How much is too much
Motoki:
Quote from: MokeyHokey on 2005 November 01, 12:22:20
I categorize hairs into their proper Maxis genetic as I get them. (I use SimPe; it's pretty easy.)
How exactly do you categorize the hairs in SimPE? Do you have to manually set all the flags? I know Pinhead wrote a long tutorial for it some time ago but it kind of just made me go ???
Lynda:
Quote from: aqualectrix on 2005 November 01, 03:42:57
Anyone planning to use DatGen to categorize hair should make sure to get the debug version. It fixes many many problems which were in the plain .0.7.13 version -- in fact, at least in the hair-categorizing aspect, it works perfectly.
I have no idea why I can script in various programming languages just fine, but I can't figure out the simplest SIM program...
So I downloaded the developmental release. The hair toner plugin isn't there, I can't figure out where to find it, and by this thread on TSR, it seems that hair toner has been dropped.
I'm just a flipping idiot, right? Do I need to use skin toner to categorize my hair, or is the hair toner plugin available somewhere?
ETA: I think I give up. The tutorials don't go over how to categorize hair with the skin manager. I load some files, but have no way of knowing what COLOR it is (unless the filename gives a clue).... It seems like skin manager then auto categorizes hair, all on its own SOMEHOW because after loading some files, if I go to skin manager, they've assigned themselves to a category. It seems like it all conflicts though because filenames indicating "blond" are assigning themselves to "black".
MokeyHokey:
I followed an excellent simplified tutorial by buffysmg81 at N99.
I take no credit for this! The original post can be found here: http://p218.ezboard.com/fstarlightsimsfrm62.showMessage?topicID=631.topic.
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1. Open the file you want to recategorise in SimPE.
2. Click on "Property Set", then "Plugin View"
3. Click on each Property Set and find the line that says "Family". Change the value to "b52b9d28-7b62-4f41-bd88-fb382721db82" (no quotes) - just highlight what's already there and paste that over it. There will be about 5 or 6 Property Sets for each hairstyle and you need to do this for all of them.
4. Find the line that says "hairtone". Depending on what colour the hairstyle you're recategorising is, you'll need to enter one of 5 codes in the value box.
Black
00000001-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Brown
00000002-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Blonde
00000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Red
00000004-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Grey
00000005-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Again, you need to do the same thing to all of the Property Sets, just like you did in Step 3.
One of the property sets of each hairstyle will be grey for the elders.You'll know which Property Set is for the elders because the line "name (dtString)" will list the colour as "grey", instead of the actual colour. When you find the elder Property Set for each style, just enter the code for grey instead of the regular colour.
5. Save.
SaraMK:
Quote from: Lynda on 2005 November 01, 12:32:16
ETA: I think I give up. The tutorials don't go over how to categorize hair with the skin manager. I load some files, but have no way of knowing what COLOR it is (unless the filename gives a clue).... It seems like skin manager then auto categorizes hair, all on its own SOMEHOW because after loading some files, if I go to skin manager, they've assigned themselves to a category. It seems like it all conflicts though because filenames indicating "blond" are assigning themselves to "black".
They haven't actually been categorized. It's just a display issue. You are right that there is no way to know what color a hair is, unless the filename tells you. The program can't know either. What it's showing you is the color of the hair that was cloned. So if someone clones black hair and then makes all the other colors from it, then the program will show it as black. I use SimPE to open the files to see what color they are, if the filename gives no clues.
Hairfish:
I have just over 3GB total in my \Downloads and \Saved Sims folders. I'll reduce that by a few MB when I removed the Halloween decorations, but will probably replace them with even more Christmas stuff.
That 3GB is a lot when you consider that I only have a 40GB hard drive. :P Where's the 12-Step Group?
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