Correcting the DNA of Strangetown premade characters
witch:
I see a photo opportunity here... hint hint
baratron:
Quote from: nectere on 2005 November 23, 20:16:50
back to Lyla Grunt, we resurrected her last night on Spectors lot, Ripp had the honors. When she appeared she was bald and had no eyebrows. We then went to the Grunt house to invite her over not realizing that she had been living there when she died, even though Buzz's memories indicate they were divorced before she died mysteriously at the Spectors lot. Anyway, she was there, but now she had hair but no eyebrows. When I went to change her appearance she suddenly had a dark face (skin4), undaunted I fixed her up with makeup but forgot to put eyebrows back on her. Outside the mirror she didnt have the screwed up skin anymore, so far so good though except for the lack of brows. When I went back to change her appearance again suddenly her face warped and her nose and mouth were all screwed up, like a really bad mesh (not an expression but a graphical warp). She seems stuck like that now.
So is this her dna that is causing this (or lack thereof)? Or just the game acting up again?
Yikes!
I do know that Lyla Grunt has "issues" - iirc, the reason she is bald when resurrected is that her hair was not included in the game. Randomly turning to skintone 4 sounds a lot like screwed up DNA.
Wanna package the sim for me & I'll have a look? I can stick her in my test Neighbourhood, so it doesn't matter about too many character file BFBVFS, as the Neighbourhood gets nuked on a regular basis. If it's easier, package the whole family.
I know I could resurrect her myself, but if it is a screwup, there's no guarantee my game would screw up in the same way :-\.
cwykes:
So has anyone put up corrected versions of these sims anywhere that you can download or point new simmers to?
Yes I know you can fix your own, but you have to be somewhat more techie than your average simmer and it's a hell of a waste of time for thousands of people to be all doing the same thing! Yes I realise people who've been playing for years with these sims won't want to wipe out their sim and have to do it themselves, but there are plenty of new simmers and plenty of people who haven't played all the 'hoods who'd want them.
If it's not already out there I kind of like the idea of doing it and putting it up on the official site! It should all have been fixed in the patch. Fix the gardens for uncuttable hedges while we are at it!
Alternative - lobby for a maxis fix!
Motoki:
The problem with that is putting up fixed ones would be clones, not the orignals. It would get confusing to have doubles in the same neighborhood and they wouldn't have the memories, plus it's extra unnecessary character files which generally isn't a good thing.
The DNA is stored in the neighborhood file too, so it really can't be posted with the updated information and copied over the original unless the neighborhood is in a new and unplayed state. If it has been played at all, copying that file over would make changes.
It's really not that bad to do. Baratron has posted exactly how to do it step by step, the corrected values and what they all mean. It's basically just a cut and paste job. At the risk of coming off rude, I think people need to get over their 'oh I'm not techie so I can't do it' attitude and just try sometimes. There's been plenty of times where I looked at a program and thought 'Oh there's no way in hell I'll ever be able to do this' but I am stubborn so I just tried anyway and in most cases eventually I was able to do it. I think people should at least give things a try or two before deciding they can't do something.
If anyone attempts to do this and has questions you can always ask here and someone will answer. The only stupid question is one you don't ask. It's cliche but true. :P
nectere:
I just took a gander at Lyla in Simpe and it says she is unlinked...I thought once the sim was resurrected they were linked back up. I guess not because looking at the other resurrected sims in Strangetown shows that they are not linked either. Looking in Pleasantview the same occurs except for sims that accidently died in game and I immmediatly ressurected. (Cassandra the nut starved herself to death during pregnancy, finally deciding to cook for herself and just as she went to serve the food she expired. I resurrected her later the same day and she came back with all her previous skills, personality, job and pregnacy)
Back to Lyla
Here's what her DNA looks like:
1 dstring 00000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
2 dstring 00000002-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
268435457 dstring 00000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
268435458 dstring 00000002-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
268435459 dstring 2d6839c5-0b7c-48a1-9c55-4bd9cc873b0f
268435461 dstring
3 dstring 2d6839c5-0b7c-48a1-9c55-4bd9cc873b0f
4 dstring -858851246:2140625487:1;
5 dstring nose,cheekbones,
Her whole body didnt go to skin4, just her face when I used the mirror, but it reverted back to her normal skintone outside the mirror, but then when I went back in to put eyebrows on her I got this:
fork! I cant figure out this stupid image thing
here is the image
http://img499.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lyla8eo.jpg
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