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Tutorial/ Hints and Tips- Career Creation

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16th Nov 2007, 04:31 PM

Custom Carpool Vehicle #101

tiger625

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Originally Posted by eldrichfire

Ok, so i have the career up and running all pretty smooth. I tried including a custom vehicle and that's when it went bad. The carpool comes but tries to go in the driveway. If the driveway is empty, the car pulls in but my sim won't go in and i cant get a selection "go to work". Any thoughts on how to make a custom car work for carpools?

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).
I am attaching 2 pics.

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19th Nov 2007, 01:11 AM	#102
fala1385 Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 31	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

25th Nov 2007, 11:17 AM

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10th Jan 2008, 09:40 PM	#103
AcesOyster Test Subject Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3	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))
	Last edited by AcesOyster : 20th Jan 2008 at 12:55 PM. Reason: I had another thing to mention later, but I was still the last post.

18th Jan 2008, 12:37 AM	#104
delfine23 Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 58	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.

11th Feb 2008, 10:21 PM	#105
kilevel Test Subject Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1	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
	Last edited by kilevel : 11th Feb 2008 at 10:28 PM.

15th Feb 2008, 09:15 PM	#106
imrebel Test Subject Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 13 Thanks: 68 in 3 Posts 3 Achievements	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

15th Apr 2008, 10:49 AM	#107
Pwned9080 Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2	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).

6th Jul 2008, 07:14 AM	#108
aelflaed Top Secret Researcher Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,890 Thanks: 13444 in 48 Posts 14 Achievements	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.
	Last edited by aelflaed : 6th Jul 2008 at 07:34 AM. Reason: Found it now, stupidity again.

28th Sep 2008, 01:08 AM	#109
Dannathrik Test Subject Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	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=

29th Jan 2009, 09:38 AM	#110
Deadoralive Test Subject Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3	Can some one swedish help me ^^ i suck on english and i whant 2 do a carrer for my sister

8th Feb 2009, 04:54 PM	crappy GUID-how to fix? #111
xchelsx514 Test Subject Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 8	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.

14th Feb 2009, 03:27 PM	#112
heaven Princess of Procrastination Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,182 Thanks: 11593 in 27 Posts 25 Achievements	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.

14th Feb 2009, 08:57 PM

#113

heaven

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Originally Posted by heaven_sent_8_18

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.

14th Feb 2009, 09:10 PM	#114
heaven Princess of Procrastination Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,182 Thanks: 11593 in 27 Posts 25 Achievements	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.

23rd Feb 2009, 07:47 PM	hello I am French #115
lcrmrc Test Subject Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 25	Thank you very much for this tutorial. Bidou career editor is an awesome tool !
	Last edited by lcrmrc : 28th Feb 2009 at 12:24 AM.

13th Jul 2009, 10:19 PM	uhh... #116
IloveGarbage Field Researcher Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 219 1 Achievements	How do you put them IN the game

10th May 2010, 03:24 PM	#117
sparrow_from_planet_astos Lab Assistant Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 200	how do you open the ressouce tree?

15th Nov 2010, 03:46 PM	Slight career problem #118
ltneil Test Subject Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1	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 !

21st Dec 2010, 03:03 PM	#119
viktorpiktor Test Subject Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1	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

6th Jan 2011, 06:37 PM	#120
kelleybo Test Subject Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6	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??

10th Aug 2011, 05:53 AM	#121
s3fan Test Subject Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 8	dose this work with sims 3 if not do you know any for sims 3.

22nd Aug 2011, 10:02 AM	#122
NuriaPlay2 Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5	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!!

11th Jun 2012, 06:30 PM	#123
whiteday26 Test Subject Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 1	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?

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