BO - Step-Family Romance

This mod didn't work for me at all (the alternate version). I imagine I'm having some sort of conflict with something else.....but I have no idea what and I can't get conflict detection to load with Ultimate Collection. Does anyone know off the bat what this might conflict with? I have no other mods like this. I'm going to try to making this load first.

Okay, here's an update. I got the hack detection utility to work, and it turns out it conflicts with the newer hack, "In Laws Fix" by Kestrellyn (available at MTS2). Damn! It's too bad I can't have both together, but I guess I'll try yours over hers.

Hi @child_of_air,

Actually, I don't see why one would want both, because just from the name alone, I would imagine the "In-laws fix" should be doing mostly the same thing as my mod.

And if it's not mostly the same, then I can imagine that they MUST conflict, seeing as they would both involve themselves with the non-blood-related portion of a sim's family. It would probably be almost impossible to combine these features.

**EDIT** OK, normally I don't do that if you don't give a link, but I've checked out Kestrellyn's page. She actually says at the bottom of his page that his mod would conflict with other In-law or Step-family related mods, especially those that edit the BHAV 0x0366. And you know what? That is indeed the only BHAV that I mod as well. So it's really her mod or mine, no other options. I'm happy you chose mine, but you must feel totally free to give hers a try as well. Because Kestrellyn is really a good person who knows her business.

Hi, BO, I think I know what this person wants. Our mods actually do different things entirely, mine does not affect step-family relationships, but fixes a Maxis bug in the part of the function that determines in-law relationships. That bug is still present in your mod - they want your mod, but with the bug fixed. (There is also a minor issue where it looks like you just left in the checks for step-siblings and changed the return value to false, but what you should have done was to just remove those blocks entirely - as written, step-siblings can never be considered in-laws, even if they are married to each other's blood relatives, because those checks come after the step-sibling check.) Anyway, I could release a "fixed version of BO's step-family romance mod" but this seems impolite since you are still active in the community. Fixing the bug is simple - as-is, the function checks if Param 0 is married, and if so, if Param 1 is related to Param 0's spouse. It just needs a symmetrical block where it checks if Param 1 is married, and then if Param 0 is related to Param 1's spouse.

However, and this might change your ideas about how to implement this mod entirely, it is actually possible to have step-family, step-siblings, or in-laws have family interactions like "Family Kiss" and "Encourage" available, but also have romantic interactions available, since the game uses different checks for those two things. My recollection from when I messed around with this is that the family interactions call 0x240. 0x2D5, and 0x1168 in 0x7F739728, which the romantic interactions call 0x2B8, 0x3FB, and 0x101C and 0x1034 in 0x7F739728, but you might want to experiment. (Certainly, there aren't any functions other than the ones listed here that control either family or romantic interactions, though.) If you modify these, your mod will conflict with my extended family mod, however, it should be simple for either of us to make a compatible version of our respective mods.