Just to clarify, when I said graphical corruption, I didn't mean corruption of the file itself, but rather of the image quality. And it definitely corrupts the image quality. In game, it's not as noticeable unless you look at the object relatively up close. But if you compare an image pre-importation to the image post-importation, you can definitely see the quality difference. And since I have a pretty good graphics card and play w/ all settings maxed, it's particularly noticeable for me ingame when the image quality goes down a bit, esp. if I'm editing skins and the like, when the images are large and corruption is much more noticeable...you should see the mess it makes of perfectly good skins.

The DDS utilities work for both ATI and Nvidia. I myself have an ATI card. The company is really irrelevant.

A picture:
Left is the normal img. Right is the muckier one. Definitely not going to be too noticeable, b/c eyes are generally small...but you def. run into problems w/ larger img files.

Importing via SimPE causes major graphical corruption. If you do decide to edit the file, make sure to d/l Nvidia DDS utilities first, and then open SimPE, and in the preferences part, put in the location of the DDS utilities (it doesn't automatically recognize the installation in my comp...don't know about others). Then all you have to do is, instead of doing "import", simply choose "Build DXT". Make sure to commit & save, and you're done.

Is it up now? OMG!!! The romance mod trumps the phone hack in my game. W/out it, I was forced to completely give up dating b/c of the utter lack of logic in Sims romance. Totally ridiculous. Will definitely test this one out.

I went to playing the Lothario family today, after a bit of a hiatus, and Don and Dina were canoodling like they always used to do. Their son Derek goes to eat in the same room, and he springs up "Have a fit" in his queue. His relationship w/ both his parents plummet, and he goes from 100/100 to -20/96 w/ Don in a matter of seconds. This is majorly strange, b/c both Don and Dina are his biological parents, so he has absolutely NO cause to behave like this. Also, this has never happened b4. He's been behaving normally up to today. His sisters are unaffected, and the ol' lovebirds can still act affectionate in front of them. It's just Derek. Very strange.

So...does anyone know what might be going on? Bugging me majorly, b/c Don & Dina's family are very close, and I don't want them torn apart b/c of something completely stupid and utterly illogical.

I accidentally corrupted my vampire file while editing it. I went to Dylan's site to try to d/l it, but it seems his/her site is down at the moment. Could someone be so kind as to send me a copy of the vampire skin?

This is the skin I'm referring to: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=1156.0

I have about 1.3 Gigs of clothing alone. lol. But out of ALL the stuff I've downloaded, my abs. faves are peggysims2, simply styling and all about style. Alicefashion would be a fave, except they don't update too often. And pronup sims definitely wins the award for best wedding gowns.

Of course, my tastes tend to lean towards Vogue-type fashions. Very chic & accessory-laden and always feminine. So if that caters to your tastes, those sites are definite MUSTS. If only I could afford this stuff in RL...*sigh*

That is quite strange, b/c in my game, Mortimer keeps knocking out clones. I traced it down to Mort b/c his kids w/ both Dina and Bella Goth look exactly the same, down to a T. I put the exact same makeup, hair, everything, put all of them side by side, and every single facial feature is identical. And on top of that, they're all girls. I generated extras w/ Insimenator, just to check, and every last one of them was a clone. Dina's kids w/ Don, however, do have variations, and actually come out different genders. So I'm figuring it's an issue w/ Morty. I'm wondering if it's just an issue w/ my game, cuz I haven't heard of other pple getting Mortimer Goth clones...

Cassandra is beyond dull. But recently I've FINALLY managed to make her look pretty. Turns out sideswept bangs are really her thing. W/her new hair & fantastic makeup from Helaene, I can honestly say that she's pretty now. This from a girl who exhausted every single one of my CC hairs, and still ended up looking butt-ugly. I'm amazed.

Have you tried installing new drivers?

Just going to bump this, cuz this issue is really bothering me...

So...does anyone have a NL compatible method to do this?

Well, the girl's basically offering him free money. If I were him, I'd just take it. lol.

Wow, it's finally out. I remember back when I was impatiently waiting for the first Sims 2 game, and this was supposed to be coming out around the same time as TS2. What a long delay, eh?

It def. sounds interesting. I might pick it up, if I get all my work and papers and all the other myriad school junk done with....

Where is this outfit/appearance tool? I've looked all over the site, and I can't find anything to that effect.

Usually I find replacing either the lot or the character files, or both, quite helpful. Sometimes its a screwup w/the sim, sometimes its with the lot. Replacing both should keep your bases covered.

But isn't Skip dead? Maybe he is Skip, cuz I don't recognize him at all, and since I haven't resurrected much of the dead sims, that would be why.

The other 2 are Brandi and Don, I'll bet...and the blond one...the only naturally blond premade I can think of is actually Morty Goth....but since Morty's an elder, if he's had a hair color change I would go for Daniel Pleasant.

That waterfall you have in your screens, for some reason the waterfall isn't working for me. I put it in the neighborhood, and all I see is the rock. No animation. The river works fine. But for some reason the waterfall just doesn't. Is there something you have to do to get the waterfall to pour water?

I actually thought the pirate thing was interesting, and downloaded it, only to open it up in SimPE and find that it had about 10,000 faces! Are so many faces necessary for a bunch of boards? I mean, really.

Or you could just lose Rentechd, and then you'd probably get Inge's participation.

I don't see what Rentechd has done anyway that's been so important, really, as I didn't even know who she was b4 this whole fiasco, and I've actually been in the sims 2 community since b4 the game even came out.

If made to choose between Inge and Rentechd, I would think Inge would be the more logical choice, no?

Well, I'm leaning towards DatGen, cuz for some reason SimPE takes ages to navigate. It takes a couple of seconds each time it loads a set of data, and the seconds can really add up. That's the only reason I don't like SimPE - cuz it takes too long to use.


Hmm. When I clicked and dragged a file to the color folder, the elder hair ended up in the color bin as well. Do you know if its okay to leave it that way? Or must I individually drag each age's hair file into the color bin and exclude the elder?

So no need to change the families at all? Cuz the tutorial had a whole big section about families, and I really didn't know what to set to what.

I find that the "shoo" option works very well in terms of getting uncontrollable sims to stop doing most things. And also, if they're holding a baby, if you interact w/ the uncontrollable sim instead of queueing up an action w/ the baby, they'll drop the baby to interact w/ you, whereupon you can cancel the interaction and focus on the baby.

But yes, a more intelligent hack for this would be awesome.

Well, I read your post, and that was a bit ambiguous as well. First it says: Click on each Property Set and find the line that says "Family". Change the value to "b52b9d28-7b62-4f41-bd88-fb382721db82".

But then it says:
One of the property sets of each hairstyle will be grey for the elders.You'll know which Property Set is for the elders because the line "name (dtString)" will list the colour as "grey", instead of the actual colour. When you find the elder Property Set for each style, just enter the code for grey instead of the regular colour.

So is there a different family value for the grey hair?

Okay. I just tried changing hair colours, and I am incredibly confused. Mostly I'm confused about the families. What families do we have to set the hairs to? Are there different families for different hair colours? And do elder hairs have a separate family? Or is it the same family for all colours through elder?

I looked at the DatGen tutorial, and my head was spinning. Doesn't explain very well at all.

I think this is a new NL feature. Which I wish they'd have implemented MUCH sooner, cuz my non-object CC folder is already a mess, and pretty much impossible to clean up by now.

Hmm. I was always kind of confused about this. CC hair that shows up in the genetics bin gets recognized as genetic hair color? So w/ NL, if I had a sim who was turned on by blondes, and I had a CC hair in the blond bin, then that sim would be attracted to the person wearing that particular CC hair?

A huge problem I have w/ the CC hairs at the moment is that I pretty much have to make all my male sims attracted to CC hair, and since everyone pretty much uses CC hair, my sims are attracted to practically every single sim out there. If this would fix the problem, I'd be very pleased.