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0BretttterB0

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#26

12th May 2018 at 10:51 PM

Quick question- how does the Orphan Display Cot work? I can't seem to find any explanation... but it sounds intriguing!

Goldenbtrfly

Top Secret Researcher

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#27

21st May 2018 at 5:50 PM

Quote: Originally posted by 0BretttterB0

Quick question- how does the Orphan Display Cot work? I can't seem to find any explanation... but it sounds intriguing!

@0BretttterB0
It's a bit of info to read, so behind a spoiler for now:

Description:
Orphan Display Cot (For Adoption Centres)
Apartment Life EP or Higher required

This is a mish-mash of a pet display case and the basegame cot, intended to enable make a working orphanage community lot where sims can go and adopt a child.

It will not function at a liveable lot or if the lot has an owned business, it's for adopting not selling kids.
The adoption option is only available to adults that live in a real family that is not already 'Full of Sims'.

Each cot will try to get a baby or toddler from the default orphan family and if there is none then it will create a toddler which will be placed into the orphan family. They will bring a nanny NPC onto the lot so there will always be an adult on the lot capable of looking after the orphans, only one cot will do that regardless of how many you have on the lot.

It does not however address the fact that babies and toddlers can't travel so when your sim leaves the lot the new addition is left behind. If the adopted orphan is a baby then your sim can hand her/him to the nanny who will walk the child off the lot, otherwise it may look better to put the kid back into the cot before leaving. When your sim arrives home the new addition will be near the letter box (for the neighbourhood dogs to wizz on), that's default game behaviour and there's nothing this can do about that.

This comes in four colours, the default colour shown below is so you can easily distinguish it from the default cot in the catalogue. The default pink, blue and lemon colours are also available. Even though I could have used the default basegame mesh I've chosen to give it it's own mesh because the UV mapping on the frame of the default mesh is so completely messed up most simmers would have a default replacement which may cause a problem.

This can be found in the miscellaneous / miscellaneous part of the catalogue, only in the community buy/build mode.

Note: If you have T&A or A&N do not try to use this at a child care centre, it's not available in the catalogue there anyway. Unlike other non-liveable lots toddlers are never removed from childcare centres when they load so your new family addition would remain in the child care centre next time it loads.

Sunrader

Alchemist

THANKS POST

#28

17th Dec 2018 at 11:52 PM

I love the style of this and your travel agency and Jane's Gym. This one has a lot of what I would love to see in a small neighborhood clinic. The layout is great for it and the reception and lounge areas and offices are perfect. Have you ever thought of doing a small clinic? Hint. Hint.

Goldenbtrfly

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#29

15th Jan 2019 at 3:08 PM

@Sunrader - I'm so glad you like some of my creations! Thank you for the comment and build suggestion! I'm just now coming back from a bit of a forced Sims leave, but yes - I sure have thought about it! I'll add it to the VERY short list of things to work on as I do have fun working on community lots.

Sunrader

Alchemist

#30

15th Jan 2019 at 3:18 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Goldenbtrfly

@Sunrader - I'm so glad you like some of my creations! Thank you for the comment and build suggestion! I'm just now coming back from a bit of a forced Sims leave, but yes - I sure have thought about it! I'll add it to the VERY short list of things to work on as I do have fun working on community lots.

Oooooo, I'll watch for it. That'll be awesome!

grannyof13

Test Subject

THANKS POST

#31

27th Jul 2019 at 4:10 PM

Wow I have played sims 2 since the beginning and almost everyday and did not know TwoJeffs had this crib. What a great lot for all my communities. Thank you.

Goldenbtrfly

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#32

29th Mar 2020 at 1:42 PM

Quote: Originally posted by grannyof13

Wow I have played sims 2 since the beginning and almost everyday and did not know TwoJeffs had this crib. What a great lot for all my communities. Thank you.

@grannyof13
I apologize for the super late reply, but I hope you're enjoying the lot and thank you for the comment!
Just a note, ChrisHatch is the creator of the crib, not TwoJeffs. (Although both are wonderful at what they do.) I just wanted to make sure the proper person gets the credit!

Sunrader

Alchemist

THANKS POST

#33

16th Jun 2020 at 11:22 PM

I finally got around to remaking this into a clinic. Most of it is just like you had it with minor tweaks. I individualized the clutter in the offices, put up no cut away walls on one restroom, then redid the back into the exam rooms using mostly JohnBrehaut's set. http://www.dee.email/OPEN/SimPics/clinic.jpg
Thanks, again, for a great lot!

Goldenbtrfly

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#34

20th Jun 2020 at 12:19 PM

@Sunrader - Oh, it's so cute!!!! You really did an amazing job transforming it into a clinic! A very good job indeed, and I am so glad the lot was useful for you in some way! That makes me happy.

Katnipify

Test Subject

#35

3rd Dec 2022 at 5:16 PM Last edited by Katnipify : 3rd Dec 2022 at 5:17 PM. Reason: spelling

For anyone having issues with getting the Orphan Display Cot to appear in game

For whatever reason neither the .package file in the CC version this download, or the one from smorbie1's archive would show up in the mod load screen or in game.
The CJH_OrphanDisplayCot.package showed up red in Clean Installer from the sim2pack so idk if that means there's corruption in that download, but if so that doesn't explain why smorbie1's archive didn't work, so this all might just be an issue with my set up

After a 2~3 hour long frey into long dead sites, old form posts, weird russian 18+ sims mod sites, broken wayback links, tumblr blogs and what ever I could find, Looking for anything that could lead me to alternate Chris Hatch downloads...

I found it...

Hidden in a mess of dozens of rapidly opened links, hidden in a jungle of 404's and those expired domain host's ads.

I don't even know what site finally led me to it, but here we go-

digitalangels' Chris Hatch (Family Friendly) archive:
https://simfileshare.net/folder/88185/

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