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(24-10-2018 07:07 AM)leefish Wrote:  @Kunder

You'll need to use SimPE to edit their height.

To do this go to File-> Open
The folder your sims is kept in is under my documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods/NXXX/Characters
NXXX in this case is the number that refers to your neighborhood. For instance the first neighborhood that comes with the game is called N001.
The character files will have names like N001_User00000.package
Don't know which one is which? that's ok... it's a trial and error process but once you know which is which you wont forget.
Open one of them.
To figure out which sim you've opened click on the 'jpg/tga/png IMAGE' under the resource tree then select the first of the files listed there. It should be a pic of the character. If this is not the right one, load a different character until you find the one you want to mod.
Ok so now we have the right sim.
Click the 'Age Data' link under the resource tree, then on the Age Data file itself in the right hand window.
Below where you saw the pic will be a whole bunch of lines of text in the CPF editor.
Scroll to the bottom. Second from the bottom should be a line marked: stretch (dtSingle) = 1
Click it.
On the right side of the CPF editor the Name field should now say: stretch, the Type field should say: dtSingle and the Value should say: 1.
stretchSkeleton 1 is equal to 1.8288 meters in height
Change the value to whatever you determined the correct ratio to be for your sims height.
Click Commit.
Save your work under the File/Save menu.

Wow! Thank you SOOO much! You should be called "KingFish!" Wish I could love this twice!

Now, I can build Lurch!

(15-10-2018 08:22 AM)celebkiriedhel Wrote:  I'm starting a BaCC with a very specific storyline for me. If you know the book "Tomorrow when the war began" - then you'll know the basic premise of the story.

I'm in the process of creating 1-5 couples, this is my first couple - they are siblings:



This is first female, not yet has a name. She is a half-alien, half european heritage. She has been beaten up multiple times and still carries the scars on her face and head. The Aliens are going to have a specific name, because they are from different planets and have differing features. She is an adult, and 112 years old, so just out of the young adult stage in alien terms.



This is the first male, who also doesn't have a name. But he looks very much like Mr Tea Time from Hogfather. So he might be called Tee-a as a homage to that. He is the younger of the two, and has managed to avoid much of the prejudice by wearing an eyepatch, dyeing his hair, and calling himself Tommy.

Their parents were killed in the riots of 16AWW (After Will Wright).

Hey Kiri!, How'd you get the mismatched eyes?

Your SimLady looks like Courtney Love with green skin, and no eyebrows. Not really a bad thing. I used to think she was kinda' hot, until drugs made her repulsively unthinkable.

(23-10-2018 05:25 PM)Kunder Wrote:  @ Pizzatron-9000

The stretch skeleton cheat is only temporary. I'm looking for a permanent fix.

True, I forgot that detail. My bad.

No problem.

(23-10-2018 05:25 PM)Kunder Wrote:  The only thing I found at Cyjon that interested me, is the no freakout on engine explosion, for the restorable car.

Ah, yes. NoEngineWeenies.package. I use it myself. I think I talked about that mod and extolled its virtues somewhere around here.

Have you also considered NoWeightliftingWeenies.package? It stops Sims from randomly stopping their use of exercise machines (something that Lazy Sims or Sims with low Body are known to do), so they can power through a workout and build up Body, physical fitness and Fitness enthusiasm, at least until their Needs get too low.

Nope. That's just "Sims being Sims".

(23-10-2018 05:25 PM)Kunder Wrote:  I believe the "Ottomas Challenge" was on TSR, a few years ago. Not sure if I'm remembering correctly.

Oh. I might drop in and check it out if it were That Mod Site, but I feel confident in claiming that most Simmers know MTS well by their rather unflattering reputation. I wouldn't touch that site with my worst enemy's hand, not after their compulsory ads kept trying to bless my computer with the latest virus (which, fortunately, my Kaspersky kept blocking in transit). So, apologies if I don't look that challenge up.

Never had any problems I consider "deal killers" with MTS, or TSR

(23-10-2018 05:25 PM)Kunder Wrote:  Yes, my graveyard has a gated walkway over the moat.

Ah, cool.

Can ghosts swim? I've never noticed whether they can or not. Maybe a swimming pool would make a suitable moat as well; Sims can just go swimming when they want to pick up a few ghost scares.

Nope, ghosts can't cross water.

(24-10-2018 01:43 AM)Kunder Wrote:  Here is a look at part of my "Smoogoslavia" hood (Home of the Smaddams family). This is the Smoogo plant, Smoogo corporate headquarters, and Nikolai Simmovitch's Smoogo, and Smarley Davidson dealership next to it. This is a thriving business where my Sims actually buy their cars.

Smoogoslavia, is a Smeuropean icon. The cultural, and culinary Mecca of Eastern Smeurope!

Proud, and patriotic, Smoogoslavian businesses all sport the Smoogoslavian National flag, and are proud of Smeurope's largest, and most popular, automotive manufacturer.... SMOOGO!

Ah, a neighborhood where the Smoogo motor company owns everything. How they must envy the neighborhood that Hwang Motors owns!

I need to put Jazz and her auto lot in here. It looks like you have a few CC vehicles that I don't have (like those vans near the center), and I seem to have some CC vehicles that you don't have (ie. ice cream trucks). I wonder if a "Motor Vehicle Trades" thread would be in order.

I get most of my old Smoogo's from here:
https://psychosim.livejournal.com/23907.html

Instead, I dropped in on the Von Carstein household and took some screenshots.


(Oh, yeah...there's Jazz's auto lot, just up the road from the Von Carstein manor and across the road from those colorful townhouses! Aren't auto sales great? I've never seen so many Simmy customers carrying shopping bags with three Simoleon signs in my life!)


The Von Carstein household: Carmilla von Carstein, Jessica Ebadi, Clarence Trimble, Sanguine Succubosa.

Carmilla: Female, adult, vampire/neutral witch. Purportedly the last descendant of primeval warlord and archvampire Baron Vladislaus von Carstein (after a centuries-long rivalry with the Old Church's vampire-hunting Society of Saint Alarice winnowed the rest), moved to Pleasantview to claim her inheritance and her forebears' legacy. Aspires to take her place among the High Vampires while surrounding herself with a harem of lovers and admirers of both sexes and many walks of life; to that end, she has cultivated strong relationships with the various families of vampires and other paranormals who keep homes in Pleasantview and its surroundings. Though she wishes to restore House Von Carstein to greatness and prosperity, she does not Turn others frivolously, whether out of concern that the person may not be able to handle vampirism's liabilities, fear of bestowing such power to potential turncoats and future rivals, or fear of siring a weak-hearted or unworthy sort who would be easy pickings for enemies, noting that the normally forthright Society of Saint Alarice has been unusually quiet and well-hidden for years now....

Jessica: Female, adult, vampire, former burglar. Formerly one of the burglars who plunder the many homes of Pleasantview, her life changed after she chose to sack a certain austere manor high atop a jagged foothill; though arrested and escorted empty-handed from the Von Carstein Residence by police, she had earned Carmilla's ire merely for violating her home. After being cajoled and seduced for long enough, she welcomed Carmilla's bite, unaware of Carmilla's ulterior motive for luring her into the greenhouse and Turning her: Carmilla had intended for the morning sun to be Jessica's executioner all along. But Carmilla had come to know Jessica too well during that courtship and so, spurred by pangs of guilt and remorse, she took pity on her, running back to the greenhouse and setting Jessica free as the first rays of dawn fell onto them. After that narrow escape from their mutual demise, Jessica and Carmilla began their friendship and romance in earnest (with an expensive gift from Jessica to earn Carmilla's forgiveness). Jessica was welcomed into the Von Carstein Residence soonafter, and she has since cast aside thievery in favor of her true desire: Becoming an acclaimed novelist. Jessica's "Thief of Starlight" series about the courtships and adventures of a burgling vampiress have proven to be quite popular (and provide the house with a hearty source of income to boot).

Clarence: Male, adult, former Service Sim. Though much of his origin is shrouded in mystery and anonymity, Clarence came into the light after Carmilla's sire — the High Vampire Count Zion Cameron — grew drunk with power and elation after tasting Carmilla's blood; desperate to slake that insatiable and long-denied bloodthirst, the count wantonly mesmerized the nearby Clarence and drained his fill from him in turn, thrusting the Thirst upon him in the doing. No longer able to work by the light of day, Clarence soon lost his job as a cashier and was left to wander the streets of Pleasantview aimlessly and despondently by night. Meanwhile, Carmilla had been working tirelessly to oppose her sire's rampage and reverse what damage he had inflicted on the local mortal populace, and fortuitously she came across Clarence at her favorite nightly hang-out spot: the Maple Springs Pool and Spa. An acquaintence, a tryst and a date back to the manor came after, and there did Carmilla slip into his hand a vial of Vamprocillin-D brewed from her own cauldron, urging him to drink it. He did as she wished and was soon stripped of the vampirism which had been so heedlessly bestowed on him, but rather than return to his Community Lot work, he continued to wander past the Von Carstein manor by night and by day, smitten with Carmilla as he was. She eventually relented and took him in. As the one non-vampire in the household, he now serves Carmilla, Jessica and Sanguine as a roommate, a lover and the house's "Renfield," tending to the house's affairs by day. Sharing a bed with Jessica has led to their own romantic relationship, as well as a happy accident; Jessica is now heavily pregnant with Clarence's twin children (if SimBlender is to be believed) and should be birthing them very soon.

Sanguine: Female, adult, vampire. While attending Sim State University, Sanguine was assigned housing at Castle Von Carstein, a property donated to the university by Carmilla's forebears in years past. As Sanguine was taking courses at the college where Carmilla once learned, lived in the castle where Carmilla once lived, joined the Landgraab Society (of which Carmilla is a lifelong member), and often frequented the Maple Springs Pool and Spa, it was almost inevitable that Sanguine would cross paths with Carmilla at some point, and so they did. Friendship, flirts and romance followed, and Sanguine — intrigued by the vampire's mystique as she was — prodded Carmilla into granting her the Thirst and its chance at everlasting youth. Deeming her worthy, Carmilla agreed and obliged her. Sanguine graduated with the honor of Summa Cum Laude soonafter; she now lives with Carmilla, Jessica and Clarence until she can save enough money to buy a charming house of her own. To her housemates' concern, Sanguine is too lazy and self-indulgent to hunt for a steady job. But she always returns from from her nights of drinking, dancing and gambling at Lucky Shack Cards and Drink with more money than than she left with, so they don't ask any questions.
[/quote]Most of your Sims, are "Classy".

You've met Alysson Mineer in a previous post. She is my adult, female model. She looks good in anything. This is a maxis recolor done by me. this is the ONLY thing I've ever created. I thought Alysson looked good in it. Waddya think? I think her future mate will be my "upgraded" Julien Cooke. I think they'll make beautiful kids.

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pretty looking Sim. So yeah I think she would be a good match for your other Sim.

(13-10-2018 01:59 AM)BoilingOil Wrote:  On a related note... In my Pleasantview, Cassandra Goth left the parental home to marry Darren Dreamer. Then Alexander Goth grew up to a teen, and Mortimer actually married Dina Caliente, who then bore him a son, Donald. Two days later, Mortimer kicked the bucket.

And here's the sick part: two days after Morty's passing, Dina autonomously initiated casual woohoo (ACR) with Alexander, who is still a <bllep>-ing teen. No flirting, no kissing, just wham, bam, thank you step-son. One might think that my step-family romance mod would've stopped them, considering that Dina is essentially Alexander's step-mom. But with Morty dead, the game simply no longer registers that connection between them, making it fair game...
The worst thing is, this was Alexander's first time!! I've immediately put them in the friend zone towards each other... I do NOT want them to do that ever again! YIKES!!

@BoilingOil

??? I thought you had to actually initialize an action for that to have happened. Are you saying this was spontaneous??? Howdat happen

Yup, it was spontaneous. That kind of thing is possible, when ACR is installed. For clarity, ACR is TwoJeffs' mod Autonomous Casual Romance.

(25-10-2018 09:59 PM)BoilingOil Wrote:  Yup, it was spontaneous. That kind of thing is possible, when ACR is installed. For clarity, ACR is TwoJeffs' mod Autonomous Casual Romance.

O, IC..... I don't need to worry about it then. I don't have that mod.

(24-10-2018 02:38 PM)Kunder Wrote:  Wow! Thank you SOOO much! You should be called "KingFish!" Wish I could love this twice!

Now, I can build Lurch!

Were you successful?

Do you have the spooky set with the correct sort of clothing?

(26-10-2018 05:22 PM)leefish Wrote:  

(24-10-2018 02:38 PM)Kunder Wrote:  Wow! Thank you SOOO much! You should be called "KingFish!" Wish I could love this twice!

Now, I can build Lurch!

Were you successful?

Do you have the spooky set with the correct sort of clothing?

Haven't tried just yet. I need to make another hood for testing in case I mess up, then I can just delete the hood. No, I don't have the "spooky" set. Where do I get that?

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(25-10-2018 07:46 AM)lordtyger9 Wrote:  pretty looking Sim. So yeah I think she would be a good match for your other Sim.

I just moved Alysson into a two story City Flat, where the entire second floor is a private modeling studio. I'll post a pic later. Do you think the shorts are too short?