How to remove the custom content marker from Maxis clothing?

[Morague]

Hi

Does anyone know of a way to remove the custom content marker from Maxis clothing? Ever since installing Pets all of the clothing I recategorized from Adult to YA + Adult is now showing up as custom content :/ Now, I recategorized a lot of stuff, so I am having a hard time finding the actual custom stuff because nearly all of the Maxis clothing is showing the *

In all of these cases the only thing in the file I have is the Property Set & all I did was change the age from 0x00000008 to 0x00000048. This should not be showing up as custom content!

Any ideas?

[Weaver]

Open up the package file and check the "property set" resource for the creator string.
I have a feeling the entry can be set to either Maxis (0x00?) or Custom values.

[Morague]

I **wish** it was that simple!

I've changed all of the creator keys to 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 (the Maxis default) I've deleted the product & Version numbers, changed the flags to 0x00000000 - believe me - I have tried everything i can thik of to try.

I have a feeling that it's been hard coded into the game, that any clothing, makeup, hair, etc found in the downloads folder is going to get that custom content marker. I guess that leaves modifying the actual game package. I really don't want to have to do that, but, I suppose it would be safe enough as long as I back up the package first.

[Tamha]

Windkeeper made a package file listed on MTS2 (here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=158172) that makes Uni clothes usable by adults. Maybe looking at it could help you fix your own files?

[J. M. Pescado]

I have a feeling that it's been hard coded into the game, that any clothing, makeup, hair, etc found in the downloads folder is going to get that custom content marker. I guess that leaves modifying the actual game package. I really don't want to have to do that, but, I suppose it would be safe enough as long as I back up the package first.

It's hardcoded that way now, yes. You can dodge this by hucking things into the helpfully provided "overrides" folder in the Pets folder, if it bugs you.

[Morague]

Thanks JM - I was afraid it was hardcoded :/

I am loathe to modify the existing skins.packages so, I'll thy the overrides folder.

Yes, it does bug me that much - I have to sift through 50 or 60 "custom" outfits that aren't really custom just to find the real custom stuff. I just want the EA content to show up as EA content & not as custom because..... it isn't bloody custom!

Thnaks for the solution!

Morague

[jrd]

Yeah I noticed this as well. With my hiders, if I go into CAS debugging mode, most hidden clothes appear with an asterisk (although not all of them).
I placed my hiders in the Pet overrides bin because of this.