substituting default pets with my own creations
amjoie:
I had forgotten about the create-a-pet templates. Thank you for pointing them out. They mean nothing to me, because I don't use them, but they should definitely be iin the game. I knew there was a reason I hadn't started writing the tutorial yet ... LOL
I was aware of the garbage numbered saved custom pets in the PetBreeds folder. I had discussed that earlier in this thread. I will make a point of that in the tutorial, hopefully more clearly than I scribbled before. I'll start working on the tutorial, and put up a draft of it in this thread, so people can comment on whether or not it seems clearly written.
You have been doing a wonderful job of testing. Thank you so much. You are giving me exactly the kind of information I needed to hear.
CAUTION: A known and officially acknowledged Maxis/EA bug prevents the puppies and kittens from "inheriting" their parents markings. They usually come out the base color, minus the added coat color/marking layers of the parent dogs. Sometimes they only inherit the base color from the female. This known bug was apparently squashed (that was the claim, anyway) by the latest Pets patch. Unfortunately, the latest pets patch has some rather severe known isssues of destroying proper coloring of human hair and other strange and not so nice anomolies (like misshapen and ugly toddler faces, despite nice looking parents) -- so despite the fact that I would dearly *love* to have pets babies inherit coloration/pattern properly, I have not installed the patch. Maxis/EA has actually acknowledged the problem with the patch, so there is hope they may "patch the patch," thereby making it possible to get good puppies and kittens. Until then, expect rather generic and even ugly pet babies -- even from my otherwise beautiful pet parents. My solution has been a holding pattern, not allowing my pets to breed, until this issue has been resolved.
I think the puppies and kittens are, and have always been, nameless. That is why they give you the option of renaming any pet you adopt or buy in the store. I also believe, unless I am mistaken, that any adoptable puppies or kittens will be generated from random parents in much the same way as if you had bred pets on your lot. So they will most likely have the same generic and possibly ugly results as breeding your own pets. I guess I would only adopt adult pets until the pets patch is patched, so we can safely use it.
It's great to know about the unlocking of additional colors working well, as career rewards. I hadn't been able to test that, yet.
But since you took out your kissingpoints for testing, do make sure the colors I mentioned on my website are unlocked, though, because that will dramatically affect the coloring/shading of the pets I created. The things that must be unlocked are pink, and the bandit mask for dogs; and pink for cats; as well as pink for the Wilds (which is actually pink for both cats and dogs). It wouldn't hurt to also unlock the bandit mask for the cats. I think I'll add that to my website, because it is unlocked in my game, and I will no doubt eventually get around to using it during the creation process.
And I'm glad you are enjoying the AMjoie Megchester Terrier. :)
As far as the ears on the AMjoie Red Setter, I have come across a modder who has obviously figured out a way to enlongate ears. I plan to write to them asking how they did it. No doubt something approaching awesome, so I am not sure they will tell me, and not sure I can duplicate it, even if they do. But I'm planning on making inquiries .... Until then, he is still a very pretty dog in the game -- just not very "Irish."
nesschap:
Thank you so much for these wonderful pets! You did an amazing job and I'm very excited to be using them in my game!!
Vanessa
Tyraa Rane:
Thanks so much for these! It's nice to finally have Abys that actually look something like my two boys. :)
notveryawesome:
Just an FYI: puppies and kittens do seem to be born with only the basecoat of one of the parents, but when the babies age to adult, they suddenly have all the markings.
amjoie:
I have been busy with Seasons, and let this little project slide. ::)
In a way, it is a good thing, because things have changed a little. Since Seasons, it will not be possible to have only custom pets in the game UNLESS you use the empty templates for the Seasons expansion. If the empty templates are not used, *every single new neighborhood you make* will automatically put the same ugly MaxisEA default pets into the new hood. The ugly pets are all black, or gray, or black and white. No variety, no color, no beauty. They are not coming from the Breeds folder. They are hardwired into the game, so you don't even get variety within the ugly MaxisEa breeds -- you just get the identical ugly pets each time. And you also get the same buggy Sim families from Seasons in every hood. There is no way around this except to use the empty template for the Seasons expansion.
Go here, if you want to clean your game of the trash pets and buggy Sim families:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4306.0
Once I get my Seasons game stabilized with all my mods and cc, I'll turn my attention back to this project. I will need to do more testing before I can write the "how to" with any degree of certainty.
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