Sims 3 ITUN & XML tunings

dooda · August 7, 2015

A few tuning packages that I`ve found useful for curbing some of the annoying behaviours that my sims get upto.

Some were inspired by contacts I`ve made here at Lovers Lab, they`ll know who they are

All have been tested in gameplay for at least 1 sim month.

All have been sourced from sims 3 GameplayData.package Patched to 1.67 which is open to inspection for anyone with a basic knowledge of s3pe (Full credit to the makers and maintainers of that epic utility)

All keep the same instance number of the file they were sourced from, so will conflict with any mods/tunings that you might already have in your mods folder, a quick scan with delphy`s dashboard will show any conflicts.

I chose a simple naming convention that should, hopefully explain what they do, but I`ll put a brief description by each one.

As they`re only simple tunings, no scripts, they should be safe to merge with other packages (someone correct me if I`m wrong about that). They don`t hook into your save games so should be pretty safe to add or remove as you like.

I`ll add more if I if I think they`re worth adding, so check back now and again

.....Requested, not tested.

Capture the moment interaction never/less

Documentation

http://www.loverslab.com/topic/50809-sims-3-itun-xml-tunings/?do=findComment&comment=1277313

DoodaInfluence.rar

If the jock/rebel/nerd malarkey gets on your t**s then this will gradually level down any of your infected household and stop them leveling back up

DoodaBarDrinksAndChat.rar

Stops sims ordering so many drinks at bars useful for stopping foot stomping bar queues at busy venues

DoodaDateCalls.rar

Less date calls from NPC sims

<base>
<Current_Tuning>
    <kAttractionPhoneCallChance value="1">...............................................................Set this to 0 for no date calls
      
    </kAttractionPhoneCallChance>
    <kAttractionLTRThresholds value="20, 50">
      
    </kAttractionLTRThresholds>
    <kAttractionGiftLetterMaxChancePerDay value="1">
      
    </kAttractionGiftLetterMaxChancePerDay>
    <kDateHoursToCallAfterWork value="1, 3">
      
    </kDateHoursToCallAfterWork>
    <kAttractionDateRejectThreshold value="2">
      
    </kAttractionDateRejectThreshold>
</Current_Tuning>
</base>

Nice of EA to leave comments in their XML`s

DoodaPhoneBrowse.rar

Less or no browsing on smart phone

DoodaPhoneStream.rar

Less or no streaming on smartphone

DoodaBoxBot.rar

No autonomous robot form

DoodaCheapTVLess.rar

Watch less cheap tv

DoodaPillowFight.rar

Less or no pillow fighting

DoodaScareSim.rar

Less autonomous scaring sims especially for evil/mean spirited traits

DoodaNoAnimals.rar

Petpool turns off spawning of stray cats,dogs,horses,deer,unicorns.....If you have nraas register that will override and do the same job

PetAdopt stops the pet adoption system.........there is an option in overwatch to do this (hardly ever worked for me but...) PetAdopt does the job with or without OW installed.

You may notice some townies being moved into your hood with pets, that`s EA story progression issue. It can be modded out in the XML that deals with story progression but I`m not putting that up here yet cuz it deals with a lot of other things too.

ITUN tuning is probably the easiest way of customizing your game by modifying basic sims behaviours. Think of it sort of like an electric light dimmer switch, you can turn behaviour on and off or dim (less) or brighten (more) You can also apply filters for age, traits, buffs and other things too.

For example it would be possible and fairly simple to make the water balloon interaction only available to evil trait teens when they are juiced.

The best guide to creating ITUNS is by Nona

https://nonasims.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/tutorial-tuning-mods-and-commodity-kinds/#more-422

Guide for using s3pe with gameplay data package

http://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorial:Sims_3_XML_Tuning_Modding

QuoteAsFuck · August 8, 2015

Is there a tuning for Streaking? I've been searching the Internet for a tuning mod that allows everyone to streak even when there are children in the lot but so far no luck. I also want my teenager to streak by couldn't allow to do it because they are categorized as children.

dooda · August 8, 2015

Is there a tuning for Streaking? I've been searching the Internet for a tuning mod that allows everyone to streak even when there are children in the lot but so far no luck. I also want my teenager to streak by couldn't allow to do it because they are categorized as children.

It`s pretty easy to adjust autonomy for young adult and older streaking but with teens and children around you start running into privacy checks which I don`t know a lot about, possibly need script mods to overcome that, which I don`t do.

Do you have kinky world installed? If so, will adults streak with teens around then?

The streak ITUN is pretty interesting

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<base>

<Current_Tuning>

<AgeSpeciesAvail AgeSpeciesValue="T,Y,A,E" />............................................................Defines the ages that can do it.......Y=young adult e.t.c...add T. to enable teens to streak

<ExcludingTrait type="NoSenseOfHumor" />..........................................Trait types that won`t do it...... :lol:

</BaseAvailability>

</Output>

</Tradeoff>

</Current_Tuning>

</base>

Everything listed in <change type=..../> are modifiers. the only value to mess with is advertised fun. Adertised fun = how attractive it is for sims to do it. Negative values are allowed so as to make it unattractive for sims. e.g -10

There are some checks for kids in the sim+streak xml

<PulseRadius value="40">.............................................................setting this to 1 or 0 might fool the privacy checker into thinking there`s no kids...that`s a guess....that would also affect react to streaker interactions though

</PulseRadius>

</AffectBroadcasterRoomOnly>

</ReactorLineOfSight>

</ReactorCouldSeeCheck>

</PulseRepeatTime>

</TimeToFullPulseExpansion>

</TimeDuration>

</InteractionProhibitsOverlay>

</AutonomyLevelToReact>

</MaxSimsToProcessPerTick>

</ReactOnRepeatedEntry>

</ReactToMultiplePulses>

</SpeciesToEffect>

</MountedSimsDoNonMountedBehavior>

</MountedReactToMultiplePulses>

</MountedReactionTypes>

</kCheckForKidsBroadcastParams>

</kRadiusToCheckForTeens>

</Current_Tuning>

I might have a mess around with those settings sometime and see what happens, or you could

bethiedoll · August 8, 2015

Hi do you have one that control population of humans nraas register dpn't seem too.thx

dooda · August 9, 2015

Hi do you have one that control population of humans nraas register dpn't seem too.thx

At the moment I don`t because I like LOTS of humans in my hood.

What is it you are wanting to do?....stop humans moving into your hood or set a population limit?

Tell me what world you`re playing and I might knock up something quickly to sort of do what you want

Nraas story progression and Awsomemod can both set a population limit but they are both heavy duty script mods that will impact on game performance and probably add features that you don`t even want.

I do control animals in my hood by a few methods, one of which is the XML files that handle EA story progression.

XML files for SP (For anyone interested and for my memory)

Demographics_0x0915b951121e2690

Demographics+LotDensity_0xe74d9a6dafc01ef4

Demographics

DemographicsAppaloosaPlains

DemographicsChina

DemographicsEgypt

DemographicsEP7World ......................................................Clones of each other that handle different worlds

DemographicsFrance

DemographicsFutureWorld

DemographicsIslaParadiso

DemographicsMoonlightFalls

DemographicsNewDowntownWorld

DemographicsTwinBrook

DemographicsUniversity

Demographics_0x0915b951121e2690 format...........fairly simple XML that sort of affects how lazy or active EA story progression is

<base>

<Current_Tuning>

</kDemographicChoiceTemperature>

<kNumDemographicDraws value="10">.............................................................................set this higher to make SP more active....Wouldn`t advise going near infinity though

</kNumDemographicDraws>

<kNumActionsPerDemographic value="8">..........................................................Also has an effect on SP activity

</kNumActionsPerDemographic>

</kActionScoreTemperature>

</kActionsScoreFriction>

</kSelectedDemographicAttenuation>

</kDemographicValueBias>

</kChanceOfRandomHistogramAction>

</Current_Tuning>

<Deprecated_Tuning />

</base>

Demographics+LotDensity_0xe74d9a6dafc01ef4..........simple XML that reserves empty lots so player can place households

<base>

<Current_Tuning>

</kMinPercentageUnoccupiedHouses>

</kMinNumberUnoccupiedHouses>

</Current_Tuning>

</base>

Demographics and all it`s clones......A long XML where the nitty gritty of SP tuning takes place....posting only parts of it

<Delay_Min>0</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>-1</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

<Name>Create Household</Name>

<Multiplier>0.9</Multiplier>........................................This is the number you want for tuning....setting to 0 effectively turns it off....forget the other values but if some one knows what effect they have please share.

<Delay_Min>1</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>2.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

<Name>Create and Move In</Name>

</Actions>

<Name>Emigrate Household</Name>

</Actions>

<Delay_Min>1</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>1.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

</Actions>

</Actions>

<Name>Increase Vampire Population</Name>

<Delay_Min>0.5</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>1.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

<Name>Move Out Household</Name>

<Delay_Min>1</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>2</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

<Pet_Population>

<Decrease>Remove Pet</Decrease>

</Pet_Population>

<Pet_Population>

</Pet_Population>

<Pet_Population>

<PercentOfPetPop>0.3</PercentOfPetPop>.................percentage in your hood detected by game

<Utility>1.8</Utility>........................................................SP effect for that given population............set to 0 to turn off, or raise or lower...repeat for all other PopPercentages

</Pet_Population>

<Pet_Population>

</Pet_Population>

<Pet_Population>

</Pet_Population>

<Pet_Population>

</Pet_Population>

bethiedoll · August 9, 2015

Hi I'm playing roaring heights and nraas story progression don't work for me.thx

dooda · August 9, 2015

Hi I'm playing roaring heights and nraas story progression don't work for me.thx

Give that a try for a sim week or two and see if it`s doing anything like you want it to. By the way, that`s experimental, s`why it has your name no guarantees

bethiedollHumanControl.rar

bethiedoll · August 9, 2015

thx i'll try it out.much appreciated

springacres · August 10, 2015

Any chance you could do this for the "Capture the Moment" smartphone interaction? (or does that fall under smartphone streaming/browsing/etc?)

dooda · August 10, 2015

Any chance you could do this for the "Capture the Moment" smartphone interaction? (or does that fall under smartphone streaming/browsing/etc?)

That`s an interesting one

CaptureTheMoment_Sim....This is the name of the ITUN in GameplayData....So it`s not obviously attached to the smartphone like browse and stream are

This is an interesting ITUN because there are no advertised base motives associated with it (fun,hygiene, bladder....etc) So I guess you only see this interaction a lot if your sims are in the situations listed in <ChangeType= e.g BeAtJuiceKeggerParty

<base>

<Current_Tuning>

<Disallow DisallowAutonomous="False" DisallowUserDirected="True" DisallowPlayerSim="False" />............................This is set to True in the never package

</BaseAvailability>

<Change type="BeAtImprovedProtest" advertised="200" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" /> ............advertised is halved in the less package....want sims to do it even less?....lower the value more or even make it negative

</Output>

</Tradeoff>

</Current_Tuning>

</base>

Done and Added to list

bethiedoll · August 12, 2015

hello it work great .thank you

dooda · August 12, 2015

hello it work great .thank you

Cool, thanks for the feedback

All it does is set a very low number for for EA story progression Create Household and Create and Move In.

Source........DemographicsNewDowntownWorld Instance = 0x0A014CA60CC8FE11

The reason I asked bethiedoll which world they are playing is because there are different story progression XML`s for different world types, I took a guess that Roaring Heights would be downtown (never played it)

There are 11 other XML`s for SP events in other world types, e.g university, apaloosa plains etc

These are very long XML`s so I`ll only quote parts of it.

<Name>Create Household</Name>

<Multiplier>0.9</Multiplier>............................................0.1 for bethiedoll

<Delay_Min>1</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>2.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

<Name>Create and Move In</Name>

<Multiplier>2</Multiplier>.........................................0.1 for bethiedoll.............setting this to 0 should stop townies moving into your hood, but I have`nt tried it.

</Actions>

Gradually thinning down your townie population should be possible by;

<Name>Emigrate Household</Name>

<Multiplier>0</Multiplier>.........................setting this number to non zero.....higher = more often

</Actions>

If you want your hood populated by just vampires or fairies or mermaids etc...find the relevant section of the XML and;

<Name>Increase Vampire Population</Name>

<Multiplier>0</Multiplier>........................setting this number to non zero....suggest 2......5 would be quicker

<Delay_Min>0.5</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>1.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

More <Actions> examples

<Name>Decrease Vampire Population</Name>

<Delay_Min>0.5</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>1.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

<Name>Increase Fairy Population</Name>

<Delay_Min>0.5</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>1.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

<Name>Decrease Fairy Population</Name>

<Delay_Min>0.5</Delay_Min>

<Delay_Max>1.5</Delay_Max>

</Actions>

springacres · August 13, 2015

Any chance you could do this for the "Capture the Moment" smartphone interaction? (or does that fall under smartphone streaming/browsing/etc?)

That`s an interesting one

CaptureTheMoment_Sim....This is the name of the ITUN in GameplayData....So it`s not obviously attached to the smartphone like browse and stream are

This is an interesting ITUN because there are no advertised base motives associated with it (fun,hygiene, bladder....etc) So I guess you only see this interaction a lot if your sims are in the situations listed in <ChangeType= e.g BeAtJuiceKeggerParty

<base>
   <Interaction name="Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+CaptureTheMoment+Definition" />
   <Object name="Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.PhoneSmart" />
   <CodeVersion name="EP9" considerCodeVersion="True" />
   <Current_Tuning>
       <Disallow DisallowAutonomous="False" DisallowUserDirected="True" DisallowPlayerSim="False" />............................This is set to True in the never package
       <BaseAvailability>
           <AgeSpeciesAvail AgeSpeciesValue="T,Y,A,E" />
           <MotiveThreshold MotiveThresholdType="None" MotiveThresholdValue="0" MotiveBelowCheck="False" />
           <MoodThreshold MoodThresholdType="None" MoodThresholdValue="0" />
           <SkillThreshold SkillThresholdType="None" SkillThresholdValue="0" />
           <Occult OccultRestrictionType="Ignore" OccultTypes="0x0" OccultTypesHumanAllowed="True" />
           <CareerThreshold CareerThresholdType="Undefined" CareerThresholdValue="0" IncludePastCareers="False" />
           <Lot AllowNonGreetedSimsIfObjectOutside="True" AllowNonGreetedSimsIfObjectOutsideUserDirected="True" AllowGreetedSims="True" AllowOnCommunityLots="True" AllowOnAllLots="True" />
           <World RestrictionType="None" Types="" Names="" />
           <Room AllowInTombRoomAutonomous="False" AllowEvenIfNotAllowedInRoomAutonomous="False" />
           <Misc DisallowedIfPregnant="False" DisallowedFromInventory="False" />
       </BaseAvailability>
       <Check type="All" value="0" />
       <Tradeoff name="CaptureTheMoment">
           <Localization autoGenerate="False" />
           <Time value="1" addRoute="False" />
           <Exit funExit="False" stressExit="False" interruptible="True" />
           <RouteLeadIn allowed="False" />
           <AskJoinInteraction joinable="False" />
           <AllowAutonomousReinforcement allowPraise="False" allowScold="False" />
           <ScoringFunction alwaysChooseBest="False" name="" specificCommodity="None" />
           <ActionTopic name="" ActionTopicUnavailableAfterActionFinishes="False" />
           <Output>
               <Change type="BeAtImprovedProtest" advertised="200" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" /> ............advertised is halved in the less package....want sims to do it even less?....lower the value more or even make it negative
               <Change type="BeAtHungerStrike" advertised="200" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />
               <Change type="BeAtRowdyProtest" advertised="200" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />
               <Change type="BeAtJuiceKeggerParty" advertised="100" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />
               <Change type="BeAtBonfire" advertised="100" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />
           </Output>
       </Tradeoff>
   <Notes Notes="" DesignerNotes="EP9 - First Pass - Andy" LastChange="12/3/2012 12:01:47 PM" />
   </Current_Tuning>
</base>

Done and Added to list

Interesting that you say it should only happen in certain situations... my celeb sims with social networking skills are/have been doing it All. The. Freaking. Time. Drives me nuts. I really hope this fix works! (Haven't tested it yet but will do so at the closest opportunity)

dooda · August 13, 2015

Any chance you could do this for the "Capture the Moment" smartphone interaction? (or does that fall under smartphone streaming/browsing/etc?)

That`s an interesting one

CaptureTheMoment_Sim....This is the name of the ITUN in GameplayData....So it`s not obviously attached to the smartphone like browse and stream are

This is an interesting ITUN because there are no advertised base motives associated with it (fun,hygiene, bladder....etc) So I guess you only see this interaction a lot if your sims are in the situations listed in <ChangeType= e.g BeAtJuiceKeggerParty

<base>

   <Interaction name="Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+CaptureTheMoment+Definition" />

   <Object name="Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.PhoneSmart" />

   <CodeVersion name="EP9" considerCodeVersion="True" />

   <Current_Tuning>

       <Disallow DisallowAutonomous="False" DisallowUserDirected="True" DisallowPlayerSim="False" />............................This is set to True in the never package

       <BaseAvailability>

           <AgeSpeciesAvail AgeSpeciesValue="T,Y,A,E" />

           <MotiveThreshold MotiveThresholdType="None" MotiveThresholdValue="0" MotiveBelowCheck="False" />

           <MoodThreshold MoodThresholdType="None" MoodThresholdValue="0" />

           <SkillThreshold SkillThresholdType="None" SkillThresholdValue="0" />

           <Occult OccultRestrictionType="Ignore" OccultTypes="0x0" OccultTypesHumanAllowed="True" />

           <CareerThreshold CareerThresholdType="Undefined" CareerThresholdValue="0" IncludePastCareers="False" />

           <Lot AllowNonGreetedSimsIfObjectOutside="True" AllowNonGreetedSimsIfObjectOutsideUserDirected="True" AllowGreetedSims="True" AllowOnCommunityLots="True" AllowOnAllLots="True" />

           <World RestrictionType="None" Types="" Names="" />

           <Room AllowInTombRoomAutonomous="False" AllowEvenIfNotAllowedInRoomAutonomous="False" />

           <Misc DisallowedIfPregnant="False" DisallowedFromInventory="False" />

       </BaseAvailability>

       <Check type="All" value="0" />

       <Tradeoff name="CaptureTheMoment">

           <Localization autoGenerate="False" />

           <Time value="1" addRoute="False" />

           <Exit funExit="False" stressExit="False" interruptible="True" />

           <RouteLeadIn allowed="False" />

           <AskJoinInteraction joinable="False" />

           <AllowAutonomousReinforcement allowPraise="False" allowScold="False" />

           <ScoringFunction alwaysChooseBest="False" name="" specificCommodity="None" />

           <ActionTopic name="" ActionTopicUnavailableAfterActionFinishes="False" />

           <Output>

               <Change type="BeAtImprovedProtest" advertised="200" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" /> ............advertised is halved in the less package....want sims to do it even less?....lower the value more or even make it negative

               <Change type="BeAtHungerStrike" advertised="200" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />

               <Change type="BeAtRowdyProtest" advertised="200" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />

               <Change type="BeAtJuiceKeggerParty" advertised="100" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />

               <Change type="BeAtBonfire" advertised="100" locked="False" actual="0" updateType="ImmediateDelta" timeDependsOn="False" updateEvenOnFailure="False" updateAboveAndBelowZero="Either" />

           </Output>

       </Tradeoff>

   <Notes Notes="" DesignerNotes="EP9 - First Pass - Andy" LastChange="12/3/2012 12:01:47 PM" />

   </Current_Tuning>

</base>

Done and Added to list

Interesting that you say it should only happen in certain situations... my celeb sims with social networking skills are/have been doing it All. The. Freaking. Time. Drives me nuts. I really hope this fix works! (Haven't tested it yet but will do so at the closest opportunity)

Well I did say "I guess you only see this interaction......." It`s not an interaction that I`ve ever seen much and looking at the bare ITUN suggests that it`s designed to happen mostly (or exclusively??) at the event types listed in the <ChangeType= section in vanilla (unmodded) sims gameplay.

Obviously I have no idea about other peoples gameplqy styles and mod loadouts, which is gonna affect what they see in game.

If you look at the <BaseAvailability> section (everything listed between <BaseAvailability> and </BaseAvailability> there is nothing to push celebrities or social networkers into doing this interaction more. I`ll have a look to see if there`s an XML that may have an effect.

dooda · August 15, 2015

is something like the less date call posible for less party invite and or sims calling you every second, would love to see something that channel this or make it way lesser

got sick and tyred of all those dum invites and or do you wana talk

Party events are dealt with in xml`s.....I`ll have a look and see what can be done

dooda · August 15, 2015

Yeah, retuner`s an option, I`ve used it briefly in the past. It`s a script mod though.

Personally I`m trying to use as few script mods as possible which is why I started to look at custom tunings to replace what script mods were doing in my games.

Nrass (or Twallian as he was known when he first made Master Controller) is a great c# coder (which I definitely ain`t) and I know of people using his whole suite of mods.

springacres · August 16, 2015

Ooh, forgot about retuner. I'll have to try that to see about tweaking other settings like less playing online social games, etc.

dooda · August 17, 2015

is something like the less date call posible for less party invite and or sims calling you every second, would love to see something that channel this or make it way lesser

got sick and tyred of all those dum invites and or do you wana talk

Party events are dealt with in xml`s.....I`ll have a look and see what can be done

I`ve drew a bit of a blank with party invites and random calls for chat, it`s not something that really intrudes in my games anyway, so I`ll give up on that one, sorry.

Maybe there`s something already out there that`ll do what you`re after, try MTS maybe?

dooda · August 18, 2015

For those of you who like tuning mods I came across a site that I`ve never seen before, all are tuning mods.

Some interesting ones there that I was going to get around to making when I had the inclination to.

http://montigolegacy.com/category/mods/

Jolie Rouge · January 14, 2016

Bumping this one, lots of tunings for Sims 3!

maraas · January 14, 2016

Have not noticed this topic before. Great one dooda! Thanks for the bump JR

Jolie Rouge · January 14, 2016

welcome!

Jolie Rouge · August 28, 2017

Bumping again....

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