The new object the Wishing Well has an option to turn a frog into a new love interest for your sim. It however (apparently) just creates any old random sim, with no rational as to the age or gender to match your sims preference. I guess that this behavior is in the DLL? I took a peak into it and found a "create romantic interest" tree/tab but I have no clue how to read what's inside. Is there a way to make the object create a sim that matches your sims age and preference to gender? I've attached the .dll if someone wants to take a gander at it.

Here's the create romantic interest info:

What it does there is : it creates a list of age flags, specifically Young Adult, Adult and Elder, then it picks a random one (that's how it works in this case, it apparently can't just pick one directly). If the sim is a Teen then only Teens get chosen, obviously. Then it "flips a coin" whether the sim should be male or female, based on the gender preference, which means that both can happen as long as there is even a minimum value for a gender. After this, a sim gets randomly created, gets assigned random traits and gets added to a random household in town. Random name follows as well.

To answer your question, yes, instead of choosing a random flag, the script could be changed to choose exactly the same age as the sim wishing for love, while for the other one, gender preferences have values and the script could be set to choose the one with the higher value. Still, the rest would be random, so IMHO the best approach here, would be to insert a dialog prior to each choice where the user inputs the age, then the gender preference. Still, you could choose to randomize them if you want, something like : Select gender preference (M - F - Random).

That's basically it

EDIT : Mind you, it can happen that both gender preferences have the same value, this should be considered, in that case the "higher value" method wouldn't work, if you chose to go with it, that is why I suggested a direct choice from the user. As for Teens, only Teens should be assigned to, unless you want to anger the game XD

If you can download vistual studio 2008 express you could open the visual studio project source that I have attached.

There is an #error directive in the CreateRomanticInterest method that will direct you to where you would need to make your edits.

You could edit the code and recompile .. then import your dll into a .package file using S3PE.

Digitalchaos

PS: you can thank .net reflector for the exporting the code from the dll you uploaded!!!

Go download ILSpy, it will make it easier for you to read the script (and it's free).



This is the code you are looking for. However, it already takes into account your sim's gender preference.

First it does a "coin flip," but then look at the next line:

!actor.SimDescription.NotOpposedToRomanceWithGender(cASAgeGenderFlags)

! means not. If the actor is not NotOppossedToRomanceWithGender, i.e. if the actor IS opposed to romance with the gender from the coin flip, then the the script will now continue to the conditional operator "?:" (Read explanation of ?: operator). The ?: operator is essentially an if-else statement.

So it works like this: Actor = Gay = Male. Coin Flip = Female
->
Actor is opposed to romance with Female gender.

cASAgeGenderFlags == CASAgeGenderFlags.Female is true, so script will use the first expression: CASAgeGenderFlags.Male

I.e. If your sim is gay, and your coin flip returns Female, then cASAgeGenderFlags == CASAgeGenderFlags.Female is true, so the script will use the first expression: CASAgeGenderFlags.Male

If your sim is lesbian, and the coin flip returns Male, then cASAgeGenderFlags == CASAgeGenderFlags.Female is false, so the script will use second expression: CASAgeGenderFlags.Female

If your sim is a straight female, and the coin flip returns female, the script will return CASAgeGenderFlags.Male.

If your sim is a straight female and the coin flip returns male, then the sim is NotOpposedToRomanceWithGender, so the if statement is skipped.

Etc.

I have not played around enough with the wishing well (working on other stuff), but I think the problems people are seeing might be related to people playing newly created sims that either have a gender preference the player is not expecting, or do not yet have a gender preference.

That's exactly the problem, the code, as it is, just evaluates if a specific gender is acceptable for romance, which is right basically, but what if you don't want your sim to be gay? Also, if the 2 values are the same, then there's no gender preference, that's why EA used this generic approach, to bypass the "no gender preference" occurrence. It's a matter of taste actually, if you're fine with it then keep the code as it is, but if you want to better define which gender should be assigned, then the safest solution is to leave the decision to the player. The latter will solve all the problems

Yes. I did mention the no gender preference thing. I was not aware that the goal of this is to make it so players choose the gender of the sim.

You weren't aware cos it's not mentioned, that's what the OP will have to decide, we just provided our personal explanations and point of views, plus DigitalChaos provided a project and you detailed the whole process step by step, there's plenty to go from there

Oh, I see!

In the Wishing Well stuff is an ITUN called WishingWell+ExploreUndergroundCaves, but there is no pie menu option to do this, at least I have not seen any such option. I was wondering if someone looking at the script might have a look for it; or might this be new functionality added to the Well later on, together with Supernaturality, for example?

Yes, it requires a game object called hotSpringClassic to be on the lot, in order for the interaction to appear. I think it will be another store object, though.

This part of modding is all new to me so what you're telling me is this:

It does check preference but with new sims without preferences it is random, or if the sim is equally gay/straight it's random? If that's how it's intended to work that's fine by me, I did actually only play around with fresh sims. But the idea of adding pie menu options to choose age and gender sounds cool too, I just don't think that's something I'd be able to do, at least as of right now, I'd have to do some studying first on the topic.

@Shimrod - I've notices they do that, include iTuns for stuff that doesn't exist. (yet?) The deep fryer has an itun for changing the oil and an included oil bottle accessory, but the chance to do so never happens in game.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.