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@siirysiir Pets weren't intended to be playable so the options are limited. You can tell the cat where their food dish or litter box is and have them play with toys, etc. I'm embarrassed to say that my most commonly used use is to see their needs, but I have some older cats who lose track of their food dishes a lot. Some of the options that weren't intended for pets give you nightmare animations (Friendly Introduction, lol, don't use that). BUT, "Send Home" is available to pets if you have them selectable.
I've only used the AllCheats mod, which gives you a bunch of command-line stuff (some of which is potentially dangerous, lol), including the command to make pets selectable. I haven't tried the official Playable Pets mod, but might.
- siirysiir4 years agoSeasoned Ace@xochiquetzl_xkvn ok cool thanks for the info! I actually now have the Allcheats mod by TwistedMexi so.. how did you go about controlling the pets? Shift-click them or something? I feel you about the pets not figuring out their food dishes, there's something wrong (surprise!) with how the game handles pets currently. Would definitely be easier to just control the pets to go eat and use their litter box.
- xochiquetzl_xkvn4 years agoSeasoned Ace
@siirysiir If you have AllCheats, you're all set to use pets.toggle_selectable_pets in the cheat console. If you've done it right, you'll get a "Pets are selectable!" message. (If you turn it off by running the same command, you get a message like "Pets are no longer selectable! Good luck!")
You can then select them with the spacebar (the hotkey to toggle between Sims) or by clicking until the next time you go into CAS or change households/reload the lot. I think the main thing the dedicated Playable Pets mod (it's by Andrew and Orange Mittens) does is leave that toggled on permanently.
- siirysiir4 years agoSeasoned Ace
@xochiquetzl_xkvnwow thank you so much!! I'll have to update my game and test this right away! Also I had been thinking of trying that mod some time too but if that's the only difference, I see no point haha.. I'm so used to typing in all the cheats once I open the game that I don't even see that as a issue. Just loving the fact how you can always learn from other simmers! 🙂
edit: I tried the cheat and it's the best!
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