It would be interesting, though I don't know how possible, if there was a hack that extended the "family" mark if the sim had know the family member in question as a child, and made a sim completely off limits to anyone who remembered "teaching to walk" or any similiar wants. It would probably annoy as many people as it pleased, because it would somewhat limit family drama, but it could be interesting.

Especially if anyone can understand what I'm talking about.

If in need of a paint program, google GIMP. Has all the necessary functionality of Paint Shop, but is free. Open source is a wonderful thing.

I learned Animation Master last year. I'm not bad at working with it; my problem is that I never know what to do. If I already have a project, sure, but just doing something off the top of my head is hard.

Even slobs get desperate . . . and desperate people do desperate things.

Just found this out the other day, whilst surfing Mod The Sims 2. If you go into the package file for an eyecolor in SimPE, in the "Texture Overlay XML" file, (should be the last one in the list on the left) there's a value "genetic." It has a range from 0, maximum dominance, to 4, maximum recessiveness, with 0 being the custom default. Changing  this value allows you to make custom eyes that have a dominance of less than Overpowering.

I *think* that the "genetic" values in the Skin Tone XML and the Hair Tone XML, in their respective package files, do the same thing, but I haven't tested it so I can't be totally sure. I have a feeling that both are a tad more complicated than eyes, but I'll soon get 'round to testing it.

The Sims 2 is constructive, making it infinitely better than almost all other games on the market. You actually have something to show for you effort, beyond a bunch of numbers.

And society in general is screwy, not just American. Vive la revolution! (As soon as I finish high school.)

I probably like knowledge best. Skill building is fun, and getting abducted by aliens is even better. Mwahahah.

Family and popularity are about even. I use them as glue for neighborhood cohesion. Most of my couples have one or the other.

I don't dislike Fortune, but I don't particularly like them, either. Same thing with Romance. When I want to play old school sims 1 style, I go with fortune. When I want to play something challenging, or a change of pace, I play romance.

Pleasure sims are okay, but kind of irritating sometimes. Probably end up around Romance and Fortune. Grilled Cheese are good for a change of pace, or for punishing sims, but not something I'd want a whole lot of. Except for Grilled Cheese Alien Zombie Vampires.

Wooh! Crammyboy is here! He actually has a home now, instead of just sleeping on MTS2's porch. 

I like the idea of this site being the go-to place for global game modification type stuff. (And I personally think that the alien/vampire replacements fall under that category, but whatever.) MTS2 is a bit too anarchic to be a really useful development environment, and VS is both a little more focused on general hacking of the game and pushing the envelope on content creation techniques, as well as just having too much drama to be truly Awesome.

The one idea that I have, too keep things here from going too VS and fragmenting into a bunch of mini sites, is to keep discussions of the game and of hacking mostly in the Podium, the War Room, and Peasantry. At least for now, I don't think that individual modder discusion forums are necessary, and I don't think they'd be a good idea. It's a simple point, but I think that feature of this site goes a long way towards encouraging cohesion and cooperation.

Anyhow. Now we have three modders to annoy! Yay!

Eh? What? Did I miss something? What is it that I do? And if I don't do it, who does?

Oddysey: the Terminally Clueless.

I must agree, though. It is quite Orwellian. And I'm thinking that it may be time to bring out the "Ye Olde Revelator" schtick and unleash upon Rentech and Co. Or possibly point out, in a bad russian accent, that "Boris is not sending seven PMs, since Boris is not talking to anyone, let alone Rentech person. Boris would tell Rentech this himself, but is too busy leaving country to be involving self in paranoid fantasies."

I still occasionally read there, but haven't posted or tried to post in ages. I'll have to check to see if I'm on moderated or otherwise experiencing account weirdness. If I am, it may be time to dust off yet another persona. "Human, door, separate! Must fix!" <powers up arcwelder>

It was one of those idiotic "Letters Home" review type things. "I have an adult body, but still keep my teen face" or something along those lines. And the different texture is noticable for men, at least, but much less so for women. For me, anyway. Mainly because the textures for men have more forehead lines than the women.

Be careful around Mutant Bunny's cheese . . .

Realism. Pfffsh.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Realism? We don't need no stinkin' realism. Besides, it has a real science fictiony bent to it.

"Woohoo with" and "Have very first Woohoo with" are two different wants. They added "first woohoo," similiar to first kiss, in Uni.

It's not true if other people can't duplicate it.

If Maxis lets people use Edith, then they are theoretically responsible for what said people make with it, in the sense that they can be sued. At least, that's the official line: the lawyers made us do it. Personally, I think it's a case of EA being twitchy about "proprietary formats."

Edit: Looks to me like these classes are basically an employment advertisement to try to convince the best computer students to work for EA.

Pregnancy for all hack. Now on this site! TwoJeffs solves all problems unsolved by Pescado.

My sims rarely keep the clothes they transition with. That is what clothing tool is for. And I greatly appreciate your inclusion of maternity clothes. Between this and the "force redress" option my sims may actually have decent maternity clothes with the proper meshes.

I wish townies were generated off the elf template. I actually rather like that one, but nooo. Has anyone ever seen a townie with the elf template?

Brynne's sims? Everyone seems to like them.

Just so I know we're on the same page here, Jordi, you do know that I'm the person who thinks the game should be *less* realistic, right? I wasn't intentionally criticizing your playing style; I just have no tact. Although I'm not sure what blind people have to do with this . . . Eh. Anyway.

I just make sims how they occur to me. Since I hang out with a fair number of gay or bi people, I have a fair number of gay or bi sims. Like in most areas, my sims are generally reflective of my environment, quirks, and prejudices. My closest friends are all geeks and tech people, I have a disproportionate number of Knowledge sims.

Rather unrealistic. And how would I use TJ's "pregnancy for all" hack then? Playing all straight sims would be boring.

At least a couple of them, like the ones that alter cheekbones, are messing with more "structural" parts of the face, and thus have a greater chance of causing weirdness in the hands of an unskilled user. Probably they just didn't want to deal with people asking them why their sims faces went all weird when they smiled, or something.

"Oh frabjous day, calloo callay"

I probably spelled that wrong, but Lewis Carrol is dead, so I doubt he cares.

Do I see a "critical hacks" compendium in the future? Whee. Now Pescado has no excuse if his hacks aren't compatible with TJ's. No more "I'm not allowed on that site" business.

I wish happy was a verb.

Money! Money now! Not money later! Now!

And mighty warrior Yoshi has defeated many a foe by . . . er . . . eating them and turning them into an egg? I don't really know how else to describe it.

Wrath has rewards. Seeing the severed heads of your enemies arrayed upon pikes on your lawn, and the frightened stares of the neighborhood children is well worth the effort it takes to convince the police that it's just an extremely realistic Halloween decoration, six months early.




I've got to stop hanging out here.