Looking inside objects.package?

dmchess

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Looking inside objects.package?

« on: 2005 November 23, 11:53:07 »

(I hope it's okay to post an elementary modding question here. I was thinking of posting in the Bowels of Trogdor, but I decided I wasn't nearly tall enough.)

I'd like to poke around in the internal data for various of the builtin objects in the game. For mods I do this by opening the mod package in SimPE, but builtin objects are (I believe) in objects.package, and that's like thirty-seven meg or something and when I point SimPE at it SimPE goes away for a very very very long think, and when it's done (or seems to be done) it only shows like one object, and that object doesn't make any sense. Am I just Doing Something Wrong, or is there some other generally-accepted method for looking into / extracting things from objects.package?

Tx very,
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Re: Looking inside objects.package?

« Reply #1 on: 2005 November 23, 12:09:01 »

It's better to use the Classic Interface for looking in objects.package, I have found.


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dmchess

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Re: Looking inside objects.package?

« Reply #2 on: 2005 November 23, 14:42:59 »

Quote from: Inge on 2005 November 23, 12:09:01

It's better to use the Classic Interface for looking in objects.package, I have found.

Ah, thanks very, that's working much better! Bean for you! Now I just have to figure out what all these liddle numbers and stuff mean, and I'll be all set...

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Re: Looking inside objects.package?

« Reply #3 on: 2005 November 23, 15:01:14 »

Not sure it may help you, but in my case, I usually first translate the whole object.package using diasim2 written by shy and dizzy2, then I look up what I'd like to find in the txt file. Then I open object.package and pick up the part I want using the group filter feature of SimPE. All the numbers are nothing if you use disasim2 and PJSE, you can do it!


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Re: Looking inside objects.package?

« Reply #4 on: 2005 November 23, 16:46:06 »

Where might this diasim2 be found? Perhaps it might help me with my quest to get text out of the package files for the database!


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Re: Looking inside objects.package?

« Reply #5 on: 2005 November 23, 19:13:31 »

Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 November 23, 16:46:06

Where might this diasim2 be found? Perhaps it might help me with my quest to get text out of the package files for the database!

DisaSim2: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=862133 Haven't tried it myself, but looks promising...


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Re: Looking inside objects.package?

« Reply #6 on: 2005 November 23, 19:32:01 »

I also recommend downloading firefox and using disaSim2 to split the object package into html files.

Html files because it's nicely formatted and a lot easier (at least for me) to read and search through.

Firefox because (at least on my computer) the html files take forever to load with IE (I have Windows XP) AND search through.

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