#79
13th Apr 2013 at 2:19 PM
Last edited by LaurellKH : 14th Apr 2013 at
7:22 PM.
Is this tutorial current with the last release of SimPE?
Answer my own question I know no one will come along after me is to long ago this was made. I am using the last
SimPE (Vers 0.72.1.33855) to do this but I have so much clothing cc I cannot tell if working or not. But then I only went half way down my list and got tired of this project I maybe have over 700 clothes maybe even much more. What I notice is the
SimPE I do not think is making the
backup files (would they not say file extension .bak???). So everything I see says file extension .package. Perhaps this is the change to
SimPE or I am missing something. If I can have the patience to do all I might see a difference when I play. I stopped also because I was thinking so much work would be a waste if something went wrong so I wanted to check at least at the half way point. I notice this as well because I organize my folders very very neatly. The
Clean Installer did not take EVERYTHING that was clothing related. Yes, I followed instructions and really I already knew how to use
Clean Installer this way so no saying I'm making stupid mistakes. I am only dealing with subject of categorizing clothes not to fit into more than just one (maybe two for coat-like outfits) category. I am not yet changing the elderly which is next project. I think to do everything at once would be a mistake because then you would not know what went wrong.
I tell you this much! I am in fear of nudes. I know I have them but I have yet to see them and instructions he said not to change nudes. This I got long ago so was not stored away so neatly. I have no idea where they might sneaky pop up and when you do over 400 click click click click your eyes blur. I might not see them in time.
What is good news is my game has not crashed for this effort.
It is common sense but I think he should have reminded everyone to back up before starting this project. Also probably good to clean cache.
I got a count on them. 1,528 clothing files for me. Whew.
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Later I finally finished them all. A much improvement! Thank you for this. I see what it is that people make a mistake at but I did not make a mistake at. I never saw a nude not one but in game the nudes are just fine where they are suppose to be after I finished. But there is this box in
SimPE right there next to what you do called "skin." I never clicked it but I can see how someone might accident because it is right in the middle of clickings. Thanks for warning. Thanks for this tut.
I did untic all elderly in a separate session (zipping up downloads and setting aside every session in case) that also was for youth. I do not like elderly wearing the same clothes as younger. It worked great.
I ran into some files
SimPE did not like. They had no picture and the word "all" at the end of the file. I got a popup saying, "this cannot be saved." Nothing bad happened I just moved on to the next file.
Some things you do not want to change. Do not make an outfit preg or that university age between teen and adult. Do not put toddler/kid's clothes on a different age or the reverse. If clothes were not designed to shape that way they will look weird. But it is safe to make anything formal. I had nun and priest outfits that strangely did not include formal so I fixed. I took EVERYTHING else out of formal. That is where I will keep my wedding dresses and tux only. I cannot see what else custom formal would be used for! Now I can find my wedding clothes fast and easy.
If you do not know this you can get this mod to help with this kind of project:
MaryLou & Numenor's "Shop-at-home" Hacked Coat Hook.
I could not figure out how to get the cheat to work was trying it in game. Turns out you have to be in CAS:
link. You do not have to keep holding shift+n down. It is a switch that turns on tooltips you only need to do it once. It does NOT give you a file name so it's useless to help finding a single file when you have many. If you only have a few files it does tell you who made it and you have a chance of finding the file by guessing. ... New update on this thought:
Delphy's Download Organiser shows
Titles so it may not be so useless afterall.
If you sew your own custom clothes in game and keep track of where that is in your downloads (should have file name like SewnOutfits.package) it is maybe easier to separate those sewn files before you start this project. I am thinking they are the cause of the error popup in
SimPE and I think maybe they are the ones called "all." Just to less the confusion set them aside. If you do not will not hurt anything. They cannot be altered by
SimPE I think.
Just one last notation. If you made thumbnails with
SimPE once you do not have to do it again. It remembers the thumbnails and shows them in an image box to the lower right corner on all later scans. Save yourself time and only do that once per scanned folder.