Thanks a lot!

Excellent this is so cool!

I am gonna wait a few weeks before downloading this (so all the kinks are ironed out) but I am seriously looking forward to it. I pain stakingly preserve every single lot. I really do not understand all the quirks to seed/fish/gems spawners and to ensure I kept whatevers on each lot is boring and tiresome to say the least. Mega thanks for this app, a much needed addition.

YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! Yep this makes alot of people happy! :D

I have successfully changed lots with the BV buff (in Bogsims clean hood WITH preserved buffs) from residential to community, before this tool existed, and my sims use these lots without problems, so I don't think its just for residential lots.

But thank you so much for this tool, and just in time when I needed it. Now I can use the houses I built earlier, and get the buff where it should be.

Hmm, in my game, the lot in between the Alto's and Landgraab's has Beautiful Vista. But there are certainly quite a few others that have gotten messed up. Thanks so much!

MISTER TigerM !
Great, great, great !

I run exe version on vista32, so far no trouble no crash, and a well designed app.

But ...
1/ Only edited lot shows in the preview area. Normal ?
2/ Lot names, adresses & description of Riverview saves are weird (eg: World/Riverview/HouseName:RemingtonsRuse & see capture)

Note: This tool is also very usefull to translate (Sunvalley's) street names and locations between my installed language and english, as you said. I hope it will soon work for Riverview & other towns to come ...

So, thanks again to share the result of your time and work !!!

A great tool ! I've had just bulldozed a seafront lot and lost the buff. It's a real pleasure to be able to take it again. Thank you a lot TigerM !

dose it matter what number range we can use for the BV?

This has been bothering me for weeks now! Thank you so much for this. I am a happy camper now. :D

Thanks for this! Many people have been looking for a way to replace this once it has been lost or destroyed, and also to add it to lots that do not have it to begin with.

However, I would like to ask, has anyone experienced "Error Code 15" when trying to save after using this? I am unable to save my game, and after contacting EA Tech Support, they informed me I must perform a manual uninstall and reinstall the game. I did not mention this program to them. I am going to try just replacing the "World" file I backed up with the current one to see if that helps anything. It's weird. Please let me know if anyone else has experienced this and if so, what you have done to resolve it.

Thanks!

I love this idea but I am clueless as to how to run the app...can someone walk me though it? I downloaded and installed it I just don't know exactly what to do next. Do you have to start the game and then run it?

Worked like a charm. Thank you!

Top heading named "File", click and open Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves or World. (I would make a copy and use the copy of the file you altered for testing.)

Once the file is opened, a list of addresses in the neighorhood will run on the left side of the interface, highlight the ones you want to add a value to, and on the right side of the interface it will show. Add values to the ones you want then save the file, (I use "save as" so I am sure what file I am replacing) open the game and play.

It was about time someone addressed this. Thanx mate

"What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?"

Thanks Tiger

Very nice tool,

Thanks a lot.

Those are actually two different moodlets with the same icon. One is "Beautiful Park" from the park, the other is "Beautiful Vista" from adjusting the lot. The beautiful park bit is from a different source, which I haven't looked into.

So the beautiful vista setting works fine for community lots.

I must have bulldozed that lot at some point then in my game. I guess I should take that out of the description for accuracy.


1. Yeah, that's normal for now. The game only generates previews for lots that have been modified in some way from the original, such as the lot you are playing. So to show the preview it would have to get it from the world file, and I haven't put in code for it to find the right world to associate with it.
2. That's what it looks like if it hasn't been localized, which is odd. Does it let you change the language option to something else when you see that? It should be able to find the names for riverview lots, and it does fine on my installation. Are you trying this from a different account than you use to play Sims? Does the non-english version of Sims use something besides My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3?

Any positive number should work, though practically anything over a few hundred means any sim there is permanently happy while they have the buff. Lots which normally have BV tend to be between 10 and 30.

Edit: My previous response to this I was thinking error code 12. Error code 15 just means it couldn't write to the file - which probably means you still had it open in little lotte. If you use the Close menu option or quit the application it should let you save again.

First off, I'll address this:

No, that vacant lot has a BV buff as well. I have had a Sim living on that lot all his life. He's an elder now and every day of his life the BV was there.

Now for the other bits:
Thank you so much for this! One of the many reasons I haven't played my game for weeks is because in addition to customizing a town map, I need to be able to pick up a family and move them, with their house, AND have their BV!

Thank you so much. That was a big help.

[/QUOTE]Edit: My previous response to this I was thinking error code 12. Error code 15 just means it couldn't write to the file - which probably means you still had it open in little lotte. If you use the Close menu option or quit the application it should let you save again.[/QUOTE]

Thanks, TigerM! This is great and works wonderfully, but I've now started getting Error Code 12, which, according to the EA RTFM means "World Save file failure". What can I do to circumvent this? Is there something I am doing wrong?

Hi, TigerM, thanks for your concern.
I give you, right now, what I remember 'cause I'm not home - working ! -
I'll run more tests tonight - in 9h from this post - I have many saves

* I think - not sure - I was able to change language option, and it shown the same w/ any of them.
* For sure, there is only one account on my vista - mine - w/ admin rights.
* It's a total normal install of Vista32 Gold Ed. - if U no -, fully updated. The only "strange thing" is that TheSims3 app is NOT on my C: system disk/partition, but "My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3" is.
* I don't fully understand your last Q: what you mean by "use something besides" ?

I think we are very close to build a lot editor for sure.

Error 12 is worse. I forget what I did that caused it but basically it was setting a different value than these to an invalid value. However I've never seen it from changing either of those two values that this tool lets you change.

Can you give the steps you followed? Did you change your active lot or a different one? Multiple lots? What values did you change, and what did you change them to? If you load it up and change them to 0, does the error 12 problem go away? I'll give it a try myself, see if there's anything I can do to mess a save up.

Well you answered it in a different answer. I think, however, that I may know what causes your Riverview lot names not to show up, and it is certainly something I can fix in a future update.

I'm happy !

BTW: Thanks again for the "rarely cough while eating mod". Now, I'm happy when I eventually see one sim cough. It saves so much time in game.