School Minibus

This is a school minibus replacement for the standard big yellow school bus.

It behaves as the school bus, with some minor adjustments

  • Students will change into uniform as required
  • If configured, students will carry a bag to the minibus (see School Bags for a suitable briefcase and tablet for teens)
  • Children and Teens will get in the back (sliding doors), children will prefer the pavement door, teens will use both the pavement and road-side doors
  • Teens will retry the road door before heading back to the pavement
  • If InTeen's "Back To School" flavour pack is installed, pregnant teens will get in the front seat (as they're adults, not teens)
  • Children and Teens will get out of the back (sliding doors), children will only use the pavement door, teens will use both
  • Children and Teens will move away from the minibus door by going to the mailbox, front door or a parent before looking at their report card
  • Supports the manual "Go To School" menu option

In addition, it can be set as the carpool vehicle for job levels

  • Should only be set for low-level (up to level 4) jobs that start at 9am and finish at either 1pm or 3pm
  • Ideally used by the Education career
  • Adults will get in the front seat
  • Supports the manual "Go To Work" menu option

Configuration - BCONs et al

Any bags carried to school can be configured. BCON 0x1000:0x06 "Spawn School Bags" switches this feature off and on, while BCON 0x1003 "School Bags" contains the GUIDs of the carried bags (if any)

The colour of the minibus can be configured. There are four available colours - smoke (0 greyish), ice (1 blueish), moss (2 greenish) and berry (3 redish). The default colour is configured in BCON 0x1004:0x00 "Default Colour", while the number of colours and available colours are configured via BCON 0x1004:0x01, the STR#s 0x0088 and 0x012E, and the TXMT and TXTR resources.

The driver's uniform can be configured. There are three available - teaching assistant (0), elementary teacher (1) and coach (2). The default uniform is configured in BCON 0x1002:0x00 "Default Uniform", while the number of uniforms and available uniforms are configured via BCON 0x1002:0x01 and GUID pairs from BCON 0x02/0x03 onwards.

Note 1 Entries 0x00 to 0x05 in BCON 0x1000 "Tuning" are for code-optimization, and should not be changed.

Note 2 BCON 0x1001 "Slots" is unused, it's just there for me to keep track of what each slot is used for!

Configuration - Debug Menus

With testing cheats enabled, shift-click on the school minibus and select the desired colour and driver's uniform. Settings are saved by family, so different coloured minibuses can arrived at different houses.

Conflicts

The semi-global BHAV - "Function - Is Job Car Here?" (0x201B) in the JobDataGlobals (group 0x7F8F4EB6), so will conflict with any mod that also changes this BHAV.

Notes

The school minibus object is based on the "Car - Career - Minivan" (GUID 0x4C03451A, Group 0x7F0B757E) object.

As this is a replacement, it uses the same GUIDs as the "Car - School Bus" object. Of special note is the GUID for the school bus 0,8 tile is given to this object's 0,5 tile.

The mod requires InTeen Check 2.

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Credits

  • Slig for the four recolours - they (and several more) are available here
  • The developers of SimPE.
  • All the modders who took time to write tutorials, wiki pages or explanatory forum posts - some of the answers I used dated back to 2007!
  • Way too many others to mention.

"It is only by standing on the shoulders of giants that the rest of us can even see the top of the learning curve and contemplate attaining it."

Videos

A household with seven off-spring

Mother (teaching assistant) and daughter travelling together

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