#nraas tutorial

Mods you will need:

NRAAS MasterController & MasterController Cheats

NRAAS Register (only for Part 2)

EDIT TO ADD: I recommend using a business mod such as Ani's Merchant Mod to allow your sim to earn money from their business in addition to this tutorial - you may find this much better for current-household gameplay, because your sim will not earn funds from their business when you're only using the NRAAS method detailed here (apart from mixology tips etc.)

Part 1: Adding sims as residents

Start by building / placing your business of choice using Edit Town, and pick what kind of community lot you want it to be through the 'change lot type' menu

Plop down the sims you want to live there on a different residential lot in town (this is temporary housing, it doesn't matter where / what it is)

For this tutorial, I'm going to be using The Adventurer's Guild dive bar as an example, & I want my two sims to live there: Marlon & Gil - Marlon will be tending the bar and Gil will just be living on the lot without any specific role

Your business doesn't have to be a bar, I'm just using that for the purposes of this tutorial - You can add residents to any community lot type, someone on the NRAAS forums even suggested adding 'homeless' sims as residents of community parks which would be fun for a rags-to-riches challenge! - other examples include: a bakery, personal training gym, savvy sellers shop, a nectary etc. etc.

Now everything is placed, you need to alter some settings over in the NRAAS MasterController main menu to set things up

Click on a computer or city hall to bring up the NRAAS MC Menu:

NRAAS -> MasterController -> Settings

'Allow Add Sim on Community Lots' is set to false by default, click on it -> change it to true

Click the checkmark & exit out of the NRAAS MC Menu

Go back to your community lot, click on the building and bring up:

NRAAS -> MasterController

At the top of this menu, there should now be an option to 'Add Sim' (as there usually only is on residential lots)

Click 'Add Sim' and then you can either filter by sim type OR just click 'Test Full Family' to find your sims on a list of all the townies - once you've found them, select their portraits and press the checkmark to exit the menu

I recommend resetting the sims & the lot once you've done this, your sims should now be residents of the community lot of your choice! You can keep them as the active household (although I haven't playtested this) or just have them as non-active families who are meant to own businesses around town

Part 2: Giving sims Functional Roles

I'd like to go one step further and have Marlon be the functional bartender for this lot, for this part you will need NRAAS Register (linked above)

There are two ways to do this:

1. If it is within working hours (for my dive that's 11AM - 3AM, you can check your lot's hours in map view), click on the bar object (or whatever role object you want, such as the industrial oven / cash register etc.) and choose

NRAAS -> Register -> Select

This will bring up the same sim selection menu as before, just choose your sim out of the list

They'll now be the functional bartender / role sim for that object!

However, this menu may not show up for various reasons, the main one being if it's not within working hours for the lot - there's another way to assign your sim if that is the case:

2. Go through the main NRAAS Register menu - click on City Hall or a computer to bring it up

NRAAS -> Register -> Find Empty Roles

As long as you haven't pressed play on the game since you placed your community lot, it will not have anyone assigned to the object yet, and it will show up under this menu as an empty role you can fill with your sim (through the sim selection menu again)

If the object does already have a sim assigned to it, you need to find whoever the sim is and remove them from that role:

I suggest just waiting until it is working hours & the sim shows up for work, then click on them & choose

NRAAS -> MasterController -> Intermediate -> Remove Role

You need MasterController cheats for this 'Intermediate' menu to show up!

This should then free up the object for you to add your sim to it through either of the previous methods - KEEP YOUR GAME PAUSED while you do this so no one else gets assigned to it before you're able to assign your own sim!

And that's everything!

Have fun with your functional residential businesses - as always if you have any further questions leave a comment or send me an ask and I will try and help 🥰🥰

Mods Needed:

NRAAS Retuner

NRAAS Overwatch - for saving these settings to be used in other saves!

I will also note that there is actually a mod here which alters pregnancy lengths

This NRAAS method is just preferable for me because I can individually adjust pregnancy lengths depending on which save I'm playing in - I also have a couple of other mods installed that would conflict with this one which is why I don't use it, but if you want a simpler way to alter pregnancies for your whole game, I would fully recommend just installing that!

Part 1: Retuner Settings

Open your save, and click on city hall OR a computer to bring up the NRAAS menu:

NRAAS -> Retuner -> Settings -> General -> By Tunable XML

Sims3.GameplayActorSystems -> Pregnancy

You will then be presented with the retuner menu that alters pregnancy settings, we're going to be editing the following ones:

kHoursOfPregnancy

This is the total hours of pregnancy from conception to birth, you will need this to match the rest of your settings, so best to work out this out once you've figured out the other bits - it needs to be the highest number out of the rest of the settings!

kHoursToShowFullyPregnant

This will alter at what hour your sim will show their fully-grown bump, the later you set this, the more gradually their bump will grow I like my sims to be fully pregnant only when they're just about to pop, so I this as appearing fairly late in the pregnancy

kHourToShowPregnantBuff

Essentially, this hour will be when the morning sickness stage finishes, and they 'discover' they are pregnant I prefer this to take more than a day as it feels realistic to me, in much longer lifespans you may want it to take a few more days!

kHourToStartContractions

This will be the hour that your sim goes into labour, the lower the number, the longer their labour-delivery time will be Make sure that this number is higher than the 'kHoursToShowFullyPregnant' setting, as you'll want your sim to be fully showing before they go into labour!

kHourToStartPregnantMotives

This setting alters how many hours it will take for your sim to start feeling cravings & morning sickness from the time of conception

kHourToStartWalkingPregnant

At what hour they start doing the 'pregnancy waddle' walk - I prefer this to be only after they've gotten to the final trimester for realism, and also just because the walk is a bit annoying so I prefer to deal with it for as short a timespan as I can! If you like, you can also just disable this walk altogether by setting it to the same number as 'kHoursOfPregnancy'

I worked out that the ideal pregnancy length for my age span is 4.5 days / 108 hours - if you want to just copy my settings they are as follows (these are also detailed on my nraas -> retuner settings page):

kHoursOfPregnancy-> 108

kHourToShowFullyPregnant > 73

kHourToShowPregnantBuff -> 30

kHourToStartContractions > 105

kHourToStartPregnantMotives > 18

kHourToStartWalkingPregnant > 80

Once you've finished editing your settings, just press the tick symbol in the bottom right of the NRAAS menu to save them for that town

If you have NRAAS Master Controller installed, I'd also recommend doing a total town reset to make sure nothing goes wonky with any sims who are currently pregnant in your town, as this will start working immediately to alter their pregnancies as well!

Part 2: Saving & Copying your settings to other saves / towns using Overwatch

Unfortunately, NRAAS retuner doesn't come with a built-in feature to save your settings accross multiple towns, but there is a way to use this if you use the additional NRAAS mod: Overwatch

I'd also really recommend overwatch regardless of this tutorial as it massively helps reduce save file bloating & lag!

Anyways, to do this part of the tutorial, you're going to go back to the main menu at city hall / on a computer, and choose 'Overwatch' from the menu

NRAAS -> Overwatch -> Immediate -> Export Settings -> Retuner

The 'Export Settings' menu may look different for you depending on which NRAAS mods you have installed

You will then be presented with a pop-up menu to save your settings, I recommend saving them with the mod name in the title just so it's easier for you to recognise, for example: 'Retuner 4.5 Day Pregnancy'

You can also save multiple different versions of the settings (such as with different pregnancy lengths / other retuner tweaks), each time you use 'Export' it's just going to export the current settings you have enabled for retuner at that moment in time

Now, next time you start a new save you can plop these settings in without having to alter them manually, to do this, bring up the retuner menu again when loading into your new save:

NRAAS -> Overwatch -> Immediate -> Import Settings -> Retuner -> Select your saved settings from the following menu

You may then get a pop-up telling you to restart the game, make sure you save first, then quit and reload it (if you get this pop-up) :)

Another total town reset after importing the settings would also be advisable!

That's it! If you have any follow-up questions lmk and I'll do my best to help

Credits:

SimSarahSarah Retuner settings page

UI Mods: Blackout UI + Dark Cloud UI + TS2 Font Replacement + TS4 Moodlet Icons

For anyone curious, anon is referring to my 'gameplay rules' page for this ask!

Important Note: Since I installed LazyDuchess's Random Sim Fixes this method isn't really an essential for me anymore, as pudding face is no longer an issue (which was my main reason for doing this in the first place) - however, making a note of an adopted sim's bio parents can still be quite a fun way to enhance your gameplay, as you can create storylines where they meet their bio parents later in life etc. So I do still prefer it over adopted sims just spawning in w. no previous family relations lol

To get started, you’re going to need Nraas Master Controller to follow this (here’s a tutorial for how to install mods if you’re new to TS3)

Adopt the new addition to the family as you normally would - this sim can be any age or gender

Once the adopted child arrives on your lot, click on them, bring up the NRAAS menu, then follow this string:

Nraas -> MasterController -> Advanced -> Play with Genetics

This is now going to bring up a big menu where you're selecting the parents for the sim - you can select from any sim in town by choosing '(Test Full Family)', however I like to use townies because they usually have no other relations - if you're selecting from the whole town I still recommend filtering by age using the 'Type of Sim (and)' menu detailed below:

You can choose one of the other options, or to only bring up a list of townies, choose:

Type of sim (and) -> 'Homeless Non Service'

This is going to bring up a huge list of townies, I literally just close my eyes and scroll my mouse around a bit to pick one 'randomly' but you could also use a random number generator or something similar if you wanted to!

You're then going to be brought to a little screen where it shows the two chosen parents & your adopted sim - just like if you were creating a child of two parents in CAS

Randomize the genetics however many times you wish to get the outcome you want

It's worth noting that altering the 'age' of the sim on this menu has no affect on them in-game, so if you want you can randomize the genetics w. the sim as a young adult to see what they're going to look like when they get older

When you're happy, press the 'tick' button to accept the changes

It might take a second in-game to load up the changes, but your adopted sim should now have the genetics of the two townies you'd chosen!

The only thing it won't change is the hair colour - so make sure you make a note of what the hair colour you want for them is and change it in CAS

I'd recommend making a note of the parents somewhere, so if you do want to incorporate them into your story at a later date you can do so