Ok, many thanks to Emma for getting me interested in doing Custom Careers. I have spent conciderable hours working on this career now and am enjoying the experience.

I have run into a few snags that I just can not find the answers to.

1. I am not sure how to change the category that the job falls under when the Sim finds it in the newspaper or on the computer. Currently, it is set to "servants" career. I see 3 separate references to "servants" in the files, but am unsure if I can change any or all of them without damaging my brain cells with the results.

2. My sim obtained this custom career at Level 6. She is stuck in this level and refuses to get in the car when it comes. The command goes to queue automatically, but disappears just as fast. My sim just stands there and then goes off to do whatever she wants, only to be halted when the Go To Work appears in her queue again.

3. I have not been able to locate where to change the days of the week that the career levels should be assigned to.

4. Unknown, but wondering if it is possible that Seasons EP may be interfering with somethings. Each level tested, to level 3 is showing a GUID error.

5. All chance cards are appearing at every level, guaranteed so far. Promotions are given, with bonuses, regardless that the sim doesn't even meant half of what is needed to advance.


So, short of my current option of downloading someone else's career to peel back the onion layers and see what they did, I am hoping that one of you fine modders has some answers to help me with. I do appreciate all the help that is contained in the forums under the other Career Tutorials, without most of that, I would be in a really tight pickle jar.

This is great; will try ASAP. Do you mean GUID instead of GUILD? The first time I read that, the thought of adding a career guild blew my mind!

Thanks for this tutorial.
I'm almost finished with my career.

And that is when these problems comes up, no-one has asked this before, so maybe I'm just blind (or stupid)
How do I change picture on the career - you know I don't really want the servant pic :D
How do I change the name from TEMPLATE.Adult to my own career name - I tried, but it won't succeed.

Hmm, I think that's all for now.
Thanks again.

//HB

Done my first career, thanks for the tutorial It's awesome! Soon I'm gonna upload it, when my friends test it to see if it's working fine...

ok thank you for this career tutorial but i have a question. i have seen this question asked before twice actually but no one has replied it and i think it is a good question in which is why im asking again and hope someone will reply.

ok... how can i turn your adult template emma into a teen/elder career or do i need to start fresh? can someone or anyone reply please and thank you.

Great tutorial, I haven't had any problems.

PM me if you have a question and I'll do my best to answer.

OK no offense but in my versian of SimPE i can just click tools bidou's career editor and then all you have to do is fill it out. (i think, i havent actually made one) soi dont know if that is new(i just downloade a few days ago) but it seems easier

Hi
I just wanted to know,how do I download the empty template?I have no idea what file I save it in!

you were right when you said it takes a while ive been doing chance cards for the past 2 hours im only on no.4. Or maybe im just slow.

i just noticed that someone else has done a ballerina carrer already i think mine is different is it still allowed?or does it count as copyright

simmy9988, you need to download the attached template from the bottom of the first post in this thread. Save it to your desktop, for example, and extract with a program that can open rar files. In the folder there is a file called TEMPLATE. Adult.package that you need to open with SimPE.

MewMint20, nobody owns the copyright to all ballerina careers. As long as you make your own career and don't just copy someone else's file, it's fine.

It wouldn't even let me open the file in simPE!! This is what it did: http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/833/lllllih4.png

They earns money when they work but they doesn't earns money OR bonus when they being promoted. I would look inside the file.

But I want a answer.

I have a problem with my 1st custom career. I am not through with the chance cards yet, but I was testing my career. I get my daily pay as I should. When I get a home and got a promotion that day I get no pay or popup at all. Anyone know what is going on?

I have same problem like you Fat70Boy!

My sims only get pay when they DON'T got a promotion.

I fixed mine, if you edit on a career you have to restart the computer or it acts all weird.

i cant open the template career its a rar file???

they same thing happens for me its so annoying

You can't open the rar file directly in SimPE, you need to extract the package out of the rar with a program like WinRAR or 7-Zip and then open the package in SimPE.

What if you want to make it so you get a promotion for a chance card??

i cant extract it its one file?its a ms word file what am i doing wrong

I downloaded SimPE and the template and opened the template in SimPE but when I go to the next step in the tutorial which is going to text lists in the Resource Tree, I have none! I tried redownloading but that didn't work. Is the file old or something? Please help.
I think I need a rar extractor, can any give me a link for a free one? I tried the one that Emma posted but the page isn' there any more.

Just serch for WinRAR at google.

Edit: Have made a tutorial for you who's not really sure about downloading, extracing and open templates in SimPE.
Feel free to look here (just remember to klick on "Full size")

//HB

Thanks

Actually how do you put a icon next to your career?

Where can I find a .zip career template?

You can't find it as a zip file, only as a rar file, in the beginning of this tutorial.

//HB