Deleting sub neighbourhoods
SaraMK:
Quote from: cwykes on 2007 March 03, 07:15:02
I've been trying to fake OFB into thinking a downtown is a business sub-hood without success so far
That should actually be fairly simple....
Unless I'm not understanding what exactly you are trying to do.
cwykes:
Well I thought it was going to be simple until I tried too! I thought I'd fixed it in SimPE, but the game says there's no subhood to go to. I haven't tried in a while, so I may have missed something obvious. Of course, the NL lots are probably going to crash the game anyway even if I get the sub-hood to show...
angelyne:
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I've added extra sub-hoods in OFB and as far as I remember, adding an empty terrain doesn't add any extra characters. O could be wrong there and anyway downtown might be different, so why don't you just try it out on a test hood? Or back up your hood and try it with that. Check out the stats on a hood with a downtown, start up the game, click to add a second downtown, choose the SC4 file you want and then quit. If you can't see any extra characters, you are home and dry. Start up the game, evict all the playables to the simbin and put any lots you want in the lotbin. Then delete the old downtown, place the lots in the new one and move the sims in. If any extra characters have been created, it's up to you if you live with them or clean them out. Follow Pescado's instructions.
Yes Cwykes. that's exactly what I had in mind. But then I started wondering what would happen to the special NPC's that are attached to the subhood. Maybe the best thing is simply not to change your mind about the terrain your picked. That's what I am going to try to do :)
SaraMK:
Quote from: cwykes on 2007 March 03, 14:31:08
Well I thought it was going to be simple until I tried too! I thought I'd fixed it in SimPE, but the game says there's no subhood to go to. I haven't tried in a while, so I may have missed something obvious. Of course, the NL lots are probably going to crash the game anyway even if I get the sub-hood to show...
So you downloaded a Downtown from somewhere (or got your hands on the real NL Downtown), and since you don't have NL you are trying to get it to show up as an OFB sub-hood? That's the way I understood your post.
Did you replace the ID Number with a valid one (ripped out of an OFB sub-hood), and delete Version Information? That's the two steps I'd start with.
If you don't have NL and the lots used NL stuff, they might crash, yes. But the neighborhood should show up, at least.
cwykes:
Quote from: angelyne on 2007 March 03, 17:16:22
Yes Cwykes. that's exactly what I had in mind. But then I started wondering what would happen to the special NPC's that are attached to the subhood. Maybe the best thing is simply not to change your mind about the terrain your picked. That's what I am going to try to do :)
I don't think they are attached to the sub-hood. I think they belong to the whole neighborhood. That's why I suggested doing it the way I did. I think the special NPCs will operate in whatever subhood is attached or both. Good luck with trying to change your mind! Once I have a puzzle on my mind, it never quit stops bugging me!
Quote from: SaraMK on 2007 March 03, 23:46:18
Did you replace the ID Number with a valid one (ripped out of an OFB sub-hood), and delete Version Information? That's the two steps I'd start with.
I DL'd Beacon Falls developed by TSR people which has a Uni and a downtown attached. I have base + OFB. I was curious to see what was in the sub-hoods, so I tried to fake the game out before I played. It worked to some extent - the subhoods didn't get deleted. When I first went into the hood, I got a message saying "you uninstalled uni so the YA's have been aged to adult and playables moved to the lotbin." I can play all the sims in the main hood fine, but the sub-hood buttons are greyed out as if they aren't there.
I think I just changed the type to suburb and changed the filename to suburb. I left the ID number alone - the main hood is 22, the uni is 21 and the downtown is 23. why wouldn't those numbers be OK? The version info says OFB in the game and the sub-hood - looks ok to me. Maybe I shouldn't have changed the file names.
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