Expensive Wall/Floors?

[Issy]

Been on a downloading spree of walls/floors and can't seem to find anything that costs over $1

Anyone know of any sites that have some nice wall/floors but are priced higher?

Thanks in advance!

[IgnorantBliss]

You can easily reprice the walls and floors with Homecrafter or Josh's WTF editor.

[neriana]

It drives me crazy that so many creators make walls and floors that cost $1. It just shows they never really PLAY the game, or at least that they cheat copiously when they do.

At parsimonious.org, I believe all the walls and floors by Kate are priced correctly. Some of the other creators don't price them right. Simhabitations.com also has a ton of gorgeous expensive walls and floors, if it comes up again.

[MaximilianPS]

same as for the cars.. i've changed the price of all cars that i've downloaded, have you ever seen a Porsche Cayenne at 13.000$/€ ?
the turbo version 4.500cc should cost about 77.000€uros

[gali]

Download the Sim2HomeCrafter from EA. It will be self-installed in your C:/My Documents/The Sims 2 folder.

Download all the walls/floors you want.

Click on "All programs", and go to Sims 2 folder.

Activate the Home crafter.

Find the 1$ wall/floor



click on the lower second button



highlight the 1$ price



Change the price to which you want



Ckick on the lower right button (Import to game).



That's all.

[IgnorantBliss]

same as for the cars.. i've changed the price of all cars that i've downloaded, have you ever seen a Porsche Cayenne at 13.000$/€ ?
the turbo version 4.500cc should cost about 77.000€uros

I don't think the price in simoleans is necessarily supposed to be the equal to the price in US dollar or Euros.

[neriana]

That may be "all" in Homecrafter, but it's a pain in the ass. It's far easier to download walls and floors that are priced correctly in the first place -- and they're usually by better creators anyway.

[gali]

Neriana, in the Sims1 Home Crafter, you could import a file (wall/floor) as Gif or Jpeg, or Bitmap.
I always right-clicked on the wall/floor, and  saved it as picture, then activated the Home Crafter, changed the price, and imported it to the game.
The Sims 2 Home Crafter doesn't have this ability - pity.

[gjam]

Either I'm doing something stupid (quite possible) or HomeCrafter doesn't actually change the price, anyway.  All I can get it to do is create a duplicate copy of the wall or floor which has the updated price.  Talk about cluttering up my Downloads folder...

I'm going to check out the WTF Editor mentioned upthread.

[nectere]

you can also easily change it in SIMPE.

[J. M. Pescado]

same as for the cars.. i've changed the price of all cars that i've downloaded, have you ever seen a Porsche Cayenne at 13.000$/€ ?
the turbo version 4.500cc should cost about 77.000€uros

Simoleons scale nonlinearly, so things that cost a LOT of money in real life cost less in Simoleons, whereas things that cost very little in real life cost slightly more.

[IgnorantBliss]

gjam, do you have the latest version of Homecrafter? It doesn't seem to create the duplicates anymore, at least not for me.

[gjam]

gjam, do you have the latest version of Homecrafter? It doesn't seem to create the duplicates anymore, at least not for me.

Duh!  [slaps head]  I had problems installing the new version, and meant to re-download it later and try again, but I forgot.  [clicks Thanks button several times]

[IgnorantBliss]

Out of curiosity, does clicking the thanks button actually do something, or is just a hoax?

[Venusy]

Out of curiosity, does clicking the thanks button actually do something, or is just a hoax?

It depends on your definition of "do something". If by "do something" you actually mean "do something useful", then no, it doesn't do anything like that. The button definitely does something though, but I don't want to spoil the surprise.

[starrling]

Regarding walls/floors being priced too cheaply, IMO, it all depends on what you're trying to accomplish.  I created brick walls and floors, and priced them at 2 simoleons because I am trying to create lots that are supposed to be old.  Very old.  They aren't fresh walls and floors - they have (supposedly) been walked on and leaned against by generations of Sims.  /soapbox (albeit, a very small soapbox).

 

[IgnorantBliss]

but I don't want to spoil the surprise

Hmm, so this suggest that at some point I am going to find out what it does? Or not?

[jsalemi]

but I don't want to spoil the surprise

Hmm, so this suggest that at some point I am going to find out what it does? Or not?

Click it and find out.   It's not harmful, or anything...

[MaximilianPS]

Simoleons scale nonlinearly, so things that cost a LOT of money in real life cost less in Simoleons, whereas things that cost very little in real life cost slightly more

sure i know it.. also 'cuse you if i try to insert more than 35000§ in simpe you'll get an error
..maybe a teorical cost limit ?
btw i like the "life stile / simulation" so .... i like to see hight taxes and very expensive cars, i think it's a bit too easy to be at the top on this game

that' why i've some homeless on my n.hood

[tIIsuggas]

Click the thanks button.

There are many that have, and are still alive.  I am one of those people.

Click the damn button already.

[gjam]

Out of curiosity, does clicking the thanks button actually do something, or is just a hoax?

Ummm, it's particularly appropriate when one is informed one has done something woolly-headed.   

[IgnorantBliss]

Click the thanks button.

There are many that have, and are still alive.  I am one of those people.

Click the damn button already.

Ok, I get it. I didn't realize we'd see the "results" right away  . I wouldn't have asked otherwise.

[J. M. Pescado]

It's just like the MTS2 thanks button, only more awesome.

[JadeEliott]

/start off-topic

You know, I have never thought the simple decent act of thanking another person made one a sheep. I know it is supposed to be "joke" (or heck knowing Pescado, probably not), but it fails to hit my funny bone. It just shows me that if being courteous and kind is "sheep-like" then the person who programmed that button is in much, much worse shape emotionally and consciously than anyone who is genuinely interested in giving appreciation, respect and support by pushing it.

/end off-topic

And yeah! Cheap walls and floors suck!

[Issy]

I've never used homecrafter and it just seems like alot of work to do.  I like to play

Anyways, thanks for the tutorial Gali, guess if I can't find any for download I'll have to resort to doing it the hard way.