Funny business generating new professors.
Kyna:
This is what he looks like when he's a standard downtownie.
Doc Doofus:
Okay, I did some more dinkin' around. I installed the Downtownie Blank Templates, clearing out the old D001 character template files.
I restarted the game and generated some professors. They were STILL DOWNTOWNIES!! Amazing. Where is it finding the template information? Is it copying this stuff from the existing EA downtownies? Are they stored elsewhere in the Nightlife folder?
Next I tried what Kyne suggested. I clicked the "Switch to Downtownies" button, then generated a new professor. Voila! It used my default face replacements and it did not include any downtownie makeup. And the thumbnails had the professor clothing, rather than downtownie clothing. (If you looked at the thumbnails in my pic at the top post, you could see that the professors were wearing downtownie clothes in their thumbnails but the correct professor suits on the lot.)
Just to see what happens, I clicked "Switch back to making Townies" and generated a new professor. The next professor had a downtownie face again. So, yes, Kyne is right (thank you Kyne!), you have to put the NPC/Townie gun into downtownie mode before you generate new professors or else you'll get downtownie faces and makeup on your professors. Which might be cool, depending on what you're trying to do, I guess.
Where else in the world could I have found such an esoteric piece of desiderata?
I'm still baffled, however, by how the game can still put downtownie faces and makeup on new professors under any circumstances at all, considering I wiped out the D001 characters folder. I double-checked it. It's clean. Is it getting the faces and makeup from one of the nightlife objects packages?
Emma:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 July 31, 07:22:29
This is what he looks like when he's a standard downtownie.
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Oh yeah, that outfit. I could've sworn it was the other one :D I was close though.
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2008 July 31, 07:40:36
I'm still baffled, however, by how the game can still put downtownie faces and makeup on new professors under any circumstances at all, considering I wiped out the D001 characters folder. I double-checked it. It's clean. Is it getting the faces and makeup from one of the nightlife objects packages?
Gwill was having the same problem ages ago with a downtownie teen that kept getting generated. I have always kept the clean templates installed for all EPs when setting up custom neighbourhoods and I still get these default downtownie face templates. I have no idea where they are coming from.
Doc Doofus:
I think I remember that thread by Gwill. He had the tan teenage townie girl with the blonde angela pleasant type hair in his game. The one in the retro 50s dress.
Okay, I just went to my preexisting downtown neighborhood, went into family lot, and used the gun to make a new set of downtownies. I was curious to see if it would make them using my replacement defaults, since I wiped out D001/characters. No such luck. They were all the same downtownies. Same faces, makeup, clothing. Thirty of them. My best guess is they must be coming from somewhere in the objects folder.
Kyna:
Like Emma, I use empty templates when setting up new hoods. There are no characters in my D001 folder, so it's clearly not drawing from those.
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