#ts3:ulvisualfixes

[simbouquet]

TS3: Tiny Visual Fixes for University Life

This is a little package file that edits a couple visual mess-ups EAxis made with some interactions introduced in University Life.

Information on the fixes + download links under the cut!

Send Insulting Text: This one is the exact same fix I've posted before! The game is missing an icon for this interaction's speech bubble, so it defaults back to the nonsensical green leaf; this mod creates the resource the game needs to display the icon properly. Since I don't know what EAxis intended for this interaction to show, I chose the smelly trash can icon from the base game.

Since this is a completely new resource, there should be no conflicts with any existing mods.

Texting Idle: Sims can perform an idle where they pull out their phone and type on the keyboard (not the same as the regular texting interaction!), except the screen of the phone appears to be upside down. Genius! This mod simply replaces the (rather ugly) phone screen texture with the exact same image, just flipped so that it'll look how it's meant to.

Will conflict with any mod that replaces the ep9Texting_0xf944887fc818cd82 _IMG resource.

Heat of the Moment Kiss: I'm actually not sure whether this one was intentional, but I've seen it mentioned quite a few times how it was a little weird that Sims get a broken heart speech bubble during this interaction, and it actually kind of bugged me too. 😅

The problem here was that the Heat of the Moment Kiss and Send Breakup Text interactions both share the same icon, so a texture replacement mod would have inevitably affected both interactions. My approach was to edit the XML file that associates speech balloons with moodlets and interactions; now the Heat of the Moment Kiss calls the heart icon from the base game and Send Breakup Text remains unaffected. It's a win-win!

Will conflict with any mod that replaces the Balloons _XML resource.

Download: SFS / MTS

If you already have my Send Insulting Text Icon Fix, delete it from your Mods folder before installing this mod; this one already includes that!

Additional Credits

s3pe: Exporting/Importing resources, creating the package file.

Notepad++: XML file editing.

Gimp: DDS image editing, creating the preview image.

I hope the Sim on the receiving end of that scathing text message is ok...!

[simbouquet]

Would you be able to post individual packages for your University Life fixes? I don't personally want the heat of the moment kiss's icon to be changed but the other fixes would be really useful.

Hi!

It's actually a really minuscule file with only three resources in it, so I really thought it'd save everyone time to have every fix in just one package. Putting them up separately is something that never crossed my mind for that reason. 😅

If you open up the package file with s3pe, you will be able to delete the Balloons resource that's responsible for that particular fix.