trouble with binning hair still
SaraMK:
Well, the tool we have now is a huge improvement in terms of what can be done. For example, binning grey hair never worked properly in DatGen, and removing extra age groups often caused glitches. Plus now we can change lots of options besides just the bin the hair is in.
I liked DatGen and used it for ages, but Theo's tool is clearly more powerful and more accurate. Faster is not better if your files get screwed up in the process.
Ambular:
Quote from: Indiasong on 2007 May 22, 19:58:26
Yes I was talking about the binning tool which is longer than the 1st edition datgen where you just had to throw all the files in the browser, tick the right colours and save in one click. No opening each file individually, or saving individually as I have to do because if you change the text in the tool, it changes all the colours to the text you typed instead. Sigh.I hate change when it is actually regression. But I am getting used to it.
*Plays world's smallest violin* So omit the hair color name and just put in the style name and you don't have to change them individually. That's what I do. Not like you can't see what bin you're browsing or what color the hair is, sheesh. :p
PandaGirl:
Since the new SimPE fiddled with the binning tool I'm binning my hair colours individually and I prefer it that way. It makes it easier for the anal side of me to put those ash browns in the blonde, and fix most of peggy's colour binnings. Copying and pasting the GUID has the repetitiveness that calms a racing mind. :) So I'm happy it's broke.
yetyak:
I've been doing them individually in SimPE all along. By the time the Theo's tool came out, I'd already done 1700+ hairs the old fashioned way. You get a system down, I can add the file name to the mouseover, remove extra ages and textures, add the hair and the eyebrows to the right bins, and family them together in less than 5 minutes. Unless there's more than the normal 4 colors, then the set takes a bit longer.
Like Panda says, there is something quite soothing in the repetitiveness.
akatonbo:
I've managed to prune out enough extraneous haircolors that I guess I might start using Theo's tool (since I don't have nearly so many styles with more than 4 colors anymore), but I still would like a simpler one-at-a-time tool -- I don't care about families all that much (it's nice but not strictly necessary), and even though my downloads are organized fairly well, I still don't relish the thought of trying to correctly locate all four files.
Stupid EA needs to build binning into Body Shop. :P Especially for things like how Peggy tends to bin brown hair as black and red hair as brown.
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