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Date Posted: 13th May 2013 at 07:17 PM
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Feeling a bit overwhelmed, so I just wanted to document my current to-do list:
- Release new version of Clean Installer with ability to remove furnishings.
- Additional research on custom terrain paint removal issue.
- Release new version of LotAdjuster with ability to remove custom terrain paints.
- Upload first version of SimRetriever and document use. [Now in upload queue]
- Upload clean Riverside. [Awaiting creation of modding group]
- New program to rename special families.
- Properly upload the LevelAdder, with source code.
- Improvement of "No weather on any lot" through addition of BCONs. Find testers?
- Investigate issues with installing previously occupied lots. Is there any way to make this safer? Perhaps delete existing objects and replace with new ones which will not have references to sims? (specifically beds)
- Further work on Stay-Things Shrub replacement which attempts to solve existing valuation problems.
- Write "Creating a Megahood (the easy way)" tutorial (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s....html#msg600069)
- Upload missing neighborhood(s) from wiki, especially Old School Final (?). Where???
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Misogyny and Sexism in the Gaming Industry
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Date Posted: 5th Apr 2013 at 04:43 AM
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What do you do when someone accuses you (unjustly) of calling them a liar? If you explain that this is a lie, then you have just called them a liar, thus making them no longer a liar for saying that you called them a liar. Is this a test? 
At least she has since admitted that she made the entire thing up, although that doesn't seem to have convinced her that it isn't true. 
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Running Sims 3 on mulitple computers
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Date Posted: 3rd Apr 2013 at 04:11 PM
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A helpful post from http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=498924:
Quote:
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Originally Posted by ellacharmed
I think this is one of the most misunderstood topics, and EA is never one to make things clear if they can make people pay more for their games.
Anyway, I found this: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3...rigin/td-p/9558 which kinda clear things up for me. I believe EA is starting to realize that not having any policy is just inviting piracy, because no one is going to buy game disc 5 times for a whole family to play.
What I took away from that thread, is
1. if you purchase a Disc copy, you can download a Digital version via Origin and use that instead of the disc for the DRM-portion
2. If you purchase a Disc copy, and you don't download a Digital version, then using it multiple times on separate machines is then classified as piracy.
3. if you purchase a Digital copy, you can authorize 5 different machines so that you can use Origin to download and play on different machines, with a separate Authorization tool. I would download and copy the installer to a USB stick instead of downloading 5 times, of course. But as I've never used Origin to play, I don't really know if this would work.
4. if you exceed the 5 allotted number, there is the tool to de-authorize one machine so you can add another to the pool of 5. |
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Neighborhoods in the Graveyard
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Date Posted: 7th Mar 2013 at 06:57 PM
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There are two neighborhoods available in the Sims 2 Graveyard, but I'm not sure how to document them in the wiki. Normally, we would specify the download thread, but these neighborhoods have no download threads and can be accessed as follows:
http://sims2graveyard.com/
Choose Downloads tab.
Choose catandsusims site.
Choose macgirl_neighborhoods folder.
N005 is Serenity, made with Bon Voyage game engine. *
N006 is Epiphany, made with Seasons game engine. *
It's possible to get a link to that folder, but that circumvents the graveyards website, so I'm not sure whether that is considered hotlinking or not.
* Both of these neighborhoods probably require earlier EPs as well; requires research.
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Date Posted: 26th Jan 2013 at 07:43 PM
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My internet computer just refused to boot this morning.
Never fear... I have a backup. Unfortunately, my DVD drive keeps failing and the backup is on DVD. The restore just couldn't get past 50%.
Never fear... I copied the backup from the DVD to a USB stick, and managed to restore my system. Unfortunately, the wireless network wouldn't work, even with a reinstall of the drivers. Looks like that's gone too... or else the DVD issues are causing the drivers to install incorrectly.
Never fear... I managed a wired connection and was able to get the internet up.
So, I'm back up and running.
However, with one of my two hard drives failing a month or so ago, and the DVD drive gone, and the wireless gone, I think that it's time to consider a new computer. I bought my most recent computer in 2008. I'm considering getting a new development / gaming machine and using my current dev / gaming machine for the internet.
I guess that it's time for some research. My main problem is that I want a really quiet computer. Desktop graphics cards sound like jet engines to me. If you have any suggestions, please join us here:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=496287
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How to safely delete a sim.
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Date Posted: 23rd Jan 2013 at 06:34 PM
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Just wanted to gather this together in one place, so that I can find it easily.
Pescado tells us how to safely delete sims from a neighborhood:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic,6205.0.html
This technique requires the batbox:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...topic,72.0.html
Since that tutorial was written, Theo wrote a SimPE plugin which makes the SimPE and Windows Explorer steps easier. You'll want the Action Delete Sim plugin from here:
http://www.simbology.com/smf/index....60709#msg160709
How to use:
- Extract and install the batbox in your Downloads folder.
- Extract and put Theo's DLL into the SimPE Plugins subfolder.
- Run the game. Use the batbox to prepare your sims to be deleted. Note that you'll need to be running in debug mode, and you need to <shift><click> on the batbox to see the option to prep your sim. Save and exit the game.
- Open your neighborhood in SimPE and select the SimDescription(s) for the Sim(s) that you want to delete.
- On the extreme right hand side of the SimPE window, click on "Resource Actions". The text is sideways right against the edge of the window. If you can't see that, try resetting the SimPE layout.
- At the very bottom of the Resource Actions area under Plugin, you'll see "Delete Sim (by Theo)". You may have to expand the Plugin area before it becomes visible.
- Theo's plugin will delete the Sim Description (SDSC) and Sim Scores (SCOR) for the sim. As well, it will delete the sim's Character file.
Some pictures available here:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=495772
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Movies that I want to watch again.
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Date Posted: 22nd Dec 2012 at 05:36 AM
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I watched The World, The Flesh, and The Devil recently (as part of a 12/12/21 apocalypse festival), and it reminded me of an interesting movie that I saw a long time ago and that I'd like to see again... a quick google found the title: The Quiet Earth. I found the final scene haunting enough to remember for a long time, although I don't seem to remember much else about the movie.
Another movie that I watched a long time ago, but which I have been interested in seeing again: Mindwalk. I really enjoyed this movie, but I notice that most of the reviews that I see pan it. That's OK, since I found it an intellectually interesting film and most people are panning it for being too intellectually challenging.
I'm trying to figure out how to see these movies again. The movie channels in Canada just don't seem to be showing them. We used to rent movies at Blockbuster, but that's gone now.
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Idea for a populated neighborhood.
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Date Posted: 15th Nov 2012 at 07:07 PM
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Quatchi and I have been discussing how hard it is to make a great populated neighborhood, with an interesting neighborhood story, a variety of sims, and interconnections between families. I found out that he's really good at creating backstories for sims and neighborhoods, which is something that I'm not very good at.
So, he suggested a neighborhood based on the US elections. Get a US-style map with roads approximating the state borders. Lots in each state would be either red or blue, depending upon the results of the election. Other than that, lots would reflect something about the state itself. Farms in the mid-west, mansions in the more prosperous states, large covered porches in the south east, etc.
While it would be nice to have at least 50 families, one for each state, it might be feasible to have less. Perhaps it would make sense to start with the more populated or "important" states and then work towards the less populated. Families would be related to the state in some way. For example, the Alaskan family might mimic Sarah Palin's family, with the grandmother looking after the grandchild for an unmarried under-aged child. The family for D.C. might mimic the president's family; they would live in the only white house in the neighborhood. Sims wouldn't have to be famous, but they should try to reflect something about the state where they live. This might require some research to try to decide where to put small houses, where to put cheap or rundown houses, etc.
In general, red families are socially conservative, with predominately white couples with fortune fathers and family mothers, although there's a lot of leaway as to aspirations. In some of the southern states, they might have live in (illegal) aliens to do the dirty work. The blue families would mix things up more: more non-white families, gay and lesbian couples, mixed race couples, focusing more on knowledge and pleasure sims.
To do it really right, you'd want to set individual lifetime wants and choose career paths to match the lifestyles in the area.
Relationships between blue and red houses would tend to be strained; this might be easier to enforce by setting interests and / or personalities for the entire neighborhood to make sure that the red and blue would have problems carrying on a reasonable discussion, and tend to fight each other.
I really love this idea, but it looks like a lot of work because of the sheer number of families, the variety of families, and all of the research that would need to be done.
A collaboration might make more sense, if anyone found the idea interesting. There's no problem creating lots and then adding them to a shared neighborhood, or creating sim's appearances to be used when creating families. However, the population of the neighborhood should be done by just one person, or by passing the neighborhood around between various people.
If I were able to run a contest, it might even make a good way to get a variety of lots and families for each state.
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Just installed the Sims 3 patch or about to?
Want to create your own clothes for the Sims 3?
