Plantable Orchard Trees
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Created by Lamare
Uploaded: 24th Sep 2023 at 9:40 PM
Updated: 10th Dec 2023 at 10:19 PM
Updated: 10th Dec 2023 at 10:19 PM
Updates
11 Dec '23: plants don't lose quality from snow, which makes them less likely to die in winter; cherry, peach and pear are translated into Polish
11 Dec '23: plants don't lose quality from snow, which makes them less likely to die in winter; cherry, peach and pear are translated into Polish
These are new garden plants that grow into trees, and seeds packets for them
Made for our new planting system with seeds
Requirements
- Seasons EP
- Our Planting Overhaul mod and at least one way to acquire seeds in game
- Peach, pear and cherry plants also require Aysarth's custom trees: Cherry, Peach and Pear
How It Works
Say, you want to plant an apple tree. Buy apple tree seeds from a stand on community lot or from garden club NPC and keep the packet in your inventory. Place a garden plot somewhere on your lot. Fertilize it, if you want, and plant a seed. It will grow like a regular garden plant, going from dirt pile to sprout to a little tree. You have to water it, pull weeds and occasionally spray for bugs. Without care, it may wither and die. Be patient, trees take longer to grow. In about 6-7 sim-days, the plant will turn into a full grown tree. It'll be an actual harvestable orchard tree with all the functions you expect from it.
Technically, the big tree is a separate object, not included here. Here, are growable plants that get replaced with trees when they're done growing.
Contents & Versions
You get 6 new plants. Pick and choose: you can have any or all of them, but not more than one version of a tree type. Each plant come with seeds.
Versions with original textures (light background screenshots):
- Apple
- Lemon
- Orange
- Cherry -- requires Aysarth's Cherry tree
- Peach -- requires Aysarth's Peach tree
- Pear -- requires Aysarth's Pear tree
- AppleV1_Tvickie
- AppleV2_Tvickie
- Lemon_Tvickie
- Orange_Tvickie
- PlantableTrees_All_6 -- all plants and seeds with original textures
- HiddenOrchardTrees -- a little OBJD replacement that hides Maxis orchard trees from the catalogue (you may not want it if you like to build pre-made houses with trees)
Notes
- Seeds cost §120
- Lemon, orange and peach require bronze gardening badge to plant. Apple, cherry and pear -- don't.
- Maxis plants and seeds are translated into most languages, Aysarth's plants have English, Russian and Polish strings
- Perfect Gardens mod by twojeffs won't affect these plants, you have to take care of them. If you don't want to, just buy the full grown trees to begin with. Other gardening mods may work with these plants, though.
- You may tweak these plants and seeds for your game. For example, edit hours per life stage, required badge to plant, chance of bugs, etc. Look at BCONs in the packages.
- Catalogue Sort: None
- All the plants have the same model, some have different textures. Polygons:
- planted stage: 164 faces, 148 vertices
- sprouted stage: 188 faces, 188 vertices
- teen/adult stage: 1410 faces, 1517 vertices
- seeds: 30 faces, 38 vertices
Troubleshooting
- My plants are dead for no reason! -- If it's cherry, pear or peach, you probably forgot to download the corresponding trees.
Conflicts
Plants are standalone objects and shouldn't clash with anything.
HiddenOrchardTrees may conflict with other OBJD defaults for orchard trees.
Credits
Tvickiesims for her portion of work and general awesomeness
Aysarth for the custom trees
SneakiestDuke68 for Polish translation
Icons for seed packets were taken from flaticon.com
Creator's Corner
As usual, I have a tutorial for you!
How To Create Your Own Plantable Trees
1. make or download a tree you'd like to be able to plant and grow (I've already done maxis orchard trees), write down its guid
2. if you went for a custom tree by another creator, note that you will NOT need to modify or reupload their files, but those files will be required for your plant to work (the overhaul mod will also be required)
3. if your tree is harvestable (which it doesn't have to be), write down the guid of the tree's produce/fruit object
4. make a garden plant that will eventually turn into that tree
5. make a seeds packet for the plant (tutorial is in Creator's Kit)
In this tutorial here, I'll explain how to do #4
- clone existing plantable tree (plant object)
- change guid and file name in OBJD (generate unique guid)
- edit BHAV "Sub - Create Tree" - change guid of the tree object
- be careful not to delete extra "06" in operands while editing GUID in BHAV
- replace catalogue description for the one from the tree
- if you're copy-pasting text by hand, don't forget to copy translations too
- if you're extracting and replacing the resource, mind the instance & group numbers! if they're different, change them to what they were before replacement
- optionally, edit Tuning BCONs to your liking
- also optionally, replace textures and meshes
- you may edit 3 stages: sprout, teen and adult
- harvestable stage is reserved for becoming a real tree
- planted stage is better left untouched, because messing with meshes breaks clickable area of dirt pile, which is really annoying when the plant isn't visible yet
- in my plants, teen stage has the same mesh as adult and is set to 0 hours, but you can have it different
- if you want different teen and adult stages, they have to share the same texture and have identical subset names, otherwise you will have to create more material definitions, add stuff to Text Lists (Materials and Mesh Groups), AND edit BHAVs (Dead Materials and Water Materials)
- you may also edit textures for normal, wilted and dead states, they're labeled
- if you have replaced the meshes, check the dripping effect in game by watering the plant a few times in a row, and adjust the slot in CRES if it's off (each stage's CRES has it's own slot_gardenplant_drip_fx)
Now go on to #5 - making seeds!
Filename | Type | Size |
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PlantableTrees_All_6.zip | zip | |
Plant_Apple_Lamare.package | package | 465807 |
Plant_Cherry_Lamare.package | package | 453222 |
Plant_Lemon_Lamare.package | package | 465770 |
Plant_Orange_Lamare.package | package | 465753 |
Plant_Peach_Lamare.package | package | 441191 |
Plant_Pear_Lamare.package | package | 449959 |
Seeds_Lamare_Apple.package | package | 17376 |
Seeds_Lamare_Cherry.package | package | 11163 |
Seeds_Lamare_Lemon.package | package | 17446 |
Seeds_Lamare_Orange.package | package | 17397 |
Seeds_Lamare_Peach.package | package | 11199 |
Seeds_Lamare_Pear.package | package | 11132 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
Apple.zip | zip | |
Plant_Apple_Lamare.package | package | 465807 |
Seeds_Lamare_Apple.package | package | 17376 |
Filename | Type | Size |
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Lemon.zip | zip | |
Plant_Lemon_Lamare.package | package | 465770 |
Seeds_Lamare_Lemon.package | package | 17446 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
Orange.zip | zip | |
Plant_Orange_Lamare.package | package | 465753 |
Seeds_Lamare_Orange.package | package | 17397 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
Cherry.zip | zip | |
Plant_Cherry_Lamare.package | package | 453222 |
Seeds_Lamare_Cherry.package | package | 11163 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
Peach.zip | zip | |
Plant_Peach_Lamare.package | package | 441191 |
Seeds_Lamare_Peach.package | package | 11199 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
Pear.zip | zip | |
Plant_Pear_Lamare.package | package | 449959 |
Seeds_Lamare_Pear.package | package | 11132 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
HiddenOrchardTrees.zip | zip | |
HiddenOrchardTrees_Tvickie.package | package | 643 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
AppleV1_Tvickie.zip | zip | |
Plant_AppleV1_Lamare_Tvickie.package | package | 432068 |
Seeds_Lamare_Apple.package | package | 17376 |
Filename | Type | Size |
---|---|---|
AppleV2_Tvickie.zip | zip | |
Plant_AppleV2_Lamare_Tvickie.package | package | 421372 |
Seeds_Lamare_Apple.package | package | 17376 |
Filename | Type | Size |
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Lemon_Tvickie.zip | zip | |
Plant_Lemon_Lamare_Tvickie.package | package | 403594 |
Seeds_Lamare_Lemon.package | package | 17446 |
Filename | Type | Size |
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Orange_Tvickie.zip | zip | |
Plant_Orange_Lamare_Tvickie.package | package | 428117 |
Seeds_Lamare_Orange.package | package | 17397 |
This mod has specific instructions!
Choose only one version of a tree type! So, for lemon you would get either Lemon, or Lemon_Tvickie, not both.Filename | Size | Downloads | Date | |||||
PlantableTrees_All_6.zip
| all 6 plants and seeds (no HiddenOrchardTrees)
Size: 2.40 MB · Downloads: 1,987 · 10th Dec 2023 |
2.40 MB | 1,987 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Apple.zip
Size: 420.7 KB · Downloads: 353 · 10th Dec 2023 |
420.7 KB | 353 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Lemon.zip
Size: 420.7 KB · Downloads: 326 · 10th Dec 2023 |
420.7 KB | 326 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Orange.zip
Size: 420.6 KB · Downloads: 308 · 10th Dec 2023 |
420.6 KB | 308 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Cherry.zip
| requires Aysarth's Cherry tree
Size: 403.6 KB · Downloads: 366 · 10th Dec 2023 |
403.6 KB | 366 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Peach.zip
| requires Aysarth's Peach tree
Size: 392.1 KB · Downloads: 361 · 10th Dec 2023 |
392.1 KB | 361 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Pear.zip
| requires Aysarth's Pear tree
Size: 400.8 KB · Downloads: 357 · 10th Dec 2023 |
400.8 KB | 357 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
HiddenOrchardTrees.zip
| DEFAULT replacement -- apple, orange and lemon trees hidden in catalogue
Size: 502 Bytes · Downloads: 436 · 24th Sep 2023 |
502 Bytes | 436 | 24th Sep 2023 | |||||
AppleV1_Tvickie.zip
Size: 391.8 KB · Downloads: 195 · 10th Dec 2023 |
391.8 KB | 195 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
AppleV2_Tvickie.zip
Size: 381.4 KB · Downloads: 275 · 10th Dec 2023 |
381.4 KB | 275 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Lemon_Tvickie.zip
Size: 364.2 KB · Downloads: 328 · 10th Dec 2023 |
364.2 KB | 328 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
Orange_Tvickie.zip
Size: 387.0 KB · Downloads: 325 · 10th Dec 2023 |
387.0 KB | 325 | 10th Dec 2023 | |||||
For a detailed look at individual files, see the Information tab. |
Key:
- - File was updated after upload was posted
Install Instructions
Basic Download and Install Instructions:
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Mac: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
- Mac x64: /Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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Packs Needed
For a full list of packs with names, see the Packs Needed popup.
Other Information
Type:
– Maxis Content Hiders
Tags
#orchard tree, #garden plant, #gardening, #growable tree, #harvestable, #trees, #plants
Packs Needed
Base Game | |
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Sims 2 |
Expansion Pack | |
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Seasons |
News
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