Regenerating Pets after Deleteallcharacters?

[vecki]

I started a new neighbourhood the other day to start a new LeGassey legacy - after breaking my vow that I wasn't going to buy Pests (no typo) until after exams.

I did my usual routine, generated the main hood and a uni hood, deleteallcharacters then generated Downtown.  I now have DocDoofus's facial template replacements so no more yucky townies, so I spawned the NPC and townie maker to create my townies (for some reason I had one townie teen but nobody else)

Now while, yay, I have no strays, I had a sim desperately pining for a kitten.  I decided to grant his wish and see if I could also have a kitty legacy running at the same time as a sim legacy.  But it seems you can't buy kittens in the pet store, and when I had him try calling the pet adoption centre, the game froze for about 10 minutes then crashed.  In the end I had him buy a male and female cat and eventually had them breed - only to get four kittens running around all the furniture which is still outdoors.  Brings to mind the first sim-birth I ever had in the game, bloody twins when I had no real idea how to play the game.

I'm guessing the game crashed because there weren't any adoptable pets courtesy of deleteallcharacters.  How do I get them to generate?  I had a look but couldn't find any option for it in amongst all the various testingcheats 'spawnables'.

Help?

[Ness]

Vecki, I did a heap of messing about in this area before...  What I found was the best way was to force the hood to generate without any character files but the pets.

I removed the character files from each hood template in program files, but left the pets character files there.  Didn't seem to be any way to make it go differently that I could find.

[pioupiou]

vecki I had the same problem as you (crash to desktop when trying to adopt by phone when no pets existed in the neighbourhood).
I solve that by removing nopetrespawn, loading the game, call the adoption service (the game froze but a much shorter time and create 1 kitten, 1 puppy, 1 big dog, 3 small dogs and 5 cats).
The other problem I have now is that the game is regenerating adoptable cats and dogs but no more pupies or kittens....
Hope it helps.
Pioupiou

[J. M. Pescado]

The crash issue should have been fixed awhile back. The Dumb Ness-type People were not able to reproduce it in testing after the most recent nostrayrespawn.