I am currently working on a Fire Service career and have been able to create two new vehicles by cloning two other existing car pool vehicles. If you try to use a vehicle that is not already a car pool vehicle, I would think that you need to adjust the pie menu and the behavs. Sorry I can not help with that. I have been able to repaint the police car and the ambulance and they seem to work fine in the game. Hope to get the career up soon, once I get the chance cards finished (a little stuck).
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Just started working on my first career, and It seems to be going smoothly. Just one thing that confuses me (I'm sure it's been answered, but i don't think i saw it)

Is there anywhere that shows which car is which for the carpool? (ex: what the different sportscars look like, what the sedan looks like, etc). I cant tell exactly by the names

I'm trying to create a archaeologist career, but after writing everything, I found that I could not open the career editor. I have a base career, but the button not only doesn't ungrey, but it doesn't even appear.

Ask me for screenies if you need.

Also I don't see why we need to make a card for every level, I checked out the cards for natural scientists using the cheat, and there is only about 4 cards (the others just say 'nsii not used' (I think))

Okay... I'm just going to say thank you for writing this tutorial right now; I'm sure I'll be back later to annoy you with questions, as I've never used SimPE (well, not for anything serious) before. I'm going to try to make an HP-inspired career dealing with magical beasts. Inspired by one of yours, I think (the Hogwarts one?). Anyway, I guess I'll do the fun bit now, writing out descriptions and levels... I despise Chance cards, so I'm not gonna bother with that bit.

Thanks again for the guide and for your patience in dealing with all the inquiries; as I said, I'm sure I'll have some too.

Hi I have finished my first career but there is a problem. When my sim gets promoted the promotion box that says the new time of work and description of the new job does not come up, however my sim does receive the new job. I would post the career here but I don't know how. Please Help Also how do i get bidou's career deitor without downloading a new simPE. Finally I would like to know how to get a promotion or demotion through chance cards

Hey superfly, i was going to send this to you in a private message but it said i couldnt so:

Can you explain the career chance cards, becuase i dont understand like how to write them. You said 100 cards and the other tutorial i was reading said other stuff. Am i able to write 1 for male and then copy it. Becuase the jobs are the same and this in the first time i have tried making a career. Ive already done the jobs, wages, desciption, skills vehicle, clothing,workdays and firneds on a piece of paper (desciption in word). If you are able to help plz let me know.

Imrebel

You can easily test the careers by opening the cheat menu(Ctrl+Shift+C) and typing "BoolProp Testingcheatsenabled true" then shift click the newspaper>adult jobs>then select the job you want to test(use with the force chance cars).

Hi! I hope this is the right place for this question.

I want to edit a custom career made by someone else. I have SimPE, with Bidou's editor working. But I can't find any of the custom careers. I looked in the object Workshop under Other and Sims Type, and the maxis careers seem to be there - but not the custom ones. I checked that the career files are in-game, and even tried to search for them in SimPE with the Finder tab. Ddin't locate anything with the right package name. Or anything else, in fact.

I've been all over the net looking for a reference to help me, and can't find one. Everyone just says..."open the career you want..."

The careers were made by SaraMK, and they are the Maxis NPC careers really. In case that makes a difference. I don't have any totally-custom careers.

Hope this is another case of blindness or stupidity. Hope you can help me!


EDIT: Okay, as usual I found it almost immediately after giving up and posting a question. The answer is...Use the 'open' command from the File menu at the top of the screen. Idiotically simple. There's just something about SimPE that makes my brain go all mushy.

Okay, I've made a custom career but I can't get promoted. Any idea's anyone?

I've checked everything. I have the skill requirements, friends, job performance, blah blah blah...

D=

Can some one swedish help me ^^ i suck on english and i whant 2 do a carrer for my sister

I finished my fantastic new career and when i was testing it during the game, i hit a little snag. It runs pretty smoothly, but when my sims get promoted, i get that little annoying error box (you know that one with cancel, retry, and delete) and it says that I gave it a crappy GUID (exact words too, what person from maxis typed in crappy GUID?) and i need to fix it. How, exactly, is a tad bit of a problem. Any help would be fantastic.

So I know this is going to sound stupid, but I have everything down, writing wise. But I have no idea how to use SimPE Bidou Career Editor. It always tells me that I don't have a package file selected or there is a problem loading the career. I have no idea how to get from having it all in MS Word and making it into SimPE.

Never mind, I figured it out.

I have written my own career and tested it and, shockingly, it works. This is my first ever custom created item for the game. However, I am having one small issue. Playing Maxis careers, I have noticed the higher a Sim's aspiration meter, the more likely they are to get a career and the lower the aspiration, the less likely. Not in my own creation. No matter her mood (I even cheated and set it in high red), she gets a promotion as long as she has fulfilled the skills requirement. Is there somewhere to change this or did I do something wrong? If someone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you very much for this tutorial. Bidou career editor is an awesome tool !

How do you put them IN the game

how do you open the ressouce tree?

hi im new to this,but i have managed to do a career and get it slightly to work in the sims 2.When my sim gets a job it says karate instructor (my career) but has test subject after it(as you can see i used the science career as a guide) and when i click on skills and career it says test subject and when i hover over that a brief discripton of whati do in the job.How do i edit these ? and where can they be found .

I posted for the first time today but a HystericalParoxysm kindly deleted my post with a note saying "not even remotely in the right place."I had already apologize if i had posted in the wrong place.

Perhaps HystericalParoxysm could do a new user/first time poster a favour and put the post in the right forum but maybe the power of forum mod has gone to his or her head !

Hello,

i would like to know, if its possible to edit original careers shipped with the game and EPs or whether it is possible to replace these careers with new ones?

thanks

I am so lost with all of this stuff. I can't even seem to get SimPE to open up correctly. I appreciate this tutorial for what it is, but apparently I'm beyond clueless. Is there a tutorial that is meant for dummies such as myself who need step by step instructions on creating a career? I've tried visiting the SimPE website about a thousand times today to look for a tutorial on the program itself and I can't get any of their pages to load. I would LOVE to create some custom careers. Am I really too stupid to do it??

dose this work with sims 3 if not do you know any for sims 3.

Hi all! I'm working in a project for making a "career" for my elders which is in fact like atending a Leisure Center: a way to keep them busy after retirement and not earning moore money but spending it in art, dancing or wathever classes. The idea is that they earn 0$ in all 3 levels and have chance cards 100% happening with -150 or -250$ so everyday they "get a bill" for this classes. I'm working with SimPE and Bidou's editor, but this chance cards in game do not work as I thought: both options result in a "earn 0$ and got a bonus (or a penalty) of 0$".

Any idea why and how to solve this? Thanks!!

I am trying to replace adventurer and intelligence career. but all of the tutorials here seem obsolete.
I assumed if I could at least find their GUID I could overwrite them using a different career file with those GUID.
Could someone please help me using the latest version of SimPE, and without any links to really old site links on how to find and change existing careers?