Sol:- Thank you. I have never given much thought to the animated pic in the Hood selection screen. I've always supposed it was akin to the animated avatars some people use.

maxon:- Thank you for your clarification and the information regarding RIFF, it was much appreciated.

I concede I misread that bit of your post.


I have no idea what you mean by this. I don't care about this forums games of moar fight and other what not childish antics. Obviously from my profile you can see I am not a frequent poster here, and honestly I am not even that much a lurker here either. Once in a blue moon I come to check if the mods I have from here have had any updates then I leave. People being nasty to each other in the belief that it makes them clever is not something that interests me, I have no need to belittle someone to make me feel good about myself. Now that I make myself clear on that I shall move on from it.

Back to 'intro movies'.

Okay I think there is some confusion when each of us talk about this intro movie. When I am talking about the intro movie I am talking about the flyover cam that occurs when you first enter the hood. When you talk about the intro movie you seem to be talking about something else other than that and honestly I don't know what it is you are refering to if it is not the flyover cam.

To recap, you say that the .reia file doesn't effect the flyover cam, that the cam is tied to the actual worded name of the Eaxis hood (not the number), but the .reia file does effect the thing which you call the intro movie. If you don't mind me asking what is the intro movie you refer to (I am not trying to be a bitch, I honestly would like to know in order to better my comprehension of the matter)

I don' see how my information does not line up with your so-called personal experiences, apart from you claiming that the 'movie' does not reflect changes in your game. Since I have noticed this in my game long before I decided to go on this little search and others have posted of noticing the same thing in thier hoods, this just proves that you are not as observant as other people.

Now what is interesting of what you said is the fact that the 'flyover cam motion' can be replicated in custom hoods using a copied .reia file if the said custom hood is occupying the same N## as where the .reia file originated. This information shows that the .reia file has been programmed to only work for that N## slot. I am sorry Emma for missing this little tidbit in my search.


I believe I said in my post that I had no idea if it had anything to do with TS2 'intro movies' and I also admitted I knew 'sweet f all' about programming languages as well. But I thought someone with knowledge of such things may want to know of it so they can make that judgement call. As you said you do not have this knowledge so you are not of any authority to say if it is or if it isn't.

I am sorry for commiting necromancy.

I've been scanning threads in order to learn how to make my own 'intro movies' and the only info i can find shows that;

a) The intro is not actually a 'movie' but a pre-scripted cam motion, sort of like the special event camera.
b) The .reia file is what is responsible for this pre-scripted cam motion.
c) No-one knows how to make this said .reia file because they don't know the program that creates it and an internet search only brings up links about something real estate related.

However when I did my own google search, if you look amongst the real estate and the sims 2 who, what, where reia links I happened to find some links about a programming language called Reia. I have no idea if this has any relation to the .reia file in sims 2 as I know sweet f all about programming and languages and whatnot. But I thought that maybe someone in the sims 2 modding community who is knowledgeable about such stuff may be interested in the links, so I hope you don't mind if I post them here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reia_(programming_language)

http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language

http://tonyarcieri.org/articles/2008/08/05/reia-now-creating-modules-on-the-fly

http://github.com/tarcieri/reia/tree/f6cef38b832c02558ac35fdd05de652c50aaf2ca