More Awesome Than You!

Hi folks,

Just wanted to let you know that as of now Jen and I have free floors and paintings available at our site: http://www.theliteratesim.com/. We plan to offer more freebies in the future.

We hope you enjoy these, as we enjoy all of the wonderful items available here on MATY!

-christin

I love your site but I am annoyed that the set of floors I downloaded are in sims2pack form, Could you please upload package files?

SimsBaby, all Homecrafter stuff (walls/floors/groundcovers) are in .Sims2pack form. Just open your Downloads folder, install the file, and watch for the file to appear at the bottom.

Not all homecrafter items, some sites have the files in package form.

It is possible (and polite) for the creator to unpack the files for us and offer just the package files.
I hate downloading 20 floors and find that they all come in individual sim2packs.

Three clicks, no matter how many sims2pack files you have.  Just move your house files somewhere else when you use this, or it will dump all that custom content out loose. Pain in the wazoo.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=37577

I'm sorry you're not happy with the Sims2Packs, but for one thing when you import something into the game they get totally meaningless names and frankly I have far too many downloads in both of my Windows accounts to try to sort through. And packaging allows me to add descriptions and a custom file name so it's easier for me and the downloader to see what the file actually is. And I've seen far far more sites offer floors and walls as Sims2Packs as downloads than .package files. Also, please keep in mind we do this for free, and in fact this site costs us money as we pay for hosting and are not asking for nor accepting donations of any kind.

MokeyHokey, thank you so much for that link! I'm going to have to check that out ;D

Jen

You don't have to keep the original package name, the game won't care if you change it, and how hard would it be to include a simple readme file?  That way you could use a program like WinRAR to compress them into smaller files.

As for your millions of downloads to sort through, I always keep mine in separate folders according to where I got it and who created it. The downloads folder alows you to use subfolders you know...

Edit: btw, this was meant as suggestion, rather than criticism

Yes, I'm aware of that. I don't have unlimited time to spend on this stuff, though, and you don't have to download it.

Thanks for the link, and sorry so many people seem to feel you should spend all your time doing stuff for them for free.  >:(  I appreciate every free Sim site, and if I have to spend a bit more time with the downloads, well then, that's my choice if I want to download them.

Thanks again.  :)

Thanks Blue :) Good to know someone appreciates the hours of work those floors already took. Not to mention C's lovely pictures, both extracted and original.

Jen

Eeeeep. Thanks for the floors, there were some really awesome wooden ones!

Oh really people.  What happened to not looking a gift house in the mouth.  Just use the multi sims2pack installer found here http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=37577 to extract the content of the package files.  It works just like winzip does on zip files, but it doesn't create a bunch of garbage file names like the sims installer does..

Thank you Simliterati for offering this to the sims community!!  It's appreciated.  IF it wasn't for people like you we would be all stuck with Maxis content .... UGH!

Hmm well it is Maxis content but you know what I mean!

PS.  I love your victorian sidings and wallpaper.  Nice stuff !

Thanks for the compliment, angelyne, I really appreciate it. :) And thanks to everyone who enjoys our site: as is. ;) Everyone else needs to speak with the Cheese Wench.  :P

-christin

Well, as I said before, I can't use those programs because I am using a macintosh and I don't like opening 150 files by hand.

Then fuck off then! Oh did I type that out loud!
Thanks Jen and Simliterati.  I certainly appreciate your efforts.

lol! Sandilou, let it be known we love you. :D

And it was 56 files, not 150.

Clearly anyone with baby in their screen name cries like one.

Bluesoup, do you have any Mac-compatible cheese for his whine?

 ::)

If she doesn't, I'll offer mine. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/Hairfish/3pct.gif)

Can you offer that cheese in a package file, please?  :P ;)

Jen and Simliterati, I really can't see what the fuss was, the freebies I downloaded were ready to either copy or move straight into the download folder.

Also, lazy me puts all instant packages into one folder, selects all, then clicks install.  The Sims2 Installer comes up as normal and the whole lot get done at once. 

I guess someone just wanted a big whinge. 

Lol Sandilou.  That was so refreshing.  thanks :)

There was a time when people didn't look gift horses in the mouth. But those people were all killed by angry Grecians. Since then, gift horses have always been carefully inspected.

Howdy partner. Long time no see. Seems just yesterday I posted a link to our sim 1 work here.

sara!!! yay, you're back!   :D

Mr. Pescado, I believe we were referred to as a "gift house", not horse. :D

Hairfish, thank you, that was great! (lol!)

That was obviously a typo, since that's the TRADITIONAL expression. Also, "houses" don't have mouths.

*cough* fun house? with clown face? *cough* Ahem.

*runs & hides behind jen and sara!*  ;D

Well, I'd like to add my thanks for the floors, and I have no complaints.  I always use the multi-installer anyway, when necessary, so it makes no difference to me whether it's one sims2Pack or 50! 

Although it's nice when files do come in package form, it isn't, in my book, a requirement!  And it's a case really of, if you don't like it, too bad!  Let's face it, though, if you want the files badly enough, you'll make the effort to unpack them!

Reading this thread has brought to mind a question, and I'm not sure if this is a good place for it or not, but does anyone but me have trouble extracting sims2pack files into the game with the in-game extractor since OFB?  I'd forgotten I hadn't re-installed Clean Installer and tried to add some walls and floors and if they went into the game I don't know where because they didn't go into the Downloads directory.  Very bizarre!

Having said that, I make a few of my own walls and floors and since I like to re-name them myself after they're created, I keep an Explorer open to the Downloads folder, make a few of them writing down which stuff I just made, then close HomeCrafter and re-name the files in the Downloads directory accordingly, then move them over into the directory where I keep my stuff.  And let me tell you, it's a pain in the wazoo!

I think it's actually EASIER for me to install floors and walls I download one at a time using Clean Installer, then renaming them before moving them into their respective folders.

I used to do those handy-dandy multi-installer tools but I won't anymore.  I ended up with such a jumbled mess of junk in my game and if something wasn't showing or not working properly the only way to get rid of it was in-game.  Now at least I know where everything is, even if it takes a few minutes to arrange it, and when something goes haywire it's simple to find and delete (thanks to JadeElliot for recommending a good system a while back).  I've also found it doesn't take hardly any more time to extract the files as I'm downloading them (like while waiting on other files to download or pages to load) one at a time than it did to wait until I had a mess of them and install with one of the tools.

I can't believe you're still using it. Re-install clean installer already!

I always prefer the multi-installer for walls and floors.  I keep copies of the shortcut in every folder in my new downloads folder!  (They end up there anyway because for some reason, since I moved everything onto my second hard drive, I can't move anything with the mouse, except within folders,  only copy!  Everything I want to physically move has to be done through windows...a pain, but there it is!)Anyway, whenever I get a new batch of sims2Pack files, I make a folder for the set and chuck them all inside with the multi-installer and let it rip!  Takes about a minute no matter how many wall and floors there are.  Then I copy the folder to my walls and floors folder in the game, slip in any pics of the set, and send it all into storage in my saved downloads.  And with the multi installer, no ridiculous long file-names to irritate me.

As someone who is hopeless at creating, all I can say is a great big thank you to those who can, and do, and are willing to share their work. 

                     THANK YOU!

That's because when dragging files from one drive to another, the default action is to copy. When dragging between different folders on the same drive, the default is to move. You can override the default by dragging with the right mouse button instead of the left - when you let go, a menu will pop up with the options to Copy Here, Move Here, or Cancel. Or, ctrl+drag (left button) to force a copy, and shift+drag to force a move.

I think someone did explain it to me once before, but thank for clarifiying what happens, and it makes sense really since they are two separate drives.  I'll try and remember next time I want to dump something from my E-drive to the desktop!