Wanting to Re-Generate my Townies.
neriana:
Quote from: angelyne on 2007 March 06, 10:58:45
You can use SimPE to do that. It's not push-a-button easy, but it's not difficult either.
Yes, but going through all the townies and doing that is a severe pain and takes a ton of time.
angelyne:
What I used to do in my old game, was simply nab customers. They got a little more they bargained for when they dropped by my shop!
Adds a little interest to running a business. Although the DMA doesn't seem to work to change clothing on community lots.
Eventually you'll go through all your sims.
You can keep a list of names and fix their genetics in SimPE once you finished playing. Although fixing genetics is not all that necessary, unless you intend to breed them
And yes Sara. Step one, make a backup should be our sig line. JM should put it on the front page. Something like...Warning ...Failure to make a backup will automatically result in you getting pointed and laughed at.
myskaal:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=56241
Probably would be better for you to write one up for here on MATY, since this one is old and only really findable if you do a specific search at MTS2.
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Look for sim descriptions with 'Unknown', and delete them before committing your changes.
Er... I thought it wasn't exactly safe to go around deleting all the unknowns as some of them are things like.. Oh the wormrat and the bird. eh?
Simgoose:
Ok... first off let me start by saying, i feel the pain for Solowren, I didnt crash my hood... but i had the HDD die on me, and I had to start again. (Which now i have done again, after fresh install)
Secondly, angelyne, yes a tutorial would be awesome for us n00bs that are not quite sure what the heck they are doing.
After reading the topic from top to bottom im still a little lost.
I too want to "make-over" my townies etc, (as this seems to be the best way).
Starting a stop and having them come in to buy things and get that face reco they always wanted is an awesome idea, then i could set a goal of 10 townies a night to change, until they are all done.
Ok, now for my question(s)
- If I use either the "Shop Idea" or the "Shrub Idea" and DMA's Tool, to make the townies better looking with the new tempates.
what do i then have to change in SimPE so that if i was to multiply with them, their babies will look pretty as well?
(I'll have to wait till SimPE for Seasons comes out before I can do this)
- If I'm using the new Face Templates, and CAS Templates, any new townies that are made will both have better faces, and this will be copied to SimPE, hence thier faces will carry onto new borns? (Also any new townies that are made from this moment on, will be good looking too? No over sized noses or chins?)
- Is their anything else that I will need to make my townies good looking, and stay that way?
- And just another question I thought of after previewing this... NPC's... is their away I can make them look better? (Using the same way as above?)
Sorry for all the question, but I'm just trying to understand the best way of doing this, before I do it.
Any help would be awesome, not more awesome than you though.
myskaal:
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what do i then have to change in SimPE so that if i was to multiply with them, their babies will look pretty as well?
This is what angelyne was talking about writing the tut on and what is explained in the link I posted above but since MTS2 is apparently down for maintenance, here's the short version:
Open up the hood in SimPE, locate the sim's description, open the character file, select Facial Structure from the resource tree, highlight and extract the 2nd instance, then highlight and replace the 1st instance with the .simpe file you just extracted. Save and you're done.
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If I'm using the new Face Templates, and CAS Templates, any new townies that are made will both have better faces, and this will be copied to SimPE, hence thier faces will carry onto new borns? (Also any new townies that are made from this moment on, will be good looking too? No over sized noses or chins?)
Yes.
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Is their anything else that I will need to make my townies good looking, and stay that way?
Nope. Of course your best guarantee for good looking townies is to make them yourself in CAS and turn them into townies afterwards. Using templates, unless every template is completely unuglified, may still get you a few here and there that don't meet your personal ideal.
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- And just another question I thought of after previewing this... NPC's... is their away I can make them look better? (Using the same way as above?)
I believe so.
I've never tried facial reconstruction on NPC's myself so can not say absolutely yes without a doubt. I have noticed that, many times, trying to simply change hair style doesn't actually work on some NPCs (i.e. the female maid) so there may be some sort of weirdness that prevents their genetics from being altered but that's about all I can say for that.
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