Take it from the basegame folder. Seems like EA is cutting down on the redundancy a bit.

Thanks very much! :lovestruc

I was trying to make a mod for the money cheat, but I don't see it in my gameplay list for modding. Can someone please tell me what it's under?

You can only change the amount of money the kaching and motherlode cheats give in Cheats_0x30fdab1426dacd19. The money command is hardcoded and cannot be altered with a tuning mod.

Thank you =)

So let's say you wanted to change the ability of interactions based on age groups. Let's say you have The cuddle bed woohoo, right? And You wanted to make this available to teens. So, it has a short list of age groups allowed to do it... (Y,A,E), And in other .xml files and such, teens are associated with a T. Would it allow teenagers to do this if I added the T to it? (T,A,Y,E)?? Because, I did this. I followed every step of the tutorial. Did I do it wrong, oorrrr is it just not possible/easy like that?

It's not possible/easy like that. There are some hardcoded checks that will exclude teens from certain interactions and overrule anything in these interactions' ITUN resources.

I've trying to modfity the skill.xml and I have no idea what to change.

<Level_1>1800</Level_1>
<Level_2>1350</Level_2>
<Level_3>2400</Level_3>
<Level_4>3900</Level_4>
<Level_5>5700</Level_5>
<Level_6>8400</Level_6>
<Level_7>11700</Level_7>
<Level_8>15600</Level_8>
<Level_9>20400</Level_9>
<Level_10>27000</Level_10>

I keep looking at this section thinking this is what I need to change.

Well, what are you trying to change about it?

I dont have either the external or edit button. Do I need to download something?

The buttons were removed in a recent version of S3PE. Right-click on the resource to find the 'Notepad' entry. That is if you exported the resource to a new package first. Don't edit the game resources directly!

-_- it keeps giving me this message when i try to open the gameplay file:
Could not open package:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\Gameplay\GameplayData.package
Front-end Distribution: 11-0402-0951
Library Distribution: 11-0402-0951
Source: mscorlib
Assembly: mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
Access to the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\Gameplay\GameplayData.package' is denied.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)

at s3pi.Package.Package.OpenPackage(Int32 APIversion, String PackagePath, Boolean readwrite)

at S3PIDemoFE.MainForm.MainForm_PackageFilenameChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
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I need help! i dont know if this will change what i put in nectar I want to be able to put ANYTHING into nectar, so i though this might be how.

amazinggoddess, you probably need to start S3PE as Administrator to get access to the Program Files directories. Or try ticking the read-only tickybox when you open the file.

Also, I assume you want to be able to put everything into nectar, since putting anything into nectar is already possible. Putting everything into nector will not be possible, though, or at least it's not reasonable. Most restrictions and functionality of the nectar maker are hardcoded. You'd need to make an entirely new nectar maker script and basically remove all of its functionality and replace it with nonsense to enable it to handle everything. You might be able to turn all ingredients into fruits with an XML mod, but that's about all you can do with tuning modding.

The editor does not commit my changes.What must i do now?

hi i will just get to the point

i noticed this

<BaseAvailability>
<Age Children="True" Adults="True" Toddlers="False" Teens="True" Elders="True" />

also seen as this

C,T,Y,A,E

i was trying to see if i can get the start snubing interaction to work for everyone so i found <baseAvailability> T and added C, ,Y,A,E,

that didnt work so i tried adding
<Age Children="True" Adults="True" Toddlers="False" Teens="True" Elders="True" /> this

again no luck.

can you add fields like C,T,Y,A,E or can i only change what is already there?

for example if i knew how ea named one of its tags could i add this into a string?

am i needing to core mod?

thanks

That's the old format that was used prior to Generations and the related patch. It doesn't work any more.

You can add fields. Maybe try to copy&paste it from a different ITUN. Maybe you broke something.

There might be additional hard-coded restrictions, though, which aren't affected by tuning modding. Which ITUN are you trying to mod? Also if you post your package, I'll have a look at it.

i will get back to you about this asap just got some other things to sort out at the moment. i think i would be great to have bitchy mode for everyone. why does it just have to be teens.

oh by the way i may have had partial success originally because my tester sims where 2 C,T,Y,A,E

all where related in some form or other like mother father brother sister granma grandad. the C could start snubbing T brother but none of the others could, it may well be a part of the vanilla game but i dont play children much so i dont know, but it seams logical

Hi, is it possible for me to mod the chance of a vampire and sim having a vampire offspring? I always get vampire kids The sims 3 team advertised there would be a 50% chance, but it seems to be more like 100%!

Can anyone help me with editing xml for opening and closing times for LN bars?

Can I add lines to xmls or just edit the existing ones? For example, I'm trying to edit how many generations back a child can inherit genes from and I want to add this line: <kInheritGreatGrandparentTrait value="20">
I wasn't sure if it could be done with XMLs or if it would require a core mod.

Majuchan, have you had a look at some of the existing LN bar opening mods? I would suggest downloading Notepad++: you can then extract the XML from a bar opening mod, extract the same XML from the GameplayData.package, and Notepad++ can then automatically show you which lines are different, and therefore which lines need to be changed.

JNAS2006, sadly, that won't work. XML values have to be specifically referenced by the game. So, somewhere in the game, either the game core or a script says (as the most basic example I can think of) "If <kSimCanDoStuff> = Yes, then do stuff". Then when the script is actually being used, the script tells the game to look for kSimCanDoStuff and check whether it's set to Yes or No. If there's nothing in teh game core, or a script, referring to an XML field, then having that extra XML field - like kInheritGreatGrandparentTrait - won't do any harm, but the game will just ignore it.

So basically if I want to edit the genetics to my liking I'm going to have to learn core/script modding and then use the xml as a tuning tool to change the values? I know twallans SP has some genetics options(advanced genetics) and his mods are mostly script mods right? So I could PROBABLY assume I'd be ok learning script modding and going from there. I've already got XML modding down, so I might as well start script modding next XD

I wanted to make a XML mod that would allow wild animals to appear in Bridgeport. So, I created a mod using the tutorial and altering the <allowworldtype> (I put in Downtown) in the petpool part of the gamplay package, which I then created as a package and put in my sims 3 mods folder. So, my questions are, did I do this correctly, and if I did is there a way to tell if the XML mod I created has actually been loaded by the game?

EDIT: Never mind, it works.

I have a general question about XML modding. If I disallow autonomy for a certain interaction, is it important to make the change values for fun (for example) less attractive? Could it cause extra stress on the game if the sim keeps thinking "this looks so fun but I can't do it?" Hope this question makes sense to someone.