Changing Comfort and Energy settings?
Kittylynn:
Those help so much! Thanks!
I was in the right area after all, I just didn't realize what I was looking at!
Gwill:
The actual values doesn't make much sense when looking at them. That's why I just copy them from somewhere I know works.
I tried modifying motives for a bathtub manually once, and it does sort of work, but I could never get it to do exactly what I wanted. I need to study this closer too.
Hegelian:
Quote from: Marhis on 2007 August 16, 20:03:54
I second Gwill: values in Object Data are only descriptive, not effective.
WAH! :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Last night I spent several hours "fixing" a large number of custom beds, chairs, and sofas. >:( >:( >:(
akatonbo:
Well, you'll want the catalog values to be changed too, so you've done half the work already. ;)
Hegelian:
;D
Perhaps this is not the most efficient way to do this (shhh - don't tell Reggikko!), but this afternoon I cloned all the Maxis beds with the Object Workshop, then extracted all the BCONs for each bed (how convenient that when you extract them as a group, Object Workshop places them in their own folder, which can be renamed to indicate the bed—I named mine according to size and cost). I then opened each custom object I wanted to modify and replaced the BCONs one by one. I don't know if you can replace them all at once the way you can extract them, but I didn't want to take the risk. This should work, right??
It would probably be faster to edit the values directly, but I am not confident I know the values to insert to get the result I want. However, importing the BCONs from the Maxis objects limits the variety I can have in the custom objects, for which in some cases I would like to have values slightly different from the Maxis values for that particular price level. I did try getting individual replacement BCONs from Maxis beds in a different price category, but it seems that at best this would affect the environment score (assuming this is related to Room Impact) since energy and comfort are both in the Sleep BCON. Then there is the separate Environment BCON that some beds have, for which I could not find any explanation. I tried adding this to a couple of the custom beds, but was wary of the -10 decimal value (I don't want to have a lower score!) so I ended up deleting that entry.
Thanks to the automatic backup feature in SimPE, it was easy to locate all the files that needed to be changed by searching my Downloads folder for *.bak files, copying them to a central location, and giving them back their .package extension en masse from the command line. :P
UPDATE:
I finished updating all the chairs and sofas I wanted to change. In the process I noticed a spelling error in the Tuning - Lounge BCON for the Studio Bakonmi Deluxe Loveseat (Sofa - Modern - Loft): Lounge is spelled Lounte. I don't know how the game references these BCONs internally, but if it does so using the text string that appears in SimPE, I imagine this error could cause a problem. However, I'm guessing that the game references BCON values in some other manner. :-\
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