Painting Question
jamesabrown1:
Sorry, it's been a while since I had any of my sims doing paintings. I'm not sure what custom painting is under, it may be it's own category, or it may be a sub-menu of portrait or still life, I just don't remember, sorry.
DraculaBiscuits:
whenever my sims paint the only menus i get are Paint Portrait or Paint Still Life.
rwills:
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I understand the directions and all its just for some reason i can never get it to work. The sims keep painting the old snapshot i took and not the new painting/ art i edited and saved for them to do instead.
Silly question perhaps, but are you putting the new image into Downloads? If so, it doesn't belong there.
You must either delete the existing Snapshot.bmp image and replace it with the new one or else overwrite it with the new image. And the new image must be named eactly as the existing one - if the existing one is Snapshot.bmp (with a capital S) the new one must be named exactly that way.
Have never had a prob doing this. Perhaps this procedure will help you:
Open your graphics editor and do your resizing/cropping/whatever of your preferred image.
When that is done, use 'Save As' function and make sure the file type is set to bmp
Navigate to the Storytelling folder in My Documents-EA Games-Sims 2 and choose the Snapshot.bmp file. This will overwrite the existing file upon completion of the 'Save As.'
If, for whatever reason, your particular graphics editor happens to save the file with a .BMP extension, change that to all lower case.
megativity13:
Painting custom paintings is a feature that started with Pets.
If you don't have the Pets expansion pack (or higher, not sure if it carries
forward) you'll likely not get the option to paint a custom painting from
your easel.
DraculaBiscuits:
ahh!! thak you, someone finaly saying so!! I said very early in my postings i only have NL EP but nobody said it was only for pets or higher. And the sites i have read the instructions from failed to give that bit of info also. Well thanks anyway. I guess my option now is to learn how to recolor Maxis Paintings to make my own.
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