BO - Multi-key Dorm-Doors
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Quite a while back, TwoFtMama asked me if my BO - Remote Dorm-Doors worked with cathair2005's Myne door allows multiple sims. It does!
But while I was examining cathair's mod, I found that I don't really agree with their method. A sim should not be able to help themselves to the key of someone else's room! If your neighbor helped themselves to a key of your house, you'd call them a burglar and notify the police, if you don't shoot that neighbor yourself!
So, here's *my* implementation: BO - Multi-key Dorm-Doors. This mod also works just peachy with my BO - Remote Dorm-Doors, but - of course - NOT with cathair's mod.
How my mod works:
A bonus to my method is, that when you remove a key from a sim, they don't immediately lose ALL their dorm-door keys, but only the key that you took back! Cathair's mod uses the Maxis routine for removing keys, which isn't this courteous: it removes ALL keys at once, thereby effectively evicting the sim from whatever dorm they may have their room in!
Also, Cathair's mod wasn't really a mod. It's a complete replacement cloned from the original door! That's wasting a lot of space needlessly. Evidence: cathair's mod is 236kB in size, which is over 100 times as big as my take on it
Drawback: currently, my mod is English-only, and it will even force this language choice upon the default dorm-door options. If you play your game in a different language, please supply me with the correct translation for the following two menu options, and I'll update the mod to include your language! The menu options to be translated are:
UPDATE, June 11th, 2012: Added Swedish (thank you, NixNivis) and Dutch languages to the menu options.
UPDATE, June 19th, 2015: Added German translation, courtesy of bellaSquared.
UPDATE, March 15th, 2016: Added French translation, courtesy of Essa.
Of course, for this mod to do anything at all, you NEED to have UNI installed.
So this is especially for TwoFtMama, although everyone else may dl and use it too, of course
Enjoy!
But while I was examining cathair's mod, I found that I don't really agree with their method. A sim should not be able to help themselves to the key of someone else's room! If your neighbor helped themselves to a key of your house, you'd call them a burglar and notify the police, if you don't shoot that neighbor yourself!
So, here's *my* implementation: BO - Multi-key Dorm-Doors. This mod also works just peachy with my BO - Remote Dorm-Doors, but - of course - NOT with cathair's mod.
How my mod works:
- To give a sim a key, click on the outside of the door you want them to have a key of, and select "Keys.../Give key to.../<sim's name>"
- To take back a key, click on the outside of the door you want to remove the key to, and select "Keys.../Take key from.../<sim's name>"
- Only sims in the active family can give away keys or take them back. So a dormie made selectable, can NOT give other sims a key to their room!
- Sims can ONLY give/take keys to rooms that they themselves have access to.
- Sims can NOT remove any keys from themselves. This is to prevent you from accidentally evicting a sim by removing their key to their own room. That's what the 'Unclaim' interaction was meant for!
A bonus to my method is, that when you remove a key from a sim, they don't immediately lose ALL their dorm-door keys, but only the key that you took back! Cathair's mod uses the Maxis routine for removing keys, which isn't this courteous: it removes ALL keys at once, thereby effectively evicting the sim from whatever dorm they may have their room in!
Also, Cathair's mod wasn't really a mod. It's a complete replacement cloned from the original door! That's wasting a lot of space needlessly. Evidence: cathair's mod is 236kB in size, which is over 100 times as big as my take on it
Drawback: currently, my mod is English-only, and it will even force this language choice upon the default dorm-door options. If you play your game in a different language, please supply me with the correct translation for the following two menu options, and I'll update the mod to include your language! The menu options to be translated are:
- "Keys.../Give key to..."
- "Keys.../Take key from..."
UPDATE, June 11th, 2012: Added Swedish (thank you, NixNivis) and Dutch languages to the menu options.
UPDATE, June 19th, 2015: Added German translation, courtesy of bellaSquared.
UPDATE, March 15th, 2016: Added French translation, courtesy of Essa.
Of course, for this mod to do anything at all, you NEED to have UNI installed.
So this is especially for TwoFtMama, although everyone else may dl and use it too, of course
Enjoy!
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Comments
#13
18-06-2015
@bellaSquared, thank you for both the praise and the German translation. I've added it 
I've found it useful for another reason as well, though. Giving a key to the maid or the cleaning robot - if you have those - allows them to clean up in your locked room as well.
I've found it useful for another reason as well, though. Giving a key to the maid or the cleaning robot - if you have those - allows them to clean up in your locked room as well.
(This post was last modified: 19-06-2015 12:56 AM by BoilingOil.)
#14
25-06-2015
I have a question - is it possible to make shared rooms with this? Or does still everyone in the dorm need their own door to claim, and you can only give them access to your room by giving them a key?
#15
25-06-2015
Every dorm can only handle as many residents as there are dorm doors. So each person you move into the dorm *does* need a free door to claim. But for this purpose, I guess you could build a dummy wall with a number of claimable doors that lead nowhere. The sim that has claimed a REAL room, can then share it with one that claimed a FAKE room by giving them a key.
Just make sure to design the REAL rooms large enough to allow each resident and guest a place to sleep.
On the other hand, nothing is stopping you from adding two doors to each room, so two sims can each claim their own door into the same space. For THAT method, you don't even need my mod!
I have succesfully used both these methods.
Just make sure to design the REAL rooms large enough to allow each resident and guest a place to sleep.
On the other hand, nothing is stopping you from adding two doors to each room, so two sims can each claim their own door into the same space. For THAT method, you don't even need my mod!
I have succesfully used both these methods.
#16
31-01-2016
I tried you mod yesterday and I noticed two things:
My playable gave a key to her dormie boyfriend. He doesn't live on the dorm. When my playable wanted to ask him to leave, the option didn't show up. She had to take the key from him for him to go. Maybe I missed something about the way the mod works.
The mod doesn't work when the door is placed diagonally. It's not a big issue as I could move the door.
If you have time, here's a French translation:
Clefs.../Donner une clef à...
Clefs.../Prendre la clef à...
Thank you for all your great mods.
My playable gave a key to her dormie boyfriend. He doesn't live on the dorm. When my playable wanted to ask him to leave, the option didn't show up. She had to take the key from him for him to go. Maybe I missed something about the way the mod works.
The mod doesn't work when the door is placed diagonally. It's not a big issue as I could move the door.
If you have time, here's a French translation:
Clefs.../Donner une clef à...
Clefs.../Prendre la clef à...
Thank you for all your great mods.
