Sims Watching Musicians

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Post by Chain_Reaction » December 3rd, 2016, 12:47 am

kLookAtTuning controls the Sims head while looking at something so not what you wanted. What Trey mentioned is how you disable the watch interaction, it won't disable them playing. There's no way to disable it based on skill level of the musician.

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Post by landerlady12 » December 5th, 2016, 9:33 am

Can you disable autonomous playing below a certain skill level using storyprogression caste? Would that possibly work?

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Post by MoMoll » December 5th, 2016, 10:24 am

@landerlady: haven't tried that. I'm leery of messing with castes. Hopefully someone else can answer. I just tell them to stop playing!
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Post by brappl » December 5th, 2016, 10:37 am

@Trey - You didn't misunderstand. I confused the issue in what is supposed to be my brain. I wanted to stop the "watch" interaction and was able to disable that from Retuner in City Hall by object for each instrument. All the other settings available are also available in there and can be manipulated for all kinds of scenarios. The settings you mentioned having the object menu enabled in Retuner also have options I could use.
@Chain - There is a option in Retuner with the object menu to enable or disable Play. Is that the one you were referring to or am I misunderstanding?
@landerlady 12 - Thanks for the suggestion but based on what Chain posted there is no way to disable based on skill level.

I've played around with the settings available in both environments and the activity has been toned down considerably and did not have to completely disable everything.

Thank you all for the help. Much appreciated.

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Post by MoMoll » December 5th, 2016, 11:33 am

@brappl: what settings did you do in Retuner? Curious!

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Post by brappl » December 5th, 2016, 2:02 pm

@MoMoll - don't go by my settings I have no understanding of how the code works. The settings I am testing out are a mish-mash of contradiction. I've been focusing on households and haven't really concentrated on community lots although I am noticing more sims interacting, playing catch, fighting or what ever floats their boat lol. Here's just an example, based on one instrument, of my settings (Don't try this at home).

From City hall by Object - Piano Settings (I used different settings for other instruments)
Still playing with the settings. I suspect having Autonomous False they will not perform on Community Lots, Tips, Jam etc. even though those are set at true in the City Hall Retuner settings. But maybe allowing on Community lots True will prove me wrong.

Under The instrument selected I set the:
Watch at False
Autonomous False
Play for Tips True
Allowed Age Species: Only YA and Adult True
Allow for Greeted and non Greeted Sims False
Allow on Community Lots True

Clicking on the instrument that is placed in a house using Retuner with objects enabled:
Only allowing Children and Teens
Autonomous is set to False - Being children and teens they play anyway
Watch is set to false and that is working as it should.
Everything else under Watch and all options is set to false such as allow from inventory, allow on community lots. Only user directed allowed.

I know these settings are all jumbled but they seem to be tempering the overwhelming use of instruments and the watching. I'm focusing on a different play style and where my game is not currently focused on musical careers or musical skill development this works well for me ...so far. The kids are able to gain some skills. Overall in the households while the kids and teens still use the instruments there is no watching and I am seeing other sims in the household autonomously using things like chemistry sets, art easels, playing chess and other games more often. The YA/Adults are even doing chores like laundry, potty training and all that good stuff rather than standing there swaying side to side doing their very good impersonation of someone with no money and no brains.

HA! Bet you're sorry you asked, LOL.

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Post by Ghostsdoj » December 5th, 2016, 3:18 pm

Question: if you have "watch" as false, and they play for tips, do they ever actually get a tip? (Although it's still better than in Sims 2 when they start playing for tips in their living room at 3 AM, and then spend 10 minutes being disappointed that they didn't get one.)

Which reminds me: they need a reasonable level of skill to play for tips. If the only time they can play on a community lot is if they are playing for tips, then you will prevent anyone who is just learning the instrument from playing in a public place.

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Post by MoMoll » December 5th, 2016, 4:15 pm

@brappl: I'll play around with the settings. Otherwise, I'll have my sim tell them to "stop playing" (not sure if it ruins the relationship; but, I don't care).

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Post by brappl » December 5th, 2016, 7:17 pm

Hello there Ghostsdoj - I haven't focused much on the Community Lots playing as I am not playing any musical careers but will check out the tips thing. As I mentioned above they are playing on community lots but not for tips as they do not have a qualifying skill level. My big thing was the watching and they have stopped watching; at least for what little I've observed on community lots. The households were my main target. I'll give one of them a 10 skill level and see what happens. Rather than have your sim tell them to stop playing I'm sure I saw a setting in there where you can click on the sim playing and select take a break from playing or something like that. I'll take a look when I go in game and see where that setting is.
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Post by brappl » December 5th, 2016, 7:19 pm

Well damn, I don't know what I did. @MoMoll - don't know how you ended up at the end. It should have been on a new line before this comment: "Rather than have your sim tell them to stop playing I'm sure I saw a setting in there where you can click on the sim playing and select take a break from playing or something like that. I'll take a look when I go in game and see where that setting is. "

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