Posts Tagged ‘catagories’

Hi guys. Looks like things are falling into place here. Tom made his first (and hopefully not last) news post. All the tools are online (that are completed) and the magic elves are hard at work on all the others (if a page says the download is coming soon then it means just that, emailing me asking where you can download it gets you a heartfelt empty response but nothing more). So we’re settling in pretty good.

I mentioned that I got Vacation on the weekend (did a Toys’R'Us run looking for Buffy figures and ended up grabbing Vacation on the way) and I’ve been taking a look at the changes Maxis has made. It seems with each expansion pack since Living Large, the rules get tossed out the window with regards to standards in how objects and graphics work. If you take a peek at some of the floors and walls with SimExplorer, the whole idea of Far, Medium and Near is kind of bass ackward. Also there are some resources that just don’t make sense. In addition, the graphics fall into various catagories when trying to display them (and I suppose clone them). I guess I wouldn’t mind if it was consistant, but take a look at some of the vehicles from Vacation in SimExplorer (or Tmog) and you’ll see 6 tiles that are screwed up and 2 tiles that are perfectly fine. Huh? So various things to pour through there. I do want to get an update to some tools out as quickly as possible to correct some of these problems (like a new cloner program) so hang in there. Of course this is delaying my blueprint work and some other tools again. Juggling is so much fun. Seeya!

Hiya. Haven’t got Hot Date yet (but it’s on the way) but I found out the nifty new sub-catagories for the objects are part of the Far files. Soooo… the first thing I’m updating (due out later this week once I get HD to test it) is a new version of FarExplorer with a modified Far wizard. This will let you do two things. First, you’ll be able to create new Far files but also it’ll let you convert files in existing Far files and put them into catagories. So for those of you that have large collections of objects and want to get your own creations out of the Misc catagory and into where they belong, just hang in there and I’ll get you the tool to do it shortly.

I’m also going to look at how to get your user created objects into the downtown area and see what I can do there. Damn I wish I had more heads up on this. Oh well. The good thing is that for European users, the programs will arrive just in time. They’ll be other updates in the next few weeks as I scramble to make everything HD compatible. Seeya.