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Rosawyn
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#21776 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 8:31 PM
Quote: Originally posted by pinkdynamite
What program does everyone prefer to take in-game screenshots? Right now I've got nothing, so I'm open to all suggestions.

I haven't actually got around to installing it on my new laptop yet, but I like IrfanView.

Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
Been a while since I played with werewolves, but unless you have a mod, I think the pack leader (the brown wolf with glowing eyes) has to bite your sim to turn them into a werewolf.I don't think any bites from sim-werewolves or the other wolves in the pack count (there are mods to enable sim-werewolves to be able to convert other sims, though).

As far as I know, it is 100% unmodded vanilla behaviour for werewolves to be able to turn other sims into werewolves. There's even a want werewolves will roll "Turn Sim into Werewolf," and I'm pretty sure no one has the ability to add custom wants.

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Werewolf#The_Sims_2:_Pets
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Lycanthropy can also be transferred using the Savage interaction, though that will leave two bad memories - one of losing a fight to the Sim who initiated the savaging, and another for becoming a werewolf - and it is common for the victim to mourn for a while because of that, despite wanting to become a werewolf.
simmer22
Mad Poster
#21777 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 8:31 PM
I guess I forgot about the Savage interaction (like I said, it's been quite a while since I played with werewolves - like 10 years or some such). But you still need a controllable werewolf on the lot to use that interaction.

Give it until night
alljoj
Scholar
#21778 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 8:38 PM
Is there a reason why my sims' family portrait refuses to regenerate? I've moved in 3 people since and it's stayed the same the entire time. (They're Uni students.)

Alsoooo, how do I get a student back into the student townie family?
Clashfan
Scholar
#21779 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 8:56 PM
On the LTW "5 top rated businesses" is it simultaneously or can I sell a business off once it's reached the top and then buy a new one? I know I've done this in the past but I just can't remember and it's getting pretty hectic not to mention expensive and my guy only has 3 businesses at this point. I can only imagine juggling 5.
kestrellyn
Mad Poster
#21780 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 9:03 PM
Yes. In fact, you can do that entire LTW without buying any community lots by running the business as a home business, shutting it down when it gets to level 10, and then reopening it again and getting it to level 10 four more times.
Bulbizarre
Mad Poster
#21781 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 9:05 PM Last edited by Bulbizarre : 11th Jan 2020 at 11:36 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by alljoj
Is there a reason why my sims' family portrait refuses to regenerate? I've moved in 3 people since and it's stayed the same the entire time. (They're Uni students.)


I think I might have found a way to force it to regenerate. This method is UNTESTED and MIGHT BREAK THINGS, but if you'd like to try anyways:

1. Go to your neighbourhood folder. Open up the Thumbnails folder.
2. Make a backup of N###_FamilyThumbnails.package. (Even better, back up your entire neighbourhood folder.)
3. Open the FamilyThumbnails file with SimPE.
4. Look through the JPEG files. Delete the family portrait you want to get rid of. Save the file.
5. Launch the game. Go to that household, load it up, and save again.

I'm planning to test this myself, so if you don't want to risk it you can wait for my results.

EDIT: I just tested it. It works. There's a bit of lag when clicking on the household, but just wait a bit and it'll work.
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kestrellyn
Mad Poster
#21782 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 9:08 PM
Is there a cheat I can use to get a sim to roll a particular want?
Bulbizarre
Mad Poster
#21783 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 9:14 PM
Quote: Originally posted by kestrellyn
Yes. In fact, you can do that entire LTW without buying any community lots by running the business as a home business, shutting it down when it gets to level 10, and then reopening it again and getting it to level 10 four more times.


I actually had a Sim with only one business get that LTW fulfilled because his business kept dropping down to level nine before returning to 10. As I've never heard of it happening to anyone else, it might've been some super-weird effect that's likely unique to my game setup.
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Rosawyn
Mad Poster
#21784 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 9:18 PM
Quote: Originally posted by kestrellyn
Is there a cheat I can use to get a sim to roll a particular want?

I've been asking for this for years! Best I found was opening SimPE and manually adding the want, which is painful.
kestrellyn
Mad Poster
#21785 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 9:21 PM
Nope, that's how it works for everyone. If you can reliably get people to lose stars, that's another option, but I find that once you have a successful business that can be difficult. There's usually one person who arbitrarily hates the business and always loses stars, but they can only give you 5 negative stars total, so you'd have to micromanage things by allowing only that person on the business until they've lost a star, then invite your regular customers back until you gained another one, then kick everyone out again, etc.
RoxEllen1965
Mad Poster
#21786 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 9:48 PM
Quote: Originally posted by pinkdynamite
What program does everyone prefer to take in-game screenshots? Right now I've got nothing, so I'm open to all suggestions.

I know I'm a bit late answering this, but I run the game in a window and use Irfanview. I like that I can set Irfanview to capture the screen without the title bar, etc. ("Foreground window - client area")
sushigal007
Mad Poster
#21787 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 11:23 PM
I use FRAPS for screenshots. Love it. Only problem I ever had was when I didn't disable the movie hotkey. Of course, I hit it by accident and my system slowed to a crawl until I realised I was recording a movie several GB in size and growing.
Bulbizarre
Mad Poster
#21788 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 11:38 PM
Quote: Originally posted by sushigal007
I use FRAPS for screenshots. Love it. Only problem I ever had was when I didn't disable the movie hotkey. Of course, I hit it by accident and my system slowed to a crawl until I realised I was recording a movie several GB in size and growing.


My current computer runs so well that sometimes I don't even notice until I realize there's a 50 GB file sitting in my unsorted videos folder.
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Bulbizarre
Mad Poster
#21789 Old 11th Jan 2020 at 11:52 PM
@alljoj - If you didn't see my edit, I tested the household portrait regen method described above and it worked.
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alljoj
Scholar
#21790 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 12:03 AM
Thank you! For some reason, SimPE refused to save the package, so I ended up just making everyone find their own place and move back in, and that seemed to work, for some reason. I'll keep it in mind, though!
Sunbee
Mad Poster
#21791 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 12:24 AM Last edited by Sunbee : 12th Jan 2020 at 12:49 AM.
Quote: Originally posted by Bulbizarre
I actually had a Sim with only one business get that LTW fulfilled because his business kept dropping down to level nine before returning to 10. As I've never heard of it happening to anyone else, it might've been some super-weird effect that's likely unique to my game setup.


It's a well-known not-quite-cheat: I think I learned it from the Legacy players back in the day. Who wants to do five top businesses with five unique businesses in the same household more than once over the generations, after all?

@Fryen5 How to make a Main Hood into a Business District: http://modthesims.info/t/502306

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pinkdynamite
Inventor
#21792 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 1:44 AM
Has anyone ever played using Almighty Hat's lifespan mod? I'd like to try it but I'm worried I would get sick of my families having to play them for so long, especially with rotational play.
kestrellyn
Mad Poster
#21793 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 3:25 AM
I recently discovered that one of my multiple pollination technicians in my test hood has the wrong genetics, which definitely isn't the case in my main hood. I wouldn't say I take particularly good care of my test hood, but it's relatively recent and I don't think I've done anything there that would cause corruption. What would cause this to happen? Is there a safe way to fix it?
Fearless Butterfly
Forum Resident
#21794 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 3:46 AM
I have a multi pollination tech mod in my game already but i would like some more of them in my game how would i do that?
grammapat
Mad Poster
#21795 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 5:57 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Fearless Butterfly
I have a multi pollination tech mod in my game already but i would like some more of them in my game how would i do that?


I have seven SETS - they mostly have 4 PTs each, the fairy set has 5 I think). On all of them you take out the package that tells the game to "use these" (and it will pick one of the PTs in that set, randomly). I put that package in a folder that always starts with "PT" (PT Master Swampcandy, PT Master Katu). Everything else that is in the downloads (face presets, skin colors, names, etc) I put in a folder that says "PT stuff to keep" - all that stuff, from my seven different sets, STAYS IN DOWNLOADS! But you only have ONE MASTER at a time in Downloads, and THAT is what you can change.
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Kestrellyn: what do you mean the genetics on one are wrong?
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kestrellyn
Mad Poster
#21796 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 6:21 AM
I mean, instead of having alien eyes and alien skin, she has dark blue eyes and s4 skin. If you summon her to the lot she looks right, but if you use simDNA to get her DNA it has the dark blue/s4 values, and if a sim gets impregnated by her they have babies with dark blue eyes and s4 skin. The other pollination techs don't have this problem, and she doesn't have this problem in other hoods.
Bulbizarre
Mad Poster
#21797 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 6:23 AM
Did you copy the PT into the characters folder?
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kestrellyn
Mad Poster
#21798 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 6:31 AM
No, all of the PTs are in my downloads.
lordtyger9
Top Secret Researcher
#21799 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 9:51 AM
Quote: Originally posted by AndrewGloria
None of my Sims have actually lived in The House of Fallen Trees; I've only opened it in Build/Buy mode to have a look at it. So all I know about it is what I could see that way, plus what I've read about it online. Apart from the graves, which I presume are normal Sims' graves, the other thing that makes the house feel so spooky is the dim lighting, which I believe tends to flicker. By all accounts, putting in brighter lights doesn't work. Within a few minutes the place is as dim and dingy as ever. This was/is believed to be the result of some special coding. But recently I think I read (I don't remember where) of someone making changes to some editable lighting file, and this making the lighting in The House of Fallen Trees quite normal. If that's true then there's maybe no special coding in the lot file itself, so it might be possible to safely change it to a community lot. By nature though, I'm a very cautious player, and my Downtown is attached to my Veronaville, which is very dear to me. I've been playing it since the day, now over 7 years ago, when I first started up the game. So I'm afraid I'm unwilling at present, to risk being the first one to risk using ChangeLotZoning on The House of Fallen Trees.

Does anyone else here know or remember anything about this change to a lighting file that can make the lighting in The House of Fallen Trees normal?


@AndrewGloria
I did some research by looking at old threads and according to what I read to change it, you have to type in the cheat window 'SetLotLightingFile clear'.

This was confirmed when I asked another simmer about this here on MTS, so it works as far as I know.


BTW If I disapear for many months or a year most likely it is because I have passed away. Hopefully that won't happen anytime soon, though I am 66 now I should be around for some time yet.
for info on changing the Mac Open File Limit check out my post here http://www.insimenator.org/index.ph...html#msg1628939
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tunafishfish
Scholar
#21800 Old 12th Jan 2020 at 2:00 PM
I'm probably borrowing trouble here, but here goes. In TS3, story progression takes care of the town and progresses all sims not played in a sensible way. In TS2, I am story progression which leads to a feeling of my personal soap opera. In my TS3, sims are unlikely to have more than 2 or 3 children without intervention and some of those kids won't decide to have kids. In TS2 they make different decisions so I have some sims that have very large families and I may not want to follow the lives of all eight kids. Is there a way to age them up to townies? I don't just want to abandon the boring kids and have them take up space in a house I won't play, but I would like them to show up for family parties and things.
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