Major Maxis Slipup

[Simsbaby]

Did anyone see the post that tanja481 made is this thread?
Does this mean what I think it means! 
Pescado? Motoki? Can you see if they are in there?

I have found items in the game.
New items for the next expansion pack.
I have take screens.
http://www.geocities.com/alexcoolste/sims2.JPG
When you not a screen.http://www.geocities.com/alexcoolste1/sims2.jpg
Goodluck with this.

Alexie

[Motoki]

Heh, I'm in the middle of making a pink servo but I can take a peek.

*Edit: I don't see it. I bet it's some BS from the BBS like twinzr2cute etc. Unless someone can be more specific about what file it's supposed to be in, I'm not buying it.

*Edit #2: Looking at that shot again, I'm fairly certain it comes from Maxis. Not only do I not see those items in the OFB files, even if they were there those are obviously rendered shots from a professional 3D program. Someone would have had to have extracted each of the meshes and textures one by one, loading the mesh into a program like 3DS Max or Maya, applied the texture, then taken a still render shot and repeat for each of them. I doubt Alexcool or whoever he is has the patience to do that or likely has the know how or 3D program. Besides if they were in there I would think Numenor or someone would have found them by now.

[JenW]

Those are the items from the family fun  pack...interesting coincidence.

[Simsbaby]

*Edit: I don't see it. I bet it's some BS from the BBS like twinzr2cute etc. Unless someone can be more specific about what file it's supposed to be in, I'm not buying it.

How did they get those pictures?

[Motoki]

Maxis promotional stuff probably. I'm sure it's floating around somewhere. Trust me, those are 3D renders from a professional program like 3DS Max or Maya. They aren't from in the game and they aren't from SimPE.

[Simsbaby]

I think that those look like the catalog pictures. They are missing parts like what happens with beds.

[Motoki]

Okay well believe what you want. Good luck finding them. I'm sick of wasting time looking all over the net trying to find the source of those damned pics so if you want to believe they are in there, go looking for them and have fun while some BBSer is secretly laughing at you.

[Simsbaby]

 

[SaraMK]

Um... maybe they got the pictures from here: http://www.snootysims.com/familyfunart.php

I'm sure there are more where these came from.

[kewian]

I am already laughing at them I saw all the items earlier today....big whoopedity doo...I believet there was a link to it  in the los pescados thread...   http://thesims2.ea.com/about/sp1_renders.php

[Motoki]

Gee a fish shaped rug, wonder if they got the idea from Windkeeper hmm. 

[RainbowTigress]

I think that those look like the catalog pictures. They are missing parts like what happens with beds.

What parts are they missing?  I don't see any missing parts.  I agree with Motoki.  Those pictures are too detailed to be from the buy catalog. 

[Simsbaby]

The edges are chopped off on some of them.

[Motoki]

It's called cropping. 

[RainbowTigress]

LOL, thanks Motoki.  I was just trying to figure out how to say this.  As usual, you cut right to the chase. 

[jfade]

Well.. Actually.. I went snooping in simpe for something else entirely, and found a couple of the thumbnails as well. I have no idea if they're actually in any of the game files or not, I haven't bothered looking for them because I doubt that they're there, but I may take a look later.

http://temp.djssims.com/thumbnailsinsimpe.JPG

http://temp.djssims.com/thumbnailsinsimpe2.JPG

[J. M. Pescado]

I know what those are. That file contains all the cached thumbnails for objects. Normally they're generated on the fly, and then stored in that file, but continue to exist even if the objects are no longer present in the game for whatever reason. They sometimes become corrupted, necessitating the destruction of this particular file much like groups.cache.

This means the objects at some point existed in the game, but have been removed and are no longer present.

[Motoki]

Well the meshes aren't there and neither are the textures. They probably worked on it around the same time and yanked all that stuff out but forgot to remove the thumbnails.

[jfade]

Makes sense, I figured they wouldn't be in the packages, and a quick search shows that they aren't anyhow, but it does show that they existed before Open for Business came out, so we could have gotten them with this expansion, but now have to pay 20 bucks for them instead. 

[gethane]

Makes sense, I figured they wouldn't be in the packages, and a quick search shows that they aren't anyhow, but it does show that they existed before Open for Business came out, so we could have gotten them with this expansion, but now have to pay 20 bucks for them instead. 

Without these fun packs, that's exactly what WOULD have happened. Or they would've been released one every week on the website, like, oh, say, Sims 1.

But instead, not satisfied with just the money generated by the best selling game ever. They want more.

[Wolfee]

Wow it's going to cost us 20 bucks for just items ? What a rip off. . I'm on a tight budget and I don't believe I'll want to spend that much just for that. What a shame

[Scotty]

Well, It's a damn rip off and I will not be getting that fun pack. But as long as there are sheep out there that will buy it, Maxis will continue putting crap like that out.

[J. M. Pescado]

It is the official position of More Awesome Than You to discourage the purchase of this pack.

[Motoki]

Well, It's a damn rip off and I will not be getting that fun pack. But as long as there are sheep out there that will buy it, Maxis will continue putting crap like that out.

Exactly. And you can thank all the people who paid $15 for the Christmas pack for the fact that they are now coming out with another pack for $20. If this one sells, I suppose the Glamor pack will cost $25. 

[BlueSoup]

It is the official position of More Awesome Than You to discourage the purchase of this pack.

I don't plan to purchase this pack.  Not my fault if my computer does regular "updates" on its own.