WEEK 4: Adding New Behaviors and Menu Options

A New Way of Adding Moods (continued)

OK. Let's make sure our lines are properly linked together. Go back up to Line 11, and in the Data box, make both your True and False lines go to 35. Rewrite your lines. Now Lines 10 through 14 should look like this:

Fig. 1.49

Are we all in sync here? Good!

Time To Test

Have a Sim who is hungry and maybe even a bit uncomfortable AND with low bladder try out the chair to see what happens. I know that's a lot to ask. You may have to run the Sim ragged for a while, maybe jog him around the lot for an hour or so, and then test. Hey! When the proper testing conditions don't exist, we must create them. Right? Right.

ALL GOOD THINGS MUST END

This concludes our Entry Level class, and truly hope this has been an enlightening and enjoyable time for you. Before we move on to this week's final assignment and test, I'd like to leave you with a few parting words, and I sincerely hope you to take them to heart.

With the completion of this class, you will no longer be classified as a "Newbie". You are now classified as a Contributing Member of the hacking community. There will be many opportunities for you to advance and finally become a good hacker. A responsible one.

Stay away whenever possible from the so called super cheat objects. Any time you put one of those out for distribution, the rest of the community looks at you with eyes crossed and that all-knowing look that says: Well, what else can you expect from a newbie? I'm not saying super cheats aren't fun and they should never be employed — I am saying you should use good judgment and use them (if you must) sparingly.

Never claim that an object is 100% your very own, and copyrighted. We covered the details of copyright in our very first lesson. Remember them. You can, however, ask that people please not clone or redistribute your object. That's perfectly legal, but you cannot attack someone for having a like object or even for looking at "your object's" code.

Above all else, please be kind to new hackers or new object creators (I hate the term 'newbie'), and help them out whenever you can. We want to promote sharing and the feeling of closeness amongst ourselves. We want to grow together, not apart, and possibly risk becoming one of those pompous arses that nobody wants to deal with. Believe me, we have a few of those in the community, and nobody likes them. When they ask for help, they tend to get ignored.

I'll now step away from my podium and we can move on to the Assignment. (And aren't you glad!)

FINAL ASSIGNMENT

Using the skills you've learned during the past 4 weeks, please create a functional object. One that is not a super cheat, and one that does not involve a chair. Create this object with loving care and consideration as if you were building it to put on your site for public distribution.