Crash after accidental delete of a Maxis mesh
Theo:
Quote from: Jordi on 2006 December 14, 13:19:17
As of Pets, all Maxis clothing which is modified by a download can be flagged as custom content, and indeed be deletable.
I saw somewhere a mention to an Overrides folder in Pets, so what is the difference from the regular downloads folder?
Can it be related to that behavior?
magic cookie:
Thanks for all your quick answers, I'll guess I'll have to manually check which CC content can be handled by the game after my delete, though it doesn't seem to be much at all.
This issue is really weird, for example all the Maxis default eyebrows started being indicated as CC as well, although I haven't downloaded any eyebrow files in six months!
There must have been one bad apple which caused problems with a whole bunch of files, then, I'll check but I haven't downloaded much lately, except for Peggy's hair and clothes.
jrd:
Theo: no, not really. Stuff in override simply won't be seen as custom content even though it is.
The important thing is the product string. Most EAMaxis content contains this anyway, but not all. Before Pets it never caused any problems, but since Pets people making overrides or changes to EAMaxis clothing must be on the watch for this.
Ambular:
Quote from: Jordi on 2006 December 14, 13:19:17
As of Pets, all Maxis clothing which is modified by a download can be flagged as custom content, and indeed be deletable. The important factor is if the property set has a product (dtUInteger) set to one of the following:
1 for base game,
2 for uni,
3 for nightlife,
4 for OfB
5 for FFS
6 for GLS
7 for Pets
Christmas packs are set to 1 as well. Any missing value or other value will be flagged as custom content, and be deletable!
Deletion actually deletes the clothes from the 3d packages...
Windkeeper fixed his downloads to take care of it, but any other downloads you have that modify clothing (such as YA to A enablers) must be checked for this property.
Magic cookie will have to restore these packages somehow. I don't know off hand exactly where all is stored, so best of to reinstall everything.
O_o Well, I must say that's just an accident waiting to happen! Could someone perhaps work on making a list of exactly which packages are affected by this? And will making all of them read-only in fact fix the problem?
miros:
I did a search for *.package on my Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Pets directory and made all 390-some files read only. Will report back after I get my error logs posted. (errors not related to deleting base game files or making things read only.)
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