substituting default pets with my own creations
amjoie:
I hate the EA/Maxis default pets. They are almost all purposefully ugly and distorted like most of the default sim people. Instead of needing to use SimPE surgery on all of the pets spawned, I decided to try something different.
I deleted all the default breeds out of the PetBreeds folder. (I also deleted the petbreedbinpackage, by mistake. But the game generated a new one, automatically.) Then I took all the breeds I have created and put them into the PetBreeds folder. I started up a new neighborhood, and had a sim call to adopt a pet, both when I had the hack that stops pet spawning in the game and without the hack. In both cases, the game spawned needed pets (more without the hack, of course) from my created breeds.
Wolves were spawned from somewhere other than the PetBreeds folder, because they were in the game even though I never created any wolves.
So far, no hiccups. The game plays just fine. But all the pets are much more realistic and beeeUtiful ...
I opened up an older neighborhood I was going to delete anyway, to see what happened to the default Maxis/EA pets already in old hoods. They were all still there, unchanged. So once a pet is in the game, it doesn't call upon the PetBreeds folder anymore, apparently. The breeds seem to be used as templates, rather than meshes.
Can anyone see any long-term reason my default pet replacement method will not work? Does anyone suspect any hidden problems I have not yet encountered, because I did this?
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If no one sees a problem, and if anyone else wants to try it, I have put the whole PetBreeds folder-worth of my created pets in one RAR for download on my website. Many pets in the RAR have not been pictured on my site, as of yet. There are 70 files in the folder. The RAR download is right near the top of the page. http://www.virtualpetz.net/id21.html
If no one foresees a problem, and you decide to test this out, please let me know if it works in your game.
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amjoie:
I've tried editing, twice, and the edit won't save. So pardon the double post.
This is important, though: The Maxis/EA default breeds in the PetBreeds folder are named. Any garbage character names are custom content pets you have created, so don't delete those unless you want to get rid of them. Probably best to backup the PetBreeds folder before messing with it.
I don't want to get blamed for someone's missing pet breed creation. :)
notveryawesome:
Excuse me whilst I behave like an overzealous fangirl: SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!! I love your petbreeds - they are indeed beeeUtiful. Thank you very much for this. *downloads*
amjoie:
ACK! Wait -- DON'T do what I did, until somebody awesome verifies that it won't splode a hood!
... But you can still enjoy my breeds, regardless. And, thank you for the compliment. :)
notveryawesome:
No worries. I was just going to put your breeds in the PetBreeds folder anyway, because I don't mind the Maxis ones that much.
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