Shooting scenes and townie makeovers
Jun. 26th, 2009 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katrisimsMy next chapter is going nicely. Or would be, if I didn't suck at shooting scenes and all the surrounding stuff. I've been trying to shoot the final scene of the next chapter for a couple of days now, and have pretty much nothing. Apart from the fact that the weather's been way too good for simming most of the time, why is that?
Well, I need to shoot this scene on a community lot. So, I used an existing lot which I modified kinda long ago to look fancy like I want it. The scene is pretty simple. I only need two sims for it: one of my own and a made over townie. So, what do I do? I go to the lot to buy some cheaty objects in advance so I can use them for shooting pics. There comes the first thing I trip over: oops, not all poseboxes and such seem to be available on community lots. I curse and send my sim over anyway. Maybe I can somehow manage without.
Well, when my sim arrives on the set, I realize another thing: as it's a community lot, they can't use the phones I've placed there. No actions available. And yeah, I need them to talk on the phone. Things seem to be pretty restricted if you just go to a community lot. So what I do is send my sim home and re-think things. I decide I'll buy the lot, at least that way I can better control which other sims there are going to be on the lot. The family doesn't have the money of course, so I have to multi-motherlode them. Thankfully I remembered to write down their funds first so I can sell the business and cheat the money back to its poor state later.
So, now my sim is the owner of a business. Back to the lot, off you go. That's when I find out I still can't buy all of my pose boxes even on a business lot. At least my sims should be able to act a little more freely now. When I was fooling around on the lot last time, I saw a townie I tought would work nicely in my scene, and I have their name down. After finally finding them in Inge's teleporter, I get them on the lot, yay. So next I need to make them over. And that's where I seem to utterly fail.
I tried multiple things, but couldn't get the townie to own clothes so they could change into them. I made them selectable with the teleporter. Realized that they had no extra clothes because when clicking on the changing booth, I only got "change into" options. Clicking on a clothes rack, they could only try on things. I found that by opening the business, I could work on my sim's relationship towards the townie, and then "suggest outfit" to them. It took several tries before they really started considering buying. Finally managed to persuade them buy. I could select the outfit they bought, so far so good. It's just that after they had bought it, they still could not "plan outfit" on the changing booth. Sigh.
Oh well. My next thought was to put boolprop testingCheatsEnabled to true, because "there has got to be a way to change a sim's clothes there". And there was. There were, in fact, two, but I got neither of them to work. First I noticed that by shift clicking on the sim I get an option to plan outfit. Great, I think and click it. I got the screen where you can pick clothes for buying, and I picked. I wanted a separate outfit, and after clicking "ok" I suddenly wasn't sure whether I'd put the bottom in the cart, too. So when I got the question "this outfit can't be worn until you buy it, do you want to buy now?" I clicked "no". Only to find out that was a mistake.
The game got me out of the whole dialog, and when I did the same thing again, I never got the question of buying again, but from the buying screen it went directly to the picking clothes to wear screen - which had no clothes to pick from. Great. I also found a spawnable clothing tester via the testing cheats, but that ultimately had the same problem: because the townie owns no clothes, they can't change into them.
So I'm kinda frustrated as you can maybe tell. For two days I've been trying to shoot a tiny scene, and I can't even get a townie made over. (And of course, they might appear in a whopping two pictures total I think.) I feel so pathetic about this. Sometimes it just sucks to be a beginner.
I guess I'll try again after restarting the game, to use the plan outfit option that the testing cheats offers, maybe I can get the buy option again. Or if that doesn't work, I might make them a family member for the moment so I could maybe get them to use the clothes the family owns. But tonight I'm too tired to try anything anymore.
So that's what's up with my sims. Me making them stand around while I try to figure out how to shoot a scene. Poor things. If anyone had the patience to read through this long and boring ramble, thanks for listening. Oh and if you happen to know how to make over townies, I'd appreciate a tip. =)
Now I think I'll quit this rambling and go to bed, maybe I'll figure something out later. For now, g'night all!
Well, I need to shoot this scene on a community lot. So, I used an existing lot which I modified kinda long ago to look fancy like I want it. The scene is pretty simple. I only need two sims for it: one of my own and a made over townie. So, what do I do? I go to the lot to buy some cheaty objects in advance so I can use them for shooting pics. There comes the first thing I trip over: oops, not all poseboxes and such seem to be available on community lots. I curse and send my sim over anyway. Maybe I can somehow manage without.
Well, when my sim arrives on the set, I realize another thing: as it's a community lot, they can't use the phones I've placed there. No actions available. And yeah, I need them to talk on the phone. Things seem to be pretty restricted if you just go to a community lot. So what I do is send my sim home and re-think things. I decide I'll buy the lot, at least that way I can better control which other sims there are going to be on the lot. The family doesn't have the money of course, so I have to multi-motherlode them. Thankfully I remembered to write down their funds first so I can sell the business and cheat the money back to its poor state later.
So, now my sim is the owner of a business. Back to the lot, off you go. That's when I find out I still can't buy all of my pose boxes even on a business lot. At least my sims should be able to act a little more freely now. When I was fooling around on the lot last time, I saw a townie I tought would work nicely in my scene, and I have their name down. After finally finding them in Inge's teleporter, I get them on the lot, yay. So next I need to make them over. And that's where I seem to utterly fail.
I tried multiple things, but couldn't get the townie to own clothes so they could change into them. I made them selectable with the teleporter. Realized that they had no extra clothes because when clicking on the changing booth, I only got "change into" options. Clicking on a clothes rack, they could only try on things. I found that by opening the business, I could work on my sim's relationship towards the townie, and then "suggest outfit" to them. It took several tries before they really started considering buying. Finally managed to persuade them buy. I could select the outfit they bought, so far so good. It's just that after they had bought it, they still could not "plan outfit" on the changing booth. Sigh.
Oh well. My next thought was to put boolprop testingCheatsEnabled to true, because "there has got to be a way to change a sim's clothes there". And there was. There were, in fact, two, but I got neither of them to work. First I noticed that by shift clicking on the sim I get an option to plan outfit. Great, I think and click it. I got the screen where you can pick clothes for buying, and I picked. I wanted a separate outfit, and after clicking "ok" I suddenly wasn't sure whether I'd put the bottom in the cart, too. So when I got the question "this outfit can't be worn until you buy it, do you want to buy now?" I clicked "no". Only to find out that was a mistake.
The game got me out of the whole dialog, and when I did the same thing again, I never got the question of buying again, but from the buying screen it went directly to the picking clothes to wear screen - which had no clothes to pick from. Great. I also found a spawnable clothing tester via the testing cheats, but that ultimately had the same problem: because the townie owns no clothes, they can't change into them.
So I'm kinda frustrated as you can maybe tell. For two days I've been trying to shoot a tiny scene, and I can't even get a townie made over. (And of course, they might appear in a whopping two pictures total I think.) I feel so pathetic about this. Sometimes it just sucks to be a beginner.
I guess I'll try again after restarting the game, to use the plan outfit option that the testing cheats offers, maybe I can get the buy option again. Or if that doesn't work, I might make them a family member for the moment so I could maybe get them to use the clothes the family owns. But tonight I'm too tired to try anything anymore.
So that's what's up with my sims. Me making them stand around while I try to figure out how to shoot a scene. Poor things. If anyone had the patience to read through this long and boring ramble, thanks for listening. Oh and if you happen to know how to make over townies, I'd appreciate a tip. =)
Now I think I'll quit this rambling and go to bed, maybe I'll figure something out later. For now, g'night all!
