EgonVM's Ultimate NPC Making Guide

Atreya33 · March 9

Very useful list. I am going to bookmark it.

dreamprisoner · March 9

This is exactly what I needed as I was looking to tackle making all my npcs.

Lecca · March 9

this is so impressive!! cannot thank you enough for the time/effort you've put in here. i'm still trying to get celene back to bartending in moonwood mills lol

EgonVM · March 10

Added Batuu mission NPCs! Excluded those who just fall into filters explained in separate roles.
Though I don't exactly remember what mission would they be part of. So if anyone remembers, please let me know.

Lecca wrote: »

this is so impressive!! cannot thank you enough for the time/effort you've put in here. i'm still trying to get celene back to bartending in moonwood mills lol

You're welcome. I'm happy I could get it out before the no-transfer line too.

On the topic of Celene, my only suggestion here is to borrow her from another save. Take a save where she is the bartender (or make a new one), save her to your library, and place her into a lot in Moonwood Mill and evict her. Hopefully it should work.

For now, looking for methods to get the location-based NPCs to show up (hopefully without mods, but with mods it is faster). I will update the last post in the post row with those methods and guides should I get these uncovered.

EgonVM · March 11

Added some vanilla location-based career methods. Unfortunately, it doesn't help with the following roles:

Librarian
Moonwood Mill's Bartender
Moonwood Mill's Librarian
Bar Regulars (but who cares about those anyway)

I'm going to have to try some mods soon then.

LeGardePourpre · March 16

Well about the librarian, I don't really understand how it works because my game was able to hire Bella Goth at the Britechester library.

Surgery (MCCC copy/paste face & body) is probably the only way to customize them.

EgonVM · March 16

LeGardePourpre wrote: »

Well about the librarian, I don't really understand how it works because my game was able to hire Bella Goth at the Britechester library.

Surgery (MCCC copy/paste face & body) is probably the only way to customize them.

Interesting... Perhaps it does work, perhaps it has changed. After all, Librarian filter doesn't have this code:

<V n="repurpose_terms" t="dont_repurpose"/>

If that means that sims may be reused in the role with no extra special filters, then unfortunately, only one thing remains on the list:

Moonwood Mill's Bartender

This and NPC store retail employee are the only ones with this line of code.

I think the MCCC only helps with changing NPC's appearance to match one of sims you made, but it won't transfer skills, traits, loot etc, right? You could as well use in-game ways to edit sims in CAS with full-edit mode...

LeGardePourpre · March 16

Sims 4 Studio can edit the savegame, I didn't try yet but it could be possible to copy the Career parameters from a NPC to your sim.

EgonVM · March 16

LeGardePourpre wrote: »

Sims 4 Studio can edit the savegame, I didn't try yet but it could be possible to copy the Career parameters from a NPC to your sim.

Really? Where?

LeGardePourpre · March 16

You should save this NPC + your sim and load them in a new game, delete the other sims. Leave one played sim before save and quit.
It will be easier to found them if there are only 3 sims in the save.

Open .save file
Sort by type
Find Save Game Data type
In the Data tab, edit Sims
You can use the filter to show the Name parameter and find the SimData of the NPC
In sim_careers > careers , you will find the career data
You can do a screenshot of the values and edit your sim

EgonVM · March 16

LeGardePourpre wrote: »

You should save this NPC + your sim and load them in a new game, delete the other sims. Leave one played sim before save and quit.
It will be easier to found them if there are only 3 sims in the save.
Open .save file

Sort by type

Find Save Game Data type

In the Data tab, edit Sims

You can use the filter to show the Name parameter and find the SimData of the NPC

In sim_careers > careers , you will find the career data

You can do a screenshot of the values and edit your sim

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Ooh... That's interesting... I'll have to look into it.

But... I'm unfamiliar with the rest of the software (I use it to look into the tuning files and string tables). How to open a save file?

LeGardePourpre · March 16

My Projects button and Sims 4 Save filter

EgonVM · March 16

LeGardePourpre wrote: »

My Projects button and Sims 4 Save filter

Thank you so much! Ah, SimPE like possibilities are open...

I'll look into it. I have a slight suspicion that I'm going to need some lotIDs or something like that...

LeGardePourpre · March 16

I think it's called zone_id

EgonVM · March 16

LeGardePourpre wrote: »

I think it's called zone_id

It must be. Yeah, it must be.

I'm looking into Celene López (because, well, Moonwood Mill's bartender is my biggest question). Looking into zone table, the one for Moonwood Mill's bar is 02EE11F633C9FA77. Looking into Celene's career zone_id, it matches. So it's definately that.

I'll have to look deep into it. Is zone_id different in each save (I blame Residential Rental lots), or is it same and I'll have to make an easy to access list of lots. Afterwards, career_uid and track_uid, what are these for these careers.

I'm close to solving it thanks to you! I can feel it!

EgonVM · March 26

Today's discovery is...

Do not use cheats to raise these skills:

Skill_Chopsticks
Skill_SpicyFood

It'll not only not work, but it will also glitch out your sim. They'll be T-posing and won't do anything, even after a reset. Going through a loading screen will give you an error message. Stubbornly trying to load again seems to fix it, but the food stall was gone and sims weren't any better at using chopsticks or tolerating spicy food.

I'll look into further to see if I need to include "statistic_" as well... But for now, do not touch.

Good that I tested...

Edit. Nope, better raise this skill through gameplay!

GalacticGal · April 2

@EgonVM Thanks for this.

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