C B Wright
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The builders kit has
so.
freaking.
much.
in it, and I'm trying to determine if I can "make do" with using just it and the DLCs when building, with an eye on making leveled settlements that people can download without having to add my standard building mods, which I love and am loath to part with. But I'm doing it! I'm doing it for Sim Settlements! It may all end in tears, but I'm giving it a try.
So the first mod I'm trying to substitute is Snap Beds.
Snap Beds is a pretty simple mod, but it's great. Basically you have bed frame pieces and mattress pieces. Bed frames snap to each other, and mattress pieces snap in the frames. It's the mattress pieces that count as "beds", so you can (for example) take a bunk bed frame and snap two mattresses in it, and not only does it count as two beds, but settlers will actually sleep on both mattresses. Similarly, you can use "mattress halves" and place them in a double-bed frame. Each half counts as a full bed, and settlers can sleep on both.
It can make some interesting bed pieces -- take a small bed frame and a large mattress, put them together, and you have a weird bed with metal bits poking out the head and feet. But it's neat enough that I still use them in settlements, even with Sim Settlements making most of the housing for me.
So! Can the toolkit replace Snap Beds?
Well, eventually, for the multi-bed part. It won't do the snapping, and it won't do the "bed component" swapping, but it has the tools you need to create two beds out of a single model. It has these little blue holograms of sleeping people that can act as bed assignments -- one for the ground, and one for surfaces. So you could, for example, take a bunk bed piece and put a sleeping hologram on each mattress, and voila -- two assignable beds. Same for a double bed, just put one on each side.
Right this second it looks like there's a bug where the assignable item in the kit is accidentally linked to the non-assignable version. So that will need to be fixed first.
The only downside is that at the moment there aren't a lot of non-assignable bed pieces. That would be a nice feature request -- have the "two person" (bunk and double) beds come in non-assignable models, so you can add the holograms as needed.
Something I'm particularly excited about with this feature is that if you're feeling really meticulous about it, it looks like you could use the same hologram on different surfaces across city levels. So you could have whoever is assigned to it sleeping on a sleeping bag when the city is level 0, change to a dirty cot at level 1, a clean cot at level 2, and something with actual covers and a pillow at level 3 -- assuming you can find non-assignable bed models to use it with, of course. You just replace the bed surface with each level, while keeping the hologram intact. That's the theory, anyway. When the hologram gets fixed I'll test it with my Sanctuary build...
so.
freaking.
much.
in it, and I'm trying to determine if I can "make do" with using just it and the DLCs when building, with an eye on making leveled settlements that people can download without having to add my standard building mods, which I love and am loath to part with. But I'm doing it! I'm doing it for Sim Settlements! It may all end in tears, but I'm giving it a try.
So the first mod I'm trying to substitute is Snap Beds.
Snap Beds is a pretty simple mod, but it's great. Basically you have bed frame pieces and mattress pieces. Bed frames snap to each other, and mattress pieces snap in the frames. It's the mattress pieces that count as "beds", so you can (for example) take a bunk bed frame and snap two mattresses in it, and not only does it count as two beds, but settlers will actually sleep on both mattresses. Similarly, you can use "mattress halves" and place them in a double-bed frame. Each half counts as a full bed, and settlers can sleep on both.
It can make some interesting bed pieces -- take a small bed frame and a large mattress, put them together, and you have a weird bed with metal bits poking out the head and feet. But it's neat enough that I still use them in settlements, even with Sim Settlements making most of the housing for me.
So! Can the toolkit replace Snap Beds?
Well, eventually, for the multi-bed part. It won't do the snapping, and it won't do the "bed component" swapping, but it has the tools you need to create two beds out of a single model. It has these little blue holograms of sleeping people that can act as bed assignments -- one for the ground, and one for surfaces. So you could, for example, take a bunk bed piece and put a sleeping hologram on each mattress, and voila -- two assignable beds. Same for a double bed, just put one on each side.
Right this second it looks like there's a bug where the assignable item in the kit is accidentally linked to the non-assignable version. So that will need to be fixed first.
The only downside is that at the moment there aren't a lot of non-assignable bed pieces. That would be a nice feature request -- have the "two person" (bunk and double) beds come in non-assignable models, so you can add the holograms as needed.
Something I'm particularly excited about with this feature is that if you're feeling really meticulous about it, it looks like you could use the same hologram on different surfaces across city levels. So you could have whoever is assigned to it sleeping on a sleeping bag when the city is level 0, change to a dirty cot at level 1, a clean cot at level 2, and something with actual covers and a pillow at level 3 -- assuming you can find non-assignable bed models to use it with, of course. You just replace the bed surface with each level, while keeping the hologram intact. That's the theory, anyway. When the hologram gets fixed I'll test it with my Sanctuary build...
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