Better Car Restoration

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Background
Free Time restorable car is one aspect from the EP that I like. Whether it'll be for sale, instantly sold, or household usage, I am willing to find a free space to put one there and have my Sims work on it...in their free time!

The only issue was I never remembered to adjust its motive drains for years before making and releasing this mod!

This modification is the 1st of my mod uploaded here and it started out the simplest. Yet, it has the most downloads amongst my works. I have no proper thanks but to update it to an even better form.

The updated version retains the more reasonable motive drains as well as the progress indicators. New features make restoring car a more engaging activity, as Sims can earn STR while working together and earning a bit of Fun revving up the engine. Skill points matter more now, as they can bestow speed boosts to help make repair go by quicker.

As requested by RockStarDrunk, I have also updated CandK's 3t2 conversion of Classically Cool Fixer Upper Car, and released it publicly here at MTS.


Features
Motives and Skills
  • More reasonable motive drains, the primary aim of this mod
  • Drains Comfort, Hygiene and Energy; comparable to a workout
  • More taxing on Comfort and Hygiene than on Energy
  • Motive drain is on hold with appropriate animations, such as switching side and taking a breath.
  • Fun gain scales with serious personality.
  • Faster skill gain rates than default (200% vs 100%), that also scale with serious personality.
  • Progress indicators are shown by clicking on the car. For body and engine works, but only with custom car choice for painting, and are shown even as the car is being worked on.

Interactions
  • "Paint\Work on Paint" drains Comfort and Hygiene, though less so than on body or engine.
  • "Paint\Work on Paint" builds Cleaning and fast (300%), since it takes little time.
  • "Rev Engine" now gives a small and quick boost in Fun and Tinkering.
  • "Work on Engine" no longer causes Sim to quit prematurely upon engine failure.
  • "Work on Body" will enter the painting phase earlier at 90% instead of 98%. (Except for custom car choice)

Other Changes
  • Working together is social 2 Sims working on a restorable car will quickly earn STR and the Social motive.
  • Skills yield speed boosts - most animations are sped up the higher corresponding skill is.
  • Sims with higher skills will finish the work faster than Sims with lower skills, but not much more so.
  • Speed starts at 75% (slower than original), and can be increased up to 150%.
  • Speed boost begins at 1 skill points and is capped at 9 skill points.
  • Longer time to restore the car by default - about 50% longer

Extras
  • Outfit choices to wear while working on the car
  • Car choices other than the default one
  • Car choice feature is disabled by default - get _CarChoice.zip instead or make an edit as per an attached .txt.
  • If enabled, a car type must be chosen first before any work can be done.
  • If the chosen car type costs more than the default restorable car, additional payment may be made.
  • Chosen car has slightly different work stages than the default one - no paint phase during body work and longer, unspecific "Work on Paint".
Currently, there are 3 car choices other than the default car to choose from. These are all from Nightlife: "Smoogo Minima", "Smord P328", and "Yomoshoto Evasion".

For outfits, there are currently 4 choices: any outfit, gym cloth, Set 1: "scrub", and Set 2: "bricklayer".

Adding new car and outfit choices are supported. See the .txt files inside for detail.


Options
2 versions of BetterResCar are available - _CarChoice has the car choice feature enabled. Use only either .zip.

CandK's conversion is standalone and has both the workable wreck and the restored car files, completed with all recolors.


Issues
CandK's conversion has uncorrected collision footprint (Sims can phase through the front, even as the engine is being worked on), but otherwise her conversion is fully functional.

Due to reworked code, any restorable car placed before Update 3 will lose progress. You can use the new debug menu, however.

Rarely, if a Sim quits while working on the body or the paint, they may have an FX stuck on them. An interaction on the wreck was made specifically to remedy this, but it has not been tested yet.

Please report any bugs in the comment section.


Conflicts
This mod modifies the One Man's Junk Car by Mechanically Minded group (0x7F56417D) of the following instances:


The GUIDs for CandK's 3t2 conversion are 0x0088D7E0 and 0x0088D7E1

This mod has the same feature of preventing quit from engine failure similar to cyjon's No Engine Weenies fix. You can remove cyjon's fix once this mod is in use.


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Credits:
Crisps&Kerosene (CandK) for conversion of TS3 Store Classically Cool Fixer Upper Car

maybesomethingdunno for a post about default animation speed.
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