Mod The Sims - Sim Control Hub

This mod for The Sims 4 lets you control Sims and pets from other households, enhancing flexibility and creativity in your gameplay.

Summary
When you embark on a game in The Sims 4, your first crucial decision is selecting a Household to dive into. Behind the scenes, the game populates a list known as ‘Selectable Sims’, which determines which sims can be chosen via the portraits displayed at the bottom of the screen (referred to as the Skewer). Sim Control Hub provides the capability to augment this list by incorporating sims from other households. Achieving this involves making modifications to various aspects of the game, which is why the majority of functionalities within this mod are implemented using Python Scripts.

Mod Features:

Play as any sim: Seamlessly switch control between your active household sims and any other sim in the game world.
Easy-to-Use Interface: Integrated into the game's pie menu for intuitive use.
Customizable menus: You can hide this mod in the Shift + Click menu or access it via the Relationship Panel

How It Works

Installation: Simply download the mod, place it in your mods folder, and enable script mods in your game settings.
Activation: Click on any non-playable sim and select the new "Add to Selectable Sims" option from the Sim Control Manager category in the pie menu.
Gameplay: Once added, the sim becomes fully controllable, allowing you to direct their actions, change their outfits, manage their needs, send them to work, and perform all functions available to a playable sim.

Benefits

Enhanced Gameplay: Experience the game from new perspectives by controlling different sims and situations.
Storytelling: Create intricate storylines by directly influencing the actions and decisions of all sims.
Flexibility: Perfect for managing multiple households or intricate social dynamics within your game.
Lightweight: This mod does not add buffs, traits, or affordances to any sim.
Fast: Utilize custom interactions and cached tests to prevent delays when loading the pie menu.
Safe to remove: You can remove this mod at any time without leaving any trace.

When you control a sim who is a Stay Over Guest, they are treated as if they are vacationing on a residential lot belonging to another Household. You may see some interactions that normally appear during vacations, such as "Go To Lodging".
When a sim is on vacation or is part of a Stay Over group and decides to visit a different area from where they are staying, the 'Go To Lodging' interaction icon will never disappear from the Sim's portrait in the skewer. This is a bug present in the unmodified game.
When you add a sim to the Skewer who is already in the area, the information in the Aspiration and Skills Panels might not appear immediately. These panels will remain empty until the sim completes their current animation. The Skills Panel will update automatically, but for the Aspiration Panel, you’ll need to switch to another Sim to refresh the UI. Keep in mind that this is only a visual glitch.
Partially fixed. When adding a sim present in the area to the skewer, a custom interaction will be pushed to the sim’s interaction queue, forcing the UI to reload after two minutes in the game. It should be compatible with almost all interactions and prevent their cancellation.
When controlling a selectable sim added by this mod within their home lot, you may notice interactions that should not be available between household members. For instance, the 'Ask to Be New Roommate' interaction might appear.
The ‘Ask to be New Roommate’ interaction now verifies that the participating Sims do not belong to the same household. Roommates are fully compatible. A Sim added by this mod can ask an NPC Sim (who should not be selectable at the time of using the interaction) to be a new roommate, and they will be correctly added to the household of the Sim who initiated the interaction.
No significant issues were detected when adopting a child while using a Sim added to the Skewer with this mod.
It requires further testing.
When adopting a pet while controlling a Sim from another Household, the pet will be added to the active Household, not the Household of the controlled Sim. For example, if you are playing with Household A and control a Sim from Household B while they are at home, if this Sim adopts a cat, the cat will be added to Household A. I’m not confident about the errors it might cause, so I recommend not saving the game until it’s confirmed that there are no additional issues.
It requires further investigation and reports.

Full details of Sim Control Hub.

Filename	Type	Size
DQuiet_SimControlHub_v1.1.1.zip	zip
DQuiet_SimControlHub.package	package	25416
DQuiet_SimControlHub.ts4script	ts4script	87484

Filename	Type	Size
DQuiet_SimControlHub_v1.1.4.zip	zip
DQuiet_SimControlHub.package	package	34113
DQuiet_SimControlHub.ts4script	ts4script	91353

Filename	Type	Size
DQuiet_SimControlHub_V1.2.0.zip	zip
DQuiet_SimControlHub.package	package	36863
DQuiet_SimControlHub.ts4script	ts4script	94955

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