I'm getting tired of my custom 'hoods. I've got too many of them, there are too many boring, useless sims in them, whine whine. So I'm gonna start over. (Right now, I'm collecting tutorials and asking questions first...)
This is what I want to do.
--Export some born in game sims from my existing custom 'hoods. There's a family I'd like to recreate later.
1. Open SimPE and use the neighborhood browser plugin
2. After it loads use the sims surgery plugin
3. It may take a while to load, go make a sandwich or something. Ok when it is done, an alphabetical list of the characters from your town will be in a separate window.
4. Pick Sim you want to extract and use as prototype for sim surgery. On that top area, there is a link called Extract that has a little thank you text from Quaxi. Just extract to Saved Sims folder. I recomend changing the file name to the name of your sim.
5. Repeat as necessary for all of your beloved sims.
Close SimPE and open Body Shop to make sure everyone is present and accounted for. If you have extracted sims that came with the game or children of game sims there may be no option to delete them. You can use extract for another sim and give it the same name as the one you are tired of and it will overwrite.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE!!
If you changed a sims' ugly maw with Danny's coa or Dr Vu's machine and it want to extract the new look YOU MUST alter the DNA as explained here:
1. Open Simpe, then open your neighbourhood via the neighbourhood browser
2. Open the Sim browser
3. Find the Sim that has recently been to the plastic surgeon (they're listed by their first name) and click "open"
4. You'll see a lot of info. Click on "more" and choose "open character file"
5. Then the character file of your Sim opens. On the left hand side you will see "Facial Structure", click it and on the right hand side two lines will appear (if you've done plastic surgery that is!!!)
6. Right click the second line and choose "Extract..."
7. Save the extracted file in a directory of your choice, KEEP THE ORIGINAL NAME
8. Back in Simpe, right click the first line and choose "Replace..."
9. Then select the file you just extracted. IMPORTANT: use the file with the .simpe extension NOT the file with the .xml extension!!!
10. The first line will go italics, telling you that it's been changed. Click "Save" and you're all done!