Just how the hell many pictures do you have to acquire on vacay...
Zazazu:
Quote from: doren on 2007 December 07, 17:08:20
Storybook Viewer. That's the one I meant, but the Transamerican link does not work anymore, so the program is only available at MTS.
The Transamerican link does work. It's where I got mine at home. It's where the link at MTS2 sends you. Try the link.
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What you do with SimPE sounds unnecessary complicated to me (and I am also using the story files from college). What is the advantage? You can not edit the original/first album in-game anymore, so why not simply overwrite it (after saving a copy of it in a different folder)? Overwriting the .xml file does not result in loss of the pictures, so I don't understand what you are gaining with this method.
Where are you posting these? Are you uploading to something like livejournal? In that case, sure, you can overwrite the .xml file and then change the name before uploading to livejournal. I'm posting to the official site. If you overwrite the original .xml, when you upload to the official site it deletes the first copy. By linking another album in (preferably before you start with the new chapter) you can have your photos available in order on the lot so that you can write while on the lot. No switching around. No searching through a lot of unrelated crap in the + tab. I know the photos aren't lost completely, ever, unless you actually go in and delete them from the /Storytelling folder. (Which I do, but I'm anal about keeping my photo folders clean).
I also don't like that I can't delete photos in the + tab. So ridiculously annoying. If they are in the main tab, I can delete them at will.
Anyways, it's not that complicated...my explanation is probably at fault. Setting this up takes me all of a minute and a half...including waiting for SimPE to load the 'hood.
doren:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 December 07, 22:27:18
Where are you posting these? Are you uploading to something like livejournal? In that case, sure, you can overwrite the .xml file and then change the name before uploading to livejournal. I'm posting to the official site. If you overwrite the original .xml, when you upload to the official site it deletes the first copy. By linking another album in (preferably before you start with the new chapter) you can have your photos available in order on the lot so that you can write while on the lot. No switching around. No searching through a lot of unrelated crap in the + tab. I know the photos aren't lost completely, ever, unless you actually go in and delete them from the /Storytelling folder. (Which I do, but I'm anal about keeping my photo folders clean).
I also don't like that I can't delete photos in the + tab. So ridiculously annoying. If they are in the main tab, I can delete them at will.
Anyways, it's not that complicated...my explanation is probably at fault. Setting this up takes me all of a minute and a half...including waiting for SimPE to load the 'hood.
Aha! I am not posting on any site and I am usually ignoring the official one. So to me it sounded like you went through this whole procedure just to create an empty album and that did not make sense.
Now, I am confused about what you said about deleting pictures though. I would have to check, but I think I can delete pictures in both folders. What I find ridiculously annoying is the fact that I can not delete a chosen picture, but only the first one in the folder, whatever I have marked when I go on delete. Why they failed with such a simple function is beyond me, but it resulted in having a huge amount of pictures (about 11,000 total), which I find hard to reduce (removing them manually from the neighbourhood folder has become almost impossible). If you have found a way to delete what you marked, instead of something else, I would be very interested to know about that.
I know that some sites are not always available, but the transamerican link I must have tried for the last half year and I can't get on it. When was the last time you have been to that site? Does the link work for you now?
bowrain:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 December 07, 22:27:18
Quote from: doren on 2007 December 07, 17:08:20
Storybook Viewer. That's the one I meant, but the Transamerican link does not work anymore, so the program is only available at MTS.
The Transamerican link does work. It's where I got mine at home. It's where the link at MTS2 sends you. Try the link.
It used to work, because that's where I got mine either, but since earlier this year the site is down. I'm stuck in the alpha version, got the nag screen everytime I run the app, but the site is not up anymore :-\
Zazazu:
I truly don't know what to tell you. When I click the link in my quote above, it goes to the page, and the download links work. :-\
For in-game photo deletion, I can correctly delete anything on the first "page" of available shots. It's on the second page where it goes wonky. Instead of deleting the photo you've clicked on, it will delete the first photo on the first page. Very annoying, but anymore I don't let myself get more than 10 unplaced photos. If I get behind on my writing, I get pissy and stop wanting to catch up. Then I feel bad and either don't want to play the family or keep playing for a bit until I get bored.
cwykes:
I'm using storybook viewer and love it. It's great not to have to load the game up to write or edit a story. I also edit the xml file in Wordpad if I'm doing something simple like tweaking the text or re-ordering pics. I like wordpad for that because it's quick (no pics to load) and I'm confident about moving things to the right place.
I've thought about changing album numbers in SimPE but never done it. I wanted to create album numbers that showed at a glance what the Household was, but gave up when I realised that you're stuck with 0-F so "Smith" is a non-starter as a name. One of the things that tempts me to upload stories to TSR instead of the Exchange is that their wizard works outside the game and I bet you don't need to mess with dummy families to have a story in chapters.
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