Is it possible to make a hack to get rid of asterisks?

[kazebird]

I hate the CC asterisks! It's like the game is telling me "This doesn't belong in the game," and I hate it! My point is that the game should not show something is custom, like in the Sims 1. What kind of idiot needs a reminder that the object is a download? Can it be done?

[J. M. Pescado]

Probably. Somewhere in the gamefiles, there's a picture of the CC asterix, and all you have to do is nullalpha it.

[kazebird]

Woah! While searching through the basegame files, I found all the in game cursors! The thing is there are several versions for each cursor. Many of which appear to match with the UI in earlier versions of the game during creation! If you go to:

http://www.snootysims.com/extrasindex.php?id=oldpics

and look in:

Program Files/EA GAMES/The Sims 2/TSData/Res/UI/Cursors

You can see similarities between the cursors and old game pics! This is a major discovery because, if the other UI files are in there, we could make an override to use those files instead of the current UI!

Can someone use SimPE to see if the old files are in the UI package?

If you will excuse me I will continue spelunking through The Sims 2's caves.

Edit: Even the EP's after pets have the sledgehammer tool under multiple UI's. I wonder why?

[Zazazu]

Can someone use SimPE to see if the old files are in the UI package?

You can, yes. Also, somewhere in Peasantry someone ripped all the icons up to, I think, Pets. I use them a lot in sign creation. See the sign for LANES:


I've also replaced an image file there so that zombies wouldn't think of brains but grilled cheese. Works the same way as a standard object recolor. Open package file. Find image. Extract. Open extracted texture in your graphics program, edit, and import into SimPE. Update all sizes, commit & save.

[Zazazu]

Great. I'll get the rest of those icons. I was making something or other recently and didn't have the icon plus didn't feel like searching through SimPE.

[kazebird]

      This is interesting. Now that the game is complete, seeing as you would have to be 10x stupider than Rod Humble to make another, we can now freely edit the game to our liking. I personally want someone to unlock all those hidden items in the game files.
      I wonder if we could bring back the original scenario made for the base game before they cut out weather. The scenario was a blackout, and if you could get through it with all motives at 90, you got a windmill that prevents power outages.

[Simsample]

Someone tried that already:
http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=184494
I'm sure I had one made by someone else (Carrigon, maybe) in the early days, too.

[Lord Darcy]

I would very much like to be able to put OBJD overrides in Downloads folder without activating the delete button and CC asterisk. It's a pain in the posterior to put OBJD overrides under Program Files folder.

[arogers]

i just shove all my objects in the C:\ ,Program Files ,EA Games ,the sims 2 ,Tsdata ,res ,catalogue ,bins folder and they are treated like official content. works everytime!

[sewinglady]

yup, what previous poster said. When I first started downloading custom content, that's where I put it - no asterisks.

I don't know if it would eventually cause a meltdown in game, though.

[photo]

I've heard from a few people that its bad for your game to get rid of the astericks or to just put them in that file... Big fireball in space and all. Not sure where I saw it, gimmie a minute and I'll look.

[sewinglady]

I can't remember the reason either, but I was advised to remove my custom content from that folder and create a downloads folder, so I did.

The asterisks really don't bother me in the least, but I can understand if they bother others - kinda like what bothers me doesn't bother others. We all have our foibles.

[FourCats]

I kind of like having asterisks as it helps me to know what came with the game and what didn't.  That was always something that I was looking for in The sims 1

[WORF]

I thought someone tried the asterisk thing a long time ago.

http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=15694

[ChibyMethos]

How current is this hack? I don't care about removing the asterisk, thought it is easy to tell which things are default and what's not, but who want their game broken by on outdated hack?

[Lord Darcy]

My bins folder is choke-full of EAxis-made objects like preorders, Stories conversions and OBJD overrides too.

I kind of like having asterisks as it helps me to know what came with the game and what didn't.  That was always something that I was looking for in The sims 1

Actually I like asterisks in real CC for the same reason. In TS1 I missed this feature too.
It's just that I made several mods which contain OBJD overrides for official objects. I'd rather have them in Downloads folder for convenience. Seems like there is no way to disable it selectively.

[chazzhay]

Someone tried that already:
http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=184494
I'm sure I had one made by someone else (Carrigon, maybe) in the early days, too.

After placing said hack in my test game it had the desired effect but also an undesired one:

So if you don't like ep icons as well this hacks for you.

[kazebird]

Tough trade...
There is something about those icons that helps me locate clothing.

[SaraMK]

Dude, what are those fucked up blobs at the top?

Because... like, I don't think I have those in my game.

Wow.

[J. M. Pescado]

Dude, what are those fucked up blobs at the top?

Those are some kind of weird cloudball character you can download somewhere on MTS2, similar to the Squid in Awesomeland.

[HomeschooledByTards]

They look like the Boo's from Mario games.

[chazzhay]

Yes they're boos from the Mario series. I really need to get rid of them. I just used them as an example of CC.

[PirateFaafy]

Yes they're boos from the Mario series. I really need to get rid of them. I just used them as an example of CC.

Hell no.