Are there any modding tools that are not SimPE?

[EsotericPolarBear]

Everytime I think "Hey, maybe I'll spend a little time trying to learn how to mod this game," I load up SimPE and after sitting through six hours of loadtime every time I want to compare different files, I give up and find something more constructive to do...like staring at a wall.

[Charamei]

There might be others out there (though most of them are dead by now), but the load-times will be universal. TS2 is a big game.

I suggest patience,

[EsotericPolarBear]

Not a strong suite for me.

[Gwill]

http://www.djssims.com/ has great tools for some things, but I'm not aware of any all-in-one tool aside from SimPE.

[Zazazu]

Are you using the newest version of SimPE? Load time has been drastically improved.

[EsotericPolarBear]

yeah, but when all I want to do is look at a 16 KB file, I shouldn't have to spend 3 minutes waiting for it to load.

Obviously I'm exaggerating, but still, a 16 KB file should load in a couple seconds, not 30 seconds.

[Inge]

I quite agree.  It would have been nice to have a library of Sims package functions to combine in various ways to form various smaller tools.  At the end of the day though, no one has found the time to start over and make such a thing.  In most ways, we're quite fortunate to have anything at all seeing as the rival ducked out before they'd even made something you could edit BHAVs in, and Quaxi himself became almost too busy to finish SimPE!   Cheggars can't be boozers.

[EsotericPolarBear]

We can still be whiners, though, right?

[witch]

We can still be whiners, though, right?

Nah, that's only for losers at the low end of the forum.

[Ambular]

I quite agree.  It would have been nice to have a library of Sims package functions to combine in various ways to form various smaller tools.  At the end of the day though, no one has found the time to start over and make such a thing.

jfade has been talking about trying to put together such a beast.  Let's all encourage him!

* AmberDiceless gives jfade a cookie.

[Ellatrue]

* Ellatrue gives jfade a backrub AND a cookie

[witch]

* witch gives jfade a backrub AND a cookie AND a bunch of red roses with a love note inside

[EsotericPolarBear]

Nah, that's only for losers at the low end of the forum.

So I can still be a whiner, right?