Any good Sims4 modders resources?

[sirsleepy]

I searched over in the LL "Modders Resources" and "Tutorials" forums, but didn't find anything (other than 2 unanswered posts) relating to Sims.

 

Does anyone have any good tutorials (text or video) or discord channels with active modders where I can ask questions? I've went through as many tutorials as I can find, and I've taught myself a bit from looking at others' packages via S4Studio, but there's still a lot of things that I'm having trouble figuring out. There's several tutorials on making CC clothing, but I'm looking for more in the coding/XML side of modding.

 

The basics, like traits, buff, and social interactions are all pretty easy to figure out, but I'm having problems with things like giving someone a buff or trait based on an interaction (like sex) on a test condition of one person having another buff/trait. I know there's an "Interaction Running Test", but even if I select all of the "woohoo" and various "WW_Sex_Start_*" interactions, it doesn't fire as expected.

 

I've seen some use "statistics" for a lot of things and I have no idea how those fit in. I understand what they are, but not how to hook them into prebuilt actions, like sex, and use them in MC4.

 

thanks

[sirsleepy]

For anyone else looking for mod help, I just found the ShowSimInfo mod, which has been great in helping me debug and see what's happening with sims https://modthesims.info/d/576053/show-search-sim-info-mod.html  You can also run this on console ("ssi -help") in cases where clicking on a sim doesn't work (like during WW sex animations).

[Kino-kun]

I'd also like to find resources for modding, specifically when it comes to creating body parts and rigging them properly for use in Wicked Whims.

[miamisalad86]

yep yep yep! it would be great to find tutorials on such basic things as launching a custom buff from mod actions for example. in the mc4 itself are presets from the vanilla game, but the custom ones, as far as i can see, are not displayed

 

On 12/31/2021 at 11:20 PM, Kino-kun said:

I'd also like to find resources for modding, specifically when it comes to creating body parts and rigging them properly for use in Wicked Whims.

maybe it will be useful? https://turbodriver.itch.io/wickedwhims/devlog/137359/support-for-custom-cas-parts