Making objects (register & coffee machine) functional on floor

[ATS Sandy]

I'd like having a coffee machine and a cash register working on ground level, instead of requiring a counter (I wouldn't change the animations; I'd actually keep the actual height of the object, it's just the counter requirement that annoys me), but it seems it requires scripting. I've tried most of the non-scripted solutions, by editing flags, slots, anything, but nor the coffee machine, nor the cash register are functional when you put them on floor, with moveobjects on.

So, I had a look in the coding, but I'm such a newbie with this... :faceslap:

In Shopping Register (Gameplay.Ojects.Register), I found references about counter (like " if (((Counter)this.Target.Parent).RouteToObjectOnSurface(this.Actor, this.Target)), or
"if (!((Counter)this.mRegister.Parent).RouteToObjectOnSurface(this.Actor, this.mRegister))
{
this.Actor.AddExitReason(ExitReason.RouteFailed);
flag = false;";"
I understand this last line as a Route Failed error if no counter is used.)

In the Coffee Machine (Gameplay.Objects.DebugGameplay), there's also references to counter (DebugSlotCoffeeInCounter), but this doesn't seem as "obvious" as in the Cash Register...

I would have loved a "if surface=counter then :up: else :alarm: ", but it's not that easy...

Would you have any suggestions? (keeping in mind that I successfully followed the Object Modding tutorial, but that's my only "degree" in this matter! :turtle: )

Thank you!

[Buzzler]

The easiest way to make a floorstanding coffee machine would probably be to create a fake counter, that acts as a base for the coffee machine. Two objects that together look like a floorstanding machine.

To make it one object, you'll have to write lots of code from scratch. Been there, done that. ;)

In Shopping Register (Gameplay.Ojects.Register), I found references about counter (like " if (((Counter)this.Target.Parent).RouteToObjectOnSurface(this.Actor, this.Target)), or
"if (!((Counter)this.mRegister.Parent).RouteToObjectOnSurface(this.Actor, this.mRegister))
{
this.Actor.AddExitReason(ExitReason.RouteFailed);
flag = false;";"
I understand this last line as a Route Failed error if no counter is used.)Not exactly. The ".Parent" stuff returns the GameObject the register is sitting on which is only specified as a GameObject, though. The "(Counter)" stuff is called a cast which "turns" the reference into a reference to an actual Counter.

The thing about counter-sitting objects is that they don't have routing slots, so sims can't even route to them. The code above makes a sim route to the counter the register is sitting on or adds a Failed ExitReason to the sim if the routing fails.

[ATS Sandy]

Thank you for your input! :D That sounds indeed way easier, and much more my stuff than coding! ;)