Pick Your Wand/Broom

Flyable Broom Update
Pick Your Broom / Wand

This is a set of mods and objects to allow witches to pick their wand/broom, including an update to the flyable broom set so any of these brooms will count as a broom for "witches only fly if have broom", and the broom and broomstand themselves got a few upgrades those using "pick your broom" will find helpful!

So, there are a few ways to set a broom or wand type as the model a witch will use. One is to buy a wand/broom of that type from the catalog (wands are in Hobbies/Misc, brooms are in Gen/Vehicles), click on it with the witch, and select "Set Broom".

Another is to buy a wand stand (also in Hobbies/Misc) and click the option for the right wand, which will place a wand of that type in the sim's inventory (if they don't already have one), set it as the wand they'll use, and deduct the cost from the family inventory (if they didn't already have that wand).

Another is to click on the broom stand; an option to set your broom will appear if the sim has broom(s) in their inventory that aren't the broom they'll use, and if a broom is in the stand there'll be an option to take it which will now also set it as the sim's broom - if there isn't a broom in the stand, you can also click on the stand to buy a new broom and then pick it up. Brooms are also all walk signs, meaning you can click on them to fly to another lot (if the sim clicking is a witch). The witch will grab the broom, set it as their broom, and fly away.

Once you've set the sim's wand/broom, they'll use that model as their wand/broom. However, to minimize conflicts and most easily ensure this will be a truly global mod affecting any situation in which a witch gets their wand/broom I had to make this mod in such a way that it can't detect the recolor of the wand/broom in the inventory. Instead I have given a different recolor to each alignment (good, evil, neutral) so there's still variety, and the various options on the broom stand should all also change the broom's recolor to match the witch using the interaction. All brooms/wands also have a "set alignment" interaction that will do the same.

All meshes/textures not from TS2 itself (the TS2 default broom) are converted from TS3 by shastakiss or decat. Also thanks to jellymeduza and itsdiamondeyesuniverse for assigning broom joints and shifting some of the wand meshes.

What I Want To Do Next:

One thing that really bothers me is when the wand stands add a wand to a witch's inventory it's always the default color. I intended to make it the right color for a witch of that alignment. Also, what do you guys think of the recolors being tied to alignment? Is there an interaction you wish was available, or that doesn't work how you'd like it to? Let me know!

Changelog

3/5/20: I forgot to mention earlier that I disabled kid interaction on non-training brooms, and adult/teen/elder interactions on the training broom, but I realized I forgot to consider a sim's age when picking which brooms would count for a witch being able to fly with witchesonlyflyifhavebroom; now adults can't fly if they only have a training broom in their inventory and child sims need a training broom in their inventory to fly. Also, wands were not meant to be segregated by age, so I went back and re-enabled the interactions for children.

Also updated the broom/wand stands to not show options for wands/brooms you haven't downloaded.

Also also, updated witchesonlyflyifhavebroom so the new edits shouldn't give errors.

3/7/20: Fixed error with previous update.

3/8/20: Fixed another error, and included some edits by jellymeduza that fix more errors and add her nondefault brooms to the list of brooms.

🆕 3/9/20: Fixed an error in "witches only fly if have broom".

ETA: It's now been officially released!