Better Pie Menu Mod v. 2.6.0  

This mod creates a better overview in the pie menu structure for some objects in the game (e.g. computer, TV, Game Console, Sim). The main goal is to make the search faster with suitable icons. In addition, the priority of unimportant folders has been decreased and the priority of the important folder has been increased instead. A few new super categories were also created on the computer and the sub-folders reorganized.

This mod only overwrites the so-called Pie Menu Category Tuning of some menu categories. However, no interaction tuning is affected, so that conflicts can only arise with mods that also modify the Pie Menu Category Tuning.

Additional Extensions

There are some add-ons available for better integration with other mods. Please only install these add-ons if you use the corresponding mods. If you don't use it, please delete the add-ons!

• AddOn: Computer Pie Menu Integration for Purchasing Overhaul Mod
• AddOn: Computer Pie Menu Hider for Basemental Drugs Mod
• AddOn: Computer Pie Menu Hider for Wicked Whims Mod

You only need the integration file with my Purchasing Overhaul Mod if you use this mod! The addon file should stay in the Better Pie Menu Mod folder! Please don't move it!

The two category hiders change the prioritization of the WhickedWhims and Basemental Drugs categories from 10 to 0 on all computers, so that they no longer appear right at the beginning, but are hidden under "More Choices".

If you don't have a deep subfolder in your main mod folder, all the hider addon files can stay in the Better Pie Menu folder. But if it has no effect, they must be moved directly to the appropriate mod folders, e.g. Move the WW hider to the WW folder.

Update Notes Version 2.5.2

Added French translation. Many thanks to Mollory for kindly providing the translation! No further updates. If you don't play in French, you can stay with version 2.5.0 or 2.5.1.

Update Notes Version 2.5.1

Added Chinese and Simplified Chinese translation. Many thanks to WANZI for kindly providing the translations! There are no further updates. So if you don't play in Chinese, you can still use version 2.5.0.

Update Notes Version 2.5.0

The main focus of this update lies in the further development of the folder structure of social interactions and optimization of the mod:

• Anticipating that the new family extension might mess up the social interactions, I split the mod into two parts (main core and social addon). For more information see below.
• The Social Friendly Interactions menu has had a major visual change with new top and subcategories. Many new social interactions have been categorized.
• For a long time I tried to get by with only strings from the game, but now it's not enough for me anymore. The mod now also contains its own strings. So far it's just a few, but that means it needs translation now.

Main Core & Addon

The main core concerns pie menus on objects and the self-interactions on the sim. The social interactions are now in an addon for two reasons:

• First of all, it's not final yet and I'm still testing, searching and trying. This means that the structure is changed often and cardinally with each update until I find it optimal and beautiful. This may not please everyone, then you can delete this addon and you have the traditional social menu.
• The second reason is if the family expansions patch changes the social menu in a way that conflicts with my mod, you can then just delete the addon and just use the core of the mod without having to wait for me to fix the mod.

Update Notes Version 2.4.0

In this update, I've improved the following pie menus:

• Six new subcategories Body, Nature, Tech, Handiness, Music and Art in the Friendly interactions category are now available. In these thematic categories, the corresponding interactions have now been moved. Further reclassification follows in further mod versions.
• I also moved some interactions from the Wicked Whims and Wonderful Whims mods into my new category structure (on the PC and in the friendly interactions).
• The "Fill out reports" interaction for Business Career on PC has been moved from Web to Career.
• Interactions with computer glasses were structured and ordered.
• Other rather very small improvements that you probably won't notice right away.

The following changes have also been made:

• Code optimization using SCUMBUMBO's Tuning Error Notifier is intended to make the mod's work faster because some small unnecessary lines of code have been deleted and optimized.

March 14 Patch Warning

As I suspected, the upcoming patch will kill the Better Pie Menu mod. At least on the sim. So I let myself be surprised and will hope that the new menu makes sense and doesn't just ruin everything.

I don't think the BPM will be completely redundant.  But the patch will bring it back to version 2.0 where I started improving social menus. I will certainly continue to develop this mod. The improvements to objects will still be needed.

So I recommend you to delete the social addon after the March 14th, 2023 patch until I review and release an update! In the worst case you will even have to delete this mod completely, but I hope that you can only delete the social addon and the core mod will still be usable. We will see.

Compatibility Issues

The following mods have unresolvable compatibility issues that cause in-game error messages:

• Less Main Pie Clutter by Lumpinou

The following mods do not have any compatibility issues with Better Pie Menu Mod, but will cause the menus to look different than intended:

• Better Meal Time Menu by LittleMsSam (on the kitchen appliances);
• Carl's Sims 4 Gameplay Overhaul by Carl (on Sims social interactions);
• Complete Cooking Overhaul by Srslysims (on the kitchen appliances);
• Meaningful Stories by roBurky (on computers and refrigerator);
• Plumfruit by Arnie (on computers and tablets);
• Realistic Cooking Mod by Somik and Severinka (on fridge).

These minor conflicts do not cause the game to crash or generate LE errors. The result of these conflicts is that some of my menu tweaks no longer work because the mentioned mods are also overriding the same pie menu tuning, resulting in override contention. So you won't see all the improvements I've made to BPM. So players using BPM and the listed mods at the same time just don't see the full Better Pie Menu improvements. But there's no reason to delete either mod because you like both.

Possible problems

Problem: Since I got the mod, I can't do anything with the computer or on other objects anymore. The menu has disappeared. If I click on the object, then everything hangs and then nothing happens.

Answer: The problem can occur when my mod conflicts with another one. This can only be the mods that change the EA Pie menus. Let me know what mod it conflicts with and I'll try to resolve it! The conflicts cannot be foreseen, but they can be repaired!

Translations

The mod almost exclusively uses only pre-made strigs from the game, so no translations are needed here. The new cake menus are now available in all languages. Since version 2.5.0 the mod contains a few lines as names of the main categories. The lines are:

• My own translation in English, German, Spanish and Russian
• Google translation for Italian, Portuguese and Dutch
• Chinese and Simplified Chinese translation from WANZI
• The other languages stayed in English

Required Terms

• The use of scripts must be allowed in the game settings!