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I know we can spin the camera, but what about turning the pose while the camera stays fixed?
Is there a trick maybe? Thanks
Thank you! This is great news. I think that if they have the light green diamond they don’t age up but they don’t get culled either, exactly as I want 😊
If you have your aging settings to age "unplayed households only," then it *will* age the ones with light green diamonds. It would only be the played Sims, with the dark green diamonds, that do not age. The other person quoted here likely had those marked as played households, and then just didn't touch them.
Hmm.. maybe I worded it wrong.
My situation is I have about 3 played households that I want to age (dark green).
I also have 7 other households that I want to age but do not play as (light green currently)
And I do not want any household outside of ‘my households’ to age at all.
I think I just need to give every household I want to age dark green diamond and turn off aging for unplayed household?
Yeah, any dark green diamonds would be considered played households and therefore will not age if you have it set to unplayed households only.
I tried "visiting" a build location but found I didn't have all the controls that I needed in live/screencap mode.
Do I just buy and sell between the two properties, moving my Sims family back and forth as needed? Is there a better way? Thanks.
Do you use mods? There is a mod called "Control Any Sim" by MTS Titan Nano. If you used this mod, you could have any random placeholder Sim live in the "second home" as a caretaker/groundskeeper, then when you want to take pictures there you can summon your played Sims over and use this mod to take control of them. It allows you to treat any Sim as a played, active character with full access to all their actions etc.
My sim has multiple "homes" in various worlds. In my earlier save, he was on the run and needed multiple safe houses. I just set up various locations in build for that sim, then marked them as rentals. When I want him to "live" there, I just have him go on vacation to that location and stay as long as I need him to. He even has a tower in the Magic Realm that was created so randoms can't get into it. He travels there and stays as long as he needs. This works as long as you're keeping the household together. I'm not sure if you can split the household up for rental stays.
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Thank you both so much. GirafHuntr, I try to avoid mods wherever possible, but will remember this as a last resort. Thank you.
Cyncie, thank you very much. I wish I could bookmark this post because I'm going to give this a try!
Even more perfect!
Edit: This is probably a silly question, but is there a way to change the time of day in live mode? Can you switch from morning to night like you can in build mode, with some kind of trick or workaround maybe?
Sometimes I put a lot of effort into building a nighttime scene for a screencap, switch to live mode for the cinematic camera shot, and boom, it's high afternoon.
I know there's a mod for the cinematic camera in build mode, but is there anything else short of a mod for this situation?
Thanks again.
I do something similar to @GirafHuntr. I have several homes and have a person live in each as a caretaker or maid. Then I move the ones I need for the screenshots there to take my pics using manage households. I make sure neighborhood stories are off for the folks that are caretakers. That way I don’t have to buy and sell. And the caretakers don’t need to be visible in your story unless you want them to be.
Cyncie, I almost made a terrible mistake. Before I read your post, I'd already moved my family out of their home, and into a build for screencaps. When I went back to the home in build mode, all the furniture was gone!
As luck would have it, I had just saved that house into my library, right before I moved them out... so I was able to retrieve my furniture.
I think I'm figuring it out. I just don't want to lose a big, fully decorated interior again. *whew
EDIT: Nope, that didn't work. I took a vacation to a rental build for a photoshoot. Unfortunately, while you're vacationing, you can't access build mode.
Without build mode, I can't set up any poses for screencaps.
Actually, what I need are two fully functioning lots that both have live and build modes, and that I can travel back and forth as desired. I also need to know that all the furnishings will remain in place, in both places, as I go back and forth.
In theory I should be able to keep me and my family on just one lot, then place any saved lot (same size or smaller) from my library onto that property, back and forth, as many times as I want... indefinitely.
Because we still live on that lot, both live and build modes should be available... and all the furniture should still be in each saved lot just as it was when last saved.
Does this sound correct? thank you again.
The same is true for university housing. Build all you like, but once a sim is living there, you can't build anymore.
Although there is a cheat code that allows build mode in any circumstances, freebuild or something like that, you could look it up.
Is it an issue if both versions of the lot have the same neighborhood/background scenery?
EDIT okay that's exactly the same thing you suggested under "in theory," I should have read better lol.
Go on vacation to the rental lot with your sim. Open up the cheat box with testing cheat on and type bb.enablefreebuild. That cheat allows you to access build mode for any lot. You can change things around as much as you need. It works on most special lots as well. That's how I edited Magic HQ so my sim can live there.
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Well that's another good idea! Thank you.
EDIT: lol @ mightysprite. I was hoping someone would confirm that theory, so thank you as well.
To answer your question, no, the area of the lot isn't really important to me. I just hope I can trust everything to be intact when I place a lot.
I know this is silly, but I worry about overwriting saves a bunch of times... like I'm going to wear out the save file by overworking it. lol
*Hoping someone will confirm that too. lol
Did maxis update the spa lot in the game or is there any recommendations of a good one on the gallery?
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Ahh thanks, I’ll look it up . I used the most popular non-maxis one, I think it was called Bali and it was really good, but I’d like to try a few!