How to identify custom content used?
DrNerd:
Quote from: hedgekat on 2009 June 01, 17:47:24
Do you have to put the house in the bin? I thought there was an option to package the lot when you click on it in the neighborhood. I have about 75 houses with families to check.
But how accurate is Clean Installer with custom objects? I just reinstalled an apartment that I designed a few eps back and noticed that it included a whole bunch of countertops plus extra stoves and fridges. When I went inside the building in game I saw only one of the countertops and all stoves and fridges were Maxis. I remember when it started inlcuding all recolors but don't know if any later expansion has stopped that.
If there's an option to package the lot without binning it, then that would work, as long as it copies the family, rather than just removing them from the neighborhood or binning them. You just never want to bin an occupied lot.
Maybe with the kitchen CC, you deleted the meshes but the textures were still there? That would have resulted in them being replaced with Maxis objects, but the texture files would have still showed up in the Clean Installer, I think. Or the meshes needed to be updated with the new EPs, maybe. You might want to make a lot with CC that you keep track of, and then bin the lot and run it through the Clean Installer to see if it's identified the same CC you know went into it, to see how accurate it is.
hedgekat:
With the kitchen CC, the only things I used were a recolor of a Maxis countertop and a recolor of a Maxis stove. I had several recolors of the countertop, plus two more of the stove and some for the cheap refrigerator in my downloads folder. All of those were included in the package file.
If I remember correctly when TS2 first came out packaging a lot included only the custom content that was used in the lot. With one of the later eps they started packaging ALL of the recolors of anything that was used in the lot. That is what happened with my apartment. But as I said I packaged that some time ago. I am hoping that by AL it has reverted to the original method. If not, then packaging the lots may not work for identifying the custom content objects used. It would list the walls and floors but I can do that easily by entering the lot and using the eyedropper. With object recolors that won't work.
Sorry it's been taking me so long to respond to your posts. I lost my internet access number and have been having difficulty finding another one that is not long distance. Disadvantage of living in a very rural area.
DrNerd:
Quote from: hedgekat on 2009 June 04, 22:34:10
With the kitchen CC, the only things I used were a recolor of a Maxis countertop and a recolor of a Maxis stove. I had several recolors of the countertop, plus two more of the stove and some for the cheap refrigerator in my downloads folder. All of those were included in the package file.
If I remember correctly when TS2 first came out packaging a lot included only the custom content that was used in the lot. With one of the later eps they started packaging ALL of the recolors of anything that was used in the lot. That is what happened with my apartment. But as I said I packaged that some time ago. I am hoping that by AL it has reverted to the original method. If not, then packaging the lots may not work for identifying the custom content objects used. It would list the walls and floors but I can do that easily by entering the lot and using the eyedropper. With object recolors that won't work.
Sorry it's been taking me so long to respond to your posts. I lost my internet access number and have been having difficulty finding another one that is not long distance. Disadvantage of living in a very rural area.
Heh. And here I just figured that you had a life!
I don't know about binning before and after AL. I only have through Seasons, and only recently binned a lot to share, and was careful to not use CC beyond the Lot Debugger and the invisible driveway recolor.
hedgekat:
Quote from: DrNerd on 2009 June 05, 00:31:00
[Heh. And here I just figured that you had a life!
LOL Nope, no life. I retired six years ago and since then the only life I have is lived through my sims. I leave them only grudgingly to do anything else.
cwykes:
lotpackager always includes recolours of any maxis item in the house even though you didn't use the recolours! It has done since base game and I've been moaning about it that long. It's how CC ends up on the exchange even though people didn't intend to put it there. 've been hoping since base game that someone would rewrite lotpackager to do something more sensible or give you an interactive menu so you could say what to put in the package. You'll probably find my moans and rants about it if you search for lotpackager.
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