glad I could help...   

Birman Kat

Thanks a lot.  I will be doing an update to the site soon and including the warning.  I will most likely wait for the transition to The Kat's Meow, instead of updating the old K & B Designs site.  Once I do, I will update the link here, and in my sig.  

@ Nepheris:
  Try the base game hoods on K & B designs (Link in my sig).  I think that they are good.  If not PM me and I will see what I can do.


Birman Kat

Oh Kay, Now for the big part.  I have been reading some messages that say there are a few problems with the hoods.  Has that been resolved.  (IE  trying to buldoze an apartment and being told that they had to move some "Unnamed" family out, even though there were no families there.)  Has that issue been resolved?   Or is that issue with a different hood?  Also, I am assuming that E002_Neighborhood.pkg is the "Stealth Hood" for AL, Am I correct in that assumption?

Birman Kat

OH Kay,  once again.


Ok...   I grabbed the two empty hoods from giggy, and have a question about them.

Are these hoods cleaned, and empty?  Or are there sims in them?  I need to know this before I add them to the collection I am hosting on K and B Designs.  (BTW  the name and URL will be changing soon.  Preview of name:  The Kats Meow.  Have to change the name, because some meatheads keep emailing me asking where the kitchen and bath stuff is.  D**b you EAxis for using that name.)

Birman Kat

PS  I need this info before I add these files.  Also, is there a method to clear the Apartments?  If so, could somebody turn it into a text file and I will put it up as a tutorial on my site (full credit will be given to the maker of this method.  I do not have AL yet, nor Seasons, so I cannot test it out.)  Please help me to help all of you.

BK

Ok...   I grabbed the two empty hoods from giggy, and have a question about them.

Are these hoods cleaned, and empty?  Or are there sims in them?  I need to know this before I add them to the collection I am hosting on K and B Designs.  (BTW  the name and URL will be changing soon.  Preview of name:  The Kats Meow.  Have to change the name, because some meatheads keep emailing me asking where the kitchen and bath stuff is.  D**b you EAxis for using that name.)

Birman Kat

I am not the only one who would say thanks for that one, Emma.  Please check the site in my sig to see if all the files are there and un-zip/rar properly.  I know there have been issues with some unpacking programs and hope that I have been of some help.

Birman Kat

If you find any, or do your own, let me know and I will add them to the site for all to download...   I have something important to do this weekend with my son, but I hope to get started on a few tutorials on using the templates, and getting either custom townies, or useing the face templates to get not so fugly ones 

Birman Kat

Updated my site with some new templates that Argon worked up.  K and B Designs now has all the templates there, and I will be doing up a tutorial soon, hopefully this weekend.  Not to mention I am going to try to get the walls floors, paintings, and such that my wife and I did up too.

Find the templates in the Empty Templates section at K and B Designs   http://kandbdesigns.vndv.com/index.html


Birman Kat

I third it.  I was trying to get my sim to go to work and he keeps pulling the binoculars from his ass to watch birds.  And is there a hack that can get a more even spread on the hobbies?   I made four families and it seems that most 9 out of 12 of the sims are nature.  This means that they are all trying to watch birds/hunt bugs.

Birman Kat

Great looking house Emma, I am sorry that I can't use it because I don't have seasons, and refuse to install Ikea.  Have not managed to get seasons as a gift, don't have money for a copy, and can't find a working torrent for it either.  Every torrent I have downloaded turned into a dud.  But will wait until I get seasons then comeback for it. thank you...

Birman Kat

Very good.  I personally would have left in the wraparound porch, but that might be just me.  Good use of space and fantastic color selection.  This will be a good addition to my party families.  Thank you

Birman Kat

Will do and thanks.   I want to announce here that K and B Designs is now up and running at http://kandbdesigns.vndv.com/index.html  And has the files that I grabbed all sorted and ready for Download.  I will be working on a Tutorial for the simple folk but that will take a bit longer.  Thanks for all the help.

Birman Kat

I noted in one of Argons posts that he had done all the hoods from base to Seasons done just like his clean hood of pleasentview and the Bon Voyage one.  I would like to get my hooks into those too, to give people a choice of flavor.  Plus if you have any others that have been cleaned (ie maxis only families with now fuglified townies that would be a help.  Sorry if I am not making much sense now.  Been up for almost 36 hours and working on vapors right now.

  Also, went to your spot on Laverwinklesims and DLed  all the hobby masters that you made, Thank for doing that.  Will be registering there when my brain is fully funtional.  Most likely need at least 12 hours of sleep for that.

Ciao fer naio

Birman Kat

Ok, then I need all the files that I can get my claws into.  I already grabbed the ones that were up on 4 shared, urk...  I hope that I can locate the ones that Argon did for all the neighborhoods, from Base to Seasons, and anyothers too.  I will also need a list of the hacks that are going to be needed to keep the game from going up in a BFBVFS.  I hope that I will not come to regret this offer of help in the future.  K & B Designs  (Read it  Kalico and Birman Kat Designs, NOT Kitchen and Bath)  was originally set up top showcase any creations by my wife (Kalico Kat from MTS2) or myself.  Now I am going to be using it to help anybody else avoid having to slog through over 20 + pages to get the files needed and the methods to use them.


Birman Kat

  My thanks to all the folks here who tested these templates out, and/or cleaned them up.  I was looking to start a new game and have all EP's save Seasons, and all the Stuff packs (except Ikea (read I-Kill-Ya)) installed.  Now, If I read this right,

I rename The Sims Folder in My Documents,

Back-up all the neighborhoods from each expansion pack

Delete the Character folder and the ?00?_Neighborhood.package file from each of the EP directories

Place the empty template (IE the ?00?_Neighborhood.package file) that I downloaded into the respective folder for the EP

Start the sims going to generate all the files, then exit.

Then place my saved downloads folder in the new The Sims 2 directory (which contains the Selzi defluglified face templates.)

Go into the game once again and create a sim, plop him/her on a lot and spawn the townie maker.

Then make a batch of townies using the new face templates and the HPs replacement names.

Thanks to you PepsiHamster for asking the question that I was going to ask concerning the hobby masters.

  Now for something totally different.  I am thinking of setting up my old site K & B Designs, and am asking if I could put the files for the clean and empty neighborhoods up their.  I would give credit to all of you who contributed, and claim none for me, save the holding of them  .  Trying to get them all off of 4 shared, and fishing for them through the thread (23 pages or so Oy!) was a royal pain in the backside, And if I can help anybody else avoid that problem I would feel better.  Not to mention helping out all of you folks in return for doing this for the simming community. 

Birman Kat

This is a personal thing.  Me, I would not pay for them for any reason, luckily mine were gifts for the holidays.  But as to worth the download?  I would say yes.

Delurking for this one.  I agree with all the suck-off-rom theories.  Saw a friends system, (brand new p4 2.8 gig) start to act like it was a 386 with an anchor on it.  follow the directions from the thread on removing suck rom, then google Game copy world and search for a cracked no-cd exe.  use that instead of the laucher.   I have doing that since Eaxis put that piece of crap in their games.

Birman Kat