Mod The Sims - Portal Revealer

Instructor

#26

11th Oct 2007 at 7:35 PM

I'll try this one out. Not sure how useful it will be, but I suppose every little bit helps. The bigger challenge for me will be developing a bus interior for the showdown-with-assassins scene. (The buses in the game are not useful for fighting, obviously.)

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PollinationTechnician79

Lab Assistant

#27

13th Oct 2007 at 5:47 AM

Man Inge, you rock. I love that you not only thought of it (huge) and executed it (woot!), but were kind enough to share (Awww...). Thanks ever so much. Muah!

ahmird2

Lab Assistant

#28

5th Nov 2007 at 4:27 AM

Thanx for this - very useful.

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Razamataz

Test Subject

#29

1st Feb 2008 at 7:19 AM

Finaly a way to fix the Mailbox/trashcan blocking sims from getting on a bus or in a car. That is without Moving them...

lauraannq

Test Subject

#30

28th Feb 2008 at 4:17 PM

has anyone had problems with lots crashing the game after using this (bon voyage).. i used this and the make a beach/where no beach portal from simalogical and bought waves...

anyone do that?

i also found the portals were not working after they were revealed...

Radioactive Chicken

Test Subject

#31

6th Mar 2008 at 9:29 PM

Quote: Originally posted by lauraannq

has anyone had problems with lots crashing the game after using this (bon voyage).. i used this and the make a beach/where no beach portal from simalogical and bought waves...

anyone do that?

i also found the portals were not working after they were revealed...

I had a bit of trouble with this on one lot that I had. I seem to have it working ok now though.
What I found was best was to add the portals, sell the flamingo again then save to the neighbourhood and re-enter the lot and that seemed to iron out the bugs.

Make sure you have the portals facing the right way round and if you want them to swim you need to lower the terrain enough for them to be able to get in.
Check out a beach lot first to an idea of what you're aiming for.

Kabuto

Sockpuppet

#32

5th Apr 2008 at 5:33 PM

Is it FreeTime compatible ???

Inge Jones

One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse

Original Poster

#33

5th Apr 2008 at 6:23 PM Last edited by Inge Jones : 5th Apr 2008 at 8:44 PM.

There are some differences but I don't know what actual effect it would have. I'll check it out soon.

Later: The slight difference was EA fixed the waves and swimming portal so they don't get deleted when a family moves out. I updated the files. They are backwards compatible with BV still.

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Inge Jones

One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse

Original Poster

#34

7th Apr 2008 at 9:52 AM

All the information you have just asked is in the first post of this thread. If there are any specific phrases you don't understand there, then ask me to explain them another way.

"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)

Kabuto

Sockpuppet

#35

7th Apr 2008 at 11:48 AM

ok, i'm sorry, I missed some lines, thanks !

Winterhart

Forum Resident

#36

30th Apr 2008 at 7:22 PM

Hi Inge,

I apologize if you have already answered this question somewhere. I have read through this thread and the one you reference with buyable portals. I am dyslexic and have trouble the posts. Is there a step by step, with or without pictures, tutorial on what can and can't be done with portal revealer and buyable portals?

Thank you for your time,

Winterhart

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Inge Jones

One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse

Original Poster

#37

30th Apr 2008 at 8:53 PM

Not as far as I know. What did you want to do with them?

"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)

bbc100

Field Researcher

#38

24th May 2008 at 5:05 AM

Can u make the Cars(Carpool & Buyable Cars) come in the other way???

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Inge Jones

One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse

Original Poster

#39

24th May 2008 at 8:35 AM

Yes I think you can do that just by reversing the portals. Or put them on the other side of the road or something, to make them drive on the left.

"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)

Dukasha

Test Subject

#40

8th Jun 2008 at 4:31 PM

In my game with the FT patch installed buyable beach portals don't work. When sims try to use them I get the error message:
Invalid pop: locomotion stack is empty.

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Inge Jones

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Original Poster

#41

8th Jun 2008 at 9:18 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Dukasha

In my game with the FT patch installed buyable beach portals don't work. When sims try to use them I get the error message:
Invalid pop: locomotion stack is empty.

Oh

Were they ok before you installed the patch?

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Dukasha

Test Subject

#42

9th Jun 2008 at 10:06 AM

I tested them earlier in FT without patch, but at the other computer. Everything was OK.

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Dukasha

Test Subject

#43

9th Jun 2008 at 11:57 AM

Now I have two FT versions at the same computer: with the patch and without the patch. The saved games folder is the same for both versions. Buyable beach portals work fine only in the game without patch. In the pathed version I get the error message again.

Жизнь пройдет, это только минута,
Тонкой струйкой бегущий песок,
Красноватая мякоть грейпфрута,
Горько-сладкий дающая сок.

Inge Jones

One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse

Original Poster

#44

9th Jun 2008 at 2:31 PM

Try using the portal revealer to reveal them on and off a couple of times and see if that clears them up. They may have been stuck in an ambiguous state, since lots of things reset when you install a patch or EP. I would be quite surprised if the patch fundamentally changed a beach portal.

"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)

Numenor

The ModFather

retired moderator

#45

9th Jun 2008 at 10:06 PM

I can confirm that neither of the two FT patches has modified anything in the GroupID 0x7F03C064 (Beach - Portal). Only the original FT modified some resources, but Inge has already taken care of those changes.

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19ladybug98

Test Subject

#46

21st Dec 2008 at 7:15 PM

Cool flamingo pic. I don't think I need this YET, but thank you because others who do need it have it.

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