Atavera's Stuff (Check the entire thread)

[Raene]

Guitars: Apocalypse, Greenday, and a possibly different Flying V. (I had both the previously posted and this one in my downloads folder... Slightly different filenames.)

[Raene]

More guitars. The last of them, though! That I have, anyway.

Rockcandy, Steinberger GM, LTD Alex Laiho.

[Raene]

By last I have, I meant guitars. This is the last I have of Atavera's stuff. The neon signs for real stores.

Also, Polonius, I did run across a male hair mesh by Atavera in my downloads, but haven't been able to track down the colours. As it's one of those meshes that's just a mesh, without a colour combined with, it's rather useless. I'll post if I unearth the colours, unless someone beats me to it.

Edit: Assuming I haven't been trashcanned for spamminess. In that case, well, I'm not chatty enough for Retardo Land so I'll likely retreat to lurkerdom.

[DrBeast]

Raene: to clear out confusion, can you specify which version of the Band Controller/Custom Instrument hack the guitars you posted need? All the guitars I posted require the Custom Instruments hack (also known as Band Controller v4), they won't work or work incorrectly with an older version of that hack.

[rhondalatte]

The Custom Instruments Hack V4.0 is still posted at mts2.
xo

[Raene]

Raene: to clear out confusion, can you specify which version of the Band Controller/Custom Instrument hack the guitars you posted need? All the guitars I posted require the Custom Instruments hack (also known as Band Controller v4), they won't work or work incorrectly with an older version of that hack.

Oh, sorry. I believe they're all V4. There are a few in there without version numbers in their names, but I'm pretty sure they're all V4.

[polonius]

AnimatedWindowHack *is intrigued*  Would anyone with this hack in their game care to elaborate exactly what it does?  I'm guessing it enables creators to create window objects with open and closed conditions, similar to the one Helena has over at Pixel Sims (which has wonderful build mode objects, like sliding closet doors and swinging saloon doors, if any here are interested in such things).
To Raene: thanks so much for checking.  You don't have to turn your computer inside out looking for it, though; I'm sure somebody here will eventually post it.

[Tamha]

Actually, I think it enables opening and closing of certain Maxian windows, like the "double-hung" (I think that's the right name, lol).

[DrBeast]

Medium wavy hair, mesh along with the black color. Bad news: it's not properly binned, and I don't have SimPE on this machine to make an impromptu binning. As for the recolors, I think someone else at MTS2 did those, as I couldn't find any with atavera's name.

[jrd]

The animated window hack does what it says. It allows most of the default Maxis windows that look like they are made out of two or more distinct parts, to be opened.
You can either open/close individual windows, or all windows on the lot.

Unfortunately I did not save the additional resources you need to make custom windows openable.

[DrBeast]

i need some help, i've downloaded everything related to guitar on this thread and i tried it out. All my recolors are the same color, how do i fix this?

Plonk down a guitar, then select the design tool (the icon that looks like a set of keys) and click on the guitar...that should bring up the recolors. Some guitars (the Fender Strat, for example) have recolors for the amp too. You need to click on the amp with the design tool to bring up those recolors.

[DrBeast]

It's the only way you can choose recolors on guitars, I'm afraid. If you don't like it, there's always the Undo button.

[DrBeast]

Join the club

[LadyLiberty]

*Waves arm*   

Animated Windows Hack!!

I've got it!  I've got it!  I included the additional resources, pics, and the blurb from when it was posted. 

Please?  Will it work with Pets this way? 

[Fish Dude]

I downloaded a bunch of guitars (and the band controller V4 which Jordi modified) but my game crashes to the desktop. I renamed the package so it would load last but am still having problems.

[polonius]

In case anyone's interested, Numenor's recolors of atavera's contrabass are still on MTS2, and he has now uploaded the mesh to that thread 
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=60366
The mahogany one has been posted here, but the jazzy white one has not.

DrBeast: Thank you so much! I can colorbin the hair myself, that's no problem.  I really like it for rock star sims 

[WORF]

Hi everyone This is my first post here
I just wanted to share the sign Atavera made for me for my Radisson lot

Also I wonder if anyone has the sign he made for Publix? I have gotten permission from Atavera to include it in my Publix lots but after than the just dissapeared 

I would appreciate if anyone could help me

Here you go Henrik. I have almost all of the other store signs as well. As far as the window hack goes, I thought Ste reported it needed updating to work with pets.

[DrBeast]

I downloaded a bunch of guitars (and the band controller V4 which Jordi modified) but my game crashes to the desktop. I renamed the package so it would load last but am still having problems.

You might have accidentally downloaded a guitar that works only with his previous version of the band controller (I spotted a few of those in here). All the guitars I uploaded are properly named BlahblahwhateverV4, since they all require Version 4 of the Band Controller (now called Custom Instruments hack), and I believe Atavera named all the guitars he had updated accordingly. I'd keep all the guitars that are named thus and temporarily remove the others from the Downloads folder. If you're hell-bent on using all the guitars and/or want to track down the culprit, add the rest of the guitars (i.e. those that are not named blablahsomethingV4) ONE BY ONE, start the game, and see if it crashes. If not, add another one, etc etc until you reach the one that crashes your game. Single that out and set it on fire, proper Hendrix-style, or smash it to bits a-la Malmsteen. Of course, you could always be less dramatic and just delete it 

[jrd]

All my uploads are for v4.

[WORF]

He made signs for Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Virgin Records, and quite a few others. I am not at my home computer so I cant remember them all.

[Fish Dude]

I downloaded a bunch of guitars (and the band controller V4 which Jordi modified) but my game crashes to the desktop. I renamed the package so it would load last but am still having problems.

You might have accidentally downloaded a guitar that works only with his previous version of the band controller (I spotted a few of those in here). All the guitars I uploaded are properly named BlahblahwhateverV4, since they all require Version 4 of the Band Controller (now called Custom Instruments hack), and I believe Atavera named all the guitars he had updated accordingly. I'd keep all the guitars that are named thus and temporarily remove the others from the Downloads folder. If you're hell-bent on using all the guitars and/or want to track down the culprit, add the rest of the guitars (i.e. those that are not named blablahsomethingV4) ONE BY ONE, start the game, and see if it crashes. If not, add another one, etc etc until you reach the one that crashes your game. Single that out and set it on fire, proper Hendrix-style, or smash it to bits a-la Malmsteen. Of course, you could always be less dramatic and just delete it 

Ah, thats probably why. I thought the others will still be compatible with V4, but obviously not 

[Raene]

He made signs for Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Virgin Records, and quite a few others. I am not at my home computer so I cant remember them all.

I would love those too He made the most awsome signs including the Radisson sign he made for me

The attachment I posted back up-thread a ways (reply #53) contains the Albertsons, Best Buy, EB Games, GameStop, GAP, KB Toys and Toys 'R' Us signs.

[WORF]

Well hopefully these signs weren't posted before. Here are signs from Radisson, Virgin Megastores (big and small), Hot Topic, MTS2, ASDA (??), MYL2 - Logo (??), and Wal-Mart split into two posts. He also made a bunch of neon signs of various objects like radios, beer mug, fire hydrant, etc. Should I post these as well?

[WORF]

Here too.

[DrBeast]

He also made a bunch of neon signs of various objects like radios, beer mug, fire hydrant, etc. Should I post these as well?

I believe those are included in the ones I posted some posts up.

ETA: they're here and in the next 2 posts.