More Awesome Than You!

Hello everyone.
Lunar Lakes was released and of course EA forgot to enable some of the items, namely the four crystals and the mailbox.

Having never created a package file before I managed to bumble my way through it and have succeeded in enabling the four crystals and the mailbox in the catalogue.

However, the crystals appear as small silver circles in any world other than Lunar Lakes. The mailbox appears fine in the lawn ornaments category. Crystals work fine in Lunar Lakes and are in the rocks category.

Please, does anyone here know what I did wrong? I'm sure it's a fair bit but please go easy on me, it's my first ever attempt at this sort of thing.

The files are on this page if any of you would be kind enough to take a look: http://www.thesimalogue.com/ts3-sci-fi-collection.html

I've removed the file for the moment until I learn what I'm doing better. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Mailbox is back up. It's an override version made thanks to the help of kissing toast, who helped me to work out what I was doing. In doing so, I went and unlocked some base game objects too, just for practice. They're all available here: http://www.thesimalogue.com/ts3-sci-fi-collection.html

Without the original packages and files it would be hard to figure out what you did. The only thing you should have done, in theory since I'm not doing it, is change the "shown in catalogue" to true instead of false in the OBJD files. That way you only need to include the OBJDs in your package, not all that other junk. If you are going to distribute these may I suggest doing this with the vanilla packages to make them default replacements for the legit users, then just decrap a copy of it for the pirates.

Hi Kissing_toast. Thank you for replying.

I see what I've done, then. I've messed it up by decrapifying them first.

There's my problem, I guess. I decrapped because I was unable to open the files to edit without doing so.
Can you suggest another way? I used S3PE. What am I missing?

Thank you for your help again. It's difficult doing this on my first go and I appreciate it.

Don't decrap, drag the file over s3rc only.

These objects have to be more than simply "unlocked" to be usable in other worlds because they are not separate objects from the Lunar Lakes package. To make them available for other worlds, they must be cloned and then unlocked. It's a really simple process, and only requires s3oc in addition to s3pe.

I've gone ahead and done it, and the links are below. But I apologize, as after I finished, I realized that maybe you would have like to have done it yourself. Oh, well. You can still do it yourself and ignore my files, if you like. Because these objects are cloned, anyone can use them, whether they have installed Lunar Lakes or not. Also, it does not matter whether or not you have a de-crapped Lunar Lakes.

Edit: Files have now been recompressed so that they are a bit smaller.
Edit 2: All rock crystals are now available in the World Editor. Please re-download if you want this functionality. Enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tq8h9ifkc71vyh4  -- all 4 rock crystals in separate package files.

http://www.mediafire.com/?76gcfjxh9s8xc7i  -- all 4 rock crystals in one merged package.

Thank you! I was hoping you would get this working, I really wanted these for my own town that I am working on! Can't wait for the mailbox!

I could have sworn you asked for a World Editor version. In any case, I did it. Just re-download them, if that's what you want.

Yes I did originally, but then I found them after I was looking for something entirely different.

Notouching, thank you very much. I actually gave up on the crystals because I just couldn't get them working.

Mailbox is done, fixed in first post. First time out of the gate, I'm glad I learned how to do this.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Hi nosoupforyou,
I have just installed that sci fi mailbox in my mods folder. The Resource.cfg file is okay and everything else shows up fine in the game but I can't find that mailbox.
In which category is it supposed to be?

Have you tried the buydebug menu?

Yep buydebug/misc, decoration/misc, entertainment/misc, even decoration/statues.

Do you have Cmomoney's Deletable Mailbox Mod?

http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-1580.html

You probably should have that.

Thank you Phthon.  :)
Well I have just visited this link and it says the deletable mailbox can be found under outdoors/lawn ornaments.
That gave me the idea to switch over to "categorize by room" and there I found the sci-fi mailbox (without having the deletable mailbox mod installed).
Odd thing is it doesn't show up when I use the "categoritze by function" mode.
Anyway my problem is solved now. ;D

Sorry for making it difficult to find. I put it in the same category as other people's unlocked mailboxes....but may have not put it in all categories people are used to.  :-\

It's only in room/outdoor/lawn ornaments

Equestrian Center Rabbithole in the style of Lunar Lakes (Portal).

This doesn't work. Sorry.

Oooh good work with the rabbithole!

Now that I'm starting to learn to do this a little I was poking around in the files.

I'm sure you guys already know but what's this sculpturefrancegargoyle from World Adventures?

It appears to be a missing statue but is marked to be show in the catalogue....but doesn't appear. Do I have a glitch?
Apparently it's called The Lonely Gargoyle.

It's in community objects under All. You'll need to be on a community lot to see it, unless you have Buzzler's Build/Buy Restriction Choker or a similar mod.

Thanks for replying. No, it doesn't appear. Neither under build/community objects/all nor in buy/décor/misc.
What on earth?

Are we talking about the same one?

Found a pic on MTS:

(http://thumbs2.modthesims.info/img/3/5/4/8/8/7/7/MTS_SimsMX-1111299-sculptureFranceGargoyle.jpg)

Yep, we are. Are you sure you looked in the All tab in Community Objects?

(http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p518/NonaMenaSims/lonelygargoyle.jpg)

Positive. My game hates me.  :o

(http://www.thesimalogue.com/uploads/4/4/2/1/4421597/1668801_orig.png)

This has been bugging me for a while but I've never gotten around to asking anyone about it.

OK, sorry. One of my mods has unlocked it (it doesn't show up in an un-modded game). Finding out which now. Yep. It's Buzzler's Build/Buy Restriction Choker which makes it available.

Thank you again.
I'll have to check that one out.
Why on earth would they leave it hidden?

Because that's a statue you must build in order to have?

That's what I thought at first, but it's a WA item, and sculpting came with AMB.

Also, Sims MX made a mod (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=410117) to make the Lonely Gargoyle statue sculptable in the first place, which is how nosoupforyou got that screenshot.

AHA!

/me smacks AIDE

Fair enough, but in my defense there is a question mark at the end of my answer and there was no indication that that picture was from a mod.

*puts bag of frozen peas over cheek*