Making a holiday template
Inge:
I have just made a really good vacation town, which is a mountain zone as I didn't want the locals wearing grass skirts. It's attached to Pleasantview right now, but I would like to save it so I can attach it to other hoods later. Any tutorials?
Inge:
Heh - forget it - no vacation hood to save any more. That will serve me right for not doing enough backups.
I was experimenting with putting it into a test hood from a template of it I was trying to make. Because the game didn't like the template version I made, and it wouldn't open it properly in my test hood, it had a hissy and zapped its counterpart in my main hood too! I have no idea by what mechanism it decides to do that. It should not even have known it was the same hood.
Moral of the story is don't rely on test hoods to test stuff - make a test windows login ID and a *completely seperate game*
Inge:
I managed to fix it, and at least that showed me how to reuse the vacation hood with other hoods - but not as a template.
You have to do it as soon as you make the new hood, before you have used any of the same numbers for your lots.
Just copy the N00?_Vacation00?.package and .png into the new hood folder, and then copy the lots over (just the ones from the vacation hood). You have to edit the filenames to fit the hood they are in. Then in SimPE open the N00?_Vacation00?.package and edit the IDNO resource to show the correct parent hood, and do the make unique button.
That's all.
Mootilda:
I'll have to find the link, but Pescado expressed concerns about duplicate GUIDs, even in different neighborhoods. Seems like that would apply in this case.
[Update:] Here's the conversation:
Topic: Is Cloning a Neighbourhood a VBT?
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,13364.0.html
Inge:
Yes that makes sense. But to be honest, since each hood is meant to be a different savedgame, I think it is poor practice of EA to touch the files in another hood at all during a play session in one hood. Yet there are always several files across the whole hoods folder updated each session.
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