Dev Blog: 6/15/2021

Phew, been a busy few weeks thanks to Summer of Sims and mod work! 

Also is anyone else as hyped as I am about the new EP!? I'm so glad that EA is doing farming, even if they just labeled it as Cottage Living. Just note that even though EA is adding farming, we're still working on our own farming stuff! 

We plan to do the missing animals, add any features from our cow to the EA cow, add improvements to EA's other animals if necessary, and we also have some farm related objects coming as well! As for horses, disappointed EA didn't add them but I'm sure they knew backlash would happen after this pack with no sign of horses. Even though our team will be looking into adding horses, I'm fairly sure EA will be adding a dedicated pack for it soon, so I'm not really worried about it. In fact, if I see a hint for it in the new CoL pack I can guarantee we'll either see it by the end of the year or early next year, so just keep your hopes up!

Oh, and I'll be repurposing the cross-stitching animations for the handheld version of my sewing project! This pack is just amazing for both modding and gameplay reasons, lol.

Now on to the main post!

Other

As you saw from my last post, I just finished the patch related updates. I'm also now working on some much needed updates for Everyone Can Suntan and School Uniforms For Any World. Both are being turned into scripts, and suntanning is being converted for kids. I finished the scripts for the suntan mod but the animations are going to be the most time consuming part. I am planning to get the animations done later this week if I don't run into any issues, which looking at the animations is hopefully true. I will release these two updated mods, as well as another update for Human Ghost to fix the child animation arm snapping, soon.

I was also commissioned for an Eco Living NAP blocking mod because they didn't want the NAPs or popups that came with it. I was thankfully able to completely block the NAP system with a script, and there are no signs of any issues doing it this way. I have a handful of things left to block for this person but I will be releasing this mod once finished for others who also hate the popups, etc. This didn't take much time away from my other mods btw! It was a fairly fast script thanks to Pancake's advice, and if the other blocks cooperate with a script this mod should be done quickly.

Broom, etc. 

Don't worry, I'm still working on everything I was before! After I spent that time working on converting those 2 mods into scripts, I decided to work on the suntan one and then the school uniforms because I got another Ask on Tumblr about the uniform mod being compatible with other school mods, someone wanted kids to suntan, etc. So, might as well get them done while I'm on a roll! I will hopefully have the broom released soon, just not sure when as I focus on all this scripting. 

I'm also back to working on the Styled Looks tutorial, promise this time it's coming out after that really long wait! I lost motivation for a while to work on it.

That should be it for now, I will hopefully have more to post later this week!