Yeah, I know what you mean.  An uncle of mine wrote a madlibs program back in the day.  Ahhh, that was fun.   

Last night, it occurred to me that JK Rowling's style of quirky and unusual names would really sound good on Sims, so I dug up a generator script and started stuffing in appropriately quirky and unusual names.

It's got most of the names from the series (aren't wikis great?), plus a ton more from classical mythology, Shakespeare, other fantasy series, and whatever else I thought sounded good.

Here it is.

Edit: Fixed the link.

Yeah, things can get strange if you make them too big.  For your Sims that you want to have really ginormous bazoombas, you'll just have to resign yourself to the fact that you can't put them in t-shirts without reduction surgery later.  Otherwise, when you're in CAS, try a t-shirt on them now and then to make sure that they aren't too big for the t-shirt mesh.

The most problematic mesh I've encountered so far is the t-shirt mesh, which morphs pretty weirdly after a certain point.

Thanks, everybody.   

I saw something like this in a magazine; I thought it would make a good pattern for TS3.



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Old-timey boots for old-timey fun!



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This is my recreation of Shin-Ra Mansion from Final Fantasy VII.  (With slight alterations to make it more sim-friendly.)  Suitable for housing mad scientists and/or people who want to be just like Vincent Price.



The house and more pictures can be found at Bogsims

Is it possible you have a mod conflict?  I've encountered at least one mod that conflicted with only part of AwesomeMod.  o_0

Interesting.  I never have any trouble when I make them teleport myself; only when Macrotastics or Bathroom Uses You makes them teleport.

If a Sim has the ninja teleport ability, Macrotastics will use it to get the Sim to go where it needs to go.  However, it also seems to cause problems: every time Macrotastics causes one of my Sims to teleport, that will no longer be able to traverse uneven terrain - instead, it stands around and complains that something is in its way.

So far I've found that deleting and restoring the Sim fixes the problem - at least, until Macrotastics grabs the Sim again.

I really like the ninja teleportation ability, I really like Macrotastics, and I really like that Macrotastics makes use of the ninja teleportation ability.  However, I'm really not enjoying my Sims suddenly finding themselves unable to walk across their own back yards.

I've run the Hack Conflict Detector, and it hasn't found anything relating to teleportation or Macrotastics.

Thanks!  My sanity is saved!   

Has anyone made a hack to make Sims with full hobby enthusiasm stop shimmering like a certain sparklepants vampire wannabe?

Your post reminds me of the difficulty of explaining to some people why the Romanians consider Vlad Dracula to be a national hero.  XD

It goes like this:

"Well, he defended Romania from the Muslim Turks."

"So?!  He killed people!"

"That was par for the course for the time.  The Turks also practiced impaling and if they'd been allowed to overrun Romania, would have killed anyone who didn't convert to Islam."

"So?!"

"So for all his faults, he had his upsides.  The Romanians are grateful for what he did for them."

"HE IMPALED PEOPLE!"

*sigh*

The resemblance is uncanny.   

I figured out what the problem was - it had something to do with the default replacement alien skin I was using.  I finally took that out of my game and she age-transitioned fine.

Edit: I fixed the skin, too.  It turned out that one of the files (the adult female muscular skin texture) in the skin replacement package was borked.  Fortunately, I still had the original texture files in my projects folder.

I have all the expansion packs.

I haven't tried that yet, but I plan to when I get some time.

The problem is with the sim - after restoring the game I had her try to age transition first.

Both sims are aliens.

It is now. 

I have two Sims, a set of twins, ready to age transition.  One of them will transition without a problem, but whenever I choose Grow Up for the other the game freezes.  I've tried re-starting and re-booting, but so far I'm still stuck.

I've removed my mods and enabled debug mode, but neither has helped.

By the way, where's something that lets you make Sims into tourists?

I did, but there are no templates that keep the tourists from clogging up the game.  Doesn't matter anyway; I figured out how to clean up the tourist template.

How does one go about cleansing the templates?

Hocrap.  Looks like I didn't get the new no townie regen mod in there fast enough.  Seems I've got a handful of some kind of new non-service NPCs running amok.  *sigh*  Time to see what the damage is...

Edit: Almost 50.  DO NOT WANT.  Gonna try from a backup.

Another edit: No, there is no getting around it.  I am stuck with them.  There is only one choice left now... *sharpens surgical knives*

The neighborhood I have is an... ahem, "pure" neighborhood already.  It had the no townie spawn hack from the get-go, keeping the li'l pests at bay.  I've been creating my own NPCs now for awhile now. 

The thing I'm concerned about is that as far as I know, this hack doesn't stop Sims in areas like Downtown from being added to the game, and I'm not sure if vacation people work more like townies or downtownies.

...How many extra useless NPCs is that gonna give me?

Seriously, I avoid extra neighborhoods (EG, Downtown) like the plague because of the zillions of useless (and ugly) NPCs I'll get cluttering up my game.  How far would the hack cut down on 'em, if at all?

That's it?  I thought there was an extra step involved.