TwoJeffs’ Visitor Controller also recognises these keys, if you want to only have holders of certain coloured keys, only the “right sort” of Sims on a particular lot.

• You can buy one from the catalogue – Misc/Misc for §2 – then drag it into the Sim’s inventory
• You can click on a ColorKeys door and get the menu to put one straight into your Sim’s inventory
• You can get your community leader Sims to carry some spare keys to give out as gifts to other deserving Sims when they meet them anywhere.  This may be helpful on Community lots where you typically cannot access the inventory in the usual way

Lock/Unlock are so you can release trapped Sims in an emergency.  When the door is unlocked, keys are not required.

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Simply place a key of the right colour in the room – anywhere.  That’s right, just the same key that the Sims have in their inventories.  If you place a green key in the room, Sims with green keys can get in.  If you place a green *and* a blue key in the room, Sims with either a green key, or a blue key, or both, will be able to get in.   If there are no keys in the room at all, the door will act as if unlocked.

You could have the door between two rooms, one of the rooms could have a magenta key, and one could have a red key.  Then Sims with a Magenta key could go through the door one way, while red key holders could go through it the other way.

Note on the diagonal door

Because diagonal doors only have one tile, the door will decide it’s in either one room or the other.  That means if it decides it is in the room with the blue key, only blue keyholders will be able to go through it at all, in either direction, even if there is no key the other side.  You may be able to turn this to your advantage once you have found out which room the door thinks it is in.  I mainly included a diagonal version so that if you accidentally placed the straight door on a diagonal wall it does not revert to the EAxis original door forcing you to buy it again.

NB The door and the diagonal take all recolours of the original Justa Door.

Keys: ijColorKeys_Keys.zip No overrides

Justa Door: ijColorKeys_JustaDoor.zip No overrides

This hack may be compatible with games that do not have AL or FT but has not been tested with earlier games.

ijPushedGreetPatchSeasons.zip   (contains game overrides)

I found a line in the code for Sims ringing a doorbell which put the greet action on the queue of a Sim who was in the house.  The line was not joined up so it did not run.  I simply joined it up again.   You can still cancel it out of the resident Sim’s queue if you don’t want him to answer the door.

(contains game overrides)

ijAddGender4KeyLock_BVv2.zip (contains game overrides) (NB Hotel room doors are a seperate object and will not show the key and gender menu, and there is specific Maxis code to prevent you locking other doors on hotels even though the key menu shows)

ijAddGender4KeyLock_AL.zip  (contains game overrides) (NB Apartment front doors are a seperate object and will not show the key and gender menu)

The patch adds some extra options to a door’s locking menu

4-Key Locking: Choose keyholders from list of sims by family, or from “On the lot…” if the required Sim is present at the time.  Keyholder locked mode comes into play only when the Maxis option “Lock/Me only” is chosen.  The sim that was the active sim when locking the door is allowed through in addition to the stored keyholders, so use a keyholder to lock the door if this is not wanted.  Please note that unlike my standalone 4-key doors, this door will be locked from both sides.  Also, unlike my standalone doors, this is only as reliable as the normal Maxis locking, which as we know sims sometimes ignore and go through anyway.

Gender Locking: allows you to make it into a restroom door by selecting “males only” or “females only”.   These options are in addition to the normal options.   So if you choose “females only” and then “lock to family and employees only”, the only sims who can use it will be female members of the family and female employees.  To remove the gender restriction, use “either gender” from the menu.  The “unlock” option does not remove the gender restriction.

These extra options will not appear on any of the four Maxis restroom doors.

Note:  This patch must be removed before installing future EPs and you should check back here for an update.

It will work unpredictably with other door or routing hacks such as Pescado’s APO or my Security/Apartment System.  It should work fine with most custom doors that are just new meshes and not hacked.

ijNoSetUnlockedPatch.zip   (contains game overrides)

This seemed to be fixed in the game during Pets and Seasons, and has become a problem again in Bon Voyage. The Bon Voyage version of the patch also sets the flags correctly at a time that a sim goes through the door, to reduce the need to rebuy or relock.

ijNoSetUnlockedPatchBV.zip   (contains game overrides)

Hack does not work when the door is placed diagonally.  This is because when the door is placed diagonally, it actually becomes a different object.  I have decided not to offer the diagonal option for the time being because I can foresee various complications and cannot yet think of a very good way round them.  For similar reasons, the door may lose its settings or become unsynchronised between the two sides if you try to move it after setting up keyholders.

Suitable for all games as long as you realise they totally ignore the Maxis tests for door locking, and probably do not understand Pets.  For this reason these doors are not recommended for the main external door or for bathrooms as it does not run the Maxis code that deals with the arrival of visitors and bathroom privacy.

NB doors offer original range of colours, but do not use custom recolours made for their Maxis counterparts.

Download the instructions: ijSecurityInstructions.zip

ijSecurityControllerAlarm.zip (no globals)

You need one of these per lot that you wish to use the Security/Apartment system on.

ijSecurityControllerShrub.zip (no globals)

Works the same as the wall-mounted controller, but you can use this outdoors.  It is alright to have both controllers on a lot, but you would not want both of them to be doing automated security checks together.

Use one or more of these in each room you wish to control

ijSecurityPatchUN.zip (contains replacement globals)

ijSecurityPatchOFB.zip (contains replacement globals)

This door is hacked to work with both this Security System and the Clothes Changing System, for those of you who do not wish to use a global patch.

Place this door with the green arrows pointing into the bathroom.   When a Sim enters the bathroom, the door locks behind them and no one else, not even NPCs, can get in.  When the Sim comes out, the door is left unlocked ready for the next person.  Occasionally, if Sims pass each other on the way in or out, the door will be accidentally left unlocked while one is in there.  If you then get more than one Sim in the bathroom, each time one leaves they will leave the door unlocked behind them, which means another Sim can walk in on the remaining one, and so on and so on, just like in real life.    Any time you want, you can use the door’s menu to lock or unlock it if the Sims have messed things up in this way, but it’s not necessary, it will sort itself out when the last of the bunch leave.   Needless to say, this door is not effective in two-door bathroom layouts!

The door has the additional bonus of stopping toddlers entering by themselves, to keep them from the toilet, whilst allowing them to leave freely.  This means they can be carried in for their bath, and let themselves out if they are put down in the room afterwards.

Does not work on diagonal

Only allows members of currently selected family to pass.  On residential lot this means the Sims who live on that lot (not family members from other lots).  On community lots, the family who you are controlling have sole use of the door.

Does not work on diagonal

OneWayJustArch.zip 

Place this with the placement arrow pointing the way you want Sims to go.

Does not work on diagonal

Intended for use in dormitory houses, to stop your invited guests from the home neighbourhood escaping into the inaccessible dorms of game-generated students.  Use one of these doors to close off the corridor to the bedrooms. When locked, allows only Young Adults and NPCs to pass in one direction while allowing anyone back out in the other direction so that they can’t get trapped.   Unlock if and when you do wish free access to the bedrooms.   Place with green arrow pointing into designated students-only area.