The Sims 4 Modding Tutorial Part 10: Creating Broadcasters & Proximity Buffs - Mod Constructor V5

hello welcome back to my sims 4 modding tutorial series today we're going to take a look at how to create proximity buffs in broadcasters first we're going to start in criticism i have a son named gwendolyn and she has the romantic straight and we have our second son named janice and she has a custom trait i've created called hates romance when you create custom traits you have the ability to create proximity buffs so that this sim will get special buffs whenever they're around sims with other traits in this case janice is going to get a special buff of being around gwyndolin since gwyndolin is a romantic face them and she's the son that hates romance we load into the game you'll see that janice will have that special buff loaded okay so now you'll see she has an angry mood and then in just a moment you'll see she has a new special buff from being around gwendolyn it says yuck sappy some alert i can't stand romantic sims get that sappy sim away from me now so she gets this buff because again she's a sim that hates romance and gwyndolin is a romantic sim that's what we call a proximity buff for broadcasters those are types of actions that you can do to broadcast a special buff to other sims so for example i'm going to click on gwyndolin and i'm going to click on this custom action i've created called yellow about being there some that hates romance i'll do that that's going to broadcast a buff to janice and any sums that are in the immediate proximity so now you'll see janus has this custom buff uncomfortable around yelling while that swim is really angry this was a buff that was broadcasted to her from gwyndolin in her action so that's just to show you the difference proximity buffs are buffs that you get from being around certain sims broadcasters are actions that can broadcast buffs to other sims in the proximity now that i've explained that difference i'm going to show you how to create these two different types of elements using mod constructor version 5. once you've opened up my constructor version 5 your creator name will be here on the first line and on second line you can put your mod name i'm going to put broadcaster in proximity example and then click create mod on the left hand panel at the very bottom click add element and show all so the first thing we're going to do is create our custom trait and proximity buff so here under trait we're going to call this hates romance and then the element will be created click on it on the left and on the right you can put a description and then choose an icon you can choose the type if it's going to be select one cast if it's a game page game play trait a hidden trait aspiration based or childhood phase trait and then we're going to skip down to proximity buffs so here we're going to click create click where it says here new buff and then it will open up this section so this is going to give this them a proximity buff whenever they're around a certain sim so this time i'm going to put hates romantic sims i can't stand being around with romantic sound you can choose an icon choose an emotion now this is important this is the weight of this emotion so every buff in the game has a weight so certain things will be uh more heavily weighing on the sims mood than others it's also important to keep in mind that if you don't have any mods to disable emotional deaths if your son gets too angry or too stressed out they can die so i usually um use mods that disable that so i like to crank up my weight higher so it overpowers any other buff that the sum already has in this case i'm going to choose angry mood and this is going to be our proximity so the last thing we need to do for this proximity buff is to choose the condition and as this note states remember to set the participant to target sim to have it applied to summit proximity rather than some with the trait so we want to make sure that our sim is getting this buff when they're around sims that are romantic so that's what we're going to choose under add condition back edition here where it says always run click this little gear symbol to open the editor and then you can choose if it's going to run certain dates and times emotions interactions we're going to leave it at the default always run for now and you can add additional connections if you want in this case we're going to choose trait condition and whitelist this is what the sims will need to pass in order to get this in order for you to get this proximity buffer around them so we're going to click browse all trade space game in this case and choose romantic trait and then for target um sim we're going to put that under participant as a note states click this little gear next to participant and choose target sim okay so now we have created our proximity buff next i'm going to show you how to create an action that leads to the broadcaster being broadcast onto the other sim so this one is going to have a lot of steps so just as you follow along i'll try to spell it out as clearly as possible click add element and this time choose super interaction and create element so this is our action we're going to take in order for our broadcaster to happen so in this case we're seeing y'all at nearby sims you can choose if it has a pie menu so if you made your own custom pie menu you can select that you can decide whether or not it's enough it's autonomous action if it can be done autonomously if it's it can be user directed i'm going to click that keep that checked i'm going to jump down to add to summer objects and click add to sims only active sound so in my example before i showed you i clicked on the sim themselves in order to show the action so that's why i'm going to do that in this case this is based on your preference main content click on the gear here and click immediate interaction then under actions click create right click on this so it'll show this little section and then you can click on the add condition group always run in this case and then you want to right click on always run if you click create it'll just keep adding new actions and you don't want to do that so you want to make sure right click on always run then click add action okay by default it will say do nothing to the right click the little gear symbol and this is where it gets a little tricky so there's there's a couple of steps here the first thing we have to do is add a buff okay and then here click where it says nothing select it if you were using a buff that was already in the game you can pick from this list where you click the little gear symbol but we're going to use our own custom buff so we're going to click this little plus for create so in this case we want this to be invisible so we won't add an emotion if you add an emotion it will be visible on the sim but since we want this to be invisible we're going to leave it unchecked we do have our want to have a fixed duration so it only will last a certain amount of time so in this case 242nd you can choose a reason if you like or you can just leave it but since we're going to have invisible we're going to leave that blank for now and then we want to open this buff and we want to add the broadcaster so we're going to click this little symbol here that says open tab okay and then we're going to click here where it says broadcasters click create click on new add broadcaster conditioned in this case we're going to keep it always run for now right click on always run and click add effect where it says do nothing click this little gear symbol okay this is where you can choose if you're going to add a buff to the receiver the sender do nothing run a loop of actions on the receiver or the sender so this is how we're broadcasting a buff onto the nearby sims so in this case we're going to add buffs to the receivers okay it will say nothing selected click you can either add a buff that's already in the game so if you want to add something that's already in the game you can use this menu to do so with the gear symbol or you can do that as we're going to do and create a new one so when the sim yells then we're going to get this buff to all our nearby sims okay and then again you can choose your icon and if you have an emotion just to show you how powerful you can turn i always turn it up and i chose the mood uncomfortable okay so now we've done all those steps we've now created our broadcaster so there's different ways you can do this you want to play around with it to get your your specific result you can tie this to actions that are already in the game if you want you can use buffs already in the game as we talked about briefly so the thing that you want to do after you've done all this is to export your package and make sure that it works so i'm going to export this to my game and then i'm going to open back up my game to test it out okay so now we're back in cast and to make sure that everything works we're going to give this sim hates romance the new one we just created and we're going to give gwendolyn make sure she still has romantic perfect so now we're going to go back to our game and we're going to to just make sure everything we just created works correctly okay so we're back in game so jan is has the trait hates romance perfect she gets the the proximity buff hates romantic sims that worked next thing we just want to make sure that gwyndolin's action works as a broadcaster okay here it is yell at near bryce sims and she got it yelled at by sam now you can do more advanced things such as created action as an animation that's something that i'll go over in an upcoming tutorial for now i just want to give you the basics on how to create your proximity buffs and your broadcasters thank you so much for watching i hope you enjoyed please like and subscribe if you'd like and i'll see you next time

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Length: 13min 4sec (784 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 27 2022