More Awesome Than You!

Ok, not sure if this is where I go but it is a question that I can not solve.  I wanted more variety of outfits for my children, lets face it the seven or eight crappy outfits that are identical for boys and girls are just that, crappy!  So I tracked down a program called Wardrobe Wrangler.  It worked wonderfully, I was able to change some outfits that I downloaded from everyday to workout. 

I went in game and first entered a house, had my sim use a wardrobe that I got from mts2 to "buy" her sim child a new workout outfitt.  The game froze then just shut down, no error message nothing.  Knowing that it would probably not work, I booted the game back up and this time went into CAS.  I was able to get the workout section to come up and i could see all the wonderful outfits I had placed there.  But when I picked one the game froze again but this time I got the application will has crashed and will now shut down message.

So what I am asking is there a way to make this work?  Obviously EAxis disabled this option for some monkey brained reason, but I was hoping that the awesome modders here could find away around this little loophole.  OH PLEASE let there be a way!

First, wrong forum.

What exactly do you think EA have disabled?

You're using a hacked wardrobe that may well not be updated for FT to buy custom clothes that may well be corrupt*. In addition, those errors are usually related to hardware or alien software, not the game itself.

*I doubt this, since WW managed to open them. Unless WW corrupted them on save, in which case you should be talking to jfade.

Why is this the wrong forum?  It stats at the front page, ask me your questions so I can laugh at you!

Second I have been told by several people that the active wear have been disabled through bodyshop.  Otherwise I would have used bodyshop, but if you have opened YOUR bodyshop recently you would notice that the icon for childrens Activewear is shaded out. 

Third, I also stated that I went through CAS the second time encountered the same issue. 

So thanks for responding and a double thanks for being useless and nasty with your answers!

Don't you think maybe you should ask in the Wardrobe Wrangler's own forum?

Even if EA hasn't enabled bodyshop to make active wear for kids, your game shouldn't crash because of it.  I've used simpe to change toddler clothes into formal with no crashing.  The problem is most likely WW related, so go ask jfade.

Yeah I already did that I am just trying to cover my bases, you never know who may have an answer for you. ;)

Since this may not be a ww issue, then I may luck out with something that unlocks the active wear for children.  Once never really knows, since I wasn't asking the modders here to fix ww, I was asking if they could fix or find a loopwhole to open up that option for us.

Yes, but since you know that WW is your #1 culprit, that should be ruled out first. It and the object from MTS2, since the use of the object from MTS2 triggered the crash.

I wouldn't go into Burger King and ask them why the lettuce in my burrito from Taco Bell is soggy. Would you?

It has a child board:

Oops! You Broke It!
HELP ME!!! It's broken!
 ::)

Ah. If I ever actually used BS to make clothing, I might have seen that. I would say 'fair enough', but you're rude, so meh.

So it's probably the outfit, not the wardrobe. It's still not EA causing the problem.

No problem. Thanks for handling my minor oversights in a mature and rational fashion.

Froward fornicating fish-hag.

IIRC, children do not change from everyday to workout clothing in order to work out.  Hence, would workout clothing for children not be entirely superfluous?

In FT children change into athletic wear when they do Tai Chi and use the punching bag career reward. There are probably other times as well but those are the only two occasions when I've noticed it happening.

All of the new FT fitness and sports items: ballet barre, football goal, etc. Also jogging.

It could be a case of something getting mangled by the WW. If Bodyshop or CAS refuses to the load, it's one of the files that you editted got corrupted. Hence, why when you try to bring up the clothes buying menu, the game crashes. I had this happen last weekend with some custom hair.

So you might try redownloading the file that is making your game crash and edit it again.

Okay then - I stand corrected - have not had any children since loading FT.

Too busy playing the sims to procreate?

I don't wanna talk about it.

Thanks, I removed the files from my dl's folder when it crashed both times.  And replaced them with the original files, they were working fine before I messed with them, so I may just try again with these files and see what happens.  Thanks for the info. I had never used this particular program before and it was my first instinct to come here thinking that I may get some input and help.  Silly me.


I may have ended that with rudeness but you started out nasty, so meh, meh.


ABSOLUTELY I would, a fast food place is a fast food place, they all should know!

Oh, we give help.  We do not bend over backwards to be all sweetness and light about it.  Live with it.

They do in FT. Try using the clothing tool instead?

I figured it out, it is the file that I am trying to change over.  Apparantly the site I got the cloths from puts security tags on their stuff and it wreaks havoc with WW.  I did get some of my wanted outfits to swap over, but the ones I Really wanted I am having no luck.  I'm not sure how to use the clothing tool, I only just downloaded that as well.


Bite me.

TSR?

Use SimPE.

Which site is it that's tacking spyware into downloads? NAME NAMES! I want BLAME assigned!

Isn't it well-known that TSR does that?

Yes, but the poster didn't say. If it's not TSR, I want them named and shamed. If it *IS* TSR, I still want them named, even if they are shameless.

What sort of spyware? How can it be put into downloads? ???

I have no idea what it does, and it is not a readable code. It is not supposed to be there. Therefore, it is clearly some manner of binary-encoded malware. It is not a product of any normal aspect of sim-item-creation and it has clearly been deliberately and maliciously inserted. Do not buy TSR crap, and do not download from TSR. The PMBD-versions are malware-removed. Also, death to Emma.

Holy shit are you serious!? I had no idea those sons of bitches did that! You learn something new everyday...

Ditto :o

What, even in the free stuff Pescado? I get most of the TSR shit from Booty anyway, but there are a couple of the select creators stuff I have in-game.

Ditto with the free stuff. I did/still do have free stuff from TSR.

Oh, I'm so sorry :) I clearly should never have been so blunt :) MATY is, after all, well-known for its kind, wecoming atmosphere and tolerance of newbies :) Pescado, Rohina, eveyone, I apologise profusely for my momentary lapse into unhelpfulness :) I hope you can all forgive me :) Happy happy happy, that's the way MATY should be :)

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Clearly Charamei has now lapsed into insanity.  It's OK Charamei, delete a few emoties (and indeed most of your post) and everything will look darker again.

Now, what was I supposed to do again?  Oh, yes.  Bite the OP.  Frankly I don't think I would bite that if it was glazed in honey.

So...many...smiley...faces!

Yes this is from TSR, however, the items of cloths that did transfer over and work were also a payable items from tsr.  The items that seems to be giving issue are from sims2sisters from tsr.  So that confuses me just a tad.  The thread at jfades site did speak of the issue occurring with tsr related items and that when using booty items it resolved the issue.  And of course none of the items I wanted to convert are in the booty yet.  I have no idea how to read code so I can't really resolve it on my own. 

Someone suggested simpe, sorry no quote, I would love to use simpe for this if I could, but I have no idea how to even start past downloading and installing.

And about all the nasty comments to the two who seem to thrive on it, just because you can be nasty doesn't mean you should always be nasty.  Not expecting a big ball of love coming from this site.  But still.

::) I wasn't even being nasty. I told you you were in the wrong forum, which you are, asked for clarification on a a point, and suggested other causes than EA's incompetence. Your original post wasn't very clear at all, and I was trying to offer help.

Now I'm being nasty, because your highly mature response was to snap at me.

*shoots her previous emoticon fest*

There. All better.

Ok, lets take about ten steps back then.  What forum should I be posting in?  The war room, Bowels of Trogdor, maybe even the Peasantry?  This forum stated that if you had a question post it here, that is what I did.  Please clarify which forum I should have gone to so that I would not make the same mistake again.  That would be helpful.

Second, you didn't help me in the sence that you talked about foreign or alien programs causing the error, when I already knew that.  I stated that when I said I placed cc cloths in the game with a new program.  Again not helpful. 

I could go on, I could get nastier as well, but why bother when others and myself have figured out what the issue really is.

There.  All better.

Already answered, twice in this thread.  Two different places were suggested, both of which would have been more appropriate than The Podium.

Just in case you missed where people suggested where you could have posted this:


Thank you for demonstrating you didn't actually read all the helpful suggestions that people made in this thread.

I just realised, if I download from the actual TSR site using the sims2pack file, and I try to install using Clean installer, it never works....I bet it is because of this spyware shit.

I did, as Kyna has pointed out. Your inability to read is not my problem.

No. I was asking you to help me by clarifying what you meant, because I didn't understand you. Instead of doing so, you snapped at me.

Edit: Because I phail at typing.

Sorry, but it isn't cloths. Cloths are what you clean spills up with. What you are referring to are clothes.

I've tried to ignore the spelling mistake, but can't.

No. I was asking you to help me by clarifying what you meant, because I didn't understand you. Instead of doing so, you snapped at me.
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Well, then it was my bad for not understanding that you were asking a question and not making a statement.  When I read your question I thought you were telling me things I already pointed out.  So I apologize for that confusion which was mine.

And to say that I can't read because someone stated to go speak to jfade, and said that I did, and to let you know they are not responding to their thread over there.  So I thought I would post here.  I don't generally start threads here, usually just jump into others.  My mistake again for thinking this was the right forum.  Since there was no x-rated information or anything along that nature I didn't see the issue.  Yet again my bad.

If I hadn't read through this whole thing I would not have figured out that not all the files were the issue.  That I had not used WW wrong, but it was certain files that could not be converted.  As well, since Kyna you did not understand my last post, I had already knew the information you seemed to think I did not read.  I was making a point at how I felt the first response was not helpful to me.  Since I responded to the posts that told me where I should be posting next time.   

And yes people make spelling errors, it happens.

Errors are there to be corrected. Otherwise, how would you ever learn?

Oh for fuck's sake, wetninja. Take a bit of constructive criticism. Emma wasn't saying you were a horrible person, or anything. She was pointing out a recurrent spelling mistake. Mistakes happen, but if you don't have them pointed out, you don't have the opportunity to change. Also, see: this forum is not made of goodness and light and sparkly pink kittens bouncing on cotton candy trampolines.

It's been mentioned at PMBD before. I'd suspect they do it to try to track who is giving files to PMBD, just like Rose (I believe) did before. Obviously, it doesn't work.

Now you see, when I kindly pointed this out to the OP, it suggested I bite it.  I declined, of course (having just breakfasted hugely off of a loaf of good bread, smoked salmon, a couple of eggs, and a half a grapefruit, with Kenyan coffee).  I assume there is enough left over if you were inclinded to nosh.  Not that I advise this sort of thing, you understand.  I was just thinking that the same invitation might be extended to you.

Right here, we have a prime example of why I can't understand half of what you're posting. The beginning of this sentence does not match its end. I think you must be skipping conjunctions or something; they're not optional, you know.

??? Since when is the only reason to not post in the general forum - especially of MATY - x-rated content? The categories are there to keep everything reasonably sane, not to save the children's precious eyes.

Speaking of which, has anyone written a hack to add "saving children's precious eyes" as a hobby, sort of like bug-collecting?

Oogh! It could replace Nature: it's impossible to avoid the Wants since they're fulfillable on an unfurnished lot, Sims won't get a big asp bonus from individual actions, and saving one kiddy just leads to the desire for to save moar.

I dunno. I kind of like how everyone around here keeps mentioning workout cloths. The OP is not the first one to do so, although he/she may be the first one without a language barrier to blame.

But I, for one, like exercising in burlap.

Ciao!

Spandex, FTW

Wouldn't terry-towelling be considered exercise cloth?


Ooooh oooh ooh, can I put in a request for the "sparkly pink kittens bouncing on cotton candy trampolines" suggested by Zazazu?

All you people are just too funny!  This is why those that are scared of MATY regulars should just take everything they say with a grain of salt, unless of course, they're saying something helpful.  Those nuggets of wisdom they dole out, those you can trust.  These are experts here after all.

We've had wardrobe wrangler threads in here before, and threads about problems with the game in the podium, and even a lot of threads about inteen. I'm sure other people might be having similar problems anyway, so it will be useful to have it in the archives. Yes, it makes sense to post about this in the WW forum, but it isn't entirely out of place here, either. This entire argument is retarded. Everyone just chill the fuck out, okay?
/rant

I'm wondering if the workout clothes for kids are just borked altogether, seeing as they had no opportunity to wear them before FT. And I'd like to know more about this weird TSR tagging. How can we know if our downloads are infected, and how, exactly, can it be removed?

There was a thread (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10687.msg300758.html#msg300758) about this issue.

Me too... Could this content that is tagged cause serious errors in the game? I read the "limited potential for damage" part of the thread, but am not sure what type of damage is referred to.  I have been having a weird issue with character files disappearing lately (lost two kids already) and am in the process of narrowing down what could be causing it.  But I did download my first TSR stuff not too long before I started getting the weirdness, so the lightbulb just went off.

Best idea for TSR stuff is to get it from the Booty - see the newsbox and click on "Have you destroyed a paysite today"

The stuff from TSR available in Booty has the offending malware removed.

You mean ON?  :D

Downloading things from the booty won't be an option for a lot of items. Plus it was already suggested in the thread. But it looks like the entire process is incredibly complicated.  :P

You can install sims2pack files exclusively.  Pescado is quoted in Lord Darcy's post right up there ^ , saying that these are unaffected.

Eww. Like I want clothing from TSR. Objects!

Oh yeah, that wasn't exactly phrased correctly, was it?   ;D    I'll stick with the booty - I'm not a CC addict (yet  ;) ) so there's nothing I need badly enough to risk messing up my game or having files attached to it that I don't know about.

Do you mean that only clothes come in sims2packs, and you mostly want objects?  Specificity!
Unless something has drastically changed over there, everything, including entire sets of objects, is available as a sims2pack.

I could be wrong, and I've been avoiding TSR for a while, but I've never seen objects available as sims2packs. The sims2packs are the file format Maxis created to work with the cc created by bodyshop and homecrafter, the only "supported" (cough!) utilities. Unless there's an option in simPE to make something a sims2pack instead of a .package (again, I could be wrong about this), you won't get sims2packs for objects.

I'm not sure why you'd even want to do that, anyway?

There are Sims2Packs with objects in them at TSR, I have no idea how they were created though. Would it be possible to use CleanInstaller to do it?

You can create Sims2Pack files with SimPE.
Not sure if Sims2Pack files for TSR objects were built out of already infected package files or not.

I *think* that objects can be distributed in Sim2Pack format by placing them on a blank lot, packaging the whole thing, and then deleting only the lot with Clean Installer.

About children's workout clothes: When I had my custom fantasy/medieval 'hood, some of the children's clothing that I'd downloaded was coded so that it could be used in all categories, including workout wear. It never crashed my game, and I was able to buy it using JM's clothing tool, as well as Numenor's hacked coatrack, with no problems, so it CAN be done. Based on the evidence presented in this thread, I believe that TSR's 'security' coding is to blame for the OP's problem.

As far as Jfade has figured out from what others have also come up with, there is no true ryhme nor reason as to which clothes will cause the crash and which won't.  Jfade does not know how to by pass these security codes to make life easier.  Perhaps the date of these clothes are what might also be a factor.  I will have to try to remember to pass that on.

I myself have been successful with some clothes being switched over but others cause the crashes.  I don't know my way around simpe very well and not sure if I want to try.  So I can't comment on whether that will work or not, I think someone had mentioned this some time back.