Modding Diary - what a crazy week

Hi Guys! Hope you all are doing better than I am lol

I had kind of a crazy week this week. 🥲

My week actually started on a high note. I reworked part of my script and figured it out within a day, AND I even helped another modder and wrote them a custom script. If you have been following me for a while you would know that I have been trying to learn python for ??? years now and it finally feel like im getting the basics down. 😃

Then the love&death patch came and broke basically every mod. My script was broken by it too but lucky with my newly acquired python skill (level 2 I might even say😏) I was able to fix it within a few hours and release the update.

then in the middle of the night my website went

At first we (me and the web dev I hired to build the site) thought too many people were trying to download the update because my server was getting overwhelmed, because the CPU usage was bonkers: (mind you it's normally at like 20%)

so we upgraded the server and doubled the server size, then within like a few minutes it was like that again. after a few days of back and forth we finally got it under control today😅. long story short someone (who's mother may or may not be a llama😠) used a bunch of bots that noncontinuous visited my website until it crashed. Not sure why someone would do something like that(maybe I finally pissed someone off by telling them to read the instructions), but I'm glad it's under control now. We are definitively going to be taking additionally measures to make sure it doesnt happen again.

Soooo aside from all that shenanigans, this week I worked on second part of the IV practice interaction for the nursing school update, this interaction will allow your sim to practice IV on other sims. I didn't get to put the animation in game this week as I spent too much time dealing with the website and the update, so heres some blender screenshots:

sims will site side by side at the beginning of the interaction

 they will turn to each other and the player sim will ask the other sim to hold out their hand

the player sim will find a vein

and use a cotton ball to disinfect

 then take out an IV needle and carefully insert it  if it's successful the other sim will react positively

 the player sim will then take the IV out, and the other sim will get a band-aid on their hand for 60 sim minutes.  they will then return to sitting positions. if the IV is inserted incorrectly the other sim will shout in pain and pull their hand back, and it will result in a negative interaction which will reduce your friendship points by like 2 points or something. I should have all this finished by next week.

Also

Im thinking maybe I should just release nursing school part of the update as soon as I am finished with it. this way it will be a smaller update, which means its less overwhelming, and you will get to play with it sooner (possible next month). 🤔please let me know what you think!

and that is all I have this week! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 🥰