Problem with Pets made content in non-Pets: The "Torso" Factor
BeosBoxBoy:
Hey, everyone, a solution for existing Pets-made content has been explained by Marvine in this thread
kaneonapua , the solution above may solve your displaying problem. But you may have one of the dread custom content not showing issues. try deleting the Groups.cache from
C:\Documents and Settings\YourWindowsScreenNameHere\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2
or
C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 *Windows 98 & Windows ME
or
Home/EA Games/The Sims 2 * MacOS X
also make sure to delete the content of the Thumbnails folder. These files will regenerate on the next run of the game.
C:\Documents and Settings\YourWindowsScreenNameHere\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails
or
C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails *Windows 98 & Windows ME
or
Home/EA Games/The Sims 2/Thumbnails * MacOS X
BeosBoxBoy:
Sorry for the double post:
I was just apprised of the fact that Numenor has added the Body Shop element for his installer mod. Yay Numenor!!
kaneonapua:
Good news and bad news. Marvine's fix cleared up my problems with the latest Peggy Sims donation hair AND one of their outfits that was behaving very strangely.
It did not make a dent in my problems with the download detailed three posts above.
I tried all beoboxboy's suggestion and deleted the groups.cache and/or add the new line as Marvine suggested.
Beosboxboy: Does the dreaded custom content not showing issues only affect certain downloads? I have tons of CC and this is the first one that has done this to me. I have never seen the game destroy a recolor file before but maybe I've been living a charmed life. I tested all the recolors associated with the mesh that is giving me trouble. The pre-Pets recolors load just fine while the post-Pets recolors get demolished. I wonder if this is because the mesh was created pre-Pets.
BeosBoxBoy:
I vote the "charmed life" theory myself
As much as 60% of people with NL, OFB, FFS, GLS, and the Holiday Fun Stuff all suffered at some point custom content woes. The exact causes of this are not well understood. It seems that for some people turning off then turning on Custom Content in successive runs of the game corrected it, for others it required the fix I listed above, for yet others it required they use the custom content browser at least once to connect to the Maxis Exchange while in game, etc etc etc ad nauseam. For some it took a game patch, for others it just started showing up one day. Thus you can see there is no clearly definable pattern, so no one solution can be made a panacea to this blight.
If you look through the help section you will locate many such threads offering many versions of solutions.
For most persons who have large amounts of custom content, it required un-installing the Stuff Packs to regain access to the custom content - this was my experience with both the Holiday and Family Fun Stuff packs. Glamour Life (so far) has not bunged my game.
Pets however presents us with a whole new set of problems, many of which are just beginning to be expressed as the "newness" wears off and the euphoric high wears thin by purchasers. It will most likely require a patch to repair most of the damage done to this game by the Pets EP, and with Electronic Arts batting average for patches during 2006, I am not holding my breath or betting on it being a real solution.
I will remind you all, I was the one that presaged the Pets EP as being a cancer on the game, for I fully understood the depth of changes that would be necessary for adding pets to the game. I humbly submit I was right and wrong at the same time; I did not think that Electronic Arts would be so foolhardy as to resurrect the known bad code of the early pre-release The Sims 2 when it was shown it could not be made to work and required a complete re-write of the code that caused a 1 year set back in the release of the game - EA only released Makin' Magic EP for original The Sims as a stop-gap measure to keep the community from storming EA's headquarters and lynching the development team.
So I was right that it is a product of the Devil, but was wrong in thinking from which direction that this menace to my sanity and yours would come.
kaneonapua:
Ah, yes. There was a reason why I didn't rush out and buy Pets or install any of the Stuff packs. I guess if I get bored with the my charmed existance, I can go install Glamour Life or the FFP if I really want a challenge.
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