More Awesome Than You!

I haven't done one single hack in my life, so please don't bite my head off if this is a stupid question.

Could it be possible to modify the Maxis clothing rack in a way that you could sell only one type of clothing? For example, you could buy a clothing rack to you sport store that only sells athleticwear, or you could have a store that only sells formalwear? I know that the rack has the option to suggest a casual or formal outfit to the customer, but anyway, I'm just curious.  :)

It's a long time since I've used any of the clothing racs of any reason (clothing tool FTW), but I imagine it could simply be done by disabling the other options from the pie menu.
I'm not sure why you would want to though.

Realism? ;)

Yes, realism.

I don't want female sims to come and buy kinky underwear from the sports store that my sim-guy is running.  :P

Good enough reason?

Hopefully someone happily surprises me one day and makes those one-type-clothing-racks.

I understand why you want this, but I don't think it would really make a difference.  When sims buy clothes on their own they don't really buy anything.  They only get a new outfit when you use the "suggest outfit" option.

It's disappointing, I know.  I would love for my sims to randomly buy weird clothes.  It's also not fair, because they spend money and get nothing.  However, I think this is how most players want it.  I think most players would be horrified if their sims bought random clothes.

Yeah, well I'm one of those players who would be horrified about those random clothes.

 I'm a a player who wants to create an unique style for every sim.

And you're right - it wouldn't make a big difference, but I was just curious.  :P

Yes, that would be horrible. The "random age-up" outfits that accumulate in the wardrobe are bad enough!

Not to mention the teenage versions of all their parents' various work outfits!

I think some of the Maxis meshes are just a waste of space in the gamefiles.

I mean, why do we need wetsuits in the game? I have used them 0 times.

Well, I guess Maxis tries to please as many kind of players as they possibly can.

Who needs a pink gorilla suit? I think the only time I used one of those was when I got OFB and was messing around with giving employees uniforms. I wish as well as "full outfits", "tops" and "pants" there was a "costume" section. (Thank Heavens for clothing hiders).

Pity the darned things don't come in a dress-up trunk like they did in Sims1, then you could choose whether or not to have them available on a lot!

Who needs a pink gorilla suit? I think the only time I used one of those was when I got OFB and was messing around with giving employees uniforms. I wish as well as "full outfits", "tops" and "pants" there was a "costume" section. (Thank Heavens for clothing hiders).
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I just hate those damn costumes!

They are only suitable for toy store employees, I think.

In real life, a toy store employee in a huge gorilla suit would really scare all the little costumers away!  ;D

Customers?

Yes, I agree, the costumes are totally daft, now if they'd made costumes like elves, fairies, Noddy and Big Ears, then of course the little customers would not have been frightened - although they may have laughed a lot! 

You could, of course, use the Santa suit etc. for the toyshops.

I used to like the Sims1 costumes, with the various choices like Historical etc., and always thought it a shame that those were not included in the wardrobe for everyday wear!

Oh, sorry.  :D

I was going to write "customers", but I just had my nails done and they're giving me lots and lots of typos!

Like the idea of elves and fairies etc. - they sound much more funnier than fat gorillas.

Another idiotic costume - the old-fashioned diving suit with that huge headpiece.

Oh dear, the list goes on almost forever..

Well, there are mods available to hide them, but it doesn't stop them wasting space!  What's needed is a default replacement for them which you might actually use!

That's right!

Some talented creator should take that to his/her next project. (Like Tiggerypum from MTS2)

Instead, many newbies are making awful recolors of them, and the worst of all things is that their recolors are in all bright shades of rainbow!  :o

And preferrably all colours are in the same outfit.

The real problem is, different items appeal to different people.  Some 12-year-olds may well still be childish enough to like the gorilla suits, etc., but they, in their turn may not like the vampire stuff, while their 13-year-old sibling, who also plays, likes the opposite.  So for a lot of people a default replacement for one thing could mean another user of the shared PC would not be able to access the original either.

Shared PCs are evil anyway. Default replacements would be awesome, and with Halloween here, there are lots of interesting costumes that could replace the 12 colors of gorilla suit.

Well, I'd totally agree with you about shared PCs, but unfortunately that's all a lot of kids have access to - and with the latest anti-stalker advice for parents being not to have computers in kids' rooms as it makes it harder to monitor who they are chatting to, a lot of parents will just have one PC for the whole family in the living room - and anything that replaces a default will replace it for all users.

Default replacements of such things as suits of armour for people running a medieval theme would be great, though, and I'm sure the diving suit could quite "easily" be converted by one of those talented people around here (not me though!).  What would be truly awesome would be a program that anyone could use easily to convert period costumes into defaults, so when you are running a themed Victorian hood, for example, you don't have to scroll through countless mini-skirts to find the one or two EAxis items that you can use!  And wouldn't it cut down loading time!

I actually use a lot of the costumes and weird outfits in my sci-fi themed 'hood (but not the stupid gorilla suits -- I still haven't discovered a use for those). For example, my maids wear the old-fashioned diving suits. I figure they're dealing with harsh chemicals while cleaning, so they need the protection. :D I often dress my aliens in the wetsuits, and my townies in the ninja outfits (without the masks, they look like something from the old Star Wars movies). Eh, to each her own.

I think the single-item clothing racks would be a good idea, for the sake of realism. Then you could have specialty shops, such as a bridal store.

Though I deeply resist those gorilla suits, I agree with ZephyrZodiac.

Of course Maxis had to develope a game that would satisfy both genders and all age groups - including little ones.  :)
Still I think it wouldn't be a bad thing at all, if someone talented (not me either) could make alternatives for those who want them.

And I'm sorry about having hard time to understand players who want to include fantasy characters in their game.
Not that it is a crime - I'm just over-realistic.  :D

P.S -> I have thought about the bridal-store-thingy too and I think it would be great idea!

I too use the wetsuite for aliens...makes more sense that they are uniforms for spacemen than wetsuits anyway - wetsuits should be in the swimwear bin!  And if they were, I might use them as they were intended - as wetsuits! 

I did use the gorillas once, in Lilith's toystore - they looked really stupid and if you or I worked in something like that, I think we'd collapse with heat exhaustion and breathing difficulties!  But gorilla suits, trousers with little aprons at the front, and most of the rest of the OFB wardrobe does not belong in everyday wear!  One shudders to think what EAxis programmers consider suitable wear for the office!

The gorilla suits are useful, though. Just look at how it works out for Stupidlydisguised.

Funny thing is, they all wear the gorilla head, and you or I wouldn't know which was which unless we moused over them but the other sims all seem to know!  (Must be sim-specific BO!)

Or in some sims cases, use it for weddings  ::)

 ;D

And the kids could all be elves!

They're not intended as wetsuits; wetsuits would either be barefoot, or have flippers. They're sci-fi-esque bodysuits, with boots.

I tend to use a lot of the costumes as Townie Punishment clothing.  Townie Punishment Clothing is anything I don't mind seeing in my neighborhood, but would never put on a playable Sim I had to deal with regularly. And admittedly, considering that I deliberately create Townies to wear Townie Punishment Clothing, it may be a bit cruel and unusual.

But then, I like having strange scenery Townies  show up on walkby.

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Ultimately, I've used almost every costume, either for Business Purposes, or  as Townie Punishment Clothing (I  consider the FFS Hawaiian clothing to be part of that category, but not the NL Biohazard Goggles). Nobody's currently wearing the Gorilla Suit, though. That may change...

That's how I thought of them, but reading nva's post, I wondered if I'd imagined the boots......

I consider them sci-fi clothing, as well, but somebody else had called them wetsuits (the OP?), so rather than confuse the situation, I referred to them as such when responding.

Sorry, I didn't reread that far back....now we're all confused!

Yes but this is where MY solution comes in.. (wife and I used to share this computer, still do when it comes to Sims)

Clone the Downloads folder, name it for the user, and store all required hax/fixes/cc in it. If you like, subdivide by theme - I'm slowly working my way through our bloated (nearly 5 gig) Downloads folder, throwing out anything I don't like/want, and foldering up anything I recognize and want to keep. Since we didn't start out so organized, there's tons of nonfoldered content.. This.. sucks.
Before I started, I saved a full copy of the Downloads folder to The Wife's Beast, so when she plays, I can swap HER junky crap back in and when I play, I don't have to skip past fifteen recolors of her favorite lingerie that I can't stand to find MY fifteen recolors. lol

If you run through your stuff with the Clean Installer, you can move stuff into folders, or remove it, without having to close the program, use SimPE and you can't move or delete anything until you close the program down.  It takes much less time to load and run through the files too - just move all the folders you have into a new Downloads folder first, so it doesn't confuse you by listing those files.

I'm enjoying Delphy's download organiser as well - that actually searches for orphans as well as duplicates and you can move things around.  Any experience to share on that one?

I'm another vote for aliens in wetsuits.  I've never used the diving costumes or the gorillas - never mind the downloads of chicken hats and heart shaped glasses.  Most of the hats in game are really awful too!

Aren't they just!  And I hate how there isn't a single hat for afro-haired sims, which means they either don't get a winter hat, or they get one with the wrong hair underneath, which is silly, you don't get the straighteners out every time you put your hat on!

I think my absolute favourite hat is Sims2Sisters Spring Hair, which unfortunately doesn't have matching hair without the hat, but maybe one day I'll find a hair that is a good match for it.

Sims2Sisters' Spring Hair recolors with hatless mesh:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8497.0.html

Vampire hair with bangs:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=232467

Curly/Wavy hair with "hat" (gypsy bandanna) by DJ_Mur3:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=147214

BastDawn, I truly bow down to your awesomeness at Google!  And thank you for providing links! ;D

Ah, it's not awesomeness at Google, after all, it's awesomeness at dehatting sims!  Haven't been able to download yet, but I'll keep trying.  I registered there, so might even upload something.....

Thanks again.

Grrr.  FileCrunch has been down too much recently.  Try this:  http://www.mediafire.com/?59thx0udpe0 (http://www.mediafire.com/?59thx0udpe0)

And it's not dehatting; the Sims2Sisters hair mesh without a hat has a massive hole in the head.   :o  (A good thing, actually, as it makes the mesh less complex and strains the computer less to render it.)  The hat-free hair mesh I made is the NL vamp hair with bangs added; my recolors of the S2S hat use the same mesh for the hat-free state as the Vamp hair I have on MTS2.  You could have just that one and make it work with Seasons or BV using the hair-per-outfit selector.

Well, it looks like dehatting in game!  I use the hatless short ponytail from TSR2 a lot for that (can't remember whose it is, though, and still no cash to sort out my main computer!) but only really pretty sims can have that hair without looking awful!  The advantage of the Spring Hair is it covers a lot of the face, LOL!

I think something is off at File Crunch, but I shall keep trying just to see whether it improves!  Then, if I can't get it there, I'll use the other link.  Cheers!

Well, nothing's changed at File Crunch, so I got it from Media Fire on the first attempt.  Thank you!