Weekend Project Post

[ex_pooklet817]

Last week: Neon toilets! Medieval Stuff! Gaga! Legacies! Other things!

Be sure to check out the standing collaboration suggestions. Thread set up is the same this week. You're free to repost stuff if you like but please try to bring something new to the table.

POST IS LATE BUT AT LEAST IT'S SATURDAY THIS TIME. GETTING BETTER, YOU GUYS.

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Collaborations!

[ex_pooklet817]

Have a project you've been sitting on for ages but don't have the time/skills to complete it? Looking for a long-term collaborator for a series of projects you're planning? Want someone to test/give feedback on something? DO YOU NEED A COLLABORATOR OF ANY KIND, FOR ANY SIM-RELATED REASON AT ALL? This is the thread for you. Reply to this comment with the details of your project/idea/what have you and if someone's interest, they can comment back to you and you can sort out the details.

Note: This is not a request thread. The point is not for you to ask people to make things for you, but with you, cool? Cool!

Re: Collaborations!

[hat_plays_sims]

... Actually...

I've been working on these stacks of coins on this mesh-- not recolors, what I'm trying to do is clone the coins, paint one set copper, one set silver, and one set gold, and arrange it so each single coin, stack of coins, and bunch of stacks of coins has an assigned value that does not depreciate, ever. My thinking is, for things like dowries, counting-houses, Scrooge McDuckSim's money bin, pirate lairs, or just taking money out of your family's bank account and being able to put it on a table or something, so it's not wasted but it's not easily spend-able, either. (Also great for when you graduate Uni with a shitload of grant money that you can't take with you unless you buy some weird-ass giant Thing from the catalog.)

And I got the textures done, I got the values working so nothing depreciates, I got unique GUIDs assigned to all nine objects, but no matter what I do they all show up with the same texture. And I don't think I made them base-game compatible. Does anyone who knows more about object creation want to prod at them for a while? They've been sitting in my catalog making me feel guilty for months.

Re: Collaborations!

[curiousb]

I don't know if I know any more about object creation than you, Hat, but I'm willing to take a look at them if you're still looking for a volunteer? Maybe a fresh pair of eyes will spot something you missed...

Re: Collaborations!

[hat_plays_sims]

*zips them, flings them online*

I would dearly appreciate it if you wouldn't mind prodding at them a bit! I know bupkiss about object creation, and all the tutorials I looked at started from places I didn't need. I've got everything but the textures working; in-game they all appear as silver coins. (And okay, I do want to tweak the side-of-coin textures, but I can do that once they, you know. Work.)

Re: Collaborations!

[curiousb]

Righty-oh! *plonks them in projects folder*

I'll have a poke at them when I get home from work, over a cuppa (lubricates the brain, you know).

EDIT FOR A QUICK QUESTION: they're all showing up as only silver, the single and multiple ones?

Re: Collaborations!

[hat_plays_sims]

Awesome! Thank you so much-- you know, I've never been big on hot beverages (except sweet cider, an exception I can't explain), but if it lubricates the brain, maybe I oughta start. *grins*

Re: Collaborations!

[curiousb]

OK, Hat, I think I've found your problem. The internal name for all the coins is identical, when it should be unique for each of them (i.e. each new object with its own GUID must have its own internal name). So, when the game loads up, the coins are all referring to the same object, hence they all have the same texture (and probably also the same game-play properties, although I didn't test that). (Is this making sense?!)

Now the bad news: I tried to fix it, but got a weird error in SimPE, which just made everything worse. So, unfortunately, I think you are going to have to remake them from scratch!

When you clone the original object, you need to make sure that you enter a unique name for each of your coins in the Scenegraph Rename Wizard dialogue that pops up.

I use this tutorial here on object creation: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=104795. Obviously, just ignore the stuff about Milkshape and UV mapping, and follow the instructions on what to do in SimPE when creating a new object, and hopefully it should work!

EDIT: oh, and it looks as though the original object was cloned from a base-game mesh, so I think they are already base-game compatible. :)

Re: Collaborations!

[hat_plays_sims]

*downloads tutorial* I'll have a look at that in a bit, thank you-- I don't remember anything called a Scenegraph Rename Wizard so I was probably doing something wrong or just backwards. Fingers crossed!

Re: Collaborations!

[curiousb]

Good luck with it! If you need any more help, just let me know.

Re: Collaborations!

[hat_plays_sims]

Whoops, sorry, missed the edit for a while.

Yes, every last one-- single, stack of ten, stack of... er, fifty or a hundred or whatever it was... *forgot* I managed to get the single copper one to look copper in the catalog, but in the game, it's still silver.