How to Make A Specific Pushable Statue Activate A Specific Switch

This post will show you ideas on how to reveal to the player which statue corresponds with which Floor Switch.
If you have any additional ideas, please feel free to say so out loud on this thread, and I will try and add your idea to this list! Pictures of your method might help people understand! Please read entry guidelines at bottom of post!



Color Games By bunbunnyny
You may try and set up the Pushable Statues and the Floor Switches so that the color of the Pushable Statue corresponds with its Floor Switch!


Easy as 1-2-3! By bunbunnyny
Set up each statue to be a different pattern or color than each other. Keep each Floor Switch the same pattern, however. Make sure every statue and Floor Switch is facing the same direction. Then, set up several Inscription Plates that say which switch each statue corresponds with, like "Blue on 3."


Find It! By bunbunnyny
Create-a-Style every Floor Switch and Pushable Statue to have similar patterns and colors, but make them slightly different. Keep the different corresponding statue and switch patterns the same.


Follow the Yellow Light Path! By bunbunnyny
Use 2 hidden 1x1 Ceiling Lights from the menu, and color them a certain color, and dim the . You may have to make a custom if it's too dark to see the floor. Place one light above the statue, and place a light of the same color on top of the statue's corresponding Floor Switch!


I'm Watching You... (Max Statue Limit: 4) By bunbunnyny
Keep every Floor Switch the style that has the footprints on them, and make sure that every floor switch has the exact same color and pattern on them. Rotate them so that none of them are facing the same direction. Then, rotate each statue so it's facing the same direction as its corresponding Floor Switch!


Infiltration (Requires Generations; 2 Sims in the Active Family) By bunbunnyny
You may set up the Statues and the Floor Switches in any way that you want, whether they're all the same color, pattern, and Visual Style (for the Floor Switches.) However, don't link them up so that they match, if they have similar colors or patterns. Mix each Statue and Floor Switch up so that there is no possible way of knowing how to tell which statue corresponds with which Floor Switch.

Then, place a Video Camera in front of the statues and switches so that you can see all or most of them. Put a Sim next to it, but don't pick it up yet. Pause the game. Now, have another Sim queue up interactions to and multiple times to the statues until they reach their corresponding switch, but keep the game paused. Tell your first Sim to pick up the video camera. Try to keep the camera still, unless you want to have it move. Begin recording the exact moment that you see movement. Once the second Sim finishes the queued actions, stop recording.

You can record the Second Sim setting up one statue or several statues, depending on how far away they are from the switch, since you can only queue up 8 actions at a time. Then, you can record another video of the Sim setting up the rest of the statues! If you can, try and have the Sim and . They will keep moving until they either reach an obstacle or push the statue onto a Floor Switch.

Once you have recorded the videos, first, rename them to something that may or may not give away what it is about. You may either save the recorded videos to a Disk Tower that is located inside the tomb, or leave them laying around the tomb on their own.

To make things more interesting, you should record videos of stuff other than the setting up of the statues, and place those in the same Disk Tower or also laying around the tomb! If you didn't give away what they're about in the names, the player will have a more difficult time knowing which video to watch on their TV, unless you give a hint with a or an Inscription Plate or something like that. You could even make a video showing where the correct Disk is laying in the tomb!

This method can be used for more than just this! You can use this to show the player which door you should not enter in an intersection, or where a really hard trigger is located in a tomb!


Riddle Me This By mikitta47
Create a series of message plaques that give the relevant riddle and hints about the order the statues need to be in. The statues are colored, the pressure plates are kept identical to each other. Everything is set up as per the tutorial.


Scavenger Hunt By bunbunnyny
Have a Sim take a photo of the correct set up with a camera (not their cell phone) from at least 2-4 floors above the set-up. Hang the picture on a wall in the tomb, but try and hide it in plain sight!




Entry Guidelines
There are 5 simple, extremely easy guidelines to submitting an idea:


1) Give your method a name! 30 Character Limit! This includes spaces, numbers, and symbol characters!


2) If your method limits how many Pushable Statues or Floor Switches you are able to use, you must say so in your entry!


3) Before you submit, please read through all current entries and ensure that your method is not already posted!


4 In your entry, you must thoroughly describe every detail on what you must do in the method, such as whether a Floor Switch must be a certain visual style. If it doesn't matter, you don't even have to mention it!


5) Keep in mind that by entering your idea, I may slightly reword your description only to make more sense of it or to fix major spelling and punctuation errors. Also keep in mind that I might not submit every idea, although I will try!

First post has been updated on Step #9. If you have completed step #9 before this update, please review your work to make sure nothing has been affected that would cause your work not function correctly.

Dude, I TOLD you I need the for dummies version LOL! Seriously, I need to set up about 4 puzzles just like this in The Library.

One thing that has helped me keep track of multiple processors is to color the processors - you knew you could CAS them, right? I've made processors in every primary and secondary color, plain, stripped and polka dotted. Which gives me a good selection when I need to place down multiples.

Can you walk me through the EXACT sequence for doing two switches with three statues and you have to get the right two statues on the correct floor switches? I know I'm a pain, but I really want to understand this.

God Bless,
mik

No, no, you're not a pain! I enjoy helping people!


Ok, here's what you do:

Do nothing with the third statue except make it movable.

Each switch has 2 Processors associated with it.

Change the of each of the first Processors to .

Link each statue to the first Processor that its corresponding switch is with, so that when it , the first Processor s.

Link each Floor Switch to itself so when you of it, it s.

Link each Floor Switch to its First Processor so that when you of it, the Processor s.

Link each Floor Switch to its First Processor so that when you it, the Processor has an .

Link each First Processor's to its Second Processor so that the Second Processor has an .

You need a third Processor that every Second Processor will connect to.

Link each Second Processor's to the Third Processor.

The first Second Processor that you link will be the Third Processor's .

The second Second Processor that you link will be the Third Processor's .

The 3rd 2nd Processor will be the 3rd Processor's . And so on.

Link the Third Processor's to every thing that you want the switches to activate!

I'm a little bit confused about something, Bun ....

7) Now, pay close attention to what you need to do here!
Ctrl+Shift+Click each first Processor...
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You need to do this part carefully.
If you have more than one switch, here is how you set this up:

Link the first Second Processor that you use to the central or extra Processor that doesn't correspond with any other Processor, Floor Switch, or Pushable Statue...
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Then, link the second Second Processor that you use to the same extra additional Processor...
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Link the third Second Processor (if you have one) to the extra Processor...
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If you have them, link the fourth Second Processor to on the extra Processor.
Fifth Second Processor to .
Sixth Second Processor to .
Seventh Second Processor to .
And the eighth Second Processor to .

What do I do after I've done the Out 0 for the first processors? If I try to click any other processor, it wants an IN input ...

God Bless,
mik

The first post has been updated on Step #7. Please ensure that the update does not affect the functionality of your device if you have set it up earlier or are in the process of making it.

bunbunnyny wrote:
The first post has been updated on Step #7. Please ensure that the update does not affect the functionality of your device if you have set it up earlier or are in the process of making it.

It hasn't been updated yet, Bun - that I can tell - it says the same thing.

Trigger out0 the first processor

Trigger out0 all the other first processors


That isn't possible to 0ut0 each processor without imediately imputing an in(whatever) for it.

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Ok, I get it now :) thanks!

God Bless,
mik

No problem! Let me know how it turns out. And if you have any revealing methods, feel free to enter one! Make sure you read the guidelines for entering first, please!

Method - Riddle Me This


This method does not limit how many statues/pressure plates you may have. The only limit is how many riddles you can determine to create the puzzle.


Create a series of message plaques that give the relevant riddle and hints about the order the statues need to be in. The statues are colored, the pressure plates are kept identical to each other. Everything is set up as per the tutorial.

God Bless,
mik

Your method has been added.