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Development status of Movie Premiere Holiday
🕑 Added 2023-09-09 10:11:50 +0000 UTCHey, everyone,
Im still pretty busy working on the Movie Premiere Holiday for the ItsMovieTime mod, and while it's mostly finished, there are still some small things i need to fix and tests to go through before i release it. Here is what has been done so far:
1. Because the game has only 2 times to choose from to activate a holiday, either single time (which repeats every year, and its quite annoying and not reliable, especially if there are many other holidays in the calendar, and it might not even activate at all during a full Sim year, hence the Surprise type of holiday) or weekly schedule (which would create more than necessary holidays, if there is only 1 movie premiere left to see), I wasn't happy with this, so I found a way to automatically generate random holidays once the zone loads up.
2. Each Movie Premiere movie holiday/event is properly named on the calendar, making it possible to see what movie is coming up in the next holiday. Once the holiday starts, a new "Watch Movie Premiere" button will show on the TV, which will play the movie that had been marked for that holiday.
3. If the event is marked on the Sim's calendar, it is shared among all other played or not played sims calendars as well, on that particular game save.
4. If one exits the game without saving it or switches to a different saved game, everything will be reset, and the game will generate new movie premiere holidays with different dates on the calendar, based on the new movies it finds.
5. Once the holiday ends, the movie is marked as seen, whether the sim participated or canceled the event, and it will show as usual in the picker dialog, even if the player exits the game without saving.
6. Holiday goals are individual, so if the household is bigger than 1 sim, when the Movie Premiere holiday starts, each Sim needs to see the movie to reach the goal, and wont be able to discuss the movie event with other sims, without watching the movie first. Reaching the goal will also give the Sim a happy buff.
7. The movie premiere holiday will be incorporated into the next ItsMovieTime patreon early release. As it requires SP05 pack (seasons), and because i don't want the main mod to have many dependencies, SP05 will be rather recommended. If it's installed, the movie premiere holidays will run on startup. If it's not installed, the new movies will show up on the Picker dialog as usual.
