More Awesome Than You!

Please forgive me if this is a really stupid question, but seeing as how I got absolutely no help at MTS2, I figured I may at least get pointed in the right direction by asking here.

I have about three sims that I had downloaded a long time ago and had installed them as per usual. They appeared (and still do) just fine in BodyShop, but when I went to find them in Create A Sim, they didn't appear at all. I had tried the obvious (namely, making sure they are of the correct age group; packaging them up and placing them into the Saved Sims folder), but nothing that I did seemed to fix this little snafu. Any ideas as to what could be wrong, and/or how I could fix it?

Also as a side note (although this really doesn't trouble me all that much), I occasionally have sims of the opposite gender showing up in CAS, but when I click on them, the sim appears as a different sim altogether (as the 'correct' gender). Could this also play a part in the problem I'm having?

I've had the same problem recently with one Sim - it's the weirdest thing.  I haven't put much thought into it though.

As for the other, try deleting your CAS thumbnails, which should correct your problem.

I have recently seen this in my game with some of the MATY sims I have downloaded from this site. I have also noticed that I can have two thumbnails of the same personi CAS, but when clicking on them they show up as different sims. I'm curious as to what causes this also.

I was just going to ask if this could be what your problem is as I've run into that, too.  (You really shouldn't whisper in here--I'm getting old and can't hear so well. LOL)

You said you're packaging these sims up and moving them to the Saved Sims folder?  You shouldn't need to package them at all, just find their .package files and move them.  Hmmm.  Now I'm trying to remember where on earth those are kept!  I declare, this game was programmed so the general masses were supposed to be able to do anything and everything on their own with no help, and in the process ended up being programmed so stupidly it takes an act of congress to actually find something when it doesn't work properly!

You aren't doing what I was doing yesterday and looking for young adults in neighbourhood CAS are you? After Blue reminded me yesterday I went to the Uni Cas and found my little simmy there.

Also make sure you're looking in the right gender/ agegroup for the sim. Delething the thumbnail files will solve the problem of the incorrect sim showing up on the thumbnail picture.

Yes BlueSoup and simsample, deleting the thumbnails did help with that other problem, thanks. But I still cannot figure out why these three sims absolutely refuse to show up in CAS. I tried cloning them, I tried modifying them, I even tried removing the Downloads folder, restarting/exiting BodyShop, then replacing the Downloads into the newly created empty folder and restarting the game, but nothing I do seems to work at all. I really don't understand why these three in particular are fighting with me.  >:(

Perhaps you could upload them here and let some of us look at them, too, to help you figure it out the problem?

Completely off topic but denimjo, your avatar is lovely, would you consider maybe uploading her? (Is that your sim-self?)
(And no, I have nothing helpful to contribute, sorry! :-[)

I'm sorry if this is a stupid comment, but I've noticed that if I extract a sim with SIM PE, then the sim will show up in Body shop, but not in CAS until I load the saved sim in Body shop, and save it (at which point it writes one of those incomprehensible files).

Sure, I'll upload the three problem sims, if you'd like. :) Give me a few minutes to upload them to a file-sharing site and I'll post the links.

ETA: Here's (http://rapidshare.de/files/18619464/Sirius_Black.Sims2Pack.html) the link to the first one. Size: 3.7 Mb. Sorry. :(
ETA: Here's (http://rapidshare.de/files/18619594/James_Potter.Sims2Pack.html) the link to the second one. Size: 885 Kb.
ETA: Here's (http://rapidshare.de/files/18620050/Remus_Lupin.zip.html) the link to the third. Size: 3.8 Mb. Sorry again. I would've put them into .rar format, but with IZArc, I don't know how.

KellyQ, the sim in my avatar is actually a character I created for a forum-based RPG I have just gotten into. I would be more than happy to upload her for you as well. :) I'll provide a link in a few minutes.
ETA: Here (http://rapidshare.de/files/18620138/Shi_Li.zip.html) you go. Enjoy!

Gethane, do you mean make a clone of the sim? Because I've tried that and it still doesn't work. Although I can't do it the way you describe, because I can't even get them into the game in the first place.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to try to help me. :D

Thanks very much, denimjo ;D

Please forgive me for bringing this up again, but I was wondering if anyone had had a chance to take a looksee at the files to see if anything was wrong with them. I really am completely and utterly baffled as to why those three just ain't workin'.

I have just downloaded them and am going to run them through the course.

Do you have a link to the original file denimjo so i know what im looking for?

Scratch that I have no new sims showing up in either cas or bodyshop, is it possible that they had recolours that require cep that maybe you don't have installed.  Would be interesting if someone that had cep installed could test them.

The filenames ought to give you a clue -- they're all Harry Potter characters. ;) Hm, guess I'll check them out myself.

I'm sure there is more than one creator of harry potter characters out there.

Well, I didn't have any trouble identifying them, since I haven't got any other Sims in Gryffindor uniforms saved. ;)

Anyhow, they show up just fine in my game -- here are screenshots of them in Create-A-Student (yes, these are young adult Sims -- I made sure to check in Body Shop before I went looking for them in the game).

James: http://pics.livejournal.com/akatonbo/pic/0003f5fz
Remus: http://pics.livejournal.com/akatonbo/pic/0003gky0
Sirius: http://pics.livejournal.com/akatonbo/pic/0003hksy

Ahhhhhh, I see. Thank you all for your assistance. Simlover, you were absolutely correct; that was what I was doing wrong. I feel so incredibly stupid right now it's not even funny. Well, maybe it is to you all, but not to me.  :-[ How could I have missed that they were Young Adult sims? *beats the ever lovin' crap out of self*

In the future, if I ever manage to piss anyone at this site, please feel free to reference this thread and I will be properly cowed and lose the will to express myself anymore. This is humiliating... it's like a college professor not knowing how to save a file. *shame*

I would never do anything so horrid, besides I have my fair share of stupid days!

Don't feel bad, I also looked a the three Sims in Body Shop, but did not immediately realize they were YAs.  I was going to add that I had checked in CAS and all the necessary components were there, custom genetics and clothing - about 9 files worth, but no Sims.  When I went back into BS, I cloned them and deleted the originals (to check for Body Shop stability) and then realized they were YAs.  I created another set, regular Adult Sims, and found that the Hogwarts uniform was categorized for both YA and adults.  So now I have a set in both age categories that can be played in either Uni or the regular neighborhood.

Glad you are good to go now and that your issues are resolved.

SM