After various different unsuccessful attempts on enabling gardening for children without colliding with the rest of the world (long story here and there) I think this is sort of working now. With the caveat that what I'm currently doing (overriding interactions so that they're available for children, and overriding the Gardening jazz file to include child-friendly (non-stretching) animations, the only thing that is working here is the animation and the basic interaction -- children do not gain gardening skill for example (since that is only for adults), but they do collect stuff in their inventory when they harvest.

Below is a test package that has Harvest/Harvest All/Harvest continuation enabled for all ages, children will use the generic Swipe To Inventory on all plants (instead of stretchy adult animations). Tested and it works in my game.


What I'd like feedback on:

1. Is it working properly for you?

2. Do you have recommendations/suggestions for existing child animations that would look good for weeding, planting or anything else? States are:

<State name="Harvest">
<State name="PlantSeed">
<State name="Evolve">
<State name="Weed"> / <State name="Weed_GetIn"> / <State name="Weed_GetOut">
<State name="Water_WithTears"> / <State name="WaterWithTears_GetIn"> / <State name="WaterWithTears_GetOut">
<State name="Spray"> / <State name="Spray_GetIn"> / <State name="Spray_GetOut">
<State name="Water"> / <State name="Water_GetIn"> / <State name="Water_GetOut">

(Get In / Out is probably kind of an intro / outro, haven't checked in detail)

The other ones are not relevant here since they require gardening skill that children don't have.


3. In jazz files, is there a way to select multiple parameters in one go? (My current solution suffers from internal bloat since I repeat everything for T/YA/A/E)

4. Any ideas on how I could get away from overriding the defaults here and use custom interactions instead? (The interactions per se aren't the problem -- making the plant objects aware of them is =/)

5. Have you seen an action (for children) similar to inventory swipe in the game that also has emotional states? I haven't played much with children yet, so not sure whether they can pick up things from, say, their drawing table perhaps, using "pick up sadly" vs. "pick up angrily" etc variations. Might be more fun for the harvesting than just the plain default one =).

(Also, how unrecommended is it exactly to just drop the skills on the floor? Can I do that?)

Nice, then I can perhaps replay my favorite sims 2 story about the poor medieval family, and yes it show why poor farmers want many kids very well.
No they was not as efficient as the adults but the two gave an 50% bonus.

For my current family its no need they have more money than they can use, the dragonfruit is worth more than $800 now. Daughter is teen and has taken over the farming

Maybe the playing with dolls anims could work.

I tried it out and I love it Ty

Moving the last three posts from here over here since they’re about this upload in particular, not gardening in general (didn’t mean to derail it =).



You mean the dollhouse animation, yes? Yeah that’s what I’m currently doing =) there is a generic “Kneel” animation too that I meant to try out.