Sorry about being Necromantic or whatever but I wanted to let you know this mod also works in The Sims Pet Stories as well as Castaway Stories.  Here is a clip of my Pet Stories game.

   all of the hair is hideous, the long hair for women is tolerable.  So no furniture for it then???   

I use this and it works for me
alias mo+ "moveObjects on" 

yes i have some, selzi's face replacements. 

okay, i will definitely make them then, btw is there a hack that you can use to change the townies clothes in game?

I have downloaded all the templates, hacks and "make vacation local fix", and jordi's better name mod and default skintones, eyes and face replacements,  but I wondered whether it would work to let the game generate the locals as an when needed.  I dont mind too much on the fact that the skintones might not be correct, its mainly getting rid of the fuglies that is my problem.

So the question is:  Will the game generate the locals for me if I dont do it?

Thank you.    this has made finding the necessary files easier and pain free. 

OMG I just realised I am going to miss Goopy as well     NOT, LMAO, no fugly sims!

Well I tried playing your lot, it runs okay but I have a high spec PC.  The house however is a bit broken and needs some attention, also I am not sure if you listed all EP's and SP's needed and I dont actually play every EP.  Not that I cant, because the game is fast enough and my downloads folder is limited to under 4000.  I never let it get over that.

So before I moved simmies in, I changed it to Residential and then furnished, took me hours but when I changed it to apartments, now the sims are happy. 

Great apartments, nice space, lotsa room.      

This works with Apartment Life.   

Thank you, I think its much better than the original genie colour. 
BTW Can anyone remember the genies colour from Sims 1?

I know I am being a NECROMANCY, by can you tell me if there is an updated version of this plugin.  Thank you.

Thank you, these files for AL work perfectly for me, the newly created Social Townies created with my installed default replacement CAS faces all look much better, not to mention Jordi's name mod, that gets rid of the names Eaxis decides we should have. 

If we delete all the characters wont it delete all the families, there are 1 or two that I am interested in keeping.

To test this thoroughly would it make a difference if I deleted the E001 neighbourhood located here.
C:\Documents and Settings\Aaliyah\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods

So that the neighbourhoods could be fresh.

There is a tutorial here, but I am not sure if it is correct.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,5861.0.html

The new QA version of SimPE is out and is compatible with Apartment Life, you need to download it from their forum.

Dont build beach lots and apartments, because it can become bugged.  Something to do with the beachfront water of something.  Perhaps EA will fix it in a patch, or mess it even worse, since thats what happened with Free Time.      

I have the ACR hack in game and when I chose to do casual woohoo Autonomy, they did it upside down in the pull down bed, which was CLOSED.      

Carrigon has done some hacks for this, you can rent an apartment fully furnished.
http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=2900&sid=d9386d985e1b268cd1e3e4f0e65db135

The rest of the hacks for Apartment Life are here
http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewforum.php?f=164

Cool, those rooms are very big, you could split them in half and create more bedrooms. 

Actually they do have the FREE TIME interactions such as "Watch Movie", I havent tried "Tinkering", but if "Watch Movie" is availalbe then it should be there.  I dont have BV installed, so not sure what those interactions are?

TINKERING ISNT THERE!

Thank you, I will certainly do this one for Apartment Life, I uninstalled it before Apartment Life, because I was worried that we couldnt edit the building.  By enabling build mode while sims are in residence, could make the apartment system break.  And the lot be inhabitable.

Can I suggest before anyone moves a sim into certain lots, go in change the lot to residential, exit the lot, re-enter the lot, add windows to rooms, that have no windows, change lot to apartment and then exit the lot.  The lot is now ready to move into for apartments.

CHEATS TO USE:
boolprop aptSubLotSpecificToolsDisabled false                   "Enable Buy/Build Apartment"
boolprop aptSubLotSpecificToolsDisabled true                   "Disable Buy/Build Apartment"
changelotzoning apartmentbase                                      "change lot type to Apartment"

It's strange but somehow its not working right for me, cause in game the rooms are so dark, that to get it lighter I have to put a window on every part of the wall.  Also rooms that are inside a house, like the bathrooms in the Pleasant's home is totally blacked out.  Is that meant to happen?

If so, DO NOT USE THE RADIANCE SYSTEM with APARTMENT LIFE, as you cannot put extra Windows and I also found some apartments do not have windows in rooms.

Have you guys noticed that the TV in game that is with Apartment Life has all the FREE TIME actions, something that was missing always when we got the new game.

The INSIMENATOR aborts the pregnancy but there is no memory 

So I use the INTEENIMATER and triger a MISCARRIAGE, at least there is a memory to it and is great for stories.   

Well I did sim surgeries on all my sims and funnily enough the first child Brandi had - wasnt a boy, but twin girls.  Just because I changed her makeup and did her clothes over, I didnt touch anything about her.

Brandi has always been fertile, I have noticed this before Free Time.  I changed all my sims with Family to Knowledge with a second aspiration of Family, because it was becoming too much.