#phoebejaysimsPostalMod

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Greeting Card & Sim Post Mod Final(?) Update - WIP

Thanks for the love on the mods so far everyone! 

I want to give the testers some more time to check them out, however if all goes well I hope to release them both within the next week or so.

As some know, my computer blew up (literally) a couple days ago. For a minute I thought all was lost! Thankfully my new computer came today and my data is safe so all is well! [My brother rightly told me it’s time to make a github account]

To celebrate, here’s a peek at a third mod I was working on privately. I hope to release it alongside the other two.

I extracted the ‘work’ concept from my postal mod and expanded it veerry slightly. (Inspired by Arsil’s custom generic role mod and the savvier seller mod too) 

I present my Generic Retail Register.

Hopefully this mod fills a gap for those of us who want our sims to have a job, without having a “job”. 

For example, I want my tattoo artist to be at her shop between 11 and 17 every day except Monday. I want her to route there as she would any other job, and stand behind the register until another sim decides to interact with her, or I tell her to give them a tattoo. If I have ‘strict tending enabled’ the register will call her back once she’s done anyway.

Alternatively: maybe I want a teen to have a job at the clothes store in town? It’s easy to give them a job for three days a week after school. I don’t have to worry about closing the registers on weekends or anything like that.

Who knows what other generic retaily things may be added to it in the future?

A small aside...

Update for those who know I have a youtube channel, and for those who don’t (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu0_ZCfIaZTGGxKSEw5PcsQ)

I still have one video from December that I need to upload, and now that my new computer is running sims soooo smoothly, I should have another in the works soon.

I’ll likely be showing off some of the gameplay of these mods, and for those of you who are interested in how I run various aspects of my town, please stay tuned!

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Greeting Cards / Postal Mod WIP

Prelude: A mod, you say? Well, yes. Now that I kind of know what I’m doing (as much as a noob can) I feel like it’s okay to share what I’ve been working on.

Without making this prelude too long, learning to mod has been like trying to get blood out of a stone at times. It took me three days to get a simple interaction into the game (in a project that I’ve temporarily given up on lol) so I’m surprised this current mod is working out thus far.

Main: I’ve always wanted a postal system in the sims 3. There’s a cool mod for sims 2 with a post system and another with a greeting card system. Basically, your sim buys the themed card, then you choose the inactive sim to send it to, and post it in the outdoor letter box. It’s delivered to the inactive sim in the mail.

How hard could it be to adapt that to the sims 3, right? RIGHT?

Long story short: I successfully created a greeting card object. Current interactions are: Send Card To (brings up list of sims in world to choose from) and Write Message (you write a custom message) .

See below the cut for more info.

I’m aware the two screenshots are practically the same lol. I’ll have better ones next time.

Plans and progress under the cut.

Current Progress:

When you hover over the card with the mouse cursor, a tooltip pops up with:

the sim chosen from ‘Send Card To’, 

the message written,

the sim who wrote the message (the name of this sim = the sim that used the Write Message interaction.)

Current Card Plans:

To add a ‘Pick up’ interaction as an alternative to dragging into inventory.

Add a ‘Read’ interaction. The card information will pop up in a nice lil notification, the sim will clap their hands or something, a custom buff perhaps? (custom buffs are way too advanced for me rn tbh)

To make an object that you can buy cards from.

Different types of cards? Valentines? Christmas? The different buffs would come in handy for this.

Current Postal Plans:

Letter stamps for sending greeting cards.

Parcel stamps for sending other inventory items.

A register to buy the stamps from as well as to send post.

A post box to send post, requiring the stamps purchased from the register.

Now, I have an idea of how I would implement these ideas. The question is if I’ll actually know how to do it. Thankfully, my little brother is a software developer so he’ll help me if I run into problems. :)

My plans list is not exhaustive, nor are the current plans set in stone, so I’ll update you on future plans/changes in other posts.