Unreal Engine Abandoned LifePlay [v2023.04 Stable] [Vinfamy]

Tristin4857 · May 25, 2022

Do i have to be unemployed to be able to buy a business? if i try now it highlights the place i bought and names it, but does not take my money or let me interact with the place. And will i get arrested for opening a strip club or brothel?

Also, is there a way to decrease scene frequency further? i have it set to 0.2 and still get 4-6 scenes during a task.

Kassan06969 · May 25, 2022

Tristin4857 said:
Do i have to be unemployed to be able to buy a business? if i try now it highlights the place i bought and names it, but does not take my money or let me interact with the place. And will i get arrested for opening a strip club or brothel?

Also, is there a way to decrease scene frequency further? i have it set to 0.2 and still get 4-6 scenes during a task.

No, you won't get arrested. Yeah, I too have scene frequency as low as possible and still get way too many.

STNeish · May 25, 2022

So... when my GF takes me to a beach vacation, why is it in an alley and not on a BEACH?

PhazeUFO · May 25, 2022

Edwarf said:
Don't get me wrong, If I'm a little too pissed off about not being able to interact with a (say) 16 YO NPC, is for being just an asethetic matter, or a legal workaround, if you want to see it that way.

I'm skilled enough to play with creation sliders values, scaling, and textures to get a flat chested "loli" really looking that age, even much less (believe me, its not that complicated); and the "cherry" on top would be seeing "Age: 16" in the NPC stats... but as I said, at least for me, its just a nuisance, with all due respect to the developer.

If I recall you can't goof about with the height, so you would just get a flatchested girl. If that's enough for you, then go for it. I do wish there were kids in it so it could actually simulate the parental aspect of things, like The Sims does. I guess when lewds are the main focus however, that's not very plausable.

Tristin4857 said:
Do i have to be unemployed to be able to buy a business? if i try now it highlights the place i bought and names it, but does not take my money or let me interact with the place. And will i get arrested for opening a strip club or brothel?

Also, is there a way to decrease scene frequency further? i have it set to 0.2 and still get 4-6 scenes during a task.

No. I had a job as a cop when I bought my first, then one as a doctor/nurse when I bought my second. In fact, I don't even think you need money as I believe I had less than the lease when I bought my first. Take over business is the action you have to take, and I have never had that greyed out. As for getting busted, I don't know about that or even how to open a brothel. If you need to have less scenes, I think you have to go in the source code if you want it less than what you have now. I personally have the opposite issue as I get painfully little for what I am looking for. Don't be a whore or a model to lower the amount of scenes you have.

Edwarf · May 25, 2022

You can set a minimum value of 0.95% at the ZYZ scaling, even 0.945%, and get a not very noticeable clipping and animation issues; so yes, it's completely possible to recreate a teenager body.

Goibniu · May 25, 2022

STNeish said:
So... when my GF takes me to a beach vacation, why is it in an alley and not on a BEACH?

Switch out 'street' for 'beach' of the 'setBackground()' on line 17 of sr_fso_cutedate_cms.lpscene. You'll find it in

<GAMEDIR>\LifePlay\Content\Modules\vin_Base\Scenes\misc

and GAMEDIR defined as where the exe resides. Since the beach background is new it hasn't been updated yet. Do wish the scenes were up in a gitlab/hub so people could get to bug hunting.

Pranctman · May 25, 2022

Whenever I go to a few places (Forest, river bed) Everybody stands in the same place in the middle. it makes interacting with them and other stuff hard. How do I fix this?

Also, any way to get more gay quests?

Kassan06969 · May 25, 2022

Pranctman said:
Whenever I go to a few places (Forest, river bed) Everybody stands in the same place in the middle. it makes interacting with them and other stuff hard. How do I fix this?

Also, any way to get more gay quests?

The outdoor places are still in development.

Lientu · May 26, 2022

does anyone read fuckin patchnotes? there is line that clearly says that some new outdoor locations don't have navmeshes so npc will stay in one place. ffs spend 1.5 min to read fkn patchnote

Ravenger6660 · May 26, 2022

To those wondering how to make the new outdoor maps work.

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The map ceiling or Z coordinate is set to almost 0.01. Making it look like there are no walls or ceiling.
This can break objects 'Z scale' and their 'Z coordinate position' so you will have to adjust the 'Z scale' by z * 100 and reposition the 'z coordinate position'.
note: 60 'Z coordinate position' should still be ground level for objects.

Icebird · May 26, 2022

Tristin4857 said:
Do i have to be unemployed to be able to buy a business? if i try now it highlights the place i bought and names it, but does not take my money or let me interact with the place. And will i get arrested for opening a strip club or brothel?

Also, is there a way to decrease scene frequency further? i have it set to 0.2 and still get 4-6 scenes during a task.

Some of scenes hasn't timeout defined or it's defined too few hours, neither configured properly where and when it runs. If some of repeating scenes begin boring you you can manually set they timeout for a period what you want. When a boring scene run you can do it in the bottom line between Translate and Skip (Timeout for '168' hrs). Set the hours first then click on the 'Timeout' word.

When you take ownership of a business go elsewhere and return. This should do the changes. When you got your business you should hire employees too. All new business has a minimal (1 or 2) employee at begining and not sure they are there at when you visit. In your business interactions extend only with your employees (so you cannot sell to, or service customers or like that). The business financials work like the salary if you work somewhere as employee. At the first day of a month will happen the accounting, and not that day when you start your business.

PhazeUFO · May 26, 2022

Icebird said:
Some of scenes hasn't timeout defined or it's defined too few hours, neither configured properly where and when it runs. If some of repeating scenes begin boring you you can manually set they timeout for a period what you want. When a boring scene run you can do it in the bottom line between Translate and Skip (Timeout for '168' hrs). Set the hours first then click on the 'Timeout' word.

When you take ownership of a business go elsewhere and return. This should do the changes. When you got your business you should hire employees too. All new business has a minimal (1 or 2) employee at begining and not sure they are there at when you visit. In your business interactions extend only with your employees (so you cannot sell to, or service customers or like that). The business financials work like the salary if you work somewhere as employee. At the first day of a month will happen the accounting, and not that day when you start your business.

It keeps the previous employees of a business at that location. I don't know if they contribute anything. but it will say (works here) even though they are not listed under your employees.

Icebird · May 26, 2022

PhazeUFO said:
It keeps the previous employees of a business at that location. I don't know if they contribute anything. but it will say (works here) even though they are not listed under your employees.

By default the AI assign 1 or 2 employee to almost all (map)location as a worker (this occurs mostly when you go to a 'never visited before' location, and after that approx in a monthly period). Only resolution what I figure out for this (rogue worker) is to exchange contact that worker and reset they assignment in contact list (or delete that character permanently if not symphatic). After that the current npc will be no longer work there. However, it is expected to occur later again to AI assign an other existing npc to work there (or create a new one to fulfill the deployed worker role), no matter that you own that business or not. It's a 'by design thing' of the game (the AI isn't smart enough for this to handle, and somewhat insignificant problem to do).

Dragnarok · May 26, 2022

When my wife gets pregnant by someone else why does that child not live with us shes still my wife and that child would still be ours because we are married

shadyms · May 26, 2022

Anyone knows why there are invisible npc's when the sex scene has multiple females? any fix for that?

Icebird · May 27, 2022

Dragnarok said:
When my wife gets pregnant by someone else why does that child not live with us shes still my wife and that child would still be ours because we are married

Because the game don't handle him/her as your relative (stepchild), as the game doesn't track relative lines. Try edit your relation with that child to become your relative, after that you could assign him/her to live with you. Two types of npc can living with you: your relatives and your dating ones (gf/bf or husband/wife).

Icebird · May 27, 2022

shadyms said:
Anyone knows why there are invisible npc's when the sex scene has multiple females? any fix for that?

If this things happen only during the LifePlay 5 Beta phase I suggest to wait for the normal release.
Also you can try forget custom skins if you use any or temporary lower your ingame graphic settings.
I think if the invisible glitches happens the engine can't/won't cache some of textures to display (caused by some graphic element like skin or clotches or just out of the dedicated memory).

Vinfamy · May 27, 2022