File that decides Maxis "townies"' names

[Nepheris]

Odd names do not bother me, it's the genderconfused ones that I hate. My whitey sims can go on being a Latoyah or Mei-Lin for all I care, but a sim will *not* be called Carmen while sporting stubble. That's just... no. Do not want.

[GypsyKate]

Thank you, Jordi.  The weird names were making me feel like committing Simicide!

[Silverdrake]

I like multicultural names, but Bimble has got to go! I'd love to be able to import my own list.

[Mootilda]

I'd love to be able to import my own list.

I believe that the MTS link above has instructions on how to do this yourself.

[Ayrell]

Awesome! Thank you very much!

Jordi, does yours work with all versions (languages) of the game?

[Ayrell]

Oh, that's too bad. Thanks for clarifying.

[Nemamiah]

Just popping into this thread for a gander and to show what happens when my Sim impregnates random townies:


Jamie Jolina and my first Sim managed to poot out an almighty fuglet though...

[Motoki]

If you think that is bad I switched away from my main house for a bit and when I came back the one sim had dropped her kid and named it Kermit.

Well, he's a toddler now and does do a lot of flailing.

On a semirelated not to modding the names, it's not possible to replace some of the default string table values without replacing all of them is it?

I ask because I have tweaked a couple of things like changed the name of the "custom" radio station and changed the babysitter to nanny to match the elder babysitter mod I am running, but when I tried to yank out just those values and put a string table in with them I lose all my other strings. I guess it's an all or nothing situation.

[Motoki]

It is possible now to just change the namelist. I'm working on an update, should be able to upload it within the next two hours testing permitted

Oh good news! If you get a chance can you explain how you did it? I'd rather not have to include a whole string table just to change the name of one radio station. 

[chann]

BTW, channTL's and my list are about 90% identical. I guess we used exactly the same source and just made different choices

The majority of the male/last names I found in a baseball game I used the census list as my first source though.

[LilMissLoza]

The mod over at MTS2 is very good, I recommend it to anyone whose game isn't yet contaminated by all the ridiculous preset names.

I still have a Harrison Harrison though, not sure whether this tragedy occurred before or after I installed the mod.

[cassblonde]

Pescado has added plug in name STBLs to the Awesome mod - now could someone explain how it works?

[Havelock]

Pescado has added plug in name STBLs to the Awesome mod - now could someone explain how it works?

Got answered in Awesomod discussion/questions/helpful tips thread

The space in the config is for you to enter a key or String ID. Whatever you enter will be the "prefix" that AM will use to load the names. For instance if you enter a generator key like "MyNames" in the MaleNameGeneratorKey box in the config the game will use the names with a key of "MyNames/MaleName:Name#" in the STBL (hashed, of course).

That is correct. The male/female/lastname "keys" may all be the same, or they may all be different, if you happen to be using, at any given time, sets constructed seperately or from different sources. The "default" EA set is "Gameplay/SimNames" for all 3, so those would be using "Gameplay/SimNames/MaleName:Name#", "Gameplay/SimNames/FemaleName:Name#", etc. You can build a namelist using any of the available STBL builders, or I will, at some point when I get around to it, create a simple crappy DOS utility to convert a simple NOTEPAD list into a nametable.

I am also curious about how to enter the name files in the Auto Config. I made my own replacements, but am not entirely sure how to add them in to AwesomeMod. In other words, I do not understand what the Auto Config is asking for.

The AutoConfig is simply asking you to input the core names. If you overrode and replaced the original EA STBL to generate yours, then this method is useless to you. But if you created a new STBL of, say, "EdibleNames/MaleName:Name#", "EdibleNames/FemaleName:Name#", then you would fill in "EdibleNames" (case insensitive) into the entry.

Also, I have all 3 (male/female/last names) combined into one STBL so I was wondering if I needed to change that. If anyone could help, that would be great. Thanks!

Nope, not a problem. The actual distribution of the STBLs is transparent to the engine, so it doesn't matter whether you made each individual name its own STBL, jammed them into the same STBL, or are even using some really WEIRD thing. In fact, the default value of "Gameplay/SimNames" for the standard EAxian names already is in a single STBL.

[cassblonde]

Yeah, that would answer it for people who had any idea what it all means. Not so much for me. Ah well ... I'll just keep using the mod I have for names. I know when I'm out of my learning curve.

Thanks, though, for taking the trouble to quote it and everything.