Thank you for considering this. I didn't mean to heap another project onto you, it's just something that's bugged me for a while. :p

If you're looking for examples, Raon textures are pretty bad about including Maxis recolors which can't be nuked with the Wardrobe Wrangler, and AFAIK, have to be deleted manually with SimPE.

I'm attaching multiple copies of the same blonde recolor of Raon f44. The first is the untouched original. The second has been run through the Compressorizer, reducing the file size from 725kb to 650kb, but is otherwise unaltered. If you open it up in SimPE, you'll see there are three recolors of Maxis textures (a black bob, a black braid, and a grey braid) that aren't used by the mesh, as well as three mysterious blank textures.

In the third, I've gone into SimPE and manually deleted the Maxis textures. The recolor still works, but now it's almost half the size at 354kb. Finally, in the fourth, I've gone into SimPE and deleted the textures that appeared to be blank, further reducing the size to 115kb. I fully expected this last one to be broken, but to my surprise, it works fine as well!

So in the end I was able to reduce the number of textures in this recolor from seven to one and the overall file size from 725kb to 115kb.

Thanks for the files, they'll be handy for testing... Next update tentatively scheduled for next weekend, and you're not heaping projects on me. This is all stuff I want to have for myself anyway, and I enjoy coding.

OT, but...


Do you have a link? The only mixed method skin template I'm familiar with is HP's default package for her Idolatry set, which uses 32 face textures (one for every age/gender, despite most of the faces being identical). I would love to know how other creators have managed to consolidate duplicate faces, if that's even possible. (When I try to eliminate duplicate face textures in HP's version, the face reverts back to Maxis for those genders/ages.)

wandersfar I meant that some of the textures were identical, not that several TXMTs used one TXTR. I'll try to be clearer about that next time. I was thinking of HP's Idolatry defaults. I don't think the extra texture remover should be run on such files, for the reasons you stated. Also, if a TXTR is used by both the custom package and default package in a mixed method default, my program might break it, since it doesn't yet compare across packages.

Cat, I think I still have a copy of the program (MTS2_CatOfEvilGenius_882819_extraTXTRremove_alpha_20090301.zip) if you need it?

AmberDiceless Thank you for the kind offer, won't be necessary. I just hadn't gotten around to reuploading yet. It's back up now, same version as before, except I added... an icon! Ooooh, aaaah! New version with actual useful changes may be up next week, depending on real life workload.

Ran this on a number of hair files today, and I got a message on some of them that said "WARNING! Can't compress, buffer overrun" or something to that effect (unfortunately I was not able to get a copy of the text before it scrolled out of the DOS window.) Is this dangerous or does it just mean I need to run everything through the Compressorizer again?

AmberDiceless Means it failed to compress, and may possibly corrupted itself. Can you let me know if Compressorizer has any trouble with these files? If it's just me, I need to fix my program. Can you please give me a link to the files that give you this error, or attach them here?

I'm sorry, I don't know how to tell which of my files it was that generated the error. I did a bunch at once. >< However, the Compressorizer seemed to handle them fine and so has the game, so perhaps it's of no consequence. Maybe related to the fact that some resources just don't want to compress in SimPE either, but seem to work fine otherwise?

Would it be possible to in the future include a feature to let us nuke the provided textures and use a maxis one? Like making repository clothing REALLY easy to make? Many times creators will age conversion a mesh simply by scaling (so the UV map is still identical to the original) and then they include all the maxis textures. I'd like to have an easy way to link that age conversion to its parent textures and nuke the duplicates. Is that possible?

Phaenoh, what you would like to do would be easier to do in SimPE, manually. To do it automatically for a group of files, the program would need to know which Maxis texture goes with which CC recolor.

I was hoping you wouldn't say that. I've done hundreds of them by hand and it sucks, but you are prolly right. I was thinking maybe there was a way of telling the program to look up all the textures from a particular EP (user should know that much at least) and then it lets you scroll through all the images in the Sims07.package. When you find the right texture you tell it to replace with and the program digs up the corresponding files and copies and pastes it for you. I don't mind finding and looking at the two textures myself, I don't much care for finding the TXMT that goes with it and copy paste and deleting and such. Is any of that possible?

This looks interesting. Will it be available for downloading at MTS2?

Gen.O.D It is available for download right now, see post #1. Once I finish testing it, I'll upload it to the tools section of Downloads.

Just FYI, everyone, I'm still working on this project, but not for the next few days, must get some RL work done.

I don`t like to go off-site for things, and --no offense intended-- this isn`t *yet* worth going off-site for, though it does show promise. I await developments.

Thank you very much for this great program. It will save me a lot of time & headache reading lots of tutorials. Bravo to you CatOfEvilGenious.

Thank you for your response CatOfEvilGenious. I should have thaought about responding here instead. Anyways, I did press on load files botton as you had instructed but, nothing shows up to be processed by your TXTR remover in other word it has no task. I mentioned in my writing that I stumbled on an error massage when I first double clicked the read me files something about grafique converting error roughly. Then I doubled click the main icon. Then it opened up but, why I don't know, it won't load anything after pressing the appraopriate botton. if you have any ideas, they're certainly worth trying cause, I feel it's a pitty that such a usefull program won't work because of some technicality which I'm not aware of. Thanks again.

telefen Please take a picture of the error message and post it here. I do not know what the error is right now, but if I see it, I'll try to figure it out. Thanks.

Look my friend it's like this: first of all I don't know how to take a picture of an error massage since I've never done such&even I don't know how I would post it here. The second part about reading that,I'm afraid it won't work since it's in swedish & the rough translation was actually what I mentioned. I guess I'll have to give up the Idea. Btw, when I look at your instruction pictures I read microsoft visuall studio under filename.Maybe that's what i'm missing. Anyways If you think that might be the problem.please let me know. I'll take it easy. Thanks anyhow for helping me. It's not really a big issue.

telefen Did you delete any of the *.dll or *.manifest files that were in the zip file? You need all of them or the program will not work.

No, I did not delete any thing from that folder. I just unarkived it on the desktop & opened it,then I double clicked the readme file & that's when I got that error massage. It was like glue& didn't wanna leave not untill i clicked it several times. Finally i gave up on that& proceeded by double clicking there red circle sort of no parking sign. It opened up the log & the page where I pressed add files with no apparent change in the page as a result. I think I might be missing something that does not allow your program to communicate with sims2; and then who am I to say cause, I'm fairly novice when it comes to computers Or so... Thank you friend

telefen I'm sorry I'm not being very helpful. I can't think of what else the problem could be. The document that you had trouble opening is in Word format. Do you have Microsoft Office Word? If not, it probably will not open for you. But the program should run even if you cannot read the Word document. I wish I could see your computer. :/

I'm not finding microsoft word. Either way you don't have to be sorry,neither me cause,it's not such a big deal. Nowadays I R&R (remove&replace) lots of my hairstyles & even my clothing recolors. To keep the whole sims2 aroung 2GB. I'm glad just to have someone like you coming to help anyway. You'll probably help me in other instances most likely. Have a jolly day friend.

Goddamnit woman, it seems like every couple of months I discover another amazeballs program you've written that would have made my life so much easier if I'd known about it earlier. When are you gonna upload them all so I can just download everything off your profile? :P