Maxis does it again!

[Jelenedra]

Ugh my head is spinning after reading those tutorials. A lot of info I have no hope of ever understanding. O_o

[Motoki]

Don't think that way. Some things just take me time than others, you just have to try and start one step at a time. Trust me, I never EVER thought I'd be able to use a 3D program. The first timeI loaded one it had more controls than a 747 and I thought my brain was going to explode.  I'm still by no means an expert, but I can at least use 3DS Max to some degree now which is something I never thought I'd be able to do.

[jrd]

If anyone want Seomi's (older) hair 1-5 properly binned, drop me a note.

32MB 7Zip file, but I'm sure we can figure out some transfer method. (IM?)

[Jelenedra]

I'm sure I'll get it.  I just need to get away from work so I can focus on it and nothing else. It just seems uber different from SimPe. I've been reading up on Slyeye (sp, I know)

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2966.0
[/list]  faq for genetic-izing custom content. All of her faq instructions are for SimPe. O_o

[angelyne]

The only thing I haven't figured out is how to make only one of the gray styles to show up in the gray hair bin for elders since every color has a gray hair with it.

I figured that one out by myself with some help from the good folks here.  First you decide which one of your hair file will be the host file for the gray hair.  I always pick black to be consistant.  Then you copy the family number of the black hair and paste it in all the other files, for all ages.  You probably already did that, as it makes the hair transition smoothly from color to color.  Then you delete the reference line that corresponds to the gray hair in all the colors except the black.  You can also delete the texture from the other colors as well.   Voila.  Only one gray hair left in the bin, but because of the family number, it works for all the other colors too.

[Simsbaby]

You could try this Jordi. http://www.filefactory.com/

[jrd]

Ugh. captcha hell, no thanks.

[RainbowTigress]

I tried Datgen, but it crashes on me.  And it took forever scanning my folders.  So I just use SimPE.

[yetyak]

Well, I have just over 1,200 hair files, all properly binned, without the toddler and child repeater styles. Most of them don't have the gray either, if anyone wants to include them.  And it really didn't take that long to do it, looking back on the finished project.

[Sandilou]

Yetyak - OMG

That just goes to show how truly unawesome I am.  Now I am resigned to being SIMPE impaired forever. 

[RainbowTigress]

Well, I definitely need the gray versions for my elders.  I don't know how you'd go about putting that back in.

[Metalkatt]

I was planning on getting to the Louis hairstyles I downloaded this weekend.  Once I get those done, I could upload them.  (It might *take* forever since I have dialup, but it could be done.)

[Sandilou]

Metalkatt, your siggie is hilarious!  I have to show that to my younger son - he loves calling people L.o.o.o.ser!

[Metalkatt]

Thanks, Sandilou.  It's more a statement of self-annoyance than anything, but I'm the first to admit that I'm totally nonawesome.     I don't kill kittens, but I'm definitely nonawesome.

[DrBeast]

Hmm...I've got all my custom hair properly binned too (and they're only about a dozen or so), but I cannot for the life of me remember who created them!!! I only remember two made by

...

(black out follows)

Mimewhite! Got him! They're both very long (one straight, one curly), quite unbending, non-animating, but I kinda like them. Oh, uh...and I didn't bother with deleting the excess textures. Too bored! But I can still share if anyone's interested. Oh, for some strange reason the name BigBadShar popped up in my brain. I guess I'm using a couple of his meshes too (something called halfuphalfdown tries to grab my attention now). Only (?!?) drawback is, all these files are at home, and I have to remember somehow to load them into my flash stick and bring them to the Uni.

[Jelenedra]

So, Motoki, am I reading the tutorial right on the datgen? To bin the hair clothes I can just click and drag the texture (which it gives previews for so that is awesome) to the approriate hairbin?

[yetyak]

I forgot to mention that for most of the files, I also have the SimPE .bak file that includes the greys...  I didn't keep most of the grey ones because I figured that most of the styles were to "fussy" for elders.  I know that I sure no longer want to "fuss" with my hair... 

[Motoki]

So, Motoki, am I reading the tutorial right on the datgen? To bin the hair clothes I can just click and drag the texture (which it gives previews for so that is awesome) to the approriate hairbin?

Yes, that's pretty much it. It's pretty easy. Technically, you're supposed to also do the whole family business, but the hair will still be binned and work without doing it.

[maxon]

I was planning on getting to the Louis hairstyles I downloaded this weekend.  Once I get those done, I could upload them.  (It might *take* forever since I have dialup, but it could be done.)

Oh, I already did (some of) those.  I'd be up for sending them out if anyone wants them.  I lot-binned my entire hair collection about 8 months ago and also made sure all the ages matched in colour (i.e. blond toddler hair with blond adult hair).  However, I've been meaning to remove all the redundant bits for a while - in fact, I did it before I learned you could just just miss out some of the ages altogether.  But I did the same with all my skintones and eyes at the same time and I'm reluctant to start on a major new fiddle.

[Jelenedra]

Yeah it's the family thing I don't get. Does that affect genetics? Not sure.

And can you add genetic information for eyes and skin on datgen, or is that just SimPe?

[maxon]

Yeah it's the family thing I don't get. Does that affect genetics? Not sure.

Not as far as I know - it just means when you decide to try the red style instead of the black, the sim is still wearing it when you switch bins.

[Jelenedra]

Ooooh so instead of it flipping to some funky other mesh it keeps the same hairstyle?

So I just have to family the meshes once (does it matter what category?) and then drag the different textures to the proper hair bin?

[maxon]

Ooooh so instead of it flipping to some funky other mesh it keeps the same hairstyle?

Yup

So I just have to family the meshes once (does it matter what category?) and then drag the different textures to the proper hair bin?

Yup

at least I think you've got the right thing - mmm, let's see if I can remember.  I think you simply select all the hairs by putting a tick in their boxes and then do the family thing.  IIRC, you need to generate/change the mmm-whatsitcalled-code (GUID?) for each new family.  Though that might have been earlier versions of DatGen - I do it just to make sure.

[Jelenedra]

Sweet. Now I just need to see if I can find the tutorial to add genetic info for skins and eye color. (If you can in datgen, otherwise, I'll still have to get SimPe  )

[maxon]

Sweet. Now I just need to see if I can find the tutorial to add genetic info for skins and eye color. (If you can in datgen, otherwise, I'll still have to get SimPe  )

I think DatGen was going to do geneticising for eyes and skins but the project stopped before that was done.  I use SimPE for that.