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Please post Bug Reports and Help Requests Here

This way people might see a solution without having to ask about
previously solved issues.

DO NOT POST PHOTOS OR HELP REQUESTS OF ADULT-ORIENTED NATURE HERE!

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For general game and Windows help not related to the bodybuilder meshes,
see my thread: General Help for Windows and Games
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6400 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6400)
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Please do not request ZIP files, there are free RAR file extractors available;
the reason Marvine & I use RAR files is based of the reality of hosting costs
for bandwidth, although we don't have to pay for this bandwidth, someone
does.  And that 12 KB difference x 1000 downloads adds up.

Make sure you unpack the RAR-files with:

PC-users:
WinRAR ($ PC: http://www.rarlabs.com/ (http://www.rarlabs.com/))
7zip (free PC: http://www.7-zip.org/ (http://www.7-zip.org/))
AlZip (free PC: http://www.altools.net/ (http://www.altools.net/))
TUGZip (free PC: http://www.tugzip.com/ (http://www.tugzip.com/))
Filzip (free PC: http://www.filzip.com/ (http://www.filzip.com/))
IZArc (free PC: http://www.izarc.org/ (http://www.izarc.org/))
UnzipThemAll (free PC: http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=6 (http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=6))
ICEOWS  (free PC: http://www.iceows.com/ (http://www.iceows.com/))

Mac-users:
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**If you are using Safari, to download a .RAR file you will have to hold down
**the control button (the one on the end, not the apple button) and then click
**the link and a menu will pop up. Select Download Linked File.
**Another option is to download and use Camino (http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/)
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Stuffit ($ Mac & PC: http://www.stuffit.com/ (http://www.stuffit.com/))
**Some Mac Users report corrupt packages from using Stuffit
**check for an upgrade or use UnRarX
UnRarX (free Mac: http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/ (http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/))

or some similar software, place the extracted files in your Downloads folder
(one of the following):

[/B][/U]

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

[/B][/U]

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

other possible locations are:

C:\The Sims 2\Downloads

C:\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData\Downloads

C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads

C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData\Downloads

C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims 2\Downloads

C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData\Downloads

C:\Program Files\The Sims 2\Downloads

C:\Program Files\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData\Downloads

Although NightLife adds the ability for subfolders there seems to be
various problems with custom clothing/genetic meshes and their
recolours being in sub-folders, so I have to recommend you do not
place Marvine and my things in a subfolder.

here is a visual step by step guide for the process that should help make every thing clear to you.

Figure 1. (click to enlarge)
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29685&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1154464954) (http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29685&stc=1&d=1154464973)

Figure 2. (click to enlarge)
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29686&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1154464954) (http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29686&stc=1&d=1154464973)

Figure 3. (click to enlarge)
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29687&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1154464954) (http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29687&stc=1&d=1154464973)

Figure 4. (click to enlarge)
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29688&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1154464954) (http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29688&stc=1&d=1154464973)

Figure 5. (click to enlarge)
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29689&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1154464954) (http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29689&stc=1&d=1154464973)

Figure 6. (click to enlarge)
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29690&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1154464954) (http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29690&stc=1&d=1154464973)

Figure 7. (click to enlarge)
(http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29691&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1154464954) (http://www.insimenator.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29691&stc=1&d=1154464973)

If you see a Maxis default clothing instead of a bodybuilder, then the
game is not recognising the mesh or the mesh is missing.  Please make
sure to install the meshes before asking for help, I make these meshes
and EVEN I forget to install them sometimes.  An archive of the meshes
is here (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2364), here (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2366) and here (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2367) for you to download missing meshes - most of
the meshes are in the mesh archive, but those with adult-oriented
content ARE NOT.

In some instances, the mesh is being over-ridden by a Maxis built-in mesh.

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What is a Mesh? see this excellent explanation by Jase439 in this thread
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6567 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6567)
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In layman's terms, a Sim's clothing consists of two parts: the texture (commonly
"skin" or "recolour") and a mesh.  Meshes are always required in some form or
another - some are already in the game as they were made by Maxis, these are
named "default" skins/meshes.  Those made by people not employed by Maxis are
"custom" skins/meshes.

This is not to be confused with a genetic skintone.  The same classification of
"default" and "custom" still applies here as well.

The custom clothing will show up in categories with a * on the corner of the
thumbnail preview.

To use the genetic skintones - in sections 1 of the Create-a-Sim,
create-a-student, or create-a-family (called different names in the various
versions of the game) you will see the skintone colours -- to get to Marvine's
and my skintones you need to click the * you will find there by the darkest
skintone colour visible without the *.

The genetic skintones by Marvine & myself usually require meshes; these are
generally included in my RARs with the skintones.

So if you want to use the clothing you see in my posts, you need to have the
Skin part and the Mesh part; the colour of the flesh is not important.  These
clothes will work on any colour of flesh default or custom.

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Keep in mind some language versions do not allow a true nude state to occur,
see the following note.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION USERS:
Some localised language versions of The Sims 2 do not use the true
nude state at any point in the game because of the national laws of
various states and nations (e.g., Thailand); these skins will not work
correctly on all versions of the game.  They have been tested and
shown to work on US English, UK English, and French language versions
of the game.  If you cannot get them to work on your native language
version of The Sims 2, there is NOTHING I can do to make them work
for you.

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I seem to have a problem with crashing with the bodybuilders when getting them jobs. If I start a new neighborhood, the first 4 can get jobs no problem. The 5th one crashes the game on accepting a job, via the computer or newspaper - no warning, no errors, nothing. Even if I delete one from the neighborhood, the same thing happens. It's like it permanently changes something about the neighborhood. I tested this in my hack-free game just to be sure. Now, if I change them into Maxis clothes they can get a job and then I have them plan outfit to have the bodybuilder clothing again. Since OFB, My sims who own businesses can hire them and it causes no problems, either. Do you have any idea why this happens? I did search for it and came up with nothing.

I have run the game with testing cheats to see if any errors pop up - none. I have deleted groups.cache - doesn't help.

I know that there are a great deal of problems with many people in using custom content after installing OFB.  I know that Maxis released a patch a few days ago to rectify these and many other problems and design flaws with the EP.

I know that the career is supposed to be recorded in the character file in a different section from the wardrobe and current clothing; the only thing I can guess is that something in the careers has changed significantly from the base installation and subsequent EPs prior to OFB.  If this is indeed the case, then Maxis has definitely moved in a direction against custom content.

The Unique Identifier number for the custom body meshes and clothing should not in any way compromise game play - as shown by the prior EPs and the fact that 4 bodybuilder outfits will work but the 5th one crashes - so all I can assume with my current knowledge is it is a bug of the EP.  That speaks to a bug rather than a matter of the meshes/skins.

I grant my exploration of the EP is not complete, but like many content creators I am increasingly frustrated by these bugs and subsequent patches that don't completely solve problems diagnosed in beta testing before release.

I will try to replicate your problem on my install, but if I can't I will have to come back without a fix :(

I will get back to you on this as soon as I get an idea of how to fix it.  In the meantime, try the patch at the Maxis official site and see if this corrects your issue; if it does, please let me know.

Sorry for your problem, and I hope we can get it resolved for you.

I have to take back what I said about them being able to be hired by other sims. They can be, but it crashes if you try to change the wage. If a bodybuilder hires another bodybuilder, it crashes immediately upon hire. I just found this out within the last hour.

I actually had this problem before OFB...before NL, too...perhaps even before I installed Uni, though I honestly can't remember. I have had two different PC configurations, as well, and the problem occurred with both. I can't quite figure it out, and I am confused as to why I am the only one who seems to have this problem. I have been trying to figure this out for months!

Is there any other information I can give that will help? It creates a mini dump file every time it crashes, but I have no idea how to decipher the information. If that or the error log will help, I will send or attach them. I have them for my hacked game and non-hacked game.

Thanks for responding so quickly! I came to edit my post and you had already replied :tongue5:

I am going to back everything up and start with no EPs and go from there...will let you know what happens

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What do you know - one of my Uni disks is corrupt. I installed the base game only and had no problems. Then I thought, I knew that it was happening before NL so I decided to install it first. No problems. Then after I had 10 bodybuilders with jobs, I installed OFB. Again, no problems. Looks like I need to replace my Uni expansion. Thanks for mentioning that the EP might be the issue, while it wasn't OFB it was an EP and I would not have considered that unless you had said something. At any rate, thanks for your help, and please feel free to delete these posts since this was a unique problem not associated with the downloads. You rock! :D

Nec: did you carry over any hardware from the other configuration?  In particular, one of these three items: video card, RAM, or CPU?

Also try the game with only the bodybuilder items, it is possible that some other object or recolour, or even the Maxis downloads: The Urbz and Alienware desktop computer may be causing mischief.  I know I could not use either of those items without woe even before Marvine & I began work on the bodybuilder meshes.

You haven't mentioned using a Mac, so I assume you are on a PC or some sort.

After reading your last post, it is begining to sound more like you are describing a computational error either on the part of a bad RAM chip (system memory most likely) or the CPU.  I have had many that were not perfect, and I have begun to think they do almost not quality control testing in manufacturing these days.

Regardless, I would recommend running a free stand-alone memory diagnostic: memtest86+ available here: http://www.memtest.org/ (http://www.memtest.org/).  Documentation and instructions are available on that site.  This will eliminate a bad RAM DIMM / RIMM as the source of the woe.

PCMagazine has a free CPU Stability Test programme available here: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7146,00.asp. (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7146,00.asp)  I also recommend running this to eliminate the CPU as the source of your problems.

TestVideoRAM is a free utility to check the video RAM of nVidia cards, ger it here: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_memory.html (http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_memory.html) in the RAM section.

VAR Memory Benchmark is a simple memory benchmark program designed to benchmark AGP and video memory write speeds. This program requires the NVIDIA GL_NV_vertex_array_range extension, which it uses to allocate AGP and video memory. It will only work with video cards that include this extension. Right now, that means it will only work with GeForce series video cards. Get it here: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_memory.html (http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_memory.html) in the VIDEO section.

Video Card Stability Test heavily loads your GPU, making it possible to recognize any stability problems. The program also includes a simple 3D benchmark and a 3D screensaver. Video Card Stability Test supports Pixel and Vertex Shaders. Get it here: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_memory.html (http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_memory.html) in the VIDEO section.

I don't know of any testing software specifically for the ATI cards and others.

These tests will elimate the hardware as a potential source of the problem, not necessarily fix anything, but make for a narrower search.

Eh, I was wrong, it just crashed again...but that is ok. I got a new Uni EP and the same thing happens, but not with just the other two EPs. Thanks for the links, they will be very helpful. I just got a new processor - I had problems with my old one and AMD RMA'd it for me - it is in good shape. I just rebuilt my entire system, actually. New motherboard, new hard drive, and new memory. It is all set up correctly, and runs everything else really well. I am using the same video card, Nvidia fx5500 256MB, and I have 1.25gigs of RAM. I made sure all attached devices were compatible with the motherboard, have the latest drivers (Nvidia just realeased new ones on the 17th), BIOS is set up correctly...I am not overclocking anything, either. So I have no clue. I will try to figure it out, and I will let you know if I do. In the meantime, I will just change their clothes when they apply for jobs. Thanks again for your help!

I seem to have a problem with crashing with the bodybuilders when getting them jobs.
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Me too. I use Simpe to get some fix 4 this bug, (preOFB issue)

Ailias, I am sorry to hear of this; could you explain how you used SimPE to do this?  Did you assign them jobs with SimPE?

The mesh you most likely need is in this thread: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=3503 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=3503)

OK I Seem to be having a little problem i put the new improved suits and mesh in the downloads folder, But they look the same the improved neck is not showing.

I am sorry if anyone thinks this is dumb to type up but the truth is I've spent a large portion of time reading threads hoping to find an answer and I'm still lost. Please help...

I'd like to download a Body Builder sim skin and new clothing but I do not want any that are anitomically correct. Could someone please point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

Then you want to use the skintones here:

http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2277 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2277) (Adult Males only)

OR

http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2320 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2320) (Teen, Young Adult, Adult, Elder Males)

Neither of these have the weenie bits

As far as clothing, steer clear of the Adult's section of the forums and you will be okay.


Check to make sure that you do not have two copies of the mesh in your downloads folder (one with .package.package for instance -- or -- one in a subfolder)

Hi Beosboxboy i took everything out my downloads folder and just put in the new improved bodybuider suits, I went to the CAS Screen but still no improvment to the neck.

Here is the suit mesh only from my hard drive - this has the improved neck - please try it and let me know if this corrects the problem

could you explain how you used SimPE to do this? Did you assign them jobs with SimPE?
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Yes! It works - only Maxis job can be assigned unfortunately.
 iwonder if create nonmuscle man - then assign job after settle him down - then put muscles on him - its a solution or not? :D

Hi again Beosboxboy i used the mesh from your hard drive and the new neck size is showing... But its black with bits of which ever colour suit used. eg red with the red suit grey with the grey suit.
I take it that this problem is just with my computer as nobody else seems to be reporting any problems.
Must admit this is a strange one. All my other Bodybuilder downloads are working great.  What do you think it could be?

Hello again Beosboxboy Not sure if im doing this right. But hopfully here are three snap shots i took of the probem with the new neck on the suit.

OK - that is one of the older suits, it must bee the ones from the TEEN category, no?  I will remake them and ask that you delete those.  Getting on it right away

EDIT: posted corrections in both regular and TEEN-ELDER areas; delete the existing bad clothing from CAS and redownload the files; this should correct the issue.

Many thanks Beosboxboy. I will now delete the old suits and redownload the new ones.

 I have found so far, that the easiest way to get them jobs is to change them into normal size clothing before telling them to look for a job. This way your bodybuilder Uni students can get jobs, too. You should also be able to have them get a custom career as well. I have not checked that because I don't use custom careers.

Also, if you have one of your business owner sims hire one, you have to assign them a normal size uniform to change their wage. But then you can just assign them back into bodybuilder clothing. It is weird seeing them look like normal sims, but it works.

beosboxboy, can you tell me which of the bodybuilder meshes are the ones that i need to use the goth adult ones?
(i posted on that page, but you seem to be a fixture here :) so i thought i would ask...see, i get the only head shows up problem with them, and i dont have any of the bodybuilder meshes, theres so many to choose from, im bewildered *crosseyed* but i realy just want to get the one that the goth adult skins are linked to, not the rest....i strange, i dont like my guys huge and muscled, i prefer them with a little bit, sorta toned but not buffed lol, so my sims are the same, and i only want the one mesh i need to get the goth adult working....)

(sorry if i shouldnt ask you like this, but i down want to dl tones of bodyboys that might turn my ahem, skinny goth fellas into he-men hehe)

Rayea - i answered you in a PM; you are missing the meshes in the adult section of the forum.

Nec - I still have not encountered the bug you and Ailias have :(  so I am not sure what the conflict could be.

I have found so far, that the easiest way to get them jobs is to change them into normal size clothing before telling them to look for a job. This way your bodybuilder Uni students can get jobs, too. You should also be able to have them get a custom career as well. I have not checked that because I don't use custom careers.
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Thank you I thoughtabout that too :)

Yakov, it is a strange bug but exists in the cases.

thanks beosboxboy :D, aftera slightly worried start ( i have never used that type of download system befor lol) i got the files you said i was misssing...

so i take it the bodybuilders are ether a clothes that makes them bulk up or a mesh itself...hm.....they dont do any overwrighting, do they?
(imagines my geekie sims suddenly going all Hulking and freeking out lol)

will test if they are the ones i need tonight, or if i cant keep eyes open, when i have gotten some rest....

:D

Ailias, I am wondering...do you have mixed versions of the games? I know one of my versions is not the same region (i.e. English/Multilanguage), and I know that it can potentially cause crashing problems in Win2K and XP. I have not had crashing as a result of this, but that is the only other thing I can think of with this current problem.


Beosboxboy, thanks so much for taking all this time to try and figure it out. I have been trying everything, still. I really want to get to the bottom of this!

That very well could be the crucial difference between my install and yours.  All mine DVDs/CDs are US English distributions on a US English WindowsXP SP2 install.  There are numerous bugs that are language specific which I have never encountered.

that would explain why ive never had any problems with any of the bodybuilder/superhero/athlete/slimbb meshes and i have every single one of them in the game lol from the date each one is created lol
before OFB ive been able to get them jobs and have them live normal lives just fine...after OFB ive only had them running or working in home businesses and i can change them into uniforms and change their wages just fine...

Rayea:  The Bodybuilder skintones are linked to the big muscles mesh, so if you choose this skintone ate creation of the Sim in CAS it will be that way; if you have kids, the game genetics come into play - basically a 50% chance the body type will carry forward in the kids 25% in grandchildren, etc.

There are non-buff versions available in the Adults Only section here at InSim and a generic all-ages version that will use the Maxis default meshes.

I have the mermaid and mer-toddlers but i can't get the merman to work. What should I do?

Could you give me more information?  What EPs you have? did you place the files in the Downloads folder or a subfolder?  etc

  I have Nightlife uni and ofb. I put them in the downloads folder (not subfolder)

hrm - do you by chance have the Christmas content pack installed?

It sounds like you have a mesh conflict at this point.

I have some christmad items chould i delete them?

Not necessarily - try checking your downloads folder with Sims2Pack Clean Installer - look for empty packages and duplicates first.

In many instances, if you have more than 8000 downloads the game starts to get buggy, there is no clear indication which thing may be causing the conflict, if could be a refrigerator recolour for instance or another object or skin mesh.

As more people make new things this is increasingly a risk.  Maxis has not devised a fool-proof method of avoiding conflicts.  I have even had hurt and woe come on me from Maxis official add-ins (especially the Christmas items, the Alienware computer, and the Urbz game).

It may take some time to find what is causing the conflict; and the solutions are very limited.  One is delete the offending item, the other is more technical and involves doing some mumbo-jumbo with SimPE.

I would prefer to limit the search to the offending item for the moment, as it would be beneficial to know what is causing the conflict so future downloaders will know what they have to choose between.

I removed all of the empty packages (there were a lot). I have not used clean installer before is there a good sight that will explain all about it? There were a lot of this highlighted red i left them alone because I was not sure what to do with them. The merman tails are still not showing up.

Here is the manual of S2PCI: http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/index.php?page=4 (http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/index.php?page=4)

The red things are hacks, I haven't heard of a hack conflicting with the meshes before, but it's possible I guess.

Ok so i looked through all of my downloads but i can;t find the problem. What else should i try. If it is anything in my downloads i don't know what to look for. i wonder why the mermaid and toddlers work but not the man

Ahaggard,

If you feel patient and motivated enough, there's a way to find if the issue is a conflicting file (which is likely), and then which one it could be.

First, move all your downloads (except the merman files) in a new folder on your desktop, then launch the game: if the merman shows up, then it's certain that it conflicts with another file.
So now you have to find out which it is, and this is the long and boring part.
Put back half of the files into your downloads folder, launch the game - if the merman shows up, the conflicting file is somewhere among those you left out, if not you just put in back in your downloads.
In the first case, add back one half of the files you removed, in the other case remove one half of those you put back in, lauch the game again - and proceed like this until you narrow your research to the faulty file.
I'm afraid there's no more convenient way, and I'd understand if you weren't too eager to try this...

I will try it it. I want to get rid of the faulty file anyway because that is not the only problem i have had.

Well i tried it and the file does not show up even when it the only one in the downloads folder

Ahaggard, if you moved you other downloads on your desktop (or anywhere outside the "The Sims 2" folder) and still had the mesh with at least one recolour for it in you downloads folder, then I'm wondering if your files aren't corrupted.
Did you try deleting all the merman stuff and redownloading it?
Make sure that it's not also in your saved sims folder, the game doesn't like it when the same items are in both folders.

Marvine, I tried redownloading the mesh and a recolour. It still is not showing up. Those are the only files in my downloads. What else do you think it could be?

Ahaggard: if you have nothing in your Downloads folder but MESH_ju-beos_merman.package and one recolour, then it should show up in the game as a fullbody clothing for all categories.  If not, then there is something seriously out of whack with your install.

That is not the name of the file that i downloaded where can i get that file?
MESH_ju-beos_merman-regular this is the name of the file i have

Download the RAR from the first post in this thread: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2793 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2793)

ok - by the numbers - delete the contents of your thumbnails folder :

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails

delete this file Groups.cache

from:

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2

move the entire contents of your SavedSims folder to a new location outside MyDocuments

restart the game - create a new family - look for the merman as a fullbody in the clothing categories of Adult.

ok i did that. It did not show up  this is the name of the file i have      MESH_ju-beos_merman-regular

If you have MESH_ju-beos_merman-regular.package

then you need one or more of the following:

ju-beos_merman-regular1.package
ju-beos_merman-regular2.package
ju-beos_merman-regular3.package
ju-beos_merman-regular-blue.package
ju-beos_merman-regular-grey.package
ju-beos_merman-regular-purplegrey.package

or nothing will show up

Beosboxboy, These are the files i have in my downloads folder
MESH_ju-beos_merman-regular
ju-beos_regular-merman_recolours2
ju-beos_regular-merman_recolours1

um

those are the names of the RAR files... *tries to control urge to scream*

Are those what i need to have?

dude - please read the first post in this thread and read the section on RAR files and what you are supposed to do with them

sorry

Where do i find/get this bodybuilder mesh?
all i ifnd here is clothes and on the MTS2 site i dont find him there eather.
please help

I believe the answer is here - you can't see the forest for the trees honey - they're in almost every post of this section

I can't download the Beosboxboy bodybuilder mesh, another that Marvin's mesh. Please help me because I love this skin and I want use it for Vin Diesel. Tanks!

Anakinswg: could you give me a little more information?  Like, what web browser are you using?  Are you on a Windows XP guest account that has downloading disabled?  Do you understand that you can only download (on average) 2 items at a time?  I really do not understand why you can't download them - 100s of people have without a problem, so there has to be an issue on your end that you need to give me some more information so I can help you.

When I clik on the link for download your version of bodybuilder mesh, a message tell: "anakinswg, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account from accessing this area.

I don't understand all of this message (I french and my english is not devellopped lol). So can you explain this message with simple language. Tanks !

ok - vous devez expédier un message privé à kathy et demander l'admission à la section «adulte» du forum

pour expédier un message privé à kathy, cliquez ici (http://www.insimenator.net/private.php?do=newpm&u=1)

Thank you very much and good continuation lol !

I continue to have a problem with some of my bodybuilders.  When they get into the hot tub and change into their swim gear, the only thing that appears is their head....just a handsome hunks head, no body.

What is causing this and what can I do about it.  Thanks!

they are most likely stripping naked (very out-going Sims do this) and you are missing the nude meshes associated with the skintones.

if you can tell me which skintone the sims are using I can tell you how to locate the meshes

Just wondering if anyone else has had this happen, and suggestions as to how to fix it.

When I make up a "normal" size male sim, no matter what or whose skintone I give him, the minute he hits the shower or hot tub, the top half changes to the Bodybuilder shape, while the bottom stays at normal size? I have tried taking out all my hacks, all my saved sims etc, I don't have default BB skins, (I'm not aware if there even are defaults in that size. ) This can happen to the ingame premade sims also, not just ones I either "make up" or custom ones I have d'led. Any suggestions as to how this could be happening, its geting very frustrating.
 Thanks

Nop..

B1GB01: you need the mesh from here: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2159 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2159)

B1GB01: Check your PMs

Jaykay

All you can do is use one of the "shower-proof" skintones made ny Wirelessguy, Kavar, or myself.  These will be the ONLY ones AFAIK that "stay crisp in milk".

Make sure to get the Meshes, make sure to read the first posts, make sure they are for the bodybuilder

Quo vide: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2277 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2277)

And

http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2320 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2320)

hey I'm new to this site and am really bad when it comes to computers. I'm having a problem with the mermaid tails...I downloaded the mesh from Marvine's thread and extracted the files with WinRAR into my sims 2 download folder, but for some reason, the tails won't even show up in my game. I'm a little lost :(

ok - do you have Nightlife or Open for Business installed?  Are you on a
Mac or a PC, and do you have the mesh?  look for these files in your
downloads folder:

   MESH_ju-beos-elder-mermaid.package
MESH_ju-beos_merfolk_child.package
MESH_ju-beos_merman.package
MESH_ju-beos_merman-regular.package
MESH_ju-beos_teenmerboy.package
MESH_ju-beos_teenmermaid.package
MESH_ju_merfolk_toddler.package
MESH_ju-mermaid.package

If these files are not there - re-download the meshes.

It should also be noted these are ALL full-body meshes.

I have nightlive, university, and ofb installed (on my PC)  and i have the mermaid, merman,  and both the mermaid girl and boy teen packages installed.

ok - make sure that the recolours and the mesh are in the downloads folder, not in a subfolder

they're all extracted into the regular downloads folder...not any subfolders

ok - the all important question - do you have custom content enabled?

yup I've had custom stuff on sims before (skins, hair, eyes, etc...) but before I asked you for help I tried to see if moving all the other meshes to a different folder (like Marvine suggested to another person) and see if one of those was causing the problem, but unfortunately, it wasn't.

We are eliminating the usual areas where it goes wrong.  Are the recolours and the meshes in the same folder? and I ask you to make certain you didn't extract them to another user folder (several people sharing the same Windows XP system with different log-ins)

hrm - try increasing your in-game display preferences to high?  this shouldn't be the problem, but I have had this fix the problem before.

I just wanted to know how to download bodybuilder skins because i am not to familiar with how i would get the bodybuilder skins for my male sims. thanks for the help.:forwardr:

dude there is a help section

everything is in the same folder....there is only one user on this computer so that part was easy :) And I made sure my display preferences were high but still nothing.

i have all the merpeople meshes and recolors  they all show fine but for the female mermaids (adult) although in body shop and in game CAS  i have a picture of  the default outfit (red top and white  bottoms) but when i click on the picture i have the mermaid skins - the mermen work fine showing the right pictures to match the outfit just the females.

rednotdead: that is a thumbnail.package issue, easy to correct.

delete CASThumbnails.package from your thumbnails folder:

C:\...\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails

thank you - i was so glad to find out it was a simple fix and not a major problem as i love the merpeople and just couldnt understand why only the females had a problem showing the thumbnails - but hey thats women for you (and yes i am female myself :tongue5: )

hey i figured out my mermaid problem on my own but thanks anyway :) I'm so excited to have them

i've tried to download the file, but i cant install it in my game...file is saved under the ea games/downloads folder, but when i try to install it, i get a window stating "please double click a custom content pkg file to install program".  what am i doing wrong?? please help

Okay-

I am totally confused by what you just wrote.

The files are on the site in RAR compression Archives that require a RAR archive decompressor like WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. to extract the archive.

Once you extract the archive, you have .package files which you move into the Downloads folder by drag&drop or cut&paste, you do not double click them.

Only Sims2Pack and the very very very rare Sims2Skin files use the game custom content package installer.  The Sims2Skin file I have only ever seen once and that was in a pre-release version of BodyShop that made files that the game cannot use reliably if at all. Only a very few of my Sims are available as whole items in Sims2Pack format.

it really should be as easy as downloading the parts needed, extracting the files, and moving them into the downloads folder.

If you have not seen this help thread, I recommend you read the first post in the thread: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6326 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6326) and also this thread for a description of what a mesh is: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6567 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=6567)

Kindest regards

Yakov/beosboxboy

I must be doing something wrong because I have tried many different ways for a very long time. I have downloaded the superhero mesh and the clothing. And the thing is the clothing has the superhero status but I the mesh is either not there or the mesh that is there the basic maxis mesh. Can anybody help please.

I saw these heels and couldn't wait to try them out in my game, especially when I saw all the fun-fetishy applications for them in other creator's outfits.  But my Winrar won't decompress the file.  I've uninstalled and reinstalled Winrar thinking that it might be a problem with my software but I can unrar things from other websites, just not 90% of the files on this website, including these yummy heels.  What tool did you use to compress the file?  Maybe I just need to use the same tool.

I fixed it. I don't know how but it works now. Thanks for your support

I'm having the same problem!
Can you please explain how you did it, or can somebody explain to me how do to it, please!!... :pale:

In the BB thread, all I can find are clothes, but no base mesh.  Where can I get your base meshes?

~sbm

Silverbluemoon, what do you call "base meshes"? All the sims body meshes are clothing meshes, except the nude meshes used for the showerproof skintones that you'll find on our "custom genetics" section and on Wirelessguy's section.

My apologies if this has been asked before. (I did search the forum but found nothing that addresses my problem.)  Is there any way to make the bodybuilder mesh "waterproof"?  I love the appearance, but when my Simmies go to take a shower, they shrink down to regular size. :(



(ETA- LOL the board says I am a "moo-bunny"! *greatly amused*)

Aimlesscoyote, you'll find Beosboxboy's "barbie" showerproof skintones HERE (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2277), and a wide choice on Wirelessguy's section (http://www.insimenator.net/forumdisplay.php?f=69); there also are anatomically correct versions, both by Beosboxboy and Wirelessguy, on the adult section.

Oh, excellent! Thanks much :3

well i've downloaded the mermaids files things but ;_; they still don't work for me do i need sims nightlife or something?

Whenever I enter the game, and enter CAS, all the Slimmer BB clothes are regular 'green top and pants-this download doesn't work' outfit with the *asterisk*. I do not know why, what do I need to download to get this to work? Do I download only MESH_Ju_Beos_slimmer_nudebottom.rar and
 MESH_Ju_Beos_slimmer_nudetop.rar from the archive or what do I download to make these work?

EDIT: I am trying to download the Louis@Simcribbling slimmer BB, and some clothes, do I need to download the other stuff?

Dub-Edit: When I click the skintone in CAS, it is only a regular shaped skintone, not shaped like the bodybuilder.

First of all, this is in the wrong section so I'm moving it. Second, before you download any custom clothes for a certain bodyshape you have to be sure you have the correct mesh, there is usually a link to the mesh in the post.

Okay thanks

i recently downloaded the mermaids stuff and it isn't showing up in my game. i have Uni, NL, and OFB. So if you could help me figure this out.

did you follow the instructions listed in the first post of this thread?

yeah i did.

ok - since my psychic powers have been on the fritz from solar wind, maybe you might want to tell me what operating system, what folders, what updates, and stuff like that

in the mean time - did you enable custom content?

have you checked to make sure all the mermaid files are in the Downloads folder - not a folder inside the downloads folder?

are you abso-smurfly certain you extracted the files and downloaded the necessary meshes?

do you have file extensions hidden?  do you have SimPE or Sims2Pack Clean Installer installed?

If I say do a folder scan, would you know what that means?

check your Downloads folder for:

MESH_ju_merfolk_toddler.package
MESH_ju-beos_merfolk_child.package
MESH_ju-beos_merman.package
MESH_ju-beos_merman-regular.package
MESH_ju-beos_teenmerboy.package
MESH_ju-beos_teenmermaid.package
MESH_ju-beos-elder-mermaid.package
MESH_ju-mermaid.package

Also you need at least one of each recolour, the names of the skin files are:

ju-beos_blue_mermaid.package
ju-beos_gold_mermaid.package
ju-beos_green_mermaid.package
ju-beos_merfolk_toddler_goldfish.package
ju-beos_merfolk_toddler_greengold.package
ju-beos_merfolk_toddler_greyblue.package
ju-beos_merfolk_toddler_pink.package
ju-beos_merfolk_toddler_red.package
ju-beos_mergranny_ pink.package
ju-beos_mergranny_blue.package
ju-beos_mergranny_iron.package
ju-beos_mergranny_silver.package
ju-beos_merman.package
ju-beos_merman_variation01.package
ju-beos_merman_variation02.package
ju-beos_merman_variation03.package
ju-beos_merman-regular-grey.package
ju-beos_parme_mermaid.package
ju-beos_red_mermaid.package
ju-beos_silver_mermaid.package
ju-beos_teenbmerboy_grey2.package
ju-beos_teenmerboy_bluegreen.package
ju-beos_teenmerboy_grey.package
ju-beos_teenmerboy1.package
ju-beos_teenmerboy2.package
ju-beos_teenmerboy3.package
ju-teenmermaid_blue.package
ju-teenmermaid_green.package
ju-teenmermaid_pink.package
ju-teenmermaid_purple.package

um ... extract them from the RARs as explained in the first post of this thread?

ok - what file names do you have showing up?

ok - those are the RAR files - you did not follow the instructions about extracting the contents of RAR files covered in the first post of this thread.

You should not just move the RAR files into the Downloads folder.

Please re-read the section about RAR files the software needed to extract the files

Hi Marvine,
  I have had no problem getting your BBLooseTeeshirts to show up in my game.  

I also used your link and successfully downloaded Black Sabbath's Godsmack shirt http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=11248.

With other creators who used your mesh, only the pictures of default shirts will show up in my game, but not the picture of their BodyBuilder shirts when a Sim goes to buy one.
 
Kavar's shirts:  
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=8230

2DaHardWay: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=15514  and  
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=15514

 Once I click on it, I can see what it is, but its a lot of shirts to have to click on for that.

 I removed the files completely from the game, re-downloaded the shirts and the mesh, put them back in the DL folder.  I use Firefox but even switched to Internet Explorer for downloading to see if that made a difference.

So why is it that your shirts and Black Sabbath's shirts work fine, but not Kavar's or 2DaHardWay?  Any ideas?

vita4all - i just re-downloaded all the the items you list and checked them against the mesh and the ones you list as working.  What I found was that they are all alike in the area that links the item to the mesh, so in theory they should all work with the mesh.

What you may need to do is delete the thumbnails for CAS and bodyshop - this is safe to do, the game will regenerate the necessary files - and try again.  

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails\CASThumbnails.package delete
My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\cigen.package delete

Also delete the Groups.cache

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Groups.cache delete

The files were made with WinRAR, it is possible that because of wide-spread Internet problems over the last few weeks that there were transmission errors - try downloading the files again?

How do i get them to shoe up in my game ? I have the mesh for all and can't find them.I just searched my content manager and downloads folder and body mechanic.Is thier a add on like ffstuff am i missing something? Thank you.I also have all expansions.Soo sorry if this is in the wrong place umm forum. I love all your work and am excited to add merfolk to my game.

dreamcatchermwh - no EPs are required, these should work with even just the basic The Sims 2 and nothing else.

Take a moment to read the posts in this tread and check to make sure you have followed all the advice, if you still have no success - post again here and I will try to troubleshoot your game.

I have read all the post .Then i went to my downloads folder nothing, i just finished running simpe and nothing,its spooky...it's as if i never downloaded any merfolf meshes or recolors.I also had my computer search .One question what key word should i use ? I used mermaid,merfolk,and then added mermaid meshes and still came up empty.Do you think you could help? Would really appreciate it ,and thank you so much.

try redownloading them to a new folder in your home/my documents folder

then extract them, checking to make sure they are extracted - then manually cut and paste them into the downloads folder.  that is my best advice.  that they are missing altogether may be a result of installing FFS

purplekat - you are aware that the RAR files work for thousands of people right? so don't panic.

Just read the first post in this thread - if you are on a mac, pay especial attention to the instructions for downloading using Safari.

If you are using Firefox or some other browser than Internet Explorer on a PC, save the linked file or target.

they arent showing up in my games tho , so i redownloaded the mesh and still no show

I have Sims2 base game, Nightlife and Business.  Perhaps the BB mesh is not EP ready???  I have no idea.  The mesh shows up in my game.  Did you download all three colors?  I'd like to know if it's just one or all.  Try again and let me know.

ALSO NOTE:  This is the Body Builder mesh, not the Athletic girl.

no - the files are all No EP Needed.  Daniele is either missing a mesh - or did not install the files properly.  Human error happens.  Make sure you downloaded all the necessary meshes and have them installed properly.

Hello,
I am totally freshman in this matter. I have read everything, what you told to read and I did what you said to do - I put meshes of slim bodybuilders straight to download, with no folders - and it doesnt work! There are icins in box of skins. but they dont change shape of body. So I have only clothes, which looks like bodybuilder, but when my sim gets naked, starts look normal.
I took all meshes from archives, And girls dont look athletic too.
So - maybe it should be like that, I dont know. Tell me.
Beside of this, you, people, are doing great work! What kind of programs you use, to make those bodies or clothes? I tried do hairs by photoshop, but ist so hard and effects are terrible. And I am so gratefull!

So, please help me.
And one more question - after I put a lots of mods and stuffs from different sites, I have to change group cashe almost every second run Sims2 (please, forgive me my english, I only hope, you understand what I am saing!), It is normal? You have this same problem?

Hello everyone,

First of all thanks for the wonderful content!
I have a problem with the slim BB skin: when my sim gets naked the upper body is the slim one from maxis default mesh, not the slimBB. I downloaded and reinstalled every package but with no luck.

Expansions: UN, NL.
Game autopatched to the last patch.

Note: I have the custom content in folders under \\Ea Games\The Sims2\Downloads.
I wouldnt like to move all meshes and clothes in the main download folder, but I can move the single one(s) that is supposed to show the upper body of the sim when naked.

I could provide an attachment picture but the problem is pretty obvious even without.

Second question, which is not related to a bug here, I would appreciate anyone that can point me on how to show erected cocks conditionally (i.e. not everytime when naked). At the moment I'm NOT able to implement it, but limp nudes works perfectly.

Howdy!
I'm dl-ing the bodybuilders again as I reinstalled my sims and am already sick of the wimpy maxis males.
Was happy to find the teen bodybuilder meshes as well - but I'm confused -
Do I need to dl all the desired teen/elder skins AS WELL AS the other original adult skins?  Or can I just get the teen/elder and that will work?

Oh and has anyone added nipples for the females with these skins yet? Haven't seen them and just wondering if I'm missin' them.


Thank you! :)

Alexa - soon they will all be bump-map enabled - but not all the base skin packages have them (not even all Maxis ones do) - it you have a list of ones you would like I will gladly make the base for you to clone.

I don't understand the blurry thing you mention - they look very much the same on my high end video card without the bump mapping - the bump-mapping only adds a little more 3D effect to the skins on my system.

you just need to download the teen/elder versions where available - they are the same files with different age groups enabled.  If you see something missing that you want for the Teen/Elder age group - give a shout in the Mac-users thread of Teen/Elders and I will add it to the work queue - it may take a week to get posted - but I will do it as quickly as I am able.

Females BB/Athletic girl don't have nipples yet - but they are coming eventually - there will be a general day of celebration on 5 continents I am sure when they become available :lol:

Beosboxboy – thanks so much for replying so quickly. I keep saying: You’re a star !:lol:


Yes, unfortunately I know that most part of Maxis ones don’t have them either… so I completely understand if you can not do them.


I’m mainly interested in the nude mesh or any other mesh – full body http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=17933 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=17933) – with no pants mesh bulging like the underwear http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=12083 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=12083), or the hero mesh http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2171 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2171) .

Basically anything that allows me to make skin tight costumes with BumpMaps. I need them because of the 3D details - otherwise they look a bit like painted costumes...like...a bead is supposed to be 3D, right?

But as I said, I understand if it is not possible...

Alexa - nothing is impossible!  I will have the bases with bumpmaps for you this weekend!

:bounce:  Love you !!!!

Realsyr,

A bug with the top for the fit state was fixed, you can redownload the skintones here (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=19759); if other skintones are concerned, could you tell me which ones exactly?

About your second question : I'm not aware that anything else than Crammyboy's hack (available on Sexy Sims 2) can allow this.

We waiting with pasion, but Hurry¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ please. congratulations.
                                                                                                     Females BB/Athletic girl don't have nipples yet - but they are coming eventually - there will be a general day of celebration on 5 continents I am sure when they become available

Alexa - if you look in the specific posts you link - you will find new files with "bump" in the name - these files contain bump-map skins and a new version of the mesh (where needed) that supports bump-mapping.

Million thanks!!!
I oficially declare that you are the nicest, helpfull, loveble mod in the web !
:grin:
 

Ok I know this has nothing to do with crashes but the bodybuilder mesh. When my sims enter a hot tub well their body turns invisible. Whats with that?

Well - this sounds like your Sims have high "Outgoing" personalities and are getting naked in the hot tub and you are missing the necessary meshes for the skintones.

Without knowing which skintones are involved I can only recommend you use the emergency mesh archive on the adult site.  If you joined after 9 September 2006 you will have to register at the site to get this file, if you joined before 9 Sept 2006, you are already a member of the adult site.  You must be 18 or older to access this file!

The emergency mesh package is here (http://www.insimadult.org/showthread.php?t=22366) (link)

This doesn't contain every possible mesh - but most of the ones that are usually missing.  If this doesn't work for you post your infos in the thread on the adult site.

Thanks for the info and I have just downloaded the file. BTW your bodybuilders finally make sim males look yummy.

installation of the sims 2 stops every time on the file tsdata\res\userdata\thumbnails\CASThumbnails.package

i tried to decompress it myself w/ winrar and the program froze until i removed the disc.

i bought my copy at target, new.  the disc is clean.

searching for the mentioned file brought up another complaint about the same file making installation freeze, but none of the troubleshooting options worked for me.

could this be downloaded somewhere?  if so, would my installation process skip it?

CASThumbnails.package is a weird file for the installation to gag on.

I recommend you disable your anti-virus programme, defrag your hard drive, and try to install without the anti-virus running.  If it continues to balk at installing that file, try contacting Maxis/EA Games technical support and see about getting a replacement Disc, they do almost no quality assurance testing at the factory so bad CDs and DVDs do occur fairly frequently.

bonjour
j'ai juste une question pour les sims de la mer esce si les parents sont des sirenes les enfants le serons aussi j'ai du mal avec l'anglais c'est pourquoi je pose cette questions car j'aimerai bien telecharger ces meshes là
merci d'avance et aussi je vous felicite vous faites un travail vraiment fabuleux

Sorry but i need help,
my Bodybuilder is invisible when he's naked.... I can only see his face, the body is transparent... Why?
Is an error of my installation?

daisybis bonjour : les enfants ne seront pas des sirènes. Je rendrai un skintone spécial disponible très bientôt qui permettra ceci.

iamat1977 : you are missing the genetic meshes that are required by the skintone, depending on which skintone you have used you can download the meshes in this section (http://www.insimenator.net/forumdisplay.php?f=319) or on the adult site. I am PMing you the URL of the adult site.

Yakov, '
The last time I fired up the game, my dark chocolate piece of man candy's body vanished everytime he was naked... Only his head and Crammyboy's goodies were visible.. This only started recently...Have you experienced this?

Did you try redownloading the meshes or have you recently installed any eps?

I got the same problem.
I've downloaded everything on this site to do with merpeople and they still don't show up in Bodyshop! what could be wrong?

Well - you will have to tell me more than "it doesn't show up"

There are lots of reasons they might not show up, the usual one is you did not extract the files from the RAR archive.

Next after that is a bug in the cataloguing mechanism of the game that I can do nothing to fix.

Next after that is a mesh conflict (usually because of the cataloguing mechanism getting screwed up).

Next after that is a true mesh conflict (some other creator's download has the same ID number in the guts of the mesh) - this is solvable, but is not easy to fix.

Next after that is because you did not follow my advice and installed Pets, Family Fun Stuff, or some other incredo-buggy EP thing.

Next after that are all the rare things that fall into the category of "I can't make it happen on my system that way" stuff.

So how about you tell me more and I will try to help you, but asking me to do a psychic assesment of you computer is a bit unfair.

For me it appears to be a problem with the mesh, becuase  I downloaded the 'pixie demonic' genetic by Enayla, the skins and eyes work but the horns don't.
It might be the same problem with the merpeople.
The onlything is I  downloaded the meshes several  times so they're there for definate.

Aceman - have you read this thread to check if there was a solution that worked?  What EPs do you have installed?  Are you on a Mac or a PC?  Did you place the meshes in a folder?  The first post of this thread says don't do that.  Have you tried placing them in Savedsims? this works for some people when all else fails?  Have you tried deleting your thumbnails and the groups.cache file from the player game folders in you My Documents or Home folder?

Scarlo-hara - In addition to the things I mention for Aceman above, have you done a scan with Sims2Pack Clean Installer (http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/) to make sure you do not have duplicate versions of the meshes? Having more than one copy of a mesh or file is just begging for trouble.  And have you made certain that you installed the files as described in the first post of this thread?

If you have Pets EP installed, there is probably nothing I can do for either of you.  I just spent the last 2 months preach a Gospel of Hatred for that benighted EP and working on fixes for it, and I am clear out of energy and interest to make anything work in it.  After fighting with Holiday Fun Stuff (2005), Family Fun Stuff, and Glamour Life Fun Stuff the past year -Pets was just the last straw.

don't worry, Iv'e just found out what I've been doing wrong thw whole time!
Now i've worked it out it seems such a silly mistake to make!

I've just noticed that all my bodybuilders have the same problem with the neck.  Doesnt matter what skin I use, they could be clothed or not, nor does it matter what hairstyle I have them use.. I thought it was either clothes, hair or the skin, but nothing changed.  Here are some pictures of the Neck issues Im having with my BBs..

(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8716/bbneckyv4.jpg)
(http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/4101/bbneck1os7.jpg)


Please help, I love my BB guys but they ALL have this same neck issue. lol

I have uni. nl. ofb

Thank you.

Note: If I change them into clothing that doesnt have the BB mesh, like regular maxis clothing, the neck issue goes away.. So this led me to believe it was a clothing issue.. so I had my BB guy go naked.. neck issue still there...

Hi I really like your slim body builders set, the mesh and skins and everything, and ive been trying to download them for ages but I cant. When I download one of the .rar on the site it shows up as a picture php document on my computer, and keeps trying to open it in a picture program, even the mesh downloads. Could you please shed some light on how I can fix this? I have downloaded and unzipped rar files in the past, but im stuck on this one. Sorry this is probably just my fault, but yeah. Thanks for your time. :smt120

Cinamun - it happens on certain skintones -the neck and face are handles by two different textures and they do not always agree for colour or detail.  I have tried to correct for this on the skintones I have made available - but it doesn't always work out no matter what I try.

There will be a general overhaul of the bodybuilder meshes someday and this will be one of the many details that will be corrected as best as can be corrected.

Aceman: - you will need to run BodyShop at least once for this folder to appear.

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


Windows 98, 98 SE, & Millennium Edition:
C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SavedSims


Macintoshes:
Home/EA Games/The Sims 2/SavedSims

Thank you very much for getting back to me on that.  I'll be sure to look for any updated meshes, for now, this is nothing major as the meshes look so good even with the neck issue LOL nothing a turtleneck wont cure! ;)

I have BB/SBB/Athl.m/f. The last one ive put in game was BB it worked for quite a while than suddenly now and again after playing for sometime the skin become stained/spotted looks very dirty i make my sim take a shower he turns around and is normal again also his ladysim becomes spotted once in a while and she is a maxis body  also turns normal after showering or changing cloth so first i ignored it go on playing but last night my game crashed.
I have UV/NL/OFB/GLS and 10.465.00 downloads very organised in folders no subfolders check allways with CleanInstaller
Well i hope you understand this since English is not my first language
Thanks in advance

I have installed each and every mesh - downloaded them all at once (yes, took forever) and installed them ALL...but for some reason, Maxis still doesn't see some of them. Have pages and pages full of the maxis default-image where there should be Bodybuilder outfits. The game constantly loses the meshes and I have to reinstall over and over...

gypsie - - i am sorry to hear about your difficult time with the bodybuilder meshes.  Do you have any of the Stuff Packs installed?  (Family Fun Stuff in particular shipped to market with a serious bug that caused this sort of problem, and I had the absolute devil of a time with the 2005 Holiday stuff)  Also you do not mention if you have installed any of the patches -- I know the patches fixed some of these problems.

When you say it is not detecting the meshes in your downloads folder, have you tried to make sure they are all in the Downloads folder and not a subfolder?  Or have you tried placing them in the SavedSims folder?

For many people with problems like this, only the SavedSims folder seems to fix the problem.

Excuse me, Yakov, but I've noticed that the ringless nippled BB top mesh (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2189) doesn't show up for young adults. :( The other meshes will show up for YA's, but just not that one. (At least not in my game) Think you could fix that real quick? :)

hey Triple_sSs - I just checked the package and it is showing age: 0x00000048 which is the right setting for both adult and young adult.  I am not sure why it isn't showing up as young adult for you.

I am firing up BodyShop and will make a new clone of the package for just Young Adult Males and post it here momentarily.  I know that sometimes the game seems to have problems with mixed age items depending on what EPs and Patches are installed.  The content packs have done various evils to me in this regard - so much so that my advice is to not install them if you use much custom content.

Edit: added attachments of each individual age category, this way you can best see if there is a problem with the over-all cataloguing function in the game.  Each displayed properly on two different installs of the game on two different systems here, so I am confident they should work without issue.

Thanks, Yakov! I'll test these out and see which ones are working for me. :)
And as for the games I have, I forgot to mention, I have everything except Pets and Holiday Stuff.

Okay, I've tested the files and all the new files show up in the correct age categories, but the original file still only shows up for adult sims, weird. :scratch:

With this merman mesh; I download it; but it won't install into my game. All of the other merfolk meshes work just fine--why doesn't this one?!
I think it is a faulty mesh.

GossipGirlRdr - considering some 100s of people are using it without issue, I think you are wrong.  There are lots of reasons it may not show up in your game, the Sims 2 being buggy as the floor of a Borneo bat cave being chief among them.  There are 1000s of reports of people having trouble with custom content after installing any of the EPs or Stuff packs, why don't you check in the help section for methods to resolve this?

blackkatt - you will need to tell me what EPs and Stuff Packs you have installed, as well as if you are using a Mac or a PC.  Also you will need to tell me if you are have problems with all meshes or just a few.  Then I might start to see some solutions for you.  I ask you to double check your downloads folder and make sure you have extracted the files from the ZIPs and RARs; and if you have Nightlife, Open For Business, or Pets EP, to run the game, turn off custom content, exit the game, run the game, turn on custom content, exit the game, run the game (yes 3 runs), then turn on custom content and check to see if the custom content then shows.

ok, you told me the thing I was suspecting I might hear.  Family Fun Stuff.

before we go any further, I have to tell you up front that in many cases installing a stuff pack is the quickest way to screw up your custom content.  Many people have had no other option but to unisntall the stuff packs in order to get the CC working again.

Ok, I am taking it on faith that you have all the right meshes...

That being said, have you installed the update patch from the EA web site?  There was a bug fix for FFS that was meant to solve this problem, but doesn't work for everyone.  get it here if you have not: http://thesims2.ea.com/update/

if you have installed the patch and this remains a problem, then the only solution I know is to unistall and re-install everything repeatedly until it all works.  Like I said, lots of folks have just ditched FFS because it takes as many as 20 uninstalls and re-installs before all the bits settle into place.  Don't ask me why it is this way, I will only go off on a flame about EA and the decline of the Western world.

As a last ditch effort, locate all the files with names that start MESH_ju and move them into the SavedSims folder; this is a fix for problem meshes that helps a very limited number of people; if the stars are right and R'lyeh has risen, then you may get stuff to work that won't otherwise.

why the colthes and bodys doesn't work on my sims?????????????

why the colthes and bodys doesn't work on my sims?????????????

why the clothes and the bodys doesn't work on my sims?????

why the clothes and the bodys doesn't work on my sims?????

Ok, sorry Marvine and Beosboxboy, I am having trouble seeing the bodybuilders in my game.
I have a PC running on windows xp, I have Sims2 and NL running, nothing else.
There is a picture of all the body builder downloads that I put in my downloads folder.
I took out my Downloads folder, put a new Downloads folder in, put those files in on their own and nothing showed up at all. Not even in Bodyshop.
After readding all 9 pages of your fantastic hints, tips and general gaming help, I still couldnt find the answer to my problems. :(
If you manage to fix me hehe I will worship you forever since all of your custom content is brilliant.
Please help?

leolilly - I see that the files are using the Windows defaul icon and have the file names of RAR files...

you need to read the first post of this thread MOST carefully and use WinRAR or someother programme to extract the files from the RAR files.

I am so so so so sorry BBB, I feel so embarrassed! :(
I am eternally greatfull to you and Marvine, I have now decided to extract all my downloads and see if some other stuff shows up.
:worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship:

it's ok leolilly we all start green and new before we become master simmers, I even do it still sometimes :lol:

Okay, I figured it out.. I didn't have the updated "showerproof" Meshes... Now my dark chocolate piece of yummy-ness is back to normal :)

I'm seeing lots of skins, but no mesh. Where's the mesh for the huge bb?
Thanks and sorry to have to post something so simple.

gypsy gies - the meshes are in the RAR files for the base downloads - if you look in the links I post - you will see a link back to the thread with the mesh.  all the posts by Marvine have meshes in the RAR, in only a VERY FEW instances (one AFAIK) is the mesh available as a separate download.  since this is a new series with few recolours so far, it seems ludicrous to make the mesh a separate download, since most people will compulsively download every item attached and double the bandwidth for the mesh content.

*smile* thanks

Hello! I have a few questions regarding the skintones and body meshes I downloaded from the Athlete section after pouring over countless threads all over this site.

First of all, I have Sims 2 (base) and all expansion and stuff packs (no Christmas 2005) installed on my PC running Windows XP Pro.

I downloaded the following and unzipped directly into the Downloads folder where they should be:

athlete_nude_clothing
MESH_BME_ju_athlete_nude_clothing
MESHES_M&F_athlete_nude
SKINTONE_Ju_athletem&f_dark
SKINTONE_Ju_athletem&f_light
SKINTONE_Ju_athletem&f_medium
SKINTONE_Ju_athletem&f_tan

The skintones listed above were recent since they supposedly are showerproof and linked to the body meshes to show the correct Athlete build on my sims going into the shower or going naked.

I noticed the three different mesh files and wondered which of these three mesh files is used for linking to the showerproofed skintones listed above. Because I was cleaning out my Downloads folder of duplicate files (don't ask how I ended up with duplicate files) and noticed these three mesh files with similar names, and I could not remember which mesh file came with the skintone files I downloaded.

My adult sim, created in CAS, used an Athletic skintone, and she appeared Athletic just fine when showering.

My question regards the Athlete mesh files. Are they both enabled for all age groups? If not, where can I download the right Athlete mesh file enabled for all age groups and both genders? And appear Athletic when going into a hot tub as well?

When a child, created in CAS, uses one of these showerproof skintones, will she or he be able to retain their showerproof skintone AND Athletic body shape as they grow up into teenagers, then young Adults and so on? One of my sim's children appeared "beefy" when she was born, and I was led to believe she inherited her parent's showerproof skintone and body shape. But when she grew up into a child, she appeared normal (probably not surprised since both boys and girls retain the child shape like other Townie children with their default Maxis body shape and skintone). Then she grew up into a teenager and somehow still retained the default Maxis body shape, not the Athletic body shape. She has the same skintone as her parent. Her other parent uses the default Maxis body and skintone. So is this possible for children/teenagers/YAs to grow up retaining their Athletic body shape?

I've tried SimPE Surgery to make her appear Athletic when she showers, following a tutorial on this site to give my teenaged sim a new makeover, but she still reverts back to the normal Maxis body when she goes into the shower.

Many thanks in advance for any help you could dispense with these questions. Plus a GREAT job for the work done on the Athlete body meshes, skintones and clothing (kudos to BBB, Marvine, Kathy and so many others for their works). Plus I'm not sure where it's appropriate to post these questions, so I figured this looks like a place to get help.

hey beosboxboy,

ummm.. i dont know if other have had this problem but with the new (HUGE) bodybuilder clothes whenever my sims wear them they cant shower or take baths i get an error message. I tryed just the skintones with other clothes on and they worked fine

do you have any insight to this problem? All im running is university
Thanks
Graff...

Okay, I've got a problem, the Huge BB stuff won't even show up in my game, nor in body shop, and I'm sure I downloaded everything I need for it to work. :( Any advise? I've got everything 'cept Pets, Seasons, Holiday, and Celebration.

Graff, I can't say I understand why you have a problem with the clothing, they have been thoroughly tested in The Sims 2 with only University EP install, this is all I have on my laptop and I worked it for filth testing them.

There are some installs of the game that have problems with some custom meshes no matter how hard I work to make them work.  I have no idea what it is that causes the issue.  If you review this thread, you will see that in some instances it will crash the game when a sim tries to get a job or dresses for work.

It may be that you missed an update fix-patch, it may be your game has reached that weird "too many sims have lived and died" thing.

But I have received only a very few error notices from the 1000s of downloaders, so I have to believe the problem is in your game not with the meshes.  That doesn't help you, I know, but short of taking everything out of the downloads folder and adding back in batches of 100 or so until you can find the conflict, I can't guess what the problem might be for you.

Triple_sSs - is this on your Mac or on your PC?  It could be Family Fun Stuff ( a notorious trouble maker in these instances)

Double check your Downloads folder and make sure you have MESH_ package files and clothing package files, not RARs, also make sure nothing is in a sub-folder; if it is all as it should be - try moving things into the SavedSims folder.  If still no go - try decreasing the number of items in your Downloads folder (this is becoming a regular solution after recent bug-fix patches by EA)

Chaavik - I am more than a little confused by what you are saying here.  We have never made anything that would make a toddler or a child "beefy".

And we have done nothing at all for teen girls.  As far as I know nothing we have made to date would even serve for a child or teen girl in any way.  And I am pretty sure I know my stuff on this one.

If you deleted things from your downloads folder, I have one question: can you see the file extensions?  Because the names you list above are all the names of the RAR files which contain the .package files, and your game would not know what they were.

Also are you putting Marvine & my custom content in sub-folders? we don't support this and will only tell you to stop doing it. See first post big red statement.

 

Ok
I understand (sort of)
This is the onley problem that i have ever had with any of your meshes
Not entirly shure if this matters or not but i found the error message
It states: bad gosub tree number
I had this problem with a hack that you could change clothing by clicking on the sim

after deleting the hack the game was fine. I googled the error message and its all about hack confliction but i dont have any new hacks installed

I dont know i guess my sim will just stay dirty

If you removed the hack causing this, Graff, then surely indicates a hack of some sort is still in the mix or has added information to the sims' character files that is causing some sort of residual problem.

try deleting the groups.cache from

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\

and also check for any other hacks or mods that relate to clothing from the game.

RomanntikZomby,

au cas où tu ne l'aurais pas remarqué ce topic est un peu chargé - il est facile de louper un post. Pour que les choses soient claires, nous n'acceptons pas de requêtes à moins qu'elles ne correspondent à nos projets en cours; ce qui exclut pour le moment un nouveau "type" anorexique. Tu devrais jeter un oeil sur le travail de Melodie9 sur MTS2 : http://www.modthesims2.com/creator/melodie9 (http://www.modthesims2.com/creator/melodie9).

You know, I'm having the same problem. :( Any way it could be fixed?

it sounds like you may have an accessory or jewelry item that isn't working properly.if you downloaded a premade sim, it's probably missing something.

this mesh works perfect for me, so it has to be a conflict with something you have in your downloads folder.

Triple sSs & captnmatt91 - try this: move a few items out of the Downloads folder, say 200, but leave the huge bodybuilder mesh, then play the game one time, delete the groups.cache (and accessories.cache if you have this), then re-insert the 200 downloads into the downloads folder.  This should force the game to re-catalogue the downloads and stands a high chance of getting the game to recognise the new meshes & clothing items.  Some times it will require you repeat this process a number of times before the game will identify new content.  Sometimes it will spontaneously do it.  Don't ask me to fix EA's buggy software :lol: that is far beyond my skill.

If this fails, then it is most likely that Monshanjik is right; you have a conflicting mesh of some sort.  Locating the conflict may take a considerable amount of time.  In some instances nothing short of assigning new IDs to the mesh and re-assigning the clothing recolours will resolve this.  It is not something I prefer to do, since it then results in two versions of the mesh, one which I know of and one which is NOT known to me and will proliferate across the web.

Okay, Beos, I'll try that out. :) And as I forgot to metion before, I'm on a PC.
But geez, your "PFC" can't work like this! :rofl:

Time for the update:
Well, I tried it out and it turns out that the meshes were showing up after all, but they were clear towards the back of the clothes for some reason. :-| Ain't that dandy? lol

Still, I think I might've gotten some good out of it, there were a few things that showed up in body shop that hadn't before in a while, I believe, so thanks still! ;)

Edit: Just one last off-topic question, where'd your avatar go, Yakov? I kinda miss the "crazy bodybuilder" thing. Ya think you could at least put some sort of dinky ave up instead so you don't look um, "bare," in a sense? Just a suggestion from your PFC, hehe. :)

I search someone who speak and understand french for help me for downloading in "Insimadult.net". Thank you !:smt120

Triple sSs - hrm, that happens with some of the things I download too.  I was a bad tech support provider in not remembering to suggest you pan all the way to the end of the catalog and check. >_<



Equally off topic: ok, but just for you, how could I ever go against the advice of my "PFC"?

Carine: J'expédie un message personnel immédiatement

Ive downloaded the bb meshes and clothing to my pc following everything to the letter but there not being picked up by the game. any ideas. I'm starting to get annoyed with it!!  I have all expansions but no stuff packs.

robbo - the first place to start is to double check that you have extracted the files from the RAR files.  This is the most common error ~ make sure you have nothing by Marvine & beosboxboy in a subfolder.

Second, try this:

• start the game
• disable custom content
• exit the game
• start the game
• enable custom content
• exit the game
• start the game
• make sure custom content is enabled
• check in the game for new things

third, try deleting groups.cache and accessories.cache from

   My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\

Lastly - try placing the items by Marvine & beosboxboy into the savedSims folder.

let me start off by saying i love all of your and everybody elses works on this site, as they have really heightened the gaming experience, now to the reason behind the post, i am having a problem with the new huge bb, the shoulders when i am in the underwear are skewed(pointed up) as a YA, i have a snapshot but i am unsure how 2 post it, so if u could help it would be greatly appreciated thank you

slingerblades - there are two possible causes for this, neither may be solvable.

1) you have a video card (such as the ATI Xpress 200 or Xpress 300) that has a known limit on its 3D abilities - usually only replacing the video card will solve this (not always an option)

2) you have a forced low res setting because of some limitation the game has imposed due to limited resources or perhaps mis-identifying your video card: sometimes upgrading the driver may correct these.

If you are using a Windows Vista system, there is probably no hope but waiting to see if a new video card driver becomes available.

If you have the option, moving the display settings to a high detailed level may correct the issue.

This is a known problem with all high-resolution meshes such as the huge bodybuilder and Warlokk's hi-res female meshes with certain video cards; I have seen it on some other very complicated items by Brasstex and others as well.

I am sorry that I can't offer you more help than this, but Maxis has imposed some limits on the game which cannot be easily overcome.

ty 4 answering my question and being very fast about it 2, i will try your suggestions again thank you

thank you so much IT WORKED YAY i upped the sim and object detail 2 high and it remedied it you guys are awesome thanks

Thanks for the reply but one question where is the svaed sims folder??:scratch:

hi again robbo:

the SavedSims folder will be here on Windows:

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SavedSims

or here (or some close approximation) on MacOSX:

Home\EA Games\The Sims 2\SavedSims

Hi beosboxboy! I did everything the site recommends but it still doesn't work. I have the U.S. English Version of the sims 2 and i have installed sims 2 university, open for business, nightlife, family fun stuff. i,ve extraced the files (slimBB-soft and slimBB-erect) to C:\Documents and Settings\Acer\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads since i have windows xp. wa else should i do? i tried using the sims 2 package installer to install the extracted files but i keep on getting this "please double click on a custom content file to install content."

you have FFS, this may be your problem.  Have you installed the update for FFS from the official site? http://thesims2.ea.com/update/ (http://thesims2.ea.com/update/) (Mac-users should get the similar fix patch from Aspyr: http://www.aspyr.com/ (http://www.aspyr.com/))

Have you tried the SavedSims folder?  Try moving the problem files to the SavedSims folder, you must have ran BodyShop one time for this folder to appear.

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SavedSims

or on a Mac

~/EA Games/The Sims 2/SavedSims

package files require no especial effort to install - you just place them in the Downloads folder, they are ready to use.

I see that you mention only meshes, these require clothing or skin tones to appear in the game - they have no especial magic of their own.  Please make certain that you have items installed that use these meshes.

because you have FFS, or any Stuff Pack for that matter, it may require you completely un-install and re-install the game to get the catalogue to display the items you have downloaded.  The Stuff Packs are the very Devil on custom content of all forms.

AeliaD - that is a browser downloading error - what browser are you using and what anti-virus to you have installed?

also, if you are using some sort of browsing/downloading accelerator, you need to disable this.

Also, you may need to empty your browser cache or increase your browser's cache size.

AeliaD - hrm that is a little odd, I have no problem with WinRAR extracting files directly to the Downloads folder, maybe create a shortcut on the desktop for the Downloads folder, then open the RAR file and select files then drag them to the shortcut?

victor manuel - ¿Pides “cómo utilizas el musular”? ¿o pides “cómo obtienes un novio muscular”? :lol:

Salut !:icon_smi:
J'ai lu, un peu et en diagonale, j'avoue, les post précédents:tongue5:, mais il ne me semble pas avoir trouvé le même problème que le mien... à moins que ça ne gêne personne, c'est possible aussi...:angel:

Donc, moi, mon petit souci, c'est que mes ados mâles, et fiers d'être HBB, dès qu'ils sont nus ...ne sont qu'une tête et un service "trois-pièces" ambulant...:laughing:
Je pense avoir plus ou moins compris qu'il s'agissait de la skin HBB qui n'était pas liée à un corps d'adolescent, il m'est arrivé les mêmes phénomènes avec mes SlimBB, ou mes AthleticGirl, il me manquait toujours une mesh, mais pour le cas qui m'occupe, peut-être que je me trompe...:D
Enfin,c'est finalement très drôle, et puis de toute façon temporaire, puisque en dehors de cette période, critique visiblement, tout roule.:toothy8:

Je voulais simplement être sure que rien ne me manquait, en terme de mesh.:?:

Merci d'avoir lu mon si long post... :toothy7:

Salut Ayame48!  

Les peaux ne rétrécissant pas au lavage exigent quelques meshes. Les meshes nus sont disponible avec et sans la « plomberie ». Je suspecte que vous manquiez les mailles avec la « plomberie » et vous employez la modification par Crammyboy.

Les meshes nus sans la « plomberie » sont ici: Huge Bodybuilder: Showerproof Louis/Allen ABQ skintones (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=41155)

Les meshes nus avec la « plomberie » sont sur le site pour adultes. Je t'enverrai un message privé avec les liens.

This will sound really lame, but, is there any difference in the Slim Bodybuilder (which I have in the game) and the Slimmer Bodybuilder?  I have all the expansions and stuff packs, and haven't any problems with the meshes/skintones.  But I need Seasons outerwear and I've only seen it for the slimmer version and was wondering if it would fit the slim version.  Thanks!!

slim(mer) bodybuilder are the same thing - it's just a shorter version of the name, like SlimBB or SBB, sorry for the confusion

Thanks!!  Now my SBB won't shrink in the winter!

the problem is probably with the top mesh you are using.  An early version of the Slim Bodybuilder top mesh tended to cause this issue.  Since Body Shop now includes body and hair meshes with packaged Sims, it is now an increasing risk that this old version will be proliferated.  If you are running the PC version of The Sims™ 2, then run Sims2Pack Clean Installer (http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/) of Delphy's Download Organiser (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=227925) and check for duplicate meshes.

It should also be noted than certain low-end video cards and drivers may also be causing this issue.  Try increasing your in-game video settings to high, this may resolve the issue.  If you have a low number ATI video chipset, such as the X200 or X300 series, it will most likely require installing a more modern and more powerful video card to over-come the bug.

My sims' wardrobe is full of clothes using this mesh, but somehow another mesh overrules it, or some of it. I have attached pictures of some clothing using Marvine's Alpha mesh which now is showing as a Classic Pinup type of body.

I'm not that good at finding stuff like this out, and I have tried for some days to remove files to see if it helped (heels files or pinup files I wasn't sure of what was) but they still look like this.

Does anyone else have this problem?
At first I thought it might be some of Healene's heels, as she has made some that look like this, but I removed the files and Marvine mesh still shows up like classic pinup.
I have Warlokk's Classic Pinup bodytype too, btw.


Hope someone can help; I dread deleting all files and just start downloading all over again :smt120


Thank you so much in advance!!

*** UPDATE SEPT. 14. 2008 ***
Found the error! The file overriding Marvine's is called MESH_swimodel_alphaskirtandheels .
I removed it, and they returned to normal :)

So happy!! :)

Bonjour,
J'ai developpé un petit outil qui fait du rangement dans le répertoire "Download".
J'aurais souhaité avoir un petit espace pour poster sa présentation en français.
Ou puis-je le faire ???

Merci de vos retours
Fabrice

gundavolt - it looks like a mesh you have recently added to the game was a clone of Marvine's alpha mesh and someone forgot to fix integrity. (a SimPE step in making new meshes)  I can't guess which of the bajillion meshes it might be.

Fabrice - Marvine a lieu des vacances. Je voudrais attendre son retour, ainsi je peux discuter ceci avec elle. Elle retournera des vacances en deux semaines.

Ok Beosboxboy,
Merci de ta réponse.
Stay in touch:D

Fabrice

Chase, the directory you list is the game install directory.

You should have a "My Documents" folder - look in there for a folder named "EA Games", inside that another folder named "The Sims 2" - here you would find a "Downloads" folder for such as you want to add to the game.

If it doesn't exist, you can manually create this -- but make certain it is named Downloads (capital D)

chase & nettas: since you both have the same problem, I will give you both the same answer.

Try deleting the following files:

GROUPS.CACHE and CIGEN.PACKAGE from

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 (PC)

Home/EA Games/The Sims 2 (Mac)

And delete CASThumbnails.package from

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails (PC)

Home/EA Games/The Sims 2/Thumbnails (Mac)

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If this doesn't solve it right away repeat that a couple of times.

Also, make sure you have at least one recolour for each mesh.  Please remember the Skintones and "shower-proof" meshes do nothing other than in the shower or a true nude state.

Make sure that you don't have anything for the bodybuilders in a sub-folder, yes, I know, everyone says it's safe, but that isn't what EA tech support says.

Make sure you have custom content enabled if you have Nightlife or any later expansion pack installed, if custom content is not enable, you wil not see bodybuilders.

Make sure you have extracted the files from the RAR files and ZIP files.  If the files you have downloaded are in RARs or ZIPs these will never work, that have to be extracted with one of the programmes listed in the first post of this thread.

Make sure you have installed the latest patch from:

http://thesims2.ea.com/update/ (http://thesims2.ea.com/update/) (PC)

http://www.aspyr.com/ (http://www.aspyr.com/) (Mac)

There are a lot of different bugs that cause custom content to not display.

And finally, if you read all the posts in this thread you will see that sometimes nothing but re-installing the game over and over until everything shows up is required.

I downloaded the Bodybuilder and Mermaid, How do i change my sims to them.. I'm like Download Dumb, So Please , PM or something and please explain, Can i do it without Sim PE ?

katybug - making the switch is as easy as sending your sims to the store and buying new clothes, then when they return home, you have them use the wardrobe or chest of drawers to set up the new clothing for everyday, formal, etc.

Making an existing sim use a shower-proof skin tone, well that requires simpe or a mod of some sort.

To be honest, I find it easier to just make new sims rather than change the skin tones.

Well does anyone know what mesh is causing this issue, because I am having it as well. Have redone everything twice now. And I would REALLY hate taking the time to delete my downloads, Re-Download, and wind up downloading the same mesh that screwed everything up in the first place AGAIN!!! :cwm21:
Any advice, getting pointed in the right direction would DEARLY be appreciated. Thanks

ok this might be REALYY stupid and make me seem like an idiot but once u download and install a mesh to the downloads file how do u use it and i need a link that goes straight to the slim bb mesh cause i CANT FIND THEM!!!

OK, KS, you will want to read this imformative post: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=49423

Clothing for a bodybuilder is comprised of two parts, the "mesh" and the "recolour", you must have BOTH parts for these to work.  If these items are installed properly, then you will find them in the "catalogue" - the visual index of the items in your game you will find in Create-A-Family or by going to the wardrobe/armoire or a clothing rack at a community lot's store.

Darkwolf, I don't have any new information on this.  I would guess that if you and gundavolt made a list of your meshes and compared them, you might discover the problem mesh quicker. This however will not solve the recolours showing up on the wrong mesh, since the recolours have been assigned to the "instance number" of Marvine's mesh by the person who made the cloned mesh.  I would recommend a judicious use of delete in CAS to remove all the bad clothing recolours, and then make a search of the meshes.

vladvamp1 - what browser are you using?  this is a an error common to some browsers when using forums.

hello :)

The problem that I'm having is with one of your merepeople meshes, all your meshes function perfectly except with female teenegers :(

by the way they are beutyful!

hoplaa - are you making certain that you are using the right bodybuilder types in combination? there are several and they and not inter-mixable. This is increasingly complicated to determine as the problem since people insist on us making the same meshes and textures available for each body shape.

There are ancient versions of the Slim BB and BB meshes somewhere on the Internet - don't ask me where, I have looked for 2 years, that have an old mesh in them that may demonstrate this issue. If I could find the site that is posting them, I'd burn it out like a crack house.

Check your downloads folder for duplicate meshes, if you install downloaded Sims you are high risk for duplicate meshes and you may well have picked up the ancient version through a downloaded Sim.

The gap may also occur on certain ATI cards because they suck. No solution for them.  In particular the lower end of the X-series (e.g., X200, X300), other low end models may demonstrate the issue but can be corrected by changing the in-game performance settngs to highest or by driver updates.

Thaly - please double check your Downloads folder and make certain that the meshes are not a sub-folder.  Also check for un-extracted RAR and ZIP files.  If you are using Sims File Maid or any other helper programme, please un-install that software and re-download the meshes.  Also, please read the first post in this thread for information on problems with meshes that will not display.  As a last resort, use the Basic Help Check-list For Missing Content in my TSR blog: http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/BeOSBoxBoy/blog/ (http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/BeOSBoxBoy/blog/)

suraro - Have you read the first post in this thread?  Peak site traffic times will cause time-outs on downloads. Problems downloading from this site are not appropriate to address in this thread since it is not a missing mesh or in-game bug.  Please ask for site issue-related help in this forum (http://www.insimenator.net/forumdisplay.php?f=50).

Hoplaa, thank you for the picture, it explained everything and I understood immediately what the problem was - that is a normals (smoothing) issue - I have correct the mesh and am replacing it in the posts.  It escaped detection all this time because the recolours we originally made covered this area.

You can download the updated mesh here: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2170 (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2170)

I cant get any custom content to show up in ofb. if i uninstall it itll show up in base, but upon reinstalling ofb i wont show up. i have disabled and restarted to enable than restart and made sure it was enabled but still nothin shows up except maxis stuff and lets face it that can be pretty boring.

monkeynolike - just to make it clear, after you run the game one time and enable the custom content, you have to exit and restart the game with custom content enabled before it will display.

if you have done this, and the custom meshes do not display, then you have the catalogue bug that plagues every version of this game :(

Sometimes it just shows up, sometimes you have to do a complete re-install with not Downloads, then add all the downloads back afterward.

Sadly, there is no absolutely works everytime answer here.

Yeah i have done that several times and it doesnt work. I have even done the reinstall without downloads and reinstalling them. Its so frustrating! *grabs paperbag to breathe in* okay now im better. Ill just try another complete reinstall without custom content. Thanks Beos. Excellant meshing btw!!!!!!

Will you help me marvine?!?!?!?!?!?!

How do I download the sims mermaids into my game...SOMEONE HELP ME PLEAZZZZZZZZZZE!!!!!!!!!!!!

How are you getting them into the game

What I ment to say was how do you get the sims mermaids into the game???Plz help me.

Marvine why won't u help me

Belton, you are on course for some verbal abuse.  Cool your jets.

First off, we don't live here 24 hours a day and nor do we live solely to answer stupid questions that don't explain what the hell the problem is.

Second off, this isn't the help thread.

Third off, you PMed me asking where to find the merman meshes... well you found the thread, so what is your malfunction?

First everthing You and Marvine done works and looks great for me. So!. I am using all your meshes for the male bobybuilders series to include the skintones. When I go to make a new Sim  Let's say the Meduim skintone without the body Tats. In the game the body Tats get put on anyways. The Sims startout with what I made them with. Not that I don't mind. But! The game has done this to every Sims that I have put in. My computing skills are next to none. When it comes to trying to fix things in the game.

hrm - John, it's hard to say - there may be a wrong texture file in the skintone.  Can you direct me a little here, do you recall any particular text popping up when you hold the mouse over the skintone's icon?

There is no warning at all. It is just the game decides to change the skins. When I put the Sims in the game. Nothing comes up. I just played it again. The male Sims all have tatoos now. Hahahaha! Not that I mind. It is just I did not make all of them with tatoos. This is the best I can tell you. Sorry
 Even the Townies that I have not changed have something wierd happen. Their Faces now do not match the bodies

This is starting to happen alot lately..

blarg - John - that is a serious corruption in the neighbourhood's DNA records.  You mention "Even the Townies that I have not changed", are you using a mod of some sort to alter skin tone assignments?  I have heard several reports that using mods or even SimPE to change skin tones and hair went weird.  I haven't been able to repeat the error on my systems, so I suspect it has to do with Pets EP or the changes to the game after Pets EP (Seasons & BonVoyage).

Or maybe you are using a custom lighting mod?

I did not get Pets. I did get Seasons but took it off. Cause of the way I like to make my lots. I was not able to anymore. So.. I got rid of Seasons. I just have the EPs Uni,NL, OFB with Fun stuff and Glam. That is all. There is this mod with pictures that I have downloaded from MTS2. But. It was working really well up until last week. Maybe I need to reinstall the game? Again!!! Ugh! Or kill off the Townies. Hehehehehe
 The mod is Christainlov_costumskintone selectors 1 2 3 4.

John, probably a re-install is your best bet here.  I've had some problems using ChristianLov's skin tone changer painting, it works fine for lots of folks, so I never could figure out what the problem was.

I just took out the mod. Out then ran the game without it. The Sims went back to their normal homely looking Maxis selves again. I put the mod back in. They are staying the way Maxis made them. I will change all of them anyways. Cause you Folks make good Skintones. If not better then Maxis. Thanks For your attemp to help. Looking forward to any new things all put out.

This is probably a dumb question but I just dwnloaded the big and slim bodybuilder sets and i just wanted to know:
Can the sims still get fat in spite of the mesh?

nopes - technically from a game code point of view "yes" - but these meshes have no fat morphs, so if you use these, no fat, because bodybuilders are shaped X, non bodybuilders go to fat; ergo a different mesh maker may make something else, but we make only fit bodybuilders.

Gabi, I sent you a PM with several links.  The most important and most common problem is that a person has mistakenly placed the RAR file in the downloads and did not extract the files.  Please make sure you have properly installed the files.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I recently downloaded the BB girl firefighter mesh and while admiring it in cas I noticed some issues with the mesh.

I've looked through the mesh archives but have been unable to see an updated mesh for her.

Hope you can help.

Even though I got the updated files my male sims still only have a head when they go into the shower.
Got any ideas why ?

sparkle, your sims are most likely using a skin tone that is linked to an "adult content" mesh (means with plumbing) that will require "adult content" meshes to work properly. I am sending you a PM with a link to the "adult content" meshes.

Kieren,

Thanks a lot for reporting the issue - no idea how I didn't notice that. I just uploaded an updated mesh. :)


Krouimm,

Tu as trouvé ça juste pour me pourrir le week-end? :lol:
Ok, j'en ai parlé avec Beosboxboy, et la raison la plus évidente (mais qui ne devrait pas être la bonne si tu as l'habitude d'installer du CC) serait que les fichiers n'auraient pas été extraits des .rar, ou encore que tu a installé les fichiers dans un sous-dossier alors que tu n'as pas d'expansion plus récente qu' Université.
Sinon, il pourrait s'agir du cataloguing bug, qui fait que le jeu ne charge tout simplement pas certains fichiers, sans raison compréhensible; mais quand ça se produit, en général le problème est isolé et ne concerne pas une catégorie particulière de CC. Il semblerait que certains stuff packs déclenchent ou aggravent le problème. Quels jeux as-tu installé? Est-ce que tu as bien installé tous les patchs?

Ce que tu peux essayer: mettre les fichiers directement dans le dossier downloads, sans sous-dossier; les installer dans ton dossier saved sims, mais la place est limitée. Si ça ne marche pas, j'ai bien peur de ne pas avoir d'autre idée... Ces tenues n'ont rien de spécial, et toutes sauf une sont basés sur des tenues du jeu de base.

Hi Beosboxboy
First I have to say that ur work is great, I love it. But I have a problem, I create a sim using beos-ju_barbienude-light.package, it appears with no muscles.. that is ok because I like it that way, I love the face and body effects, but when I play the game and make my sim, for example, go to take a bath, or get nude, he looks muscled like the pics above :( . I'd like to know what to do to fix this problem, I really like my sims with beos-ju_barbienude-light.package but I want it all the playing time.

Thanks :)

andromeda0811 - hrm that's a tough one.  I would suggest using one of the non-shower-proof versions of the skintones. you can locate them here: Genetic Skintones converted for any age and Maxis defaults (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=2246)

Since your sim is already in game, it will require surgery with SimPE to change the skin tone.  Wirelessguy explains how to change the skin tone or face of an in-game sim in this tutorial: Tutorial-Giving your in-game sims a permanent make-over. (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=18184)

Hope this helps =)

I am not sure I understand the problem Galactus.  Did you use a skintone for Huge Boidybuilder? or did you Use a different kind of skintone?

Hi , need help please. I'm not sure if this has been reported or not. I read the forum extensively and have'nt seen any mention of it. I have Sims 2 Holiday Edition and Seasons installed and use Windows XP. My huge bodybuilders keep acquiring extensions from their shoulder. I do have several hacks but havent installed any recently.[ATTACH]117444[/ATTACH] If anyone has a solution i'd greatly appreciate it, tyvm

It looks like detached vertex, try re-downloading the mesh. If that does not help I'll forward this to Marvine and Beosboxboy, since that mesh is their baby.

I've redownloaded it several times . It did'nt help but ty  : ))

Rox Soxy gal = you need to increase the video performance settings of your game

ROX_Soxy_gal,

Just set the details higher in the graphic options.

Usually the issue will start right after a new EP install, because the game seems to think that average computers aren't good enough and sets everything to "crappy" by default....

In this case, what causes the shoulders to look this way is that they were heavily tweaked regarding the bone assignments to make them behave as if the shoulder joint was placed much further than normal - and since the low settings don't use the mutiple assignments the tweaking can't work as intended.

I hope this works for you :)

Ahhhhhh tyvm. I had decreased the details myself because I read it would help stabilize the game play. Yippee , I get my beauties back.I'm going to go try it now, Thanks again  : )))))

I have a problem!!!!! I get it to go onto the game but then when i get to the "clothing" section of the "create a family" thing, it apears as a red shirt and white pants thing. I dont get it is it because i need the correct expansion? cause that is what i was thinking..... Or maybe is it be cause they need to be in the water???

Hey so i have a normal sized guy with a bodybuilder skin and when he gets into the bath or shower he changes to bodybuilder size. I was just wondering if you had a solution to this problem, if not it's ok it isn't any big deal. By the way love your work.:worship:

Not a help request or anything, just a curiosity's thing: the Teen Titans meshes, you said they were for elders as well. Does this mean teens that use this mesh will be the same height as adults, or as other teens with Maxis meshes?

for some reason it wont let me us the things i downloaded help

Hello, j'adore tout ce que vous faites! mais j'ai un petit hic!la plupart des fichiers que j'ai téléchargés n'apparaissent pas dans le jeu.pourtant j'ai pris les meshes!en fait comme le site es en anglais j'ai beaucoup de mal à lire les indications.merci de me répondre!

I'm having problems with the mermaid mesh. I can't get it to download. The recolors work fine but not the mesh.


Not sure what happened but it works now. Thanks!!! ;D

Edit:  I did the old "process of elimination" trick and discovered my problem wasn't your slimbb mesh/skins after all, but a hair conversion I downloaded the same day.  So sorry about that.

Anyone having problems with their bodybuilders or other sims mysteriously losing their scalps at certain ages or states of fitness should try going through their latest hair meshes.  You could have my problem!  1rock ;D