Minor changes to wall-overlays...

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Wow. I really did not know any of that, especially about swapping the MMATs.

Thank you very much, I would like to link to this in my MTS journal if that is ok?

Go right ahead, Lee. I like to help people, so it's apparent that I want them to know :)

Your posting that link at MTS had exactly the right effect, Lee. Nice to see how Pixelhate opened a dialog with me because of it ;)
I couldn't have hoped for a better result!

I tried making the changes you suggested and SimPe keeps giving me a message that the values are invalid.

This is one of the top 5 things I want to learn to do. Your instructions make is seem quite doable even for a beginner. Thanks, St. Beau!

raynuss7: Look at the top left of the plug-in view.
There are radio buttons for Decimal and Hexadecimal. If you have Decimal selected, then I'm not surprised that you're getting this error!

Also, if a value should be '0' (zero), don't just clear the field, but make sure you actually put the '0' there. That's also a mistake commonly made.

I have Hexidecimal selected, not Decimal. The problem is with your instruction "find the line saying "0x0007: Interaction Table ID, and change the value to #FFFF"
The original value is 0x0001. When I change it to #FFFF, per your instructions, SimPe gives me the message "Property value is not valid".

Hmm raynuss, should it be 0xffff? Have you tried that?

Darn, that shouldn't have happened. Excperienced modders would have immediately understood what I meant, but even so... I should've written "0xFFFF" right away.

Corrected now.

Lee, I tried 0xffff and of course SimPe accepted that, but I was reluctant to use that value, since the instructions explicity said #FFFF. BO, thanks for the change. For us "inexperienced modders", it might also be useful to mention that the decimal value of 0xffff is -1.

Yeah, I *could* have said that. But now you learned that all by yourself, and you'll probably never forget! If I had told you so, maybe you would have hardly noticed.

Anyway, be proud of yourself: you learned something new today! :)

Thank you so much for this, BoilingOil. I have some wall overlays I was working on and it annoyed me that my sims would go up to each and every panel of what is essentially paint--and that was only in playtesting! In a normal game it would drive me crazy. Thanks again!

You're quite welcome, Honeywell. I'm now doing a similar project for SilentLucidity's Full Range Shiftable OMSP's because I hate my sims walking up to invisible objects, acting as if they're appraising art-works of great importance :)