I'm honestly struggling to remember the last time I got an answer that was exactly what I'd been hoping for to this crazy extent, and that it really was that easy to put into practice! Thank you so much!

Now I'll just have to make sure I don't use it elsewhere by mistake and lose track of it since it's invisible... I think it may be best to actually go back in and turn it off except in those rare instances where I actually need it at the end of a project...

Heh, I think that this is the exact reason that people make invisible OMSPs that are able to all be turned visible by just clicking on one.

I should find. Better than filling a room with stuck object removers to find a misplaced OMSP.

I posted a Long time ago, but is there a new link to a uber/megahood starting with the ancestors

I changed the hack to 45 hours (since exam seems to take 3), I'll see it it works

I believe the exam only takes two hours, actually. The sims are pushed to leave for the exam an hour before it starts, so they may be off-lot for a total of up to three hours, but the semester timer doesn't get to 0 until the exam actually starts, and then I believe it goes for only two hours after that point.

Oh yeah. I always make sure my Sims go off to exams early.

You mean, I can't do it the old-fashion way by hovering an object over an area and wait for it to stick to the invisible surface?

No, but seriously - these days I'm actually more in a "cheaty" mode - I enable shift for deco CC, so I only need OMSPs for objects that either don't have shift, or I need a spesific height that's not within the "standard" shiftable heights (0.1, 0.2... 0.9, 1.0...). I've also recently started to (if possible/necessary) change the height of tables to those standard heights, if I want them in other heights than the regular TS2 surfaces. It saves time spent on adding a gazillion slots, plus placement is easier when I don't have to run through all shiftable OMSPs to find one that works. Only downside is that shifted objects don't move with surfaces, plus they snap to surfaces/sims, but most of the time I can work around that.

(Actually serious - I have seen the mod that changes the OMSP visibility. Just haven't tried/used it.

Sometimes stuff on OMSPs mysteriously disappears too.

I think I already know the answer but does body shop take as long to load as the game does?

My body shop loads in 34 seconds. The main game loads to CAS or another lot in about 90 seconds. It has more non-clothing objects to process.

It does for me. It also doesn't appear on screen until a while has passed (I can see it in task manager). Probably slower than jonasn because my saves/downloads on a mechanical (spinning rust) drive.

Thank you both for your replies. I have been playing for many years and have accumulated many of a downioads. But I think I found my problem

Yeah, it depends on how much CAS CC you have.

Thank you. That was what I figured

I found a funny default for faces; dog, ape, one eye, etc. It's supposed to also affect townies, etc. I created a hood with college, and some "Normal" non-playables I have gotten rid of ; but even with "no regeneration" mods normal "people" are being created by game. I've noticed that some of my mods seem to have stopped working. What to do??
Could have sworn I posted this before...

Make sure you put them in the right place. Perhaps there's a load order problem?

I have an OMSP that can either be entirely invisible, or be bright green in build/buy and invisible in live mode. I always leave it as green so I can find them when moving stuff around.