Last time I tried to play my custom hood it wouldn't load so I decided to reinstall and see if that fixed anything. After a bunch of trouble getting the expansion packs and the patches to install, I tried to load it again. It took a long time (10-20 minutes, it's usually less than 1 minute or 2) and after it did I noticed that some of the apartments where my sims had been living were now marked as non-occupied and that the sims were nowhere to be seen. I noticed that I could make some of the missing sims appear on lots using a teleporter or the phone, and thought that maybe I could just sent them to the sim bin and move then back to their houses, but then noticed that there were sims that where nowhere to be seen. Not in the memory tree of their family members, not in SimPe in the Sim Browser, nowhere.
Can this hood still be saved somehow? If not, is there a safe way to at least clone the terrain as it is now, decoration, lots, etc?
Thanks in advance and sorry about any mistakes in my English ( not my mother language).
Yes, you can use HoodReplace to clone the terrain and copy the roads, deco, trees, etc. from an existing neighborhood to a brand new neighborhood:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=279992There's a thread here at MATY which discusses how to make these changes manually:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,151.0.htmlThere is also a way to copy the lots, let me try to find you a link to some instructions.
[Update:] Well, I thought that I'd written something up, but I can't seem to find it. Here's a tutorial which uses a similar technique:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=275135Basically, you need to copy the lot packages and then copy the Lot Description (LTXT) from one neighborhood package to the other. Since you don't want to change the lot numbers (instances) or locations (height, width, z), it's pretty simple. Note that you can't use this technique on apartments.
Another alternative is to place all of the lots into the lot catalog and then place them by hand:
http://community.livejournal.com/thesims2/6049797.html