My fingers tend to shift back and forth between 1 and 3 rapidly because of constantly speeding boring things up, then realizing another sim in the house is being stupid and about to die, shifting back to 1, then getting them back to what they need to be doing and hitting 3 again, etc etc.

Really though, the automatic speed-up thing annoys me to death, because it always seems to happen at the wrong time, like right when the pregnant sim who is about to starve passes out.

Sorry, should've replied to this when I first saw it then got distracted.


Well, so far as I know, with the way I've got it set up there's no way to have it select more than one file with the Common Dialog control at a time. Sorry.


LOL, thanks. I too think it would be nice to have the recolors in collections as well, but I guess unless Maxis changes the way the collections work we won't be able to.

Eventually, I'd like to have the ability to choose maxis objects based on a list of objects that is sortable by each expansion, but I'd have to get the GUID from each Maxis object, and that's something I don't have time to do right at this moment, but it is on my to do list.

I have other little improvements I want to make to the program as well, but I do want to at least get this first version out there, because it's been in testing for quite a while, and it does work. Plus, I'd like to get away from working on this for a bit and work on some other projects that have been on the backburner for a while.

But, in short, I will add that feature, yeah.

Hmm, so they don't show up when you used the batch add function, but if you try to add them individually, what happens? I'll check and make sure there's nothing wrong with the scanning thing, and if there is I'll fix it.

Thanks everyone.

Tracy, if it can't find the object's GUID, the object will not be added. In my tests, it has picked up everything though, and hasn't had a problem. Try opening the files that aren't being picked up in the list in SimPE and see if they have an OBJD resource. If they do, they are objects and should be getting picked up (and I'd like a link to the site where you got them and, more specifically, the name of the file I'm looking for ) but if they don't, that's why it's not adding them.

americancindy, I was looking into this but I'm not sure what would cause this. If you don't mind, perhaps you could zip up your collections and email them to me so I can see which file is causing the problem, and why?

jfade#447@comcast.net (remove the # Sign)

Thanks in advance!

I added another build, this one adds a feature that was requested to sort the collections so that they show in alphabetical order in the game. After this, it's time for rewording of some things, and I'll release it! Thanks for the testing so far everyone!

Thanks, but all the credit for the icons goes to JadeElliot, I'm glad she let me include them.
Basically, yeah, when you edit collections it won't show the names, though I am going to add something that will keep track of the names and GUIDs of things you add plus the GUIDs and names of maxis objects so that it will be able to give a name to things when you go to edit a collection so long as you've added them to a collection once before. But I'm not sure if I'll include that in this version before release or not, but at any rate, it'll be there eventually.

Some people encountered problems with the installer (though it works for most, so not sure there), so you can just unzip the Non-Installer version to a folder of its own on your desktop or wherever and it will work from there as well.

Hi everyone! A while back I asked for some opinions at N99 about a program I was thinking of making, a tool to make collections outside of the game. Well, I've been working on it off and on for about a month and a half now, and I finally have something I consider ready for public testing.

Here's a preview image: http://images.djssims.com/CollectionMaker.JPG

Once you try it, it will hopefully make a lot more sense.      

Basically, it can do all of this:

* Make new collections
* Edit existing collections
* Add objects to collections individually or batch add them by picking a folder
* Back up existing collections
* Change collections from Residential to Community and vice versa.

I did want to have walls and floors as options available for you to add to collections that way. However, there's something about the way the game references them that I can't figure out. I've asked around and no one seems to know, so I'm trying to contact someone specifically who does know, but they're rather elusive at this point so it's hard for me to catch them. (If anyone knows how the game references walls and floors in 3IDR files, please let me know! )

However, you should be able to continue to add things to collections you've made with the program in the game and then continue to edit them with the program. (If a collection does have walls and floors in it, the program will retain that information.)

Thanks in advance!

jfade

Get the program here: http://www.djssims.com/index.php?category=21

EDIT (7/12/06): To add newer links, update images and some of the info, blah blah blah.

Actually, I just made one of these. It's available here: http://greensims.net/viewtopic.php?t=2246 until I move it to my site.

Same here. If there's two things that I think most people agree Maxis needs to make more of, it's lifetime wants and careers, if not more aspirations period.

About half of those ideas don't sound much like the sims to me anymore, and seem like they'd be better suited for an entirely different game. Of those that still sound plausible to me, the Outdoors, Pets, and Kids expansion ideas sound good. The rest of them, meh. Anyhow, I'm betting we'll probably find out more after E3.

I think clothing is possible, though I wasn't aware that clothing could be put into collections until just recently, and at this point it'll have to wait for the following version more than likely. I'm trying to hurry up and finish batch adding for objects, then it'll probably be released to the public. (I still can't figure out how on earth walls and floors are referenced by the game, and no one else seems to know how so those are out for now, maybe a second version will have those. I do have someone to contact but I haven't been able to get ahold of them yet to find out.) Anyhow, I'll let you all know when I have a public and more final beta.

Well, total, custom content wise, I have 588 MB (617,094,619 bytes) in all my folders.

In just my downloads folder, I have: 449 MB (471,498,567 bytes)
and in all my other folders (SavedSims, Hacks, my stuff, and a few other random things): 138 MB (145,596,052 bytes)

2,276 Files in total. My game takes about 2 minutes to load, so it's fine with me. I don't download much to begin with, and I'm constantly taking things out that I find that I don't like for whatever reason.

She has posted a list of reasons at her site:

http://www.simlogical.com/Reasons.htm

Doesn't clear things up for me though, I'm still confused, but I'm just glad that Inge's OK and that it wasn't health or anything else similar that caused her to "retire".

Well... all I have to say is that if it's a Vacation expansion, hopefully it'll be better and less repetitive than the Sims 1 version of it. I think Vacation was my least favorite expansion, because other than when I first got the expansion, I never sent sims on vacation. 

Heh, well, in most cases, I would call you nuts, but I can see why you would want to slow it down in some cases. For me, in single or small households, it's on 3 or 2 most of the time, but in some houses where I have lots of sims (meaning more than 8, I do have houses with more than 8 sims occasionally, and had a house of 18 at one point), it does get to the point of being rather unmanageable, so I wind up playing between 1 or 2 and pause most of the time so I can queue up commands for the sims, otherwise they'd probably end up doing something foolish (if free will was on, which it usually is) and killing themselves.

Woot! Glad to see it's back up. 

Decline quality wise? Definately. Decline money wise? Moot. People are still spending money on stupid crap like this, so I doubt that the game companies are truly hurting for money. At least not in this community. If they're trying to pull this with other games, it's no surprise to me if they are losing money there.

Well, all I have to say is that the Holiday pack was a rip off as well, and I'm glad I didn't buy it. And I agree, it wouldn't be surprising in the least to see the glamour pack priced that much, and I'll bet that a good chunk of people would blatently ignore that fact and shell out the money for it anyhow.

You know, I've been reading a back and forth battle between analysts claiming that the video game industry is on the decline, but they obviously aren't taking the Sims players into these facts, it seems like a large percent of them will buy anything with a Sims logo on it..

Makes sense, I figured they wouldn't be in the packages, and a quick search shows that they aren't anyhow, but it does show that they existed before Open for Business came out, so we could have gotten them with this expansion, but now have to pay 20 bucks for them instead. 

Well.. Actually.. I went snooping in simpe for something else entirely, and found a couple of the thumbnails as well. I have no idea if they're actually in any of the game files or not, I haven't bothered looking for them because I doubt that they're there, but I may take a look later.

http://temp.djssims.com/thumbnailsinsimpe.JPG

http://temp.djssims.com/thumbnailsinsimpe2.JPG

I know, someone IMed me to ask if the CEP moved because the attachments weren't on the thread anymore, and no more than 5 minutes later pretty much all the stuff came back on with new attachments, lol. 

It looks like Numenor just released CEP 4 for Open for Business.

You can get it here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=92541&c=1

Hope that helps.

I redid it and got the same results, except for these two:

free-bob.package: may require possible updates:
    P 0x7F4C04B9 0x0081 name unsupported
    p 0x7F4C04B9 0x0081 name unsupported
free-bob3g.package: may require possible updates:
    B 0x7F4C04B9 0x1000 Function - Main
    P 0x7F4C04B9 0x0081 name unsupported
    p 0x7F4C04B9 0x0081 name unsupported

Just the added "p 0x7F4C04B9 0x0081 name unsupported" line is the only difference.