Everything Sims 2

Correctly marks the “Frame Of Preference” from Mansions & Gardens as an arch rather than a door. Without this fix, the arch can be “locked” and makes a door open/close sound as people walk through it.

Here is a mod that changes the way the locks on doors work just very slightly. Without this mod “Lock for all Sims” will stop all people and all pets from going through a door. With this mod “Lock for all Sims” only stops people going through a door. If you want to also lock the door to Pets (i.e. deadbolt the door so no-one can go through) you must additionally select “Disallow Pets”.

This mod updates the classic “Key Dorm Doors” system (originally by Simlogical / Inge Jones), which is used in The Sims 2: University dorms and Apartment-style or shared housing setups.
👉 The original idea was You can assign a specific door to a specific Sim using a “key” system.

🧠 What the original mod does with key dorm doors, you can
🔑Assign rooms to individual Sims
🚫 Block other Sims from entering
🏠 Create realistic dorm rooms, apartments and shared houses.

👉 It basically gives you private rooms with controlled access

🐶 The problem with pets, pets don’t understand the key system properly. They may get locked out or trapped out of rooms. Or pets might ignore restrictions entirely (depending on setup).

🔧 What gummilutt’s update does ✅ Makes doors pet-aware. Pets can properly pass through key-assigned doors when appropriate

Doorbell is no longer loud enough to wake the dead.

Issue where doors could stuck “in use” by lights or stair end tiles. Doors will now properly close and become not-in-use.

Delivery persons should no longer be irresistibly drawn to the inaccessible door of the mausoleum in the backyard when making their deliveries. Garage doors are not considered front doors regardless of level.

4 Keyholder Doors adds special lockable doors that let you control exactly which Sims are allowed to enter certain rooms or areas of a lot. Instead of locking a door for an entire group, you can assign up to four individual Sims as keyholders.

Both Sims who live on the lot and visiting Sims can be given a key. The Sim needs to be present on the lot when you first assign them as a keyholder, but the door remembers them afterward. This means a visitor who has been given a key can leave the lot, return later, and still be allowed through the door.

The doors have two main settings:
Unlocked: The door works normally and any appropriate Sim can pass through it.
Locked: Only Sims who have been assigned as keyholders can enter the restricted area. Certain NPCs are also allowed through so that necessary services aren’t prevented from functioning.

The locking system is directional. The green placement arrow determines which side of the door is considered the restricted area. When the door is locked, Sims without a key cannot pass through the door in the direction of the arrow, but they can still travel in the opposite direction. This allows you to keep Sims out of a private room without accidentally trapping somebody inside it.

For example, you could use one for a Sim’s private bedroom. Give that Sim a key and lock the door. Other household members and visitors won’t be able to wander into the bedroom, but anyone who happens to already be inside can still leave.

This makes the doors useful for things such as private bedrooms, offices, employee-only areas, apartments or shared houses, clubs, dorm-like setups, or other rooms where only particular Sims should have access.

There are a few limitations to keep in mind. The doors aren’t intended to replace every normal Maxis door on a lot. In particular, they may interfere with behaviors associated with front doors and bathroom privacy, and diagonal placement isn’t supported. Moving an already configured door can also interfere with its saved keyholder information.

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.

Here is a bathroom version of Numenor’s glass door! (Does not work on diagonal)  To use this you must have Numenor’s mesh from MTS2

This is a special door that can both control who is allowed through it and make Sims automatically change their clothes when they pass through it.

👗 Clothes Change System
The clothes-changing portion works with Simlogical’s Clothes Change Controller mod. You place the controller—a decorative vase—in the room that you want Sims to change clothes before entering. Using the vase’s menu, you choose what type of outfit Sims should put on and whether NPCs should also be affected. When a Sim passes through the special door into that area, the system tells them to change into the selected outfit.
🔐 Security/Apartment System
The same door can serve as the special doorway used by Simlogical’s security system to restrict access.
The important reason this particular door exists is that it’s a non-global alternative. Simlogical also provides an optional global patch that modifies most ordinary Maxis doors so they can participate in the clothes-changing system. If you don’t want to install a global modification affecting normal doors, you can use this special Clothes Change and Security Door instead

Each side is set separately. For each side you can set how much money, if any, your current family gets when visitors go through the door in that direction, and what, if anything, they should change into. The nude option is not included in this version, but is available from the adult downloads section at Mod The Sims 2. Although both versions have the same GUID, the adult version has an A at the end of the filename so if you are swapping between the versions you will need to remove the unwanted file.

The Color Keys System lets you divide Sims into custom groups using six different colored keys. A Sim carries their colored key in their inventory, and other compatible mods can recognize that key to determine where that Sim is allowed to go.

🟢 Put a green key in a room → Sims carrying a green key can enter.

Place as many types of keys into a single room and into a Sim’s inventory and only those with that color key will be able to pass through the door.

🔴 + 🔵 keys in room → Sims carrying either a red or blue key can enter.

It can even work differently in each direction. If a door separates two rooms and one room contains a red key while the other contains a magenta key, red-key Sims can pass toward the red room while magenta-key Sims can pass toward the magenta room.

Keys can be purchased, assigned or removed through the special door, or given to other Sims as gifts. The keys are also recognized by TwoJeffs’ Visitor Controller, allowing entire lots to be restricted according to your custom Sim categories. This makes the system particularly useful for creating social classes, ranks, factions, employee areas, clubs, or other player-created groups that The Sims 2 doesn’t normally recognize. Only the special Color Keys door recognizes room restrictions. If the restricted room has another ordinary door leading into it, Sims without the proper key can simply use that door instead.

A system of wall-mounted detectors that control access to individual rooms on a lot. These can be formed into groups that control several rooms as one, if desired. Sims can be excluded or admitted based on name (keyholders) or sim type (age, gender etc), and if you have the Uni EP, you can set up a timer to switch between access levels at different times of the day.

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.

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. 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.

If locked doors (hacked or original) appear to be letting Sims see what is behind them and try to get to things, your routeblocking flag may be becoming unset. After installing this patch, you may need to unlock and lock the troublesome door/s again, or even buy them again in order to pick up the change.

Place this with the placement arrow pointing the way you want Sims to go. Sims can only enter or exit in one direction.

Fixes the line of coding that when a Sims rings a doorbell to not go and greet them.

Intended for use in dormitory houses, to stop your invited guests from the home neighborhood 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.

These doors are set up via their menus and you have to have the wall up to click on the door. The menu allows you to ban various types of Sim, like ban all males, all toddlers, all visitors etc. Then on top of that you can at any time use the menu to unlock the door and let any Sim through, lock it so that no Sim can go through, or leave it in the in-between state so that just your specified types of Sims can use it. 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. 

This mod prevents the gardener from entering rooms with locked doors.

This mod allows relatives of the sim who claimed a myne door to enter that locked room, it also allows influenced Sims to enter the locked room, the family relationship is determined by the current selected sim so any sims on the lot that are related to the current selected sim will be allowed to enter those locked rooms, it also allows the current selected sim to enter any room with a locked myne door even if they didn’t claim it

This mod allows the maid to enter a room with a locked Myne door.

This mod stops all sims from doing that screaming thing when they try to enter a room with a locked door/gate.

This mod allows sims of the same gender to enter the bathroom while the door is locked for privacy; The EP3 version also allows servo’s to enter the bathroom.