Mootilda
13th Feb 2012, 6:44 PM
Here is the safest and easiest way to delete all characters from a neighborhood:
1) Create a new empty neighborhood with the terrain type that you want to use.
2) Use HoodReplace to copy the neighborhood terrain, roads, trees, deco, etc. from your old neighborhood to your new neighborhood:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=279992
3) In your old neighborhood, make sure that all of your lots are unowned and unoccupied. Otherwise, your Lot Descriptions will reference families which are not available. It is probably safest to allow the game to delete all objects from your occupied lots when your sims move out. Use of the Stay-Things Shrub or similar mods may leave references to sims on your lots.
4) Download and install the latest version of SimPE:
http://sims.ambertation.de/
5) In SimPE, extract all Text List (STR#) with instance numbers of 0x8000 or larger from your old neighborhood.
6) Extract all Lot Descriptions (LTXT) from your old neighborhood.
7) Add the extracted Text List (STR#) to your new neighborhood. Save your neighborhood, so that the Text Lists are available for the next step.
8) Add the extracted Lot Descriptions to your new neighborhood.
9) Copy all lot packages from the Lots subfolder of your old neighborhood to the Lots subfolder of your new neighborhood.
10) Rename all of those lot packages from <old>_Lot#.package to <new>_Lot#.package (i.e. change the neighborhood prefix, but nothing else).
11) (optional) Copy the png from your old neighborhood to your new neighborhood and rename it to have the new neighborhood prefix. This is the preview picture for the neighborhoods menu.
1) Create a new empty neighborhood with the terrain type that you want to use.
2) Use HoodReplace to copy the neighborhood terrain, roads, trees, deco, etc. from your old neighborhood to your new neighborhood:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=279992
3) In your old neighborhood, make sure that all of your lots are unowned and unoccupied. Otherwise, your Lot Descriptions will reference families which are not available. It is probably safest to allow the game to delete all objects from your occupied lots when your sims move out. Use of the Stay-Things Shrub or similar mods may leave references to sims on your lots.
4) Download and install the latest version of SimPE:
http://sims.ambertation.de/
5) In SimPE, extract all Text List (STR#) with instance numbers of 0x8000 or larger from your old neighborhood.
6) Extract all Lot Descriptions (LTXT) from your old neighborhood.
7) Add the extracted Text List (STR#) to your new neighborhood. Save your neighborhood, so that the Text Lists are available for the next step.
8) Add the extracted Lot Descriptions to your new neighborhood.
9) Copy all lot packages from the Lots subfolder of your old neighborhood to the Lots subfolder of your new neighborhood.
10) Rename all of those lot packages from <old>_Lot#.package to <new>_Lot#.package (i.e. change the neighborhood prefix, but nothing else).
11) (optional) Copy the png from your old neighborhood to your new neighborhood and rename it to have the new neighborhood prefix. This is the preview picture for the neighborhoods menu.