My next attempt for the knitting skill is to add skill challenges.
I’m thinking that if it’s too difficult or prone to bugs, I will instead just make the skill hidden (there’s no point in it showing up if there’s nothing to look at, right?)
I have a couple of questions though: 1. do you even want skill challenges, or would you rather just have some chill knitting time and not worry about anything other than getting better at not failing?
2. if you do want challenges (and if I can make them), do you have any ideas? There is the obvious number of attempted projects, number of successful/failed projects. Rewards like being faster and knitting, increased chance of success. Perhaps a reward for having loads of failures is that they bother your sim less? 3. because there aren’t really enough objects to make each skill level feel unique and full, I figured I could instead have each knitting object fit into a skill “band” like Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced… How far you are into the band would then determine how likely you are to succeed. Eg. if Intermediate is skill levels 4-6, if you are level 5 you might have a 75% chance of success, while 4 would have 60 and 6 would have 90. If you are in the band below, you’d have a smaller chance, whereas if you are in the band above you’d be nearly guaranteed to succeed. I also feel like this is a bit more true to how knitting projects are described in real life. So my question is, does this sound good or do you hate it? It basically functions the same as the original set-up, but the difference is each object will fit into one of 3 or 5 categories, rather than 10. Though maybe the bands could have some other differences, like the better knitting animations, a moodlet, or sparkly knitting needles?
AlsoTHANK YOU for the great response to the last post, and to the testers and for the feedback I got. Both my heart and ego have swelled.
By the way, adding “knit on rocking chair” has been officially added to the ambitioussection of Plans because it seems to involve confusing animation things that I don’t understand (sitting the wrong way is only half the issue :/). I would love to get this working though.
Flower Arranging - Missing Uni Life or Supernatural?
Hello,
Firstly, thank you so much to everyone who has said lovely things about the mod. I’m really glad you guys are happy about it.
I think the base game plant meshes are mostly ugly so I used the SN and UL plant meshes for most of the flower harvestables, but for those who don’t have those packs, sims will reset when trying to plant them (thanks @enable–llamas for finding that out :p).
So I’ve just made some edits to the the plants xml that’s in the mod so if you are missing one of the two packs, you can still plant all the flowers.
Choose the right one for you and put in Mods/Overrides (the original mod should still be in Mods/Packages, these files just override an xml that’s in the original).
Also, Seasons is still required for the wildflowers thing, if someone without Seasons wants to see what happens if it’s not installed and let me know, feel free. I might be able to see if I can make it work regardless of it being installed.
Get a big sniff o’ that pollen, for flower arranging has arrived to Sims 3!
To start, purchase the Flower Arranging Table from Buy mode in Hobbies and Skills.
Before a Sim has learnt the Flower Arranging Skill, you can Dabble at the table until you get a skill point. Then after that, you can start making flower arrangements, learning new ones as you skill up.
This mod comes with 15 new harvestables - all flowers converted from Sims 4. These are used to make the arrangements.
There are a lot of flower arrangements you can make - I converted ~40 from the Sims 4, and there are 3 made from Seasons’ Wildflowers. Once made, they give off a nice scent for Sims around them, but after some time (default 48hrs) they will start to smell and attract flies, so you might want to throw them away then.
Knitting! This mod adds a knitting interaction and skill to the game.
To get started, buy a pair of knitting needles. You’ll also need to purchase yarn to knit with. The knitting bag can be used to store knitting needles and yarn, so if you have a family of knitters, or just a sim who likes to knit an awful lot, it’s a convenient way to keep the items together.
You can knit items or just practise. Skill up to get better at making more advanced projects.
Traits will affect how fast, successful, and happy sims are at knitting, and there are 6 custom moodlets related to knitting.
There are few things I want to look into adding/changing, so there will likely be updates coming up.
Thank you for all the support and kind words! I really hope you like the mod <3
Update v1.4 for Czech games - fixed the Czech STBL so it should now work properly. Let me know if you still have issues with any blank strings :) Nothing else changed, so if you don’t have this problem there is no need to redownload. (Hoping to get the next update out soon though, and it’s a more exciting one ;))
Knitting! This mod adds a knitting interaction and skill to the game.
To get started, buy a pair of knitting needles. You’ll also need to purchase yarn to knit with. The knitting bag can be used to store knitting needles and yarn, so if you have a family of knitters, or just a sim who likes to knit an awful lot, it’s a convenient way to keep the items together.
You can knit items or just practise. Skill up to get better at making more advanced projects.
Traits will affect how fast, successful, and happy sims are at knitting, and there are 6 custom moodlets related to knitting.
There are few things I want to look into adding/changing, so there will likely be updates coming up.
Thank you for all the support and kind words! I really hope you like the mod <3
