How much is too much
GloamingMerle:
*points and laughs at everyone who has over a gig in downloads* ;)
I couldn't stand to have such a mess of downloads. I only download things that are easy to delete, and I only keep things I use constantly. My pickiness has earned me a neat 230MB. I do frequent cleanings to be sure things come no where near out of control. It's not exactly easy when there's so much amazing stuff out there, but I'd rather have my game run more smoothly. My game takes well under a minute to load. My biggest word of advice is to stay away from bodyshop meshes, as there is no way to delete them from within the game, and that makes things tricksy. I also look for well organized objects that are easy and safe to delete, mesh and all, from within the game. WellDressedSim is a prime example of that.
reggikko:
Well, I have just under a Gig. One thing I noticed when I was going through things is that I seem to have lost the Maxis recolors of the Moroccan couch. The loveseat is fine, but the couch only shows the red one. Grr. I promised my self that when I installed NL that I would be extremely picky.....and then I got on a clothes downloading jag.
Zandi:
I've learned to be choosie about what I download and I tend to get rid of things I find myself not using.
I've noticed that I have incredably few new hair meshes because I get rid of the ones that end up looking like plastic in my game. I'd rather have a few Maxis hair meshes with some movement to them than a bunch of cute dos that seem cemented in place. And I do love that their hair changes when they're in pajammas now even if it looks like they had to take out extensions...
And I try to avoid having too many recolors of new objects though I'm bad about having loads of furnisher meshes.
But I have to check the folder sizes later to find out how much stuff I have now.
Motoki:
Quote from: lindaetterlee on 2005 November 01, 06:27:30
BTW anyone know of any good hair sites lol. that have their hair put in the right color bins etc?
There are very few people who do this still. Unfortunately, you will have to do it yourself each time you get hair. Datgen is probably the easiest way to do it and as someone mentioned, be sure and get the debug version.
Also, whenever you download hairs, try to put the mesh and all the hair colors for that style in its own subdirectory.
MokeyHokey:
I dumped all my downloads after NL came out.
I'm keeping a tight rein on new mesh objects and downloading Maxis recolors now for the most part. ATS, Holy Simoly, WDS and Windkeeper are the only ones I get pretty much anything they release. Otherwise I have to really adore it, and if poly/vertex count isn't posted I won't touch it.
Skins, I don't have THAT many--300 MB of my total. I categorize hairs into their proper Maxis genetic as I get them. (I use SimPe; it's pretty easy.)
I'm back up to 1.1GB again and am satisfied with that. My game loads in about a minute, and it's about 20 seconds into a lot. ;D
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