#SIMS 4 MODDING TUTORIAL HOW TO#

Understanding how to define your FACTORY_TUNABLES is paramount to making your own tests, and knowing what you can do in tuning. If you do not fully understand how this works, I recommend following LeRoiDeToutвЂ™s Tuning 101 series, specifically this article. If that value is not specified, Actor will be the default. For example, the value of subject is just an instance of the TunableEnumEntry class, which will expect a type of ParticipantTypeSingle. FACTORY_TUNABLES is just a dictionary of names to tunable types, which are just instances of classes. If youвЂ™re new to custom tuning, you might feel overwhelmed by this, and that is perfectly OK, but I promise itвЂ™s not that scary. Actor False RETAIL TrueДЄnother example would be to test that the target sim is any member of a household that does NOT own any businesses.

The above FACTORY_TUNABLES would allow you to do something like the following in tuning, which would check if the actor sim is an adult in a household that owns a retail business. But, 10 test sets that can automatically handle the addition of new trait/skill pairs is better than 70 that would need to be manually updated every time you add a new one.Д«usinessOwnershipTest with FACTORY_TUNABLES added The only caveat to this method is that it requires you to make your own test set that can parse your tests, and then you can reference that test set wherever you need to. Using a custom test, I was able to avoid making 70 files, and use something like this for each level instead: 10 Since there are 6 languages in my mod, this would come out to 70 test sets. This equates to 10( N+1) test sets, where N is the number of trait/skill pairs. Then, I would have to use another test set to determine if at least one of these test sets passed. In order to figure out if two sims have a particular language level in common, I would have to use one test set per language, in order to determine if they have the native speaker trait or a certain level in its skill. If you need to use OR logic, youвЂ™ll have to use a test set - and nesting OR and AND logic in multiple test sets can be a pain.ДЇor example, in my Language Barriers mod, sims can speak different languages, and their proficiency in that language is determined by the presence of a native speaker trait and/or their skill level in that language. Additionally, tests are limited in the logic they can perform: test_globals, for example, can only pass if all of their tests pass. Vanilla tuning tests cover almost all the bases youвЂ™ll ever need, but if youвЂ™re creating a larger mod, youвЂ™ll notice there are some tests you need that do not exist.

Sims 4 modding tutorial