Help With Meshes I am having problems with getting the meshes in my game and bodyshop. I dont have Sims University. I can download the files, then i unzip them and put them in the "Downloads" but when i go to play, there not there. PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Did you double-click them? You need to double-click each file and then click OK when the blue box pops up. Make sure you're not in the game or bodyshop at the time. You can also use the clean installer. I found it on a website, not sure where. You can probably find it on Google. That seems to load a bunch of files at once.
You can get the clean installer over at modthesims2.com ... This is generally a more safe way of installing custom content. (Nothing in life is completely safe) What type of files are they that you are downloading? .package files? If all else fails ... what do the instructions say on using the meshes?
When you unzip the files, go look for them in your downloads folder. Sort your files by file type. To do this, click on "View" then "Sort" and then "by file type." Now, scan through. Are your new files all together? Do they look diffrent than the others that are working? What does the icon look like? What are the file extensions? I'm betting you've unzipped the files, but not unpackaged the actual clothes. Some websites will throw in the meshes, a read-me file, and the packaged clothing file all together in one big zip file for easy, one click downloading. If this is the case, you need to double-click the packaged clothes file and let the Sims 2 Custom Content Installer run. Some of the Homecrafter files and lots are also packaged this way.
So, I'm thinking about downloading a few items and clothes. What do these meshes do and do you download them? And everybody says to double click on the file, wherever it is, but does it take you to Winzip? What do you do in Winzip?
Winzip unzips files, but it only unzips .zip files, not .rars. You can get free trials of programs that unzip .rar files but only for a limited time unless you buy it (not that expensive). Check your favorite search engine. You can also get Winzip for free, if you don't mind the annoying message that pops up each and every time you use the free version. You have to unzip files into the downloads folder before the installer can put them in the game. The installer doesn't do that for you. Don't use subfolders BTW. It has to be in Downloads. "Zipping" in case you didn't know already compresses files into a smaller size so they don't crash the internet or take 500 years to download. RAR files are more powerful and compress even further, but are basically the same thing. Hope this helps.
I don't actually bother "unzipping" as such. I download in batches and always save my downloads to a folder named "My Downloads". When I have a dozen or more I stop to install them in the game. I have a shortcut on my desktop to My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads I also have a shortcut on my desktop to My Documents/My Downloads I double click both in the order they appear above Then I double click the first zip file and it opens to show me the contents. All I do is click and drag on the DBPF Package and drop it on the My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads folder window Then I go back to the My Downloads window and use the "Up" History/navigation button to seek the next downloaded file to open and ... repeat ad nauseum Always remember ... drag and drop. If you can move it, you can drag and drop it. Why waste time choosing destinations when you can have two windows open; one for the source file, one for the destination and just drag from one to the other. It's so easy even I can do it!
Oh dear we are having a bad day aren't we? Why don't you just have a go. It is really no use at all just reading ... you have to do as well. Have a go. Computers do not explode when you click the wrong thing. In fact you have to be a very special kind of idiot to "accidentally" overwrite all your saved games with a saved copy of some broken games ... who me?
Hey Kopo, I gave you a step-by-step in a different thread (My Favorite Downloads) that doesn't mention any nasty old drag and drop. Check it out ... FYI Mirelly I have a program called PowerZip that lets you pick several zipped files at once so drag and drop would actually be slower as far as I can tell ... Anyway, Kopo said he's (she's?) 10 so I thought I'd keep it simple. Good luck, kid.
she means here No problem sbw. We all have different ways of doing things. It's one of the joys of using a computer; we are not tied to performing routine tasks in a mechanistic, formulaic manner. I'm not sure what my zip utility is called. It also handles rar files. I don't use it to decompress bundles of zip files because I prefer to examine each file individually. You are correct that my way does take a little longer but I don't consider it a factor when I can install a dozen downloads in 30 seconds. I never install more than that because I need to be able to remove any that cause problems and it is easier to troubleshoot a dozen than it would be for larger numbers. Well moving sims furniture around is dragging and dropping. Drag and drop is so fundamental to mouse-integrated graphical interface computing that it sometimes necessary to remind ourselves that we drag and drop all the time and forget that it is called that. I am sorry that I did not notice that Koto said she was only 10, but it doesn't alter the fact that she she can drag and drop like anyone else ... though maybe she didn't know that was what is was called. Hopefully she does now. Meanwhile my advice remains the same. Have a go! You can't do any harm and the machine won't bite you.
Right you are, on every count. I just figured, learn the simplest way and then figure out the shortcuts once you're more proficient. My seven-year-old is better at grabbing objects than I am sometimes. I get frustrated and she says "let me try, Mama ..." Kind of humiliating but makes me proud too. Sniff.
Just to mention, its a she. I've got WinZip as well as EasyZip, so it might be different. KUPO!! ITS KUPO!!! KUPEH!! Lol. That's not my real name, its just what moogles say in the Final Fantasy series, an RPG. Kupeh is what they say when they're annoyed.
LOL Kupo. Right you are. I am slapping my wrist. Cos I didn't just take sbw's 'Kopo' and run with it ... I went further and misspelt it as Koto ... I think tho' that name has a ring to it and I can never think of a name when I need one for a new sim baby so I am carving it into my computer desk as I type ...
One thing, will the custom item be put into the right catagory? On the topic of custom things (well, that's what I think this thread is about), is there a way to put your custom music into its own type of music, not the defaults? e.g. Pop, R & B, Salsa, etc.
Custom music stations are not available as far as I know. You might wanna check out Pescado and see if he thinks a hack is worthwhile (or possible) ... I suspect he that he won't think there's any point. If you want to put hip-hop into the Country station and pretend it's called "Hip Hop" why go to the effort to change the pie menu? Hackers and modders have to have a impulse to get out of bed .... (Pescado has solved that problem by not sleeping )
You can't make custom music stations but from what I understand you can put your own music in the existing stations ...
