If EA releases another party pack what would it have to have for you to buy it?
Regina:
Woah! I was thinking I might be in the minority when it comes to hating those clothing styles. I guess not!
And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't like all my walls and floors costing $1. I like my sims to have something they can look forward to as they earn more money. In TS1 I was always re-pricing the walls and floors I downloaded using WallCat. I'd do the same thing with my TS2 walls and floors I've downloaded if only HomeCrafter would work with TS2/NL without Uni. Of course never mind the fact that HomeCrafter is so stupid that 'edit' doesn't edit the file but actually deletes it and creates a completely new one.
I think the in-game styles is what spurns a lot of people who maybe otherwise wouldn't into making their own clothes. I know it did me. If the game included styles I like I'd never take the time to do it. I've been lucky to find a few websites with awesome elder clothing and make some of my own. I don't generally visit sites that stick to women's fashions. There's already too many of those available. My game uses every life stage, not just adults.
I wonder if maybe part of the reason they go for the slut look in so many of those clothes is because that in reality sex sells.
Oh, I noticed someone else said something about the hip-hugging jeans and short tops. It's always amazed me in the past how many young women I've seen in town wearing styles like this that are constantly trying to pull down their shirts as they walk down the store aisles. I keep thinking, 'you know, if you don't really feel comfortable in those clothes then get some gumption and say phooey to the fashion industry and wear what does feel comfortable!'
I'm a sweats and t-shirt kinda person myself. In fact, I spent some time a few days ago re-vamping that 'slob' jammie set that came with NL so I can make a half-dozen or so re-colors for those days when my sims just don't feel like dressing up. Of course they're all getting categorized for everyday wear, sleepwear and activewear, so it tends to look like they're sleeping in the same clothes they wore all day! LOL
Yesterday I made re-colors of the one male adult shirt that does come down over pants. My problem with the originals is that stripe across the chest, just not my taste, so I made something like four or five of those. I call them 'my hubby's favorite shirts' because that's what he always wears. Then I took and re-colored the plain light-green guy sweater a few times, too. When it's chilly you'd never catch hubby without a sweater. ;)
Oh! And is it just me or does something look very wrong when a shirttail hangs down below a coat or jacket? Maybe it's just my old-fashioned thinking, but guys dressed like this look like they didn't finish dressing!
Motoki:
The $1 floors and walls annoys the hell out of me. As do ballgowns in the swimwear category and swimsuits in formal. ::) I really don't care for it when custom furniture is dirt cheap and more effecient than the most expensive Maxis stuff either. Like some bed that costs 100 simoleans and does 8 energy, 8 comfort and 8 environment. :P
If I want to cheat, there's motherlode and the multipainting and a slew of other things I can do to cheat, I really don't need to cheat with my buy or build mode stuff and no I don't think it's an advantage to have custom outfits available in all categories. >:(
I agree about the elders being neglected and their pajamas being non-existant. Recently I just went through all my custom clothes with the SimPE file scanner and set all my adult stuff to be available for elders too. It does give them the adult body when they are wearing them but I can't stand that elder body anyway so that's a good thing in my book and now they have a whole lot more choices.
AllenABQ:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 26, 02:11:07
Recently I just went through all my custom clothes with the SimPE file scanner and set all my adult stuff to be available for elders too. It does give them the adult body then they are wearing them but I can't stand that elder body anyway so that's a good thing in my book and now they have a whole lot more choices.
How do you do this? Or if you don't want to explain it in this thread can you point to a link that explains the process?
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: AllenABQ on 2005 October 26, 02:26:27
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 26, 02:11:07
Recently I just went through all my custom clothes with the SimPE file scanner and set all my adult stuff to be available for elders too. It does give them the adult body then they are wearing them but I can't stand that elder body anyway so that's a good thing in my book and now they have a whole lot more choices.
How do you do this? Or if you don't want to explain it in this thread can you point to a link that explains the process?
I was wondering the same thing
Motoki:
Open SimPE, go to Tools, then Scan Folders. It should bring up the folder scanner window. In the bottom left, uncheck all the boxes except the clothing scanner. Then go to the top and either hit scan if all your clothes are in your downloads folder, or grab the drop down and browse to whichever directory you have your clothes in. If you have a lot files, it helps to move all your clothes in a subdirectory and just scan that otherwise SimPE will have to sift through ALL your files to find the clothes.
Depending upon how many files you have, it could take a while to scan. When it's done, the clothes should appear in a list. You can hit the button near the top that says "Ages" to sort by age and then find clothes with "Adult", "YoungAdult or Adult", "YoungAdult". You can make the clothes from teens or kids for elders too but it won't fit so just stick with adults and young adults.
Now again down in the lower left there will be several tabs above a box. Switch to the Operations tab. Now highlight the outfit you want to change in the large box with the list of clothing above and then go the small box down below and scroll down until you get to the "Clothing Scanner" section. Check off Elder in addition to Adult. You can also check off YoungAdult too if it isn't already checked off. Then hit set. The check you just did in the elder box will dissappear, but it did actually take effect and if you rescan again you should now see the Elder category listed for that outfit and the Elder box checked.
The thing is, this scanner just shows you a thumbnail of the outfits texture and the internal name of the outfit. In many cases you may not be able to easily tell which outfit is which. I just made everything I had that was Adult or Young Adult into Adult, Elder and Young Adult combined. This can be very tedious and time consuming though as you have to set each outfit one at a time and if you have tons of clothes you could be clicking hundreds of times.
Sorry if this sounds confusing, :( It's really not so bad once you get used to it, but SimPE has never really been known for its user friendliness. :-\ I don't know of any really indepth tutorials showing how to do this with pictures but if I find any I'll post them.
*Edit: I remembered an old tutorial that had more manual way of doing this
http://www5.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=52437
In addition to the outfit codes she gives, outfits for both Adults and Elders is 0x00000018 while the code for making an oufit available for Adults, Elders and Young Adults is 0x00000058
This method will work but is even more manually intensive than the method I posted above when working with a lot of files because it requires opening each clothing article's package file individually.
Oh and just read the first post in that thread. You can skip the other 5 pages of brain dead chatter unless you feel like some retardo land style amusment.
*edit again: If this is all too much (and it sounds far worse than it is) you can be on the lookout for Elder outfits made by DGandy at TSR. She's got a number of them that were made this way with the Maxis Adult body clothes but set in SimPE for Elders and there's usually at least a couple of them in rotation at any given time.
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