Viewing Hair/Clothing Without In Game BootUP
jezzer:
Quote from: killerpoet on 2010 August 10, 10:03:33
Is there any other problems with Peggy that I should be aware of?
How much time do you have?
Tarlia:
On second thought, you could probably find the some of problems in the meshes (textures would have nothing to do with this), but I have no experience whatsoever creating or editing meshes. There are tutorials on how to do so, though, and they should also tell you what programs you can use. I expect that gap problems and similar you might find, but clipping through sim's bodies and such I don't think you will see without testing them in the game, since that's an issue of the mesh combined with the animations.
killerpoet:
I have no idea how they are made I couldn't edit a mesh with a gun to my head... clueless with that stuff.
I tried googling for a program to view without loading with many different word combinations but still have come up with nothing even remotely resembling a program that can do this. Do you perhaps know the name or creators name of one of these? Or even maybe a word combination suggestion that I could try that would get a hit. At least if I could view a file before it's in game if it looks okay on the view that would be a lot less in game testing of the animations to go through. A lot of the hairs and clothing that I have the creator only used a series of numbers for and so they are completely unidentifiable as an actual hair name, and some I've found if I delete from the CAS window or even BodyShop it completely borks some of the Maxis hairs... I don't get that... but not a skinner maybe they know why that happens but I've lost entire neighborhoods deleting some of the hairs before. I have so many hairstyles that I would love to purge my game and get rid of a bunch of the colors to cut down on the weight of my downloads folder (ya know only keep like a few colors of the good ones and scrap the others).
So should I google for other search words like mesh viewing or editing or something like that... I'm really at a loss for google combinations now, I've litterally tried about a hundred different combinations or more to find some sort of program to do this.... and I know the SIMpe popped up for one of those. but my computer hates the SIMpe and every time I've ever tried to install it... when I click to boot it my system crashes even though I installed all the other Microsoft needed stuff before it... so the SIMpe is out. I really would love if you may possibly remember the name of one of these types of viewing programs... or even a creator name... then maybe Google will hit something relevant... I don't even mind if I have to search 100 different creations to find something. Thankyou for your answers.
Mootilda:
There are a few programs which will allow you to preview CC, but the preview that you see may not help you. The pictures will not look anything like a sim, instead they are flat rectangles with bits of the clothing, hair, etc, in various places on the rectangle. The game takes those rectangles and wraps them around the shape of the sim (mesh). Some of these programs are:
Clean Installer:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=409950
Multi-Installer:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=37577
SimPE:
http://sims.ambertation.de/
I'm not familiar with this program, but the Wardrobe Wrangler may help you:
http://forum.jfade.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=457
If you try any of these programs, you will quickly see what I mean about the pictures. You may be able to recognize the stuff that you want to delete.
killerpoet:
Thanks for the info Mootilda.. although none of these do what I need them to do. The clean installer is only for Sims2Pkg Files. The multiInstaller is only for walls/floors.
The SimPE crashes my computer. The WardrobeWrangler is for binning hair.
I need a program that can read the files (not Sims2 pkg) and view what they look like in general to see if I should even bother to do a game install of them looking for flaws later. The problem is, over the years I have a lot of hair and clothing files and some of them I know are garbage but I have no idea what the name of the file is. Others are ones that I have no idea what they look like at all and I want to see them (on a sim) doesn't even have to be a real sim (can be just like a manniquin) to see in general if the hair or clothing is even worth putting into the game/bodyshop and Really looking careful for flaws. Without something like that I am constantly putting a file into my downloads/booting up the game/going to create a sim and viewing it/if it sucks shutting down the game/removing the files from the downloads/banging my head on the wall and repeating the process hundreds of times.
Any info anyone can give me is apprecciated regarding either a program that can view files/ or even a search word to find a program like this/ or even if something like this even exists or not. I've tried googling various combinations of viewing Sims 2 files without bodyshop (literally hundreds of combinations now) and no joy.
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