Altering mod for personal use

[mistercrowne]

First of all, I'd like to know if it's okay to ask for help here on this topic:

I'd like to alter an existing mod for personal use (not going to redistribute it or anything). The new Khlas mod adds some new wicked attributes that interact with one another, but some of them are only available for male sims (understandably). The author has made it clear he doesn't want to make these traits available for female sims, and that's 100% fair and I respect it completely - he's the author, if he doesn't want to do it that's his choice alone.

However, I would like to play with some of these attributes on sims of any gender.

So I guess the second question would be, is it possible to do that via S4S? How would I go about making this alteration?

Thanks in advance!

[Oops19]

First of all the TS4 license which you accepted allows you to use user contributed content and redistribute it without attribution (and put it behind your own paywall for 3 weeks).

So editing things for yourself is just fine and no one will be offended hopefully. And you can share it with friends in case they want to do the same. Public sharing would very likely offend Khlas.

 

You can edit all all tuning files with S4S. Batch export all Snippet Tuning, Buff and Trait files and locate the files with a gender check. Add FEMALE to all whitelists (if possible, the most easy and straightforward things to do), remove FEMALE from all blacklists or remove the checks altogether.

In case there is also a script mod it could also check for gender and block assigning of buffs, so this would be more work. While most often these tests are in the tuning files.

[mistercrowne]

On 12/26/2024 at 6:12 PM, Oops19 said:

You can edit all all tuning files with S4S. Batch export all Snippet Tuning, Buff and Trait files and locate the files with a gender check. Add FEMALE to all whitelists (if possible, the most easy and straightforward things to do), remove FEMALE from all blacklists or remove the checks altogether.

In case there is also a script mod it could also check for gender and block assigning of buffs, so this would be more work. While most often these tests are in the tuning files.

So, I know virtually nothing about coding but after much fiddling I managed to make most traits available to all genders - except the "Virile" trait, labeled internally as "Khlas:IsManlyTrait". I tried removing all "conflicting traits", adding "FEMALE" to the gender checks but it still doesn't show up on the wicked attributes menu, while all other traits I tried do.

 

EDIT: removed some code that I shared without permission.

Edited December 28, 2024 by mistercrowne

[Oops19]

You should still be able to add the trait manually with a vanilla TS4 cheat command.

In case you have S4CL installed it will be `s4clib.add_trait 2534560113`

 

PS: Iin case you want to automate the patch process you can use Patch XML to modify the tunings while loading - this allows to modify and/or replace multiple tunings in one go when starting TS4.  While one should have an idea about XML and xpath to use it.

[mistercrowne]

I just tried adding it manually with both the 'trait.equip_trait' command, and the 'sclib.add_trait' commands but neither work. The trait doesn't show up in the simology panel, and S4CL even gives me a fail message:

 

I suspect the trait still has something blocking it from being used by female sims, though I have no clue what it might be.

 

As I mentioned, I'm not super familiar with coding in general, so I'm not super comfortable using Patch XML even though it sounds really handy.

 

Thanks for the help either way!

[Khlas]

 

On 12/26/2024 at 6:16 AM, mistercrowne said:

that's 100% fair and I respect it completely

you don't respect my choice because you try to alter my mod without permissions and talk about it in a public forum, which does not feel like "personal use" to me. 

If you actually respected my choice, you would use the mod as it is.

Asked for your thread to be removed because it violates the rule #1 of the forum.

[mistercrowne]

I'm not redistributing your mod with the alterations, and I don't intend to, which is why I mentioned it's for personal use.

But if you take issue with it, I'll just drop it. I'm sorry if this offended you somehow, I appreciate the work you put into it regardless.

[Khlas]

29 minutes ago, mistercrowne said:

I'm not redistributing your mod with the alterations, and I don't intend to, which is why I mentioned it's for personal use.

But if you take issue with it, I'll just drop it. I'm sorry if this offended you somehow, I appreciate the work you put into it regardless.

would have been better to dm me instead of doing your thing and sharing code part from my mod here publicly without permissions given. 

I know the person talking with you which I blocked doesn't care about community etiquette (thus why, with many others reasons, this person is blocked) but this forum do and all others common places. I write this in many places including this forum :



It's fine to use stuff for personal use but it stopped being personal the time you opened this thread.

either way I will maybe make a gender unlocker one day but it's not high priority at all because I don't feel updating this everytime I update my mod with new stuff

Also I am not against someone doing an unlocker as long as they ask me permission to do it and that I can check their unlocker before, then maybe being shared publicly.  but it's too early to do such thing since the mod is growing every months.

Edited December 28, 2024 by Khlas

[mistercrowne]

Noted. I didn't DM you simply because I didn't want to bother you directly, but in hindsight it would have been wiser.

 

My sincere apologies.

 

EDIT: I edited my previous post to remove the code I had shared.

Edited December 28, 2024 by mistercrowne