Automatic Sunburns

I’ve been working REALLY hard on something for a few weeks now! I don’t want to know how many hours I put into learning, squashing coding bugs, and testing to get this working! I did my best to balance realism and fun.

Your sims can now soak up the warm sun and get a little tan. But be careful, too much of a good thing brings misery. If you forget to wear sunblock you might soon be mistaken for a lobster! Or even worse…

CAS
There are 4 skin details for each male, female, children and toddler sims. Instead of simple varying shades, I panted them in blender from above so realistic sunburn patterns would appear. There’s no sunburns where the sun don’t shine! I also assumed most sims will be wearing some form of clothing, so some basic tan lines are incorporated. You probably won’t want to use these skin details in CAS tho because they are automatically applied during gameplay.

How it Works
Any Human sim with the default Human trait now will change in appearance and mood depending on how much time they spend in or out of the sun. This was originally based on the vampire functionality which allows vampires to be hurt in the sunlight. It works with all ages, children, and toddlers too!

• after 4 hours in the sun your sim will get a light tan
• after 4 more hours they will get sunburned
• after 4 more hours sims become lobster red!
• after 8 more hours in the sun things, get a little…shall we say… heated!

you might notice that takes a lot of time. More time than sun shines in a day! In fact there’s 3 levels of sunlight intensity throughout the day:

• morning light at 38% intensity
• high and bright mid day sun at 100% intensity
• evening light 38% intensity
• and of course no sun at night

However

There are many other things that alter how much sunlight a sim receives:

• If a sim applies sunscreen (bought on the computer under order… medicine) they can block 90% of those UV rays. (in fact NPCs are all wearing sunscreen, hopefully)
• If a sim steps under a shady roof, the sunburns begin to slowly fade. Sunburns will fade on their own in a few sim days. (note: the game doesn’t display the right time remaining)
• Drinking Aloe Vera Juice from the Aloe Vera plant found in buy mode can help to reduce the discomfort and accelerate the healing of those uncomfortable sunburns.
• When a sim recovers from a sunburn, they will have a golden tan. It takes anywhere form 10-20 hours to get burned again with a golden tan, around 10 hours for that golden tan to fade.

If you’re really all about getting that sim to tan quickly, take of their clothes!
That’s right, any sim that goes outside in a swimsuit or, well… nothing at all but the suit they were born in… they will receive 2x as much sun as their fully clothed neighbors.

The future
In the near future I hope to add more things to this mod, fun things like moon burns, heat stroke, thirst, etc. I would also like to figure out how to make the Aloe Vera a gardening plant, I haven’t figured that out yet… I will soon make the Aloe Vera help heal burns with my other mod, Automatic Burn Scars

overrides and requirements
this mod overrides a few XML tunings and objects. I built this with the latest game version, 1.39.74.1020

151039 trait_Species_Human
105670 purchase_Medicine
15220 plantSO_aloeVera_01