Yes, under that classification this would be a global mod. When I put this under object mods, perhaps I was thinking a bit too much about it's implementation, and not enough about its user interface. From a user standpoint, this is a global hack.

Hey, and I just figured out that I can move the thread myself instead of getting a moderator to do it, so it's done. This is now under global mods.

What a hoot... had the paper girl strip to her underwear, clean my house and water the garden. When released she simply got dressed, dropped off my paper and went on her way.
Uncle Suto

This is excellent!

I just downloaded this hack in order to make an attempt to solve a conflict between two dormies in a dorm. It was very useful.

So far I am not sure what to do with the two dormies who hate each other. However, I managed to make a third dormie who did not cause any troubles playable by taking control over her, make her find her own place and move her back into the dorm.

Edit: The reason why I did not solve the conflict yet is my not knowing what to do. I might make one of the two guys who dislike each other find his own place, make one of the guys in question drop out or replace both with new playable students. I might even make one of the guys move out and back in as a playable student and replace the other with a new playable student. However, that doubt has nothing to do with the hack.

i used to but it dosent work for me either

lol i bet u dident ACTUIALY do that but i bet u can make 'em

cool this is gonna be fun

This visitor controller works well for the menu items biut I noticed that it does not allow me to make the controlled sims click on the Badge bear, etc. I had hoped to use this to make my employees get a few sales badges and I couldn't get it to work.

I don't know about the badge bear, but I routinely use it with the badge juicer or my Business Adjuster, both of which are capable of giving badges. I suggest the badge juicer for employees, because my Business Adjuster will only give all the gold badges, which will raise the salary expected by your employees by quite a bit.

If you need the bear for some other reason, drop a note in that object's forum. It's possible that the object is checking to make sure the person is part of the current family before the menu items will show up. If that's the case, there's not much I can do here, but if the author of the bear contacts me directly I can tell them how they can fix their object and still prevent it from being used by uncontrolled visitors.

I used this in my game, I'm a Mac user and only have UNI, and it works just fine!
It's very usefull, I personally find it easier to use than the mirror and the "testingcheatsenabled" cheat.

I get this new option in my game between household members, and I guessed it's because of the hack: "Debug - Social DL test"

(not that it really bothers me, just wondering)
Thanks!

I was annoyed when I used the Insim select option to check how an employee was doing and discovered that they stopped working as soon as I deselected them, so this will be a great help. Even more so during their breaks, when they do anything but what they need to do as far as their stats are concerned. I haven't tried making them selectable with boolprop, so I don't know if that puts them back to employees or not. This won't totally replace Merola's mirror though, because it's the only object I know of that can actually find a missing visitor, but for ease of use on a regular basis it will be much better.

i have same thing in my pie menu in my game as alexpilgrim.
i am on window xp and it shows on mine too.
i asked this question on help section
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=141635
but it didn't answer me much.
i still like to know what it is and what it does.

thank you for making this heck and i would like some sort of answer to this.

Worrybear, what EPs do you have? I'm trying to determine if this is an EP thing, or something else.

I cloned this from the Maxis social plugin example, which was originally called "Social DL Test", so I suspect it does have something from my hack. I'll investigate more tonight. (I'm at work now, so I can't run the game.) In the mean time, just ignore it, it likely won't do anything anyway.

It happens to me too. I have all EPs.
And haven't installed the OFB patch yet.
I don't play with testing cheats enabled true.
My game is not the US version but it's in english language.

this hack is great i use it to make sims buy items at my shop and make sure there happy thanx alot

Thanks. It works really well. One thing I'd like to see added in a future update is the ability to have the selected sim gain badges even if they aren't employed at this location.
Why? Sometimes a sim that needs, let's say, a cashiering badge at another location wanders into this store. I'd like the opportunity to grant them a badge while they are handy, rather than wait to load their lot and grant them.

This way, new store owners (when I'm not directly controlling them) can at least run their registers without bashing their stomachs all the time.

I'm making all my sims buy their household items from stores in town and I can't get to them all fast enough. :-)

This was rectified in the OFB version of inSIM. Of course, I still use this one....and Merola's mirror too, as they each have their specific uses.

thank you for returning my answer so quick dolphine26.

i have uni and less than a single hand full of hecks in my game.
i did test taking hecks in and out one by one and this extra pie menu only come up when i put yours in.
so, it seems it does belong to you.
but as long as it doesn't do any harm to the game, i am loving the every moment of it.

thank you once again and let me know once you get home.

OK, the problems people have had with both the DEBUG menu options and the hug-fests seem to step from the same problem. Here's the short version: If you download the version I just uploaded, you'll fix both issues, and it shouldn't come back.

Now the long version for those interested: I was using a fallback GUID that was for the object that I cloned to make this hack. That object was an example object Maxis developed to show you how to create downloadable social plugins. It is this example object that has the extra menu options, which are not always visible but depend on the selected and clicked sim's relationships with each other. One of the test interactions was a "super duper hug", which apparently had a high level of autonomy associated with it.

This bug didn't show up until you *remove* my hack, because up until then, there are no instances of the social plugin test. However, if you removed an older version of the hack than the one I just uploaded, it would fallback to the Maxis social plugin test automatically.

Replacing the old version after you removed it also wouldn't fix the problem if you had saved your lot. That's because the lot now will have the social plugin test object as the master GUID, not just the fallback GUID. In fact, if you kept alternating with my hack installed and removed, you could potentially end up with lots of social plugin objects, and repeated DEBUG options in the menu.

I've done two things to fix this bug in the current release. First, I've changed the fallback guid to 0. That should cause the object to disappear if you uninstall this hack in the future.

I've also added logic when you load a lot to search for Maxis Social Download Test objects, and delete any found. This will fix the problem for any lots that have an instance of the Maxis social plugin test.

Hopefully this will fix the problems some people have been having. Let me know how it goes!

Edit: Porkypine just did a thorough job testing how to fix the superduper bug with the new mod. The important thing is this:


You must enter and resave each lot that has the bug; otherwise, if you package your lot, others will still see the bug. See post #80 for Porkypine's full commentary.

thank you dolphin26.

got the new update and will try on the game.

Thanks a lot, I'll try and let you know!

Dolphin, worked perfectly for some time, then all interactions save 'Debug - Social DL Test' went missing.

Using the current 03/23/06 build, and had not installed any other version previously. Have the standard complement of MATY and other mods installed. Running UNI only.

fwiw...

I would try redownloading it, and install it to see if that fixes the problem. You should not get "Debug - Social DL Test" with the current version -- ever. However, a previous version did have a problem with this in certain circumstances.

If you continue to have problems, can you try running with testing cheats on and send me any log file that might be generated?

Has anyone else used this hack with just uni? I've only tested it under my setup, which includes all three expansion packs, but the code I'm using should theoretically be compatible with all games.

I am using this hack (3/26/06 version) with just UNI, and "Debug - Social DL Test" is still showing up.

got the updated heck and it still shows "Debug - Social DL Test" ...

i only have uni.