Well done armiel, great picture!

simsample Excellent tutorial, so much potential. I wanted to test it with my CAW, but can't complete it because, somehow S3PE refuses to use hex editors and therefore I can't change layer digits. What version of S3PE and xvi32 did you use?
I keep getting the same error unfortunately.

Miuki, that error usually occurs if you don't have this box ticked:

The one that says "needs quotes around filename".

Try that to see if it works.

Wee-e-e-e-e! It worked flawlessly! Thank you!
That's what I've got as the result. Thanks again for this brilliant (and what's important understandable even for such dummies as I am) tutorial!

Bravo Miuki, well done for fixing it!

And what a pretty picture, that looks like a lovely world.

This time, I wanted to have the Bridgeport pigeons in my world... but bumped into a NEW problem. D : Wow, this thing is seriously delicate...

I tried opening my world in s3pe, but got this error message. I'm not sure, but this *may* have happened after some time ago when I tried to edit my sky and water files as in the tutorial of editing them. But it didn't work (and I thought to myself, well, gonna make it work later), and I probably screwed up something...?

I really don't have a clue about any of this stuff, I just do and try anything that tutorials say, so there's a good chance something blew up. : / So now I'm just kinda... lost. Hopefully I didn't accidentally do any irreplaceable damage, because I have no idea about which files I fiddled with, therefore got no idea where to start fixing it back as it were... Oh man.

Arisuka, I've seen that error before, it usually indicates there's something about the file that S3PE can't read properly.

In your case it's indicating the _KEY resource, and that's a file that is notorious for becoming corrupt. It's basically a texture database, so it contains filepath information- and for Bridgeport, that will point to a filepath on an EA server.

Try deleting the _KEY resource (there will only be one) from the world file, as CAW will regenerate it just fine.
http://customsims3.com/forums/thread-92.html

Oh PHEW, man I'm relieved nothing had blown up...! Thank you again for the help, that was the solution!

Edit: Oh and hehe, it's so funny watching the pigeons walk across the world to the object's new placement when the object is moved...

I'm glad it worked Ari!

I agree about the pigeons, it's especially funny when they walk across the ocean to get there!

Seemingly brilliant tutorial but I have a problem.
I keep updating the hex characters to coincide with my layer that I want to import and, after editing the hex characters and saving and closing my hex editor, S3PE refuses to acknowledge any changes have occurred.
Any suggestions anyone?
Thanks,
Jay

Which hex editor are you using, Jay? Do you see the 'commit changes yes/no' Dialog box?

I knew I should've put that in the original message. Sorry about that.

I'm using the Free Hex Editor New x64 Edition (version 4.97.02.3667) and S3PE x64 - Front-end Distribution (version 11-0402-0951) Library Distribution (version 11-0402-0951)

The thing is, I've successfully edited the hex characters before.
I think it was when I edited the file that lets you change a world to a city.

So it's worked before but it wouldn't work this time.

I'm officially stumped!

Oh by the way, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition if that helps?
Er I've got 16GB of DDR3 RAM

Any other details required and I'll add them

Sorted it now.
Had to Export the file, edit it in Hex Editor, and then imported the file back into my World file.
Worked a charm

Hey Jay290783, I've not tried that hex editor, try using the one I link to at the top in future to see if it's any more successful. It sounds like possibly a permissions issue- if the file you were editing was protected by UAC then that could explain things.

Well done for getting it fixed, the way you used is just slightly longer!

I'm glad you got it working.

Yeah it takes longer but it worked so that's the main thing.
I can't remember if I had to do that to change my world to a city or not.
I probably did but just forgot.
Ah well I'm getting there now with my world.
Just added the Horse Training and Equestrian Centres and the Dog Park.
Got to wait for EIG to finally save now. Just hope it doesn't crash like it did a few days ago when I added them

I've just successfully imported effects from various EA worlds into my new custom world. When I tried to place effects above a lot however (example: smoke coming out of the science center chimneys, birds flying from roof of the city hall), they refuse to be moved beyond the edge of the lot. Do you have to place the effects first, and then the lot or is there a better way to do this?

And thank you for this brilliant tutorial by the way, I couldn't stand my non-lit lighthouse anymore!

I've done it just by first placing the effect, then the lot. With the chimney smoke, it requires a bit of repeating, to get the effect's position right, but that's how I did it.

Thanks Arisuka Already found the solution, if you move the effects box by typing in the coordinates rather than moving it on screen manually, it will go over the lot just fine! Yay!

Oh wow, it's great to know that works for this! Makes the placement a whole lot easier.

Hello simsample, thank you for your excellent tutorial, it`s brilliant!
The lighthouse light enriches my world, I love it!



I would like to translate the tutorial into german, of course, with a link to your tutorial. Do you agree ?
If you want, I'll send you the link to this german tutorial.

Thank you so much for this tutorial and the further explanations how to import a second object of the same kind.

It worked perfectly for me and as soon as possible, I'll try to add some fireflies and such stuff.

So awesome! :lovestruc

And this is how it looks now:

1st: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2x-TRAusZ4

2nd in the distant terrain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVnZ2ptItS8

And another one, 'cause I can't get enough of that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGVYlW4AIGY

Well done for fixing it, Martine- that's the method I use, to manually edit the co-ordinates until I get the effect aligned by eye. I noticed that a lot of the effects, such as the chimney smoke and the lighthouse flare, are centred on the corner of the visible 'cube' that you can see in CAW, so you can visually align that to get the effect in the right place.

Kiwimaus, well done for getting it working! Lovely picture. Yes, I would be pleased to see this translated into German! If you send me a link to your forum/ website, I can put a link in my first post so that German speakers can find it easily. :D

Neph76, beautiful movies! Well done for figuring out how to place the second effect, that was a great idea by yeabil! Great work.

I liked yeabils idea from the moment, I read about it, as i use the same distant terrain.

Can't wait to finish the neighborhood to finally play there, but it's still so much work.

The german manual for your tutorial is finished, you can find it here in sims3forum.de.

It has become very long, so even for beginners.

Thank you very much for your approval. Many german sims 3-fans who don't speak english fluently, will be glad for it.
I can read and understand English well, but the writing is not so good sorry.

Wow, your tutorial is excellent, Kiwimaus! I've added a link to it in the first post, it could even help people who speak other languages through a translator, as your screenshots and explanations are excellent.

The only thing I can see which you might want to add is the screenshot I showed in post # 28, which illustrates the "needs quotes around filename" check box for if you are using XVI32.

Great work, thank you for the link!

Thanks a lot for your commend!
I read of Miuki's problem, but when I did this step, I did'nt have to activate this option and it worked fine.
I will complete my post with your comment.

Oh my God, I need to learn to write English...