I found it weird that Father Winters show up at your sims house at 20:00/8PM and then you have to ask him for a present in order to fulfil the holiday goal.
I have sorta always assumed he would come at midnight while people slept, and that your sims had a better reaction to actually seeing him.
So I went ahead and changed it.
Now he arrives at 23:00/11PM, you just have to "Watch" him to complete the tradition about him and your sims now gets moodlets depending on their age.
What does this mod do?
- Changes the time from 20:00/8PM to 3:00/11PM (left a version where that remains unchanged) I originally wanted him to arrive at midnight, but I noticed he was taking his sweet time getting to your sims house if you didn't have a chimney (EA's doing, not the mod) and since the holiday ends at 2AM I wanted to make sure people had time enough.
- New Interaction on Father Winter called "Watch" your sims does not need to be introduced to him first (Added a little party hat icon, see picture below, so you can find it easily) Watching him will fulfil the holiday goal.
- Added moodlets to your sims depending on their age and whenever you have Lumpinou's Mood Pack installed. (Babies and infant are excluded).
Do NOT cancel "Watch" else the moodlets won't apply.I adjusted the time it takes to "Watch" Father Winter to compensate.
Check out the picture section if you want to see some of the moddlets.
Versions: PICK ONLY ONE!
BetterFatherWinter:
Uses none modded moddlets.
Requires Season.
BetterFatherWinterMoodPack
Uses Lumpinou's Mood pack, which you can download here The Mood Pack Mod v1.4
Follow Lumpinou's installation guide on how to install the Mood Pack.
Requires Season.
BetterFatherWinterNoTimeChange:
Same as it's counterpart except I left the time Father Winter arrives to default (20:00/8PM)
Requires Season.
BetterFatherWinterMoodPackNoTimeChange:
Same as it's counterpart except I left the time Father Winter arrives to default (20:00/8PM)
This one requires Lumpinou's Mood pack.
Requires Season.
Conflicts:
Mod will conflict with any mod that alters the following tunings:
0E4D15FB!0000001A!000000000002C4D4.roleState_HolidayTradition_FatherWinter_Arrival.RoleStateTuning
0E4D15FB!0000001A!000000000002C50B.roleState_HolidayTradition_FatherWinter_HangOut.RoleStateTuning
0E4D15FB!0000001A!000000000002C53F.roleState_HolidayTradition_FatherWinter_AddPresent.RoleStateTuning
3FCD2486!0000001A!000000000002C769.holidayTradition_TalkToFatherWinter.HolidayTraditionTuning
598F28E7!0000001A!000000000002C660.HolidayTraditionGoal_TalkToFatherWinter.SituationGoalTuning
Credit:
As usually a bunch of wonderful people to thanks.
MizoreYukii.
Adeepindigo.
Lot51.
LeRoiDeTout.
Lumpinou - Mood Pack.