lazarusinashes

No Constant Phone

Added 2022-07-29 16:29:15 +0000 UTC

I swore I would mod out the constant phone use the second I saw it on the livestream. Here it is! No Constant Phone disables phone use when routing, chatting, and watching. In other words, it prevents Sims from using their phone when doing the following actions:

Walking, running, anything like that
Chatting with Sims
Watching TV, movies, and the like

Technical Stuff

It modifies three types of tuning files: an Animation State Machine file, a buff, and an interaction. The Animation State Machine file is a locomotion overlay that gives Sims the pictured "overlay," or supplemental animation, to use their phone during movement. I have disabled this. It modifies two buffs: UsePhone and UsePhone_PCOnly, which respectively allows Sims to use their phone, one for NPCs and one for Active Sims. I've added tests that prevents this buff from being added to all Sims. Lastly, I disabled the interaction Idle_Chatting_ListenWithPhone. I have left the default Idle_Chat interaction unaltered, since Have Some Personality Please! modifies that.

Sims can still use their phones without any issue if you directly choose a phone interaction—the phone animations themselves have been left unaltered. This mod just prevents them from using it all the time.

Edit: added another flavor, NoConstantPhone_AutonomousInteractions, that disables two autonomous actions: Browse Web and Play Game. If you already have a "no autonomous phone" mod, that flavor is not necessary. Only download one flavor!