@CatherineTCJD Okay, further tests show I wasn't quite right, so sorry!

So here's Caringal, with the invisible fences shown by the planter being unplaceable, and some of the hidden floors.



And here's Caringal again, in a completely vanilla set of gamedata (no scripts modded to show the hidden fence or floors). As you can see, the hidden fence is still there, as is the floor I often use (concrete squares). But the others have vanished! Such a shame, I like that floor you use, and the deep jade tiles and the marble with the aztec pattern.



Repeated in another hood:





What a blow! I know the ones I used in hoods I've shared work as I tested them, but I suppose I've never used those other tiles in hoods I've shared. There are loads of hidden wallpapers too, I hope they all work!

So builders- be sure to test in an unmodded environment before you share! When I installed the game, I made a backup of the vanilla game data files (the entire [installation location]\EA GAMES folder) before I did anything. Then, I made backups at various stages of modding. Now I can swap them in and out to create different testing environments. For example without the CEP; without script mods; without lighting mods. I have a set of powershell scripts and batch files to do this for me, and also to do registry mods so that I can test neighbourhoods and mods in other languages, or different game configurations. I also use the Anygame Starter. All this requires a bit of disc space, but it really makes it easy to try things out! I used to have a UC setup that I could swap in and out too (the UC can't be run without M&G with the Anygame starter, so it's a bit different from the disc install). The required quite a hefty powershell script to swap in and out as you are changing the entire registry hive for your sims installation, and I never got around to putting that back in after I swapped a hard drive. I know a few modders that use this kind of setup to test.

Oh Pooh!
Thank you for double-checking though. I appreciate it!

I used to have an unmodded set-up on my lappy, just for testing. But, somewhere along the way, it has been "corrupted" with a few mods and tweaks, including all the 'unlocked' stuffeths... But, I still use it for 'testing' - and do most of my building on my "big rig" PC.

On my PC I have 2 TS2 installation set-ups going. One for starting new hoods - cleaned of all the Maxis templates that like to attach themselves. And my 'main' game with everything.

It seems to be due to the way the scripts have have been hashed out in the basegame files- for example the nouveau tile has the 'material' line hashed too, so that means the unmodded game doesn't load the information about the texture at all.



For many of the tiles I just had to remove the # from the 'notInCatalog' line, those are the ones that work in the unmodded game.

Does anyone realize this thread is almost 15 years old? It was stared on November 15. 2009

I'm working on my title cards for next weeks uploads... I don't usually edit the cover picture this much! What do you think?

What is MacNeil House's claim to fame? I've never heard of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist

Yeah... I shoulda done "The Exorcist" across the front like I did on the others...
It was the first one I did actually - I had it done back in August? And I hadn't fully realized the presentation. *sigh*
If I have time before this weekend, maybe I'll change that title card to match the rest.
I still have to prep the Amityville house pictures though, so I might not have time. I really want to post them all this weekend.

I realized right after I posted that your house resembled the Exorcist house. The lamp post was the clue. Never had an opportunity to watch that film until many years later, in the 1980s I think. Wasn't particularly impressed by it.
I think the best horror film of the 1970s was The Omen, which might be my favorite horror film of all. It has several iconic scenes, from the priest getting impaled, to the guy getting decapited by sheets of glass, to the scene at the cemetery when they dig up the remains of Damien's "mother". There wasn't a particular house associated with that film though.

Very soon my friends ill have a new laptop! I'm finally able to afford a new one

I just replaced my 16-year-old desktop with a refurbished one a couple of weeks ago. The old one had numerous issues that weren't worth fixing, including a power supply that I was told could go up in flames at any time and two bad fans. The tech supposedly was afraid to turn it on a second time after the initial diagnostic.
The refurbished one is considerably better than the old one and I now have three hard drives - two in the refurbished tower (one being 3 terabytes) and my old one externally, as well as two optical drives. Cost: $199+tax=$217. Plus $20 to add my old optical drive to the new tower. Also included free Win11.
The days of $1k+ computers for me are over. My old computer had cost me $1,359, back in 2008, plus a few upgrades over the years.
I'm lucky to have a good independent computer store where I live.
Haven't reinstalled Sims 2 yet, though.

New computers, very exciting- I'm researching buying components to build a new rig, but it's slow going as I'm really out of touch with new gear!

Little desert shack for my little desert town.