I have no idea, but thats funny. Cant wait for pics.

i think im really stupid, as i cant even find one. Although, i havnt really experimented away from standard gameplay for a while.

Would love to, but have no food, as im going home on wed, sorry!

And dewshine, it takes 7 mins to transfer my downloads folder onto the desktop, had to do it last week for a hack problem (inteen-still not sorted), so thats not much fun either.

Well ive had to reinstall since the last time i had a social worker in my game, and i now have a no social worker hack, so cant really help here.

Ive just realised this is a totally pointless post.   

Oh well.

I dont even have uni or nightlife yet!! Though hopefully santa will be nice. (Disclaimer: I dont believe in Santa- its just a phrase). Although then, i will have to update all my hacks, its a good thing JM has already got nl, else i wouldnt be able to play.

Last time i made dinner- spaghetti bolognese, from scratch, and it was only two thirds of the way through. Dont want to have to go through that again. Also, im going home at the start of next week, so might try it on my computer (got my mums laptop right now), just to see if its any faster.

I dont do it, my computer would die. Maybe when i get round to a new one, ill give it a go. But by then Sims 3 will be out. And i kinda like my soul where it is right now.

I still only have the base game, and my drivers dont show up in the phonebook or friends list. I have a very shy teen knowledge sim with a job who only has 2 friends (like i said, shy) outside of his family. Neither of them are his work driver.

By friend i mean acquaintance/sim met in relationship panel.

Thank you Emma, but have opened body shop all of once,  and i dont have the necessary 6 weeks to wait for it to load on my computer. Although that sounds easier than the Simpe option, i think im going to have to do that. Thank you Bangelnuts, nice clear instructions. Now watch my computer crash horribly, and me lose everything ive ever done on it. (It doesnt like me).

Just a quick question, if its over 640kb, then just rar it? Have done that before, with my entire sims2 folder, so dont need help with that bit.

Feel free to burninate etc. I know im stupid. I want to add my self- sim to all the others (in case anyone wants it), but have no idea how to do it.

I've never packaged anything before, so can anyone help me? Full step-by-step instructions needed, or else ill cock it up and you will all have to live without Sim-Fiona.

Especially toddlers that insist on following people around all day. I mean, why?

Obviously you're just special 

Too scared to start a new thread- does anyone have a tutorial for exporting sims from bodyshop. I want to be a bandwagon jumper and post my sim-me, but dont have a clue where to start.

6,2,2,4,6

I wouldnt say im that neat- and a little less shy and lazy, maybe 4,3,3,4,6 would have been more accurate.

Thank you, now I can give all my sims custom hair, and never have them use maxis styles again, but still be genetically correct colour-wise. Which i still havnt done because im lazy. Decided id rather go to bed last night than actually spend time doing my sims hair!

Had a random brainwave at some wierd hour this morning: Does this mean that if i gave all of my custom hair the same family value, the game would pick the right colour hair, but choose a random style from within all the styles that have tha same family number?

Thank you!! Datgen actually looks fairly simple. Ill try to download it later on my horribly slow dial up, and if dewshines way doesnt work, ill try that. Or I might just try it anyway, to familiarise myself with it, in case I ever actually need Datgen for anything. You can never know too much!

Edit: Just read through the tutorial, and where it mentions grouping into families, it doesnt mention any specific data, but the figure looks similar to the one for SimPE. Does that mean I can just use the family value that i was using there and set all my files to the same? Thats the only bit i didnt understand.

Although i never understood why the family value always had to be the same in simpe. If anyone could explain that to me, id be happy.

I bever even thought of doing it like that- i've only ever used clean installer to check for hacks. Ill try it that way tonight, hopefully by tomorrow i will have a nice collection of categorised hair. If it doesnt work, ill be on here later asking for more help.

Where do you delete the elder multiples? In Clean installer? And how do you delete the ages that havnt been recoloured? I wanted to know that, but figured i would just leave it if i couldnt find out.

I did have Datgen, but i got rid of it because i never really liked it and it was just taking up space.. Ive always preferred SimPE. The walkthrough for SimPE seemed so simple, reading it, and it is easy to do, its just that the creators of the hair make it more difficult.

If you're happy to do me a walkthrough, ill give it a go in Datgen, i think i read somewhere that it can show you pictures of the hair you are moving? If it does I could make notes and then finish later in SimPE. I did go back to the Datgen site, but its been pretty much abandoned now, and it doesnt tell you whats included in each of the versions.

I would try to recategorise complete hairstyles, but in my download folder its all called stupid stuff like 'myhair0000007' or something, i renamed all my rars when i downloaded them, but wasnt sure if renaming the package files would change anything in them or not.

I have managed to do most of the ones i tried right, but when i went into CAS to check it, that one was totally screwed up, and it kind of put me off carrying on. Also, the only way for me to find out which one it is is to go through all the ones ive already done, try changing them individually, and loading my game after each to see if its right (due to the whole crappy name thing). I would be ok with it, but my me sim has the hair that is in the wrong category, and now shes genetically black haired.

I went into bodyshop to see if i could do it from there, but the interface is totally foreign to me. And it takes almost as long to load as my game!

Wow, gali? Do you really look like that? Sim you and Sim Boni are gonna have NICE kids!

Im getting pretty good with my camera, although my mouse is one of those 'sensor' ones, and it tends to move slightly and click on something in the far distance. Makes for some fun scrolling.

I had that, but i took it out. I have the keep for 24hr hack, so its easier to just makes 6 meals, that way if someone isnt hungry at the time, they can eat later, without me having to get them to cook again.

Edit: And i only make my sims guests stand, as they dont seem to care. Although the fact that i only have 2 chairs in my flat makes things difficult.

I have couple of questions, and was wondering if anyone could help me. I used the information that was posted on here a couple of weeks ago, and started to recategorise all my hair. But I have some problems.

It said to change the hair colours to whatever colour it said in one of the strings in the property set (sorry, im on my work computer and dont have the information with me), eg black for all the colours and grey for the elder hair, but shouldnt that colour be whatever colour the creator used as their base point, and not necessarily the colour it is now?I have one hair colour, where it said black for all the property sets, but when i go into CAS and look (have never used bodyshop), all my colours of one hair style are now in the black hair section.

So I thought, what if there's a picture somewhere in SimPE that I can use. I went back in and looked, and the only thing i could find was the template. But this started to confuse me. On most, there is one colour, then a gray, then another colour, which i assume is base, mesh and recolour. But some have base, mesh and 2 recolours, or even 3, and still 5 or 6 property sets, which doesnt match (again, all say (eg) black, even if the recolours are blond etc). Also there are some without gray colours. I would say they were maxis recolours, but the only maxis recolours i have are things like pink and green for my coloured skins, so i know its not these.

I cant use the name of the package file to help me, as it usually doesnt include the colours.

So, is there anyway to find out for definite what colour each one is, so I can categorise them correctly, or do i have to clear out all my packeage files and unrar each of my rar files separately so that i can do each one right?

I had another question, but cant remember it now. Will post it later when my brain kicks back in.

1989? My memory from the was being pushed on the swings at the local park! (I was 4).

Can i join in? Does anyone think 11 in the morning is too early for drinking? No? Good.

Now wheres that vodka....?

I only ever let my sims serve food once. It annoyed me so much that i took out the dining table and chairs and just put a sofa in there instead. My sims tend to eat in shifts depending on who i want to socialise anyway, so this was easier. Any guests can stand 

No, she was always really surprised, because she felt quite sober after drinking about 3 jugs of my cocktails, even after she "saw" me put the alcohol in. I only told her because she thought her drinks were getting spiked when she went out clubbing.