#211
9th Feb 2012 at 6:47 AM
Yeah, that was one of the first things I thought of, since I've got a theme world in the works I wanted a custom name list for (in my very rare spare time). However, just so people don't waste their time - the default Vacation worlds don't actually have a filter on costumes. They are pre-populated with set sims, which were dressed for their World. If you have a Story Progression mod on, and/or play a multi-generation legacy game, you'll notice that successive generations of Vacation World residents show up in random regular clothing. I frustrated myself greatly looking for the non-existant link between WA 'ethnic' clothes and their respective Worlds before I realized that.
They do have name lists, however. The WA lists of names were pretty darned short, but I figure EA didn't think we'd spend all that much time in the vacation worlds and so wouldn't notice the repetition (or lack of costumes later on....).
Vacation or Town, it would be interesting to package a Themed World with it's own name list. That would take away the frustrating default part of making a default override name list. Of course, the names are all found in the STBL inside DeltaBuild0.package, and not an .ini file. But I have to wonder if we can't package a STBL override with a world anyway.... I would assume it would be similar to importing recolored Rabbithole _IMG files - but I've been awake far too long today to think that clearly right now. Good thing I have the day off tomorrow. So many new options to play with!