Sims 2 Discoveries !

and that is why you don't place trees in SC4, on terrains meant for TS2. *laughs*

Do what I do...place 1 tree in each corner of the map. LOL

"simsample;14797944" wrote:
And sometimes you end up with this:


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Bluefunk/Misc%20Sims/Ponds.jpg

(Yes, those are ponds- for some reason the game treats them as trees!)

Those are ponds? Lol They look like some sort of fungus spilling down a mountainside! Lol.

"SleepycatDSL;14797624" wrote:
You don't get SC4 trees in TS2 so their file size doesn't matter. From what I have read, if you place a tree on the terrain in SC4 and then put that terrain in TS2, when you go to use it, something in the file tells TS2 that the terrain has trees (not how many) so TS2 then picks a tree any tree and randomly throws a random number of them on the terrain.

You can see it just by picking a terrain that has trees and making a few new neighborhoods with it. I used to do that to get one with less trees, before I got SC4 and started making my own, without trees.

The old tutorial used to say palm trees were the only one that doesn't get transferred, but I think they did when I tried it once.
As for any tree, all of the SC4 terrains I've made have transferred the same type of tree to my game of The Sims 2 as was placed in SC4. What I can't remember is if it was from manually placing those trees in SC4, which you can do, or from the God Mode of 'flora'? or whatever button it was that ya know just painted clusters of trees around, and I think with that there was a button for each type of forest, so there'd be like similar climate zone type trees and if you released pause for time to go by before starting the mayor mode, those trees would multiply, especially if you let years and years go by. However, whichever way of placing those trees SC4 it was, the same type of tree did transfer in multiples to my The Sims 2 game. I deliberately made one such terrain once with the types of trees I wanted to appear in my Sims 2 game, quite a few of them, and when I opened it in my Sims 2 game, the place was totally covered, in the particular trees that I wanted, and then I manually grabbed and bulldozed areas of trees to place my lots, I wanted it to be like that, it was a nice view from my sims' windows, I thought. I do remember with that one that some of the clusters that appeared in my game weren't what I'd placed in the SC4 terrain, but most of them were. Some of them were those group tree decoration from the neighbourhood view and when I'd grab them there'd be like a bunch of them in a circle lift up to be moved or deleted.
It might be because the same types of trees that are in SC4 are mostly in Sims 2.

"SleepycatDSL;14797624" wrote:
You don't get SC4 trees in TS2 so their file size doesn't matter. From what I have read, if you place a tree on the terrain in SC4 and then put that terrain in TS2, when you go to use it, something in the file tells TS2 that the terrain has trees (not how many) so TS2 then picks a tree any tree and randomly throws a random number of them on the terrain.

You can see it just by picking a terrain that has trees and making a few new neighborhoods with it. I used to do that to get one with less trees, before I got SC4 and started making my own, without trees.

My question was, whichever way the tree appears in The Sims 2, if it is from an SC4 terrain, is the individual tree a smaller or larger file size thingy than a tree placed in the neighbourhood once the Sims 2 game has been opened, from 'decorations' in the neighbourhood edit thingy. I'm meaning like .. pixels? like when you have CC and it's file size is big or small because of the pixels or something or other.

It's not difficult to remove the trees from the SC4 terrain once it's been opened in Sims 2. Just grab and delete.

My point is, if it is the case that the pixels/file size of the individual trees from an SC4 terrain are less/smaller than trees placed from the neighbourhood view, decorations, then it might actually be better to have them, since neighbourhoods do end up having trees anyway one way or another .. unless you're going for a desert landscape and even then those don't really look all that good without a cactus or such here and there.

Discovering that the Sims2 game is never the same game twice! :)
I have just mucked up my Sims2 legacy I was playing; I did a system restore after having problems trying to install another programme. It has taken my Sims2 legacy back to last Monday - Horlicks! :(

"LadysimPlayer8;14800602" wrote:
Discovering that the Sims2 game is never the same game twice! :)
I have just mucked up my Sims2 legacy I was playing; I did a system restore after having problems trying to install another programme. It has taken my Sims2 legacy back to last Monday - Horlicks! :(

Did you know that if you're strictly following the legacy rules, you can move in as many townies/npc's as you want for their money, without marrying them or having their baby? And boot them out again once you're through with them, you just can't move them back in after that.

AND it IS possible to start the legacy with an actual simple one to two roomed house complete with wall and floor coverings, and not have to start it living on the lawn or in a roof? There's nothing in the strict legacy rules that says that you have to start living on the lawn or in a roof or with bare walls and floors, it just says that you have to buy the certain sized lot which leaves you with a specific small amount of starting funds, which means you have to think a little bit harder as to what to buy and build at first.

One of the cost saving things is to not buy a stove, just a fridge, could be a mini fridge if that is included in the base game and you don't have university, can't remember, then you don't have to buy a fire alarm or learn cooking straight away. I think with a single cheap benchtop you can survive on cereal and such, and if you have .. is it Seasons? you can serve that cereal/whatever instead of making a single one and put away the leftovers. Leftovers in Sims 2 don't go off, unlike Sims 3, in fact if your sim moves into the old house of another sim that used to have leftovers, even with a different fridge, their old leftovers will be available and not off .. or is it that you can move house with an old fridge full of leftovers and use those? can't remember, anyway point is they don't go off and are transferable.

Another cost saving thing is to build a minimum sized pool for body skill.

I might see if I can find my disks with my Lateral Legacy files on them somewhere and post it on my blog site, my sim on that managed to build a small house at the start, and I even think I only had the base game at the start of that because only people with the base game and no patches could upload stories to the BBS at that stage. It would be a few days to find it and post it though.

Did you know that ghosts, after they have cheered at their bed, will stay on that floor until it's time to go back to their grave/urn. So if you want to keep ghosts but don't want them to annoy you, put their urn on the top floor of the house, like an attic, along with their bed and then they won't come down, but you can go up to them if you want.
Also, service sims ghosts will cheer the thing their service is attached to, instead of their bed. For example, one of my sims married the repairman, who came to fix the toilet. When he died, it is the toilet he came to cheer, I'm not sure if all repairmen cheer the toilet or whether it is that they cheer the first thing they fixed. I didn't realise it was the toilet he was cheering at because the bathroom was right next to the bedroom and I thought he was cheering at his bed through the wall. But when the family did a makeover of the bathroom and got a new toilet, he got angry after going to the spot where the old toilet was and finding it not there anymore, and then would float around the house and grounds waving his arms and shouting with a crossed out toilet in his speech bubble.
I dare say firemen are probably attached to the fire alarm, and maids might be attached to the dishwasher. See if you can discover them all.

While looking througt sea shells in the sand I found a pair of earings. And in the notification it said i could go in c.a.s to actual wear them... Cool isnt it

"Maglxisback;14821569" wrote:
While looking througt sea shells in the sand I found a pair of earrings. And in the notification it said i could go in c.a.s to actual wear them... Cool isnt it

are you sure that is The Sims 2? I don't remember my sims being able to go into CAS once they've started being played. Unless you mean go into the mirror or whatever to change appearance, or for going into CAS to create a new sim, or even using the hairdressing station.
That is cool then. Which expansion was that with? Bon Voyage I suppose? or was it called Vacation? Can't remember. Or even Free Time.