miros1,

I know this is dumb, but can you tell me where the site is? Googling "Inteenimater" or "-or" doesn't get me there.

Thanks.

There is supposedly a "Smart Bed" hack somewhere around, that lets the Sims be assigned to beds that they use and won't use other ones.

Sounds nice. Sounds realistic, at least a tiny bit more realistic than having the mom or dad get into whatever bed they're standing near when they get tired.
However.

I only found one, and that one is apparently for EPs, because when I installed it in vanilla TS2, it really bit. Nobody would use any beds, strange townies were salted around on the lot but wouldn't interact, infants couldn't be carried anywhere.

So. Does anybody know where this hack might be (the name, "TwoJeff", is associated with one version -- I think the one I have)?

Thanks.

Don.

Yesterday I found that my Sims can no longer interact normally. Here's what I mean, and it happened when I opened a lot:

• When I hover the cursor over a bed, I get a "No Actions Available" if that's what it is, message. The same message you get when you try to talk to a guest who has already decided to hook & book.
• The lot had a townie and a guest standing there, but one townie was wearing her bathing suit, and there's no pool. Interaction attempts with both were terminated by the "action balloon" (if that's what you call it -- in the upper left corner) disappearing before the action was completed.
• When a Sim tries to pick up the infant, most of the time she lands back on the floor. Not put there. Just disappears from the adult's arms and reappears on the floor.
• Putting the infant in the high chair doesn't always give me a "Feed Narny" or whatever option.

I think I installed the option to keep Sims from using others' beds, but as no library bed showed up, I'm not sure if it was successful.

The only other hack is the No Autonomy fridge, so adults have to serve meals, instead of feeding their own fat faces. This probably started after I tried to install the bed sorter, above.

What could be going on? And how can I stop it?

And how far is up?

Thanks.

Don.

Wednesday17,

I no, I no, you were kidding and I took it lightly. As for Germany, I lived there for two years, worked as a Berlitz teacher for one of them.

We always go back there whenever we can, as we both enjoy most parts of it very well.

FWIW, my first year there I was stationed near Nurnberg, then near Hof in the border region, doing spy stuff with Russian.

And thanks for the references. If I've time, I may get into them later. Although something I've done has really choshed my ability to invite the Headmaster to some lots. (guiltily hanging my head) I think it was one of the undies downloads.

BTW, your English is pretty faultless for someone raised in Deutschland.

No, that's just the reaction I get from time to time from my wife. :-P

Were I not married, as I already implied, I suppose I'd be glad to disabuse you of that notion about American lovemaking. From your use of the word, "mum" I gather you're either from Great Britain or raised there.

Personally, and this has gotten more personal than either of us probably expected or wants, I find the touch of clothing (my own) not much freeing nor enticing. Others' clothing, well maybe.

Funny. I just assumed that once they were under the covers, they got rid of all that. But maybe not.

Really? I'd not mind looking that over. And they find themselves naked and get dressed quickly, but sometimes not quickly enough? Very entertaining. Yes, but it was only an example, meant to pose an extreme situation to illustrate what I was saying. The behavior I always thought, while enticing in a way, is sorta unthinkable: Call a bunch of people to a party, and greet them in your underwear without knowing them all pretty intimately?

You're right, Americans are more stodgy than Europeans.

I should be clearer, though: I just would like to see a more nearly realistic reaction. Ardor, revulsion, embarrassment, whatever. Or an antipathy toward being seen in deshabille, except by intimates. I just think it would be a lot less garky than what happens, which is that clothing of any sort is irrelevant to the Sims, even if not to us.

Sleepycat,

Thanks. Sort of like what I meant. But Sims are never naked, no? Except to shower or bathe, pixillated within an inch of their lives. Unless you have a naked Sims hack? Now that I think of it, there doubtless is one.

Certainly, I no of a "physiologically correct" mesh or something, somewhere. May get that some day.

What? Where or when does THAT happen?

I mean, except in my own bedroom, of course.

Ah. So without you saying so, it appears that there is a hack in some way similar to what I was looking for. But, as you say, it never worked very well?

Interesting.

I always thought it was a bit weird that Sims are comfortable when undressed, or partly dressed, around others, where in meat life they wouldn't be.

Has anyone hacked an add-in that will either:

1.  Make Sims avoid appearing in social situations when, say, in their underwear; or,

2.  Make the other Sims react in some appropriate way, either with attraction and interest (Yay!) or embarrassment?

I was clued to this when I occasionally saw kids embarrassed by their parents' cuddling and kissing, and thought it would make the whole thing more meat-like if the Sims reacted to partial dress more realistically.

Come to think of it, it sounds like a handful for someone to do. Sure would be neat, though.

Somehow having a Mom show up to collect the mail wearing some of the undies I have downloaded (Yay! again) or showing up around the nanny just doesn't look right. Even if the Mom DOES look right.

Thanks.

Don.

Somebody suggested that I look here (actually on InTeenimator) to find "Smart Beds".

They are beds that you can isolate to one person, so the kids don't constantly try to sleep in whatever bed they are close to, instead of their own, or the adults for that matter.

Can anyone show me where they are? They seem to be like alligators in the sewers, an urban legend.

Thanks.

Don.