Enabling Photography in Non-WA Games?
Menaceman:
For the record I have already PirateBayed World Adventures which is how I got the cameras in the first place.
The reason I don't want to install it is because of how bug ridden it seems from what I have read and how photography is the only feature I would use from it. I am not bothered about travelling to distant lands, exploring tombs or having mummies overrun my towns.
Or are you suggesting that I get a hold of the game files to see if it is possible to extract the photography skill? If so, I unfortunately wouldn't know what files to look at/in without somebody telling me, hence the reason for me creating this thread.
Goggalor:
If the camera interface works apart from the skill progression, you might get away with editing the photography xml in gameplay data. The instance number is 0x8B614033DD63DBF2. It's the same one that I edited to fix some errors here. You could look at the changes I made to enable the different sizes and styles, but then also change it so that there's a low failure rate. It might work.
(The fix itself might need updating. Due to graphics card breakage I haven't been able to do anything sims 3 related for a while, so I don't know whether the latest patches has changed anything in it. )
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: Menaceman on 2010 October 07, 23:28:46
The reason I don't want to install it is because of how bug ridden it seems from what I have read
This is a fucked up statement. If this were true you wouldn't even be playing the base game or ambitions as they were/are just as bugged and fucked up as WA was/is. It is only through the tireless work of the FOJ that the games are even playable.
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and how photography is the only feature I would use from it. I am not bothered about travelling to distant lands, exploring tombs or having mummies overrun my towns.
In this case don't use anything else. As far as I know there isn't anything, or anyone, that forces you to use any of the other features of the EP. I have been playing with WA since it came out, and I have yet to have a single mummy appear in any town (main neighbourhood, not tombs), so I think you are overestimating how that work, and how frequently it happens. If I don't want my sims to travel they don't, it is that easy not to use those parts of the pack.
If the camera and photography skill were added at the base with a patch, then it might be possible for someone to activate them, if they are in the WA files then your shit out of luck unless you install WA. I think your paranoia about the bugs and glitches you have supposedly read about is a bit misplaced and extreme.
AlexanderMorgan:
Quote from: Menaceman on 2010 October 07, 23:28:46
For the record I have already PirateBayed World Adventures which is how I got the cameras in the first place.
The reason I don't want to install it is because of how bug ridden it seems from what I have read and how photography is the only feature I would use from it. I am not bothered about travelling to distant lands, exploring tombs or having mummies overrun my towns.
Or are you suggesting that I get a hold of the game files to see if it is possible to extract the photography skill? If so, I unfortunately wouldn't know what files to look at/in without somebody telling me, hence the reason for me creating this thread.
I would go with Merlin in everything he said mate. If you're asking me for a hands-free opinion i would go ahead and install the WA if i were you. I don't know a single thing about these bugs you mention since i haven't had any at all and i've been more than happy with WA since i got it and i think that in all the SIMS series (1, 2 and 3) its the top 5 expansion pack. i feel like i got 2 EPs for the price of one with the adventures expansion. The ambitions EP pales in comparison. In your case the only thing you're going to lose is 1 hour at most to install (and then uninstall it if you don't like it that much) and a gig of HD space. In my opinion its 10 times easier than going around to extract some files that there's a high probability are not even there in the form you need.
Menaceman:
It just seemed as though people ranted about bugs in WA a lot more than in the base game or in later packs. People still complain about broken dig sites now.
I would say I can be quite OCD. I don't like to think I have space being taken up on my computer by something I won't use.
Goggalor, I'll take a look but think I tried it in the past with no effect. I guess without WA the game doesn't bother looking for the XML. Although if I give a Sim a camera they can successfully ask other Sims to pose who will then do so.
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