I made a mod that removes the fighting with the fabricator in Eco Lifestyle, am I doing this right?

logion

So I just wanted to share a simple mod that I have made, I am no modder and I am not going to claim that I understand how scripting works.

I got sick of the fabricator fighting my sim constantly every time I wanted to craft something so I looked in the sim tuning files for the fabricator and found the following in interaction/fabricator_CraftingMixer_Spray_H1, interaction/fabricator_CraftingMixer_Spray_H2 and interaction/fabricator_CraftingMixer_Spray_H3



Apparently there are outcomes for every height the fabricator has in the spraying stage. Like the fighting and the explosion, which I assume is when the fabricator is spraying my sim with colors. I don't understand if it is even possible to configure the chances of these outcomes from happening, so I decide to do something extreme and I make a package which is the same as the three Spraying interactions but I remove the outcomes.



So far, it seems to work, no LE's and I can now craft whatever I want without the fabricator fighting back. The fabricator can still break though, but I don't find that as much annoying as the fighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzD4z0QoR6U

You can download the small mod here

Is it correct to do a mod like this or will this most likely break if Maxis decides to update the fabricator?

MizoreYukii

Editing tuning files is not the same as scripting, btw.
It's safe to do it that way most likely, but override mods always have a chance at "breaking", especially when it's from a new pack that will probably receive updates for the coming months. You should be good though, even if there is a change made in a patch it won't crash your game or anything.

logion

MizoreYukii wrote: »

Editing tuning files is not the same as scripting, btw.
It's safe to do it that way most likely, but override mods always have a chance at "breaking", especially when it's from a new pack that will probably receive updates for the coming months. You should be good though, even if there is a change made in a patch it won't crash your game or anything.

Yeah, I did not really meant scripting just...modding in general.
Thank you, I guess this mod works as it should then. I am happy that I now understand enough from the tuning files so I can remove annoying things that they add.
I don't think I will upload this mod on any site or anything but I am happy that I understand a little bit more how this works. Yeah, I can imagine this will break in the future, but for now, this mod makes crafting so much easier.