New and kinda need help. :)

[dinokee]

We are new to this site. I have been playing the game for a few years but never really been into all the mods and all that. My girlfriend and I have been wanting to get more involved and this is the site we were directed to. If anybody could give us some tips on how to do some of the stuff that would be awesome.

[caffeinated.joy]

Hi dinokee and welcome aboard. "Help with mods" is a rather broad subject and could use a great deal of clarification.

If you're looking for help on creating your own content for the game, then My Game, My Way is the place to look for tutorials, mesh creation, relcolouring help and more. Take a look at what's there. There are a ton of tutorials and a huge amount of questions already asked and helped with.

If you're having problems with your game and need help in making it work again, then the General Sims 2 Help section is where you want to go.

[dinokee]

Thank you and I kinda figured it would be a broad topic, but that's because I wasn't really sure as to what I needed to ask. Ha. But we are basically trying to figure out how to download a mesh and how we need to get them. For example, we were trying to get the tongue mesh and the duck slipper meshes and it kept saying we needed to unzip a .rar file. How do we unzip that kinda thing?

[Jenna]

Easy: you need a program such as winrar or 7Zip (Free) to extract a .rar file.

[caffeinated.joy]

Take a look at this thread here. It has a lot of information on downloads. In fact that entire FAQ section is worth a look-see. Note, in these threads many of the images are missing, but it's still pretty straight forward. This section of the SimsWiki is good, too.

[dinokee]

thanks very much guys. hopefully that will help us out.

just one more question, uh, after you download the files and unzip them, I read somewhere that we have to put the files in the download folder for the sims, in order for the stuff to show up.. where is this folder located?

[caffeinated.joy]

You can find that information in the links I posted.

From the first link:

... place the extracted files in your Downloads folder
(one of the following):

WINDOWS VISTA

C:\Users\*your-windows-username*\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads


Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\*your-windows-username*\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads

Windows 98, 98 SE, & Millennium Edition

C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads

MacOS X

Home/EA Games/ The Sims 2/Downloads

other possible locations are:

Documenti\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (italian)
Dokumentumok\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (hungarian)
Dokumenty\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (czech)
Eigene Dateien\EA Games\Die Sims 2\Downloads (deutsch)
Mes documents\EA Games\Les Sims 2\Downloads (française)
Meus Documentos\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (portuguese)
Mijn documenten\EA Games\De Sims 2\Downloads (nederlands)
Mine dokumenter\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (norsk)
Mis documentos\EA Games\Los Sims 2\Downloads (español)
Moje dokumenty\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (polish)
My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (english and many others)
Omat tiedostot\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (finnish)
Мои Документы\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads (russian)

[dinokee]

Thanks guys very much!! It really did help a lot. You guys are AWESOME!

[Paden]

*bangs head slowly and painfully on her desk*