Custom Careers for absolute beginners (NOW WITH PICS)

[Emma_Barrett]

Custom careers a detailed guide to planning and building!



If you have downloaded BIDOU’s career editor this is not the tutorial for you (although it may help) as I’ve never used the career editor so cannot say how it is used!

YOU WILL NEED
Simpe
Blank career package which can be downloaded from the bottom of this thread


Ok so I’ve now created a custom career and messed about with it enough to understand what’s going on! If you want a full step by step with all the jargon and why it all works then this is not the tutorial for you but if you want a very basic guide which a beginner can easily follow this is what I’m aiming at! Attached to this thread at the bottom is a template (empty) career. I suggest you download this

1 open the template and just have a look at what’s in there without changing anything just to familiarize yourself with the contents.

2, The basis of your career
Close the file! We don’t need it yet! Open up good old Microsoft word or your own equivalent and begin. What we need to start is 10 job descriptions. You can have different ones for male and female but as this is your first career I recommend just using the same for both.
Each description needs a title and a short description for example:
Title Career writer
Description: you are now in charge of writing careers for Sims 2 

3, chance cards
The next part is a mammoth challenge. We need chance cards!
Still using word type up the following for your new career:
For chance cards we need 10 cards for male and 10 cards for female
(The easiest way is to use the same text just change all the “he” to “she” and the “his” to her … this consists of:
• 10 scenarios (one for each employment level) for each gender
• 2 options the sim in question could answer. (yes or no for example)
• Option A good result (for both genders and for every card)
• Option A bad result (for both genders and for every card)
• Option B good result (for both genders and for every card)
• Option B bad result (for both genders and for every card)

This does take a little while!
Make sure you spell-check it all and check the grammar!

Now make a list of what your Sims earn or lose as a result of every chance card; this can be money, skill points or job level DON’T WORRY ABOUT HOW TO DO IT YET … JUST WRITE IT DOWN!!
An example:
CHANCE CARD ONE

(Simname) gets a phone call, maxis want him to come in for a seminar, he has to finish his new career by noon tomorrow, does he go to the seminar?
YES NO

Yes is chance A you have two outcomes:

CHANCE A GOOD
(Simname) goes to the seminar, maxis love him and he gets promoted!

CHANCE A BAD
(simname) goes to the seminar but the career goes unfinished! (simname) loses a logic point for his poor decision

CHANCE B GOOD
(simname) explains to maxis that he cannot make it because he has to keep up with deadlines the manager respects his decision and rewards him with a grant of $50!

CHANCE B BAD
(simname) does not go to the seminar so missed out on meeting lots of VIPs!! lose 1 charisma for his poor decision!

For this chance card your results read level 1
A good + job level
A bad - 1 logic
B good +$50
B bad – 1 charisma

Do this for all levels and then we are ready to start in Simpe!

ARE YOU FOLLOWING THIS? If not reread this a few times until you get the idea,
if so then open up Simpe!


Open up my template: templatecareer.package which is downloadable at the bottom of this thread if you don’t already have it



This is what you should have at the top of the screen!

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GUILDS
See superflys cool tutorial here YOU MUST ADD A NEW GUILD ELSE YOU WILL BE OVERWRITING OTHER PEOPLES WORK!

http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=85728&highlight=guid

ADDING OUR JOB TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image2.jpg
First click text lists in the first window
(resource tree)

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image3.jpg



Now click text lists in the second window






Underneath in plug in view you should now see this:

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image4.jpg

This is where we’re going to add all those job titles and descriptions we just wrote (not the chance cards though, I’ll get to that!)

I have added notes to the DESC box to help you along whilst you’re working, YOU type into the string box.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image5.jpg

but basically it goes
male 1 title
male 1 description
male 2 title
male 2 description … through to ten and then the same with female!
The first box 0x0000 should be left blank!!! (this is for the unemployed option)

Okay are we happy? We’ve got the base of our new career but there’s still lots of work to do!
Save your career.

ADDING THE CHANCE CARD TEXTS
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image9.jpg

ok for this you need to click the text lists which are third from the top in the second window!
The process of adding the data is almost the same as the job titles only we now have a new order
Scroll down to 0x0010 and you should see this text
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image10.jpg

ok! $me is the tag we use to indicate that we want the game to display the Sims name so if we want to say “simname” we type in $me instead, start at 0x0013 and begin to enter in this order:

choice A
choice B
Scenario text male
Scenario text Female
Choice A good result male
Choice A good result female
Choice A bad result male
Choice A bad result female
Choice B good result male
Choice B good result female
Choice B bad result male
Choice B bad result female

And repeat this pattern for all 10 levels!
SAVE!!!!!!!

Done? Phew!

Test at this point to make sure it all works, To do this just add the career to your downloads folder!
YOUR SIMS WILL NOT GO OUT TO WORK YET as the career template is set to 0 hours per day!

• check the Sims can get the jobs (it is random as always on pc and newspaper so either persist or if you use insim spawn the career adjuster and check it appears there!)
• check the chance cards are working properly (I use boolprop testingcheatsenabled true, shift-click a sim and choose spawn, chance card tester but always turn off boolprop: boolprop testingcheatsenabled false)
• double check you’re not overwriting anyone elses work

Is it working?
Yes, carry on
No, make sure you followed ALL the steps above, if you’re sure you did check out the create help on MTS2 for assistance or email me ([email protected])

Ok you’ve earned a coffee break!  see you in half an hour

Once that’s all working we need to change working hours, pay and skill required for promotion ….. I will then move onto chance card results. All of these are very similar to do.


I will start with HOURS OF WORK

Ok we now need to click on BEHAVIOUR CONSTANT (BCON) the first top window

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image11.jpg

In the second top window you will see a long list (89 items in fact)

We will start with Behavior constant – tuning – start hour (it’s the second one down!)

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image12.jpg

The plug in view below should be showing the below screenshot

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image13.jpg

as you can see (I hope) everything is set to 0 (or in hex 0x0000) we need to alter these values but if you don’t know hex DON’T PANIC We’re going to use the dec (decimal) box for this tutorial!
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image14.jpg
ok this is really sim-ple (sorry)
in the line box the number is the job level so we will start with level 1 or 0x1 (0x0 is unemployed don’t forget!)
so click on 0x1 in the line box and then click into the decimal box to the side of it (see last pics) type in the start hour (in 24hour time)

***edit*********
when you add the 24 hour time you don't need to add the 00 at the end
For example
2pm become 14 not 1400 (thanks to mode-x for pointing this out! :) )

move onto level 2 and repeat until level 10 is done!!

Now we’ve done that we need to open up behavior constants – tuning – hours per day (it’s the next one down  )

Work out how many hours are needed (if you put in that level 1 starts at 9 and you want sim to work till 6pm then its 9 hrs) and add that number EXACTLY like above!

Sorted! You’re getting the hang of this I think … not so scary after all!

Let’s look at DAILY PAY now

Daily pay is the first option in behavior constants (you probably noticed this earlier) and guess what! It’s exactly the same as for working hours!
All we need to do is click on each line and add our daily rate into the dec box
so line 0x1 is level 1 add career level 1 pay into the dec box (you probably don’t need diagrams for this anymore but here’s one anyways  )

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image15.jpg

so my level 1 daily pay is $50 ….

Do this for all levels, a guide is that all the maxis careers end with level 10 between $1000 and $2000 per day! (wish I earned that per day …. Lol)

FAMILY FRIENDS

As we all know promotions depend on how many friends you have so that is the next set of numbers we need to edit! By now I’m guessing you know how to do it 

The file you need is Behavior constants – tuning – family friends. It’s the forth one down in the list!

Ok so once you’ve done that go on to the next 8 in the list , these are the

SKILL POINTS REQUIRED TO BE PROMOTED

Ok for skill points we need to times the number by 100 so 4 required skill points becomes 400! (in case you’re interested this is due to the learning times, 3 skill points and a half full learning bar would be 350)

just add a number for any levels which you think a certain skill point should be required for each promotion, example if level 6 of your career is chef then in level 5 (0x5) of behavior constants – skillreq –cooking type in (for example, 400) then your sim will need that 4 skill points to reach level 6 .

follow this process for all except the gardening skill (not sure what that ones for as there’s no gardening skill in the game) remember that the more of these you assign for each level the harder your career will become to play!

So now we have a pretty cool career coming along and need to move onto the final step of my tutorial

CHANCE CARD RESULTS

By this point I’m imagining that you may have some idea of how these are changed! 
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/emma_barrett/careertutorial/Image16.jpg


chance card results are also behavior constants and are located about halfway down the list we want to edit the ones which have the words good or bad in the file name. so open up behavior constant – chance A – good – money

its now time to pull out the list we made earlier of the results of our chance cards.

Start with all the chance A good results and work your way down the list, this can get confusing so I’ll go through it with you for the first one

If on your list level 5 chance card option A good was a bonus of $50 then type 50 in 0x1 dec box and then if level 4 chance card option A good was a bonus of $500 then type 500 into 0x5 dec box and so on

Do this for all the chance card A good files (remembering that skill points are in multiples of 100) and then move on to chance card A bad files. This is exactly the same but remember to put a minus symbol ( - ) in front of the number.

Follow this procedure for the chance card B Good and Bad result files!

GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK!!!!

That’s the basic tutorial done!
Test extensively to make sure it all works and that is it

Once you’ve mastered the basics you can begin to add custom clothing, custom aspiration rewards and all sorts of other nice goodies to your career I HIGHLY recommend superflys tutorials for this so here is a link to his profile, (bow down to the career god!....yes i'm a suck up)
http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?find=lastposter&t=170398

[mode-x]

Hi, I am very new to all this so please bear with me :) . . . . I was following your tutorial. However, found you may want to put in an example after "type in the start hour (in 24hour time)" as to me this would indicate entering e.g. "1400" for 2pm!
http://www.modxbox360.co.uk/Wrong.JPG

This is incorrect syntax for SimPE and The Sims (if tested in game). You may want to say something like e.g. "type in the start hour (in 24hour time) i.e. 14(for 2pm), 6(for 6am) and so on..."
http://www.modxbox360.co.uk/Right.JPG

I hope the above makes sence :)
NOTE 1: I have added images to explain what I mean. If you cannot see them follow these links:
http://www.modxbox360.co.uk/Wrong.JPG
http://www.modxbox360.co.uk/Right.JPG

NOTE 2: I cannont see any of the screen shots / pics that you have posted. You may be showing what I have said in these images. However, I cannot see them so I got the error as explained above.


***EDIT***
Emma_Barrett has edited her tutorial with my corrections (Thanks Emma :) )

And I have to say this tutorial is the easist to follow I completed my career (Government Agency - Not available for download) a big thank-you and well done for this tutorial!

[bethiebeee6]

the career template comes up as a package file and wont let me open it or anything what have i done wrong?

[IgnorantBliss]

Did you try opening it with SimPE?

[Emma_Barrett]

yeah it is a package file you need to open it from within simpe
(file,open)
it's the package file which will become your career as you work through it.
if its not opening with simpe maybe it corrupted when you downloaded it? try re-downloading! :)

[jimmy2.0]

hi just saying that this is a great tutorial i will try this very soon

[bethiebeee6]

thnx u had a bit of a blonde moment :D

[saturnv7890]

um, when i downloaded the file, it downloaded it as a .rar file


what am i doing wrong?

[IgnorantBliss]

You need WinRAR or another RAR extracter to open the RAR and get the actual files out of them.

[saturnv7890]

ok thanks

but where do i find it?

[Emma_Barrett]

http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=14481
is a free rar extractor

[spongejimmy3d]

when i click text lists the first time it works but the second one does nothing at all. besides that this a great tutorial.

do i need a certian version of sim pe?

[Emma_Barrett]

i'd say fairly modern version of simpe, i have the latest one. the 2nd text lists file will be empty as you need to add your content

[spongejimmy3d]

thanks it works now! :rofl:

[phoenix42793]

Do we have to have a chance card for every level because it takes a long time to write them, can we have them just for a few levels?

[lil-kisses_xx]

Do we have to have a chance card for every level because it takes a long time to write them, can we have them just for a few levels?

I agree with phoenix42793. I have only written two levels and it has taken me over a half an hour. I really don't want to write all those chance cards. And they may not even come up in the game anyways(like during the time you are in that level) :!:

If ya could tell "us" as soon as possible i know i would appretiate it:)

Thanks and happy simming! :p

[tiggerypum]

If you want to create something new for the sims, you should do it right. Things take time to do well, not everything on the planet is a project that can be done in 2 hours or less.

Creators often spend days, weeks, and sometimes months on a project. The Simstones project was 3 1/2 months of work by a team of people. I rarely complete *anything* I'm working on in an evening or two - it's often a week or two, depending on how much time I can get.

Hopefully you're working on something you're inspired to do. So have fun with it, be creative, and take a break when you get tired and go back to it another day.

[phoenix42793]

Okay, tiggerpum I really do appreciate your enthuisiasm but this takes a very, very long time. You have helped me before with meshing and even meshing didn't take as long as this. The chance card thing is like a page long of written stuff for a single chance card. But, still no one has answered my question... Do you HAVE to have chance cards for each level? Please if someone can answer the question. Like what will happen in the entering the chance card part of this tutorial if I just enter chance cards for certain stages will blank ones show up in game. Tiggerpum your really smart with all this complicated stuff, would something bad happen if I didn't put a chance card in certain levels?

[Emma_Barrett]

you can do as many as you like but you wont be able to upload here unless you finish it ... careers are based on chance cards and yes they take time! .... my pet care career took me about a week and a half to write but i'm incredably proud of it now its done!

in the template i set up 10 levels of chancecards if you dont fill in the chance card a blank card will pop up insted

[phoenix42793]

oh, thanks for answering my question, I really appreciate it. ALso Thanks for writing this tutorial. i'm just not looking foward to writing lol.

Do we need to have a chance card for tenth level because in your pet care post it said 9 chance cards?

[Emma_Barrett]

yeah you do really need a 10th, i didn't for level 10 because i didn't think it nessasary. that really depends on the career, if you want the chance (for example) that even at the top of the career you can still lose the job then yes put one in! :)

[phoenix42793]

But I mean if we dont put one for ten wont a blank chance card appear.

[lil-kisses_xx]

I finished writing all ten right now..I didn't stop writing them and i am ready to start on the actual career...I am really excited! I hope my chance cards are good though...because i myself have never gotten a chance card :p I'm not that lucky :) anyways thank you for answering my question. I appreciate it.

[SuperFly]

phoenix42793- in answer to kind of everything, a 10 level career needs full chance cards. Leaving it blank will simply result in nothing showing up. However, career are meant to be read, so not including text seems a bit pointless. Like Tig said, good things take time- no career that I have created took less than two weeks to create, including writing, thinking of things and spell and grammar checking. If you're looking for something that yields faster results, try recolouring or maybe even clothing creation. If you don't have the patience then careers won't be for you.

[phoenix42793]

Well, I want to create a new career so I will, I'm new to career editing so I wanted to know what happens if I don't put a chance card for ten , or other levels. Emma said though that if you don't put a chance card in for the other levels a blank one will show up. And your saying no card will show up. Which one is is it.

[Emma_Barrett]

*sigh* if you were building from scratch and you didnt add a card it'd not show up. if you're using my template then a blank one will show!! you could have written the cards in the time you've spent asking questions here.

[SuperFly]

If you don't add a card your computer will blow up into a hundred billion pieces and destroy humanity as we know it!

[Emma_Barrett]

ahh yes superfly, i forgot to mention that! lol

[SpicyChocolate]

Hey your tutorial is really good! But I have a question... For chance card results, why, in your example, do we have to type 50 in the 0x1 dec box for a bonus of 50$ in level 5, whereas for a level 4 bonus, we have to type the bonus into 0x5 dec box? Could you please explain...sorry I'm a bit dim...

Edit: I have a second question :blink:... For family friends: if for example I needed 1 friend to get from job level 1 to job level 2, do I type 1 in the 0x1 dec box as for the skill points or do I type it in the 0x2 dec box?
And by the way, did you also translate the chance cards for your own servant career into german? I was a bit stupid and I typed into the English part although I have the game in German :wtf: so when I tried out the cards, I got yours instead...

[laurastarlet]

Thanks so much for this. I've been wanting to make my own career for ages - bring back the Music and Journalist careers from Livin' Large! Using it now, those chance cards are taking a while though, I'm running out of ideas!

[Redfurrymonster84]

Can someone please tell me what simPE is, where I download it at, and how long it would take to download with a dial-up connection? I've soo wanted to create a career for like ever so I hope someone will answer me. Thanks much ^_^

[SuperFly]

SimPE is the program used to mod all aspects of the sims 2, and you must have it to mod careers. It can be downloaded from here- http://sims.ambertation.de/en/download/. How long it will take to download I do not know- it all depends on what version you decide to install and how fast your conenction is.

[Redfurrymonster84]

Thank you sooo much, SuperFly! I'll start downloading it now. I cant wait to start building a new career. It sounds like a lot of fun even though it's going to take ages.

[DBaeta]

Well, in 1st place I would like to say "Thanks" for the users that have spent time making tutorials and helping other users, so people like me, can learn something ^^

But the reason of this reply is a question: I have installed The Sims 2 in portuguese (because I'm from Portugal :D ). So, I would like to know: When I'm adding the jobs and descriptions and also when I'm writting the chance cards, do I have to, beside writting it portuguese, select the language at SimPE?
(I'm talking about the selection box under the box were you can write the string)


(I hope you understand what I'm trying to explain, because I try to remember the words and I just...don't remember :lol: [i think it's because i need to sleep :p ])

Thanks a lot **

[Leli490]

Thank you so much! This tutorial has really helped me :). I made a career track from the original games (Im not sure if anyone's done it but I dont think I'll plan on sharing just yet) and it came out great! You dont have to do long chance cards either. I just did the shortest possible :P. It only took me about..5 hours? It's worth it once your all done! Kudos


Edit:
If you don't add a card your computer will blow up into a hundred billion pieces and destroy humanity as we know it!


Hehe your very convincing :lol: .

[wildstar24]

Emma, this looks like a very useful tutorial, especially with the new picture additions.

I'm working on building my first career and with the help of your tutorial here and several others, I believe it's coming along very nicely.

However, I have a question, which hopefully someone here can answer. Regarding skill requirements, I'm making a career that could easily cover 4 skills (specifically Mechanical, Charisma, Body & Logic). The base game careers only cover 3 skill types while the university graduate careers include 4. Is it possible to make a non-graduate career that uses more than 3 skill types or does one have to make it into a graduate (and thus UNI-required) career? Ultimately I'd like for my career to be backwards compatible and could remove one of the skills if necessary but I'd like to find out beforehand.

Thanks a bunch! :)

[Emxemx]

Great tutorial, it really helped as I had no idea what to do. I used a combination of this tutorial and Bidou's Career Editor, and everything is done, but I have two problems.

The first, is in Bidou's Career Editor, everytime I try to edit Level 10, the program crashes. It comes up with the message "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection." All I did was click on the level...

Secondly, once I loaded the career into Sims, everything was fine, except that my person wouldn't get into the carpool. Anyone know why?

Thanks :-)

[SuperFly]

wildstar24, Emxemx- I'll try and answer your questions as best I can- if my spelling wavers a little, please forgive me- I've been awake for about 16 hours today, and my brain is not quite conencted to my hands.

wildstar24, careers can be made using any number of skill points. If you look at any of my non-graduate careers (i.e. all of them) you'll see that I use at least 4 or more skills in them, and all work fine with any EP combination.

Emxemx, your first problem- how high are level 10 wages? Any value above 10,000 causes errors. In fact, any value that the game cannot process will cause errors. If it's not the wages, posta copy of teh career here and I'll take a peek at it.

As for the carpool.... not sure. In fact, come to think of it, it'd be easier if you posted the file up so that I can tackle both problems at once. I'm a more hands on sort of guy- I find I can solve problems better if the problematic career is on my PC.

Hope I've helped a bit- I'm off for some snoozies :)

[Emma_Barrett]

ok ... thanks for answering the questions for me superfly i,m afraid i've been neglecting this thred a little! sorry! :( as for bidou's career editor, i had a look at it myself the other day and found the same sort of probs with it so i dont know! as for the carpool ... i noticed on bidous career you can change the carpool and stuff ...did you change that at all? i'm not sure of all the techical side of things so you really are best off posting it to superfly as he's a genius when it comes to careers!!

other than that just generally thanks for all the positive comments and hope to see some great new careers from everyone ... i'll try to keep a better eye on this thred from now on! :)

[Emxemx]

Thanks, I'll put a copy of the career up as soon as I get a chance. My level 10 wage is put in as 1750 in the decimal box, so that should be okay, right?

And yeah, I did use bidou's career editor to change what type of car was meant to come along so I guess it could have been that.

Thank you for the help :-)

Edit: Here's the file :-) I know that the skill points need to be sorted out, I am planning on doing that, but of course, if they're causing a problem feel free to change them. Thank you!

[horsiegal14]

hey guys


I have got simPe and all that stuff that i need to open that package with but when i open it it is in this random language thing and i dont know what it is.can anyone help me.Thanks? :D

[jaxad0127]

Is it opening in SimPE? It sounds like it isn't.

[horsiegal14]

it is opening in simPE

[jaxad0127]

So, a box is popping up with a weird language?

[IgnorantBliss]

horsiegal14, can you post a screenshot of the window that pops up? That might clarify things :)

[SuperFly]

Emxemx, I must say that your problem had me stumped for a while- nothing semed to correct the problem. However, I eventually found the problem- although you have 10 levels, you only have chance cards for 9- that is, there were not enough chance cards to supply the levels. I have added in some new strings, which has corrected the problem.

I can see nothing wrong with the vehicles- try testing your career with no other careers installed and see if that makes a difference.

I altered the skills a little- I don't know how well you understand career skill points, but I'll try to explain how they work-

The skill requirements at level 2 dictate what skills will be needed to advance to level 2, and will appear as requirements at level 1.

For example, if you put 10 body 10 logic at level 8, these would be skill requirements that appear at level 7. This means that any skills put at level 1 have no meaning. Understand?

Also, you may also want to change the image- it's still the one from the servants career, just in case you'd forgotten about it.

I hope I've helped you out here- I feel that this career has a lot of potential :)

SuperFly

[Emxemx]

Thank you so much. When I finally think up the tenth chance card I'll test it all out and make sure it's okay. I'll let you know how it goes!

I will try the career again with the others uninstalled, but when I tested it the first time, I'm pretty sure I hadn't installed any then. Meh...

And thank you for explaining the skill points, I wasn't quite sure, and wanted to get the other problems sorted before I tried to think about them.

And yeah, I did forget the image lol :-p I won't forget this time.

Thanks again :-D

[horsiegal14]

I guess i was wrong the package doesnt open in simPE

and i dont know how to open it in simPE
can you please help me

[Emma_Barrett]

load up simpe and click file,open and then navigate to where the file is saved.

[horsiegal14]

i have looked everywhere and i carnt find it any where

[Emma_Barrett]

what cant you find?

[horsiegal14]

i carnt find the package that i downloaded from here

[jaxad0127]

Did you extract it from the rar file?

[Emma_Barrett]

horsiegal? where did you save it to? you have to have saved it somewhere ... and like jaxad said ... did you extract it from the RAR?

[pitcherphil]

Where can i download SIMPE ?

[Emma_Barrett]

http://sims.ambertation.de/en/download/

[pitcherphil]

Every time I download the career for beginners at the bottom its corrupted.
Why is this happening to me???
PLZ HELP!!!

OK I figured out i was clicking on my old one SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIECE!!

[Pdrs]

Can someone help me? My sims are always late for work in my custom career, I go to work when the carpool arrives, but when the car disapears, it pops up an window saying "your sims are late for work don't make this a routine.

Please help me! Send me a PM.

[Emma_Barrett]

sorry ... no idea on that one!!! i think superflys the person you need on this one!

[Pdrs]

Thanks anyways. I've sent him a PM (and I'm hoping he reads it).

[Curvalicious]

Hi,

Excellent tutorial, really appreciated! :gjob: THANK YOU!!!! :gjob:

I have one quick question... How hard is it to modify the template and tutorial to create teen and elder careers?

Thanks,

Curvalicious ;)

[irishamerican25]

ok soo i just finished my first career and well to be honest im kinda proud that i did it lol but one question how the H3!! to i get it in the game i added it to my downloads folder but nothing ahhh someone plz help :new:

[Pdrs]

It should appear, keep looking for the job. If you have many careers it will be harder to find yours.

[~Iris~]

Hello. I wanted to thank you for the tutorial :gjob:, but I have a question. How would I go about changing the days that my sim works. I'm not too fond of the schedule that my "base" career has set up for him, and wanted to select the days. Thank you.

[Pdrs]

And I would like to know how to change the type of car that comes to get my sims.

[Arquin]

and how to change the career name lol...

[SimArbok]

This tutorial is... Not so good. The pictures are blurry--- Maybe add more pictures, since i don't know anything of it. Is this correct what i'm doing (look below picture)???
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n17/Serebii_Arbok/correct.jpg

[Pdrs]

male 1 title - is the first level of your career and so on
male 1 descreption - is the description of the career level

[vangaza]

And I would like to know how to change the type of car that comes to get my sims.
To change the carpool, go to Behaviour Constant, and click on Behaviour Constant: Vehicles GUIDs (Instance=0x0000100C). There you will find a list of alphanumeric characters like this:

*Okay, how do you add images to a reply? The picture's under vehicle.gif by the way*

Let's pretend you want your Level 1 carpool to be Hatchback. Its GUID is 0x0C85AE14. You then split the GUID into 2 equal halves, i.e. 0x0C85 and 0xAE14.

In the plugin view of Vehicles GUIDs, ignore Line 0x1. Lines 0x2 and 0x3 will be the Level 1 carpool, and lines 0x04 and 0x05 will be the Level 2 carpool etc. Each level will take up 2 lines.

Place the 2nd half of the GUID of the vehicle, 0xAE14 into line 0x2, and place the 1st half of the GUID, 0x0C85 into line 0x3. The Level 1 carpool will be now Hatchback!

Do the same for all levels. Basically, place the 2nd half of the GUID in the 1st line, while the 1st half in the 2nd line.

I really cannot remember who uploaded this file, so thanks whoever you are :anime: . It basically contains all the vehicle GUIDs and career outfits GUIDs inside.


How would I go about changing the days that my sim works.
To change your Sims' working days, go to Behaviour Constant, and click on Behaviour Constant: Tuning - Work Day Flags (Instance = 0x0000101A). Ignore line 0x0, and change the values from line 0x1 onwards (each line represents each level of your career).

Make use of this values (thanks Psion!):

Monday 01
Tuesday 02
Wednesday 04
Thursday 08
Friday 16
Saturday 32
Sunday 64

E.g. For your level 1 career, you want your Sims to work from Monday to Friday. So you add up 01 + 02 + 04 + 08 + 16 = 31. Enter 31 in line 0x1 under Decimal box. Do the same for all levels, adding up the different days as you go.


I hope I have helped :) .

[Pdrs]

What I wanted to know is what is the guid for each car?
e.g.: hummer - 0x78456

[~Iris~]

To change your Sims' working days, go to Behaviour Constant, and click on Behaviour Constant: Tuning - Work Day Flags (Instance = 0x0000101A). Ignore line 0x0, and change the values from line 0x1 onwards (each line represents each level of your career).

Make use of this values (thanks Psion!):

Monday 01
Tuesday 02
Wednesday 04
Thursday 08
Friday 16
Saturday 32
Sunday 64

E.g. For your level 1 career, you want your Sims to work from Monday to Friday. So you add up 01 + 02 + 04 + 08 + 16 = 31. Enter 31 in line 0x1 under Decimal box. Do the same for all levels, adding up the different days as you go.


I hope I have helped :) .

You're awesome, thank you :).

[vangaza]

What I wanted to know is what is the guid for each car?
e.g.: hummer - 0x78456
Oh, that's already in the Career_GUIDs RAR file I uploaded in my reply above :D.

You're awesome, thank you :).
No problem :rofl:

[Pdrs]

Thanks for helping.

[~Iris~]

Two more questions:
1. Since my career is piggy backing off of another, how do I remove the custom clothing that has been attached to that career, and let the sims go to work in whatever they feel like wearing?

2. Can I kill my sims through their jobs (i.e. if s/he was a construction worker, and a chance card popped up saying that a beam fell on him as a "bad result") by instantly lowering their motives from picking an undesired chance card?

Many thank yous :).

[Pdrs]

1- Go to Clothes GUID and change everything to 0x0000

2- You can't do that, but you can make a level of the career that almost kills your sim.

[vangaza]

2- You can't do that, but you can make a level of the career that almost kills your sim.
I don't really think so, Pdrs, as the most that the game can do is lower only the Fun and Social needs really really low (till red) when your Sims get fired/demoted, the rest would remain as "normal" if you get what I mean.

[davidc2k6]

i made a tomb raider career it can be found here (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=200060)
please DL and leave a comment.
i also have a question. I followed the tut very carefully and when my sims get a promotion instead of it showing the description of the job they are being promoted to it shows the description of the job they are getting promoted from. it's minor but it can be irritating ( i dont know how to fix this )

[Pdrs]

I don't really think so, Pdrs, as the most that the game can do is lower only the Fun and Social needs really really low (till red) when your Sims get fired/demoted, the rest would remain as "normal" if you get what I mean.

Vangaza you may put delta hunger and the others negative, in behavior constant - delta (ex.:hunger): -1000

[vangaza]

Oh, that one only lower the needs of the Sims every time they come back from work. The motive delta doesn't affect any chance card choices (at least when my Sims are fired when they picked the wrong choice, the Fun and Social are in the red).

You can set the comfort delta to -1000 and the Sim will always come back with red comfort, but it will always be like that every time, whether there is a chance card or not.

[SuperFly]

No, you cannot kill a sim at work. Like vangaza has correctly said, altering the need drop BCON's will drop a sim's needs, regardless of what cards appear.

[floor3013]

Do you have to put the descriptions twice for the same gender?

Quote: but basically it goes
male 1 title
male 1 description
male 2 title
male 2 description … through to ten and then the same with female!

and do you have to do male and female, and if i dont do i just put in the same for both?

[vangaza]

Yes you have to. You don't have to give unique descriptions to both genders. Basically what I do is copy descriptions of male and paste them into the female's. Then I just change the masculine forms of words into feminine forms, e.g. he --> she, actor --> actress etc.

[freakyphilip0666]

When i try to open the career template in SimPE it comes up with "Arithmetic Operation Resulted In An Overflow!" Any one know what this means and how to solve it?

[simsfreq]

Does this template cover teen and elder careers too?

[Krystylfalls]

I am new to making careers also.

I have been following the tutorial (and Superfly's tutorial on GUIDs) and it all seemed to work but my job won't show up in the game. I've only got as far as the job titles and chance card text but it won't show. (I only have room for 9 chance cards in your template - should I have ten?)

What am I doing wrong?

Also can you make the chance cards to have both choices positive, ie. good and better rather than good and bad?

They have been good tutorials other wise, the pictures really help.
Thanks

[Swjosdotschka]

errrm... that might be a silly question, but how can I tell where the male and the female section is, with the new SimPE?

Great Tutorial! Thanks!

Edit: I have another problem. The career won't show up in the game. I don't know if that is the reason, BUT: the file is signed as a DBPF file, but does not have the typical SimPE icon. :blink:

The file is also only 67 KB small. Okay, I did not do chance cards yet and I did not do the female version, as I don't know how to do so. I just wanted to test it in that early stage to see, if all my hard work is working ;) (looong job descriptions).

Is this all because I clicked "default" when I changed the language to german? (I have a german game).

Or might it be, because I had problems with the group things? Not the GUILD but the other thing... forgot the name. The Tutorial did not work for me, because the new SimPE looks totally different, and I could not find the fix inte... thing. Would be very nice if someone may help. And please excuse my sillyness and my bad English.

[MrsCraft]

I always thought I was a sharp cookie, but I'm super-confused right now. I sat down and spent a few hours writing a new career in Word Processor and spell-checking it and all that stuff, and now I'm trying to do everything in SimPE.

I downloaded what I assumed to be the blank career package from the bottom of the first post and extracted it to my desktop with WinRar. Then, I opened SimPE and was going to open the templatecareer.package, but I don't seem to have it. The only thing I have available to open in SimPE is TEMPLATE.Adult.package.

The picture posted there of what I should see is missing; I don't know if this is the right package I've opened or if there's something else I should have downloaded and somehow managed to miss.

Help? :wtf:

***EDIT***

Okay, disregard that question...I figured out the issue, but now I've got a different question. When I'm inputting the Chance Cards, There's only room for 9, and I know you said to type in the scenarios for ten of them. So what do I do with the last one?

[vangaza]

(I only have room for 9 chance cards in your template - should I have ten?)
When I'm inputting the Chance Cards, There's only room for 9, and I know you said to type in the scenarios for ten of them. So what do I do with the last one?
I've got the same problem too! It can be easily remedified by clicking on string 0x007E and click on Add Strings button. Continue clicking on Add Strings until the last string is 0x008A, and voila! Change card fields for your Level 10 career :D .

Also can you make the chance cards to have both choices positive, ie. good and better rather than good and bad?
Sure you can! Under 'Bad' chance card results, don't enter minus in front of the number, e.g. instead of entering -100 for a lost of skill point, you enter 100 instead.

[vangaza]

errrm... that might be a silly question, but how can I tell where the male and the female section is, with the new SimPE?
Guten Tag Swjosdotschka!

For the job description Text Lists, the strings from 0x0001 to 0x0014 is for male, while 0x0015 to 0x0028 is for female. Leave 0x0000 as Unemployed.

For the chance cards text list, it is alternate. Okay, let me use an example. For the Level 1 chance card, the strings used are from 0x0013 to 0x001E.

0x0015 is the text that appears when your Sim is a male. (Description of card)
0x0016 is the text that appears when your Sim is a female. (Description of card)
0x0017 is the text that appears when your Sim is a male. (Good choice of the first button)
0x0018 is the text that appears when your Sim is a female. (Good choice of the first button)


And the pattern goes something like this:
Choice
Choice
Male text
Female text
Male's choice
Female's choice
Male's choice
Female's choice
etc etc etc.

I hope you get me :p.

The career won't show up in the game.
Did you put the package file under the Downloads folder? If you did, then your job probably did not show up on the newspaper on that day. To force your Sims to get the job, enter "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" by pressing Ctrl+Shift+C. Then right-click the newspaper, and you will see something like Jobs --> Your Job Name (I forgot the option, but it's something like that). Then click on it, and your Sim will be assigned the job automatically.

I did not do the female version, as I don't know how to do so.
You don't have to give unique descriptions to both genders. Basically what I do is copy descriptions of male and paste them into the female's. Then I just change the masculine forms of words into feminine forms, e.g. he --> she, actor --> actress etc.

Is this all because I clicked "default" when I changed the language to german? (I have a german game).
I really do not know how. Maybe you should clear all the fields by clicking on Default lang only button, then go to German, then type out everything.

I could not find the fix inte... thing.
Fix Integrity command can be found under Tools --> Object Tools --> Fix Integrity. Or it can be found under the third pictorial toolbar by clicking on the down arrow --> Add/Remove Buttons --> Fix Integrity.

Hope that helps :lol:

[MrsCraft]

I've got the same problem too! It can be easily remedified by clicking on string 0x007E and click on Add Strings button. Continue clicking on Add Strings until the last string is 0x008A, and voila! Change card fields for your Level 10 career :D .

AH! I tried that. Then I started up my game and had my female test sim get the job, but when it finally came up in the paper, it offered her the job at level 6 rather than level 1...I know I've done everything right up to this point, so what's the deal with that? It only changed after I added strings.

Also, I noticed when I was testing that when my male test sim accepted the job from the paper, the newspaper disappeared. Is that typical or just some kind of weird glitch just because all the information (pay, carpool, skill requirements, etc) weren't written into the file yet?

A couple more things and I'll shut up, I swear...

1-How do I rename the career? I'm almost sure it was mentioned in the tutorial, but I must be missing it. And everything I messed with to do it didn't change it.

2-If I'm not planning on posting my custom career, do I have to get a new GUID for it? I was curious because when I tried to get a new GUID for it, I couldn't, and I'm really only doing it for me anyway.

Thanks for whoever can answer these questions. I'm really not as dumb as I look! :rolleyes:

[vangaza]

AH! I tried that. Then I started up my game and had my female test sim get the job, but when it finally came up in the paper, it offered her the job at level 6 rather than level 1...I know I've done everything right up to this point, so what's the deal with that? It only changed after I added strings.
Err...maybe that's because she may have enough skill points and friends to qualify herself for Level 6 and above, so the game offers her a job at Level 6 instead of Level 1.

Also, I noticed when I was testing that when my male test sim accepted the job from the paper, the newspaper disappeared. Is that typical or just some kind of weird glitch just because all the information (pay, carpool, skill requirements, etc) weren't written into the file yet?
Possibly. Try finishing up them before testing again. ;)

1-How do I rename the career?
Click on Object Data, click on the only file there, and rename the initial career name (under "Filename" field) at the end of "JobData - Adult -" to your career name.

2-If I'm not planning on posting my custom career, do I have to get a new GUID for it? I was curious because when I tried to get a new GUID for it, I couldn't, and I'm really only doing it for me anyway.
It's better if you can, because the GUID you might be using could belong to a Maxis career, and your custom career might overwrite it. But I think this template file provided by Emma_Barrett already has a unique GUID, so you don not really need a new one if it's for yourself. Try asking her. ;)

[Krystylfalls]

I still can't get my career to show up in the game, I've tried everything I could find, it is hard following some of the old tutorials when the simPE is different to the pictures but I thought I had figgured it out.

I have the newst simPE, the EP4 - Pets, and I've downloaded Emma's template, do I need anything else?

[Swjosdotschka]

Hi Vangaza!
Thanks for your nice reply!
I tried to get one of my Sims my Job via Merolas Cheatpicture. That picture shos any career in game, but not mine.
I still think it is, because the file is very small (only 64KB, so not normal) and it says it is a DBPF package or something like that, but SimPE does not read it as this file type. When I open it in SimPe I always have to choose "All filetypes" to find it.

I think I should try the career all the way new again and see if it will work then...
Thanks again for your nice reply! :)

[Ting]

This tutorial is great, it's helped me a whole lot. Kudos!


One thing I'm curious about though. How do I get the career name to show up in the game? My career does not overwrite any existing careers but it shows up as Law and Order. In other words I have two careers named Law and Order instead of one Law and Order and one which is named after my career.

EDIT: I noticed another goof. When my Sim gets promoted the "promotion window" doesn't show up. I have to click on the Sim's employment info to see that he's promoted.

[Hagbarth]

Hi.
Great tutorial.
but I have a question how do you fire anyone with a chance card? what do you have to type in the Job level-ting?

[eeb]

Ok, I read through all the posts and I'm not sure if this has been addressed. I downloaded the template, and i opened it in simpe, then when I went to open it with Bidou's career editor, I got this message:

Message:
Error Loading Career

SimPE Version:
Default (0.60.1.16885).

Exception Stack:
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value of '0' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'Minimum' and 'Maximum'.
Parameter name: Value
at System.Windows.Forms.NumericUpDown.set_Value(Decimal value)
at SimPe.Plugin.CareerEditor.levelChanged()
at SimPe.Plugin.CareerEditor.Execute(IPackedFileDescriptor& pfd, IPackageFile& package, IProviderRegistry prov)

Source:
System.Windows.Forms

Execution Stack:
at System.Windows.Forms.NumericUpDown.set_Value(Decimal value)
at SimPe.Plugin.CareerEditor.levelChanged()
at SimPe.Plugin.CareerEditor.Execute(IPackedFileDescriptor& pfd, IPackageFile& package, IProviderRegistry prov)

What have I done wrong??

[wchilde]

This really helped me understand how careers are set up. I was able to make my own, Adult Entertainment Career. :D Yeah, I know I'm sick. Go ahead, get it out of your system.

Anyway, I didn't see anyone point this out, though they may have and I missed it. The tutorial mentions using "$me" as a substitute for the sim's name. When I use "$me" instead of "$Me", the game crashes. It's a drag because I have to do a hard reboot every time. I don't even get to see the error message so I can't tell you what it says. So if your career is crashing the game it's worth checking for $me in the chance cards.

[Darkwander]

I have a problem where my new Career comes up, however it is at level 6 instead of starting at the level 1. I know someone mensioned Skill points, my Sim had 4 points, one on Charisma, one on Body, One on Logic and Creativity.

I am trying to make it so that you have to start on Level 1, but can't get it to work....

[inamorata]

i cant get the clothing to show up for my career. i know that you have to do it halves, and in reverse, but its still not showing up. they just wear their normal clothes to work. what am i doing wrong? please somebody show me or just tell me! thanks!

[MrsCraft]

I have a problem where my new Career comes up, however it is at level 6 instead of starting at the level 1. I know someone mensioned Skill points, my Sim had 4 points, one on Charisma, one on Body, One on Logic and Creativity.

I am trying to make it so that you have to start on Level 1, but can't get it to work....

I had the same problem! And my test Sims didn't have any skill points, so this was really weird for me. Anybody have any info about this?

[CrowsMan]

Hey thanks so much it is a great tutorial! i am still doing the chance cards but thank you still for this amazing tutorial!

Hey is there anyway u can copy and paste into the job descriptions and the chance cards into simPE?

[wolf78]

Hi there ... and ... Merry Christmas!!!!

I've made my first career, starting from Emma's Template and it works quite well (many thanks Emma!!!!) ... but my sim doesn't get money bonus when he gets promotion.

He meets all the requirements to be promoted (skills, job performance and friends) and he changes career level without "congratulation" music, without description balloon (of the actual level) on the upper right corner and (mainly) without bonus money.

I would like to point out that this is not a chance card problem. I've not yet created chance cards because I would like to solve my problem before continuing my work.

Thanks for your help.

Wolf78

PS I'm italian... Sorry for my english ...

[christian93plyr]

when i open the blank carrer it comes up in the notpad and wont open why? :(

[dogma12345]

If on your list level 5 chance card option A good was a bonus of $50 then type 50 in 0x1 dec box and then if level 4 chance card option A good was a bonus of $500 then type 500 into 0x5 dec box and so on

what does that mean? Why level 5 in 0x1 and level 4 in 0x5??? I dont quite get it.

Please help? :cry:

[poke_simmie_]

Thanks a million for the tutorial!! I've FINALLY made the career I've been meaning to make for ages now, I just have to get the chance cards in, lol.

[Swjosdotschka]

It really seems like I am too silly to do careers...
How can it be, that strink is from 1-14 if there are only 10 joblevels????

And the other problem is: Everytime I click save or save as, it will save as a data, but not as a DBPF package. So my game can not read the package :(

[starfleetcadet]

I got to the part where you put in the job title and descriptions and got stuck. Since you said you type in string and don't do anything with the Desc box, I figured that was where you put the description of the first job in the career. And since I couldn't see any other place, I figured that "filename" was the most likely place for putting name of the first job in the career. (Ex: Dishwasher for the first job in the culinary career.) That doesn't seem to be correct, though, because when I clicked on the next one down (0x0002), the filename stayed the same. What am I doing wrong?

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/bethybeth/simpeconfusion01.jpg

[IsolinaBlack]

phoenix42793- in answer to kind of everything, a 10 level career needs full chance cards. Leaving it blank will simply result in nothing showing up. However, career are meant to be read, so not including text seems a bit pointless. Like Tig said, good things take time- no career that I have created took less than two weeks to create, including writing, thinking of things and spell and grammar checking. If you're looking for something that yields faster results, try recolouring or maybe even clothing creation. If you don't have the patience then careers won't be for you.


xD I was about to ask the same thing, but that's more because I've almost given up on the genre my current career is for (a career that'd work for my Victorian females) but I want to see it through, so yeah. Thanks for warning me, Lol.

[IsolinaBlack]

I got to the part where you put in the job title and descriptions and got stuck. Since you said you type in string and don't do anything with the Desc box, I figured that was where you put the description of the first job in the career. And since I couldn't see any other place, I figured that "filename" was the most likely place for putting name of the first job in the career. (Ex: Dishwasher for the first job in the culinary career.) That doesn't seem to be correct, though, because when I clicked on the next one down (0x0002), the filename stayed the same. What am I doing wrong?

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/bethybeth/simpeconfusion01.jpg

'File Name' is the title for the job itself, I believe, or the title for the file, I'm not exactly sure which and I'm sure a double-check, for me at least, would explain. xP
In any case, the place where you thought the description goes is where the JOB TITLE goes. One line below it, however, is the DESCRIPTION. I think she explained this thoroughly, but maybe not.

[IsolinaBlack]

AH! I tried that. Then I started up my game and had my female test sim get the job, but when it finally came up in the paper, it offered her the job at level 6 rather than level 1...I know I've done everything right up to this point, so what's the deal with that? It only changed after I added strings.

Sorry if someone already asked you this, but has your female sim gone to sim-college. Some careers are affected by that. Of course, I'm not very good at custom careers, so this may be a retarded reply. xD Still, in the default careers, then if your sim goes to college, they start out in many jobs with a higher level.

[Darkspleen*AoG*]

I can't save. Whenever I try to save, the file saves as a .BAK file and I can't open it.

[IgnorantBliss]

The .bak file is a back-up file SimPE creates when you edit your package. The .bak file can be opened by changing the file extension to .package, but it won't contain your latest changes. The actual package file should be the one that's the latest saved version.

[Darkspleen*AoG*]

Well there must be something wrong with my SimPE because it only saves baks

[pinkheart14]

I'm stuck at the chance cards. Tuning-chance card-A-good-job level. Or how ever you put it. What do i put for the career level on which i want a career promotion? ex: career level 7 chance card says YOU'VE PROMOTED! how do i get that to happen? I'm sooooo confused. :help:

[anthonycz]

hey um i downloaded Sim PE light... and it says i need some... .NET Framework V2.0...

wat do i do now?

[IgnorantBliss]

There is a link to download NET Framework 2.0 on the SimPE download page.

[coolcat1010]

:help: which one of the two thingys at the end of the thread do I download? And do you have to make a diffrent scenario for the male and female?

[IgnorantBliss]

The template career is what you need to download to go through the tutorial. For your second question, please, read the tutorial.

[ayumi]

I think i've made something wrong...
It works in the game, there are just 2 little things that are wrong. The first thing is, that in the moment you accept the job, you seem to already have the 6th grade of the career. I mean, it shows the title and description of 0x000B and 0x000C. I can't find my mistake.
The second is the upper category. Where can I chance that? It says law for me now, but I want sports.
I hope you understand what I mean ^^'

[tacos]

can some one please tell me why there is and option A good and option B good and the same for bad? is it because of the gender? i dont understand and i dont want to write my cards until i know for sure please help

[jack21722]

i am currently trying to make a custom team/elder carear, i have added a couple of levels on to it to make it a little longer. i have written the chance cards out, but the cards for the extra levels will not show up even when forcing them with that cheat box thing. Oh some thing i just tought of! it maybe that in the spot for editing there likely hood there set for zero or just not there... that might be it if its not would you happen to know what it could be? everything else works as far as i can tell except those cards...
please help me you shall

[KristyKissy]

I keep getting an error when I`m trying to like load it. HELP?!
THis is what it says.

Message:
Error while loading a Packed File.

Exception Stack:
System.Threading.SynchronizationLockException: Object synchronization method was called from an unsynchronized block of code.
at SimPe.WaitingScreen.Stop()
at SimPe.Form1.RemoveCurrentPlugin()
at SimPe.Form1.SelectPackedFile(IPackedFileDescriptor fii)

Source:
simpe.helper

Execution Stack:
at SimPe.WaitingScreen.Stop()
at SimPe.Form1.RemoveCurrentPlugin()
at SimPe.Form1.SelectPackedFile(IPackedFileDescriptor fii)

[Tigger]

Ok, many thanks to Emma for getting me interested in doing Custom Careers. I have spent conciderable hours working on this career now and am enjoying the experience.

I have run into a few snags that I just can not find the answers to.

1. I am not sure how to change the category that the job falls under when the Sim finds it in the newspaper or on the computer. Currently, it is set to "servants" career. I see 3 separate references to "servants" in the files, but am unsure if I can change any or all of them without damaging my brain cells with the results.

2. My sim obtained this custom career at Level 6. She is stuck in this level and refuses to get in the car when it comes. The command goes to queue automatically, but disappears just as fast. My sim just stands there and then goes off to do whatever she wants, only to be halted when the Go To Work appears in her queue again.

3. I have not been able to locate where to change the days of the week that the career levels should be assigned to.

4. Unknown, but wondering if it is possible that Seasons EP may be interfering with somethings. Each level tested, to level 3 is showing a GUID error.

5. All chance cards are appearing at every level, guaranteed so far. Promotions are given, with bonuses, regardless that the sim doesn't even meant half of what is needed to advance.


So, short of my current option of downloading someone else's career to peel back the onion layers and see what they did, I am hoping that one of you fine modders has some answers to help me with. I do appreciate all the help that is contained in the forums under the other Career Tutorials, without most of that, I would be in a really tight pickle jar.

[ô_hoodie]

This is great; will try ASAP. Do you mean GUID instead of GUILD? The first time I read that, the thought of adding a career guild blew my mind!

[Hardy boyz]

Thanks for this tutorial.
I'm almost finished with my career.

And that is when these problems comes up, no-one has asked this before, so maybe I'm just blind (or stupid)
How do I change picture on the career - you know I don't really want the servant pic :D
How do I change the name from TEMPLATE.Adult to my own career name - I tried, but it won't succeed.

Hmm, I think that's all for now.
Thanks again.

//HB

[Elinchy]

Done my first career, thanks for the tutorial :D It's awesome! Soon I'm gonna upload it, when my friends test it to see if it's working fine...

[tacos]

ok thank you for this career tutorial but i have a question. i have seen this question asked before twice actually but no one has replied it and i think it is a good question in which is why im asking again and hope someone will reply.

ok... how can i turn your adult template emma into a teen/elder career or do i need to start fresh? can someone or anyone reply please and thank you.

[jaxcp]

Great tutorial, I haven't had any problems.

PM me if you have a question and I'll do my best to answer.

[gzilla57]

OK no offense but in my versian of simpe i can just click tools bidou's career editor and then all you have to do is fill it out. (i think, i havent actually made one) soi dont know if that is new(i just downloade a few days ago) but it seems easier

[simmy9988]

Hi
I just wanted to know,how do I download the empty template?I have no idea what file I save it in!

[MewMint20]

you were right when you said it takes a while ive been doing chance cards for the past 2 hours im only on no.4. Or maybe im just slow.

i just noticed that someone else has done a ballerina carrer already i think mine is different is it still allowed?or does it count as copyright

[IgnorantBliss]

simmy9988, you need to download the attached template from the bottom of the first post in this thread. Save it to your desktop, for example, and extract with a program that can open RAR files. In the folder there is a file called TEMPLATE. Adult.package that you need to open with SimPE.

MewMint20, nobody owns the copyright to all ballerina careers. As long as you make your own career and don't just copy someone else's file, it's fine.

[-love-sims-2-]

It wouldn't even let me open the file in simPE!! This is what it did: http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/833/lllllih4.png

[blahapp]

They earns money when they work but they doesn't earns money OR bonus when they being promoted. I would look inside the file.

But I want a answer.

[Fat70Boy]

I have a problem with my 1st custom career. I am not through with the chance cards yet, but I was testing my career. I get my daily pay as I should. When I get a home and got a promotion that day I get no pay or popup at all. Anyone know what is going on?

[blahapp]

I have same problem like you Fat70Boy!

My sims only get pay when they DON'T got a promotion.

[Fat70Boy]

I fixed mine, if you edit on a career you have to restart the computer or it acts all weird.

[monkeyz_and_turkeyz]

i cant open the template career its a rar file???

[monkeyz_and_turkeyz]

It wouldn't even let me open the file in simPE!! This is what it did: http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/833/lllllih4.png


they same thing happens for me its so annoying :!!: :help: :!!: :!: :!: :!: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[IgnorantBliss]

You can't open the RAR file directly in SimPE, you need to extract the package out of the RAR with a program like WinRAR or 7-Zip and then open the package in SimPE.

[Sorain_Hyuuga]

What if you want to make it so you get a promotion for a chance card??

[monkeyz_and_turkeyz]

i cant extract it its one file?its a ms word file what am i doing wrong :help: :!!: :help:

[Otonin Chunin]

I downloaded SimPE and the template and opened the template in SimPe but when I go to the next step in the tutorial which is going to text lists in the Resource Tree, I have none! I tried redownloading but that didn't work. Is the file old or something? Please help. :help: :(
I think I need a Rar extractor, can any give me a link for a free one? I tried the one that Emma posted but the page isn' there any more. :blink:

[Hardy boyz]

Just serch for winrar at google.

Edit: Have made a tutorial for you who's not really sure about downloading, extracing and open templates in SimPE.
Feel free to look here (http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g27/Skaremark/The%20sims/MTS2/tutorial/) (just remember to klick on "Full size")

//HB

[Otonin Chunin]

Thanks :anime:

Actually how do you put a icon next to your career?

[Cull_the_cool]

Where can I find a .zip career template?

[Hardy boyz]

You can't find it as a zip file, only as a rar file, in the beginning of this tutorial.

//HB

[Cull_the_cool]

oh well I improvised.

[rongrong94]

My computer hates rar file can anyone be so kind to have it in zip??? please... with strawberry icing and chocolate syrup???

[MisterDutch]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I am new to making careers and the tutorial seems very helpful but I can't download the 2 files at the bottom of the first post on page one! When I try to download Career Template.rar my browser just sits there and after a long while it gives an error message. I have tried with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Neither works. Does anyone have the career templates for me because I really don't know how to use SimPE to create custom careers and an example file would be very helpful!

Thank you!

[jobo511]

:alarm: ''Arithmatic Operation Resulted in an overflow'' :alarm: What the hell does that mean? And can i have a template that works please (Not in an offensive way or nothing!)

[little-simmy]

Hello. I have read your tutorial and i tried to downlaod the career template. However, you need SimPE i think it is called, which i do not have. What exacly is SimPE and how can i get it? If you can help me, that would be great.

[Hardy boyz]

Hello. I have read your tutorial and i tried to downlaod the career template. However, you need SimPE i think it is called, which i do not have. What exacly is SimPE and how can i get it? If you can help me, that would be great.

Hi. I'm not very good at explaining what SimPE is...
But you can read about it and download it here (http://sims.ambertation.de/en/about-simpe/)

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I am new to making careers and the tutorial seems very helpful but I can't download the 2 files at the bottom of the first post on page one! When I try to download Career Template.rar my browser just sits there and after a long while it gives an error message. I have tried with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Neither works. Does anyone have the career templates for me because I really don't know how to use SimPE to create custom careers and an example file would be very helpful!

Thank you!

I downloaded it the day after you wrote this massage, and it worked just fine for me.
Keep on trying, sometimes MTS2 is slow because it is a big site with a lot of people visiting...

//HB

[amandasho]

hi...im kinda confused...um..so with the scenarios are those the chance card or the levels...and i dont know i need help..!!!!!!!

[marieality]

• 10 scenarios (one for each employment level) for each gender
http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?find=lastposter&t=170398

What do you mean by scenarios?? :( Sorry, I'm kinda puzzled :help:

[happycowlover]

Scenerios means the chance cards messages that pop up. For example:

"Sim A is at home spending time with his family when his boss calls him to attend an important meeting. Should he go to the meeting or stay home?"

Hope that maks sense! :)

[kopple36]

When I try to open it into SimPe it just says arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.

What happened?

[neo_fan_127]

Where do you save it? ((The file))

[neo_fan_127]

Does it have to be good and bad... like say option a is good but does it have to have a bad one too?

[Thesims2NL]

How eles can i get the blank carrar pacage my cpu says it can't find the download :(

[lokes139]

:alarm: ''Arithmatic Operation Resulted in an overflow'' :alarm: What the hell does that mean? And can i have a template that works please (Not in an offensive way or nothing!)
im having the same problem.

[LarcSakurai]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, this is so much easier to follow than another one I had found.

Personally, being a writer, I look forward to writing out the chance cards, ^.^;;;

Modding will be a great hobby for me to get into.. Lately I've needed something to keep my mind off life for awhile ><;

Thanks again!

[lua202]

Just wanted to say thanks for this tutorial. It is great.

I just have one question though: I used your template, and when I put it in the game, it comes up as servant (in the newspaper). How do I change it so that it comes up with the name of my career (i've looked at some other careers but I can't seem to figure it out).

Thanks

Lucy

[Lettherecordshow]

Just a random question here...doing all the chance cards and such and I was just wondering if it's possible to add more than one card for the 10th level? My logic tells me that the answer is probably a no but I thought I'd ask anyway.

[captainheroe]

Where can I get Bidou's career editor? I can't find it anywhere.

[Meemo]

Where can I get Bidou's career editor? I can't find it anywhere.

it installs as part of SimPE as standard.

[AprlPlay366]

Hi! That was a great tutorial! I'm just reading it for now but will make a career soon. I plan on making a Death Eater Career from Harry Potter!

[Alundra]

where can i get bidou's career editor from? ive searched the internet for days.
i have the button in simpe but i dont have the plug in obviously

[Alundra]

*sigh* blonde moment.
i got the base career file and opened it and the button suddenly decided to work :D
lol
once i made the career ill feel smart again :)

[poppydog]

:wtf: the chance card effects stuff dosent make sense.
give me another example say, chance card 1 A good was 1 charisma skill point what do i do?

[rockrchic13]

How do you open the career template?

[smrw10]

Thank you for the guide, and for answering the questions posed. so far I haven't experienced any problems following it, and am just completing my first career.
The guide was missing the process for assigning days of the week, but I should be able to figure that out.
I had one question though. I was hoping to tinker with some ideas based on what I have read on this thread, and others, modifying the way the career plays, and was hoping a suggestion could be made as to where to go to bounce a few thoughts off people. Being as this was intended to be a basic guide, I didn't want to confuse anyone, or pull away from addressing the issues posted here, by asking these questions on this thread. Thank you for the guide, and your help.

[illusionistdave]

I seriously am not following the chance cards part of the tutorial as far as the actually results one gets. It said something about 0X1 was level 5 but 0X5 was 4 or something like that. What does that mean? I'm so confused.:(

[ddrk]

:rofl: thanx that was alot of help to me :bunny:

[luke734]

Okay, so I got a quick question, hoping it will get answered soon seeing as I want to put my first career in the game.

For the promotions, like, Chance A Good Job Level
or whatever.

if I am selected rank 1 and put 2 in the dec box. Will that make him go up 2 promotions? Or rank 2?


Thanks.

-Luke

Edit: nevermind, I figured it out. But why is the career title called Servant?

Like, if I am looking in the paper or computer it says the "servant" career track thingy. im bad at describing stuff. but im sure u no where i am going with this.

[carbonboi]

When i go onto superflys tutorial , it says to click on Object data , so i do, nothing happens, i double click on it, nothing happens :help: what ever i do it wont let me open it or any other file like Slot file or behaviour constant. can some please help me :cry:

[Smallfry]

okay,
if you want to change the career name:

in SimPe go to tools (at the top) then click on Bidou Careers..
it should open up a window. At the top of this window it will have the career name, there you can change it from servants to what ever. Also in this window you can select what you want your sim to wear to work and their carpool. this is a much simpler way of doing everything.

I am having the same problem with the no bubble to say i got promoted and no bonus but i am working on it. if anyone knows how to change this please let me know.

on screen shot changing:
click on [U]all res [U/] at the top.

then you will see on the right .img files. right click on the first and third one and select replace. You must resize the screen shot images.
here is a picture to help.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/Caitalicious/screenshot-1.jpg

[ericbutzner]

Where is the downloads folder that I place the career in to play in the game.

Also, who can I talk to about custom unifroms, because I can't make them.

[xXxSmufflesxXx]

yeah it is a package file you need to open it from within simpe
(file,open)
it's the package file which will become your career as you work through it.
if its not opening with simpe maybe it corrupted when you downloaded it? try re-downloading! :)


Emma When I download the template Do I save it anywhere then just open it?

[craines5600]

Thanks for a great tutorial. it is great to have this kind of help :!: :!:

[s8rchik]

Can I use Notepad, because my Microsoft Office Word wont let me even edit stuff I've already typed. Anyway, will Notepad work?

[RogueMage]

Thanx Emma, this tutorial is really a good start. Easy to follow and not really complicated. But I still have two questions left:


Is there a maximum number of chance cards per level or has it to be exactly 1? I think to add 2 or 3 each level for longterm-fun.

Is it possible to give more than one reward to a chance card? Let's say: Body+1 and +$200 and creative-1.

[RogueMage]

Can I use Notepad, because my Microsoft Office Word wont let me even edit stuff I've already typed. Anyway, will Notepad work?

Yes, notepad will do. Just keep in mind not to use linefeeds (pressing the enter-key) within your textblocks.

[sweetviper]

great tutorial I am working on my first career.

[joshrl]

With the behaviour constant bit it says nothing did I do something wrong

[Lestat1748]

for this great tutorial. it really helps me create my custum career, which will soon be uploaded.

[Iwannapunchsasuke!!!]

How do you open up the file?

[thismodernlove947]

yeah it is a package file you need to open it from within simpe
(file,open)
it's the package file which will become your career as you work through it.
if its not opening with simpe maybe it corrupted when you downloaded it? try re-downloading! :)


It's not working!!
i have downloaded simPE twice
it says 'Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow' when i try to open your files.
i looked at details and it said : Message:
Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.

SimPE Version:
Default (0.62.1.100).

Exception Stack:
System.OverflowException: Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.
at SimPe.Packages.File.LoadFileIndex()
at SimPe.Packages.File.OpenByStream(BinaryReader br)
at SimPe.Packages.File.ReloadFromFile(String filename)
at SimPe.Packages.PackageMaintainer.LoadPackageFromFile(String filename, Boolean sync)
at SimPe.Packages.File.LoadFromFile(String flname, Boolean sync)
at SimPe.LoadedPackage.LoadFromFile(String flname, Boolean sync)

Source:
simpe.package

Execution Stack:
at SimPe.Packages.File.LoadFileIndex()
at SimPe.Packages.File.OpenByStream(BinaryReader br)
at SimPe.Packages.File.ReloadFromFile(String filename)
at SimPe.Packages.PackageMaintainer.LoadPackageFromFile(String filename, Boolean sync)
at SimPe.Packages.File.LoadFromFile(String flname, Boolean sync)
at SimPe.LoadedPackage.LoadFromFile(String flname, Boolean sync)

Windows Version:
WindowsXP

.NET Version:
2.0.50727.42


please help! xx

[yusuketcentre]

i'm kind of lost. I'm inputing the chance cards and i started at line 13 like the tutorial said but if i do that i only have enough for 9 chance cards. Is there a way to add more? did i start in the wrong place? I'm lost and the tenth chance card is integral to the storyline for my career. Please help if you can.

[Mordant17]

I seriously am not following the chance cards part of the tutorial as far as the actually results one gets. It said something about 0X1 was level 5 but 0X5 was 4 or something like that. What does that mean? I'm so confused.

I don't get it either.

Also, how do I have a sim be fired for a negative chance card?

[manubeas]

hi, Im really new at using simpe and i think this is a grwat tutorial but i dont know where to open all that stuff where you right the chance cards, skill level needed for promotions.
Could you help me please?
Thank you

[manubeas]

How do you open up the file?

Yeah i also dont know with what program should i open it with.

[qwerty_94]

How do you change the days you work so I can work everyday lol so i can get RICH!!

[onp36]

Where do you get SimPE?

[Rippleclaw]

Um...ok. I downloaded SimPE. I opened it, but when I went to open the template it blew up! It stopped responding and I had to force it to quit! I'm on a Dell laptop, and I downloaded all of the things that I needed. What am I doing wrong? Please PM me with help! I really want to start making careers and objects, but I can't with this problem! :(

[skullxxmonkey]

Okay, so this question has been asked before and I apoligise if it has been answered, I just havn't seen one.

First off thank you for this tutorial it was very helpful :)

I'm just a little confused about the chance card outcomes, in the tutorial it says something like level 5 goes in 0X1 and level 4 goes in 0X5... I have no idea how to make sense of this... haha. So where would 2 go? I would have thought level 1 went in 0X1 2 in 0X2 3 in 0X3 and so on?

Can anyone make this a little clearer for me?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Okay so I still don't get the card outcomes but I think it'll work out, because I used the career editor on simPE. Now I have another question... haha. Okay so I'm testing my career out and i'm not getting a message to tell me i'm getting promoted... or getting paid, which is kind of annoying because my sim could really use the money! Does any one know what this could be?

[mydogRuff13]

Everytime I try to open up the career template, I get a message saying "Arithematic operation resulted in an overflow." Did I do something wrong in my download?
I download the career template in the first post, and the other gets the same response.

[mayonayz]

Great tutorial so far-- haven't gotten very far, however >.<;
I have a few questions, which might have been asked before, if it has, I apologize, and I realize they might be a bit 'dumb...'
An example given is to write down
male 1 title
male 1 description
male 2 title
male 2 description, etc...

First question. Do I need to include the 'male 1 title, etc...' in the box when I'm typing in the title/description?
Second question: Is male 1 title written in a different 'box' than 'male 1 description?' Right now, I just hit the 'enter' key for that part, having both male 1 title and male 1 description in one 'box.' Please tell me the correct way to do this-- I tried to consult screen shots, but found none showing the proper layout of the boxes with information put in.

Along with this, I have another small problem, which I think might be SimPE related, but I'm not sure. After pasting something to be entered into one of the boxes for the chance cards, I get the following message, which then doesn't let me edit any text until I reopen the file:
"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.
Index was outside the bounds of the array."

Thanks!

[malthaussen]

I hate to do this, but I am at my wit's end (which is not hard). The tutorial is very clear and easy to undersand, and the additional files and links are helpful. But I am having a ridiculous problem.

Because I am a pretty fair speller, I started typing in the career descriptions right in SimPE, rather than using Works. My intention was to copy the strings from the male to the female job descriptions, since they will be the same. I was going to do the same for the chance cards, but haven't gotten that far yet.

However, there appears to be no way to copy the strings from one field to another! Usually, one highlights the string, right-clicks, and selects "copy." But in SimPE, right-clicking on the highlighted (or unhighlighted!) string gets me nada. And what's worse, if I do write a description in my word processor and copy it to the clipboard, I still can't paste it into a string in SimPE -- right-clicking is still profitless.

This means I would have to write every job description and every chance card and every outcome twice. Since this tutorial clearly states "write your text in Word and copy it into SimPE," there must be a way to do it, nyet? How? I am using SimPE 60.2.

-- Mal

[Lois99]

I hate to do this, but I am at my wit's end (which is not hard). The tutorial is very clear and easy to undersand, and the additional files and links are helpful. But I am having a ridiculous problem.

Because I am a pretty fair speller, I started typing in the career descriptions right in SimPE, rather than using Works. My intention was to copy the strings from the male to the female job descriptions, since they will be the same. I was going to do the same for the chance cards, but haven't gotten that far yet.

However, there appears to be no way to copy the strings from one field to another! Usually, one highlights the string, right-clicks, and selects "copy." But in SimPE, right-clicking on the highlighted (or unhighlighted!) string gets me nada. And what's worse, if I do write a description in my word processor and copy it to the clipboard, I still can't paste it into a string in SimPE -- right-clicking is still profitless.

This means I would have to write every job description and every chance card and every outcome twice. Since this tutorial clearly states "write your text in Word and copy it into SimPE," there must be a way to do it, nyet? How? I am using SimPE 60.2.

-- Mal

To copy, highlight the text you want to copy and press ctrl / c on your keyboard

To paste, place the cursor in the box you want to paste to and press ctrl / v on your keyboard :)

[magickid930]

Great tutorial so far-- haven't gotten very far, however >.<;
I have a few questions, which might have been asked before, if it has, I apologize, and I realize they might be a bit 'dumb...'
An example given is to write down
male 1 title
male 1 description
male 2 title
male 2 description, etc...

First question. Do I need to include the 'male 1 title, etc...' in the box when I'm typing in the title/description?
Second question: Is male 1 title written in a different 'box' than 'male 1 description?' Right now, I just hit the 'enter' key for that part, having both male 1 title and male 1 description in one 'box.' Please tell me the correct way to do this-- I tried to consult screen shots, but found none showing the proper layout of the boxes with information put in.

Along with this, I have another small problem, which I think might be SimPE related, but I'm not sure. After pasting something to be entered into one of the boxes for the chance cards, I get the following message, which then doesn't let me edit any text until I reopen the file:
"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.
Index was outside the bounds of the array."

Thanks!

I'm not sure since I have figured this out, but...

The Desc box tells you what to put into the string box (e.g. in box 0x0001 it says in the Desc box 'Male 1 job title'. That means that in the 'string' box you put in the title for level 1 of the male job ladder. Then, in box 0x0002, it says Male job description, so you put the description for level 1 on the ladder in the STRING box.)

I hope I've made it clear, and I don't know if it is definetely right, but it seems like a reasonable guess.

EDIT: I just realised it says 'male 1 job title' in all the ones for the male job titles. Don't put in the same job title everytime, I think it' just a typo

[kopple36]

I got a error saying Index was outside the box of the array or something like that, what's wrong?

[Lokomotiv]

Thanks for the tuturial! I'm almost finished with my NCIS career, I'm just trying to fix some problems. For example, in one of the chance cards, the scenario box has expanded beyond the screen. I've shortened the text, but I don't think that's the problem, because I have other chance cards with as much text with no problem.

[cruelasthegrave]

Thanks :anime:

Actually how do you put a icon next to your career?

I've seen this question asked a few times in these comments, so thought it might be a good idea to have some reference links to relevant threads. Check these out:

Making Custom Icons (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=269957)

Attaching Icons to Careers (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=229961)

The icon making is my favorite part of the custom career bit!

[Lokomotiv]

I've tried my career a few tims now, but I've come across some problems which I don't know how to fix. I was hoping someone could help me.

* When boolProp testingcheatsenabled is activated, I get an error message saying I sent a crappy GUID. I made sure that both the GUID and the GROUP ID was correctly changed, but the message still appears when the cheat is on.
* When my sims gets promoted, they teleport back to the lot without pay or bonus. I had a lot with two sims, which were at different levels on their careers, and both reappeared on the lot when sim1 got promoted. The car, which sim1 drove to work with, didn't reappear.
* The career doesn't overwrite another career, but its still under "Law and order". I've tried changing various filenames and etc, and I've looked everywhere for help, but I don't understand how to change this.

I'm attaching the file with the career, in case some kind person could help me. :help: I'd be really grateful.

[K-chan]

Kate_R: Are you opening it in SimPE and going into the exact menues that are in the tutorial? Sorry if I sound condescending, not meaning to - that's often the first problem that people come across.

Lokomotiv: For your career name problem:

Quoted from Superfly: okay,
if you want to change the career name:

in SimPe go to tools (at the top) then click on Bidou Careers..
it should open up a window. At the top of this window it will have the career name, there you can change it from servants to what ever. Also in this window you can select what you want your sim to wear to work and their carpool. this is a much simpler way of doing everything. - End quote



Now for my problem.

I've read through the tutorial (which was very helpful) and all the responses (which answered some of my other questions), and though I believe that this has been brought up, there haven't been any answers as yet.

*When my sim is promoted, there is no notification, and no pay. She just comes home from work, then goes about her business. Haven't had her teleporting anywhere - she comes home in the carpool. *edit: Just read that Superfly is working on an answer, but that was back in August. Has anyone heard an answer?

*With the chance cards, how do you make a negative consequence that fires the worker? I think I've got the promotion/demotion sorted, but don't know about firing.

If someone could help, it would be much appreciated - then I can upload the Prostitute career path. :p

[Canadachick56]

Just a little *Teeny tiny* question.. does it matter if you're using the light version?? :)

[K-chan]

Is light version just without the Bidou thing? If so, that's what I'm using - and it's just a little more complicated. What exactly are you trying to do?

[Calicoo]

Is it possible to have more than ten jobs in a career?

Edit: I found it's possible to have less than ten, but my question still stands for more than ten.

[K-chan]

Is it possible to have more than ten jobs in a career?


In theory, yes. Just hit 'add' to add another box to add information to. Haven't tested this out though.

[Rurouni-Idoru]

I'm very proud of myself for following so far, but I'm having some problems and I feel really stupid about them.

For one, I'm a little unclear on how to set up the necessary skill point levels. If, say, I want job level one to require one of a given skill point for a promotion, and don't want an increase in that skill to be necessary until let's say level three, what should I do in between, for level two? Do I just ignore that one, or do I keep it at the same skill level necessary for the previous level?

Secondly, I didn't feel like starting up my game to check to see if the career had taken, so I just looked at available careers under Sim Description in SimPE. It wasn't there. Should it have been? Or would I have to try it in-game?

Thirdly, how would I change the career name when I do see it? The only solution I've seen so far involved Bidou's Career Editor. My current version of SimPE doesn't have that, and searching for it has yielded nothing.

Thanks in advance.

[K-chan]

First problem: Either one should work. Looks better if you just leave the required skill at a constant rather than getting rid of the requirement.

Second problem: You need to try it out in-game to see if there's any bugs that need fixing.

Third problem: I can't remember exactly, but I think you just select Object Data in the first file-tree, then JobData... in the second (it's the only selection). Then in the Filename box, just change it from Servant to whatever it is your career track is called. I think that's all you need to do.

[Rurouni-Idoru]

Third problem: I can't remember exactly, but I think you just select Object Data in the first file-tree, then JobData... in the second (it's the only selection). Then in the Filename box, just change it from Servant to whatever it is your career track is called. I think that's all you need to do. There was no JobData under Object Data, but (since you said you weren't sure,) I clicked on the only thing in there to see. Sure enough, there was a filename blank with "servants" written in it, so I changed it. But apparently, that wasn't it, because after saving, I gave a sim the career and it was still labeled as "servants" in game.

Also, I don't know what this is a result of, but when I sent my sims using that career to work, they all went for a couple of sim hours, but then all reappeared in the hallway two hours before they were supposed to come home. The game told me they had all missed work and that was a bad thing and whatnot. Unfortunately I missed the reappearance because I looked away for a minute, but I know they all went to work because the little briefcase icon appeared in the corner of their icons. Would this be a career problem, or is my game just borked?

[Cam000]

do you have a zip. file for the career

[K-chan]

Rurouni, if you can, post the career file up here, and I'll take a look at it - and I'll write down what I'm doing so that you know for future reference, and if you want to change something back.

[Rurouni-Idoru]

I think I've figured out the place to change the title (Does catalogue description sound right?) but haven't tried it yet.

Anyway, here's the silly thing.

[K-chan]

I just had a look at your career, and you're right - Catalogue Description it is, for the name-change. I loaded it into my game, and my test sim didn't have any problems with coming home early, so I'm not sure what's happened there.

[woodchip50]

I've tried my career a few tims now, but I've come across some problems which I don't know how to fix. I was hoping someone could help me.

* When boolProp testingcheatsenabled is activated, I get an error message saying I sent a crappy GUID. I made sure that both the GUID and the GROUP ID was correctly changed, but the message still appears when the cheat is on.
* When my sims gets promoted, they teleport back to the lot without pay or bonus.


i am having this same problem, if anyone can help it would be greatly appriciated, also i am having this really wierd error with bibous career editor, it could be me doing something stupid as this is the first time i tryed using the tool. It says

'Unhandeled exeption has occured in a component in your application. If you click Continue, the aplication will ignore this and attempt to continue

Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index.'

This happens when i try to click on one of the individual jobs to copy the male description over to female. (edit) i just went through it again from the first job in attempt down to the 10th, i managed to copy all of the descriptions down to job 8, when i clicked on 9 i got the error, tested again and it does the same on ten if i skip 9. Also it then deletes all of the copied blurbs (edit)

Please help

woodchip50

[K-chan]

After weeks of scouring the forums for an answer, realising that no one had figured one out, and putting various clues together, I have come up with the answer.

I've even tested it in my game to make sure it works.

The problem is that the template has custom content for either the clothing or the cars, and those of us using it to create our own careers don't have that content. Therefore, when the game looks for the GUID of the clothes/cars, it can't find it. This also fixes the problem with the promotions not being acknowledged.

Venganza actually posted the method earlier, but without knowing that it would fix this problem - someone had asked how to assign Maxis clothing in. His post is on page 3, and includes a list of the GUIDs for Maxis stuff - this should fix all the problems.

[ilovewc]

what do you do once you get to job level, and when ur finished making the entire carrer, how do instal it onto the game?
thanx!

[K-chan]

what do you do once you get to job level, and when ur finished making the entire carrer, how do instal it onto the game?
thanx!

Don't understand what you're asking in the first question.

For the second, you save the file, then move a copy of it into your Downloads folder and run the game. As long as CC is enabled, you'll be able to use your career.

[chrispy101]

On the tutorial, before the heading titled Adding Our Job Titles and Descriptions, Emma Barrett wrote something about GUILDS and that superflys’ tutorial should be used. Does a guild have to be used in the career process? Also, I have no idea what a guild is so could someone please explain what it is to me?

[K-chan]

Yes, you have to change the guid. It's the number that the game uses to identify the career, and if you don't change it, it'll overwrite another career. Follow Superfly's tutorial, it's explained well there.

[Jade28]

Okay here's the deal I have made 10 scenarios for each gender and chance cards for each one. Now I can't seem to follow the rest of this tutorial. So If someone who understands this would like to make my scenarios into a career that would be great. Just let me know

[K-chan]

I'll do it Jade. Either send a message or upload them here, and I'll try to have it done in a day or two.

[Jade28]

Thank you K-chan!!! :lovestruc I took my ideas from various shows, movies, and games that I like so some of it may sound familiar. I had the hardest time with the last one but I think I did okay. I can send it to you in an E-mail if you give me your address. It is in a word document with a table at the end. If I were to attach it here the table wouldn't show up right and I don't know how to put it in PDF form. I tried to E-mail to your modthesims2 E-mail account but you have it switched to recieve no messages or something.

[robstainsbury]

Fantastic guide, right up until the last few lines! Then, it seems a little rushed. I'm ok right up until this bit:

"If on your list level 5 chance card option A good was a bonus of $50 then type 50 in 0x1 dec box and then if level 4 chance card option A good was a bonus of $500 then type 500 into 0x5 dec box and so on"

Er...what? I've been through this entire thread and found that three other people have asked the exact same question, and none of them have been answered. I know Emma and Superfly have not posted here in a year, but does anyone know how you assign rewards and punishments to the chance card choices? I've spent hours writing out all the choices you have to make and the scenarios and I've decided which ones give you money as a reward, which ones give you skill points etc etc etc, but how do I input that into the game? At the moment my chance cards are fun to read but don't effect the sim whether you get a good or a bad. Please could one of you intelligent people talk this poor fool through the proceedure? Many thanks! :-D

[K-chan]

Jade28 - it's [email protected] Scary perhaps, but at least it's original.

Robstainsbury: Let's try an example.

In the behaviour constant file tree, scroll down to the Tuning - Chance ones, about a third of the way down.

Now, say that for chance card 1, the good A result gives $100, while the bad gives -1 logic, and the good B gives 1 creativity while the bad gives -$100.

Go down to Tuning - Chance - A - Good - Money. Select row 0x1, and in the Dec box type in 100.

Go to Tuning - Chance - A - Bad - Skill - Logic, select row 0x1, and type -100 in the Dec box. Remember that for skill points, 100 = 1 point.

Go to Tuning - Chance - B - Good - Skill - Creativity, select row 0x1 and type 100 in the Dec box.

Go to Tuning - Chance - B - Bad - Money, select row 0x1 and type -100 in the Dec box.

Repeat for each job level, increasing the row as you go along.

If that still doesn't make sense, I'll try to find another way of saying it.

[Jade28]

robstainsbury: "If on your list level 5 chance card option A good was a bonus of $50 then type 50 in 0x1 dec box and then if level 4 chance card option A good was a bonus of $500 then type 500 into 0x5 dec box and so on"

Okay I think I understand this but I'm not sure. I think for every 0 in the money amount you put that value in the 0xwhatever box. For example if the sim gets a bouns of $25000 you would put it in as 25 0x3. the three represents the number of zeros in the cash amount. I hope this helps. :)

[chrispy101]

I followed the tutorial up to the point where you have entered all the descriptions and chance cards into SimPe. The tutorial says to check the game to see if the career works. I used insimenator's career adjuster and it wasn't on there. I also tested the chance cards and they didn't work either. I did create a GUID for the career. Basically, I followed exactly by the tutorial, but it doesn't work in my game. Can someone help me?

[K-chan]

Chrispy - did you put a copy of the career into your downloads folder before checking? I don't think it actually says that you need to do that on the tutorial, but you do.

Oh, and Jade, I am working on your career, it's just taking a little longer than expected.

[Jade28]

Okay K-Chan :cool: BTW I don't remember if I wrote it in my word douctment but I wanted to have the phone that is used to contact the grim reaper as the end of career prize if that's okay. :anime:

[K-chan]

Okay, added in. It's on it's way to your inbox with a few comments.

[woodchip50]

After weeks of scouring the forums for an answer, realising that no one had figured one out, and putting various clues together, I have come up with the answer
...
and includes a list of the GUIDs for Maxis stuff - this should fix all the problems.

thanks! this has helped loads

next question. when attaching maxis clothing to a career, i assume i use the formula proposed by Venganza in (page 2) for attaching cars but i need the GUID's of all the clothes, specifically those hidden in the cas bin.
if i use boolprop testingCheatsEnabled true + Shift N you get the hidden clothes and when hovering the mouse over the clothing icon it comes up with loads of info, are the GUID's in here? its not labelled very clearly so im not sure but the 0x00 - format is incorperated in with this data. If someone could tell me how to locate GUID's for clothing it would be greatly appreciated.

and if this has already been posted somewhere i havn't looked then a link would be just as brilliant!

thanks woodchip50

[K-chan]

I've been searching for a list of clothing GUIDs for a while... haven't come up with anything yet. I'll let you know when I do, or if I figure out how to get them in-game.

[hipy1]

i downloaded the template on the first page but when i open it in simpe it is a blank folder what should i do i am new to career making and i could realy do with a template does anyone have a working template?

[Simaboder]

I've been following this tutorial and have read it many times and so far I haven't had any problems. I'm quite proud of myself actually that I'm making custom content. I've noticed that everyone is extremely helpful and friendly so just brace yourselves folks because I'm sure I'll have questions. I'm hoping that the boxes that pop up with your chance cards "grow" with the amount of text in them because I enjoy creative writing and my chance cards are quite long winded. :)

If anyone does figure out how to use the hidden clothing files, it would be appreciated if a chart were to be made with the codes needed to access them. I've found them in the CAS screen by cheating so I might just peck away at all the different combinations until I find the ones that work. If I do this, I'll definately post them up here for everyone. Isn't that what this is about? Creating and sharing.

I'd like to thank K-Chan for all of the help being offered to us. You really know your stuff. I know, I know, this really isn't a "help me" type of post but sometimes a simple thank you and a "I'm using this with success and I'm having fun!" type of post is a welcome sight. Take care everybody!

Ron, aka Simaboder

[maemorn]

I have found this tutorial very interesting but just have one question...

When inputting skill requirements for job levels, does typing 100 (1 skill point) mean that a sim needs one of these points to reach the next job level, or one more skill point?

[K-chan]

Hipy1 - don't use this template as it has custom stuff which then makes the game go spazzy if you don't have it. http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=49038 - there are downloadable templates at the bottom, all taken from Maxis careers. Just go to Superfly's tutorial http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=147886 and change the career's GUID so it doesn't overwrite any others.

Simaboder - Aaaw, it's nice to be appreciated. And I've been studying programming, so this sort of thing is my forte.

Maemorn - You put the number for the skill level that they need. So if they need to have body level seven, in the box type 700. Does that answer your question?

[maemorn]

Yes it does =)

Thanks k-chan.

[K-chan]

No problem.

And it just occurred to me to ask the GUID question over at SexySims2, as they have a 'where can I find...' forum. If I get an answer I'll pass it on.


Edit: Someone nice gave a list of the uniforms GUIDs, thought I'd pass on the link if anyone needs it. http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=1933768#post1933768

[pinksalamander]

This is such a good tutorial, but i have a problem.. i'm a little confused.

When i type in a job level, do i type in the level it will go to, or how much the level will go up? That sounds confusing, so, I want to make one of my chance cards in level 5 get them promoted to level 6. Do i write in the box on level 5, '1' (because ithey are going up 1 level) or '6' (because that is the job level they will be at). You included the bit about skill points but not job levels so maybe you should add this to the tutorial!

Thanks!

[K-chan]

If they gain a job level you type in 1, and if they're losing a job level, type in -1. Took me a while to find the answer to that too.


Edit: I have some leads with the clothing GUIDs... apparently the binned clothes don't have a GUID as such. They need to be packaged/cloned/extracted/something else first. Once I've got it all sorted, I'll post instructions on how to do it.

[pinksalamander]

Brill, thanks. This tutorial is so good! I prefer makign a career because although it takes longer than recolouring, recolouring can get a bit boring when i don't have any inspiration etc and you can just make a nice outfit. Whereas here i can combine loads of fun stuff with maybe a few uniforms etc. Wish me luck... this has taken me ages!

Plus my keyboard broke so i've been itching to do this for a while now!

[K-chan]

*laughs* Yeah, careers take a long time... but if you can get them working, then it's worth it. Good luck!

[floralulu1313]

I would like to work on recoloring some "uniforms" to go with this career and modifying a career award item, but.... before I do I would like to know if I am going to be able to make this happen.

I have spent all day downloading SIMPE and 7-Zip file manager and a Base Career file.rar. I created e 10 job titles, wages, days worked, promotions and the chance cards.

Now I am unable to make SIMPE do what it is supposed to do. I can follow the tutorial for a while but it seems maybe the version of SIMPE I have is newer than the tutorial???

Some times I get a memory error, but my computer has a "shipload" of memory available.

So now that my story is there, the question is, would some one look at my career, tell me if it is ok and then give me some tips on why SIMPE and I are not getting along.

I have been at this all day, so perhaps a little sleep and the instructions will be more clear?

[Echo]

You'll need to post your package before anyone has a look at it, but a memory error is pretty serious, you shouldn't be getting one for something as simple as a career. Which part of the tutorial is failing for you?

[K-chan]

One question, Floralulu: what's a '7-Zip file manager'? And why do you need it?

If you post the package here I'll take a look at it for you.

[floralulu1313]

Echo- the memory error occurs when I try to open the career template (.rar) file using SIMPE
The tutorial instructs me to view the data using different tabs that do not appear in my version of SIMPE. The screen shots do not appear to be the same as what I can see.

K-chan I was unable to open the career template file, so after reading more I learned I needed a program to open/manage files with the extension .rar, 7-zip was recommended. From this site ModtheSims2 I followed a link to http://sims.ambertation.de/ then to sourceforge.net I have done a lot of reading but not yet produced a career other than in the word processing stage- from what I have read in the posting guidelines, my career is not ready to package and post.

[floralulu1313]

Echo- in addition once I installed the 7-zip program I was able top locate the career template using 7-zip then choose to open it by directing 7-zip to "open outside" and use SIMPE to open this file. I did not receive a memory error when I opened the .rar files using this method.