Originally posted these elsewhere.

  I think they belong here better.

 NL  required... and CEP to see the recolors.

 Good solution.

I would never have thought of this because we had two seperate computers when my daughter still lived at home.

My vampires in the game used to frequently dance with their "victims" by candlelight and a fire in my game.

  I was talking about this with someone recently and decided it might make a nice painting.

  Schuberts's Standchen is the title of one of the music pieces in the game under classical and I always thought it fit perfectly in that setting.

I used a spotlight outdoors for the screen-shot.  It will need some lighting of some sort if you really want it to stand out.  I intentionally kept the lighting in the picture somewhat dark to capture the mood.

  You will need CEP   to see it at all of course.

The vampire in this painting is my "self-sim-kinda".    Ok I was being lazy, but I think the standard grand vampire is kinda hit and miss for looks anyway.

The painting will show up under  "Rainy Day Mainstreet"

you are very welcome.  good luck.

Do  you have CEP installed?

get it here if you don't:  http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=92541


If you do have it, try clicking on one of the beds in the catalogue where you  know a recolor should be and scroll through if you have to until you come upon objects marked with a *.

  Those are your recolors.

Make sure you have show custom content enabled for your game.

Lemme PM ya.

Then there's the Insimenator which will allow you to switch life-states.

 Thought I'd give that device a plug for some odd reason.

Yes what Kathy said.

  If this shouldn't work the only other option you'd have would be to start removing things until you find out what's causing it.

  I'd look at the most recent things first and work my way back.

  That will tell you what it was... albeit not necessarily easy!  

That never hurts either and it was a good point.

Shows what can happen when you only have one brand long enough.


I wouldn't have expected the Wizard only to work for NVIDIA graphics cards though.

If you can't then the nag wasn't just a nag.

No big deal.

I'd try beginning with something pretty common.

If you end up with extracted .png files you  know you made it.

One exception would be the alpha on the flamingo light.  They will extract ok.

The flamingo light can't be recolored that I know of.

Ignore the "this item can't be recolored" nag.

Try exporting it anyway.

Also I think you'll discover that using the wizard works best on one object at a time.  It seemed to make a difference to me.

It's somewhat of a pain to go through the whole process of waiting for it to load for multiple objects one at a time; but it did seem to clear things up a bit.



Sounds like it's working for you though.

You might already have thought of it, but just in case you'll need this too:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en

The Seasons version of SIMPE should  give you everything you need.

  You'd also need the newest version of CEP

See the SIMPE site for more info:

http://sims.ambertation.de/

Just my luck to show up AFTER the treats were handed out.