Tutorial: How to add a name tag to your CAS items, taking advantage of the Birthday Update UI elements!
As you might know, a while back The Sims 4 recieved a birthday update with a few CC items from awesome creators put into the actual game. These items have a special tag that allows them to have a mouse-hover name tag.
Can anyone use this tag? At first i thought you couldn't cause it might've been hard coded, but actually it isn't! I'm gonna go through some steps to enable it on your items as well.
STEPS 1 - 3:
1: Open your CAS item .package file into Sims4Studio, click on the warehouse tab;
2: Look for your package file's CAS Part resource;
3: Inside CAS Part, look for the "tags" field;
STEPS 4 - 5:
4: Click on the "add" button and select CATEGORY: SpecialContent - TAGVALUE: SpecialContent_Anniversay21
5: Click on the "add" button and select CATEGORY: Style - TAGVALUE: Style_CAS_Branded_Anniversay21
We have now enabled the possibility for the asset to display a Name Tag. Now, how do we give it a string and customize what it says?
We are going to clone an object, whatever object, and utilize their strings to have a uniquely numbered string table that won't conflict with any EA or other CC item's strings.
STEPS 6 - 7:
6: Clone an object, it can be whatever object, i usually clone a tooth brush decor item and call the package "dummy" and stick it on the desktop;
7: Go into the studio tab and change the Catalog Name as if you were renaming your object normally, but instead type in your name or whatever you want the CAS item to display. For the purpose of this tutorial, i wrote "YOUR NAME HERE";
STEPS 8 - 10:
8: Go into the warehouse tab of your Dummy object and select all the String Tables, all of them;
9: Now click on batch export and save them in a folder somewhere;
10: Now, go into your CAS Item package and click on warehouse. Now, click on Batch Import and select
STEPS 11 - 12:
11: Click on one of the string table resources and then, click on the "Text" tab (by default it will show the "data" tab) and copy the "KEY" value of the string that shows what you typed;
12: Click on the CAS Part resource and look for the "PART DESCRIPTION KEY" field, and paste the value you copied earlier into it.
Now save, and test in game:
If it worked, hovering over your item should show a name tag, just like that!
