Trait & Mood-Driven Pie Menu
Makes the pie menu more dynamic and less overwhelming.
🔽 Download: CurseForge / SFS
Requires: Lot 51 Core Library
Supported Languages: All 🌍
Patch Resilience: Unbreakable ℹ️
This mod aims to declutter the pie menu and reduce option bloat by narrowing down the available interaction categories (Mean, Funny, Romantic, Mischief, Friendly) and subcategories (such as Compliments, Complaints, Pranks, etc) based on your Sim's preferences, traits, and current mood.
This mod does not remove any interactions, but instead limits what's available at any given time. The mod is base game compatible, but there are additional features if you own the Growing Together Expansion Pack.
Features
Mood and Trait-Based Interactions: Sims will only display pie menu interaction categories that align with their current emotion and personality traits.
Streamlined Pie Menu: Unavailable interactions are hidden until they become relevant, reducing clutter and helping you find the most appropriate interactions faster. (Example: Most Romantic interactions when in a Sad mood will no longer show up).
Customization with Likes: Use the Likes from the Growing Together Expansion Pack to customize which Conversation Topics are always visible for your Sims. Conversely, use the Dislikes to suppress certain Conversation Topics until specific conditions are met.
Main Pie Menu Categories and What Impacts Their Availability:
Romantic:
Hidden if a Sim is Sad, Miserable, or Enraged.
Friendly:
Hidden if a Sim is Furious, Enraged, or Miserable.
The "Complaints" subcategory will remain unhidden.
Mean:
Hidden if a Sim has the Good or Proper trait, unless they are Angry or have a preference for either of the following Conversation Topics: Malicious, Arguments (Requires Growing Together).
Mischief:
Hidden if a Sim is Depressed, unless they are Evil, Mean, or have a preference for either of the following Conversation Topics: Pranks, Deception (Requires Growing Together).
Funny:
Hidden if a Sim is Furious, Enraged, Depressed, or Miserable.
Pie Menu Subcategories and What Impacts Their Availability:
Compliments:
Hidden if a Sim is in a Mean Streak phase or Insensitive (unless the Sim has a preference for Compliments).
Discussing Interests:
Hidden unless a Sim is Happy, Inspired, Focused, Energized, Confident, a Snob, or has a preference for Discussing Interests.
Discussing Hobbies:
Hidden unless a Sim is Happy, Inspired, Focused, Energized, Confident, or has a preference for Discussing Hobbies.
Pranks:
Hidden if a Sim is Proper (unless the Sim has a preference for Pranks).
Complaints:
Hidden unless a Sim is Sad, Bored, Stressed, Scared, Uncomfortable, Embarrassed, High Maintenance, or has a preference for Complaints.
Deception:
Hidden if a Sim is Good or Proper (unless the Sim has a preference for Deception).
Silly Behavior:
Hidden unless a Sim is Playful, Dazed, a Child, Childish, a Goofball, or has a preference for Silly Behavior.
Potty Humor:
Hidden if a Sim is Proper or has Good Manners (unless the Sim has a preference for Potty Humor).
Hidden unless a Sim is Playful, Dazed, a Child, a Teen, a Slob, Childish, a Goofball, has Bad Manners, or has a preference for Potty Humor.
Affection (Friendly):
Hidden if a Sim is in a Mean Streak phase, in a Distant phase, or Insensitive (unless the Sim has a preference for Affection).
Small Talk:
Hidden if a Sim is an Egghead (by Kuttoe) (unless the Sim has a preference for Small Talk).
Hidden unless a Sim is Confident, Happy, Fine, Bored, or has a preference for Small Talk.
Deep Thoughts:
Hidden unless a Sim is Focused, Dazed, an Egghead (by Kuttoe), a Genius, a Top-Notch Toddler, or has a preference for Deep Thoughts.
Integration with Growing Together
If you have the Growing Together Expansion Pack and your Sim likes any Conversation Topics, their associated subcategories will always be visible unless the main category that they're in also happens to be hidden.
If you have the Growing Together Expansion Pack and your Sim dislikes any Conversation Topics, their associated pie menu subcategories will only appear when they're in the following moods:
Potty Humor: Playful or Dazed mood.
Stories (Funny): Playful or Dazed mood.
Mean: Bored or Angry mood.
Malicious: Bored or Angry mood.
Stories (Friendly): Inspired mood.
Gossip: Bored mood.
Small Talk: Bored mood.
Discussing Interests: Inspired, Focused, or Energized mood.
Physical Intimacy: Flirty or Dazed mood.
Discussing Hobbies: Inspired, Focused, or Energized mood.
Deep Thoughts: Focused mood.
Compliments: Dazed or Happy mood.
Complaints: Sad, Bored, Stressed, Scared, Uncomfortable, Embarrassed.
Flirtation: Flirty or Dazed mood.
Deception: Playful, Bored, or Dazed mood.
Pranks: Playful, Bored, or Dazed mood.
Silly Behavior: Playful or Dazed mood.
Jokes: Playful or Dazed mood.
Affection (Romantic): Flirty or Dazed mood.
Affection (Friendly): Playful, Happy, Flirty, or Dazed mood.
I recommend using Tidy Pie Menu along with this mod to ensure every interaction is filed under a category.
Compatibility
This mod does not directly overwrite any files so it won't conflict with other mods.
This mod is base game compatible.
This mod was made possible by Sims 4 Studio and Tuning Builder.
Comments (12)
I have a question about this mod. If the sim in in a sad or angry mood, without a mod, most of the romantic interactions are unavailable except special ones like "try to flirt". Would this mod completely hide those interactions?
No, any special interactions are kept, there are just a lot less submenus you'll have to dig through to get to them.
I love this most of the time, except when I'm trying to have a sim have a successful date and they can't access any small talk. But maybe adjusting the dating goals would fix it while still being more true to the character
Hmm. This is true. Maybe I can adjust a little. Anything else you notice?
Might I ask if this or any of your other social context mods would hide the social requirements for parties/ events like baby showers or black and white parties or family reunions? I have only had a baby shower recently but for the life of me could not find a way to talk about the baby. I do have a few mods affecting socialization so just wondering if that would be something you knew off hand.
This mod shouldn't, but TS3 Social Context would probably hide some of the interactions you're looking for when the Social Context of the conversation isn't at least "Pleasant".
Does this work with chingus 100 traits? I mean I know it'll WORK with it haha, but the post says 'based on traits' are any custom traits included in that at all?
The only custom traits included are Kuttoe’s as those are typically the only ones I play with. But I can see if there are traits of theirs that make sense to include.
Hi! Your mods are becoming must haves in my game, thank you so much for your efforts! Is this mod here compatible with Andirz Better Pie Menu?
I believe so! This mod doesn’t make any changes to interactions, so I don’t forsee it conflicting with Andirz’s mod.
What if i want my mean sim to be compliment someone he wants to, idk suck up (his boss for example)? Is there any way to "unhide" the category?
True. That one is a bit too restrictive in hindsight. I've updated the file to remove that restriction and updated the post to reflect the change.
