The sleep mat is a freaking godsend. No more toddlers screaming to be let out of their crib, or trying to force the parents to stop whatever stupid task they're up to in order to get the toddler to bed. It can crawl over to its mat and sleep on its own. If I ever bother with cribs anymore, they're purely decorative.

I just started having this problem and it is sucky. However, I also have .net 2 installed, so I will grab that version of SIMpe and see if it solves my issues.

Thanks Jordi.

Also guys, for me, it usually unlocks the files after I manually terminate the process. I usually don't have to reboot.

Okay, this should probably be posted at the SIMpe forum, but since I don't go there I thought I would ask here first before making a whole new account to ask a question. Ahem.

When exiting SIMpe, has anyone else noticed that you have to manually kill the process or it closes out the program but the process stays alive and sucks up all your memory? Or is it just me and I have a broken version of SIMpe?

First of all, I am going to break MATY rules and say thank you. I've been using this program for awhile now and it has saved me so much time and frustration that if you were nearby, I'd kiss you.

I've never come across any problems with this version as far as bugs and things go, but I have to know; will you be updating with a version that will work with walls and floors? I have tons of walls that need to be categorized, and I am loathe to try to do it in game.

Hey, I r teh famous!!111 I gets teh emails dat say "I <3 ur work! I am ur #1 fan!" I owe it all to teh Photoshop, lolz.

The stupid thing about most of this is that once creators get to a certain point, most of us could care less about redistribution with credit. Sure, upload it. Slap my name on it. Yay, now we all win. It seems, for the most part, to be a very "noob-ish" thing, this obsessive need for credit and calling theft on everyone else. I don't know what the deal is, but everyone seems out to make a name for him/herself in this community. Ironically, one of the fastest ways to get your content out there is to allow it to be used on sims and lots, so by screaming about it most new creators are just condemning themselves to obscurity anyway.

As far as I am concerned, it is not THEFT when someone uses my alpha. Should they have to start from scratch when they already have a blueprint? I think every creator, whether they admit it or not, use other people's alphas, at least as a starting point.

It is not THEFT when someone uploads my crap on a sim. Big freaking deal, so it has my lipstick, my hair recolour, or my shirt on. As long as the person who uploaded the sim doesn't claim that they made it, I don't see how this is even an issue. Slap up a credit, moot issue.

I can see why some people are a little concerned about recolouring, because in some cases all people do is open it in photoshop, move the colour slider a bit, and claim that they "made it". In most cases, they aren't really fooling anyone. However, I don't even see the big hairy deal with this, as long as they don't claim they made the actual texture. Again, the credit thing applies.

On the flipside, those annoying pre-teens on the exchange who steal from people, claim it as their own, then throw a hissy fit saying that the real creator "stole" it should be shot. But then, most of the people on the exchange should be shot.

I'm just tired of this whole issue.

 

Well yeah. I know that now

Does that ever really work right? I tried changing an adult and a teen to "sisters" using SIMpe, and the elder sister kept rolling wants like she was the mother, even though the family tree showed them as sisters. When the teen aged to adult, the family tree went back to showing the elder sister as the mother.

yeah, that was probably bad.

Oh for fuck's sake...

This is rediculous. I am not anti-MTS2, nor do I think it is run by nazis. I think this is them trying to cover their asses and keep people from screaming about stolen content being uploaded. However, when is it going to be enough already? Don't people get tired of policing this shit all the time?

I havent tried to move anything yet.

My problem is that it is taking forever to scan for recolours everytime I click the move/delete button. I think it scans the entire download folder, and not just the folder being used. I may have to resort to moving everything out of downloads except the folder I'm working in to make this program work at a reasonable speed.

Also, it looks like the site was just updated with a new version after a bug fix, that might fix your problem.


*edit*

Broken down into smaller batches, this makes for pretty easy deleting. I still havent tried moving things with it, though. I think for just sorting items into categories, Clean Installer would do the job faster since it doesnt have to scan for recolours. Still, as far as content management goes, this is a pretty good tool. I like being able to identify each item by a thumbnail rather than trying to figure out what it is based on a texture grab.

Now if only someone would make a tool to clean out orphaned meshes and textures

I am messing around with it right now.

Beware, if you have a ton of stuff, this can be really slow. I'm trying to break down my downloads into smaller sections and go from there and see if that speeds up the process.

Paladin has updated his object categorizer for Sims 2. It should make the whole sorting and deleting custom objects much, much easier and has other neato functions as well.

Yaaaaay! It's about time someone did something like this ^_^

http://www.simwardrobe.com/

No problem ^_^

I checked again, and it looks like the creator of this hack, Eddief66, pulled everything off of MTS2. Does anyone know if he's moved them to a new location or anything? He had some good stuff.

For me, the dust clouds just make my game run insanely slow. It didn't become a problem until after Nightlife, I think, but now if I have the cloud and two sims start fighting, it lags to a point where I can't do anything. So it may look stupid when they fight without the cloud, but it is better than the alternative.

I got rid of the cloud because it makes my game insanely slow. Without it, fighting is good fun. I hate the sink into ground part of the fights too though. This eddy person also made a no-sink-into-ground-while-fighting hack, but took it down before I could grab it.

He's so not awesome

You don't need a create a townie tool. You just need some shrubbery and patience.

Yeah right.

Nectere, Blue called your stuff crappy. You better beat her.

I'll watch.


BlueSoup Edit:  Eek! Sorry, damn quote button is right next to the modify button.

The person who made the hack removed them all from MTS2. Eddie something or other. Because he sucks

But you can share mine.

I think it will be handy for making identical twins from fraternal twins, or making little suzi a spitting image of what grandma used to look like. You can do it in SIMpe, but it will be nice to just be able to do it on the fly without having to exit the game and load SIMpe and all that jazz.

Or identical cousins!

It is a male, using clothing and hair meshes that have been converted from female to male by a website called "Simmergirl". Basically, it is a transgendered male, meaning that when it gets naked, it will have it's boy bits, but when it is clothed it will look like a female. Also, it will have the voice and animations of a male, not a female.

Christianlov, or however you spell the name, made a mirror that has the same functionality of Sim Surgery, except you can use it in game.

Copy Sim Mirror

Also, it apparently overwrites the face structure data of the receiving sim, so you don't have to go in and fix it like you do from plastic surgery.

Yeah I saw that. Its just out of hand.

Also your priest, your lawyer and your doctor. They can't tell what you said in confidence either.

As for your spouse, he/she can't say what you told them, but they can testify as to your actions.


I watch the Law and Order. >.>

I was going to say what Gwill said. I have a few glasses that don't work anymore because of that. They were some fugly ones though, so I can't be bothered to find out what it is.

And I love your little angry face drawing...lol

I don't condone the theft, believe me. However, it is a reality on the internet. Stuff will get stolen, copyrights get infringed. It is the nature of the beast. It's why so many writers only publish portions of their work on the net, and why artists are forced to watermark their art. It sucks, but the people who do it aren't going to stop.