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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: ~~emergency>> my baby is gone!!!~~
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on: August 07, 2009, 05:37:12 pm
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I do not have a back up that I know of, of any type. I will try those ways, but, I have already re-done my self sim's family, and the kids look exactly the same, so, if all else fails...  thank you for your help. Making regular back-ups is a Good Practice. Cannot overstress the importance of having at least one recent back-up of the entire The Sims 2 folder available. SimPE automatically creates a back-up oif the 'hood unless you specifically tell it not to. Did you look in 'My Documents--EA Games' for a folder named 'SimPE Backup?' |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: ~~emergency>> my baby is gone!!!~~
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on: August 07, 2009, 02:03:28 am
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Whatever it is you did does not appear to be something which can be undone (or at least not without some MAJOR tinkering). And (just judging fom the pic, mind you) it also appears to be something which can incrementally continue damaging the 'hood until it is unplayable.
One thing to try (no guarantees) is moving the family out of their house and then back in to a house and see if that snaps things back to normalcy.
Should that not work (and I wouldn't hold out a lot of hopes for it, but one never knows), then:
Best best is to move out (don't delete just yet, in case you might need them later on) the contents of the folder (but not the folder itself) for that neighborhood and replace those contents with the contents of the same neighborhood folder which SimPE created as a back-up. Or with the contents of the same neighborhood folder from another back-up you might have.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Re: Skintone Help!
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on: August 06, 2009, 06:08:30 pm
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Some of this will be a repetition of the above, but going to try to lay out all your options.
Generally speaking, skintone changes made in-game (vials, etc.) are cosmetic, not genetic, and cannot be passed on to offspring.
Some choices of what you can do:
1) Remove the offending skintone from your game. Also, make certain you do not have more than one set of default replacement skins in the game. Having more than one default replacement set (among other major problems) could conceivably glork a birth.
There is a slight chance (if you have such an item in your game) that a default diaper replacement could be the culprit as well, so remove that file if you have such an item. As with skintones, having more than one such default replacement will always cause problems.
2) Use an outside the game tool (SimPE or other) to genetically change the skintone. Be sure to make back-ups of your data first, as the possibility always is there when using such outside the game tools of glorking the 'hood.
3) Change the non-pregnant parent to a different Sim (this will, of course, also affect the look and the personality of the child) and then, if birth is successful, change the child's parent back to the original sometime afterwards.
This can be done using Insimenator or other mods.
4) Assuming that both parents do not have the same offending skintone, try the 'rolling the dice' trick.
When the game launches, it internally chooses parameters for selecting a skintone for a birth (or for any newly-created Sim). If you go into C-A-S and click the dice (random) option 5 or 6 times in a row, that will juggle the internal parameters the game chose upon launch and may give precedence to a skintone which will work for the birth. Then exit C-A-S (no need to save the Sim you created there).
It is a crapshoot, though, and won't be a guaranteed fix -- but if it doesn't work, you're at least no worse off.
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