Extra/Preferences/...nothing at all after External Tools. Sadly, it appears to have been removed.
Oh well. Thanks for confirming.

Bummer...
It's is as far as I can see the only place where I've put my username (which appears inside the brackets when I make recolors/objects/etc.), so unless there's some other place to put it that I'm not aware of, or CH put the Ident function in some other place, then I don't know.

I recognize that! But I can't seem to find any "ident" under preferences? Could I bother you for a screenshot where this setting is found? I looked through all the settings under preferences but could not find it.. Either I'm blind (probably this) or I don't have that setting for some weird reason?

Edit: oops, missed the newer comments! Glad I'm not the only one not seeing it, but weird if it got removed? I'm on version 0.75.69.15 and I don't have it as well.

Edit #2: sent a message to Chris, he hasn't been active since Aug though so I'm not sure if I'll get a reply soon. Also, happy new year!

There is a newer version, and Ident is back. However, I use 75.69 which is missing the Ident tab. You can manually edit the simpe.xreg and search for <string name="Username">HugeLunatic</string> (near the top).

https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=630456

Thank you so much Hugelunatic!! I had two simpe.xreg files (not sure why) but I edited the one in \data and it updated the one in the "yes" folder as well. Anyway, it seems to have worked!

I've got a question:

I've installed the UC and I can't get my custom skins/hairs/makeup to show up in Body Shop (taken from Fun w/Pets).

I've deleted the usual suspects like the thumbnails.

Is there something else I'm not doing (yes, I did enable CC) to make them not show up?

All the other CC does-furniture, etc.


Never mind! I fixed the problem: Cigen had to be deleted after running Body shop for the first time! Doh!

I noticed in CAS that I have a 'Colourful' hair bin:



When did The Sims 2 get that? I don't seem to recall having that show up in CAS before. Is it a feature in a UI mod? I do remember colourful hair showing up in mirrors only, not in CAS... Also, how does this affect genetics?

It's one Chris Hatch added:



https://modthesims.info/showthread....345#post5714345

Oh, that explains it. I think I'll just stick to the default four hair colours in CAS and then switch to the dyed/colourful hair using a mirror, just in case it messes with genetics... Thank you, @simsample!

No doubt I'm missing the obvious, but how does one "edit the simpe.xreg"?
ETA: yep, eventually found how to open it in Notepad. We now return you to your regular program...

Drinking Toasts?
 

What are the Sims' rules about who can toast whom (or what)? When I was posting my Seasonal Greetings pictures, I couldn't see any sense in who was able to propose toasts to whom. Parents didn't seem to be able to toast their children or vice versa, Not even when their relationship is as close (and intense) as Andrew and his mum Gloria. What's more, some Sims don't join in the toast. If you look at that picture, you will see that Gloria and Tybalt are not participating. I believe that was actually a toast to Edgar Edwards proposed by Andrew, and that kind of makes sense, as neither Gloria nor Tybalt really know Edgar -- they've only just met him. Still, I would have thought that Gloria would want to join in any toast that Andrew proposed. I don't think she joined in, even when Edgar proposed a toast to Andrew. Surely Gloria, who is extremely outgoing, would want to toast her much-loved son! I can also see that Sims might want to toast somebody who is not present -- for instance we Veronavillians might want to drink a loyal toast to our Grand Duchess (Juliette Capp). And of course it is also possible to drink a toast to something abstract -- in this case I was trying to simulate a toast to the New Year. I suppose in more general terms you might call that a toast to the future.

I think I might like an "anybody can toast anybody" mod but first I'd like to know what the Maxis rules for toasting actually are. Since I understand that Sims are drinking juice, I see no treason why even children shouldn't join in. Any thoughts?

P.S. I wonder how many Sims would like to drink a toast to their players?!

ROFL. Guess who asked the question where BO confirmed that the SW wouldn't come for anything. It was me. I guess it wasn't so obvious after all.

Is there a way to bulk transfer veggies from a sim's inventory to the fridge? Transferring one by one is getting rather tedious.

As far as I know there is no way for that to happen, unless one mods the 'inventory' mod that transfers the contents of a pixels' inventory into someone else's when they die-here by Nopke: https://modthesims.info/d/671675/in...nheritance.html

In fact, that would be a good place and mod to make: a 'transfer all food" into the fridge.

But I'm not the one to do it.

Let's hope Nopke sees this and perhaps...

I think they will only autonomously toast at weddings, to the bride and groom.

Would Simwardrobe's vegetable crates help with the fridge issue?

I wondered about that too, so I looked them up. They only seem to allow you to unpack into a sim's inventory though, which retains the problem of getting them from the inventory to the fridge.

Pescado had a fruit bowl that let you store veges, but again, only store in the bowl and not transfer to the fridge (as far as I could see).

Would you say this is an inhumane size/layout of a room for two children? I think it's right on the border of being okay, but as children grow up it would become more problematic. Then again, I come from Poland where people living in commie blocks have three children in one room and parents sleeping in the living room, so maybe my sims deserve more.



(also my images are not embedding )

When you upload a picture, you need to copy the link that says "Copy [IMG] link", and then paste it where you want it in the text (Ctrl+V, or right-click and paste).

There's three, maybe four bottlenecks in that room! You can relieve that somewhat with assignable desks and beds and/or bunkbeds, but for my money any bedroom that doesn't have at least a 4x4 open space isn't worth the hassle. Some people manage in spaces that look cramped to me so your mileage may vary. To make this space usable I'd get rid of the desk and the halfwall and put a single-tile wardrobe in that space, getting rid of the central wardrobe.

I also don't see the point of the fences on the side; just expand the room to the walls of the house! Give the poor kids room to turn around! But perhaps it makes sense in light of the whole design.

SimWardrobe's vegetable crates only help with bulk-carrying food in their inventory, not transferring to the fridge, unfortunately. Guess I'll just keep transferring the old fashioned way. Serves me right for trying to have self-sufficient sims.

I like that hiding place for the children. From a practical perspective, the spiral staircase is very slow to climb up. The lightbulb kinda sticks out and is asking to be broken. They didn't have any such nooks in commie blocks. Maybe there is room for one bed and a desk. This way two people are unlikely to bump into each other. I used to have a writing desk in a store room when I was a kid, and it was lit from above with a bare bulb that was for seeing on shelves.

As far as I can tell, it seems to be a two person thing. I can never get others to join and it needs good relationship. There's a toasting set for weddings that will work for other times if you want a group toast, though. It's the champagne bottle on a tray thingy in the party section.


I quite like it as it is, as long as there is some floor space downstairs/ ourside for activities.


Looks like there are double height windows there.

I kept copying the wrong link T_T thank you!!




As for the fences (railings!), it's because of the two-floor windows on both sides, can't cut through them with a floor.

I must say, I asked here because I think I just really love living in odd layouts myself, so my perception on housing for normal people must be skewed. In fact, to back this statement I drew my teenage room in MS Paint, everything almost to scale. The pink is a single bed, the light blue are two identical wardrobes, the blueblue is tall bookselves. It's a roomful of a bottleneck, and you can barely breathe! >_>



now that I live with my boyfriend it's actually even worse, because the single bed has been swapped for a double, and the Mr sits opposite to me on the other end of the desk, so every time I try to leave the room, I have to squeeze through the tiny gap next to the bed, sucking my thighs in. But I still love how it is, fits my feng shui of being enclosed by things in order to focus well. I think you could go crazy in a space like that, Peni!! And I'm not sure if my sims would like it either. This is a british house, and british bedrooms are also often either tiny tiny small to only fit a bed in, or very long (and most often it's both of those in one house).

Now I think I should upload some more of my odd room designs in the pictures subforum for the laughs.



EDIT: well if the sims hate it then there's always a basement to put a spare bedroom in.....

What is the logic for nightlife toasting when you sit at a dining table? Why is it that sometimes people like it (++) and other times they don't? It does not appear as simple as relationship.

The bedroom size is OK, I have definitely had sim children in smaller rooms! If I was being picky I would say it will be difficult for them to sleep because light, and sound, will come up through those little balconies next to the multi-floor windows. It would be more practical as a playroom than a bedroom. (But, sims don't mind this at all and will happily sleep with bright lights shining on them.)