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Sims 2 Community Downloads / Skintones / ZOMBIE SKINTONES (FIXED)
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on: July 01, 2007, 03:16:47 pm
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there really nice.....but like i can't download them on my computer because it isn't working.tell me what is wrong because i really love zombies.ever sence i started playing sims i'v always wanted to make a full zombie.well you did a really nice job.i was wondering if you can tell me how to upload sims on this website because i can make some pretty good ones. What is wrong is that they were made with the Pets expansion, and the Pets expansion has a bug that turns everything made with Pets unusuable unless you have pets. There's a way to fix those files, but usually it takes about 10 clicks to fix. The skintone would require those same clicks repeteated for _each_ one of the 50 skintones (looping for ages, fitness and gender), so it's not practical. The way to fix one Pets infected file is here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=202497, its title is "How to Make Your Pets Bodyshop Creations Work for All EPs". |
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Sims 2 Community Downloads / Misc. Mods and Careers / Detect packages that were created with the old version of Pets EP Body Shop
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on: February 25, 2007, 08:14:49 pm
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I'm pretty sure they were in my Downloads folder. I wasn't able to get it to work right. I'm not computer illiterate by any means, but this program is a bit advanced for my knowledge. I was able to fix the items, but I had to start the game in debug, and make a new sim. When I flipped through the catalog, it displayed the files names of the items needed to be fixed (it did that with all items). I wrote them down and manually did it in SimPE. I have no naked bodies, but I do have a few items that shows the female/male adult defaults in just outfits, tops and bottoms. I'm assuming I'm missing a mesh or recolor. I know who there from, just don't know which outfits they are so I can redownload them. I should just delete them. I have 13,000+ some in my dnld folder. WOW!!! I am not sure what's your problem. Did you re-run the R script? I have c. 7500 files, and it takes about 5 minutes just to count them! But the script runs in almost the same time; it should scan your Downloads folder in 10 minutes. |
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Sims 2 Community Downloads / Misc. Mods and Careers / Detect packages that were created with the old version of Pets EP Body Shop
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on: February 25, 2007, 10:38:46 am
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Thanks for all your help..........
I found the program, but how do I save the code? I know my way around the computer in and out but this program....grrrrr. I actually copy and pasted it into the workspace and when I put in the find pets bug it told me 12files processed. But it won't show me the files and I know I have more than 12. I changed the working directory. Is there anyway someone could message me in Yahoo Messenger, Windows Messenger or AIM or take the time over phone (I'll call cause I have unlimited long distance) and go through this with me? There doesn't seem to be many people doing this. Or I could just pay someone to take my clothing and hair and do it. I'm desperate. I'm about to get a new computer and I want those fixed. Sorry to take so long to reply! If the script said 12 files processed, and no file had the pets ep bug, then it means that it scanned only 12 package files, and all of them were ok. Where were those 12 files? I can't believe you have only 12 files in the Downloads folder! Probably you must do this: setwd("/path1") # set the path to where you placed the r script source("filename.r") # load the r script setwd("/Documents and Settings/TheSims2/My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads") # replace it with your Downloads folder find_pets_ep_bug() I will soon do a minor update in the Sims2 Wiki, but this should work. |
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Sims 2 Community Downloads / Misc. Mods and Careers / Detect packages that were created with the old version of Pets EP Body Shop
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on: February 06, 2007, 08:19:04 am
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Your English is mostly perfect, better than most of my American students. :lol: That's because it's a learned language, that I write almost as much as I write my own mother tongue (Portuguese). That's Globalization :-) *hugs* albmont - don't be hurt. You are doing great and much needed work. Besides, I like guns, they're sexy :lol:
Guns are a kind of ultimate Evil here in Brazil. The laws treat gun ownership almost as hard as drug dealing, abortion or pedophily. Of couse these laws don't prevent gun shootings (nor drug use, etc). But all kidding aside, a GUI would make this easier for the average Sim player (keep in mind most are 14-15 year old girls according to EA/Maxis) Ok, maybe tomorrow I will start working on it. It will be a nice passtime, as I get back to work (today is my last vacation day), and I can use the (real) excuse that learing to make a GUI will be useful for my work projects in R :-) |
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Sims 2 Community Downloads / Misc. Mods and Careers / Detect packages that were created with the old version of Pets EP Body Shop
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on: February 01, 2007, 06:55:35 pm
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albmont, like I said above, I mean no disrespect, but after spending the past 5 years as an instructor at a mid-sized US university, I have discovered that even college level people get that slack face and blank stare when you start talking about code and languages. My first years invariably think I am satan for even suggesting they do something without a GUI. Perhaps 1 in 200 has used a DOS batch file or done anything from the command line in LINUX or another OS. This is scary. Maybe I deal with an elite minority, or maybe they can hide quite well the ignorance, but most people seem to understand when I suggest things done from the command line. But I never tried to teach computer stuff to a huge and unknown horde... It is a common problem for us sort that do things like this and think it "normal" to know and do this sort of thing to assume that everyone will be comfortable with this level of use. The sad reality is we are not "normal" by a long shot. Probably more than 95% of all computer users have no experience of anything without a GUI, save perhaps they have seen the BIOS boot screen or whatever occurs before the OS loads. And with the increasing popularization of computers, this number tends to grow. But then how can I blame computer-challenged people, when I am cell-phone-challenged? I am absolutely unable to do even simple things, like disabling the alarm or setting the correct time in cell phones. (the number of people with cell phones is alarming; last year I saw a homeless beggar pick up an alluminium can and make a cell-phone call. I guess he was asking about the price of allumium in the Chicago Futures Market...) I have been using computers since the days before GUIs were common, so I can say with some strong belief that GUIs made computers vastly more user-friendly. So try to remember that The Sims 2 has a fan base of some millions of people drawn from all levels of computer experience, but the vast majority are not technologically erudite; indeed, for most of them, if it does not come with an installer and a desktop icon to start the programme, it is useless to them. Some things were made easier with GUIs, while other things are much harder. I hate to click deeper and deeper inside obscure and badly designed menus just to get what I could with a single command line. Windows is getting worse at each new version, with less functions that can be done with the command line. But all those programs and tutorials are not for the vast majority of Sims users, they are for the tiny elite that knows how to download files, how to extract files to the The Sims 2/Downloads folder, and knows how to use SimPE to edit them. And truth be told, for most people, trying to sort through the R-language site to figure out how to install the language support files would be an exercise in futility. So I assumed you understood and knew all this, and have likewise assumed your software was never intended for the common user. It was intended for the user that has enough computer wisdom to install and run SimPE. It's simpler to install and run R than to install and run SimPE. So, here I will ask again: if I can rewrite the R script so that it has some GUI interface, will it increase the utility of the scripts? Alternatively, I can pour my energy into other projects, like mapping useful information inside the packages. |
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Sims 2 Community Downloads / Misc. Mods and Careers / Detect packages that were created with the old version of Pets EP Body Shop
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on: January 31, 2007, 08:55:42 pm
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Piper1980: "GNU/S" or "R" is a fourth generation programming language that will have little use for the average computer user; with no disrespect to albmont, albmont is doing work that is needed, but is in a form that most users will not be able to comprehend or willing to use. Most computer users are completely lost without a graphical user interface, so albmont's posts are directed at those computer users who are comfortable with a more or less technical user of a computer rather than a casual user. Whereas I find no difficulty in using his scripts or R-language, I have every confidence that it is quite beyond most people, like quantuum physics. Now you are hurting my feelings [let's suppose for the sake of argument that I have any ]!!! Do you think those scripts would be more user-friendly if they had a GUI? That's something that could be done with a little work. R can use Tcl/Tk. |
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Sims 2 Community Downloads / Misc. Mods and Careers / Detect packages that were created with the old version of Pets EP Body Shop
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on: January 31, 2007, 10:18:21 am
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Maybe I'm just dumb, but I've never heard of 'R'. What is it and how do I do this code you speak of? R is nicknamed GNU/S, and it's the free source version of the S language. There's also a commercial version, SPlus, for this S language. It's purpose is handling statistical data, and it's optimized to do huge numerical computations (like mathlab and other vector-oriented languages). But it's generic, and can easily handle those horrid dbpf packages, or create jpeg images as if it's a plotting language. The Windows version (which I use at work) and the Linux version (which I use at home) are almost 100% compatible, so when I play with dbpf at home I am doing something useful to improve my working skills, and when I work hard developing statistical analyses at work I am also improving my modding skills :-) The syntax of R is very simple, anyone who knows C, fortran, mathlab, basic or any modern language may learn its basics in a few minutes. Using R is very simple too. Just start the interpreter (in Linux, just type R at the command prompt, in Windows, click wherever you installed it), load the source file using the command source(name_of_filename.r), and run the function by typing its name. For example, if you saved the script as "r_sims2_package.r", and you want to find which *.package files have the Pets Ep Bug, you do this: (1) start R # # this is a comment in R - now you are using R! # # (2) load the source file # source("/path/path/path/r_sims2_package.r") # # (3) set the default working directory to the Downloads package of The Sims 2 # setwd("/windows/Documents and Settings/TheSims/My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads") # # (4) run the script # find_pets_ep_bug() # # The script will list all *.package files that have the Pets Ep Bug. # # (5) Exit R # q() |
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Simmers' Paradise / Content Creation & Recoloring Help / Index of Recolors with Picture and Filename
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on: January 28, 2007, 11:23:18 pm
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For those who have followed my struggle with the DBPF format, I have a new minor victory. I can generate a list of package name x description. It's not yet the picture, but usually the description is sufficient to find the package (like "by play girl @ boutiquewrapsims.com", from the 5f794fed_pg_htrdnkmshdrss.package that was uploaded yesterday 2007-01-27).
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