(Archive) Sims College :: Intermediate Level Hacking - OverView
SimsCollege.com originally held online classes. The classes ended some time ago but the owners of the site left the material online so other would be able to use them as tutorials. These Entry Level Hacking Lessons are reprinted here with kind permission of the author for those how are having trouble accessing the originals at the Sims College Classrooms site.
Intermediate Level hacking is designed to take the students several steps further into the world of hacking, and serves to promote good programming skills and a more developed understanding of how objects work in The Sims game. Prospective students should have a basic understanding of terminology and object functions.
Requirements: Either some hacking knowledge or completion of Entry Level Hacking.
The four Intermediate Hacking Lessons cover:
- Variable types, Global calls, and Person type/gender filters
- Motives, Skills and interests (beds and chairs)
- More on Interests (bookcases)
- Introducing Graphics Resources and Randomizing Events (includes adjusting the family budget)
LESSON ONE
- Variables, Parameters, Attributes and Constants
- Person Type and Gender
- A look at Global calls and global.iff
- Working with doors
- Working with Sim Death
LESSON TWO
- Personalities, Skills & Interests
- Working with beds (motives adjustment)
- Working with a chair (adding skills)
LESSON THREE
- Interests & Skill Bar
- Adding interests to a bookcase
LESSON FOUR
- Graphic States
- Drawgroups (DRGP) and Sprites (SPR2)
- (A look at recoloring objects)
- Adding a TTAB resource to an object
- Merging Person Type switching with controlling sims into a single object
- Randomizing Events
- event: give my Sim a bit of cash
- event: make the Sim very hungry
- event: create object instance
- More control over Function 16 (Find Location)
- Animations and sounds (review of ELH)
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A Group Project: StrangePainting.iff