Walk don't run

[Inge]

I did try a search first but got 36 pages back and I'm lazy...

Has anyone made a hack so that when you use "go here" the sim won't run unless you want him to?   I am testing out my new stairs and I need time to see if the sim is using the right place to start from.   Unfortunately every time I go into the lot they run for the first few times and I have to make them tired before they stop.

I would love a hack that made "go here" into two options- "walk here" and "run here" so I could choose.

[dizzy]

Did you try multiple route points + manual navigation?

[Inge]

Well yeah I ended up getting him to the point where he wasn't running any more, but it's time consuming when you're testing something to have to play for ages first each time before the sim will test your object sensibly

[dizzy]

I just thought that there's not much diff between two "Go Here"s and only one. 

[Brynne]

I had that problem while trying to film a scene for a movie. I was trying to get a group of sims to WALK down the sidewalk. Instead, it was like a race to the finish. Not quite the look I was going for.

I finally discovered that, instead of saying "go here", if you tell them to go do something at the ending point, they will walk. I ended up having all sims go to "read the paper", so they would calmly walk toward the finish line ending point, where the newspaper was.

[Inge]

Nice tip, thanks!  I shall put an object upstairs for them to go and do.

In the meantime, consider the hack requested, if any hacker is reading this who has experience of the walk-style code.

[Ness]

Wouldn't it just be easier to make the sims involved lazy so that they don't run anywhere, regardless?

[J. M. Pescado]

All sims run if your "go here" point is far enough away, presumably to keep it from taking 3 hours to get there. If you're filming and thus the time scale of the game isn't an issue, I suppose this might be a problem. Then again, who actually walks anymore, anyway?

[Brynne]

Well, the starting point wasn't that far away from the ending point, even from a sim's perspective. I was trying to get my sims to walk en masse, so I could make it look like they were strutting, too cool for words, yada yada yada, down the sidewalk toward the nightclub...so, even rendering the video clip at 20% of its original speed, it still looked pretty damn silly. Sims run with no expression on their faces, whatsoever. Hardly a "cool strut" look.  More like an "I have to pee like a russian racehorse, but only at 20% of the original speed" look.

[idtaminger]

I finally discovered that, instead of saying "go here", if you tell them to go do something at the ending point, they will walk. I ended up having all sims go to "read the paper", so they would calmly walk toward the finish line ending point, where the newspaper was.

See, I figured that out after I directed my sim to greet his gf, who was all the way on the other side of the large, estate-type lot. So he took like an hour, slowly strutting his stuff, to actually get to his gf. Now that was annoying.

[jsalemi]

See, I figured that out after I directed my sim to greet his gf, who was all the way on the other side of the large, estate-type lot. So he took like an hour, slowly strutting his stuff, to actually get to his gf. Now that was annoying.

That's where teleporting comes in really handy.

[Swiftgold]

Well, the starting point wasn't that far away from the ending point, even from a sim's perspective. I was trying to get my sims to walk en masse, so I could make it look like they were strutting, too cool for words, yada yada yada, down the sidewalk toward the nightclub...so, even rendering the video clip at 20% of its original speed, it still looked pretty damn silly. Sims run with no expression on their faces, whatsoever. Hardly a "cool strut" look.  More like an "I have to pee like a russian racehorse, but only at 20% of the original speed" look.

I just noticed Shaklin has something to give Sims different walks and facial expressions, for movies... I dunno, but that romance sim 'about to do a flirting interaction' walk is more of a strut, I guess... /random