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where exactly is that if you don't mind ? I've looked three times this new uploader is mind boggling frustrating |
I think with the new download view, it uses the first image in the list for thumbnail? So use the handler and drag the one you want to the top.
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I have sims get on academic probation all the time because they don't have the required skills to open the grade bar high enough. Also, if they did not have it open until the last minute and then they do not have enough time to push the total past there. I get this the most often with sims that have been created as YA or late in the Teen stage and didn't have many skills on starting uni. Going to the final exam in a good mood gets them the most points, but it's not enough to fill a quarter of the bar. Going to the exam in a poor mode causes them to gain a few points. Skipping the exam will cause them to lose points - it's possible to pass the year without going to the final, but they'll need good grades to start with. I make uni quite tough for my sims though. If they get on academic probation, I skip them to the next semester anyway, meaning that they lose the chance for the bonus for that semester, AND they're potentially even further behind and have more skills to catch up on if they want to pass. This keeps them in sync age wise. I re-set academic probation to on, so that if they do fail again they automatically get booted out. If they fail the final semester they can't graduate on probation, but I cheat it so that they only have 6 hours to catch up. Sometimes that's just enough for them to scrape a pass. |
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There seems to be something else at work, sometimes. If you raise the scores on Cooking, Mechanical, and/or Cleaning - even when they are not "required" - that tends to get rid of the glitch. (I wouldn't let a sim graduate with Cooking less than 3, anyway - too much chance they'll burn down the house and/or themselves.) |
Now, you claimed earlier that you were not experiencing this glitch when you had this problem, and that some other skill was required but not marked as such, and the grade bar really is restricted and didn't just appear to be. Have you changed your mind about what happened?
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What type of package files in my download folder should The Compressorizer NOT be used on? I've heard it should not be used on mods, any other types of files? |
You can use it on nearly any .PKG file that I know of-because I've compressed nearly every single kind there is. No harm to any of them. I've done pixels, houses, objects, walls, floors, mods, meshes, you name it, I've compressed it.
I don't see any problems at all. My game runs fine, with over 15,000 objects in it. In fact, the compression of objects probably speeds it all up because the file size is smaller.
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I used to keep uncompressed files, but they took up a ton of space so I stopped doing it - I may keep the mesh files as long as I'm still working on them, and compress the finished ones, but if the originals are 1-3 mb each and there are 15 of them, I'd rather keep the 500 kb compressed versions...
So far nearly all have been fine. I've had a few that weirded out, but I'm not sure why they did - they compressed really slow and/or left an extra file in the folder for some reason (not a ".bak"/backup file). Only seen it a few times, for CC I'd downloaded. But other than that I've not had any issues with compressing files. The weird ones I think I just kept uncompressed.
Would be a bit careful with mods/hacks (I don't compress those unless they contain meshes/textures, but the files are usually tiny so there's really no point).
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Is there any way to bring the apartment roommate back on my UI? I've installed some mods, some of them caused a reset. Now, the apartment roommate still lives here and hangs around, but I can't "select" them to check their needs and satisfaction. I used the batbox to clear bad apartment residencies. It cleaned every resident apart from my sim (currently the only controllable tenant in the complex), but I still didn't get the roomie to show up. It's a can-live-with-it problem, and I wouldn't like to kick them out.
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If a Sim is cold (blue), would lighting a fire help?
Also, do Sims only autonomously repair the computer if they have enough mechanical to do the job without electrocuting themselves? The only person I see do it is Don Lothario, but he always seems to successfully repair it.
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Has anyone seen a Sim autonomously light a fire in a fireplace? I don't think it happens, but I wondered if it might just be rare. |
According to simler90, sims can't autonomously light a fireplace:
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Fireplace Mod: This separate mod allows sims to autonomously light fireplaces and also makes fireplaces burn for a slightly longer time. In an unmodded game, sims can't light fireplaces on their own. This mod does not affect custom fireplaces. |
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Has anyone seen a Sim autonomously light a fire in a fireplace? I don't think it happens, but I wondered if it might just be rare. If a Sim is cold (blue), would lighting a fire help? Also, do Sims only autonomously repair the computer if they have enough mechanical to do the job without electrocuting themselves? The only person I see do it is Don Lothario, but he always seems to successfully repair it. |
Pretty sure I've had Sims with low mechanical skill autonomously try to repair a computer. Luckily I've always caught them in time to redirect them before they wind up killing themselves. Guess they feel the same way we do - when you gotta play The Sims, you gotta play The Sims! Morning is too long to wait!
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You go to Advanced, select the address, choose "flatten" edges, perform the operation, then "smooth" edges. Go back into the game and make a structural change (possibly including manually flattening the edges, which don't go flat if there's a fence or something), save, pick the lot up, drop it back down, and things should then fit.
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also is 17 screenshots too many for 2 items of clothing 6 angles for each + 4 bonus shots
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Is there any way to bring the apartment roommate back on my UI? I've installed some mods, some of them caused a reset. Now, the apartment roommate still lives here and hangs around, but I can't "select" them to check their needs and satisfaction. I used the batbox to clear bad apartment residencies. It cleaned every resident apart from my sim (currently the only controllable tenant in the complex), but I still didn't get the roomie to show up. It's a can-live-with-it problem, and I wouldn't like to kick them out. |
This sounds like a continuation of a previous post. I have the same problem with apartment roomies in one of my hoods, in fact I'm pretty sure it happened in multiple hoods - but I've never seen anyone talk about it before and I have no idea what causes it or what fixes it. I just don't play with apartment roomies any more, which is no huge loss, but weird that it doesn't work properly.
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This sounds like a continuation of a previous post. I have the same problem with apartment roomies in one of my hoods, in fact I'm pretty sure it happened in multiple hoods - but I've never seen anyone talk about it before and I have no idea what causes it or what fixes it. I just don't play with apartment roomies any more, which is no huge loss, but weird that it doesn't work properly. |
When this happens, you'd need to clear the roommate state from the sim and then ask them to be roommates again.
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how do you package/upload clothing? I can't find in guidelines also is 17 screenshots too many for 2 items of clothing 6 angles for each + 4 bonus shots |
Upload the package files and package them together as a zip/rar file (the files can be found in SavedSims or wherever you've saved your finished clothing files. You can keep the original name or rename them. DON'T use the files in the Projects folder!). You need an unzip/zipping program.
The mesh can be packaged either as a separate file, in the same zip/rar file, or post a working link to where the mesh can be found (depending on whether you made the file, ToU of original creator on whether you can include it, availability of the mesh if it's no longer easily found, etc. I'm sure the guidelines have a section on this.)
17 screenshots sound like a bit much for 2 items unless the angles are very much needed to show special details or something such (front and back plus maybe one side view is probably enough for most items).
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