Story Mode editor question

Hi :)

1. No. The stories are lot specific and also will delete if no one is living there, iirc (the lot story edited, not the pictures). :(

2. Yes, I believe so. There's an option to check the rest of the folder.

Hmm...
From my remembering, the stories do stick with the family not the lot. You cannot access the story mode while building an unoccupied residental lot. If I move a family away from the neighborhood view and put them to another lot, the stories in story mode stay with them. If I move individual sims out or all the sims die (or all the students move out of the college), the story mode is lost and if I move another family in the same lot, the story mode for them is empty.
I have also found that there are files that contain the text under picture and under what picture it belongs to.
It's located in Computer/Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods/N(number)/Storytelling and under the many pictures you've taken with their thumnails you can find webentry XML-files. There you can find the title (Usually "The Family"), pictures and texts.

Fun fact. Usually the title for neighborhood stories are "Welcome to !", for family story is "The Family", and for the student story is "The Household". You can click on the title in the story editor to change the title.
When The Sims 2 site was up, you were able to share the stories in there. People used it to share stories and tutorials.

Yea, I mostly remembering losing the storyboards when leaving Uni or combining houses. I find it's best to err on the side of caution. Sorry I was wrong. :mrgreen:

"Rflong7;c-16813578" wrote:
Yea, I mostly remembering losing the storyboards when leaving Uni or combining houses. I find it's best to err on the side of caution. Sorry I was wrong. :mrgreen:

It's OK. Everybody makes mistakes from time to time (even I).

@Rflong7 thank you very much for your response :smile:

My game may be different than Rfong7's but if I move the whole family from the neighborhood view and put them into another house the album, so far, has carried over. This is on my XP machine, installed via the original disks. I've not tried it with my UC installation. Suggest saving the neighborhood before doing any experiments.