Unused Behaviors

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wall required on right

rowspan="2" style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| Base game wall objects (paintings, toilets...) always face the opposite direction of any walls they're placed on, so these went unused. A similar placement setting would be used for some wall objects in later expansion packs.

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, remnant of an old attempt in implementing diagonal objects.]]

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corner not allowed

rowspan="2" style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| These flags suggest that, at some point in development, certain objects could be snapped out of the tile grid's center in order to be placed on the corner of tiles on the floor, terrain, walls, and fences. This placement feature was removed in favor of always having items snap to the center of tiles.

rowspan="3" style="background:#000052| by Eric "Irk" Hedman (ca. 1998), suggesting the implementation of 45º sprite rotation for 2D objects.]]

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diagonal required

style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| This flag suggests a scrapped concept where certain objects were meant to be placed diagonally only. No objects in the game utilize this rule as object sprites were only created for placement in four inter-cardinal directions.

• There are unused tooltip strings leftover from this concept.
• There still exist leftover sprites reminiscent of this feature.
• Visual development arts reflect pre-release iterations where the concept for 45º 2D sprites may have been tested for the game before being ultimately scrapped.

room placement

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style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| Forbids users from placing objects outside the house. No object in the base game uses this. Repurposed in Hot Date and subsequent expansion packs where ceiling lamps were introduced to the game.

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style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| Sets the rotation of the 2D objects to 180º, consequently always reversing its facing direction.

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STR#202 - Placement Flags

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|on window

rowspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|ui event

style=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| This tree is called in the current situation object when an event in the user interface occurs. The first parameter is the type of the event. The second parameter is the id of the event. Suggests that, at some point, a given object script could be called in reaction to GUI features as the picture-in-picture overlays or the arrows that point at certain control panel elements during the Newbie tutorial. Not to be confused with the "ui effect" primitive.

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|wall in front = 3

rowspan=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"2" style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| These flags' original purpose is the modification of an object's properties in case there's a wall in front or behind it. The staircase objects use similar flags for the means of removing their rails on adjacent walls on their left or right side. Later expansion packs repurposed the unused IDs for objects such as awnings.

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|sims can move it

style=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| At some point, Sims might have been able to somehow rearrange the objects in the house at their will, under unknown circumstances. In normal gameplay, objects can only be moved with the "Hand Tool". For some reason, this flag was loosely referenced in the payphone object's "init" function in The Sims Online — in theory, this could refrain Sims from moving it, if the engine ever allowed them to do such a thing in the first place.

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|unused

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|CanDie

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|GeneratesHeat

style=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| May refer to a cut temperature mechanic for house objects. No objects in the final game use this flag. Objects that, by definition, should have had it (fireplaces, stoves, etc.) instead have private trees which simply set how they increase the lot's "Room" motive score, without any explicit consideration for how "warm" the room gets. Earlier in development, the unused object constant "temperature", which would presumably benefit from items that "generate heat", may have been intended to play a role in the game before being made irrelevant in the final, as no object is coded to check or assign a "temperature" value.

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|Walk By

style=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| Exact purpose unknown; it might refer to an old flag for handling arriving neighbors.

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|A+

rowspan=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"11" style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| While certain object events call flags that check or change the school grades for child Sims, the specific flags listed here are never used.

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|dislike

rowspan=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"2" style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| Adjusts a Sims' relationship status to "Hate". In the final game, friendship and love are unique events that receive a distinct treatment by the game, signified by help system messages and the sprites ( and ), while extremely low relationship scores among Sims don't heavily impact gameplay in the same way, save for a number of hostile interactions that the player has access to in that context. The final game has an unused sprite for the "Hate" relationship status: .

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|unknown

rowspan=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"5" style="background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| Unused flags belonging to an old object categorizing convention that objects such as beds and showers still have in their "init" functions as early remnants. At one point, it might have been used to trigger certain events in case one object of their respective kind was found in the house.

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style="text-align: center; background-color: #dedede;|show string

style=;color:#17191c;--link:#12467a;--newlink:#9c2b26;--dim:#4a4d52"background:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D| An early "dialog" equivalent. It does not seem to work in the final product. It's meant to somehow print "STR#" resources on the screen as pop-up windows or tooltips. Contrary to "dialog", this primitive does not have any options to add indexed "_BMP" images close to the printed text, or any other special features. Only old, unused trees indexed in the stove and fridge objects reference this primitive.

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