More Awesome Than You!

For those of you that have your hand in modding and have gotten a look at the Pets object.package, how much does this expansion break change the code? Reading threads here and at other sites, it sounds like everything is fubbared a little or a lot if you you use mods and custom content.  ....But, in a lot of those threads, I'll see later posts where the person complaining about a problem still has mods in their game "assuming" that those particular mods couldn't be the source of their problem.  ::)

From what I've read:

• custom careers are fubbared
• custom foods are fubbared
• custom beds, couches and everything else that a pet might use would have to be updated for a pet to be able to use the object
• several threads have noted problems with jewelry not showing up...not so concerned about jewelry, but makes me wonder about Crammyboy's "jewels" and whether that awesome accessory has been effected
• have seen some reports of problems with Monique's computer and DocDoofus's lot limit mod....I need both of these on almost every lot I have.(  ...psst...Brynne - any problems with the number of sims on your lots?)

I was all ready to run out and get the game, but I cannot play a vanilla Maxis game anymore - *must have* mods and custom content in my game.

So, from the perspective of the modders and from *knowledgeable* mod users (ie, the people the actually RTFM and check compatability with other mods and game versions)......how good/bad is this expansion as far as breaking mods and custom content? Does it seem like *more than usual* is broken with this expansion or would you say it is like the *usual* Maxis fubbaring that we deal with for each expansion?

I couldn't even run the game. Errors all over the place and I finally just uninstalled it, and then reinstalled everything but Pets. :P

Yes, I was a dork and left a couple hacks in that DO NOT GET ALONG with Pets when I ran it the first time. That was stoopid. But I have to have them in my game, so...I'll just hafta wait.  :-\

Hmm, I heard careers are fine. I have a couple in and while I haven't tried them since installing ZOMGPETZ1111oneoneone the lots load just fine and nothing has exploding (like they did when uni came out).

Brynne I like the new av. It is so real looking i have to ask is it a sim? lol

Thanks! :)

No, it's not a sim. I just started working with Daz Studio and doing 3d graphics. That's a self-portrait I did earlier today. You can see a few more I did here:

http://vrevis.deviantart.com/

[/pimping]  ;)

Motoki, did you try getting your pets careers? I heard that what breaks about custom careers is that they interfere with the pet career deale-o

<quietly exhibits appreciation and extreme jealousy o'er Brynne's wonderful 3d avatar, images, and quick learning skills. quietly quietly quietly makin' noise>

I cautiously put LotFullOfSims back in last night, and nothing went haywire on me yet. I have 9 Sims and 2 pets currently on the test lot, and the dogs were able to try for puppies. I'll go back in now and see if it explodes when the puppies are actually born, though.

Crammyboy's "jewels" are showing up. Though, I've not yet tried clicking on them to see whether they're "functioning" properly.                                                                               

Puppy was born without any errors popping up at me. In fact, I haven't seen a single error since I installed.  :o

I'm ok so far, but I'm still at the vanilla stage of my game.  I'll start adding in JM's pet hacks first.

I was just over at MTS2 and Monique has posted an update to her computers.

Custom foods are fine.  I use a lot of them in my game and haven't noticed any problems.

Karen

the training "use toilet" for cats doesnt seem to work using custom toilets; the action only seems to work with Maxis toilets in my game
(Ive tried on 3 different lots and same result)

 :-\

Isn't that what you'd expect? - the custom toilets are going to need updating to add the new Pets actions.  Head back to wherever you got them from or junk them.


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Same with couches, beds, and tables and whatnot. I couldn't get my small dog to jump on a custom couch.

My sister just took a picture of a cat sitting on a cutom, pre-Pets counter. I think it depends on the object.

Well, I for one am glad the the custom couches, beds, counters, etc. don't work for the pets. I despise animals on the furniture, even more when it's a sim animal obsessing over it. As a matter of fact I just shoved my real sleeping kitty over the edge of the sofa. Hmph!

Oh, I agree, I hate that too. The cats get the old newspaper to the head when they do jump on the furniture. We just thought it was funny that it could interact with a custom object when Maxis mad such a fuss that they couldn't.

Besides, nearly all my houses have custom funiture anyway, which I would NOT redownload so the dog could plop his nasty behind down on it.







Checked spellng :P

Why do I always read that site as deviant tart every time I see a link to it? :D

p.s. You're getting pretty good with that Daz stuff. 8)

http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=25788

post # 15 ROTFL

Same here, TJ! I just thought it was my warped mind, lol.

Thanks for the compliment. ;)

Only errors I've seen since installing ZOMGPETZ1111oneoneone have been that my Sims tend to jump out of the "chat online with.." computer interaction if instructed to chat more than once in a sitting and that a Sim using the bathroom or potty training makes my Legacy lot lag like Hell. I killed almost all my hacks pre-install just in case and I'm about ready to purge most of my CC furnishings (I hate my loading time -_- ).

Yes they are functioning properly. :)

OT: Is the CBoy penis hack still available? I noticed earlier today that a lot of those adult hacks went poof.

Have you tried sexysims? It's where a lot of the ruder nuder stuff got moved from MTS2.
http://www.sexysims2.com/forums.php?

Yeah...

/me was referring to this incident http://www.sexysims2.com/showthread.php?t=167142

Ugh, this makes me want to junk all my custom furniture, which kind of sucks since I really like some of it, especially the Holy Simoly stuff.

So far I've just seen a cat on a custom counter. Is there any other custom furniture they can go on that was made pre-ZOMGPETZ1111oneoneone?

Any one using GunMod's camera settings - or any other camera settings that let you see the whole neighborhood? I copied over the camera settings I had before installing Pets and I can't see to the edges of the map any more. Any one else having this problem?

It looks awful. I liked the more Simmy Brynnes better. That one looks creepy, like one of those bad Poser figures that always look like corpses.

To see the whole neighbourhood go to My Documents/Sims2/ Cameras/ and edit the file NeighborhoodCamera.txt.
Substitute the line "constrain   .35 .35 .35 .35" with "constrain   .90 .90 .90 .90"

Thanks!

Talking about cameras, I stupidly copied my saved custom camera over the new ones without saving. Did pets change anything that I would be missing on? And could a kind soul send me the contents of the new camera folder if so?

You can just get it out of compressed.zip from the CD, you know.

compressed.zip\TSData\Res\Userdata\Cameras

Not in the mood, Pes.

Pfft, who cares what JM thinks.  He's a cranky old bastard with a long beard.  :P

I love that your avvie looks just like it is saying "Not in the mood, Pes."  ;)

Great idea! Glad I thought of that! ;)

Yes, well, all Brynnes suck.

Is that the best you can come up with, Pes?  :P

It's his version of flirting. 'sides, he's got to be all tired and stuff from the awesome mod fixage.  :D

I do not flirt.

Oh, it's so flirting. But flirting in the I like you, but I don't know how to deal w/ it properly so I must be a nasty little ass kind of flirting.

I make a lot of custom careers for personal use (since the whole OMG YOU'RE ILLEGALZ crackdown at MTS2), and none of them have any problems whatsoever. My custom objects work fine - Monique's computer has an update that I am loving.