Isn't it correct that removing custom careers might screw things up, if you don't make sure the sims using them are at home when you remove the career?

That's actually a very good idea seelindarum, I hope someone awesome show us mercy and make it.

This issue is yet another example of Eaxis not testing things enough, or not caring or whatever the reason. It it isn't as obvious in normal lighting, but when you use a lighting more like the radiance mod, it gets horribly obvious - especially for objects that are normally very high up on the wall that you really want to move down.
I tested putting extra lights in the foundation right under the lowered shelf - the lighting lit up the under side of the shelf but not above it - which of course technically I did. There are currently no workaround for this issue, other than the clever idea seelindarum mentioned. I hope someone creates the changed shelf.

Try with moveobjects activated, and see if that helps - it seems to help for others.

I could patch the .exe fine, and I have Vista. At least there is no portrait regeneration in my game.

M&G nodvd p0 plusDizzyThumbV4.rar.

Oh thank you so much for telling us, that just made my day! 

Custom skin is what I'm after, not a custom mesh.

Ah, thanks for the heads up. Yes, I meant a custom skintone, a more robotic one. Guess that means I have to make a specific sim in CAS after all, which I was trying to avoid.

Well, then my having M&G purely rests in the hand of someone more awesome than me showing mercy and hacking that .exe. 

Can someone report what happens to the portrait regeneration with M&G - I don't want my game to start crashing again - and if it's absolutely certain the game has to run from the M&G .exe.

Also, I've seen people complaining on the sims2community forum that it uninstalls sims2 store items, can anyone verify it that is true or not?

If they have, I solemnly swear I will eat my pirate hat.

I do want to arrquire this, but I am worrying about having to run the game from the M&G disc - I have the hacked AL .exe to get rid of the portrait regeneration, and I have no clue if that would be transferable to a M&G .exe.

You have to click on the door and read the mystery book to get through it, the sims don't do it autonomously.

I find that depends on the story you make around the servos. In sci-fi stories you read about the mildly crazy genius that creates male robots in his own image and the female robots in the image of the love of his life. Creepy? Definitely. But it still works, story wise.

If I clone from an existing sim, is it possible to change skintone of the servo, in case I want a more servo-like skintone, or do the sim I clone from have to have the skintone I want on my servo?

That would be great, SimPE makes me nervous.

And how do you do that, exactly?

Any particular reason you turn off vsync? I thought that made the game choppy, that's why I always turn it on before I play.

Well, that's weird, because the only hacks I have changed is the Squinge hack and of course I have updated the DC - that's it.  I have not removed any cc or anything else.


Edit: thanks Bastdawn for pointing that out.

Okay the plot thickens. My witches now have hats. Can't say if it was because I removed Squinge's WitchNoChangeOutfit hack, but last night was the first time I saw the witches since i removed it, and they have now hats (photos taken on a community lot in my uni hood):

However I still have problem with the green scalp:


This is just as weird as it gets.

Whoa, then it can't be cc related either. The witches that were packaged with Belladonna cove had hats, but the new ones in the new hood don't. Haven't really played Belladonna cove much though.

Oh dear, you're right, I didn't...well, think. Forget I ever said anything. (I kinda wonder now why people would want it automatic though - because that's what this was about, wasn't it?)

Allright, I can see that. An alternative would be to put it in the college clock when you choose 'do finals now'. As far as I know that would make sense. But that doesn't really concern this topic, so never mind.

Why not make it an option? Choose between "take final at night" and "take final at day". Voilá, fixed.

I have not applied the patch at all, as I've said several times already, so it's likely not patch related - unless I have an issue that is completely unrelated but exactly the same.

Does Non-fat Gwilly People count, because I have removed Squinge's version, since I don't trust it.

This is a long shot, but do you guys having trouble by any chance have Squinge's hack that makes witches not change outfit when they change alignment? Could it possible screw with the witches when they generate?

If I knew how to delete npc's to let the game generate a witch again, I'd test it out myself...