crappy paintings, apparently
slurpeefiend:
A few months ago I got both OFB and Pets at the same time, and a few days later I formatted my hard drive and reloaded everything onto the computer again, including Sims2 with all of the available expansion packs but no stuff packs. I haven't bothered using the easel since then, until a few days ago, and my easels now seem to be broken. I have no problem with starting a sim painting, and they can even start autonomously, but once they've quit they no longer have the option of working on the same painting again later. The "continue painting" option is gone and the only option that shows up is "scrap this painting" even if they're the one who started it. Since I only recently reloaded Sims2 with new expansion packs after a formatting, and since that means that everything in the downloads folder has been added since then, everything is a potential suspect. Has anyone seen or heard about this before, or does anyone who knows how to build mods (and which flavor of them might be to blame for this) have any suggestions before I resort to checking each and every thing in my downloads folder individually?
syberspunk:
I think Crammyboy's easel fix may be the culprit. It's really Maxis EA's fault, because they stupidly flip flopped back and forth between the code and then back again. This all happened sometime between OFB, then OFBp2, and then back again with one of the SPs and then probably yet again back with zOMGPETZ! So... you'd probably have to read that thread to make sure which version you should be using. I think he kept both versions around, because most likely, it will probably flip flop again. :P
Ste
J. M. Pescado:
The problem originates in the fact that originally, the author of a sim painting was recorded by Object ID. This eventually revealed itself as badly flawed, such as if a sim is reinstantiated due to deletion, moving, or travelling to/from ownable commlots, his object ID will change. In OFB, this was made very apparent as travelling to/from ownable lots and selling paintings was intended to be viaible. So they changed it in OFB to store by NID instead of object instance ID. Then ZOMGPETZ!!!111oneoneone, for no apparently logical reason, decided to flipflop back.
reggikko:
I have that problem on occasion and don't have Pets installed. Sometimes, if I have the Sim try again later the option to continue painting reappears. Weird.
syberspunk:
Quote from: reggikko on 2007 February 02, 05:27:56
I have that problem on occasion and don't have Pets installed. Sometimes, if I have the Sim try again later the option to continue painting reappears. Weird.
Probably because they sadorandomly happened to get the same Object instance as the one they had when they originally started the painting. :P
Ste
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