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labine730- you must have tsdata, otherwise the game wouldn’t run. You can find it in your EA GAMES folder- the folder where all the core information about the game is stored- its most likely location is in your C drive, in program files.
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Career.rar (260.1 KB, 8 downloads) - View custom content | ||||||||||
Size Packed Ratio Date Time Attr CRC Meth Ver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TS2UBusinessCareer.package 2126720 266252 12% 31-03-05 19:45 .....A. 1ECCA612 m3g 2.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2126720 266252 12% |
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I spotted the error immediately- your final pay for the career is $20,100- SimPE cannot handle this figure. The maximum amount of money you can be paid is $10,000. That’s why the game is messing you about- it's an allergic reaction, so to speak. Changing the value ought to fix the problem |
Really? That sucks. $10,000 is just so measly a figure for a business tycoon.
I have a question though...when you say 10,000, does that mean the cap is 10,000, or is it 10,999? Cuz I know the Eco Guru career in NL makes more than just 10,000 as a daily salary...
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RuairidhJ- what file are you talking about?
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1. The MTS2 posting guidelines for finished careers specify that all careers should include either translations for all languages, or the default language text copied to all other languages. I loaded one up in SimPE (version 0.48.208735611, Classic GUI) and had a look, and that's something like 900 separate copy-and-paste operations for the level descriptions and titles alone, never mind chance cards! Is there a simple way to just tell the program "Copy all my default language text to all languages across the board"? (I found a check box that said "Default language only" or something similar; is that what it does, or does it make the career just not work with other languages at all?)
2. Does anyone know whether there are any plans for an update to Bidou's Career Editor? I mostly did these two careers the "long" way following Psion's tutorial, but the career editor was so convenient once I found it...
3. Just to verify, if you follow the instructions in the Upgrading Pre-EP Careers thread (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=49038) does the career remain compatible with the base game? I have no way to test.
4. This one's for SuperFly in particular: Is there a specific reason why you recommend putting 3-4 Chance Cards in each career (apart from just avoiding the appearance of laziness?) I ask because the two I've made (Angel and Demon) don't seem to lend themselves well to a lot of random good outcome/bad outcome scenarios, so I've only come up with 2 per career.
5. And finally, will setting the Chance Card probability for a given card to zero reliably prevent that card from appearing, or is there a preferred way to disable the ones you don't plan to use?
Thanks very much in advance!
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1) If you create your career with bidou's career editor, languages are automatically put into all languages.
2) I don't know what's happening about bidou's career editor. I hope there is an update coming soon, because there are a couple of things that I think need addressing.
3) If you've followed the instructions correctly, the career will be compatible with all EP's.
4) Chance cards- I recommend at least 3-4 cards out of 10, purely because it makes a career more interesting. However, I do sympathise with you- it is difficult to think up chance cards, and it does get very boring after a while. (I'm almost forcing myself to do complete my chance cards for my current career in the works)
5) Setting a chance cards appearance rate to 0% is the only way to disable a card from coming up. I think there's a way you can alter a behaviour file to do the same thing, but I find that way less safe.
Hope this helps you out- if not, just ask me again to clarify
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OK... 1) If you create your career with bidou's career editor, languages are automatically put into all languages. Hope this helps you out- if not, just ask me again to clarify |
It does help very much, and I thank you! However, re. my first question, I did create the careers mostly without the editor, and when I checked out the text fields for the other languages there was nothing there. Does that mean anything?
Anyway, thank you again!
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BrokenWican, which files won't open?
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AmberDiceless, if there are no files there, then they've been commited. However, I would heavily reccomend using bido u's career editor in future- most of my careers were done manually (without the editor)- I always ran into errors with them, mainly through incorrect typing. bidou's editor reduces that error enourmously. :) |
I certainly shall, provided a version comes out that works with the current SimPE. (I didn't find out about the Career Editor until I was mostly done with these careers, I was going just by the tutorial.) :)
I think I can now post my careers. Thanks again for your kind assistance!
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But is it possible to just replace a default Maxis career outfit? As usual, Maxis has no fashion sense whatsoever, and alot of the outfits are really annoying the heck out of me.
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Another question, this time about the career outfits. From what I've heard, it's not possible at the present time to make custom outfits for custom careers. But is it possible to just replace a default Maxis career outfit? As usual, Maxis has no fashion sense whatsoever, and alot of the outfits are really annoying the heck out of me. |
If you're taking about switching around what maxis uniform your sim wears to work- that's possible. In bidou's career editor, you can change the uniform using this box:
[IMG]C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Pope\My Documents\I tried to be nice\careeruniforms.jpg[/IMG]
If you're talking about other maxis clothing that aren't uniforms- that can't be done. The link between clothing and careers is probably hidden deep within the Sim 3D files (although I can't be sure- I'm not a game coder)
Hope this helps,
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Well, what I mean is, is it possible to override the data in the Maxis work-outfit files and thereby make your sim wear a custom outfit? |
If only... No-one has yet found how to put custom uniforms into careers. I recently tried altering the textures the uniforms used, but that didn't work- no suprise there... All I can hope for is that someone infinetly more talented than myself discovers the link...
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I downloaded this tutorial maid for SimPE 0.33
But I have SimPE 5.somethingsomething alpha
and a lot of the stuff in the tutorial just isn't there
and some things just don't work
for example; I tried to open a package.xml from a set of extracted files and the system just crashed
this hasn't anything to do with my computer being crappy cause I'm a .net programmer and that requires a lot of strenght at some times.
is there a way to get SimPE 0.33 so I could just follow the tutorial or are there existing tutorials for my version, or better versions
I don't know
All I want is to make a custom carreer, any help on that is appreciated
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Is it posible to be picked up by a schoolbus in an adult career?
If it is, how??
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harpiesbro69, you need to unzip the file then read the information inside- http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=62053
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