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30th May 2010, 02:04 PM	Creating Default Replacements with CTU #1
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Please note that the latest version of CTU offers you the option of making a regular clone or a default replacement when you use Save As. Therefore, this tutorial is no longer needed, and is provided to satisfy the curiosity of insane tinkerers only! Tutorial:Creating Default Replacements with CTU^wiki Comments and stuff welcome.
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30th Jun 2010, 11:17 PM

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8th Jul 2010, 03:10 PM	#2
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	That helmet thing looks like a ~~servo~~ simbot head... maybe you've got some screwy CC? Dunno. :/ As for the random setting, it's possible there are kids inheriting hairs, I guess. Have you tried this in a new town to see if they still pick it randomly?
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20th Nov 2010, 01:52 AM	#3
zymish Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 110 Thanks: 261 in 4 Posts 5 Achievements	I tried to figure this out on my own, but I'm having a bit of difficulty with it - maybe you'll help? I want to replace the rectangular glasses with the smaller ones Grimma made, but I don't know how. I opened Grimma's file in CTU and extracted the meshes, but I don't know what to do next.
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21st Nov 2010, 05:32 AM	#4
jeannie4414 Field Researcher Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 256	Hi, I followed your steps and was successful! I tried them in game and they work fine, but the thumbnails are still the same. I deleted CASThumbnails and simCompositorCache, but has minor success. Some of the thumbnails are gone and regenerated by the game, but there are still some that are stuck and they are in the same line. What else do I need to delete? Screenshots
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27th Nov 2010, 10:58 PM	#5
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	zymish, this tutorial doesn't really cover that. The easiest way to do that would be to find the CASP for the glasses you want to replace and note down the instance, and then open the custom glasses in S3PE and replace the instance of the CASP with the instance from the EA glasses. jeannie, that's strange... When you extracted the CASP from FullBuild0, were there any THUM files with the same instance?
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27th Nov 2010, 10:58 PM

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1st Dec 2010, 04:27 PM	#6
jeannie4414 Field Researcher Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 256	When I filter FullBuild0.package using 0xF8BC62A32C88B088 (thigh high boots) as the instance number, only two instances were left, the CASP and the XML. Can you please try this yourself if you can?

2nd Dec 2010, 09:33 PM	#7
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Yes, that's correct - that's how it should be.
	"On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune." - Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves

2nd Dec 2010, 11:45 PM	#8
jeannie4414 Field Researcher Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 256	Where are these THUM files suppose to be lurking that're preventing my replacement from spawning new thumbnails? I did exactly like in your tutorial, in your example does it generate a new thumbnail for all of them?

3rd Dec 2010, 04:04 PM	#9
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Did you remember to delete CASThumbnails.package? I can't think of another reason why the thumbs wouldn't generate correctly... of course you could always add custom ones, but I realise that's not ideal. :/
	"On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune." - Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves

4th Dec 2010, 09:12 AM	#10
jeannie4414 Field Researcher Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 256	Yes I did, the one inside the Thumbnails folder. That is why some of the thumbnails were replaced, but I am not sure why it isn't all. Do you mind testing them in your game? replacement shoes it's only a small file.
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7th Dec 2010, 06:39 PM	#11
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	You made the shoes in TSRW? The THUM file in HiHeelNatural01 won't work as the group is incorrect (should be 0x01 for the first design, 0x02 for the second and so on). Is the heel height the only change in each shoe? Perhaps the thumbnails have updated, but the difference isn't really noticeable from the angle shown by the thumbnails?
	"On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune." - Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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7th Dec 2010, 09:56 PM	#12
jeannie4414 Field Researcher Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 256	I didn't make them, those are assdude's non replacement shoes that I made some minor alterations. I pmed him. I only changed the instance number of the CASP to match the shoes in game. Yes, the heel height are the only changes, mostly. But you can see the thumbnails are wrong, because the colors are different. In the screenshot I showed, it has two of the same color. There are two white shoes now, the 2nd one should be brown. edit: I think I know whats going on here. I remember I've been deleting the CASThumbnails.package and there are some CAS items that will retain their thumbnails. Could it be that the thumbnails for these shoes are not in CASThumbnails.package and I have to delete something else?

10th Dec 2010, 11:23 AM	#13
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	It's possible, yes - I've never encountered that issue, but then I don't know everything. If there are such "rogue" thumbnails, I'd expect them to be in FullBuild2.
	"On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune." - Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves

16th Dec 2010, 11:14 AM	#14
Cocomama Inventor Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 955 Thanks: 40424 in 105 Posts 23 Achievements View My Journal	This works wonderfull Whiterider. However now I have so many Default Replacements made, I wonder how I can collect them in one file, like you did with the hathiders?

10th Jan 2011, 12:41 PM	#15
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,635 Thanks: 27817 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Sure, Coco - you should be able to just open one of them in S3PE, and import all the rest (right-click, Import... from package). Do remember to keep the original, separate files, as you can't properly edit a merged file in CTU (you can - but it will always open the first CASP and ignore the rest).
	"On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune." - Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves

15th Jan 2011, 03:50 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jeannie4414

I didn't make them, those are assdude's non replacement shoes that I made some minor alterations. I pmed him. I only changed the instance number of the CASP to match the shoes in game.

Yes, the heel height are the only changes, mostly. But you can see the thumbnails are wrong, because the colors are different. In the screenshot I showed, it has two of the same color. There are two white shoes now, the 2nd one should be brown.

edit: I think I know whats going on here. I remember I've been deleting the CASThumbnails.package and there are some CAS items that will retain their thumbnails. Could it be that the thumbnails for these shoes are not in CASThumbnails.package and I have to delete something else?

I had the same problem when I was trying to hide some things in CAS. Some clothes showed the wrong thumbnail and it drove me nuts, I could never figure out why though. So I ended up just deleting the hiders I made. *shrugs*

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15th Jan 2011, 12:44 PM	#17
jeannie4414 Field Researcher Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 256	with my case, when I delete the CASTthumbnails.package some of the thumbnails in the line were not deleted, so only those that were deleted re generated new ones. like whiterider said, we can always make custom ones as a last resort.

15th Jan 2011, 06:32 PM

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