I've got news for those of you who have been looking for an alternative family tree tool to track your sim families in - we've launched a public beta for our family tree app, The Plum Tree. We made this web app specifically for TS4, so you can add your sims' traits, aspirations and bios as well. The Plum Tree can be accessed from most standard web browsers. You can learn more about what the tool does and how it works here.To start creating family trees just head on over to theplumtreeapp.com and create your account.Check out the post below for quick links and latest news - we are currently looking to expand the team; more info below. Happy simming!http://i.imgur.com/PiDBHIU.jpg

Useful information: Guides - Just signed up and wondering how to create a tree or add people to it? Start here! Features - What can the web app do and where are its limitations right now? Find out here! FAQ - Got a question? Check if someone else asked to get your answer quicker! Roadmap - What are our plans for the future? Learn about upcoming features!How can you contact us? We're always looking for user feedback and suggestions! There's several ways to get in touch - comment on this thread, send me a PM here on the forums or check out the contact section of the website.Share your tree! We would love to see our users' family trees! If you would like to show us your sim family, publish your tree and post the link here on the thread!Latest News (22 June 2021) "ThePlumtree;c-17916964" wrote:Hi all!As @ThePlumbob has mentioned previously I'm currently a bit stretched for time to add all the features I and the community want for the plum tree. The plum tree is built by just me, a single developer and not an entire team as many seem to believe. However I'm toying with the idea of changing that.I want to see if there is any interest for volunteers to join me. The plum tree makes no money (it loses quite a bit instead each month to server costs) so I can't pay anyone.I'm also only looking for people with at least some skills in the programming language, frameworks and technology the plum tree is built on. This is JavaScript, ReactJS and REST APIs. I don't have the available time to teach all of this to someone new but if you already know some of this I am willing to work and help people up-skill where there might be gaps.I'm intrigued to how interest there would be in people joining me in building the plum tree.If you are interested feel free to drop me an email info@theplumtreeapp.com, reply in this thread or DM me on the forums.

Awesome!! Thank you so much for this. I've been waiting to see when you were releasing this every since you talked about it in another thread. Going to sign up now!! Again, thank you ;)

Ooh! I saw you mention it in a thread before and thought it would be a great way to 'document' my long on-going legacy (currently in generation 15!)Thank you for sharing this with us! :blush:

@emluckysunshine & @Omri147 Thanks guys, we hope you like it! (And wow, generation 15? :open_mouth: That's impressive, the furthest I've gotten so far is generation 9!)

awesome! signed up right away and am now adding people, it works perfectly! :)

The Plum Tree Family Tree Tool: Developers Wanted

JaseSims
Seasoned Novice
9 years ago
Wow...
Thank you for taking the time to create such as awesome app. As a family player, I pretty much only play legacies and this will come in super handy. I'm going to go create my account right now. :)
ThePlumbobBlog
9 years ago
"crinrict;15106234" wrote:
"ThePlumbob;15106196" wrote:

A way of getting around this would be for you to upload a placeholder image for the people without avatars, either your own or a stock one from a source like iconfinder.

We are unlikely to introduce a feature like this by default since it would almost be enforcing a gender stereotype to an extent. (I do get the intention, and that there are users that would like it, but equally there would also be users who may dislike the feature, so you can see where it would get problematic.)

Maybe you could upload those to the server and people could choose to upload their own avatars or those generic ones (or none like now) ? Maybe also a pair that has a male/female figure instead of colors ?

Stock images wouldn't be an immediate priority for us at this stage - perhaps in the future when we look further into customisation options :)

"Jase;15106239" wrote:
Wow...
Thank you for taking the time to create such as awesome app. As a family player, I pretty much only play legacies and this will come in super handy. I'm going to go create my account right now. :)

@Jase So happy you like it! I play exclusively legacy-style too, so I can relate!
ThePlumbobBlog
9 years ago
Latest News: We've been getting a lot of feature requests, so to keep you in the loop on what's already planned and where we see the priorities, make sure to check out our brand new Roadmap section.
Angelllite7
9 years ago
This is cool. I will DL and give feedback when I get a chance to try it.
MDianaSims
Seasoned Hotshot
9 years ago
It looks really awesome :) It kind of makes me want to make a family tree just so I can use it (my Sims have gotten as far as gen 2...). On the other hand my main Sim does have a big family, except I never made them - I guess I'll be generating relatives for her in CAS ;).

@ThePlumbob I do have a question though (and I haven't seen it in the thread yet, or I skimmed over it), will you, at some point in the future, be looking into different language versions of the app? I can imagine players from other countries, who aren't that good at English, would love to make use of it in a language they're more comfortable with.
I skimmed over the roadmap, so I know you still have a lot of things planned, but just pitching an idea here :)
ThePlumbobBlog
9 years ago
"MDianaSanders;15106467" wrote:
It looks really awesome :) It kind of makes me want to make a family tree just so I can use it (my Sims have gotten as far as gen 2...). On the other hand my main Sim does have a big family, except I never made them - I guess I'll be generating relatives for her in CAS ;).

@ThePlumbob I do have a question though (and I haven't seen it in the thread yet, or I skimmed over it), will you, at some point in the future, be looking into different language versions of the app? I can imagine players from other countries, who aren't that good at English, would love to make use of it in a language they're more comfortable with.
I skimmed over the roadmap, so I know you still have a lot of things planned, but just pitching an idea here :)

@MDianaSanders That's a great question to ask! We would love to look into language localisation of the app somewhere down the line, the only issue with this is we'd actually need volunteers who would help us with the translation, since we aren't proficient in many languages :) But definitely something we would like to explore in the future!

Unrelated - I adore your avatar! So summery! :)
Ernesdo
9 years ago
Yeah, I had thought about the issues of gender coloration when I made my post, but figured I'd ask about having it as an option so those who don't like it don't have to use it. Thank you for the idea of uploading a placeholder image though! I'm going to go ahead and do that by having a purple image for girls and ~~lime green~~ for boys~ :)

Green isn't the best choice when the background is green. xD Blue for boys, purple for girls.
MDianaSims
Seasoned Hotshot
9 years ago
@ThePlumbob Thanks :) I really like my avatar too.
As for the volunteer translators, you can list me as a possible volunteer for the Dutch language version. I'd love to help out, but whether I'll be able to will depend on how much time I have or can make for it.
luthienrising
Hero+
9 years ago
"ThePlumbob;15106355" wrote:
Latest News: We've been getting a lot of feature requests, so to keep you in the loop on what's already planned and where we see the priorities, make sure to check out our brand new Roadmap section.

Awesome :)
Happy to see something about linked trees on there! I think I'll set up my Legacy Lite save's genealogy on your server, and trust that eventually my current teen heiress's in-laws could someday end up on it :) (If she ends up with in-laws not a parentless townie, like her mom did.)

Oh! A thing I'd like would be to be able to have photos of a Sim at other life stages :) Say, Child, Teen, YA/Adult, Elder slots, and we could pick which one showed?
ThePlumbobBlog
9 years ago
"luthienrising;15106708" wrote:
"ThePlumbob;15106355" wrote:
Latest News: We've been getting a lot of feature requests, so to keep you in the loop on what's already planned and where we see the priorities, make sure to check out our brand new Roadmap section.

Awesome :)
Happy to see something about linked trees on there! I think I'll set up my Legacy Lite save's genealogy on your server, and trust that eventually my current teen heiress's in-laws could someday end up on it :) (If she ends up with in-laws not a parentless townie, like her mom did.)

Oh! A thing I'd like would be to be able to have photos of a Sim at other life stages :) Say, Child, Teen, YA/Adult, Elder slots, and we could pick which one showed?

@luthienrising Thank you! :) As for the multiple images to depict lifestages, the advanced avatars bit is intended to do exactly that, once we get to that part of the roadmap :)