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TS2: Burnination => The Podium => Topic started by: gynarchy on 2009 February 17, 15:34:24



Title: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: gynarchy on 2009 February 17, 15:34:24
Is it possible to add a Sim (or group, in this case) to a particular fambly instance using SimPE? I started a new neighborhood and cloned all of my Sims from a previous 'hood to use in this one. Everything has been going along swimmingly except for my Tourists. The NPC gun is missing the option to add Sims to a Tourist fambly so when I got to that batch of Sims I used Inge's teleporter cat instead. My playable Sims went on their honeymoon and no Tourists appeared at the hotel. I looked in SimPE and noticed that their fambly instance is set to 0x7FF4. I saw some mention that this fambly instance is not used anymore so I tried to set their instance to 0x7FE5 on the Sim overview tab, but I can't get the changes to stick. I'm obviously missing other areas where the instance is set but I looked through the neighborhood and individual character files and didn't see anything. Is it possible to correctly set this group of Sims as Tourists somehow or am I better off Deleted2ing them and spawning a new set with the NPC gun?


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: Theo on 2009 February 17, 15:44:58
You'll have to open the FAMI resource 0x7FF4 and remove those sims from the list. Then, you must open the target FAMI 0x7FE5, and add those sims in.


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: gynarchy on 2009 February 17, 16:01:54
I knew it was something obvious that I was missing. Cheers!


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: Inge on 2009 February 18, 14:02:48
Fambly?  Lol, how did you come up with that spelling?  Does anyone actually make a "b" sound in the word?


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: phyllis_p on 2009 February 18, 14:53:44
Fambly?  Lol, how did you come up with that spelling?  Does anyone actually make a "b" sound in the word?

It's a colloquial pronunciation in the US.  I associate it with rural folks in the Ozarks -- "hillbillies," if you will.  It's common enough that the spelling appears in The Grapes of Wrath in the dialect used by the Joads.


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: Inge on 2009 February 18, 15:15:13
Oh, come to think of it I have heard people call chimneys chimbleys, so I guess it's a similar thing.


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: Nadine Blackstone on 2009 February 19, 03:49:15
Wait, you WANT tourists?
Borkination may indeed be a win.


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2009 February 19, 05:12:56
Fambly?  Lol, how did you come up with that spelling?  Does anyone actually make a "b" sound in the word?
I started it, and it spread as a meme throughout MATY. It's one of those MATYisms. We also say "terlet".


Title: Re: Add Sim to Fambly Instance?
Post by: phyllis_p on 2009 February 19, 15:21:11
It's common enough that the spelling appears in The Grapes of Wrath in the dialect used by the Joads.

I started it, and it spread as a meme throughout MATY. It's one of those MATYisms. We also say "terlet".

OMG, Mr Steinbeck!  The rumors of your death were highly exaggerated!!  BTW, I love your portrayal of Archie Bunker on television -- had no idea it was you!