Sims4 Servo Trait Customs

I was pretty happy to have robots in my Sims 4 game.  Of course the way they made it - with an outfit automatically assigned to a robot - makes a bulk of my own CC totally useless.  And it makes robots in the Sims4 all samey.  Can't have that!  I have made several different flavored mods in order to deal with the problem.

This now requires the XML Injector.  Well, it makes the process easier anyway.  The traits can now be found in the Rewards Store for $0.  The walkstyle, voice, and VFX traits require you to be a Servo to work.  Or just use cheats as described below.

The Cloned trait

This is a clone of the robot trait and a whole bunch of XML edits to make it work like official robots do in the Sims4.  Also, I've removed every single blacklist and opened it up to all ages, cats, and dogs!  This is for people who want to control what their robots look like, but also don't really want the official Servos changed.

Use cheats to apply.

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Gauntlet101010

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Gauntlet101010

By default the walkstyle, voice, and idle animation aren't applied.  Use cheats to apply them:

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Idles_Gauntlet101010 - Servo robot idles

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Walkstyle_Gauntlet101010 - the Sevo walkstyle

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Voice_Gauntlet101010 - the Servo voice

The clones trait does have a couple of minor differences from the edited version.  Mainly that the game doesn't recognise it as a real Servo - because it isn't!  I also won't go through every sleep interaction to make it work for recharing your cloned trait Servo - there's too many and they're very likely to break anyway.  They can still charge while standing.  Good enough says I!

The Edited trait

This is an edit of the default Servo trait whose main purpose is to let you alter their outfit in CAS.  The downside is that this may glitch up if there's a CAS update.  I've also unlocked the "change outfit" option for them.  As with the cloned trait I've removed all blacklists and opened it up to all ages, cats, and dogs.  Fun! I've also removed the ability to quickly change into the various default Servos for, I hope, obvious reasons.

This will conflict with the Cloned trait.

For gameplay reasons I ran into a wall removing the default Servo look.  If I edit this newly created Servos will simply look like regular Sims.  So use these cheats to remove the current outfit:

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robot_Outfit_BlueRed - the default

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robot_Outfit_BlackBlue

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robot_Outfit_RedGreen

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robot_Outfit_BeigeWhite

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robot_Outfit_WhiteCopper

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robot_Outfit_GreenBrown

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robot_Outfit_GrayBrown

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_VFX_Gauntlet101010 - by default I have Servos retain their visual effects

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Idles_Gauntlet101010 - new Servos have their Idle animations set as a separate trait

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Walkstyle_Gauntlet101010 - new Servos have their walkstyle set as a separate trait

traits.remove_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Voice_Gauntlet101010 - new Servos have their voice set as a separate trait

Or you can just buy the Servo trait from the store and apply it to any old Sim you want.  Does it make Servos a bit less special?  Maybe.  But I think it's worth it to keep things self contained and intuitive.

If you want VFX, the voice, Idles, and walkstyle added to your Servo outfit (I've unlocked the default Sims4 version in CAS) you can do so with this cheat:

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_VFX_Gauntlet101010

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_MainTrait - the cheat to turn Sims into Servos.

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Idles_Gauntlet101010 - Servo robot idles

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Walkstyle_Gauntlet101010 - the Sevo walkstyle

traits.equip_trait trait_Humanoid_Robots_Voice_Gauntlet101010 - the Servo voice

Or buy them from the rewardstore

Known issues:

- Servos were never meant to be children, toddlers, dogs, or cats, so they'll stretch when in the stasis pose.  It's the price we pay for robot kids.

- Toddlers and animals can be buggy gameplay-wise.  But they will go into recharge mode on their own.  Bed tuning seems to be updated often, so I won't be adding this into my mod.

- I recommend using direct control for your robot animals.  Their pet beds will recharge their needs almost instantly when directed to sleep!

- Infants aren't meant to be robots, but if you insist their needs can be similarily restored by sleeping as well.  Tuning them up will always fail and trying to get them to recharge will also fail.  They'll just glitch up.  They need to be put to sleep in a crib.

- Wicked Whims messes up Robots.  From making hover mode screwy to Servos appearing without an outfit by default.  This mod does not attempt to correct this.  It's a Wicked Whims thing.  Likely done on purpose.

Use my Unlocked Servo Outfit to change into the default options.

The Slightly Edited trait

This is spun out of my Hybrid mod.  The only changes are removed blacklists that prevented hybrid robots and allowed ages opened up to elders, adults, and teens.  This is meant to be used in conjunction with the Cloned trait and will not conflict with that.  This is if you just want to make a hybrid Servo and want them unchanged otherwise.  It will not conflict with the cloned trait (that's the point of the cloned trait).  It WILL conflict with the edited trait.

Motive Locks

Tuning up and charging makes some robots look all messed up - cats, dog, children, and toddlers don't really charge properly.  And it gets tedious.  So what do you do if you want that?  And what if you want a mermaid robot or a Plantsim robot?  Kinda mutually exclusive, even if it's technically allowed.  That's where the movie lock comes in.  It allows motives to increase, but stops them from decreasing.  So there's no worries about swimming.  And, whle they can get in the red I've removed all negative buffs so no dying or even getting tense.  So it's less of a lock and more breaks the motive completely by removing negative consequences.

Due to the sheer size of the mod I can't test everything completely.  So if anything's broken let me know!  I appreaciate the feedback.

Update

December 1 2019

- Silly me, I thought that testing durability when swimming was enough.  No, taking a bath seems to cause a problem in a different way.  I fixed this by removing all negative buffs when durability and charge falls below certain levels.  So, even though the motive is low it doesn't do anything.

December 16 2019

- Experimented with altering the main robot trait itself, but ran into a snag.  As a result I've included a slightly edited robot trait which only has the blacklisted occults removed, to allow for hybrids.

December 17 2019

- Added different ways you can edit the robot trait including the default trait.  I also edited the cloned trait a little bit.

February 17, 2020

- I've gotten tired of the idle animation looking terrible on many of my robots and the slow robot walk that really only suits some robots, so I took those out and made them into their own trait.  You'll need to apply those manually for existing robots, but new Servos will have them by default.  While I was at it I did the same with the voice for those who want a more "android" ish Sim.  A big change is having pet sickness buffs being blacklisted on robot pets.  They can also recharge more reliably now.  There's no elegance to the sickness solution - I straight-up bust blacklist the robot buffs for that.  For some reason pets still can't die of low durability.  Also pets who already are sick are still detected as sick by vet stations ... dunno why.  Hopefully they just won't get sick at all now, but at least there's no symptoms.

May 9, 2020

- Missed taking out the Servo voice by default in the cloned trait.  It's been fixed.

May 25, 2020

- Fixed some problems with recharging animals and toddlers.  Beds still won't recharge these Sims (or adults for the cloned trait robots), but recharging is much faster now.

September 10 2020

The Edited trait now allows Servos to change outfits on Batuu

January 20 2021

The Cloned trait now allows self enhancements.

May 10 2021

There seems to be a glitch in the game, quite outside my mod, that sometimes causes the Servoes to spawn without the Servo outfit.  I've updated the mod to have a few redundancies to fix this.  Also, the following mods seem to break Servos (even without any of these mods) sometimes:

andrew_PosePack_Traits_Adult

chingyu1023_More Traits Mod

Zulf_KidsCanMakeRobot

With these installed newly activated Servos spawn as normal Sims.  I don't know why they don't break them very reliably, although chingyu's does seem to reliably break newly generated Servos.  But there you go.

July 1 2022

This now requires the XML Injector.  The traits can now be found in the Rewards Store for $0.  The walkstyle, voice, and VFX traits require you to be a Servo to work.

July 11 2022

I realized Servo / Werewolf hybrids can't alter their wolf form today.  This has been fixed.

July 27 2022

Updated to include orientation.

February 2 2023

I messed up and didn't realize robots stopped being editable in CAS.  That oversight has been corrected for all pets, humans, and werewolves (who all have different CASTuning files).

April 7 2023

Big update this time.  Robot Infants!  Child Sims able to download modules! (How well can they use them?  Who knows?)  Also, I've made it so you can just make any Sim a Servo using the Reward Store instead of entering cheats.  You're using mods, I assume you're fine with how game breaking this is.

March 7, 2024

Been a while since I last looked at this mod.  Bed support for toddlers.  Also, hopefully, pets will be less glitchy.  I tried to add support for horses, but that was glitchy as Hell when they went to recharge, so no dice.

July 23, 2024

The Edited trait has been updated for the Lovestruck update.

December 29, 2024

Made the Edited slightly trait applyable from the rewards store.

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