Decostumized and Updated Exchange and Other Maxis Stuff - (Updated 2009/01/02)

[Richief]

Lies & Propaganda, this means that the Burnout Paradise recolor (the reason of hi and lo res) is not included. It only includes the yellow, blue, gray and red recolors of the car.

[SharonSims]

Thanks for that, but I dont really want the sims and their outfits nor makeup, I just want the hair (why do they keep making hairs and not putting them in the game? the basegame and the expansions have serious lack of hairs), how can I seperate the package to hair only?

By the way, the Kurt sim hair is a stolen hair from OFB 

[Richief]

You can try to open the package and delete everything that doesn't look related to hair; property sets, face/arch xml, textures, etc.

[SharonSims]

I tried, I deleted the outfit and make ups prop sets, textures... but they just dont show up 

[Richief]

  That should solve the problem... Try deleting 3IDRs and binary index, you can know which 3IDR belongs to which object beacuse they reference their TXMT and property sets.

[SharonSims]

But how am I supposed to know which binary index is for the hair, which is for the face, which is for the outfit... etc.?

[Richief]

Try deleting 3IDRs and binary index, you can know which 3IDR belongs to which object beacuse they reference their TXMT and property sets.

3IDRs reference the item's mesh, its collection, its property set and its text lists. Clothing & hair usually have two 3IDRs, unless they came from BodyShop (not this case); the first one has the same group and instance as the property set (the one with name: Kurt Outfit, Julie Face, etc) and it references the object's mesh. The second one has the group and instance of the binary index, it references the item's collection and property set.

Example, Kurts Outfit's property set (GZPS) and 3IDR has:

Group	Instance
0xEF83431B	0xD15BA3F8

Instance (high) or SubType/Class ID is always 0x0. You can now delete this two, you're missing BINX and another 3IDR. Open each 3IDR and look for the one that references Kurt Outfit property set, you can know this by seeing the Instance and Group number match the one of Kurt's (above). And that'll be:

Group	Instance
0xEF83431B	0x315BA3FB

Delete 3IDR and BINX with this Instance and Group number. Now delete the mesh parts (GMND, CRES, SHPE, TXTR, etc) this one is easy. You're done

[SharonSims]

Yea... I already know that.
I wanted to know what binary index I should delete, you said I should delete them.

[Richief]

I already explained that, re-read.  If you already knew that, why asked how to identify each 3IDR?

[SharonSims]

I asked about BINX, not 3IRD but thanks, I'll try that, sorry for my unawesomeness 

[Richief]

Delete 3IDR and BINX with this Instance and Group number.

I told you, re-read.

[Tamha]

Thanks for posting some of that information for removing some of the extraneous information from the packages for the sims. If one wanted to remove just the facial template and the hair, but leave clothes and makeup (in several of those I have all ages versions of the hairs I prefer), would there be any other instructions I'd need?

[rhldavies]

Richief, could you decustomise some Maxis Valentine's Day items please?

[Richief]

Which downloads? Most of them are already decostumized. Argon decostumized some items here.

[rhldavies]

These ones apart from the bear and the bunny painting which you've already done. 
Argon has decustomised the Fiona download (Maxis valentines day underwear) but not the others that I can see.

[Sarahsuke]

How does one remove the celebrity face archetypes?

[Argon]

These ones apart from the bear and the bunny painting which you've already done. 
Argon has decustomised the Fiona download (Maxis valentines day underwear) but not the others that I can see.

Eh? I distinctly remember doing the glasses, maybe they didn't get uploaded. I was angry with the wigglers for being L&P when they were released so they haven't been very high on my to-do list 

If I find them I'll upload the glasses, but it'd be in my stash of files from a couple hard drive formats / years ago so I don't make any promises.

[rhldavies]

Eh? I distinctly remember doing the glasses, maybe they didn't get uploaded. I was angry with the wigglers for being L&P when they were released so they haven't been very high on my to-do list 

If I find them I'll upload the glasses, but it'd be in my stash of files from a couple hard drive formats / years ago so I don't make any promises.

You don't have to go to that much trouble but thanky very much Argon!

[Para]

What's about this stuff? -> Chickenhat, Bunnysuit and Aloha Bunny Swimsuits (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
It would be nice if they could be decustomized, too.

[Richief]

I'll include all those.

[Tamha]

I've wanted the heart-shaped glasses as well, and was surprised that they weren't included in the previously linked download from Argon.

[Sarahsuke]

Ignore my previous question, I somehow got rid of the archetypes by deleting the face paint in Body Shop. Anyways, another good thing to decustomize would be the Tata Young dress, since the hair is already included with Bon Voyage.

[Richief]

Deleting CC via Body Shop may cause BFBVFS. I recommend following the instructions I gave to SharonSims. I'll also include that dress in the next update.

[Sarahsuke]

Deleting CC via Body Shop may cause BFBVFS. I recommend following the instructions I gave to SharonSims. I'll also include that dress in the next update.

Bah, I figured it wouldn't be that easy. I guess I'll just redownload the files and comb through them with SimPE, then. Thanks for the help.

[Thunderwolf]

I would like to ask you, do they work together with Argon's Decustomised Exchange Stuff ?
Also do you plan to incluede Andy, Lukas and Paolo in this great set together with Tata Young the Valentine & Easter stuff from the Exchange? Because in this case, I'll wait for your decostumized items. And maybe the Sims 2 Magazine items? As long as I know most of them are Maxis made objects.