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Edit 4 December 2006: In reviewing Sims created with Body Shop from The Sims 2: Pets Expansion Pack it has been demonstrated that the customised face mesh of the character file (i.e., ########_########.package) suffers the same error as clothing and other items made with Body Shop. In those instances as this error has occured the Maxis default (un-customised) face is used. To restore the customised face mesh use the method described in the first post of this thread to restore the customised face to the downloaded Sim.
 
See this tutorial in French by Marvine here: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=28655.
Lire ce tutoriel en français ici: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=28655
 
See this tutorial in Italian by Sims2cri here: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=28468.
Leggere questa tutorial in italiano qui: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=28468.
 
See this tutorial in German by Engelchen here: http://foxtrot502.server4you.de/sims2/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=4794.
Diesen Tutorial auf Deutsch lesen hier: http://foxtrot502.server4you.de/sims2/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=4794.
 
See this tutorial (Solución para los problemas de compatibilidad con LS2 Mascotas) in Spanish by FJPerez here: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=29827
 
WHAT THIS PROCESS FIXES:
 
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/morebad04.jpg)
 
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/morebadcas01.jpg)
 
Some people among whom Numenor, Dr Pixel, Beosboxboy and myself have spent the last two days trying to figure out a fix for the thumbnails issue with Pets made clothing for people not having the EP installed.
After fruitless attempts on my own and testing different workable but not so easy fixes by Dr Pixel and Numenor, it finally clicked in when sharing thoughts with Yakov and I found a quick and easy method, even if you don't have much experience of SimPE (a huge thank you to Beosboxboy for the thorough testing and the pretty pics :D):
 
- Open your recolour in SimPE
- select the property set line in the top right panel
 
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=43443&stc=1&d=1162696860)
 
- select the "parts = ........" line in the bottom left panel
 
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=43444&d=1162696846)
 
- click "add" in the bottom right panel, this will duplicate the line to the bottom of the list
 
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=43445&stc=1&d=1162696860)
 
- this last line being selected
 
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=43446&stc=1&d=1162696860)
 
- type "outfit" instead of "parts" in the right panel - no other edit needed, the number is the right one
 
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=43447&stc=1&d=1162696860)
 
- click "commit" and save.
 
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=43448&stc=1&d=1162851158)
 
You'll have to delete your thumbnails before starting the game so the changes can properly apply to the items that were already installed.
 
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/thumbnails-folder.jpg)
 
 

Note: The thumbnails are the files located in one of the following directories   C:\Documents and Settings\YourWindowsScreenNameHere\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails - *Windows 2000 & Windows XP

   or

   C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails - *Windows 98 & Windows ME

   or

   Home/EA Games/The Sims 2/Thumbnails - MacOS X

   * or what ever hard drive is your main Windows driveThis fixed all the files I tested, tops and full body outfits by Innocent, JayAngel, Engelchen and Cocosims (yay!!)
Now I didn't get to test this with the EP, there shouldn't be any issue but better safe than sorry... So it would be great if anybody with the EP installed gave it a try :)
 
EDIT: This fix has been shown to work with clothing, hair, and skin tones in installs of The Sims 2 with Nightlife EP, Open for Business EP, and Glamour Life Stuff installed.
 
This fix is useful for already made content, but Numenor added a "Legacy Bodyshop" option to his BaseGameStarter here  (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=107015), that allows to use the base game Bodyshop to create fully compatible clothing no matter which EPs are installed. :)
 
EDIT 5 November 2006 22:36 (GMT -5:00): This was mentioned by MaryLou at MTS2

So it bears reminding us all that using the Pets EP Body Shop will likely package the Sim in the Sim2Pack with misbehaving files; so please make especial effort to warn your downloaders that the Pets EP will be required for those Sims! There is a banner that I made available here (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=26720) for this purpose.

this is great info ju, thanks for sharing it with us all :)

Thank you Ju!

yayaya Ju *smoochies*

Thanks. Great stuff.

This is great, thank you so much :)

I am moving this to the general modding section so it can be of benefit to the most people.

I folllowed the above directions and it fixed the problems I was having with the latest Peggy Sims donation hair AND a Peggy Sims dress that was behaving especially badly.

It did not fix my other invisible download problem but I consider this real progress. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I have TS2, Uni and NL.

Okay y'all, I've updated Rockslide in this (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=27513) thread with the "fix".  Please let me know if it corrected the problem.

Since I have Pets, I wasn't experiencing the problem, so I don't really have a way to check it.

~ Syn

Thank you for spending your time to make this fix.:)

Thank you!!! I was going crazy trying to firgure out what the bejeees was going on.  Now I have to decide -- install pets now or fix manually.

Yay you!  Thank you very much for this - I may even reinstall Pets :cheers:

Marvine thank you for the detailed explanation on how to fix this! :D

Great work Marvine!!!

I don't want to be nitpicky, so please don't take this as anything other then a suggestion, but shouldn't the 6th picture show 'outfit' in the Name:-field and not 'parts' as it says on the image now before commiting?

It says so int the text but some do rely on images more in guides.

Just a suggestion so those not so adept at doing this kind of thing don't misunderstand.

image corrected Stimy - thank you for being obsessive!  I haven't had much sleep the past week so I missed that entirely!

Aww... :group hu: I wish there was something that I could do that would release some hormones for you that makes you sleepy.

I know how lack of sleep feels, I haven't slept more then a few hours and those weren't even good for the last two weeks. It's not any fun. This morning however I overslept. It felt like I was in a coma. Maybe if I keep on talking this much you will fall to sleep out of boredom. ;)

Oh, thank you so much!! Really I don't want install the utility created by Numenor... I've installed it, but my staff don't like game mod, and is a bit time spending using that...

Marvine can I translate this information in Italian and post here, so all the italian can understad too?

(I've not try yet, I've just read and I'm just coming back from university (here is the 21.30 and I go to sleep now, tomorrow I'm to university and I wake up at 6.00, but tomorrow evening I try and I'm please if you allow to me to translate in italian :D )

Really great job, thank you so much

Sims2cri,

Thank you very much for offering! Translations are needed and most welcome :D

Good job Cristina, thank you very much :)
Yakov will figure out a way to make your contribution more visible, for now I'll add a link to the first post. *hugs*

Thank you Marvine, is a pleasure post here and talk to very good creators and modder as you... I've only translated and add a consideration about complete sim, you have done the great work to find this method :D

Thank you Marvine and Numenor and Dr Pixel and Yakov. I now have hope or this game. I have been trying to wrap my brain around CC withdrawal and knew you all would figure out a workaround. I sincerely appreciate all your conrtributions to this game more than I realized i could.*Huge tearful happy Hugs*

Say I downloaded items that I found that I thought were compatible but later discovered that they don't show up like what I saw in the picture examples that you provided.  Does that mean they were created with an EP that I don't have?
 
If so then this tutorial is a big help.  I've discovered alot of recolors but some of them have be recolored with the Pets EP, I think  & I really want the outfit but my poor little computer can't handle all the EPs I already have let alone adding more EPs to acquire some of the outfits that I want to enjoy.  And If I understand correctly I can simply make this modification without asking permission from the original artist.  Did I get that right?
 
If so than thank you, thank you, thank you.  If not thank you just the same.

the way the errors display may be different in some instances - I haven't seen every sort of error because I always check the things I download first.  The minute I discover a taint of Pets, I either de-Pets the file or delete it if I am not able to repair it.

hey gothplague - yes - but it is doesn't always work.  in the accessories/glasses you have to edit the Mesh Overlay XML (XMOL) but the values are different.  I am not an accessories master by any measure, so I will refrain from jabbering a load of BS here.  For the proper values look for a tutorial on accessories, sorry I can't be of more help here.

This is so helpful!! Thanks!

I just finally found this tutorial today... it's a great help! Thanks :)