Skills (continued)

The data for adding and subtracting skill points is identical to the data for doing such with personality.

Function:  2
Param 1:  Type of skill to use
Param 2:  number of points to add or subtract
Param 3:  768 to add or 1024 to subtract
Param 4:  my person data

We're going to use a chair on account we love chairs so much. Open Tmog and clone the most expensive chair (chairlr1tile > Chair - Living Room - Expensive 2). Name the chair skillschair.iff and identify it as your chair. We are doing this just in case I need to check your chairs, I'll know which is which.

Fig. 1.17

Close Tmog and save a copy of this chair in your lessons folder under "skills" for safekeeping.

Launch IFF and open up your skillschair.iff. Naturally we want to take a moment to think about what this chair provides and what it is we want it to do. The chair as is provides nothing more than comfort. We want it to add a skill point of some time as well as provide comfort. For the sake of this lesson we'll settle on a body skill point and if you'll look in your Code Book, the code for Body is 17.

OK. We know this chair adds comfort, but we don't really care about that for now. We're going to stick a body point in there so that the Sim earns it when he sits in the chair. How's that?

First things first. Let's identify this chair further as being a skills chair. Click on OBJD and then right click on this line:

Fig. 1.18