Modding Diary - I Turned The Baby Into A Bike

Hi guys! hope you all are doing well! ☺️

Ive always said I love challenges when I mod, I get so inspired and excited whenever I manage to solve a seemingly impossible issue, and I get sad and burned out if I go too long without feeling like I've done anything remarkable. Maybe I hold myself to a very high standard idk, but the important thing is this week I had a great week because I managed to achieve not one, but two things that I have always thought was impossible! 😎

First thing first we all know in the sims4 baby = bassinet. Like literally the bassinet is the living baby, and once a baby is born they are stuck in their bassinet until they age up. This week however with a custom script I found a way to move the baby from bassinet to bassinet:

I forgot to remove the placeholder text ignore that please

Also excuse my placeholder stroller, we are working on something more proper next week.

Took me 3 days but works like a charm 😎Soon you will be able to move babies to different bassinets once they are born, this solves the issue with the child birth mod where you can't pick bassinets when giving birth, well you still can't pick them but you will be able to switch them out afterwards. The hardest thing I had to solve was the fact that since babies are bassinets, to "move" them I essentially had to destroy them first then assign them to a new bassinet, but the game was not happy with me for a long time because I had an issue where the game would think im creating a second copy of the same baby and raise a LE to say there is a duplicate object collision. After some tears and sweat I found a workaround, and so far it has worked 100% of the time during my tests and without causing any issues to your save.

The reason I wanted them to be able to switch bassinets was because in order to work on the baby health update I needed a way for sims to bring their baby to the hospital. Sure they can just teleport the baby once they are there but that kinda breaks the immersion.. I wanted sims to be able to push their baby to the hospital in a stroller.

Here are some funny things that happened in my game as I was studying how to make the baby stroller functional:

First I turned it into a bike, and it was surprisingly easy

Then I broke something and created this monstrosity

then I was looking into an issue where the baby would stop moving once they start using the stroller and ended up making my sim sit in the stroller instead lol useful for a wheelchair mod not so much for the issue at hand

But finally I was able to figure it out

I still need to work on the walking animation but look at this 🥺🥺😂

I hope you can see the vision 😂And i hope you have a great weekend!