I rarely thank people on here for the things they make, but honestly... This has to be THE MOST USEFUL ITEM on sims 2 EVER created.
Its really quite simple, but very useful to not have to redo a whole neighborhood straight from the SC4 terrain without all the deco/trees. Although, I do with there was some way I could keep the same terrain but use the other roads without them glitching, I only changed a few terrain spots in-game anyways so it doesn't really matter.
This should be featured

Mootilda, I love this program, but hope I can explain the situation I'm encountering.

I have a pretty neighborhood, which I'll call Sunnyside, with around 25 great-looking lots. Most are sim-occupied, and I worked hard over the years to decorate them just right.

The goal now is to create a new neighborhood which I'll call Riverside, and it will have new sims. I would like the Sunnyside hood with the lots to be the new Downtown for Riverside. As you know, the Downtown that is generated with each new neighborhood has pre-made fugly lots and it's set on a desert.

When I replace the Sunnyside neighborhood to the Riverside Downtown, my lots don't show up. The map template changes, but the fugly lots from the Maxis Downtown always remain. I've tried this several times in several new 'test' neighborhoods.

As a rule, this is the only time that lots show up - and they're the unwanted Maxis Downtown lots!

My work-around to get rid of the fugly (unoccupied) downtown lots is to remove them from the Neighborhood folder of my new hood, which is faster bulldozing all 40+ of them, so that's not a problem.

[Note to anyone reading this: Do not remove the first 12 lots in a new neighborhood from that folder. If you have all EPs, those are your not-visible Secret Lots, such as the wizard's palace, the cooking contest lot, the membership to the secret gym, science lab, etc).

My question is, is there any way to keep lots I made from one neighborhood, ie Sunnyside, to a new one, such as a Riverside hood or suburb or Downtown?

This would be useful because moving out all those sims in Sunnyside and packaging their lots would be very time-consuming. Do you plan to add this feature anytime soon? If so and you need someone to test it for you, I volunteer.

Aside from wishing for the lots to be replaced, I love this progam and find it highly useful and extremely simple to use. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Yes, there's a way to safely copy all lots from one neighborhood to another. Try this:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...613#post2132613

I just wanted to say "Thank You". It feels like I have a fresh start in a new neighborhood, but better- because I can still play with all my favorite dolls without moving or re-creating them & their families!!! I'm anxious to get back to playing, but I just had to stop by and express my gratitude. Your program is wonderful.

From: http://www.modthesims.info/showpost...9&postcount=468HoodReplace V2.1 already handled neighborhoods with non-standard names. However, these neighborhoods would not show up in the default list of hoods. Fixed. New version 2.2 now available.

"HoodReplace V2.1 already handled neighborhoods with non-standard names. However, these neighborhoods would not show up in the default list of hoods. Fixed. New version 2.2 now available."
Thanks. ::nab::

Added ability to fix elevation of roads.

Thanks a load, saved me recreating all my sims.

::re-nab::

Thank you for this! I have been able to make a hood with no streets at all thanks to this. You see I have one hood with only horizontal streets that are 2 SC4 tiles apart (aka 5 wide for Sims 2). It allows me to fit a bunch of 6x5 lots together side by side. Then I use this to import in a completely blank hood over it. Then I use your Lot adjuster to delete out the street. And poof I have an entire map of 6x6 lots all in a grid with no streets at all! Thanks soooo much for giving me the ability to do this!

I had a problem with not being able to select neighborhoods to work with. I got the error message that HoodReplace could not find the SimPE files (for brevity's sake, it was the same error message that General Operations Director got early on). I took my cue from this discussion and moved HoodReplace to the same drive as SimPe: then to the same directory: but it only worked after I moved it right into the SimPE folder. I don't know why, but it worked.

Thank you for the program, and especially for maintaining the conversation about it too.

Hmm, I understand this copies terrain, but...say I copy terrain from one hood to the other. Say hood A to hood B....if Hood A has a section where there is NO road, and I copy that section to hood B, will it remove the existing road in hood B? Or just match the elevation and trees?

Edit: Nevermind, I read over the directions and description, answered my own question >.<

Mootilda,

I'm interested in using the Arcadia neighborhood available for download on this website. The neighborhood seems to be larger than normal and requires the use of a camera mod. So I'll use crazyfoolgaf's More Flexible Camera Mod.

I am a little confused as to one aspect of the tool - is it able to copy terrain and deco from SC4 files AND installed neighborhoods, or just SC4 files? I.e. if I download the Arcadia neighborhood and install it into my game, can I then use the tool to copy all the deco from it over to Pleasantview?

The other thing I wanted to clarify with you is that I want to use your tool to change the neighborhood my sims live in without having to migrate all my sims out and into another hood like you mentioned in an http://nene.modthesims.info/downloa...398#post2648398

Thanks

HoodReplace can copy the terrain, deco, roads, etc. from installed TS2 neighborhoods. It can only copy the terrain from SC4 files.

Yes, you can use HoodReplace to copy all of the deco from Arcadia to Pleasantview. You don't actually have to install Arcadia into your game; as long as it is unzipped somewhere on your hard drive, you can use the Browse button to find it.

Awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to clarify my confusions greatly appreciated

That's because small SC4 files are half the size of TS2 terrains. The game automatically expands the SC4 terrain when you create a TS2 neighborhood. It's not clear why EA decided to use a small-sized SimCity and then expand it. It would have been much better to use the medium-sized SimCity, which would give people greater control over their terrain and require no size conversion.

I would suggest that you follow the "Replacing the neighborhood terrain" method in the tutorial:
http://www.modthesims.info/d/showpo...389&postcount=4

Specifically, create a temporary TS2 neighborhood using your SC4, then use that temporary TS2 neighborhood as your source for HoodReplace.

Do I get it right, if I don't have Sim City 4 then there's no way to use your program? I missed that in the tutorial

Although I still experimented withou it,, by flagging "resize to fit" and then "scale elevation". It worked, however I'm not sure what happened or changed.

It depends upon what you want to do with my program. If you want to add roads to a neighborhood, then you'll need SimCity 4 to edit the SC4 file. However, if you just want a new terrain for your neighborhood and you have either the SC4 file, or an existing neighborhood with the terrain that you want, then you don't require SimCity 4.

Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish?

It's very very rare that you would want to select an SC4 file in HoodReplace. I'm not sure why you are trying to do this; The Sims 2 does a much better job of converting from an SC4 to a TS2 neighborhood. It makes much more sense to use HoodReplace to copy from one TS2 neighborhood to another.

Let me try again. This is a 3 step process if you don't already have the terrain that you want in an existing TS2 neighborhood, and a 1 step process otherwise.

Replacing the neighborhood terrain:

1. If you don't already have the "from" terrain in one of your existing TS2 neighborhoods, then create a temporary neighborhood in the Sims 2 using your SC4 file.

2. Run HoodReplace. Select the neighborhood with the terrain that you want in the left (from) listbox and the old neighborhood in the right (to) listbox, select which elements you wish to copy: terrain, roads, bridges, etc, then click on the Copy button.

3. If you created a temporary neighborhood in step 1, then delete the temporary neighborhood created above.

I adore this program. I've made a lovely natural area where I've been able to put a houseboat actually in the water, cabanas on the beach, and no roads to clutter it up all just by swapping terrains and roads without moving lots, etc.

The only thing that's a little odd is that after doing one copy and the dialog pops up saying it's copied, when I click okay, the whole program closes. It's odd and, of course, I might want to do two copies before closing.

It's brilliant, though. I love it.

I want you to know that you saved my Sims' life!
Now the houses' cellars aren't flooded! No more trouble!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Wait, can it add a new sc4 terrain or copy over an old one? Pleasant view has a terrain that I prefer over the Pleasantview sc4, and the current Pleasantview sc4 just seems like a badly-done rip-off of the neighborhood...

Even if that'll never be added, love it! This is great.

Oh Bless you really!
This program is the most helpful tool ever for terrains!
You havo no idea how much i like it.

Thank you.

EDIT: hmm lol it appears I already downloaded it years ago, silly me well now its updated, weird I don't remember downloading it before but it certainly will have it's uses, I have a desert neighborhood it would be great to change that and give it grass and trees.

Hmmm...I didn't believe I would find it handy!

Beware and prepare yourself Mootilda, another storm of questions is approaching!

hello is there any thing you can do when extra road is in the water no land.thx