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Title: Looking inside objects.package? Post by: dmchess on 2005 November 23, 11:53:07 (I hope it's okay to post an elementary modding question here. I was thinking of posting in the Bowels of Trogdor, but I decided I wasn't nearly tall enough.)
I'd like to poke around in the internal data for various of the builtin objects in the game. For mods I do this by opening the mod package in SimPE, but builtin objects are (I believe) in objects.package, and that's like thirty-seven meg or something and when I point SimPE at it SimPE goes away for a very very very long think, and when it's done (or seems to be done) it only shows like one object, and that object doesn't make any sense. Am I just Doing Something Wrong, or is there some other generally-accepted method for looking into / extracting things from objects.package? Tx very, DC Title: Re: Looking inside objects.package? Post by: Inge on 2005 November 23, 12:09:01 It's better to use the Classic Interface for looking in objects.package, I have found.
Title: Re: Looking inside objects.package? Post by: dmchess on 2005 November 23, 14:42:59 It's better to use the Classic Interface for looking in objects.package, I have found. Ah, thanks very, that's working much better! Bean for you! Now I just have to figure out what all these liddle numbers and stuff mean, and I'll be all set...;D DC Title: Re: Looking inside objects.package? Post by: Christianlov on 2005 November 23, 15:01:14 Not sure it may help you, but in my case, I usually first translate the whole object.package using diasim2 written by shy and dizzy2, then I look up what I'd like to find in the txt file. Then I open object.package and pick up the part I want using the group filter feature of SimPE. All the numbers are nothing if you use disasim2 and PJSE, you can do it!
Title: Re: Looking inside objects.package? Post by: Pegasys on 2005 November 23, 16:46:06 Where might this diasim2 be found? Perhaps it might help me with my quest to get text out of the package files for the database!
Title: Re: Looking inside objects.package? Post by: dmchess on 2005 November 23, 19:13:31 Where might this diasim2 be found? Perhaps it might help me with my quest to get text out of the package files for the database! DisaSim2: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=862133 (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=862133) Haven't tried it myself, but looks promising...Title: Re: Looking inside objects.package? Post by: syberspunk on 2005 November 23, 19:32:01 I also recommend downloading firefox and using disaSim2 to split the object package into html files.
Html files because it's nicely formatted and a lot easier (at least for me) to read and search through. Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) because (at least on my computer) the html files take forever to load with IE (I have Windows XP) AND search through. Ste |