Is there a way to copy custom portraits to place in new hood?

[songsmith]

I'm rebuilding a hood. Now, the old one still works (sort of). I could go in to the old hood, take snapshots of all the custom portraits and have my recreated sims in the new hood paint those portraits. I'm moving hoods, not houses, so placing the paintings into inventory won't work.

It would be so much easier if I could just copy these paintings. Does anyone know where/how they're stored so that I can find them in SimPe? If so, does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

[J. M. Pescado]

You can't, but apparently custom paints will transfer with houses. Just make sure that the house you stuff them in is UNINHABITED.

[Theo]

I don't know about the paintings, but the photobooth pictures are stored in the 0xAF74F8E0 resources inside the sim's character file.

This type of resource can be parsed by SimPe's TXTR wrapper, so it's only a matter of changing the type to 0x1C4A276C and re-loading the plugin view, enabling you to view its contents. Do what you must, but don't save these changes to the character file.

As far as I know, inserting these pictures into another sim using SimPe is not doable.

[songsmith]

Do I understand you correctly, Pescado? The paintings can be packaged up on an uninhabited lot and will move with it but not transfer the memories from the old hood?

But what's to prevent the furnishings from disappearing when I move out the existing family? I hardly ever package lots.

Maybe I can snapshot them and then use the custom painting wizard plug-in thingummy and make new paintings. *G* Gah! I bet I've spent more time trying to figure out a way to get around this than I would by just making a sim repaint them!

EDIT: Typo!

[J. M. Pescado]

Do I understand you correctly, Pescado? The paintings can be packaged up on an uninhabited lot and will move with it but not transfer the memories from the old hood?

That's what appears to have occurred in the Awesome Contest.

But what's to prevent the furnishings from disappearing when I move out the existing family? I hardly ever package lots.

Either file-backup techniques, or simple cold-blooded murder.

[Weaver]

You can try using the Easel Canvas Template. The guide in the post has more information on the process.
In short, it takes the stored image resource and makes a permanent painting recolour on the custom canvas.

[Sleepycat]

if your getting the Pets EP then you will like this feature

MaxisLittleL (Oct 5, 2006 2:23:53 PM)
Custom paintings is a new feature that will let you put photos or images into your game as painted pictures that you can hang on your wall. It's super cool

[Venusy]

if your getting the Pets EP then you will like this feature

MaxisLittleL (Oct 5, 2006 2:23:53 PM)
Custom paintings is a new feature that will let you put photos or images into your game as painted pictures that you can hang on your wall. It's super cool

Despite the fact that this feature has actually been present since the base game, although it's currently slightly hard to do...

[songsmith]

I decided I was making things harder for myself and took snapshots of the portraits today. I'll have my elder repaint them. That's what permaplat elders are for anyway, right?

I've heard about the new painting feature with Pets. It's about time they provide us with an easier way to do this.

[nocomment]

Does anyone know how to get the images used for paintings and reward camera photos?  I was told they are jpg files embedded somehow in the lot file.  If there was a way to extract the jpg file (or whatever the game uses) it would be simple enough to make new portraits/photos from it.

[Weaver]

The images appear within the lot resources. Here's a snippet from the mod link I posted earlier giving instructions on how to export the painting images.
I'm not sure about reward camera photos, take a look at the other Texture Images available with different prefixes using SimPE.

2. Find the lot package file that contains the information about the lot where the sim-created piece of art resides. For example, C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\My Documents\EA Games\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\N001\Lots\N001_Lot47.package. This can be an easy or a difficult task, depending on how many lots exist in that neighborhood.

3. Once you find and load the correct lot into SimPE, click on "Texture Image" in the Resource Tree. This should produce a list of textures that are used for that particular lot. Look for one with a name that begins with, "#0x6f" and/or contains "!painting_". Eventually, you should be able to find the work of art in that list of textures. If your Plugin View window is open in SimPE, you should be able to see what they look like.

4. In the Plugin View window, right-click on the texture image and select, "Export...," and then save it as a PNG file. Save the file wherever you can easily find it later.

[nocomment]

Thank you!  That's exactly what I was looking for.

I apologize for not reading your link earlier.  I didn't realize it had so much information in it.

I used the date to find the most recent lot I had played, which I knew had reward camera photos in it.  For reference, they also have
"#0x6f" and "!painting_" in their name.

[songsmith]

Weaver, thanks for that information! Don't know why, but it never occurred to me to look in the lot.

[Ndainye]

You could use Inge's objects stay at move out shurb to hold the paintings on a lot.

[nikita]

As far as I know, the texture file still remains on the lot so long as it's still uninhabited so you could go into the lot files, export the .png files and then import them to your new lot, replacing your preplaced dummy photos/canvases.

[Blacksmith]

Thank s just what i want for my family portraits up load