I'm kinda glad I started from scratch - much more entertaining!
Motoki:
Never, EVER use the Maxis installer. Not only does it scramble up the filenames but it has a nasty tendency to sneak in lots of extra files you don't want, particularly with houses.
How you organize it is up to you and how anal you want to get with it. ;) I find in general I like to keep any new meshes together in a folder with their recolors because if you ever decide you want to get rid of them it is a royal pain in the ass to hunt down the meshes that went with those textures you deleted in buy mode or in the body shop or CAS.
My folders are really super categorized. I even have my hacks folder with subfolders for J.M. Pescado, TwoJeffs, Inge Jones etc lol.
ZephyrZodiac:
I just sort objects by site but walls and floors I have much more organised - it helps a bit so they stay roughly together most of the time (though not always) and every time I get a new bunch of wall, everything goes walkabout again! I do need to get my objects better organised, though.
If a package doesn't show up in your game, it may be that it's a recolour for which you don't have the mesh. (I'm assuming you have CEP installed.)
Sometimes SimPE will give you a description of the object, but more often than not, you just get something like Quaint endtable which tells you nothing! And the thumbnails are totally useless as a means of identifying everything! If you kept your original zips, then maybe it would be best to just discard the downloads folder, make a new one and start installing all those files again.
ZephyrZodiac:
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I was also going to suggest the family funds cheat. It's never seemed right to me that a family of 8 starts out with the same funds as a family of four so I've never been against using money cheats in situations like that. You could put them on a smallish lot and just add enough money to their account to get them started with the necessities. I wouldn't feel like that was cheating at all.
I don't know if this is any help, but I noticed today that, if I have the Mind Control Mirror in a lot (for example, the Gym, but a community lot should work too) then you can select and NPC, say, the Barista, and get them to serve food, and select the dorm cook and get them to work as barista. All the money they earn goes into your family funds! Mean or what?
Venusy:
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I was also going to suggest the family funds cheat. It's never seemed right to me that a family of 8 starts out with the same funds as a family of four so I've never been against using money cheats in situations like that. You could put them on a smallish lot and just add enough money to their account to get them started with the necessities. I wouldn't feel like that was cheating at all.
I don't know if this is any help, but I noticed today that, if I have the Mind Control Mirror in a lot (for example, the Gym, but a community lot should work too) then you can select and NPC, say, the Barista, and get them to serve food, and select the dorm cook and get them to work as barista. All the money they earn goes into your family funds! Mean or what?
It may be mean, but it's downright necessary in some cases. For example, I have a bad bug in my game where vampires can't bite autonomously. Now, given my already poor choice of a sim to vamp, I would have normally left it well alone. Something aroused my interest of why the Contessa Sophia Conley couldn't bite. My soloution was to make her temporarily selectable, then Bite Neck.
If anyone wants a look at the error log, you can't, as the game saved over it. But I do have an error log of Contessa Sophia's failed attempts to bite a different sim... Also, this has only slight relevance on the post quoted.
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ZephyrZodiac:
I rather like the idea of a vampire that can't bite! I imagine her motives fell very low! ;D
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