Others are telling you that with Awesome, there is an option to disable CD check, which would eliminate your need for crack.

Dude,

Extract the (sims3) files, use the Multi-pack installer to unload the files, use the S3RC to decrapify and cut/paste into your mods folder. Easy, peasy.

Don't you use AwesomeMod?

I just thank God/gods/goddess(es) that she didn't enable it for toddlers.  Have you ever seen the hairs on toddlers?  Scary.  I can't use the blasted things for any sim after seeing that debacle.

Oh wait.  See pic one.



Edited for missing the obvious.

Versus, thanks a lot for the insight!  Moving the doors instead of deleting them worked.  Who'd a'thunk?

Is editing "hidden" rooms only available when apartments are not occupied?  I am able to edit, using "testingcheatsenabled true" with "restrictbuildbuyinbuildings off", but when I try to get back to "live" mode, I get the unending circle of pending... without ever getting to the live mode.

As an aside to shouty ones, THIS is the information for which I am seeking, not information about building my own apartment.  I want information on editing an existing apartment; different concepts with similar information, but different none-the-less.

I apologize for the necromancy, but thought it better to post in an existing thread than to start a new one.  I'm getting a "site temporarily unavailable" notice when I click on the MATY link.  

Attacked again?

Edit:  Works for me now, too.

I believe it's been there all along, but I only really saw it in adult sims with the childlike trait.

Dear God(s) that running to and fro, around and about, getting absolutely nowhere fast is annoying.  It's about time someone modified the game to eliminate that stupid bug.

It would be funny if it could be assigned to specific sims, maybe as a trait - like the hyperactivity trait.   

Does this shiny new feature of AM impact this mod at all?

Thanks for the specifics, Tyyppi - that's the info I needed.

I had to add these and invoke the "regenerate" command for the skill books to even appear.  I am still missing the text-strings, though.  Also, my schools (at least in Twinbrook) remain borkinated.  I lied about the "no swarm" though.  I must have missed it.  All the kiddies are standing outside the building waiting to get in, imagine that! Before this version, the bus wouldn't even pick up the kiddies to take them to school.  Now, they actually arrive, yet cannot enter.  I have Base, WA, HELS, & Ambitions, no other mods (at least on this last test), removed all cache files prior to starting the saved game, and my OS is W7.  

The "hand of God" is awesome, I must say! Who thought that doing laundry in a game was a good idea? Someone who doesn't do it in RL, evidently.

 
Yup, I'm solely testing on Twinbrook.

I must have misunderstood something, because I thought that the absence of the books was from EAxian fail and that the regenerate command would fix it. Obviously, AM fixed what it was intended to fix.  The text-string is probably missing because the book wasn't there to begin with; side-effect of EAxian fail.

Using latest version of AM, schools are available, with no swarm, but kids cannot go in and get the "skipping school" nonsense.  If I used a game that was saved with a previous version of AM, can it have residual effects? Just wondering, because admittedly, I know shit.

Also, skill books are missing in libraries, so I used the regeneratebooks command and the text strings are missing on some of the skill books (fishing, guitar,& painting, IIRC). That probably is related to some other book mod if no one else is experiencing it.

I have EA blocked from accessing the internet, and I unchecked keylogger in the game options.  However, every time I go into the options menu, the keylogger is rechecked again.  How do I get the stupid thing turned off FOREVAH?! 

I had this same thing a couple of days ago with only AM installed.  I added the .dll files to each game directory and it loaded fine. Obviously, I had framework fail.  For some reason, my game is very finicky. 

Do I need to redownload the offending file and decrapify anew, or can I just redecrapify an already decrapified version?

You got it.  Make sure you have the files you want decrapified in the same directory as s3rc and/or the decrapifier, then drag and drop the files.  Seems too simple to be right, doesn't it?

Great job. I really like the metal roof patterns you've included with your conversion.  Is there any way you can create roof patterns out of your patterns?

You should probably ask that question in the S3PE forum @MTS.  There's a specific thread there for questions/problems with S3PE.

Using S3PE requires extracting the .sims3pack files to .package format.  There are a number of them available.  You can try ModTheSims.  Delphy made one called the  Sims3pack Multi-installer.  Extractor/installer - I can understand why you'd miss that in your Google search.

The Mischief Bedroom, Critter Comfort and Forest Bedroom sets are all part of the Animals Abound set.  I'm sure the .dbc is listed here somewhere.  I don't know what the Dutailleur set is, so I can't help there.

I had the same issue before my puper crapped.  It would take sooo long for my game to load it wasn't worth even playing.  When it would finally load, the lag was so bad I wanted to throw the computer out the window.  I'd try to quit and save, but it would take HOURS.  To fix the issue, I found the content I wanted in Sims3pack, used the S3rc to compressorize, then extracted them, grouped them into categories and packaged them.  My game now loads within 3 minutes and I have a little shy of 1 gig worth of content added.  

But you're absolutely right.  How much time does it take to get the stupid game to run "smoothly"?  Is it worth all the time it takes to figure out "which" folder "what" file needs to be in, or the proper syntax or text string that's needed to make the content show?  I've actually gotten to the point where I spend more time researching and trying stuff out than I do playing the game. (I kinda enjoy the discovery process though.)    I hope you get everything figured out and enjoy playing once again.  

The patch is do.not.want.   I don't have the stuff pack, AM is not updated for this patch, and as if that were not reason enough, the following quote copypasta from the official site:

..."Before installing an Update for The Sims 3, an Expansion Pack, or a Stuff Pack, it is a good idea to run through the following checklist to ensure your game continues to work smoothly.

If you have any questions about the below steps, please visit the Technical Support forum on the official Sims 3 community found at this URL: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/forums/show/10.page"

I really like the "continues" to run smoothly bit.  I'm still trying to get custom content to show after HD failure and reinstall.  If it is necessary to warn people before installing, I'm thinking it's not such a good idea to do. The really craptastic thing about all of this is that if you open the launcher, the download manager halts all processes until you install. No information unless you shut everything down and go to the website (won't use the launcher to do that).  Pushy little contraption, I tell ya'.  Did they unbreak the broken launcher?

I prefer to wait and see.  

 

I haven't tried this, but it seems that in order to install two different regions you had to change the original to match the one you were installing.  After that you changed them both back to region 1.  Perhaps if you had kept the same updated region it would update?  Have you tried using the Patch Log View @ MTS?  I'd like to know how you resolve this issue.