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[echoweaver]

Modding status: Doing stuff.

I really got bogged down in trying to get Warrior Cats ready for alpha release, so I gave myself a break and dusted off some old animation projects.

TIL how to do baby-holding animations! That's been the big hurdle to doing the update of Nona's breastfeeding mod with animations from TSM. The adult animations are quite nice and fit the TS3 baby burrito pretty well, but there's no baby animations because the baby in TSM is an object. I'm using some existing baby animations, but they need some tweaking.

I also revisited an old project to create child conversions of a bunch of Handiness animations, using a bunch of stuff I've learned about working in Blender since then.

I am going to get back to Warrior Cats. Getting a few smaller wins under my belt should help.

I'm also brainstorming a physical attraction mod to bring some of the features of Wonderful Whims into TS3. It looks like I could create a preference system where a sim perfers certain eye color, hair color, fitness, body weight, and breast size/facial hair dependent on sexual orientation. A physical attraction score could be derived from how much any given sim meets those preferences, and then romantic actions could be augmented by how attracted the sim receiving the interaction is to the sim doing the interaction.

E.g. if your sim tries to kiss a townie, the townie's reaction would be augmented by how attracted the townie is to you. Then if the townie initiates an interaction, your sim's response would be augmented by their attraction to the townie, which could be positive or negative. I'd like to have the romantic interaction stages, or whatever they're called (flirty, alluring, irresistible) go up faster without actually increasing the sim's relationship with each other, i.e. you can romance/jump in the sack with someone you're attracted to without knowing them very well.

Then the TS3 attraction system could be treated as social compatibility, which is really what it is anyway. Social compatibility is a more mutual thing, while physical attraction isn't.

Still poking around to see what's possible.

I'd probably call the mod Chemistry as a tribute to an old abandoned project of Twallan's.

Also -- this physical chemistry project would involve NO ANIMATING.

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[echoweaver]

Robotech? Nobody listed that yet?

(Originally Macross, but Robotech was what we got in the US.)

The first thing I saw in the original Japanese was Project A-ko, which is a satire, and it would have been far more useful to have seen other anime first. 😅

#echoweaver #non sims #memes #anime fandom in the 90s baby

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Our cats got worms.

More accurately, I think the kitten we adopted 6 months ago brought worms with her. Apparently, kittens can get worms from their mother's milk, so kittens of stray mommas often have them. Apparently, our poor little girl was not given a dewormer during her checkup before we adopted her OR her checkup with our vet after adoption. So it got very bad before we saw the symptoms, particularly because we didn't know what we were looking at.

So, being a dork, after we started treating the cats, I thought, "Worms are a huge medical problem for both dogs and cats. I really should have worms in my pet diseases mod."

Which means that I should have a treatment in the Warrior Cats mod. I looked up Warrior Cats medicine, and it doesn't seem to exist in the Warriors world! What a huge oversight by Erin Hunter 😆.

If I add it, I guess I can't lean on Warriors lore to come up with a treatment. Gotta think about what the symptoms would be. Increased hunger, bloating (from the accumulation of worms in the intestines -- yuck!). Gotta look at what happens when it becomes more advanced. Apparently animals can't get over worms without treatment.

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I don't suppose anyone has looked at converting animations from Sims Freeplay. Some of them are shockingly complex and adorable. I'm currently watching my pregnant sim take delighted selfies of herself and her baby bump. I would love to have that interaction in my TS3 game.

(I don't know if TS4 sims can do that, but I didn't notice when my sim was pregnant.)

There's also an accurate animation of about half of a Tai Chi cycle and a yoga sun salutation. I know TS4 has the yoga, and it's been converted to TS3, but I don't think I've ever seen Tai Chi.

#echoweaver #the sims freeplay #could you abbreviate that to TSF? #has anyone ever done that?

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I injured my back. AGAIN. I did this in February. It's not like this is in any way a normal thing for me. I think it was 10 years ago when I threw my back out the last time, and it was definitely all about carrying a too-heavy toddler.

It kinda has me freaked out. We have a big hiking vacation planned for June, and I would be trying to get in shape for that. Instead I'm having trouble standing up and walking from one room to the other. WTF.

Back pain just seems to infuse everything and make everything in life awful. I haven't wanted to do any work on any of my hobbies including Sims.

This is just a whiny rant. I do expect it to heal. But wow this kind of nagging pain just drags my entire emotional state off a cliff.

Thanks for fun things to read.

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I don't know if I should be embarrassed or not, but I just tried out Sims Freeplay, and I'm enjoying it. Sims 1 + real time gaming isn't a bad combination. I didn't realize how old this game was until I asked about it on a Sims 3 Discord server.

If anyone is still playing it and wants to be my friend, send me a PM!

#echoweaver #sims freeplay #the sims freeplay

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Bountiful Booper achived. That's my highest goal.

It's been great fun. Feel free to spam!

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replace one word in your username with boop tell me in the tags what it is

#echoweaver #ECHOBOOPER obvs #or maybe BOOPWEAVER? #I think I like that better #non-sims #meme

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I can see that I am not repeat-booping at nearly the correct volume. Mea culpa! 😄

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@anamoon63 tagged me, and I thought it was so cute I went and made a self-portrait immediately.

Standard caveat -- I'm currently 48 and do not look this young 😆. My hair was ginger into my late 20s/early 30s, at which point it browned out. I've tried various methods to add some ginger back in over the years. A few years ago I discovered Overtone, which is the bomb. Their ginger color also turns gray into a sort of strawberry platinum.

I didn't plan to color my gray, but that's a side effect. If I were a man, I would be distinguishedly gray at the temples. Since I'm a woman with long hair, I have white streaks which are actually kind of cool.

My glasses are pretty close to that shape but silver, not green. I had my eyes lasered in my mid-20s and only recently had to go back glasses -- nothing to bifocals, what an adjustment.

This was a fun tag! I hope others answer it.

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Also warrior cats mod update: There's still something wrong with the apprentice mentoring interaction. If I can get this stupid thing fixed, it will totally be ready for an alpha release -- unless I find something else horribly wrong in the process of fixing this thing.

I'm moving on it. This is one of those stupid things that ought to be easy, and I'm probably missing something obvious. I'll get my act together and ask questions in some modding groups.

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[echoweaver]

I can't believe how long my queue has been basically empty. Life has definitely been packed, and also sick. But I do seem to be able to do game stuff OR write, but not both.

I'm currently playing the Samples and really getting into our upcoming Gen 8. I've been sure of my heir since birth just because of their traits, but now that all the generation personalities are blossoming, things are going in unexpected directions. That's why I like gameplay-driven storytelling! The sweet spot for Sims for me is the feeling that I am not creating characters so much as nudging existing pixel-personalities into expressing themselves.

If I could just keep myself from making plans that are going to get trashed anyway....

Maybe I'll hold an heir poll after all! Then again, who knows what year that might happen.... The eldest Gen 8 is just about to age into a teen. It'll be a while before the torch is passed.

At any rate, I'm not dead, and I'm not even taking a break. I'll try to get some of my screenshots into posts so that this simblr can get closer to the present.

So here's a random thing that annoys me. I'd love to hear if anyone has a gameplay solution or a mod for this. Victoria's generation has been having children, but I don't know of any way for my household to interact with them. I really wanted Vicky to throw a post-birth baby shower for her best friend, but I don't have a way to invite toddlers over, much less babies. Is there any way to have a toddler play group or anything? For heaven's sake, inactives happily bring their toddlers randomly to the park. I just don't know a way to make it happen!

#echowever #random ramble instead of real content #sims 3 #meta-sims

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Ok, this whole thread really pisses me off.

Trolling a community forum because you have issues with a video game doesn't make you a crusader. It makes you a douchebag. You do realize that the EA staff you engage with on the forums aren't the ones who make decisions about EA App, right? They're the folks at the bottom of the hierarchy who definitely don't get paid enough to deal with this crap?

I work on a small team of FOUR DEVELOPERS producing free educational software for 10 million international users. I see a tiny fraction of the abuse that EA staff sees on a regular basis, and even that is hard.

I don't know what specifically zergula said that got under Cade's skin, and Cade did behave unprofessionally, but zergula is not the victim here.

Game staff are human beings.

Saying nasty things to people doesn't get you what you want any more than it did when you were five.

Grow up.

LOOK AT THIS EMAIL THAT EA CADE SENT ME THROUGH MY PERSONAL WEBSITE !!! !!!! !!!!

You guys, I can't even believe this. EA Cade searched up my personal website ( StephanieStebbins.com for those of you who don't know already) and sent me an email through it. Now, why would he do that when there is a perfectly good messaging system on the forums that he could use to contact me?????

This is very weird, right?! Like, what is he even doing???

I contacted EA and sent a copy to them and of course I am screaming my fool head off about it on Twitter because...just...W H A T ?????

It's the AUDACITY, yall. I CANNOT. I am not even mad about what he said (because it's bullshit, weak, and lame obviously), it's the fact that he is stalking my website to contact me when he could just send me a message on the forums. It's fucking WEIRD and I DON'T LIKE IT.

#echoweaver #meta-sims #video game fans are the absolute worst

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One of the great ironies of my life is that I never have enough time for my hobbies, and I'm always fantasizing about getting a sick day off work so that I can do more.

But then I get sick, which I have been all week with one of the many nasty upper respiratory things going around this season, and all I can do is stare at the wall or sleep. (And cough, soooo much coughing.) Even if I'm capable of simming, I don't want to. Then, when I'm healthy again, the joy returns and the time goes away.

The only way this fantasy works is if I take a "sick" day rather than an actual sick day.

#echoweaver #non-sims #coughcoughcough #this sucks

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I looked at where I was in the Warrior Cats (Warrior Pets) mentoring interactions, and it looked like I figured out my animation problem after all about the time I burned out. The code looked pretty solid and should fix the problem I remembered having.

So I loaded it up to my testing household, started the mentoring of an apprentice in fishing.... and they reset.

🤷‍♀️😭

This is probably why I stopped working on it when I did.

So now I gotta get the interaction working again WITHOUT the animations. I know it did work.

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mysticalcattriumph asked:

Hello! I'm really interested in your sims 3 warrior cats mod and I would be interested in downloading and playing it, regardless of if it is fully finished or not. Only if you're comfortable, of course, but this mod has me so excited and itching to play it. Please let me know and thank you for developing this mod. You rock!

mygosh243-blog asked:

Hello! I would very much so be interested in testing a WC mod!

Anonymous asked:

Any updates on the warrior cats mods? I just stumbled upon a previous ama and was curious since it's been a while.

I'm pretty sure I'm missing some asks about this!

I haven't been sure what to say for a while because I got so burned out at work that I couldn't even open my mod code.

But here's where we stand on the Warrior Cats mod --

I've added MOST core features I want, but some are pretty rough. I stalled out on animations for master-apprentice mentoring interactions. Animations are not my strong suit. I basically just want a loop of apprentice does action while master stands watching, talk, master does action while apprentice watches, talk. This isn't even really all that complicated, but the first several things I tried did not work.

What I could do instead while I'm working on this for folks who are interested in playtesting a more alpha version of the mod is just make all the outstanding mentoring interactions into talk loops. Pretty boring to look at, but mechanically it would do what I'm intending, which is allow the apprentice to learn a skill at double speed so long as the level is lower than the master's.

If folks are interested, I could put this together and make it available for alpha testing and feedback fairly soon.

What it has:

A Medicine Pet skill that allows a pet to cure fleas and wounds/diseases from my other mods using University herbs.

An Herb Lore skill that is basically pet gardening, allowing pets to gather and grow the ingredients needed by the Medicine Pet

A basic master-apprentice system that allows a pet to take on another pet as apprentice and mentor them in skills

What it doesn't have:

Much in the way of skill journals for the new skills, including info on what each level of the skill actually does.

A way for a pet to gain the first level of the Medicine Pet skill without apprenticing to a pet who already has the skill. I kind of thought that maybe a new clan would pray to Star Clan for a pet to be chosen as the very first Medicine Pet. This might be too ambitious. Right now, you have to cheat a pet to the first level of the skill, but it can gain skill from there by treating other pets.

Someone pointed out to me that Medicine Pets usually don't treat fleas directly. I thought Medicine Pets might be able to create a rodent bile item that other pets could use to treat fleas. This again might be too ambitious. Right now, only Medicine Pets can treat fleas.

Any kind of graduation system for apprentices. In fact I think the interaction for dropping an apprentice might be a Mean interaction.

I want pets with Level 10 Herb Lore to be able to make traveling herbs by combining several herbs.

If you think this alpha is enough to try out, let me know! Feedback welcome!

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Well, I peeked at my mods for the first time in months and released a long-needed update to Pet Fighting. It adds tuning values for in the increased rate that Hunger and Energy decay while wounds are active.

I fixed a couple of bugs, including one where pets were gaining Fighting skill long after a fight was over and another where pets were gaining skill from chasing each other at half the rate I intended.

Pets also now die/recuperate when they receive the Starving moodlet while also having a Grave Wound. This replaces my previous system that wasn't working.

Update here: https://modthesims.info/d/666801/pet-fighting-skill.html

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