them transition using the cake. 

If you have them on Power Idle, Macrotastics will take care of that for you as well.