Sharable Custom set of townies?
Jelenedra:
I suppose the only thing to be concerned about would be the neighborhood name, if you just copy over the character files... any custom townies that get shared, would have to be for the exactly same neighborhood for everyone. Unless, of course, if the method Marhis suggested works and any new neighborhoods would use the template saved in N001.
seelindarun:
I wouldn't copy or move the character files of a shared 'hood. I suspect that might lead to corruption, if you tried to insert the new townies into an existing 'hood. The Neighborhood file links to all the character files, so they'd have to stay together.
What I was thinking was that I'd do terrain surgery on a regular 'hood containing the custom townies. If you shared Lake Jelenedra, I'd rename it, surgery the terrain and then get on with building and playing. :) Of course, templates are even better since they offer the flexibility of taking out the noregen hacks and filling any 'hoods that you might deem underpopulated. It's just that I'm not so picky about populated 'hoods, because there aren't very many offered.
Madame Mim:
Definately the template method works. It's what some of my Neighbourhoods are based on and they're completely swappable so that you can use a different template to create different themed hoods. In theory I suppose you could use any Neighbourhood that you have previously set up as a template if you're not worried about excess sim bloat.
gethane:
I desperately would like to see a sharable set of (maxis only but made with different face template) townies and vacation locals with clear instructions. Maybe we could make a list like 16 males, 6 with S1, 1 each color eyes, one each color hair, and people could sign up to make them and then share. Sims with "interesting" faces. Something other than the template face 1 standby and without having to download a bunch of custom content. Maybe instead of just having a house of fail contest, we could share sims for people to townify.
Mizz Rose Bud:
Quote from: seelindarun on 2009 January 16, 21:32:00
Quote from: wally_walrus on 2009 January 15, 16:55:41
There is one way to get your custom characters as townies forever: just set up a custom neighborhood as you want it, from SaraMK and Jordi's great guides (put clean templates in place etc), then make a backup of the neighborhood. If you want to revert to your original townies, just delete the old neighborhood from the Neighborhoods folder and replace it with your backup.
This only works if you're willing to trash the first 'hood you made. However, the general idea does work well if you want to share the entire 'hood.
There is a program called PowerRen 2000. I know that other players have used it to rename the files in a Nxxx folder, if they want to run the same hood in different ways. Apparently it works fine for them, so with that and Terrain Surgery, it shouldn´t be impossible.
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