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#33751
Yesterday at 5:50 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by LauraPamplonaS
Does anyone know if there is a % chance for which maternity outfit a sim gets, or is it just completely random? I'm trying to get at least one sim with each one of them to test out some default replacements, so I'm getting a bunch of sims pregnant. I've gotten to 72 ladies and I'm still missing two outfits!!! How is it possible that they don't get them? (It's the "navyrust" and "spring" ones). In the meantime, I'll keep impregnating sims and hope I get those missing two. Update: I finally got them! |
I don't know anything about whether it's random but I do think I get the grey/purple ones the most too.
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#33752
Yesterday at 10:42 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by LauraPamplonaS
Another question: is it possible to unmerge cc files? I'm testing out different sets of maternity defaults, but most sets I've found come in one single file, and I've been trying to see if there's a way to bring them back to being individual files so that I can mix them up with other sets. I've looked around and all I can find is Sims 3 and 4 tutorials, but nothing for TS2. |
I think the only way to unmerge CC files for TS2 is to extract the resources you need and remake the file. Potentially from scratch (as in it may not be enough to just extract the files and put them in a new file if any of the resources were changed during the merging process)
You wouldn't need to make the texture and mesh from scratch, of course, just the file structure.
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#33753
Yesterday at 12:30 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by LauraPamplonaS
Does anyone know if there is a % chance for which maternity outfit a sim gets, or is it just completely random? I'm trying to get at least one sim with each one of them to test out some default replacements, so I'm getting a bunch of sims pregnant. I've gotten to 72 ladies and I'm still missing two outfits!!! How is it possible that they don't get them? (It's the "navyrust" and "spring" ones). In the meantime, I'll keep impregnating sims and hope I get those missing two. Update: I finally got them! |
Now you have to let them all have their babies and see how long it takes for the lot to implode. XD For science!
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
I had no idea there were so many, they all kinda look the same! Did you reboot the game between generating the sims, and do you have anything to fix the broken random generators? I'm wondering if this was a bit of 'sad-o-randomness' (firstborn effect). |
I didn't know that you could get the firstborn effect with clothes. But I use the pregnant sims can wear anything hack, so that's probably why.
Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
I think the only way to unmerge CC files for TS2 is to extract the resources you need and remake the file. Potentially from scratch (as in it may not be enough to just extract the files and put them in a new file if any of the resources were changed during the merging process) You wouldn't need to make the texture and mesh from scratch, of course, just the file structure. |
I've done it. You just need to extract the mesh and texture, then make a new mesh package and do the usual Bodyshop stuff to link a recolour file to the mesh, then export it and change the texture. If it's just the texture then just make a new Bodyshop project and replace the texture.
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#33754
Yesterday at 12:51 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by FuryCat
Honestly I don't really know how the death memory works because sometimes my Sims also don't get memories of other Sims dying, I can't understand what the criteria is for them to have the memory. I had a Sim die and no one in the entire neighbourhood knew. |
I just noticed that they still get memory if they see dying. (read: if somebody in their houshold die) but they do not remember death if they are not wittness it themselves.
#33755
Yesterday at 3:30 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Ruusupapu
I just noticed that they still get memory if they see dying. (read: if somebody in their houshold die) but they do not remember death if they are not wittness it themselves. |
Ohh. Honestly that makes sense now, I think that Sim I had was alone when he died of old age.
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#33756
Yesterday at 3:36 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
I didn't know that you could get the firstborn effect with clothes. |
Mootilda found that almost all of the random generators in-game are incorrectly seeded. So it may be possible to notice patterns and non-randomness in anything in the game that is random.
https://modthesims.info/showpost.ph...8&postcount=104
https://modthesims.info/showpost.ph...7&postcount=114
This has been fixed if you use for example Lazy Duchess' randomizer fix (not sure if anyone else has made a fix):
https://lazyduchess.tumblr.com/post...andomizer-fixes
And if you roll the pacifier a random number of times or do anything else which calls the randomizer in question, that would help too. I have no idea which, if any, randomizer is responsible for choosing the maternity outfit!
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#33757
Yesterday at 4:06 PM
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What the hell!! I seriously thought there were only three maternity outfits. Now I'm getting a confusing mandela-esque effect looking at all those sims
I'm curious what the "spring" and "navyrust" ones even look like - I don't even remember seeing some of the pictured ones in-game.
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I'm curious what the "spring" and "navyrust" ones even look like - I don't even remember seeing some of the pictured ones in-game.
I use the sims as a psychology simulator...
#33758
Yesterday at 4:48 PM
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@simmer22 @Charity Sounds like it might be easier to just make my own defaults then
I used to use the maternity outfit hack as well, but it was difficult for me to remember which were my pregnancy outfits, and after a while, I preferred the system of "getting one at random" and not choosing the outfit that they get, so I went for defaults instead.
As for letting them all give birth, the lot didn't implode haha, it just got extremely slow and I just quit. I went back to the lot and made them all townies before they gave birth, and now this test hood has about a hundred pregnant sims walking around.
@simsample I got around 100 sims pregnant, and only one of them got the "navyrust", and 2 sims got the "spring" one. I kinda want to try again with different circumstances to test out and try to discover these mysterious petterns, but honestly??? Too much work and I'd rather not know
@simsfreq Here they are:
I used to use the maternity outfit hack as well, but it was difficult for me to remember which were my pregnancy outfits, and after a while, I preferred the system of "getting one at random" and not choosing the outfit that they get, so I went for defaults instead.
As for letting them all give birth, the lot didn't implode haha, it just got extremely slow and I just quit. I went back to the lot and made them all townies before they gave birth, and now this test hood has about a hundred pregnant sims walking around.
@simsample I got around 100 sims pregnant, and only one of them got the "navyrust", and 2 sims got the "spring" one. I kinda want to try again with different circumstances to test out and try to discover these mysterious petterns, but honestly??? Too much work and I'd rather not know
@simsfreq Here they are:
#33759
Yesterday at 5:01 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by LauraPamplonaS
Sounds like it might be easier to just make my own defaults then |
What are you actually looking to default?
#33760
Yesterday at 5:09 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Charity
What are you actually looking to default? |
The maternity outfits. My problem right now is that many of the deafult replacements I want to use come in merged files (This ones, for example). All of those outfits are the same, but with different recolours, and I want to have a set of pregnancy clothes where each one is different, though I can't just pick and choose when all 9 files are merged into 1. I know there are many sets like the one I'm looking for (all different and un-merged) but I like to change them up sometimes.
#33761
Yesterday at 6:57 PM
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I didn't even know that you could use more than one mesh for a default.
Honestly, it sounds easier to just use the pregnant sims can wear anything hack and if the outfit that suits your sim doesn't have a preg morph then just pick another one.
Honestly, it sounds easier to just use the pregnant sims can wear anything hack and if the outfit that suits your sim doesn't have a preg morph then just pick another one.
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#33762
Yesterday at 8:14 PM
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I also had the idea years ago to make DRs for the maternity outfits, I wanted proper maternity meshes that look like fabric is draping etc, rather than just weirdly stretched dresses which magically suck back in etc. Even the way those default tops work don't make sense to me. And I wanted different meshes for each outfit. But then I thought that if the original mesh was the same, all the DRs would have to have the same mesh too, so I gave up on it (I also totally suck at making meshes XD) and then when I started using pregwearanyoutfit I stopped caring so much about it. I do frequently have to change them out of a custom outfit which is non enabled, but I just use gussy up so it doesn't cost them anything, and I have the Mystical One maternity meshes for all the Maxis meshes, which helps.
Out of all the outfits, I think I assumed that blackviolet and grapevine were one outfit, I HAVE wondered why the flowers sometimes seemed more visible, but probably put it down to lighting or imagination.
I don't think I have EVER seen Brightred. I must have assumed spring and brightgreen were the same, too, or maybe I have only ever seen one of them.
I think if I had to guess what the "three" maternity outfits were, I would have said there is a purple/black one, a pastel one, and a black and white one - because I always thought of these as gothy/knowledge sim, nice/"pretty"/feminine sim, and then the more professional/business/fashion minded sims. They always ended up being applied to the wrong sims, and it annoyed me. Weirdly the towel mod, which I have now, ALWAYS seems to pick a fitting towel for the sim and I am frequently pleased by this. My goth/grouchy sims get a black towel, my very clean/sensible sims get a plain white towel, and my more outgoing/playful/colour loving sims get the colourful towel. Knowing Simler's mods, I suspect this might not be random.
I have a niggling feeling that I have seen Fall and Brightpurple, but rarely, and NavyRust also looks familiar, but it's not one I would have thought of so I can't have seen that often either.
In terms of chance of randomness, I have wondered if the RPC RNG is fixed in all aspects, because I have had NO multiple births in my game for absolutely ages. I do have the chance set fairly low (1% quads, 2% trips, 4% twins) but that's a 7% chance of multiple birth, so should be approx 1 in every 15 births, and yet I've definitely had over 30 babies born in that hood and no multiples! (Watch me get quads for the next 4 births now)
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Out of all the outfits, I think I assumed that blackviolet and grapevine were one outfit, I HAVE wondered why the flowers sometimes seemed more visible, but probably put it down to lighting or imagination.
I don't think I have EVER seen Brightred. I must have assumed spring and brightgreen were the same, too, or maybe I have only ever seen one of them.
I think if I had to guess what the "three" maternity outfits were, I would have said there is a purple/black one, a pastel one, and a black and white one - because I always thought of these as gothy/knowledge sim, nice/"pretty"/feminine sim, and then the more professional/business/fashion minded sims. They always ended up being applied to the wrong sims, and it annoyed me. Weirdly the towel mod, which I have now, ALWAYS seems to pick a fitting towel for the sim and I am frequently pleased by this. My goth/grouchy sims get a black towel, my very clean/sensible sims get a plain white towel, and my more outgoing/playful/colour loving sims get the colourful towel. Knowing Simler's mods, I suspect this might not be random.
I have a niggling feeling that I have seen Fall and Brightpurple, but rarely, and NavyRust also looks familiar, but it's not one I would have thought of so I can't have seen that often either.
In terms of chance of randomness, I have wondered if the RPC RNG is fixed in all aspects, because I have had NO multiple births in my game for absolutely ages. I do have the chance set fairly low (1% quads, 2% trips, 4% twins) but that's a 7% chance of multiple birth, so should be approx 1 in every 15 births, and yet I've definitely had over 30 babies born in that hood and no multiples! (Watch me get quads for the next 4 births now)
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#33763
Yesterday at 9:16 PM
Why did posebox creators use to say to use the "Snap Reset" or "Force Reset" or "Force End", whatever it was called, interaction sparingly? It just forces an error on the Sim in order to clear the pose, sure if you have testingcheats on it just generates an error log because of it, but you can just turn it off in order to use the interaction first. I've always wondered this because nothing has happened to my game from using this. Did people start to be a bit wary of it because it made Sims jump like when an object error (jump bug) happens? Essentially that's what happens but not because there's something wrong with it, it's only the way of resetting the Sim that's causing it.
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#33764
Yesterday at 10:45 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by FuryCat
Why did posebox creators use to say to use the "Snap Reset" or "Force Reset" or "Force End", whatever it was called, interaction sparingly? |
You don't want a heap of error logs just because you're using a posebox.
Honestly, it's just a really lazy way to make a "stop" function for the posebox. Either they are too lazy to do it, or they don't know how. If they don't know how, then they've probably skipped over important steps (those and others) in whatever tutorial they learned from.
It's not that hard. If you've made one, you can make several. Or make an "all-in-one" stop button (I think this is the easiest, because there's just one BHAV resource to keep track of instead of one extra per pose).
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
I've done it. You just need to extract the mesh and texture, then make a new mesh package and do the usual Bodyshop stuff to link a recolour file to the mesh, then export it and change the texture. If it's just the texture then just make a new Bodyshop project and replace the texture. |
Exactly what I meant
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I think I've seen various maternity outfits popping up, but can't tell exactly which. Some of them look close enough to easily get confused with each other. These days I use PregWearAll, so I don't see them often. I have had all three male outfits show up, though (alien, pink, blue).
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#33765
Yesterday at 11:31 PM
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I would be more likely to use the Sims default maternity outfits if I got to choose which one and didn't have one randomly (or apparently not so randomly) thrust upon them. I still prefer the Preg Wear Anything mod but there's plenty of times I would be fine with the maternity outfit if I could just pick a color that was fitting for the sim. I swear I used to have something that gave me the option to choose between maternity outfits, but it may have been InSimenator and I'm not bothering with that again. I might just have to go unhide all the outfits in SimPE and mark them as every day so I can find them.
#33766
Today at 12:18 AM
Last edited by joandsarah77 : Today at 12:30 AM.
Quote: Originally posted by LauraPamplonaS
I used to use the maternity outfit hack as well, but it was difficult for me to remember which were my pregnancy outfits, and after a while, I preferred the system of "getting one at random" and not choosing the outfit that they get, so I went for defaults instead. |
There are a few sets (3 I think from memory) on the data base that have separate files. I mixed and matched from the 3 sets.
Found a few different ones that i have in my picture folder.
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#33767
Today at 7:30 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by LauraPamplonaS
The maternity outfits. My problem right now is that many of the deafult replacements I want to use come in merged files (This ones, for example). All of those outfits are the same, but with different recolours, and I want to have a set of pregnancy clothes where each one is different, though I can't just pick and choose when all 9 files are merged into 1. I know there are many sets like the one I'm looking for (all different and un-merged) but I like to change them up sometimes. |
Like these?
https://marja87.tumblr.com/post/121...-on-here-before
Or these, for more choices
https://marja87.tumblr.com/post/138...ments-mix-match
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#33768
Today at 10:14 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
You don't want a heap of error logs just because you're using a posebox. |
It has just occurred to me that I have never cleared out my logs folder. I'm scared to see how many might be in there now. XD
Quote: Originally posted by joandsarah77
There are a few sets (3 I think from memory) on the data base that have separate files. I mixed and matched from the 3 sets. Found a few different ones that i have in my picture folder. |
That one with the blue shirt disturbed me for a while, because it looked as if the baby's foot was hanging out of her!
#33769
Today at 10:31 AM
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I hate having so many downloads that I can't remember every single one, so I'm going to ask this question-there was a download (either here or at GOS) that was a curved (from side to side) skate board half pipe-an object that you can place on a lot and pixels would use it to gain fun and exercise.
Does anyone remember the name of it? It's NOT the lot that has a half pipe-it is an actual placeable object that came out within the last 5 years that I know was pretty cool.
I've searched my downloads folders and can't find it, or remember it's name or who created it.
Any help would be appreciated! I probably do have it, but my memory ain't what it used to be!
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Does anyone remember the name of it? It's NOT the lot that has a half pipe-it is an actual placeable object that came out within the last 5 years that I know was pretty cool.
I've searched my downloads folders and can't find it, or remember it's name or who created it.
Any help would be appreciated! I probably do have it, but my memory ain't what it used to be!
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#33770
Today at 10:41 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by FranH
I hate having so many downloads that I can't remember every single one, so I'm going to ask this question-there was a download (either here or at GOS) that was a curved (from side to side) skate board half pipe-an object that you can place on a lot and pixels would use it to gain fun and exercise. Does anyone remember the name of it? It's NOT the lot that has a half pipe-it is an actual placeable object that came out within the last 5 years that I know was pretty cool. I've searched my downloads folders and can't find it, or remember it's name or who created it. Any help would be appreciated! I probably do have it, but my memory ain't what it used to be! |
I'd be interested to see it.
Have you tried searching in game to see if you have it?
#33771
Today at 10:55 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by Charity
I'd be interested to see it. Have you tried searching in game to see if you have it? |
I found it! (I'd removed it from my downloads folder a while ago.) Took a few tries, but it's by Jelly Meduza and it's on her Tumbler page..which is why I couldn't find it on either site.
Here's the Tumblr page where it's linked to the direct SFS download:
https://joplayingthesims.tumblr.com/search/half%20pipe
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#33772
Today at 1:31 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
You don't want a heap of error logs just because you're using a posebox. Honestly, it's just a really lazy way to make a "stop" function for the posebox. Either they are too lazy to do it, or they don't know how. If they don't know how, then they've probably skipped over important steps (those and others) in whatever tutorial they learned from. It's not that hard. If you've made one, you can make several. Or make an "all-in-one" stop button (I think this is the easiest, because there's just one BHAV resource to keep track of instead of one extra per pose). |
If you don't play with testingcheats off, error logs won't generate. That's why I was asking, I had thought of thousands of error logs in the logs folder but you just turn it off for when you want to take screenshots or just pose a Sim.
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#33773
Today at 1:40 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
That one with the blue shirt disturbed me for a while, because it looked as if the baby's foot was hanging out of her! |
Thanks Charity, now I am going to be seeing a 'babies foot'. It's the cord on her pants.
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#33774
Today at 3:57 PM
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I think BoilingOil had a plan Maternity outfit mod. But for this you need to own more than one and I never figured out how to do that.
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