Stupid mistake (first one was not to back-up first!) I wanted to change Don's skin tone did it through Surgery and didn't click the right checks… end result I changed his whole appearance. Does anyone have a Don or know where I can download him. I only want to get his original face back. thanks!

I don't know if this is an issue or not. I'm not a expert with Simpe and never will be. I only use it to do little changes. When a sim is dead I noticed that in their portrait the background turns blue. After installing the cleaned up templates when I kill off a Sims their portrait background stays the normal grey. Does anyone know if this is an issue will it cause me problems?

I did see this mentions a few posts back but couldn't see any comments. I now have duplicates of Skip and darlenn (if that's her name) it doesn't bother me, just wanted to make sure I didn't do something wrong or it will cause problems.

All help it greatly appreciated.

I ended up just doing some sim surgery on the game created ones. Will changing the sex of a NPC through SimPE cause issues?

Yes but they tree only has , DJ, Chef, Host and some other NPC I can't remember. Think it is the Gypsy.

I've slowly been making my custom neighborhood (like over a period of six months) I have used the help on advice on this site. Everything has been going fine.
I've just made some bar attendants. For some reason they won't show up behind the bar when I go to a downtown lot. I end up with maxis created ones. Yet if I hire one for a party at home the one I created will show up. I used the tree and create a bar attendant then made them over using SimPE. Do the downtown ones come under something else different to the homebar attendants? I can't seem to see anything else in the list of NPC's.

Thank you. I already use those hacks, just wanted to be 100% sure.

I've been slowly making my custom hood, and by slowly I mean over the last few months.
I've just added an empty uni neighborhood. To add my own uni students do I use the shrub and selected make me a townie? Will this make them uni NPC students and dormies (if needed)?

I've also been wondering, I like to use less townies and downtownies then the game likes to create for you. If I create them and have the required hacks in place to stop the game making its own townies etc will that stop it or will the game create more to make up the required number the game likes to have. I hope this last part makes sense.

I did a lot of testing. It's not the templates causing me trouble. I tested each EP and SP and found out its seasons causing me the grief. I read on another forum that someone else had the same issue.

La Fiesta Rech works fine. Sim state Uni will load but the neighborhood screen is extremely slow and choppy and Academie Le Tour gets stuck on the loading screen. Custom Uni's also seem fine.

I really wanted to use Academie Le Tour as I like the layout of the neighborhood and the lots. Is it possible to use this template on a custom Uni neighborhood including lots?

Thank you for your help. Nothing I tired worked. I seem to have all the files in place. I even took out my downloads & Mods to see if that made a difference. It's strange how the Desert Uni works fine though.

I tried the suggestion of checking for errors. I got this
Error TS audio music category (Buy) listed twice in category property set.\source\TSaudio music manager.cpp (1651).
This repeats the same for build and CAS too.

If worse comes to it I will just reinstall as I always back up so it's not much of an issue, just too lazy to go through the whole install if I don't have to.

I gave that a try. Still running into the same issue. Can any one tell me what should be in the uni folders? Maybe I deleted something i shouldn't have. i doubt it though since i followed the instructions to the letter.

I have been slowly creating my custom hood over the last month. I have been using some great tutorials on how to create your own NPC's , Townies etc... I have also used these clean templates.

I decided last night to finally add a downtown, shopping district and a uni. I added a custom downtown since I wanted to make one from scratch, I added the cleaned up bluewater village without any characters they both seemed to be ok. I hit a snag when adding a uni. I've used the cleaned up templates without any charters and followed the instructions on adding.

When I try to add Sims State uni or the posh one (can't remember its name). On the creating screen it loads with the squares being lit up then when that finishes it pauses for a while. Then the top browser appears, the one to select what hood you want to go to, and the bottom browser too with the save, load etc... But it stays on the loading screen but flashes between that and a black screen. Sometimes it will even show the uni campus for a bit and reverts back to the loading screen. With the posh uni I was able to get into it but it runs extremely slow and choppy and also has the issue of the screen going black now and then. I didn't seem to have this issue with the desert uni or a custom uni.

If it comes down to it I will just stick with a custom uni but I would really like to use the posh uni template.  Well I hope this makes sense it is a bit hard to explain what is happening. Has anyone had this issue or have any suggestions.