1. Check if the pics are the correct size : 300 pixels wide and 225. It has to be Ping, not jpg pics as well. (It seldom happens, but it can).

2. Even if everything is in order, the pic does not always show up - not sure why. (This creator apologizes sincerely )

3. The option, if you already have the map, is to replace the hood pic in the game folder (it should also be empty there) - you can take a pic or you can try to copy one of the pics already in the folder, and I find it works fine with Paint.net. If that does not work, you may need to open the hood in the game first. (I have had hoods where I get the pic but it is apparently not showing in other players' hoods, so this is the best advice I can give).



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Numenor has a mod for the espresso jitters if you want to get rid of them (or make them worse):
https://modthesims.info/d/127719/no...r-espresso.html

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Yea, my question also!

This needs the context but it is talking about memories. So 0 is repeatable memories e.g. "I got an A!" which they can gain multiple times.

Unique I assume means it happens once e.g. "Had very first kiss"

Unique per sim is likely things like "Kissed Steve/Amanda/John/Mary for the first time"

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I was trying to rename in the SC4 terrain folder, not in the live game. Actually, a picture would be better -- have no idea why some of them don't show a picture but a bumpy grid.
Also I have been unsuccessful in taking a print-screen

They show a bumpy grid if they don't have a picture attached - this tutorial explains how to add a picture.

https://www.simechoes.org/simechoes...borhoodpic.html

Do you mean you can't rename files at all? Or were you trying to rename while the game is open? In Windows 11 the rename function is at the top with the cut/paste shortcuts - it looks like a text box with a cursor and "A" in it.

The questions remains:

1. Do the actual terrains have to be loaded into the game to take a picture of them individually?
2. What kind of camera do you need to for the screen shot?

The second comment on that page says you take pictures, but I'm going to assume you have to do all these steps just for each terrain map:

1) Yes, although you could use any picture you like.

2) In game camera will do, or you can use a screenshot program, or Windows' built in screenshot. The important thing is that you need to save the image as a 24 bit PNG file and it has to be of the correct dimensions (300x225 pixels) see Sunrader's comment below. What I always do is open one of the Maxis terrain PNG files in a photoediting program, and copy paste my image over it, flatten the image and save/ export with the new name as 24bit PNG. The Maxis terrain images can either be found in your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SC4Terrains folder, or else in [installation location]\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData\SC4Terrains folder.

Yes, you'll have to do all of those steps for each terrain map, which is why many creators don't bother. You could automate it through some means, but you'll have to actually take the images somehow.

I'm not sure they have to be the right size. This oven pic is just a random screenshot 900x771 I used to test the PV terrain. They just have to have the correct name. I'd suspect a typo first if one didn't show up.





Thank you. That is still a little hard to parse, because both of these would be unique for the Sim, but I guess I sorta get it, maybe. Anyone else want to offer examples?

@Sunrader, For the memories explanation, simsfreq was right. Unique means that the sim only gets the memory once. Unique per sim means they get the memory once per sim. I explained this in my mod description once; let me copy from there:

By default, the Made Enemies with Subject memory is unique. So, a sim can get the Made Enemies with Subject memory exactly once in their lifetime, no matter how many enemies they make. If they make up with an enemy, but start feuding again, they do not receive another memory of becoming enemies again. If they make more than one enemy, they do not receive another memory of becoming enemies with the second sim.

The Made Best Friends with Subject memory, on the other hand, is unique per sim. So a sim can only get the Made Best Friends with Subject memory once per sim. No matter how often a sim fights and makes up with another, they only get a memory of the first time they became best friends.

Vs a fully repeatable memory like the Lost Subject As Best Friend memory, which means a sim will get a memory of losing another as a best friend every single time they lose the sim as a Best Friend. So if the pair are a couple and they keep catching each other cheating but always make up--every time they take that relationship hit and lose each other as a best friend, they get a memory.

Is anyone else planning to join the The Future Belongs To The Builders contest? Only about three days left but it's only half full. Justpetro needs 10 to get it going! I wasn't really planning on joining, but I'll try to put something together if there aren't enough contestants.

Yes, please join the contest everyone! Even new players, you don't need CC or complicated mods, just build an owned business. Mine doesn't even have any customers!

I don't think I'm good enough at building to even try the contest.

You could have a go, I think you posted some pictures of your hood a while back and the lots looked good to me!

@Craft90, I'm not either and I've joined two! Came in dead last, but somebody has to. You only improve if you do it and a contest pushes you to do more.

I'm too tired to do it this time, alas, too much to do and not enough energy IRL, but it would be a shame if the first contest we've had in ages failed because people were too self-conscious (which is all that "not good enough" feeling is) to participate. Go forth, have fun, and improve your skills!

@Craft90 I hardly ever click on the Disagree button, because it often upsets people.But I've clicked on it this time, because you are good enough!!! All you need is a little self-belief!

@Peni Griffin : You may not be the best builder here, but I still believe you're the best player. Your descriptions of life in Drama Acres have long been an inspiration to me and to my Sims!

Why is it that relationships sometimes disappear from people who haven't been played for a long time? I have noticed this with Dirk Dreamer and Herb Oldie. What is common with them is that they have low neighbor ids, and haven't been played. It doesn't look like a bug of setting them incorrectly because the whole set gets wiped out. STR, UI Flags, LTR, Var3. One could accidentally overwrite only one or two. I had to make a relationship setter because I just wanted them restored and not affect the deeper family tree.

I wasn't either, knew absolutely NOTHING when I entered my first one You will learn a lot and be 10 times better after the contest (and, like me, 100 times better after, I think, 6 or 7)

(My first one was that Monopoly one - @AndrewGloria and I struggled through it somehow because we could count our money well (It had these budget rules) and did quite well. And i still appreciate AndrewGloria sending me pics of the BG bedding, because we were only allowed to use that and as the UC was quite new)

I got disqualified in my first build challenge. The trees were wrong, plants were wrong and the building wasn't correct looking.

This is a very easy contest, though Rules and stuff are not difficult, I have designed it with beginners in mind. (To be honest, I believe the main reason I did relatively well in contests is because I have tried to make sure I (more or less) follow the rules). Please have a look at my contest with an open mind.

I refuse to believe people are not good enough. Building is easy (and fun), you don't need to be some kind of master builder to get a good score, all you need is to follow the rules of the contest and be yourself.

Give it a go, even if you don't think you're good enough, I can assure you that you are good enough. Recently I watched the movie Ratatouille again and in that movie there was a good inspirational motto of "Anyone can cook", well, to retrofit that for TS2, "Anyone can build", so get out there and go build!

I can't build. I feel there is too many ways to go at any given point. I need a problem reduced to a few possibilities and then choose the best among them. I also kinda find one look that suits me and repeat it every time without much out of the box thinking like sloped floors or trees indoors and what not.

Anyone can cook enough to feed himself but not to win a Sue's Secret contest.

Well, now, see the contest would be a great way to get out of that box and try different things. You can only go as far as you let your feet take you.

Building contests are enormous fun. It is amazing to see how every contest comes up with something else, and one really does not have to try that hard!

I can cook too

Thanks for this. So this means one per each Subject Sim? Are there examples of this type of memory that are not about interactions with other Sims, then?

I have started building now. But I can't get the toys to show up. So I can't place them.