Food Tooltips
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Left ingredients on the counter and forgot what you were going to cook?
Wish the leftovers in your fridge were labeled?
Got tons of custom recipes?
Food Tooltips are for you! ❤
29th Aug 2025: now labels foods in more cases that may not have been covered before, for example, dishes spawned by WH’s menu board or submitted to judging table
3d Nov 2024: to avoid an error caused by a CC dish that doesn't have any slots for food
Food Tooltips Mod
- Adds tooltips and renames dishes after foods. As soon as you plop it in your Downloads, all foods and dishes should be created with labels.
- Maxis and custom, single and group servings, cooked and instant, plate or no plate!
- Hover over them in live mode, in inventory, or in the fridge leftovers menu, and find out exactly what's in front of you.
- Exception: objects buyable from catalogue usually don't get tooltips. Use dropper tool, you lazy bum!
Food edits have their own requirements, pay attention
I only tested on Ultimate Collection, so consider yourself a tester if your game version is older
Food Edits Add-Ons
Optional fixes for some maxis foods that had problems with descriptions due to not needing them before. Technically, I replaced some CTSSs and added missing references in OBJDs. Name fixes should work for most languages.
food_edits_muffin_cake_mush_BG - for base game. Fixed names for toy oven muffin, toddler mush, and wedding cake slice.
food_edits_cakes_CelSP - for Celebrations Stuff Pack. Fixed tooltips for 4 wedding cake slices and 3 birthday cake slices.
food_edits_platters_FT - for Free Time. Fixed names for 3 cuisine hobby serving platters and corresponding foods.
food_edits_gyro_AL - for Apartment Life. Fixed name of gyro/pita/kebab from diner food stand.
Known Issues
Leftovers that were in the fridge before the mod was installed, will update when sims get them out.
Conflicts
None?
- May conflict with mods that override the same resources. Feel free to report a conflict.
- Should be compatible with most food related default replacements, MogHughson's Autonomous Put Away Leftovers and Simply Leftovers, Lazy Duchess' Reworked Fridge Leftovers, BoilingOil's Food Dish Autonomy, Pick'N'Mix's Leftovers Overhaul.
Food Tooltips Mod
- Function - Init - Food | BHAV # 2001 | Food Globals
- Sub - Update Model | BHAV # 2015 | Food Globals
- Sub - Poof - Dishware | BHAV # 2039 | Fridge Globals
- Refresh Food | BHAV # 208D | Fridge Globals
Food Edits for Base Game
- Food - Cake - Wedding - Slice | OBJD
- Catalogue Description of aforementioned cake slice
- Food - Toy Oven - Muffin | OBJD
- Food - Toddler Mush | OBJD
Food Edits for Celebrations
- Food - Cake - WeddingFlowers - Pink - Slice | OBJD
- Food - Cake - WeddingFlowers - Powder - Slice | OBJD
- Food - Cake - WeddingFlowers - Snow - Slice | OBJD
- Food - Cake - WeddingFlowers - Bamboo - Slice | OBJD
- Catalogue Descriptions of aforementioned cake slices
- Catalogue Descriptions of birthday cake slices: Purpley, Limey, Buttery
Food Edits for Free Time
- Catalogue Descriptions of Appetizer, Chips and Cheese Platters
Food Edit for Apartment Life
- Catalogue Description of gyro/pita/kebab from fast food stand
Not conflicts, but may need fixing:
- Dinosaur toddler mush default replacement by jacky93sims will be labeled with a technical name (missing link in OBJD).
- Custom toddler foods by vegan_kaktus will be labeled with their technical names (missing links in OBJDs).
What If Some Custom Foods Don't Get Tooltips
If some of your custom dishes do not show tooltips or they're not sensible, this is what you can do.
Fix custom foods/recipes
- Check the Catalogue Description - that is where food's name would be. Line 0 is name, line 1 is (optional) description. Open your language tab and write a name if there isn't one. If there's no Catalogue Description at all, create it. If there is and it has a good name, read further.
- Check the Catalogue Strings ID field in Object Data - it must point to Catalogue Description's instance number (e.g. 2000). Some foods have this field empty, therefore unable to find their name. Fix it, if that's the case.
- Only if it still doesn't work, activate tooltip like this: In Object Data, set the Tooltip Type field to 4148 (decimal).
- You can also do it in the Init Function. Copy the last 2 lines I added to Init #2001 (Stack Object ID := My object id, and Stack Object's ToolTip Name Type := Literal 0x1034).
Fix custom plates/bowls
- The way the mod works is it replaces dish name with contained food's name and enables tooltip. So your priority is naming the food, and the mod will take care of the dish in game.
Credits
jacky93sims and bienchen83 for the pictured custom dish and drink and many others they made!
Lord Crumps for testing
As always, biggest bow to all the people behind the Sims 2, SimPE, unluac, PhotoScape, Sublime text, helpful tools, tutorials and wikis!
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| food_tooltips_edits_MERGED.zip | zip | |
| lamare_food_tooltips_edits_MERGED.package | package | 70898 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| food_tooltips.zip | zip | |
| lamare_food_tooltips.package | package | 3272 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| food_edits_muffin_cake_mush_BG.zip | zip | |
| lamare_food_edits_muffin_cake_mush_BG.package | package | 4701 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| food_edits_cakes_CelSP.zip | zip | |
| lamare_food_edits_cakes_CelSP.package | package | 50143 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| food_edits_platters_FT.zip | zip | |
| lamare_food_edits_platters_FT.package | package | 12802 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| food_edits_gyro_AL.zip | zip | |
| lamare_food_edits_gyro_AL.package | package | 460 |
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food_tooltips_edits_MERGED.zip
| All-in-one file, the GIMME EVERYTHING option
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food_tooltips.zip
| the mod alone
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food_edits_muffin_cake_mush_BG.zip
| optional fixes for base game foods
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Uploaded: 14th Jul 2024, 4.2 KB.
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food_edits_cakes_CelSP.zip
| optional fixes for Celebration foods
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276 downloads.
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food_edits_platters_FT.zip
| optional fixes for Free Time foods
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Uploaded: 14th Jul 2024, 11.0 KB.
278 downloads.
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food_edits_gyro_AL.zip
| optional fixes for Apartment Life foods
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Uploaded: 14th Jul 2024, 584 Bytes.
315 downloads.
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Install Instructions
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Mac: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
- Mac x64: /Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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