If you use the teleporter to zap one of them off the lot, they'll move out, but their apartment will stay empty and no one new will move in.

Uh, is there a reason why a mini icon of the vending machine is IN the vending machine??


Found this while zooming in with Cameraman Mode (Tab). It reminds me of the snack bags having mini versions of them inside them. I think that had to do with meshing, so what exactly does this do?

I just solved it by creating a new Sim and moving them in in order to evict the townie who was causing most of the fights. I then teleported all the Sims over to my utility Gravekeeper's lot and then reset their relationships and fury. Hopefully it'll stop them picking more fights for a while.

I noticed I was unable to call dormies. The townie household 0x7FFE didn't have a phone in SimPE, so I enabled it. Did I do something horribly wrong?

You mean in the neighborhood package? I doubt that will have any effect on anything. Regular townies should all be callable normally, but most people probably just install Lazy Duchess's call anyone mod and don't worry about it regardless.

I am playing a number of custom populated hoods. Some older ones I've played had their own sites to post pictures, but I can't find sites like this for newer hoods. As, The New Beginning of Pleasantview Plus by the new hood building group (here on MTS). I did post a question on that download, but couldn't follow the link. And now I'm now also playing 2 other hoods. Is there a thread (I can't find one) for me to post comments & pictures about custom hoods like this?

You could always start one?

Besides, I know there IS a thread ...somewhere

There is a thread called "What did you do with the beginning hoods?"

I found a currant one called "what did you do with the Beginning Hoods Characters" so I guess I'll go with that one

After editing a downtown lot, now the thumbnail shows another lot that was in front of it:



Is there a way to fix this?

Move the lot, edit it, then move it back.

Well that's... awkwardly obvious now that I see it.

I had the same issue with Hans Trap Door blocking a lot I edited

You can also edit the package in SimPE, but it's tedious (you'd have to exit the game and relaunch it, only for the sake of a thumbnail).

Sorry I know this is from a while ago - but I was just looking at the AL Prima guide randomly and it has LOTS of info about social class:

https://issuu.com/thomasvaughan5/do..._life_prima_off

This is so stupid; how do you package terrain paints/covers/ground covers? There is an option to do so in Sims2Pack format in Homecrafter but I've seen people upload them without it. There are only the template files in my Projects/HomeCrafter Plus folder, so I have no idea where I need to look.

Homecrafter packages the files as package format, but spits them out as Sims2pack files (I think? Been a while since I made a project...). Whatever format, I'm pretty sure they too end up in SavedSims when done.

You install the Sims2pack files, and then you get the package files. The Sims2pack files are not needed. If you want to share the files, you can put the regular package files up for download.

(You can actually share sims the same way - just package files, without the sims2pack file (package in Bodyshop to collect the files, install into a decluttered folder, then zip up the files - can be useful if you want to share a sim with a Mac user, for instance). They don't really need the Sims2pack file, it just acts as a Sims-format zip file of sorts. I don't think it would work for lots, though).

So you can regularly take them from SavedSims when done importing? Assuming they come with the names you added to them like BodyShop projects do.
I knew Sims2pack was just an archive file with content but didnt know you could do this.

Some corrections (had to test it out first, like I said, been a while since I made HC projects...) - the files end up in Downloads, and they'll already be Package files, so no worries about that. You can choose to pack them as Sims2pack (it's an option when you've made the package file), but it's not necessary.

The package files will be named something like "wall_65a43bc2.package".

Make sure to give them a good tooltip name (so if you lose track, you can figure out the name in SimPE and some other programs), and it's a good idea to rename the files if you want to keep track of what's what.