Modding Diary - Suggest Abandoning Baby

Hi guys! Hope you all are doing well ☺️

After doing the prison mini game side quest I am now back working on the main abandoned baby update. This week I worked on the interaction that allow sims to suggest giving up their baby with their SO.

To do so you first click on the baby and select Consider abandoning xyz

After that you will be able to click on your spouse and make the suggestion

A custom animation is coming up where they will have a discussion

If the partner agrees you will get a notification like this

And both isms will get moodlets like so

If their partner disagrees you will get a notification like this

And both sims will become frustrated

I think there should be another interaction where you could try and persuade each other, and you will either change their mind or make the situation worse 🤔

This following part took me forever and a half and I just got it working today.

Originally when you abandon a baby the baby gets destroyed and when the new family adopt the one in the basket you essentially get a new one that has similar skin tone and occult, but genetically they are not the same baby.

But I feel like if its not the same baby it sort of looses its meaning 😩and isnt as cool. So I wanted to figure out if its possible to save the baby and simply transfer them over. But as you know sims babies are this half human half object hybrid that makes everything more difficult. After some tears and sweat I was able to get it working with a custom script 😎Now when sims baby gets abandoned the baby is saved in the carrier

And when the new family adopt them (i know it says pet adoption here I need to update it still but!) you get to rename them

They get added to your family exactly the way they were

And they get transferred to your lot immediately. This part was surprisingly difficult, at first babies will get added to the family but they would still be at their old lot, and I couldnt summon them as an object or as a sim because they are a hybrid 💀but I got it to work!

And they also keep their originally family tree, Im still trying to decided if I should keep this or update them to the new family tree 🤔not sure which one makes more sense

that is all I have this week! I wish I couldn've done more but at the same time Im glad I was able to solve the issue at the end even though it took me a few days ☺️Hope you have a good weekend!