Sims 2 fun

Firstly, I must point out that this project nearly destroyed what little sanity I have left. So, I really hope someone enjoys this 😂

It is essentially a combination of Marhi's Hacked Wedding Arch, the PC-Sims "wedding arch with priest", and also has an "announce betrothal" feature that we stole from @equinoxts2's wonderful 2019 Daisy Chain GOS gift.

We started with the PC-Sims arch as a base, which was recently re-meshed by @yoursingrey, and the book the priest holds was also re-textured (same post).

The first major fix is that this arch is now actually recognised as a wedding arch by the game. It may have been the last thing we figured out, (this thing was acting SO STRANGELY the whole time and we finally realised why.... smh), but thats a pretty important fix. So, good job us. The second major change is that to qualify as a "priest" who is able to marry sims, the sim has to have the "clergy" trait in their inventory (by @Cedanyblee).

If there is a priest on the lot, the sim has the option to "be wed by priest". This will cause the priest to officiate the ceremony.

The "Get Married" interaction will generally always be available.

If the sim is engaged, they can "marry" their fiance, or have an arranged marriage to anyone on the lot who is eligible.

The difference is in the social that the sims will use to complete the wedding:

If Cyd selects "marry Christie" (who he is engaged to), this will use the regular Maxis "get married" social.

If Cyd selects "marry / arranged / Christie Stratton" he is still going to marry the same sim, but this time it will be a hacked wedding social that we ripped from Marhi's hacked wedding arch, which is always* going to succeed.

*more below.

If the sim is not engaged, they have the option to "announce betrothal":

This is functionally the same as the hacked / arranged marriage, but is a hacked engagement social which will also always* succeed.

I did edit Veetie's social who we stole this from, changing the animations and functionality to be the same as the regular engagement social - so sims will now get down on one knee and propose instead of using the wedding animations.

For a sim to appear in the "announce betrothal" list, they must: - Not be engaged to anyone* - Not be a blood relative of your sim** - Be aged child or older - Not be a universal NPC.

*We put in a "death check" for simmers who use post-mortem rel flags, so that if your sim was engaged and their fiance died, they may re-marry.

**When considering blood relatives, we decided to keep things historically accurate in that cousins can marry, along with being able to marry an aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or step-family. We realise this is possibly off-putting for some players but in terms of historical accuracy, we decided to go with it. Similarly, we included children for betrothals because although rare, it could happen. Note that child animations cause floating.

For a sim to appear in the "Marry" list, they must: - Be either single or engaged - Not be a blood relative of your sim (same conditions apply) - Be aged teen or older - Not be a universal NPC.

The marriage social also includes a last name chooser dialogue, which is nice.

Optional flavour: random rejections.

We all who were making this arch use and love the "random rejections plus traits" mod by GonerilCapp (blog now gone), so we have included an optional version of the hacked socials that will usually succeed, but have the random rejections code built in (and tuneable!)

You must therefore choose ONLY ONE of each.

This is the contents of the .zip folder. You must select either the "regular" flavour or "randomrejections" flavour of each of the socials:

Rejection chances are tuneable, as they were in the original mod. Simply open the file in simPE, go to BCONs, select Tuning - Random Reject, and enter the chances you prefer. We tuned Romance Sims and Comittment Issues sims to have a 50/50 chance of rejecting by default.

Optional: Petal Default by YoursInGrey

This is an optional file that default replaces the rose petals that fall from the arch during a wedding if you play without cutscenes on, changing them from pink to red:

YoursInGrey also did some lovely recolours of the arch which are included in the download:

Finally, we re-did the catalogue description and all text strings. English and German strings are currently available and we welcome more translators to add more languages.

We deleted all of the original text string translations from the marriage interactions because we didn't like the low-key homophobic "join union" nonsense. All sims get married in our games.

Finally, I have also included instructions on how to clone this arch and make more of them, because I low key now want ALL of my wedding arches to function like this. It is unfortunately not as simple as just cloning and replacing the mesh & textures, because the BHAVs reference specific "parts" (GUIDs) of the mesh. See the included .txt file for more info.

With all that said (phew!), you can

Download Here!

Credits & Thanks:

Mrs. Crumplebottom replacement- switched the hair (hairhatcrumplebottom) from the tight curls to Trapping’s 3t2 conversion of the Generations Elder hair with fixed mesh by @rented-space. It's big, its fussy! thought it looked nice with the wafuku, too. the kimono I used to replace efbodycrumplebottom is my Chrysanthemum houmongi in oyster. I didn't make new makeup or handbag/knitting accessories, but included my old ones in case you wanted them, so you'd not have to download my old packages for convenience's sake. There's other good versions of these too though, and you can just not use them as the maxis ones look good with the outfit also! Important- I've made 2 versions. One with everything included, and one with NO OUTFIT MESH included just in case you also use my efbodydresslongformal replacement, so you don't have a duplicate to save space. Note- the knitting animation clips with the sleeves, but it also clips with the bag anyway so it doesn't bother me much aha.

Download Mrs. Crumplebottom

Download Mrs. Crumplebottom without the body mesh

I like to think of my matchmaker as a slightly eccentric and superstitious modern-day nakodo, if anything aha. In the end, I wasn't able to fix the way my old matchmaker hair defaults displayed the AF colours, and I kinda gave up on that. Instead I've modified @rudhira's default using the established tight wave hair that I was originally using for Crumplebottom's hair, but changed over the colours so they're Pooklet's (dynamite, depth charge, volatile, pyrotechnic and pipe bomb), instead of IO's colours. The matchmaker outfit is swapped with my summer grass tsukesage in ocean. Again I've included my old makeup default for convenience, but it's not required! I've also got a version of this with NO OUTFIT MESH included, in case you want to use it in conjuntion with Mrs. Crumplebottom or my efbodydresslongformal replacement, or any combination of these three I suppose.

Download Matchmaker

Updates:

Go Out With Cars now has "hour options" similar to selecting a sim:

2. The notification telling you what time a sim will be back now stays open until the sim returns and then automatically closes, if you haven't closed it yet.

3. I went over ALL of the compatibility versions and patches, re-assessed, combined, updated, and made sure I had everything covered.

4. I completely re-did the downloads section and instructions so it is hopefully WAY easier to understand. 5. I updated the SimFileShare archive to match the MTS downloads. This will break some of the old download links for this mod (sorry). But this is better, I promise. You can access the folder HERE.

That's all 😊🫖