This is a tutorial on how to make/fix overlay boxes so that the overlays will remain attached to the body of your sim until they die or you remove them. The original technique/tutorial is Morague's work. However, all over the internet...high and low...every site I checked, there was no real conclusion as to how to make the overlays STAY. At the ( Read more... )

(Note: I'm aware this didn't win my poll, but I already had the screencaps, and I figured I'd knock it out. Don't worry, I'm going to append and amend the genetics tutorial next ( Read more... )

Making a REALLY Custom Game

This is slightly beyond the stated premise of the tutorial, but honestly...what fun is it to have all these custom genetics if you end up with the same old default everything else as usual, every time you start up a hood? So here are a few tips for making the game truly YOURS.
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Modifying Custom Skins
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Modifying Custom Eyes
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Okay, so it's time to learn how to make your CC genetics behave the way you want them to. First of all, you'll need to get a few things in order:
- Find the genetics you want to modify--if you have NL or later, you can use subfolders, and it may be helpful to get all the hair in one folder, skintones in another, eyes in another at the least- ( Read more... )

Default Replacements vs. Custom Content
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This is where you want to begin if you recall the basics of genetics, but still want to know how that translates to the game.

How Genetics Works in The Sims 2
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Ambitious title, huh? Well, this is an ambitious tutorial. Basically, I'm going to be compiling all the information I've absorbed by obsessively reading and observing. (A lot of the basics, when it comes to the in-game number crunchy stuff, comes from various threads at MATY and MTS2.) I hope to explain how sims genetics works, what options you ( Read more... )