Tutorial: Clean custom neighborhoods and Townie creation (Updated for BV)

[Jelenedra]

The confusion over local v. tourists should be a give away. There is no need for tourist families. All they do is get in the way of your playables trying to interact with locals. I don't have tourists in my game, so the vacation hoods are empty of everyone except for the locals, the NPCs, and the vacationing families.

[seelindarun]

I agree with you. That little tidbit should have been included in the very first post of this thread.  Because none of the other 'hoods have locals, it's not clear what you're supposed to do with them.  However, I responded to the same question from another poster just 10 posts above. 

I only learned how to use the clean templates a couple of months ago.  It was confusing.  I made mistakes and had to start over.  Several times.  I didn't get discouraged or make excuses for myself, because I expected to mess up.  It's what happens whenever you learn to do something new.  You fall down a lot.  I kept notes; I became very friendly with Advanced Search, and I figured it out in the end.  It's not as hard as some people make it sound.

[missaaliyah]

Thanks, there is something wrong with my game, my CAS is not showing the clothes from the Bon Voyage, I think I may need to reinstall that, I thought it should be in but it wasnt.

I copy and past every bit of information and print it out and follow all insructions, although it can be confusing.  I managed to do everything with other hoods, just Bon Voyage is the one that can be tricky.  I just wish I could do it in onme step, like the other hoods.

What I mean by Tourists, I think I meant to say Locals (those are the ones with the gestures), but the clean template still added the NPC's for Bon Voyage.

I was quite tired when I wrote the other post, so I was forgetting what I was typing.

Many thanks for your help.

[Gastfyr]

I started a themed neighborhood using empty templates.  And I wanted to make custom NPC's.  So, I made a bunch in CAS and moved them into a lot.  After Boolproping, the mailbox had links to turn some into the NPC I wanted them to be, Paper Carrier and Mail Carrier.  But not others like Cop, Fireman or Maid.  Is there a way to make them into Cops, Firemen, Maids, etc.  or do I have to use these sims for other Proffessions?  The townie gun has options to turn them into Garden Club Members/Iconic Hobbyists.  Is turning them into GCM/IH going to wreck the neighborhood?

[Madame Mim]

I don't know about that but when I make custom townies I let the game generate the sims and then use Theo's Sims Surgery (SimPE) to 'paste' features, personalities and clothing on them from Sims extracted out of a dummy neighbourhood.