New hoods - dangling SWAFs?, no letterbox respawn?

[witch]

I want to make a hood with different default names for Maxis sims. Last time I was paying attention, deleteallcharacters was a bad thing to do because it left dangling SWAFs.

I also read that the respawn the hood characters command, attached to the letterbox was a no no too, it was apparently broken.

Jordi has a packege with different sim names at MTS2, but the initial 'create a hood' process won't use new names, it will only work for subsequent sims.

I'm so sick of Ivys and Goopys, does anyone have any good news? I could just change the base hood sims' names manually, but I'm sure there must be a better way.

[J. M. Pescado]

Delete all characters leaves dangling SWAFs, but that isn't "bad", it just means you have to go nuke the SWAFs afterwards in SimPE.

[witch]

Oh good, ta. I'm guessing there's a 'how to' delete SWAFs somewhere in peasantry.. well, I'm hoping.

Then if I just leave notownieregen out for a bit, then hopefully I should get a hood full of Doc Doofus' face templates and Jordi's names.

[Kyna]

The tutorial on using Delete All Characters is in this topic.

[witch]

Thanks Kyna, that's what the search box gave me too, I've just got to the bit where Rainbow mentions finding all the extra SWAFs - thank you!

Edit: Yup, that works. Make hood, DAC, clean up in SimPE, make sim, create townies, add subhoods.

Goodbye Goopy.