Sims2 Bumper Cars

I didn't want to ask and spoil the surprise about the bumper cars. How do they work, and do they spawn an NPC? Is there a required sized space they need? Thanks

The original thread is on MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=213108

I replaced the bumper cars from Echo, to make them work you need a fenced area and the cart runner. The cars are placed on the runner and then the sim walks to the car and gets in it. No NPC is created.

I used a normal railing fence to surround the bumper cars "ride", about 25 tiles square and then a pets room divider on one side to allow sims to walk over to the cars but prevent the cars driving all over the lot.

Thank you!

Um, I think a NPC is used. The Cart runner is a NPC, isn't it? It has an Age Data resource and its Name Reference is NPC_Robot.

believe msd, not me

I don't see how a moving object could be made without an NPC to move it. The original cart runner does have an NPC.

It's possible, but the results aren't ideal if Sims are riding the object. The roaches, for example, move about the lot without a NPC but it's a bit of "smoke and mirrors." The motion is jerky because the object snaps into place, but it's not noticeable because the roaches are a nebulous swarm. It's painfully noticeable with a Sim.

For those interested in reading more: http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=...ost3210227

It might be possible to do whatever the cars use to move around (a custom rig, perhaps?), but that seems to be uncharted territory. As far as I know, custom cars are just custom models that use the existing means of vehicular movement. To my knowledge, no one has made cars that drive outside the established "into/out of the driveway" and "straight down the road" paths.

I'm glad you looked into this MSD since I would like to use this in a lot for upload and it's important people know it adds an NPC to their game since they can't simply pull the cart runner. Doing that is the same as deleting a sim and causes corruption.

I think as long as it is on a community lot it would be ok?
@MSD ? What do you think?

Unfortunately not. Mootilda had a lot of information on a MTS thread about this. I will try and hunt it down. She said any NPC you put into your download folder must stay there if you load up a hood. Any hood you load adds the NPC to it. You don't have to place the NPC item, don't even have to load a lot, just the hood. She did mention moving it to the character folder but recently someone showed a problem with that. We now tell people it's safest to place any NPC items into a Do Not Remove folder.