Tutorials Talk:Populating CAW Worlds

Research

Town spawner

Anything new you discover, bring it here and we can look into it a bit further. I think the outstanding object for research is the potential for making homeless Sims and NPC households with the Townie Spawner debugging object. I've noticed it's possible to make families into homeless Sims with this object, but it demands a "valid family string" of some sort. This sounds easy enough to learn for the community, but too technical for me to learn myself. What would this string be?

In practice, without one of these strings entered, homeless families seem to work like any other townies, coming and going from town as they please. However, I don't think it's worth the risk until I know what it is that I don't know.

(Kiwi tea 12:05, 23 June 2010 (CDT))

Skill-made objects

It looks a lot like these don't corrupt if you make them in CAW and keep them inside a Sim's personal inventory. Hanging them on walls makes them blank, but they retain their picture if saved in the inventory.