More Awesome Than You!

On request, the modified teleporter plus shrub and painting that allow you to make a Sim a downtownie.

Items originally by Inge, modification code by Torkle. Some optimalisation by me.

TPP is the Teleporter Painting Plus, TSP is the Teleporter Shrub Plus.

Great! Thank you.

Was wondering tho, do I need to delete Inge's teleporter shrub before I put in this one? or it this just the same thing with the downtownie pool bit included?

It should override the originals. So replace them.

What changes were made?

Instead of 'Make townie' it now has 'Make.../Townie' and 'Make.../Downtownie'. So you can drop a Sim in the downtownie pool.

Ok awesome, thank you.  :)

Umm, just curious - You did get permission from Inge before posting this, right Jordi?

For my part, I'm okay with you posting this here, but it would have been nice if you asked first.

Yes he got permission from Inge, they were discussing it on another thread in the podium.

Ah, okay.  I missed that one.  Post away!

I revised my cloning policy recently in any case, so you don't have to get permission specifically.

Woohoo!

/me purposefully misconstrues this statement and embarks, with reckless abandon and feckless foolishness, on a cloning spree to build a master race of Inges for his evil army! One step closer to ruling the world!!! Muhahahaha!

Go forth and kill my pretties! Kill!!!

Oh yeah... and thanks for this btw, this is grrrrrrrreattt!!! :D

Ste

The painting isn't working for me.  I couldn't even place it on a wall without move_objects on, and then it generated an error when I tried to click on it.  The shrub is working fine.

Karen

I'll take a look later maybe. Use the shrub for now.

Yup me too. The painting not only won't sit on the wall, it freezes time.  :-\

Ack. I upped the wrong version. I'll see if I can find the correct one, for now just use the bush.

Is there a reason why the files so much smaller then the origional?

I stripped out all text strings except US English, so it is used for all languages. Since most people never bother to translate into UK English and other languages anyway this is a good way to decrease file size.
Plus it makes sure the right text displays for those of us who use something else than the default locale (I play with UK En for example).

Oops!  I thought I had already done that - I usually do!   The teleporter was one of my earlier hacks tho, so maybe I was still using Quaxi's editor that only let you copy the strings to all languages.

Jordi, this is great!  It never seems to fail, I think of something I want in-game and a few days or couple of weeks later I come here and start reading and usually there they are!

My simmies and I will enjoy this new and shiny shrub!

And to Inge:  Thank you so much for the original!  I've enjoyed using it immensely!

I am so glad this still works in OFB and the names of those new characters show up! :D

I'm glad to hear(read) that it works with OFB  ;D

I was just going to leave it in anyway when I install OFB in alittle while, right now I'm checking on a last few hacks  :)

I have been using it without any problems. You can use it :D
I bet OFB got more bugs than you can add with this or any other hack that will cause problems  :P

As for OFB compatibility, keep in mind that teleported Sims are treated as greeted visitors, and thus will not be customers  to your business. A possible code alteration is in testing, ETA on a blue moon sunday, the Second Coming, the Coming of the Handkerchief or whenever I get around to it (not necessarily in that order).

To Regina: I didn't really do anything for this download... thank Torkle and Inge. I just (re-)added Torkle's code fix to Inge's object.

Would it be possible to add a Make.../Dormie option too?

Actually, I believe they will, eventually, take up shopping, since I've teleported test sims Ingelogically and they were seen shopping shortly later, but they don't begin seeking to shop, so it may take them awhile to decide to start.

They shop in my game, too.  Usually takes a little while, but not long.  I think they attempt to get their fun & social up first.

Trepie: dormies are simply townie YAs, so as long as your Sim is a YA in a university hood 'make townie' will do it.

Pesc/AS: true, but not they will not always shop.

Upped an alternate version.

Modified (and this time working) versions of the teleporter painting added: both "original" + downtownie code and the Squinge version with downtownie code.

Bugs stamped in the Squinge versions.

Thanks to MissDoh for bug stamping.

Squinge versions updated again, should now fully work.

Thanks Jordi for this updated Squinge shrub version with your twist.   :P

I tested it and this one works fine. :)

Ok, I know this is probably a stupid question, so feel free to point and laugh, throw old fruit & vegetables, stale popcorn, etc... But what exactly is the difference between townies and downtownies? Do only downtownies show up on downtown lots and townies show up on all other community lots? Which ones are used when our sims want to bring someone home from work/school?

That's it -- downtownies will only show up in downtown lots.  Townies will show up in your main neighborhood and any sub-neighborhoods (though rarely at a university community lot).  College dormies/students are also a special case of townies -- without hacks, you won't see them wandering around outside of the universities.

Of course, once your playable sim knows any of these folks, they can be invited over regardless of where they're originally from.

The bring-home friends are only from the playable or townie character pools.

Seperate question -- what's the difference between the 'regular' and 'squinge' versions?  The link in the first message doesn't take me to insiminator.net for some reason.

Incorrect. Both townies and downtownies can be colleagues or schoolfriends.

The rest is right: without mods you will only see downtownies in downtown, and townies elsewhere.

The forum destroyed the link.

The Squinge version improves the adoption by shrub: the want is fulfilled and a memory is made.

Here is a working link:  clic here (http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=7052)

Two features were added in Squinge version, here is a resume of what they do:

1- You can summon a kid on a lot, make it move-in and then adopt it using the shrub, it will fulfill the wants and memory of Sims adopting, and if they are married both Sims will have a memory of the adoption
2- You can put any baby, toddler or kid living on a lot up for adoption

There is also another mod in the same post permitting you to adopt teen and choose the gender of the Sim you adopt when using the regular phone adoption service, you cannot choose the gender of a baby with it which is normal.

And last, another very nice mod is "same day adoption service".  After you call, the social worker will come with a Sim about 30min. later (Sim time) after you made the call instead of the next day around 10am.

I am using all 3 of them, tested them plenty, and they are all working fine together.

Ah -- cool!  I guess I want the squinge versions then.  And I'll check out that same-day adoption thing, too.

Thanks!

Jordi's one includes Squinge's add-ons I mentionned so you should download Jordi shrub (the TSP-S.zip).  Jordi's one also give you the possibility to make sim "downtownie", that feature does not come on Squinge's shrub.

The age selection of adopt and the same day adoption service are seperate download you can get by clicking on the link I gave in my other post.

That's what I meant by getting the squinge versions -- I meant the ones here. :)

Sorry I misunderstood you completely, you can point & laugh at me if you wish  :P

I love the same day option mod.  It works fine :)

*jsalemi points and laughs at MissDoh  :D

Does that include the teens as well?  I've got Squinge's adopt a teen hack - I'll take that out for now.

Any chance you could adapt these so they can be used on community lots?  I often want to teleport someone in, but they're not available.  I've looked at them in SimPE and I can see where the code needs changing, but I don't know what to change them to as different objects have different numbers.  If you don't want to change them, perhaps you could tell me what I need to do?

Well the shrub should be available under plants always.

For the painting, try the attached file, you should be able to buy it on comm lots (untested).

Just wanted to say thanks for this.  I use the Teleporter Painting all the time, and it will be nice to have an updated version.  :)

Little bit of necromancy, but a question just the same.

Are there any problems to be aware of in turning existing playable sims into townies/downtownies? In otherwords, sims that have been played for a bit. I'm starting to get to the point where I have too many playable sims. I'm starting to consider taking some of my 'spares' and turning them into townies so they're still around, but I don't have to worry about playing them.

I never encountered any problems. You can just get some odd effects like an eternal grandfather, or a townie suddenly walking in your home because your Sim and the townie share a family relationship. These are harmless.

With me, the answer is vampirism. I turn the ones that amuse me most into vampires, and thus don't have to worry about timesyncing them.

I need some beta tester to test this pets version... can pets be teleported in, and can family pets be turned into strays?

I do not have Pets installed yet so I can't test this myself.

If the teleport and make stray options work I'll add a pet adopt function in it as well.



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It still needs some work.  Here's what I found:

- The Make Me a Stray menu option shows up for Sims but not for pets
- The Summon.... menus do not show any pets that are in those families, although they list all the Sims.
- The object (shrub) itself is not clickable for pets, even if you use the "boolprop controlpets on" cheat to make the pet selectable.  So even if I wanted to use Make Me a Stray, there's no way to do it.

I hope you keep working on this; I'm impressed that you're even trying to do it without the EP.

Karen

Okay, thanks. That's helpful feedback.
I think I know how to fix the first two issues, as for the third--I'll have to steal^H^H^H^H^Hborrow some code from someone else ;)

For the 3rd... I'm not sure if it will work but... there is a Sim Selectable? (probably in Global if not PersonGlobals) test or something like that. I imagine that... if a user actually makes a sim/baby/pet selectable, then this test will most likely return true. Just a guess. Perhaps that will help? Unless the selectability thing is much more complicated when it comes to pets.

Ste

It isn't standard to push actions on pets with them selected. Normally, you push actions on pets indirectly through a human sim. So, what you need is something like "Make $Object a Stray", and supply the pointer to the pet to the MakeActionString.

Yea, you'd have to do the 'Make a Stray' indirectly through a sim. If you want to look at an example of how to do that, take a look at the Interaction - Gender Preference bhavs in the ACR main controller package.

I think that's how I did it for having babies adopted.  Can't really remember now

Christianlov has a working pets teleporter up at mts2: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=197559&goto=newpost

So I won't be immediately updating the shrub. I still might at some later point, but for now use the mts2 one.

Does Christianlov's one have a "make stray" option?
That's what I really want at the moment.  My hood needs some shabby looking and unkept strays and I have a cat I want to get rid of kindly.

People who dump unwanted pets should burn in hell.  Take them to the pound.

IRL definitely, but I'd like the option to make my own strays in the game. They should be kind of scruffy and scraggly looking but in my neighborhood I had a Himalayan stray running around.  :P

Yeah, my strays are pretty upscale looking too.  But Sims live in nice 'hoods, so they should have nice strays, lol!

Considering that I've created everything else in my neigbourhood from scratch, I don't feel like I can settle for maxis strays either, although I prefer to think of them as townie pets.
I also want to make all members of the two Maxis families that came with OMGpetz into townies, but I'm not going to try that until I can townify their pets as well.

The Maxis default animals aren't so bad, though. They're not like townies at all.

How could they go wrong?  :D

Even in programming their behaviour they must have had an easy time: sim pets have more justification for doing aimless tasks than any AI controlled character.

Not to mention, no one was sufficiently stoned on caffeine to create ugly faces for them...

Heh. Open BodyShop. Take a look at some face templates. Now tell me, why should they have gone to the extent of finding new snouts for their sim-bulldogs?  :P

Sure, they look better on four-leggers, but whoever created template 18 evidently had a molossoid in mind.

Ok, one fugly dog face... much better than human males with one attractive face!