Hi!

Is possible to change the skin of your existing sim with this? Cause I really want to change my "Barbie & Ken" doll skins of my sims I created when there weren't any nude skins available.

Thanks.

I think the thread "Charter modification with SimPE" was lost, any chance you could repost? I searched the entire forum looking for it. I would love to be able to replace the Skin of my current sims with modified versions..Thx!

Triple post.
[ Edited Wed Nov 10 2004, 03:04PM ]

Egads.
[ Edited Wed Nov 10 2004, 03:03PM ]

The only ways to do this now--listed above, or using Enhancer--mean swapping out the entire body, face and all...

I'm eager to do this--give all my favorite Sims some genuine nether-regions!--but I made most of them in CAS, and would never be able to re-create their faces exactly.

Unless we can figure out a way to swap out the body only, it won't be the same sim, to me...


[ Edited Wed Nov 10 2004, 03:07PM ]

Where exactly do I find the data file to extract once I open the character file? SimPE has changed so much, I don't even know where to look?

sorry i'm quite stupid.
1) is there a way to know BEFORE whose the chara file is? 'coz i had to open everyone till i found mine.
2) how can i extract the data file?
3) how can i replace it?

great work zx1111 But what do you mine with Data-File?? I can extrackt all, or a marked Aera to a Folder, but no other.
[ Edited 21-11-2004 02:58AM ]

I, too, did a search for "Charter modification with SimPE"...with no luck. This was posted in "Character modification with SimPE" so I thought I'd quote zx1111's original post for those of you who had a problem finding it like I did. (I see someone else up thread posted that they couldn't find the post, and this may be why.) Thank you, zx1111.

[blockquote]Yeah, It worked!

I replaced charater file with new one...
And now, she has new face and new first name...

How it was done:

0. backup your Sims 2 data.

1. Let say original sim's first name is "Olive", family name, "Francis".
I like to change her face/skintone and change first name to "Nancy".

2. Open Neighborhood.package with SimPE.
Find out Olive's character file name and SimID with SimPE..
(let's say that it is ".../N001/N001_User00188.package" and
SimID is 0x11223344 - 8 digit hexa number, write them down)
Move the charcter file to safe place for backup.
I recommand you to save N001_Neighborhood.pakage, too.

3. Enter Sims 2 game. Make a New neighborhood,
Make a family named "Francis" (same as original family)
in this brand new neighborhood.

4. Make a New sim with name of "Nancy". Change her look as you like.
She has new look and name but must have same sex and age group
(adult/child..) with original "Olive". Save family and quit Sims 2.

5. Open N00X_Neighborhood.package of new neighborhood with SimPE.
Find out new character file and Sim ID of "Nancy" .
(lets say that the file is "N005/N005_User00111.package" and
SimID is 0x55667788)

6. Open up Nancy's character file with SimPE Extract "Object Data" item into a file. Don't quit SimPE.

7. Open extracted file with hexa editor.
Find *two* instance of string "N005_User00111" and
replace them with "N001_User00188".

8. Find 4 byte instance of Nancy's SimID ( i.e. 88 77 66 55 (little endian))
and replace it with Olive's SimID ( i.e 44 33 22 11 )
Save the change.

9. Back to SimPE, "replace" "Object Data" with newly edited data.
Save the package file. quit SimPE.

10. Copy new modified "N005/N005_User00111.package"
to old "N001/N001_User00188.package".
Make sure that you already moved old file to safe place.

11. Fire up Sims 2 game. Enter "Francis" family of original Neighborhood.
Check if her face is changed; Check first and family name, too.

If plastic surgery and fake ID renewal for "Once-Olive, Now nancy" sim are OK,
Witness Protection Program is succesfully done.

Making new neigborhood could be be avoided if SimPE provides
means of editing Catalog Description STR# (family name string)
resource of Character file.
Hexa editing can not be used due to string length diffrence
and non-latin1 character set code.

Caveats: Family photo is not changed. Need to modify Neighborhood file.

Thanks a lot! Quaxi..

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Oh thank you sooo much zx1111. i've been trying to do this for a while. you make it look so easy.

I'm new at using SimPE and I'm stuck on step 7. How would I change those strings?
[ Edited 24-11-2004 08:15AM ]

Well I got how to extract the facial features and edit them in the body shop. But I couldn't stick them back into the Sim. That is my sim was the maid and my goal was to make her look more appealing.

Though the maid skin is available you in the d/l section. There isn't a skin for the hair i.e. the maid hat. I've been trying to find out how i could extract that and transfer it to other hair styles. Maybe i'll have to wait.

So I looking at this thread I tried to change the current maid facial features. Tried replacing the

4F424A44 - Object Data - 00000000-FFFFFFFF-00000080.simpe

Hex Edited the Reference

[color=red]But where do I need to look for to get the SimID[/color]
I opened up the N001_Neighborhood.package but which file do i look at?

If you replace the "facial structure" property of your target sim with the extracted file from the edited skin, that should work. I find that the new face doesn't show up until your sim changes appearance with the mirror.

*EDIT

I should have read up a little more.
[ Edited 03-12-2004 04:45AM ]

This should perhaps be moved to the tutorials section, as now that SimPE has a "surgery option", this is a lot handier (as you can export the sim via this method, then alter it, then use surgery to change it to the altered version)

Which version of SimPe?

12i the latest version (unless he updated again)

*edited: Okay looks like he did update again, now the latest is currently 12j*
[ Edited 03-12-2004 09:06PM ]