The problem I am having now, is the patch 1.14 will not completely install.  I keep getting an "invalid file found" error.  All three of the EP patches are installing just fine, and the game works properly, but 1.14 doesn't work, and neither does CAW.  Any suggestions here?

I think EA is stupid for not telling us they had an updated version of CAW.  Or maybe we are all stupid for downloading a buggy version that will crash your game, and hasn't been released yet for a reason.

If the skintone slider is right of center, then use random numbers between 0 and 0.5 instead of 0 and 1, for both the eyes and hair.  Is that good enough?

And randomly generated townies sucks for other reasons as well - they hardly ever use the more detailed sliders, and never the custom ones.  That's why you have to put more effort into tweaking them - enough effort to make using these formulas seem less tedious by comparison.

A calculator is sufficient.  Am I to understand that the average simmer who frequents this site does not own a calculator?  I have one beside my computer at all times.  Come to think of it, I have one on my computer at all times.

I have corrected the mathematical formula for realistic hair colors.  The old formula was causing sim's hair to be pink.  DO NOT USE THE OLD FORMULA.  IT WILL RUIN YOUR SIM'S HAIR AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIX IT WITHOUT A CAS MOD!!!

I apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused.

For hair colors:

1)  choose random number x from (1 to 206); Green = x+39
2)  choose random number y from (0 to 100); Blue = (102 - ABS(142-Green)) * y / 100
3)  choose random number z from (0 to 80); Red = (102 - ABS(142-Green)) * 0.4 + z + Green

This gives a good range of black, brown, red and blonde hair colors, without any nonsense.  Red is a bit more prominent than I'd like, but that's okay.  I'm hoping someone will add this function as a randomize button in CAS, but all I can do is hope....

My apologies - I made a huge mistake here with the hair colors.  Here is the real formula:

1)  choose random number x from (0..1); Red = x*255
2)  choose random number y from (0..1); Green = (y*0.2083+0.625)*Red
3)  choose random number z from (0..1); Blue = 0.88*y*z*Green

For eye colors:

1) choose random number x from (0 to 223); Blue = x
2) choose random number y from (1 to 2);
3) choose random number z from (0 to 223/y); Red = z; Green = z*y
4) Flip a coin - if tails, switch the red and green values

This gives blues, golds, and any range between brown and green.

Is there a way with AwesomeMod to make sims that are genetically related to your existing sims, but not children?  Let's say I have a sim, and I want to make a sibling or parent for them.  Can it go backwards without starting over with the most ancestral sim and working your way down?  I thought I read about something like this, but I don't remember where.

Well, here it is.  It's not a very good pic, but it shows an sample of 8 of the skintones.  You know what the EA defaults look like anyway.

I don't know what you have against men, but anyway, if I knew how to paste an image here, I would.

Sorry, here they are.

I made a set of 39 skintones that cover what I consider the full range of the realistic spectrum.  Also attached, is an html file showing all the skintone colors at their lightest.

The sliders get dark farther to the left than the EA defaults, and some are at the very edge of realistic, but here they are, for anyone who wants them.

Note: all skintones are recolors of the EA defaults, but are NOT default replacements.

I've always had problems with stairs.  Also if you try building them at the same spot but on a different floor than certain objects, it doesn't work.

So what is this hidden Baker career?  Any chance of unlocking it?

I am looking at the "Motives" xml, and am dreaming of the day when I can make my own custom motives that decay and give sims negative moodlets when they are neglected.  I want a flirt motive that requires sims to flirt once in a while, a 'pester enemy' motive, several fun acitivities like 'watch TV', 'look through telescope', and 'play video game' motives, all of which would give sims negative moodlets when the motive is at low levels.  So sims would be forced to comply to their natural instincts.  Also thinking about 'spend time on particular type of lot' motives.

For each type of lot, there is number of sims wanted for each hour of the day.  I don't know if it actually pulls all that is needed every time.

I haven't confirmed that it's stopped - it just hasn't happened in the amount of time I've played since changing it.  Yes I left the mausoleum in.

Yes, I figured it out.  I think there is something new with the latest patch that lets you edit them right in s3pe.  I was able to make changes right in the gameplaydata file and save them.  I changed values in the visitrabbithole and visitrabbitholewith tunings and they took.  I just wonder if it now works that way in-game.

I changed all my lots to "no visitors".  I haven't received visitors to the graveyard since, but they do still go to the hospital.  Apparently I can't stop visitors to workplace lots without deleting the workplace building.  Is the .rar on this thread intended to be a mod?  If so, I cannot get it to work, and I wonder if I am doing it correctly.

Here's something that keeps happening to me:  sims keep dropping what they're doing, and just stand there.  They keep popping out of bed several times in a row.  They keep on sleeping but their energy motive is not increasing and the top left icon that says they are sleeping is missing.  I can't get anyone in my neighbourhood to stay put.  I have freewill turned off.  I did this a little while before I updated, but I would not think the things that are happening would be related to that.

I have everything but Ambitions, with the new folder setup and all.  With the new AwesomeMod, the game will not load.  Without it, it will.  !!!???

Never mind - I got it from the regular thread instead of the "click here" on this thread.  It's working now.

changing lot type to "no visitors" required me to delete the mausoleum first.  The strange part is every community lot on that street was also listed as a graveyard, but those did not require me to delete anything.  I am fine with deleting the mausoleum, but I am not fine with deleting the stadium, gym, theater, or whatever other things have to be deleted to stop this from happening at other times of day.  I was hoping for an XML solution.

When I load a household, the sim's panels and thumbnails don't show up.  I can see wishes, the leftmost control panel, and buy and build mode.  I can click on very few objects, but not sims.  I can't zoom in or out.  When I go to edit town and switch active households, I lose all abilities except spinning with the mouse, and I can't go back into the household because the icons don't show on the map.  This is without awesomeMod.  I have Twallan's supercomputer and relativity; the CAS sliders, and a few minor mods, all of which worked before.  I can't figure out what's wrong here.

No, I don't where it is!

What is this all about?  I downloaded and installed the 1.12 and the 2.7, now this error is popping up in the launcher.  I removed all my mods from the packages folder.  What could I possibly be missing?

I downloaded the venue.rar attached to this thread and altered the XML tuning.  My intent was to stop my sims from going to the graveyard and other community lots by changing all the values to zero.  I put the new XML file in the mods/packages folder, but there have been no changes in-game.  Is there something I am doing wrong with the file, or is there something else I should be changing to get the desired results?