Tutorial: How to Create Your Own Custom Memories (Easy Way)

Part I: Creating the Memory

1) Open MEM_Tutorial in SimPE.
Choose Behaviour Function on the left. Click on CT - Add Memory.
Choose the line 0x1 Sub - Add Memory Subject as nID.

Here we will change the background of our memory (green for good, red for bad) and choose between unique and repeatable memory.
2) Click on tiny icon of Pop-up Wizard.

4) The two lines we're interested in: "Quality" and "Exclusive?".
Quality manages whether our memory good or bad.
The template's good by default. We'll change it, just to learn

Highlight the last number (it will be zero here) and change it to 4.
Note that the text under the line has changed.

Note: set Quality to 0 for good (green) memory, to 4 for bad (red) memory.
5) Proceed to next line. Now it's set to 0 = Repeatable.
It means that the memory will be spawned as many times as you wish.
Let's change it to Unique Per Sim, which means every Sim will have only one memory of this kind.
Highlight the last number (zero again) and change it to 2. Now it shows "Unique Per Sim" under the line.

Note: set Exclusive? to 0 for repeatable memory, to 2 for unique per Sim memory.
6) Hit Okay and then Commit. If you forgot to commit the file, don't worry: SimPE always reminds you to commit.

7) Click Catalog Description in the Resource tree on your left and choose the only file of the same title on the right.

8) This file contains the Title and the Description of your future memory. This is very simple: choose the line 0x0000 to change the Title and the line 0x0001 to change the Description. There's special small window to type in your text. Also there's another small window on the right, you can use it, but this text won't show up anywhere but SimPE. I'll change the title to "Tutorial" and leave the description as it is. Don't forget to Commit! (the button's on your right)

9) Choose jpg/tga/png image in Resource Tree on your left. Click the only available file. You will see an icon at the bottom.
Here we will change the icon of your future memory.

10) Now right-click jpg/tga/png image in Resource List and choose "Replace".

11) Browse to your Tutorial folder and choose the icon.png (if you don't see any .png files, switch to All Files).

12) Hit Yes when SimPE asks to reload. Watch your new shiny icon at the bottom.

13) Move to Name Reference, choose "Memory_Custom_" and type in any title for your memory for easy identification. I recommend to stick to the same title through the creation of one memory: the title of the package, the title in Catalog Description, the title in Name Reference and (later) Filename in Object Data, the title of BHAV and so on. Remember to choose the same title when you're working on the same memory. It helps. So as I'm working on the "Tutorial" memory, I use here "Tutorial" title again.

14) And the last, but the most important part of editing the memory. Move to Object Data. Choose "Memory - Custom -", fill in the Filename (same title again) and hit Get GUID.

15) Fill in your username and password, click Register New User (Internet Connection required), then click Register Object.
You need to do this, because GUID is the unique number that helps the game identify your object and make sure it won't override or be overriden by another object.

16) When you got your new GUID, paste it to Original and Fallback GUIDs. Also, write it down somewhere, because we'll need it later.

Click Commit and Save.
Yep, we did it! Your memory's ready!

What is the next step?
Now when we have our newly created memory, we need to assign it to the object that will spawn it in game. We'll use a special object I've created when my upload was picked

It's a golden star and its title is "Picked! Memory Manager", costs 0$, find under Misc/Misc.

There is a difference between assigning the first memory and the others, so I will explain both situations.

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