Boutique Mod

Inspired by the sims 2 shopping for clothes system, I present a sims 3 take on buying clothes, accessories and running a thriving boutique! Set up shifts, keep the racks stocked, and you might find yourself in profit!

Required:

• Ambitions
• NRAAS Master Controller + Integration Module

Optional:

• ITF if you want to use the clothes mannequin and some visual effects.
• Late Night if you want the animations for the security guard.
• Seasons for extra interactions on the mannequin.
• Savvy Seller Set for some visual and audio effects.

Suggested:

• Lyralei's TS3 Conversions (incl. clothes changing booth)
• More ATS3 Security Gates
• ATS3 Friperie Set

==Full Documentation is included in the download. I spent a while writing it out, so please read thoroughly!==

Updates:

23/07/2024

• French Translation provided, thanks to azzazz03!

20/07/2024

• Changed way sim spins into set career outfit. Sims will no longer obsess over changing clothes outside of work hours
• Added more error handling
• Sims should no longer reset if doing certain actions outside working hours
• Guard animations stop properly
• Tend register should always be properly available for register attendants

How Stores Work:

• Set up a shift
• Hire Employees (bosses count as employees so stores are fully functional with only one sim!)
• Link at least one rack to the register
• Open for business!

Employees:

• Store employees can be given three types of roles: register attendant, sales attendant and security guard.
• Employees will do their jobs automatically but you can always manually tell them to do things too like: restocking, dressing up mannequins, helping customers, among other things.

Customers:

• Inactive and active sims can browse through the racks and have the ability to purchase items. They'll interact differently depending on if they are shopping at a clothes rack, accessory rack, or at a mannequin.
• Inactives won't purchase outfits from mannequins unless you direct them to (or you enable auto-purchasing in the XML). However, they may "fake" buy clothes.
• Once finished shopping, customers hold their bags and wait to be rung up! Take too long and they may abandon their purchase.

Shopping:

• Adjust prices and restrict customers by age and gender to customise your store!

Objects:

• Shopping Racks (x2)
• Accessory Rack
• Clothes Pedestal/Mannequin (Requires ITF)
• Boutique Door
• Security Gates
• Dummy Accessory (Gloves)

Clothes Racks:

• Buy Clothes for your own sim, sims in your household, or (if you're an employee) suggest clothes for customers.
• Employees that suggest clothes for customers can fulfil Ambition Stylist jobs this way.

Accessory Racks:

• Choose accessories to be sold by adding them to the XML in the package file. The XML comes loaded with a few base game items already plus a couple modded items (Arsil's Sunglasses and lipstick - that won't be loaded unless you have them installed).
• Sell buy-mode items as well as CAS items!
• Make your CAS items wearable from your sim's inventory using your own meshes or my dummy accessory (see Documentation and XML for details).
• Blacklist certain categories from being shown. If you want a dedicated shoe shop or an opticians, you can have it!
• Try on products before buying them to see if they suit your sim. If there's a mirror in the room, they'll check themselves out in it.

Clothing Mannequin:

• Try on the mannequin outfits to see if they suit your sim
• Plan different outfits to display and even set them to be rotated through seasonally.
• Let your employees be creative and choose a random outfit for the mannequin to wear.
• Buy clothes for your own sim, household members, or customers.
• Allow or disallow inactives from automatically purchasing display outfits.

Security Gates:

• Give your security guards something to stand and look threatening by.
• You can try your luck at stealing from the shop. If you're caught, you'll have to pay up. If you get past the gates (or if there are no gates), enjoy your bounty!

Boutique Door:

• Cloned from the Savvy Seller doors without the annoying 'kick-every-last-person-out-the-building-come-closing-time' feature.
• Link this to a register and let the open and close sign automatically flip itself. Also, close the store or rename it, straight from the door.

Phone Interactions: Under Jobs/Offers - Boutique Register

• Ask for time off work (paid or unpaid).
• Call in sick.
• Cancel vacation days.

Credits and Thanks:

• @dhalsims for adding geostates to the ITF rack for me. Modders, I really recommend her if you need any 3D models made also!
• DouglasVeiga for the BG rack with the geostates.
• @aroundthesims for allowing me to use her objects in my mod as always!
• Sims 4 for all the animations that I converted.
• Simstate & merchant mods for the idea to go into a mode to link racks to the register.
• The OG shop for clothes mod and pedestal by @anitmb.
• Arsil and @zoeoe-sims for wearable CAS items idea that I adapted.
• Ani's Candle mod & Amb. Makeover XML which I looked at for inspo on how to do accessory rack xml.

Compatibility:

• All new objects so shouldn't conflict with anything really.
• Removes the 'plan outfit' interaction from dressers.
• Made on version 1.67.

Known issues, prop information and the full feature breakdown are all in the documentation.