SimPE 0.64 installer released 24th Dec 2007

[Inge]

Yes but if the main developer only has 5 mins to spare every 3 months, still not much will get done in terms of actual releases out there.

[antitheftmilk]

*munches popcorn whilst reading of TEH DRAMAS*

All kidding aside, you have another tester, if you still need/want them. If I run into any problems, I'll report it. I'm not any kind of programmer, but if it is broken, I can at least tell someone.

[Noukie]

Hey Inge,

I extracted and built 2 new mesh packages with the third test release, and both times they looked like the bones were damaged. (Explosions in Bodyshop)
I downloaded Quaxi's release and built one, and no problems. I don't know what exactly was causing this, but I allready excluded Wes_H's Unimesh. If you need me to test again, contact me and I'll provide you with the meshfiles.

xNouk

[Inge]

Nouk, do you mean Quaxi's release preview he posted briefly in the QA forum yesterday, or his 063h QA, or his previous public release 0.62?  The one that was working ok I mean?

[Noukie]

The 'preview' one.

[Inge]

Thanks for the report, I'll get Peter to look into it!

It's most probably just something didn't get packaged right, as we didn't have Quaxi's build script.   It may be this simply sorts itself out if Quaxi does build the next release himself in which case Peter will mainly concentrate on finishing the career editor ready to get into that build.

[Noukie]

Thanks, if you need a mesh package to pull apart and study, just pm me anywhere

[Inge]

Noukie, please could you try this one: http://www.fffss.org/SimPE/SimPE_0_64_5b_Test.rar

I just packaged up the one I was testing myself (with some previously missing dlls added) so you might find my recent file list in the menu, sorry.     Anyway see if your bones behave this time.

PS In case anyone has unresolvable problems with our 0.64 series, we have the stable-but-not-teen-aware 63h QA also in the http://www.fffss.org/SimPE/ directory.

[Inge]

Manual install release candidate to test please, anyone, http://www.fffss.org/SimPE/SimPE_0_64_5c.rar

Sorry no career editor, just couldn't get it ready in time.

[Aggie]

I'll give it a quick try. Thanks Inge. Oh, and I'm sorry I couldn't promise you a first born sim in my game (since she was already committed to Invisigoth), but I have a second born with your name on her. 

ETA: First thing I noticed: its definitely TSS compatible. Excellent! Next thing: Theo's Color Binning Tool seems to work. Hurray!

[porkypine]

Thanks Inge.     I'm working on some project items.  I'll get back to you later with results. 

[Inge]

Update here: http://simpeforum.ambertation.de/sims2/Latest-SimPE-official-release-get-it-here-v064-23-dec-2007

[Noukie]

I'll test it now!

[Mendota]

I don't know. I have become rather attached to Inga PE. It works for me and after all Inga came through for us . Before she got involved I began to think that we would not see an update until after the next expansion pack, if then.

[Inge]

Just to clarify - the release announced on the SimPE forums *is* the one Peter and I prepared, just packaged up as a self-installer by Numenor.  Obviously if you already had the rared version of the release candidate and are using that happily, then there would be no need to download Numenor's release.  But if you downloaded an earlier test than 0.64.5c, then you really do need to upgrade as things were still being fixed until then.

[Minena]

Drama aside, thank you Inge, Peter and Numenor for all your work.

I'm not an extensive user of SimPE, but I miss it when it's not around, or working correctly.

[angelyne]

Thank you so much Inge.  Obviously you and Peter Have Not Failed Us^TM

I have a wee question. and my apologies if this was already answered.  I noticed that Theo's plugins were included in the release and there was a note that they would continue to be supported.  Any thoughts to supporting his Sim Surgery plugin?  Theo's plugin allows you to load a package, created in Body Shop to clone an existing sims.  It's very nifty and superior to the current method of having to create a new sim solely for the purpose of making a clone.

I've tried it with one of the previous QA release and it threw up errors.

[Theo]

Peter said they wished to add my tools to SimPe's repository, which is something better than the current situation of not having source control at all for them

Regarding sim surgery though, I'm really not sure if it'll continue to be a separate tool, or if code will be merged with the current surgery tool, given that my version has only a few changes from the original. But since that particular version can only be found here at MATY, I'll see what I can do about the error message issues, which a priori seem to be a minor annoyance caused by obsolete method calls.

[Inge]

I was a bit worried when Quaxi made the announcement saying "Theo's tools are now included" because I found them in the last version and I assumed they were always sposed to be there anyway, which is why they got distributed with it.  After that I thought "oops - I hope he doesn't mind that we did that then! "

So what actually has the position been up until now?  And if you have a new independently maintained Sim Surgery, we should remove that from SimPE, surely?   Did Peter send you the changes he made to the other stuff?  I told him to.

[angelyne]

Thanks for looking into it Theo.  I would have addressed my question to you directly but I was under the impression that you weren't around.  Glad to see I'm wrong