Super plugin!!! I want to get it now!

Wow that works fast and easy!A much better alternative than the old way in simpe.I just tried it out and it works fantastic.Thank you very much.

Thanks a bunch I'll test this out - I've been wanting to sort my custom hairs into bins but finding out where to start was becoming a headache ;p

I found this plugin about a week ago and I got to tell you that it is so easy to use! Thanks!

This is fantastic! You have my utmost respect for making an intuitive useful and simple tool Here's hoping this prod's mor clever people into making SimPE plugins!!

Now this is one plug-in that shall be the most used! Thank you for creating such a program to make it easier to get things done.

I've been using this for a couple of weeks now (version 2.111 anyway) and haven't had any problems at all. It's fantastic: you've saved me hours of fiddly SimPE editing and the 'Change Appearance' screen is now clear of badly placed recolours.

Another great thing is Sims can now have decent hair styles that fit into the attraction/chemistry aspect of the game.

Thanks so much Theo. Top drawer stuff!

p.s. good tutorial too.

Wonderful! Thank you very much.

Thank you very much for this

-- Cynna

Thank you so much-- I was trying to do it the old way and just kept getting bogged down. I really appreciate this!

Thanks a lot! I tested this tool, it worked perfectly! It's SO convenient!

Squee! Yay! Downloaded and colour binned correctly my favourite custom hair! Works beautifully! Thankies!

Yay! Does a happy dance Thank you soooooo much!!! Because I've binned some, but am much too lazy to bin them all... Stupid 0's, ack!

YES!!!
I was just about to start all this colourbinning thing and now it doesn't look like trouble anymore.
Thank you!

Excellent!!
I t really bothers me to have 4 colors for each mesh in the custom content bin

wow....
that is awesome,
thank you
so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so MUCH!!!
thank you!!!!!!!!! you have just made things A BILLION TIMES EASIER!!! thanks ^_^!

One quick question: I took a quick look at the tutorial, and it looks as though the program makes a new package for each hair, right? So in that case, you would want to keep the old packages, so that sims using that hair would retain the right hair. Is that correct? Because doing it the old way, by hand, changes the number of the hair.

For instance, if I open the DNA of an existing sim with custom hair, the hair # is a4d346e6-4e54-db76-c2a1-05a2e29327a8

If I then bin the hair, the number becomes 00000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 (for blonde hair)

But I don't know whether the sim DNA changes along with the binned hair, or if this sim will show up with the default hair, since her hair # doesn't exist anymore.

Just wondering what happens to the sims already sporting the hair to be binned.

That's right, the plugin uses the family guid of the first loaded package, which means that the family guid's of the other loaded packages will be lost.

Sims using one those other hairs will revert to the default (bald) hair, and you will have to change their appearance in the mirror.

And yes, the sim DNA will not be changed, meaning that a non-existent guid will be stored in it, so you'll have to edit the sim DNA entry manually, as the plugin doesn't edit the neighborhood packages (where the sim's DNA is stored).

Do you think the plugin should try to correct the DNA automatically? For me it's just a minor annoyance having to change the sim's appearance, but the DNA editing may not be an easy task for everyone.

Edit: By the way, I recommend renaming the old packages because the resource id's are not changed. Having two packages containing the same resource id's means that the game will load just one of them, and you can't control which one is loaded first.

Oh, *thank you!* I'm so glad I asked before I binned the hair, because nearly all my sims have custom hair.

It would be wonderful if the process could include scanning through and changing the DNA as well, because otherwise, you'd have to change each sim one at a time. I'll leave it up to you to fiddle with that - sounds like a nightmare to me

I think I'll just bin up new hair for now. I'm in the middle of a project neighborhood, so I'm reluctant to fool with the genetics at the moment.

But I doooo appreciate the tool - anything so that I don't have to look at hex And especially getting rid of all those extra grey hairs.

Idea for a new project: a plugin which enables you to replace the default cas faces with your own. Another thing I started to do, and couldn't slog through.

Well, I hadn't thought of it before because I made all my CAS sims with normal hairs, so their DNA had only normal guid's.

As for fixing the DNA itself, I do know how to do it, but the problem is that it would have to process all the neighborhoods and then save their packages on each binning session, meaning a big performance hit.
Obviously the scanning would be optional, but it makes sense that it should be done by the plugin, which can keep track of all the missing guid's.

Well, I would use it, since I didn't think ahead like you did and use Maxis hair (I just couldn't bear it!). Just one of those processes you start and go get a cup of coffee...

Thanks so much for this great tool. I've nearly finished going through ALL my hairs. My sims in bodyshop look fine, even though I rebinned their hair, no hole-in-the head sims. I needed to do a restart anyway, so no ingame sims were affected. I didn't think about the DNA thing though. It's not too big a deal for me, but if it were possible to correct it easilly, I would do it.

So will the game still read the rebinned hairs as custom for attractions and genes inherited by children?

Theo added a fix DNA option (did you upload it, Theo?). The re-binned hair becomes whatever color you made it. That is, if you had custom hair that you put in the red bin, that hair becomes "red," as far as genetics and Turn-on's. I tested it and didn't even have to change appearance - the sims kept the hair they had, even though it was re-binned. Fix DNA is available by neighborhood, and you don't even need to get a cup of coffee. It's fast!

I have had some reports at MATY that the tool is somehow 'eating' some recolors, but I'm still unable to reproduce the described symptoms on my computer (and I have been using the tool myself extensively ) . What I have been told is that some recolors of a hair lose their mesh definition and appear with the default hair mesh in the catalog.

If this is happening to you, please contact me and if possible, provide me a link to the files that have been output by the tool.



I've been waiting for you to tell me it was broken!
It is a highly experimental change, so use it with care! It will change your neighborhood files, and it's better to backup those before using this new function.

BTW: The tool can now re-categorize facial hair, including meshed beards .