Excellent job Montoto, thank you!

Gundavolt,

If I remember well, this is a matter of graphic settings in the game; you should try higher detail and it should fix the issue.
I'd love to give you an explanation, and I think I understood the reason once, but now either I dreamed that or I forgot :lol:

Thank you all!!

I'm really happy that you find this useful, now I pray that some other people will make all the other missing sims stuff so I can play the game for a change :lo:

Hey very cool, this stupid roach stomping was such an annoyance!!
Congrats Kathy, it's a lovely surprise to see you making mods, and that one is really nifty and useful *hugs*

So, when testing Wes_h's Animesh exporter for Milkshape I asked myself what I wanted most in game (and that didn't seem freakishly difficult in terms of BHAVs and other real modding stuff!!)... Well, it seems that I'm happy with not much :lol:

Anyway, here's what I hope is a realistic enough alternative for the usual space saving stairs: stealth stairs, teleporters, and Targa's ladder stairs that were my favourite despite the lack of animations.

The base object was cloned from Targa's ladder stairs; the mesh was replaced but I kept his original footprint. So this ladder takes only 2 tiles, 1 for the ladder itself and 1 for the landing.

The custom animations are for all ages, except toddlers that can't use stairs anyway; all the locomotion types (sexy, depressed, angry...) will use the same "normal" animation, except the "run" locomotion for which the speed was doubled - pets and ghosts will just jump, at least for ghosts that makes sense


You'll find two different objects below:

- the "Marvine-ladder-animated" with 7 recolours : light wood, dark trashed wood, white, grey, black, blue, and a raw wood texture by Beosboxboy. The base object uses a warm medium wood texture, don't delete that one in game!

- the "Marvine-ladder-animated-metalClone", mesh and texture by my dear Beosboxboy, for an industrial look.

The packages were tested with Seasons and with base game only, I don't think the minor last minute changes will affect that.






Known issues:

- despite all the pains I took, the hands sometimes sink a little in the sides of the ladder, and this is more noticeable on the metal version which uses a slightly thicker mesh. Well it's not too bad with the fading...
- some animation overlays will look weird, like climbing upstairs when holding a baby, or when the sim turns to look at another sim; I didn't figure out how the priorities work so there's nothing I can do about that for now. It shouldn't happen very often anyway, unless you have the nursery upstairs
- when climbing down, the sim turns a little briskly to face the ladder and to walk away; this is the only workaround I found for a skeleton settings issue.
If you notice anything else, please let me know!


Policy: you're welcome to recolour, clone, modify with appropriate credit; please don't upload on pay sites or the Exchange.


Biggest thanks: to Wes_H of course, being his guinea pig was a priviliege :lol:, to Echo for answering my dumb questions, and to both Echo and John Brehaut for their great tutorials that got me started - and to Beosboxboy for putting up with my baby mad scientist moods and whining

And, of course, to all the people that made this possible with their tools, research and advice!

Beautiful work, these capris and top are just too cute

Thank you very much Jack, gorgeous work as usual!

It's great to see you here Solander. Thank you very much for this gorgeous set!

That's crazy! Great job Bloom

Bloom,

Once more I'm very impressed, not only by your creativity and the quality of your work, but also by your understanding of the whole meshing thing.

Thank you very much for sharing  

Very lovely outfits Morbid, thank you very much

Very cute

Oh lovely!

Looks great, thank you

Very nice! Thank you