Quick question on lot transplants.
lowbart:
So, in my half-assed quest to find (mainly by reading this forum) safe ways to transplant lots and families to other neighborhoods without using SimPE, I have come up with two questions:
(1) Is this an acceptable method of moving an occupied lot (in which you don't want to disturb original family, but don't need them to be copied to the destination hood): Use the "package lot to file" button when selecting the lot in the hood screen (not using the bin), then placing the occupied lot in a test hood that you don't care if it gets screwed up, killing or otherwise removing the sims from the lot, binning the empty lot, and placing it into the destination hood?
Starting hood: Package lot and family without disturbing it
Disposable hood: place occupied lot, burninate occupants (eliminate graves if necessary), bin empty lot
Destination hood: Place empty lot.
Will this be a VBT for either the start or destination neighborhood?
(2) One of my sims has a lot of original paintings and photographs, and I would like to move her to a more cosmically stable hood by using Simsurgery and recreating her with CAS in the new hood. How can I safely move all her artwork to the new (clean) hood? Is this possible?
Vren Lyet:
I'm not sure but...
Use the very same procedure you describe in (1) to get an empty lot with all her pictures.
Put this empty lot into your new neighbourhood, recreate your sim, move her into the empty lot, put all the paintings in her inventory and move her out again (if you don't want to keep the lot). Done.
Zazazu:
I recently tried packaging an occupied lot, installing in a test account's 'hood with the clean installer and only selecting to install the lot segment and the needed custom content. The lot crashed on load, over and over.
Oh, and the lot packager is again packaging every single recolor you have of a used item. The bloat is unbelievable.
gethane:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 September 22, 21:31:08
Oh, and the lot packager is again packaging every single recolor you have of a used item. The bloat is unbelievable.
Unless its a maxis recolor you want packaged. Then it doesn't package it at all.
Quinctia:
Keep in mind that no matter what you try, all those custom paintings might randomly turn into sunsets because the game just does that sometimes.
I moved a family into a new house, all the paintings survived the move and all decided to disappear on a later lot load. I recreated some with the "custom painting" option, but I wouldn't get too attached to paintings, honestly.
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