More Awesome Than You!

In a game that is remarkably loose in some ways - think about the lifetime goals of romance sims - it's a PIA in others.

The Pleasant twins have switched partners in my game.  So I have badass Lilith with the Broke punk, and goodytwoshoes Angel with Dirk the budding preppy.  After they all graduated, I set their formalwear to wedding attire because that was next.  To amuse myself, I had the cleancut couple woohooing in the car every chance I got, while the punky kids were saving it for marriage.  Well, Angela got pregnant before the wedding, and when I had them get married, she wore a dress that I had never seen before.  A dark purple dress.

I had set her to wedding dress before she got pregnant.  Apparently a pregant sim won't wear a white dress as formalwear.  (It was the silvery spangled one, so it wasn't even a "wedding" dress.  Sheesh.)  WTF?

*sigh*

The white dress, assuming you actually planned it, lacks a pregmorph so the game will pick another outfit instead.

All of them?  It wasn't even the "real" wedding dress with the gloves, it was just a whitish one.  I don't often use the "real" wedding dress, but I do like light colored ones for weddings.

Silly of them, I think.  Lots of people irl get married after the woman gets knocked up.  And they DO parade down the aisle eight months pregnant in a big fluffy white dress...

it has nothing to do with morale. Some dresses just dont work with pregnant sims.

Before which ever EP (NL?) made it so you could select the type of outfit for the wedding, I had pregnant sims wearing the default wedding dress when they were married under the arch.  Maybe I had a glitch and didn't realize it.

If you did then I have the same glitch. The default EA wedding gown has a third trimester mesh. Now if only the breeding bride could still go with her shiny new husband on their honeymoon..

sigh...

BTW, NL still uses defaults. It was a later EP (that I don't yet have) that changed that parameter, OfB, I presume. Unless it was a stuff pack.

Since OFB sims just wear their normal formal wear during weddings.  If they are pregnant, they'll use one of the maxis formal dresses that have a pregnant morph.  The clothes are picked randomly, not based on the sims sexual history.

Yes, the standard (pre-OfB) white wedding dress works with pregnant sims too, it's the maternity formal dress that is different: the game pre-select maternity dresswear automatically, and ignore your setting, in everyday, formal, swimwear as well as undies.
Unless of course you use a specific hack, you can't choose what dress they will wear.

Hmmm, I still get the ugly default wedding clothes, and I have OFB. I haven't had any formal weddings for a long time, but a couple of weeks ago I had two in just a couple of days. And both weddings used the default clothes...  ???

I have OFB and Pets and my Sims wear the formalwear I've picked (or that the game has assigned, poor Valerie and the Mrs Claus dress) for their weddings.

I vaguely remember another thread about it being caused by a non-awesome hack, but I just got up... Will add the link if I find it.

Uh...is there even a way for the game to differentiate between dress colors? ::)

But no, pregnant sims will get married fine in a white dress...
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Very pretty wedding pictures, idtaminger!

Beautiful dress! Your slumping groom makes him look a little depressed, though.  :D

That looks exactly like the kind of man I would forbid my daughter from marrying. If I had one, anyway.

I miss the old maxis wedding dress.
Well, not actually the dress itself, but I miss the destinction between a wedding dress and just formal wear.
Does anyone know if anyone has made a hack to get it back?

WEll  consider yourself lucky my poor bride her groom wore a Santa Claus suit to the ceremony.  :P

You need this: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=202398
And similar hiders.  Keeps the game from generating townies with idiotic outfits.

I have one from VariousSimmers, it is called Wedding_Outfits.package ... sorry, I don´t have a link

Rose

Isn't the groom George McCarthy, by the way?

Thanks! All my sims have these grand affairs when they get married. I have sooo many pics of sim weddings, and pretty much none of anything else, lol. What can I say? I like nice weddings. :D

Some more piccies! These are my Capp Sims getting married on their estate:
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And Juliet getting married into the Montys:
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These killed me b/c I did them all in a row right after the kids got out of Uni. The weddings are always a pain in the ass to set up.


Ahh, I didn't have Twojeff's lazy animation fix back when I took this. Thank goodness for 2jeffs!


I was gonna say...YOU have a daughter? Lol.

Yep. He was my very first townie groom, in fact.  :P

Idtaminger, how do you get the brides to walk up the aisle like that?

I figured she got them to stand at the end of the aisle and forced the guests to sit down.  Then the groom clicked on the wedding arch and she walked down the aisle...

Well, I guess my paranoid delusion has been pretty much busted.  It just irks me that I can never get decent wedding pics. *grimaces*  I have no patience with Maxis maternity clothes, but it's not really important enough to me to hack it.  My computer is wimpy.

Logically, I can't see how the game would differentiate between potential wedding wear and normal formalwear.  But this game can be just plain strange.

Uh...it doesn't. As of OFB formal wear and wedding wear are one and the same. Before they get married you have to plan formal wear to a wedding dress of your choosing. And Squinge has a hack that allows your pregnant sims to wear their normal planned outfits. You don't have to hack anything. Just d/l this: http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=7238

*sigh*  Yes, I know.  I DO realize that I was being paranoid delusional about my game not allowing preg sims to wear white dresses.  It was merely a coincidence.  I concede, already.

And perhaps I should have corrected my grammar and said that I it wasn't important enough to me to use a hack - either Squinge's or anyone else's - because I try to limit the size of my download folder.

Yeah. 3kb. That's really gonna bloat your d/ls. ::)

Heh. Nice attempt to catch the slip, but we all know you are a fond grandpa of hundreds of little ankle-biters, which presumes some offspring, at least.  ;D

I'm picturing 100s of little ankle biters with pointy shark teeth....

Hardly. I just tend to think of crappy people in terms of who I'd forbid my non-existent children from marrying, such as your lazy, ugly, hairy-butted self. And two dogs doesn't quite count as hundreds of little ankle-biters.

See, I would have thought that you would be looking for mates for your partners who met crankiness and intelligence criteria, and that looks would have been much less of a genetic imperative for you.

Hacks are insignifficant in regards to the size of your download folder.  It's things with big textures that take up space.
Out of my 3,3 GB of custom content, less than 8MB are hacks.

I've just cleaned out my hacks for Pets - big cleanout - down to 17.4Mb now.  :D

At the risk of offering myself up for further ridicule, I did a survey of my downloads folder...

Clothes (no meshes) 23 MB
Genetics (no meshes) 2 MB
Hacks 2 MB
Makeup 400 KB
New Mesh Objects 1 MB
Object Recolors (no meshes) 78 MB
Walls & Floors 4.5 MB

Total 111 MB

Experience has told me that anything much larger causes my game to lag and freeze.  I'm hoping to get a new graphics card for Christmas, and try to keep my software and drivers updated.

I'm grateful for what I have, though.  After my last 'puter died, I was out of luck for a while. *shivers thinking of the withdrawal symptoms*

I have less than you, at 78 MB. :P

50MB of my downloads is taken up by my replacement skintone set, and the skintones I have "in-between".

My spectrum goes S1 - C1 - S2 - S3 - C2 - S4 - C3 with my S2 being Maxis S1 (S1 is ultra-pale), and S4 Maxis S3 (C3 is just slightly lighter than Maxis S4). The other skintones are in a general range. Of course now with Pets I need to edit them to have correctly coloured werewolf textures :/

I just checked, and my Hacks folder alone is 67.5 Mb. I knew I was a d/l junkie...but wow. I myself was shocked at the size of it.

I love it when we all get out our dl folders and shake them around.

610 MB.   

Whups, I've become the people I used to mock. :-[ That should be on my gravestone, really.

Here are the default wedding outfits - it's just a tiny file. Unzip it to your downloads folder.

Thank you, Morague.  :)