Changing novel title after delivery

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IcemanSimmer:
I accidentily hit the check button when my sim completed her novel and now its stuck with the default "Book Title". Is there a way to change the title now that the novel has been delivered to me?

I searched through the files in my docs using simpe to see if any fields contained the novel title. No luck :( The title must be stored somewhere if I only knew where it was.

Now I seek the help of you more awesome ones.

Thanks.

(I have FT so the novel was written using the new system)

J. M. Pescado:
If it's stored anywhere at all, it's probably in the lot file. Somewhere.

IcemanSimmer:
Right after opening this thread, I sent the family on vacation. None of the bookcases at their vacation home contained any of her previously written novels. Logically it would make sense that the data would be located in the lots file. In my case, I haven't "fused" the novel into the lot as yet. It's in her inventory.

I opened up her character file, looked through the inventory items and found the reference to her book. Sadly, the book title is not saved as plain text but rather hexcode. ARGHHH!!!! I had to take my new title and convert each ascii character into hex and then manually input them one at a time. What a royal pain in the ass!!!

Here's the lesson for all you kiddies out there: Make sure your title and description are spot on. Correcting them later is a pain in......

Peace

Berg:
Not really related, but still... What's up with the ridiculously short titles for the books? I had carefully planned that the title of the first custom novel written with FT would be "The Mysterious Case Of The Countless Clues" but oh noes! Way too many characters! I had to do with just "The Mysterious Case" which wasn't nearly as thrilling.

The book description, which is even only readable when the book's stuck in a sim's inventory, can go on and on and on but the title must be limited to, like, 6 characters. Bah!

</rant>

IcemanSimmer:
The character limit imbalance is simple PHAIL!!! And don't get me started on the complete uselessness of book description. I give my sims novels simple, to the point titles which also act as desciptors. My current sim has an entire series of "The Art of..." cookbooks (Fine Cuisne, Dessert, Grilling Fish, Juice Making, etc).

Peace

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