[Sims3][WIP] KinkyWorld v0.37 [Updated: May 3rd 2019]

[landess]

2 hours ago, AnnaMally said:

my wife loves MLP because she thinks the ponies are cute

 

22 hours ago, AnnaMally said:

 I'm quite familiar with the menstrual cycle system because - well, other than being female myself xD

 

Okay then.

[AnnaMally]

3 minutes ago, landess said:

Okay then.

Lesbians are a thing.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, AnnaMally said:

She. She says. LMAO

Sorry... when you mentioned your wife, I assumed incorrectly. ( No offense was intended. But, you "LMAO", so I guess it's good. )))

2 hours ago, AnnaMally said:

Isn't that menopause? Reaching elder stage and still being fertile would be too much,

I think Nraas Woohooer will allow elders to give birth up to the day they die, with no cut off.

2 hours ago, AnnaMally said:

(it's not my first language)

LALALALALA... Not my first language either. 4 years at University, living in US for 10 and 2 years of advanced English when I came here. I have ad a lot of practice. But, I always tell people to never apologize that English is not your first language!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have met some Americans who don't speak English very well. )))))

[AnnaMally]

5 minutes ago, LadySmoks said:

Sorry... when you mentioned your wife, I assumed incorrectly. ( No offense was intended. But, you "LMAO", so I guess it's good. )))

LALALALALA... Not my first language either. 4 years at University, living in US for 10 and 2 years of advanced English when I came here. I have ad a lot of practice. But, I always tell people to never apologize that English is not your first language!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have met some Americans who don't speak English very well. )))))

No worries, you're fine! I'm used to people assuming that hahaha I find it to be quite amusing.

 

I don't live in USA, but some relatives of mine do, so I pretty much don't speak english in my offline life hahaha I'm self taught and usually do good, but sometimes I just FLERP XD Which is your first language? Mine is brazilian portuguese!

 

>>> "I think Nraas Woohooer will allow elders to give birth up to the day they die, with no cut off."
That sounds super scary, remembering how they almost instantly die when Woohooing. @__@

[Guest]

36 minutes ago, AnnaMally said:

Which is your first language? Mine is brazilian portuguese!

Russian and Ukrainian. ) I'm from Lugansk, so we only spoke Ukrainian in school... if the teacher spoke it!

38 minutes ago, AnnaMally said:

That sounds super scary, remembering how they almost instantly die when Woohooing. @__@

I don't remember that happening. I've only ever played one time, a long time ago as an elder sim. I tend to play my selfie sim and one of my husband. I left aging on and eventually we died. I continued to play the children and grandchildren, but it was sad that we died!!!!!!! So, now I play as vampires and usually the game slows to where I can't continue long before we die!

 

Anyway, when I did play as an elder, and before I had KW, and only Woohooer, and a few of the early mods like Animated Woohoo, my sims woohooed constantly and it did kill them. ))) In fact, they lived much longer than the age that was set in the EA options menu! )))

 

Hey landess! I'm getting close!!!

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[jdw6]

? I see my ability to open the can of worms and make ? hit the fan is still alive and well. ? Hopefully I didn't ruffle too many feathers. Doesn't sound like it, but if I did, it wasn't intentional.

 

RE: immature setting

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I didn't know if it was an attempt by KW to change that EA 2/3 of teenage stage before able to 'do some adult things' beyond the other setting that is to allow teenage interactions or not.

 

RE: other settings

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Yep, maybe my "manbrain" just can't handle certain topics w/o exploding.  ? ?

 

RE: life

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Yeah... been single far far FARRRRRRRR too long & had no sisters... some things you just don't discuss w/ mom. ? ? ? That new fangled "sex ed" class concept came after I graduated, it's not that old of a class. At least I'm not as old as landess ? those outfits I see in some old LAPD cop drama from '67-'70 ? sooo glad I came after them. lol Still have to take LSD every now and then... just the Drive, not the drug.  (Which makes me wonder, what's everyone's thoughts on what Simoïne is closest to?)

 

RE: language

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All languages are hard. I'm sure I've had several conversations with people in the equivalent of a 5-year-old's vocabulary. ?‍♂️ We all gotta start somewhere. Like LadySmoks says: never apologize about your 2nd language. Heck, I didn't know until you said something, since you sounded like you know English better than some multi-generation US-born people I went to school with. Funny how when you have to work at learning something, you value it more than when you were born around it.

 

RE: elder woohoo causing death

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Somewhere I read this long, humorous, account of a player purposefully trying to get the elder guy in his household knocked off via woohoo. Took him quite a while, even with multiple all-nighter woopie sessions.  ("cut off" ? oh, not that ?)

 

RE: mod

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yeah, the details Oniki put into it is overwhelming. Not really surprising that "she" needed a break (or a new project) the size of this thing. I've learned a whole lot, and am saddened that so much was hard-coded, since I see quite a bit of those sorts of things cause frustration in new users. My (currently non existent) day job is to make sense out of messy "spaghetti code" in legacy projects. And KW is a classic example of that type of project, I know of 83 versions of this project. That much change can make anything hard, but this is one of the more ambitious game mods, or, heck any project for a "solo" developer.  That it works as well as it does is simply amazing.  NRass mods mostly started with just a solo dev, but then got handed off to a team, which is probably the key to why they run so well.  I think KW has about the complexity of NR SP+Woohooer+MasterController+Career+Vector but also with handling animations from pretty much any creator.

 

RE: merging mods & CC

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I like to suggest people start off using the "extract into archive_name" option that 7-zip has.  This way, things will be more organized, and if you want to change version (of, say, KW) all you have to do is pop in a new directory and remove the old, instead of finding the 16 packages (at least KW's are all named with an easy to find prefix).  But, after a while you can get into the multiple thousands of files and then merging gets looked at. S3PE doesn't allow (or at least I didn't find it) adding all packages in a folder and all sub folders, it just does one directory at a time. I had 873 folders. Thankfully grouped into similar things (clothing, accessories, skins, etc.).  But in copying all the files from all sub folders into a single folder to allow merging w/ s3pe easily, I learned that I had a few duplicate skins and sliders. I guess, as much as I also like suggesting people use the sims3dashboard, even it has its limits and can't check everything.

RE: startup times

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Here's some testing results for the curious.  I made a backup copy of the entire game dir, and then copied, changing out only the Mods folder so that was the absolute only difference.  Only mistake I made was putting a different version of KW than what that game originally had, but I kept the same (newer) version for both tests.  Point there being that these times are slightly longer due to the KW update routine. I also had mouse-in-hand to minimize any user-required interactions.  This was with a world that had been going for quite a while.  The Bridgeport_0x09ffe3d7.nhd file is 274 MB in size.  Smaller worlds will always start faster.  
 

From starting TS3W.exe until KW finished it's dimmed-screen loading:

 

before merging (4.7 GB / 3437 packages): 14:14

after merging (4.5 GB / 97 packages): 8:29 (a 40% improvement)

 

Merging is all about load speed, not disk space savings.  It saved some, 0.2 GB, which might be more needed for some players than others.  Now to just remove the unwanted/unneeded CC... before getting to this point. Save yourselves, it's probably too late for me. ?  And I know I don't have nearly as much as some of y'all.  Anyway, my goal is to knock the size down to under 4 GB. Was pushing 7 GB a few months ago.
 

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[landess]

8 hours ago, landess said:

Okay then.

Didn't judge, just noticed.

 

8 hours ago, AnnaMally said:

Lesbians are a thing.

Some of my best friends are, although I don't know any whom married. Rare!

 

5 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

Hey landess! I'm getting close!!!

Looking good. Waiting patiently....

 

3 hours ago, jdw6 said:

Merging is all about load speed

Yep. Many don't realize files are akin to the computer getting up, going to the bookcase and either pulling out one page, sitting and reading(separate mods), or getting an entire book, sitting and reading it all at once.(merged mods). The time it takes to stop a loading process, find the next file, load it, rinse and repeat add up.

 

3 hours ago, jdw6 said:

thoughts on what Simoïne is closest to?

There's Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Rohypnol, besides Cannabis.

 

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I'm presently trying to figure out how the option to 'offer drugs for sale' works. I've seen the option before, but now when I want the option to present itself, it's nowhere to be found. Not sure if it's trait, or profession related, or something else entirely.... Maybe it's only weed/etc.  Working on my Breaking Bad saves - Walt and Jesse cooking.....

 

Checking back a few hundred pages I found the official wording 'Make Shady Deal'. Until I figure it out, I'll just use @madone22 suggestion for: http://www.modthesims.info/d/512416/produce-stand-updated-v2.html 

 

Okay - checking patch notes (no chance to verify yet) V0.36 shows Cannabis and Simoine can be 'sold', and V0.37 added Blue Sky - but says nothing about it being added to the 'make shady deal' options.....

[landess]

2 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

the game slows to where I can't continue long before we die!

I tend to 'reset town' after a week or 2 of gameplay (usually around 4:30-5AM) so less chance of traveling Sims losing their vehicles.

 

Worst case scenario ( I had to do with Bridgeport, one of my oldest saves). You'll want to grab a pen and paper to keep track, so you'll copy each and every household to the Library Bin/Edit town. Then start a new save/town, and then place all households back where they belong. There may be ways to keep relationships, but I never worried about it. Even using all the tools (save cleaner/etc.) eventually a town begins to grind to a halt. Sims inventories, relationships, work histories, so much just clogs the arteries....

 

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[jdw6]

3 hours ago, landess said:

There's Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Rohypnol, besides Cannabis.

Since Rohypnol is a sedative, and Simoine isn't, I'd say Simoine is closer to Meth, especially since it can be made at the lab thing. But the part of it being a pill had me thinking more LSD, and I do think I've seen them act a bit psychotic after taking it a few times.  Dunno.

3 hours ago, landess said:

'Make Shady Deal'.

I think I remember (but not which version I was using) that I could offer Simoine, but I never had it actually bought.  This had me falling back to the "KW depends on moods, and if the other sim isn't in the mood, they won't do it" mental state... which for now has had me giving up on that again.

3 hours ago, landess said:

but says nothing about it being added to the 'make shady deal' options.....

A quick check for the word "shady" (no, not slim... or the other slim) on the 375 code came up with these filenames.  That 1st one led me to finding that there's new rabbit hole interactions on the (guessing) hideout.  The others (as I've gotten used to seeing) referenced things by some "long" decimal number (not a hex code for instance ID from the xml files) so figuring out which it's got listed isn't always easy.  The others didn't really give any major "a-ha!" moments (other than noticing that there's a check to clean up if the dealer is dead).

Oniki/Interactions/Hideout_SellDrugs.cs
Oniki/Interactions/ShadyDeal.cs
Oniki/Interactions/ShadyDealer.cs
Oniki/Interactions/ShadyItem.cs
Oniki/Interactions/ShadyMenu.cs

 

Some people sniff glue, I sniff code. If it's strange enough, it leaves the brain feeling loopy. lol

3 hours ago, landess said:

so less chance of traveling Sims losing their vehicles.

I'm guessing you have Overwatch run at 3am?  It's resets are "supposed to" help with the misplaced vehicle thing, but I've not actually seen it recover one.

 

3 hours ago, landess said:

Worst case scenario

Kinda in the initial phase of that, but it's boring so I keep distracting myself with other things.

 

3 hours ago, landess said:

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Huh? I've seen this on a few of your posts lately. Is it an attempt at adding a post footer or something else? (I may have missed an earlier explanation, so sorry if I did.)

[Zathuul]

22 hours ago, landess said:

Just enter - skin texture - into the search 'this forum'. This includes my recent post on making/using a FUTA skin.

 

This makes me smile and SMH. NRaas created Master Controller, Error Trap, and Woohooer. I can guarantee you they don't conflict with each other as I have those 3 plus many more plug-ins for NRaas. -BUT- if it works for you, that is all that matters. To me, Overwatch and Error Trap are like the Sims 3 unofficial patch (Skyrim/Fallout 4) as it addresses problems the Dev's never could or saw fit to. You don't need Woohooer at all, but I use it for other things I got use to for years before adding KW.

 

 

Wait I did delete more then two mods, but I just couldn't really tell. I'm mostly guessing, probably should re-add the mods I used slowly before I assume. Uh I noticed also, if I randomize the horses they go invisible and show their penis floating... the other pets don't do this. Odd and it effects randomly generated horses, so you see random floating horse dicks around. I think I'm missing something or is that normal? I did read the description though and got all I needed, so I don't think I'm missing anything.

 

I got Overwatch still and yea Error Trap did help a lot and after testing without it... I already miss it. Maybe it was a different mod causing conflicts? but I don't know, I had a small amounts of mods that modified anything so it was hard to tell.

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Also I started searching for a skintone/texture on sexysims and really liked navetsea F-IN TS3 Adult glam default, maybe because it's very detailed but it looks really good.

[Guest]

9 hours ago, landess said:

10 hours ago, jdw6 said:

Merging is all about load speed

Yep. Many don't realize files are akin to the computer getting up, going to the bookcase and either pulling out one page, sitting and reading(separate mods), or getting an entire book, sitting and reading it all at once.(merged mods). The time it takes to stop a loading process, find the next file, load it, rinse and repeat add up.

I had described it as being like reading War And Peace with one word printed on each page. But, the big problem with merging is saving the individual files and archiving them. I didn't think to do this when I first began merging packages, and am paying for it now as I try to update some old stuff that is merged and has no name inside the merged packages. (

9 hours ago, landess said:

I tend to 'reset town' after a week or 2 of gameplay (usually around 4:30-5AM) so less chance of traveling Sims losing their vehicles.

It becomes "start new game" time. Usually by the time it slows, my sims know everyone in every world they've traveled to, have raised 10 kids to young adult and moved out, have maxed every skill and are rich, living in a mansion with so much crap in it that the house alone would crash a lesser laptop!

 

In fact, just started a new game, and my greatest annoyance with KW already happened by 10 am on day one! "My panties are wet, I better take them off" and then went to the dresser and put on a bra while wearing a bikini top!

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[vtb]

I wish the tools worked on a mac still. Would be nice to be able to merge several into small groups at least.

All josh Shoes, all josh revealing tops, all josh accessory lingerie/stockings, etc. Even just stuff like that would seem to help both load time, and troubleshooting.

 

Maybe when the 64 bit mac version comes out, someone will fix/rebuild some of the tools.

[landess]

6 hours ago, jdw6 said:

thinking more LSD

There was another drug listed in the online shopping which 'would' be LSD, but I forgot about it as I was focused on the drugs one can craft at the lab workbench.

6 hours ago, jdw6 said:

sim isn't in the mood, they won't do it

Per earlier posts, for another to buy Simo e Simo, they must be 'addicted'. So going the produce stand route for now. (getting them addicted means trying  to spike drinks - it all gets a bit complicated)

6 hours ago, jdw6 said:

misplaced vehicle thing

If you reset a Sim (reset town as well) or save/load a game while they are driving, they lose the vehicle. Reset leaves it parked on the road, while save/load puts them on the side of the road as pedestrians. Sucks if driving a $400k Ferrari.

6 hours ago, jdw6 said:

attempt at adding a post footer

Every now and then I go up to the top, browse users, and copy the online # for shits and giggles. This site is quite busy and with the Covid thing, it's only gotten busier.

3 hours ago, Zathuul said:

you see random floating horse dicks around. I think I'm missing something or is that normal?

I addressed this earlier WITH screenshots.

3 hours ago, Zathuul said:

navetsea F-IN TS3 Adult glam default,

Search this forum for Navetsea as well. ( I also use the Glam, but it's one of many, not a default replacer )

[landess]

31 minutes ago, vtb said:

I wish the tools worked on a mac still.

While My original disk has both the Windows and Mac programs, I get you. I always thought of the MAC kinda like a console lately. No disrespect. The fact Windows has such a vice-grip on the balls of common PC user is one reason I say that. Most Apple products seem to be immune to the type of variety caused issues that still plague the PC market, but it's gotten better since the '90's'.

 

I remember a quote from a coworker, whom did board level 'pc' repairs in the late '80's'.  Apple software was loosely written, because they had dedicated systems to write for, and weren't worried about squeezing every bit of space used by code to program with. While the early DOS code writers had to be extremely creative and could do more programming on lesser hardware. Remember - this was the late '80's' though.

 

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[vtb]

Normally its not an issue. I mean, MacOS is BSD/Unix based and has been for nearly 20 years now. The real issue is that Sims3 wasn't really written for the mac, and was a cider port. Cider acts as a directX wrapper and a fake copy of windows running as an app, so that the windows version of the game interacts with a fake version of DirectX provided by cider.

 

For example, the "The Sims3.app" file you click on to open the launcher, is actually a package. Using the terminal, you can look inside it and see that it has a whole huge file structure. The Sims3.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/windows/system32/cgD3D9.dll  (and dozens of other .dll files)

 

Its like playing UNO with a regular deck of cards. Aces become wild draw 4's, kings become Wild's, queens become skips, jacks become reverses, and 10's become draw2's or something like that. Works fine in theory, but two beers later you forget whats a skip and whats a reverse and have to look at a cheat sheet and that takes time (and lets other players know you have SOMETHING worth looking up on a cheat sheet). Its significantly less than ideal.

 

Several mac games in the 2007ish-2010ish era were done this way. Most of them had much higher system requirements on the mac than windows because of the entire extra layer of crap. Many didn't run on anything with intel graphics (or ran in powerpoint slideshow mode). Or didn't run well fullscreen, or ONLY ran well fullscreen, or only at certain resolutions.

 

This also means, that with cider not updating, and games not updating, even though newer hardware has come out, newer graphics cards, newer processors, newer drivers and newer operating systems, here my machine is, still using some stupid translation layer that is emulating directX 9 from 2014ish.

 

8/12 cores, 16/24 thread dual Xeon workstation with a small mountain of ram? Doesn't matter. You get to use 2GB of ram and pretend like its a single core machine with a shitty graphics card from 2012.

 

At one point in the past, I wrote a script that would build a 30GB ramdisk and had scripts that would copy my entire sims3 application folder, as well as mods folder into the ramdisk, then create symbolic links everywhere so that it ran everything directly out of ram. Much faster, but a super pain in the butt to troubleshoot mods when anytime it crashed with a black fullscreen you'd have to pull the plug and then reset your ramdisk and figure out what you did differently/wrong. Not so hard to remember 1 undo, but 2, 3, 4?

 

I'm so ready for the 64 bit version since its supposedly going to not be using the old cider wrapper for graphics and instead will be written to use Apple's Metal API's to talk to the GPU's without umpteen layers in between.

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1 hour ago, vtb said:

Maybe when the 64 bit mac version comes out, someone will fix/rebuild some of the tools.

Highly doubtful, but always a remote possibility... IF the person making the MAC version has a MAC! TS3 is dead to EA, so regardless of anything, they won't be doing anything more with it, and haven't for a long time... which is good!!!

 

As landess said, so many people have Windows based PC's, including the people making mods and tools for TS3... and I guess it's a different set of programming rules?

 

Many tools that I use haven't been updated in 5 or even 10 years. 

[Zathuul]

2 hours ago, landess said:

I addressed this earlier WITH screenshots.

 

I'm trying my best to find this one you addressed right now with the floating horse dicks, but gosh damn there's a lot of posts and it's pretty much buried in comments. I'm guessing this isn't earlier cause I haven't seen in through 200 pages back, but I'm still looking for it and I haven't given up yet but damn that's a lot of pages.

 

EDIT: Nevermind I found it, says here that I need to use NRaas Master Controller. I haven't used Master Controller before, but I'll try my best. lol

 

"If you have NRaas Master Controller, just take any invisible horse into CAS, make a small change, and your good to go. No idea if the issue is/was fixed by any version newer than .375"

[vtb]

EA is making the new mac version of TS3. Supposed to be released early 2020, but with the whole Covid19 pandemic, who knows how delayed it'll be.

 

 

 

Re: horsedicks, That'd be an interesting slider or accessory to enable. ?

[Zathuul]

27 minutes ago, vtb said:

Re: horsedicks, That'd be an interesting slider or accessory to enable. ?

 

Why do I instantly think horsedick surgery when you mention this, geezes those are huge though ? Can't imagine that being comfortable.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Zathuul said:

Why do I instantly think horsedick surgery when you mention this, geezes those are huge though ? Can't imagine that being comfortable.

Well, KW already has sex change operations... maybe boob implants, penis implants and who knows, maybe even horse penis transplants will be added some day if Oniki returns to the project!

[AnnaMally]

16 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

Russian and Ukrainian. ) I'm from Lugansk, so we only spoke Ukrainian in school... if the teacher spoke it!

 

Anyway, when I did play as an elder, and before I had KW, and only Woohooer, and a few of the early mods like Animated Woohoo, my sims woohooed constantly and it did kill them. ))) In fact, they lived much longer than the age that was set in the EA options menu! )))

That's super cool! I wish I had more brainspace to learn more languages other than the ones I can talk/understand, I think they're all so interesting.

 

About the Woohoo, elderly Sims in TS4 will get an "exhaustion" moodlet if they do it; once I insisted on making them WooHoo again while having this moodlet and they just DIED, I was appalled. ? At least they died a happy death, I... guess? But I still felt guilty LMAO

 

14 hours ago, jdw6 said:

? I see my ability to open the can of worms and make ? hit the fan is still alive and well. ? Hopefully I didn't ruffle too many feathers. Doesn't sound like it, but if I did, it wasn't intentional.

 

RE: life

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Yeah... been single far far FARRRRRRRR too long & had no sisters... some things you just don't discuss w/ mom. ? ? ? That new fangled "sex ed" class concept came after I graduated, it's not that old of a class. At least I'm not as old as landess ? those outfits I see in some old LAPD cop drama from '67-'70 ? sooo glad I came after them. lol Still have to take LSD every now and then... just the Drive, not the drug.  (Which makes me wonder, what's everyone's thoughts on what Simoïne is closest to?)

 

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All languages are hard. I'm sure I've had several conversations with people in the equivalent of a 5-year-old's vocabulary. ?‍♂️ We all gotta start somewhere. Like LadySmoks says: never apologize about your 2nd language. Heck, I didn't know until you said something, since you sounded like you know English better than some multi-generation US-born people I went to school with. Funny how when you have to work at learning something, you value it more than when you were born around it.

 

RE: elder woohoo causing death

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Somewhere I read this long, humorous, account of a player purposefully trying to get the elder guy in his household knocked off via woohoo. Took him quite a while, even with multiple all-nighter woopie sessions.  ("cut off" ? oh, not that ?)

 

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yeah, the details Oniki put into it is overwhelming. Not really surprising that "she" needed a break (or a new project) the size of this thing. I've learned a whole lot, and am saddened that so much was hard-coded, since I see quite a bit of those sorts of things cause frustration in new users. My (currently non existent) day job is to make sense out of messy "spaghetti code" in legacy projects. And KW is a classic example of that type of project, I know of 83 versions of this project. That much change can make anything hard, but this is one of the more ambitious game mods, or, heck any project for a "solo" developer.  That it works as well as it does is simply amazing.  NRass mods mostly started with just a solo dev, but then got handed off to a team, which is probably the key to why they run so well.  I think KW has about the complexity of NR SP+Woohooer+MasterController+Career+Vector but also with handling animations from pretty much any creator.

 

Don't worry, you were fine. XD I narrowed down your message to what I'll properly answer about, if you don't mind!

 

> Life

I don't know why, I've always liked the biology subject so I'd usually overstudy when in school. I read a lot about sex ed and contraception because I was simply curious, so that got me a little forward in comparison to my classmates. I do think it wasn't school itself, but my curiosity that did the trick. Although sex ed IS important, I wish schools would treat it more seriously.

 

> Language

Aw, thank you! Sometimes I do some mistakes that make me go "this is the basics, why ?‍♀️", but now that you talk about it, sometimes we make mistakes in our first language too. Guess it's normal, people's minds are usually overtaxed nowadays.

 

> Elder woohoo

Do you still have it? These threads tend to be super fun to read hahahah

> Mod

That's another good point! Now that you mention it, indeed, Oniki is a solo modder, which makes the prowess much more astouding. The level of detail in this mod is superb. Working with programming looks simple in theory, but when you get to do it, you realize you were seeing only the tip of the iceberg. I take my hat off for you guys.

 

13 hours ago, landess said:

Didn't judge, just noticed.

 

Some of my best friends are, although I don't know any whom married. Rare!

Oh, my bad then! Didn't mean to point fingers at anyone, I just really thought your remark was of disbelief so I got confused. XD Brazil legalized LGBT marriages back in 2011 but I was a wee young adult (and single) at that time. Been married for 3 years now.

[AnnaMally]

I'm still fumbling with KW to try and make do for my fairy child ?✊ Updated to build 399 to see if it was, maybe, an issue with build 375, but I still get the same results. I know it says there's a chance of it happening, but if I tune it to 100%, it shouldn't be only a chance anymore, but still...

 

If someone knows of a mod that can edit relationships of all Sims and not only human Sims, hmu. I've been in this ride because I just REALLY WANT the fairy to be the unicorn's offspring with my Sim. ? Why? Storytelling!!

[jdw6]

4 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

I didn't think to do this when I first began merging packages, and am paying for it now

Yeah, me either. But some of the issues over on my side of the screen is from using a huge mod pack that I found somewhere that had a lot of, well stuff I didn't want that came from some other site (see rule 3). So I kept the parts I wanted, got the game working, but then was left with a huge "WTH did that come from" problem. So I've spent a few months trying to re-find everything. I'm sure you're like me, you go looking for X, but when you find that site, you see Y, Z, A, B, C, and many others that you like so you "download it now while you know where the site is". This doesn't help organizational matters. lol

Kinda why I strongly suggest newbies start organizing things from day one, by day 30 they'll have so much it is overwhelming enough so they don't take the time, and by day 100 it's nearly impossible.

3 hours ago, landess said:

There was another drug listed in the online shopping which 'would' be LSD

they must be 'addicted'.

Ah, gotcha. Late 60s TV has, probably, influenced my gaming thoughts. "There's Weed in the game, so LSD has to be there somewhere." But I've not spent a good deal of time w/ the KW drugs, but looked at them a bit more than diseases. One of the bigger issues I have w/ them is that several either are missing in-inventory thumbnails, or are sharing IDs of some sort (so that if you try to use MC to transfer to/from a storage box it lumps about 3 together).  The addiction need before they'll jump at buying makes sense.

3 hours ago, landess said:

means trying  to spike drinks

I still haven't found a way to get them to spike drinks made by a bartender, either by "buy a round" or "buy a drink for sim..."  Only times I've found that option available is when a sim makes drinks in a non-bartender type situation.  I was thinking it wasn't allowed if the "pro bar" was used, but was able to do that at home.  And I was thinking it wasn't allowed on community lots, but I added a "juice bar" to a downloaded brothel (that I think I had as a 'no visitors allowed' comm. lot type) and sims were able to 'add drug to drink' if a tray of drinks were made, regardless of if they made it or another.  But any drinks made at the "pro bar" on that same lot couldn't have drugs added.

3 hours ago, landess said:

or save/load a game while they are driving

The resetting part I think I've noticed. The loading/saving thing explains a TON. Especially since I use NRaas Saver to save every 30 minutes.  Which I had to do b/c my game started crashing after 60 minutes several months ago if I didn't save often.  I've since gotten it to where I can run TS3 for a couple hours w/o saving & still have it not "err 12" on save.  But it does still do a "hard-crash" every now and then, but that's usually only when I've gone several hours w/o saving. (When the game process completely dies in half a second.)

3 hours ago, landess said:

Sucks if driving a $400k Ferrari.

That reminds me that I really need to give them a Koenigsegg... side issue there: almost all cool looking cars don't have wheels that spin when driving.  (Yet another thing I'll prob never get around to researching.)

3 hours ago, vtb said:

I wish the tools worked on a mac still. Would be nice to be able to merge several into small groups at least.

All josh Shoes, all josh revealing tops, all josh accessory lingerie/stockings, etc. Even just stuff like that would seem to help both load time, and troubleshooting.

 

Maybe when the 64 bit mac version comes out, someone will fix/rebuild some of the tools.

Another couple options, that may or may not be to your "liking": 1) I've been told Windows runs really well on Mac hardware (yeah, I know, who in their right mind... I worked w/ one of them); 2) Run Windows in a VM & only fire up that VM when you need a Win-only tool; 3) dual-boot. Theoretically you only need XP (if you never do the Origin upgrade on the game itself & the tools don't matter) which you might even be able to get an actual disc from a friend... assuming we all have friends who hold on to old stuff like that.

The only thing a 64-bit OS will give you, is the ability to run other things simultaneously as running TS3.  The game will never be able to use more than it does now.  (64-bit Win10 w/ 64 GB RAM... TS3 crashes when it reaches 3.2 GB used.  Sucks, but it is what it is.)

Oh, and some of the tools I use still feel "beta" (or "alpha") as they have bugs, unrefined UIs, but their creators moved on to TS4 or stopped Sim-ing altogether, so don't hold your breath on the tools ever being updated for a new Mac version, since they'll never be updated for Windows either (and almost all Sim mod or tool devs are Windows devs).

[vtb]

30 minutes ago, jdw6 said:

Another couple options, that may or may not be to your "liking": 1) I've been told Windows runs really well on Mac hardware (yeah, I know, who in their right mind... I worked w/ one of them); 2) Run Windows in a VM & only fire up that VM when you need a Win-only tool; 3) dual-boot. Theoretically you only need XP (if you never do the Origin upgrade on the game itself & the tools don't matter) which you might even be able to get an actual disc from a friend... assuming we all have friends who hold on to old stuff like that.

The only thing a 64-bit OS will give you, is the ability to run other things simultaneously as running TS3.  The game will never be able to use more than it does now.  (64-bit Win10 w/ 64 GB RAM... TS3 crashes when it reaches 3.2 GB used.  Sucks, but it is what it is.)

Oh, and some of the tools I use still feel "beta" (or "alpha") as they have bugs, unrefined UIs, but their creators moved on to TS4 or stopped Sim-ing altogether, so don't hold your breath on the tools ever being updated for a new Mac version, since they'll never be updated for Windows either (and almost all Sim mod or tool devs are Windows devs).

 

Running programs in 32 bit mode also restricts you to 32 bit addressing with regards to drivers and such also though, and does some screwy things with disk caching in some OS's. Its one of the reasons that Apple is basically removing all 32 bit modes in the newer OS, so that the old compatibility layers and hacks to break up disk cache into smaller chunks and to page swap between different virtual memory spaces doesn't exit.

 

32 bit modes also prevent you from mirroring GPU ram into the same address space as program ram, unless both GPU ram and program ram fit into the same 4GB chunk. This gets worse with more modern hardware, since if you've got 2GB of video ram, looks like you only get 2GB of program ram if you want it all in the same address space.

 

Not to say that 64 bit fixes everything, it certainly doesn't, but if they're rewriting TS3 for mac as a 64 bit application, AND they're writing the graphics stuff to tie into Apples Metal API, that should solve a LOT of issues, not only with ram limits, but also with performance as it will then have far more space to load/unload textures into before having to unload. Hell, maybe even CAS thumbs can be cached in ram so they don't have to reload every time for every category when switching.

 

As far as running windows in a VM or dual boot, can't really dual boot XP anymore since hardware doesn't support it. A VM might be a good solution though.

[jdw6]

34 minutes ago, AnnaMally said:

I wish I had more brainspace

It's more about usage frequency than anything else. We've got much more "space" upstairs than we often like to convince ourselves that we do. Switching from a case-heavy language to one where they're not as widely used, has to be hard (the reverse definitely is). And I just yesterday learned that the "Г" letter is pronounced vastly differently in Ukr than Rus. ? I've been studying one of those for longer than you've possibly been walking and still struggle. Over use of tools & under-use of speaking. ?‍♂️

 

How good is the Portugese translation in KW?  It looks like it was actually translated to that language (there's even separate string files for .pt and .br).  I've never actually tried switching the game's language, but I know how.

34 minutes ago, AnnaMally said:

Do you still have it?

I tend to kill off any elder sims in any new world immediately and have played with a maxed out lifespan for so long that my sims rarely age up from "young adult". So I don't really know what is possible for them to do, beyond the uglyass NPCs that KW has. Seriously there's only a small few that aren't bad & the rest I really should find a way to "fix". (Was a brief discussion on the possibilities of that a few pages ago.)  I think one or two (or 10) of them are "elder" sims, but if you kill them off KW will just create them again. (That's one of the bigger parts of KW that I loathe: the inability to permanently disable some parts of it.)

34 minutes ago, AnnaMally said:

biology

Biology was forced on me, otherwise I'd never taken it. But now that I did, I know what a real human autopsy looks like. SMH 10th grade trauma still with me. And, every so often, I wake up feeling like Tom Hanks in "Big". (oh crap, I'm older than he was when filming that...  )

34 minutes ago, AnnaMally said:

seeing only the tip of the iceberg.

That's a very apt analogy.  I've literally spent 40 hours on a single problem ending the week the same place I started, no closer to solving it. But it's also kinda like Edison "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." <<< this is how people really should approach KW (and TS3 as a whole). It's so big & complex & was created by 1 person's (although I'm starting to doubt that... found 2 different usernames in the various versions, neither female ?) ideas and we're all just along for the ride, trying to apply our own ideas of how things "should" work to someone else's -- which is where the frustration originates.

 

 

29 minutes ago, AnnaMally said:

but if I tune it to 100%, it shouldn't be only a chance anymore, but still...

 

If someone knows of a mod that can edit relationships of all Sims and not only human Sims, hmu. I've been in this ride because I just REALLY WANT the fairy to be the unicorn's offspring with my Sim. ? Why? Storytelling!!

Not always, there's a pretty heavy use of a function RandomChance() that the settings value is passed into.  I can't find any docs on that, but other things I've used treat the value given as a "seed", which means it gives a small influence but is still a random outcome.  This thing, though, must be some EA function, and I've read elsewhere that the EA randomness is flawed.  (Although that seemed to be more making 5% turn into feeling more like 25-50%.)

 

I think you'll need these 2, at a minimum. Editing relationships is a 'cheat' change, so needs that add-on mod.

https://www.nraas.net/community/MasterController

https://www.nraas.net/community/MasterController-Cheats

 

More info:

https://www.nraas.net/community/Relationships 

https://www.nraas.net/MasterController-FAQ#I-want-to-change-the-family-tree-relationship-between-two-sims-how-do-I-do-that

https://www.nraas.net/community/mastercontroller-discussion/topic6395

Gahhhh... I really need to learn how to type less. Sorry y'all for yet another lengthy post.