All it takes is opening the LiveCamera.txt file in your Documents>Cameras folder with a text editor and changing these two parameters near the bottom to a higher value. Doesn’t matter if you're using a custom camera mod or not. Those parameters should be there. I have set mine like this (remember to save a backup just in case you don't like these changes).

It might seem a bit extreme, but I still think it’s fine.

-The top parameter, floorheightsamplerange, handles how much the floors “extend out”, so the camera object can stand on it mid-air. The higher it is, the further the floor will extend. This will make it so your camera will be able to stick to the floor you’re on, even if you pan away from the building. No more annoying jumps up and down!

-The parameter below that, floorheightsampleinnerrange, handles the transition between sticking to the current floor and dropping to the ground level once it goes past the edge. The higher it is, the smoothest the fall will be.

I’ll note though that the behaviour of these parameters might not be 100% accurate with how the game actually works, but from what I tested I think it’s pretty close as an explanation. If someone knows better how this Live Camera works, please let me know and I’ll try my best to correct any inaccuracies.

Save the .txt file and check how it works in game. It might feel weird at first, but personally I find it so much smoother and easier to handle. If you’re not happy with these values, close the game and edit those parameters until you find your sweet spot. Unfortunately, you will have to close and open the game every time you change it to check how it works.

There’s so many cool Custom Camera mods out there that I thought it’s probably better to just show how to edit those 2 parameters than editing and reuploading all of them.

The biggest update is that the Café Lot Marker will now scan customers regularly and check if they're drinking coffee or eating food and if so, build customer loyalty if your café is a sim-owned business. This should make it much easier and faster to build your business rank up

(HINT: make sure you have THIS MOD to stop customers being absolutely ridiculous over plates being left on a table for 5 seconds before they get cleaned up, my goodness!)

The lot marker also now comes with some beautiful recolours by the very talented @kashmiresims:

Which are honestly SO GOOD, she knocked those out of the park!

I also did recolours of the lot marker frame in Annas colours and iCad's woods (Lazy swatch pics):

Because we love recolours 😍

Another large update has been made to the café displays, which can now be used also as regular OFB style displays much more successfully. Thanks to Aysarth (MTS creator) for the inspiration to do that.

Contents can now be toggled all for sale / not for sale using the sale tool:

And should hopefully be sold from and restocked with no major issues.

I also fixed a routing issue for group meals that were placed on the top shelf in one of the two-tile, 3 tier displays (Veranka's or Jinxx's for example) which sims couldn't grab. A single plate sure, but a group serving? Forget about it. #SillySims.

This involved tweaking another semiglobal BHAV (0x201C Eat - Grab a Plate) and thanks to @joplayingthesims we found a conflict with SimWardrobe's "No Free Lunch" mod, which solves a bug that I had no idea existed wherein on a community lot, sims could keep taking food from an empty group serving plate! lol. So that fix has been bundled into my mod, if you have SW's "No Free Food" mod you can delete it and just use the Cafe Mod files.

BETA testing also found a conflict with Midge's Cake Stand, so there is a comp patch included for that too.

There is now a new fix for Lamare / MogH's "Auto Put Away Leftovers" mod which stops sims from putting away food in a display case. Thanks to @lordcrumps for that shout! There are two versions included as per Lamare's original edits, check her post for more details.

All other existing comp patches have been updated and are included.

With all comp patches, these are only required if you have the original mods, and need to be loaded LAST, after both the original mod and my Cafe mod files.

Inside the Zip you will see:

Make sure you have the required globals or the mod will not work. The "Displays_Replacement version" are Veranka's 3t2 Bakery Display and JinxxSims's 4t2 Display with the same GUID as their original conversion, so will overwrite their file. If you'd like to use both their original conversion and my tweaked and modded version, choose the files within "Displays_StandaloneRepoVersion".

I've also included an updated standalone Simple Counter Decra Chill, created by the wonderful @morepopcorn. For that counter to not flash blue, you must have Poppy's original Simple Counter and BB's Nooks and Niches main file. See her post for more details.

In "CustomFoods_AddThese" you will find the resources required to update any CC foods in your game to work with the Café mod, and I updated the instructions from a notepad document to a shiny PDF with pictures included. Remember that any CC foods will not automatically work in a Café setting without being updated.

Otherwise, code has generally been tweaked a tidied up, but is more or less the same as before!

Let me know of any other conflicts that need solving, bugs, issues or problems, otherwise send me pics of your cafes!

Love, Tea xo