Wizardry Career (Custom Uniforms, Custom Carpool)
Here is my version of a wizard career. It is based on the magic-user class from Dungeons & Dragons. Way back in the first edition, circa 1978. Most of my Sims are based on my old D&D characters so it has been difficult for me sometimes to find them jobs that really fit them. I began thinking about custom careers and I remembered that way back then the classes in D&D had titles for each level. I thought that those would make pretty decent job titles for a career in The Sims 2, so I began fleshing them out. This is the first career based a Dungeons & Dragons class. I plan to do more. My major snag was appropriate carpools. Since my career was medieval fantasy in nature, it really didn't make sense for a hatchback or limo to come as a carpool. I secured permission from Hexameter for the use of his great horse and wagon/carriage vehicles as carpools. I, in my ignorance, thought that it was as easy as assigning the GUID for one of those vehicles as the carpool in the career. As it turns out it is far more complicated than that. All of the credit for the custom carpool goes to Hexameter. The best my efforts could come up with was getting the carriage to come as the carpool and stop in front of the house. The second anyone queued up the "Go to Work" action, the carpool disappeared. Hexameter and I talked back and forth about how to make it work until he looked at my package and redid it for me. Actually, he started from scratch, even giving the carpool custom sound. I can't thank him enough for what he's done. It just goes to show how great the people around here on MTS2 are. Here is a link to his original vehicle that the carpool vehicle is based on for information pertaining to his mesh:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=129461
Anyway, here are the details of the career:
-- Custom icons
-- Complete chance cards
-- EP ready (University is required only for the career reward, your Sim doesn't have to graduate college to be employed in this career.)
-- Available with or without custom uniforms since I had to base my uniforms on outfits from several different EPs and SPs
-- Career reward is the Resurrect-O-Nomitron with a different description and name, but it shows up as a separate entry in the career rewards with my icon
-- Doesn't overwrite any career that I know of
-- And, of course, the previously mentioned custom carpool
I now have a Magic Career for Pets if you'd like your wizard to have a familiar. It can be found here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=236417
MyshunoGuy has made a major tailored to this career. It can be found here:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=258194
Levels:
1. Prestidigitator $300
2. Evoker $468
3. Conjurer $523
4. Thaumaturgist $622
5. Magician $712
6. Enchanter/Enchantress $879
7. Warlock/Witch $1047
8. Sorcerer/Sorceress $1296
9. Necromancer $1752
10. Wizard $2515
Requirements for the top level are 10 points of cooking, 10 points of Logic, 10 points of creativity, and 6 family friends
There are ten files in the Magic Career.rar: the career, the career reward, the carpool, a sound package for the carpool, four career outfits, and two clothing files that tell the career to use the custom outfits. All the files must be placed in the downloads directory for the career to work properly. The .rar without the custom uniforms of course only has the first four files in it.
I had a little fun with the chance cards and tried to base all of them on wizards from movies and/or books. Only one of them is completely made up. Sadly enough, I couldn't think of ten different ones that I was familiar enough with to write about. Can anyone identify the situations from all the cards and tell which one I completely made up? Here's your only hint: since my career was medieval in nature, I tried to avoid modern day wizards like Harry Potter, so there's nothing from that.
Here's a screenshot of Seasons' Priya Ramaswami as she goes to work in her new career in the field of magic:
A note about the custom uniforms, I looked all through the outfits trying to find some that looked sufficiently wizard-like to recolor into wizard robes and it was hard to find Maxis outfits that worked. In the end, I had to settle on recoloring the Nightlife vampiress dress, the Holiday Stuff Santa robe, a dress that I think also came from the Holiday Stuff Pack, and a long coat that came from Glamour Life Stuff, so, of course, these will be required for the uniforms to be there. However, I know that many people will not have all of these, so I'm also putting up a version where your Sim will go to work in their everyday outfit in place of all of those, so you can dress them however you like for work. Also, I wasn't completely happy with an otherwise thin Sim putting on weight when he dresses in his wizard robe (the one based on the Santa robe) but with my present skill level there was nothing I could really do about it.
For the career and uniforms:
Please use these or modify these as you will, but please do not upload to any paysite (even if it's free on the paysite) and please give me credit.
For permissions pertaining to the carpool and its associated sound files, you would have to contact hexameter.
Additional Credits:
Maxis for the game
SuperFly for the general tutorials
Bidou for the career editor
Skiingiggy for the career reward tutorial
Vagrant for the uniform files
Everyone behind SimPE Everyone at MTS2
My wife for playtesting for me
And especially Hexameter for his help with the carpool
Magic Career (Fixed Languages).rar
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Magic Career (No Custom Uniforms).rar
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Magic Career.rar
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1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
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- Mac x64: /Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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Updated: 3rd Mar 2011 at 7:02 PM by whiterider
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