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28th Jul 2010, 02:54 PM	Cloning EP (or custom) content with CTU (and S3PE) #1
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Tutorial:Cloning EP content with CTU^wiki It's amazing what you can do in a morning, aside from forgetting to have lunch. Comments, questions etc all welcome.
	"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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29th Jul 2010, 10:17 PM	#2
emhpb Instructor Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 547 Thanks: 1186 in 13 Posts 9 Achievements	YES! Thank you for this! I haven't read it yet, but it should help me a LOT on my CC adventures. :D

30th Jul 2010, 09:38 AM	#3
Cocomama Inventor Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 955 Thanks: 40424 in 105 Posts 23 Achievements View My Journal	Great work, another very nice tutorial Whiterider !! If you have a copy of all the fullbuilds in My Documents, and always open that with S3PE to extract files from, there should be no conflicts because CTU uses the fullbuilds in the Program files. I really love the way you have explained it all, now its also easy to extract the base meshes with CTU. I have not succesfully made new textures for an expansion mesh yet, but that probably is something I did wrong. Maybe you could add a bit about that, and what you can and can not do with the new package at the end of your tutorial?

31st Jul 2010, 11:18 AM	#4
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Yes, that's a good point about having copies of the fullbuild files - I'll add that later. Well, as far as I know, you should be able to do anything with the file that you could with a normal basegame-cloned file - although I haven't actually tried much beyond a simple texture replacement, so there may be stuff I've overlooked.
	"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 Aug 2010, 08:17 AM	#5
jilliebee22 Test Subject Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 55 Thanks: 1077 in 2 Posts 7 Achievements	This is a great tutorial! It was really easy to follow. And you saved me! Thank you soo much! EDIT: I'm having a problem with the custom mesh. It doesn't show my texture. I tried it on a CAS mesh and it shows up fine. But when I put it on the custom mesh it doesn't show up.
	Last edited by jilliebee22 : 4th Aug 2010 at 08:30 AM.

5th Aug 2010, 01:54 PM	#6
Kiara24 Theorist Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,438 Thanks: 98328 in 168 Posts 28 Achievements View My Journal	Great tutorial! Thanks!

10th Aug 2010, 04:50 PM	#7
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	jilliebee22, does the texture work in the CTU preview? If not, what do you get - no texture, the old texture, something else?
	"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

9th Nov 2010, 08:14 PM	#8
GnatGoSplat Forum Resident Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 865 Thanks: 11751 in 67 Posts 15 Achievements	I've been trying to follow along with the Wiki, but I'm not sure what this is supposed to do. Is it supposed to make EP items show up in CTU? I'm using the most recent CTU and have added all the Fullbuild.package files as shown, but the EP items don't show up in CTU. I'm thinking maybe I've misunderstood something, because the next step of having to manually dig for the meshes in the Fullbuild.package files in S3PE kind of implies they can't be extracted by CTU. I guess I'm just all around confused!
	Meh.

27th Nov 2010, 11:00 PM	#9
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	No. This tutorial covers how to clone EP or custom content manually - it doesn't make the content show up in CTU. Adding the FullBuild files to the options in CTU is to enable CTU to load the mesh and textures in the preview.
	"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

11th Aug 2011, 12:17 AM	Re-categorization causing game slowdown? #10
tonya3507 Test Subject Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4	Thanks for the awesome tutorial! I tried to change categories for custom package files (not sims3pack) after I read your tutorial. Opened my file with CTU and changed the category for the clothes and commit save. The thing is it awfully slowed down my game loading... Did I do something wrong? No one seems to have this kind of problem..

13th Nov 2011, 05:42 AM	#11
sushirice25 Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7	This is working...so far. When I try to export my package, it only gives me the option to open, so I can't save my file. Help, please?

13th Nov 2011, 09:34 AM	#12
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	You're exporting from S3PE, I take it? Once you've typed a filename, you should be able to hit Open or Save or whatever the button says and have it work. Also, this method may well not be the quickest and easiest any more, as S3OC can now clone CAS content.
	"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

14th Nov 2011, 01:07 AM	#13
sushirice25 Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7	Oh. Junior moment. I forgot to add a filename. I feel stupid. Thanks though!

17th Nov 2011, 07:41 PM	#14
poppyberry Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 54	woohoo! I read instructions and it works! Thanks so much for this tutorial! I had a bit of a problem with the same thing sushirice25 had.

21st Jan 2012, 09:59 AM	#15
poppyberry Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 54	I have just had a message that the new tshirts I have made using this method have made the star tshirt in generations go missing. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks.

21st Jan 2012, 10:51 AM	#16
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Something went wrong with step 3.3 - when you were changing the Instance. Redo that bit.
	"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

21st Jan 2012, 10:16 PM	#17
poppyberry Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 54	Would I be able to amend the files I have made or should I redo them altogether?

21st Jan 2012, 10:18 PM	#18
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	You don't need to start again, just use the files you already have.
	"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

23rd Jan 2012, 08:09 AM	#19
poppyberry Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 54	Thanks for your help! I was able to find the incorrect file, I think I had just missed the step where you give it the new number thingy, everything is fine now and only one file was bad.

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16th Feb 2012, 06:46 AM	#20
random.person Lab Assistant Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 86	Thanks so much for this tutorial <3 I'm going to make all toddlers and childrens clothing, hair and other things available for both sexes, so since I'm not actually going to be changing how they look, would there be any point in making them non default replacements?

1st Mar 2012, 04:58 PM	#21
poppyberry Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 54	Just made some clones of the teen generations scoop neck tshirt. However they all still have the silly star logo on them, anyone know if it can be removed and if so how?

1st Mar 2012, 07:04 PM	#22
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	poppyberry, in CTU, go to Designs, pick whichever design has the stencil on it; then under the Stencils tab, make sure all the dropdowns are set to None. Commit and save. random.person, well, kinda depends how you look at it . If you're not changing anything, then you can do it either way - a default replacement is neater, but a non-default can't ever conflict with anything. Either way, I would suggest changing the gender flags in S3PE - you don't need to use CTU at all for something so small.
	"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

1st Mar 2012, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by whiterider

poppyberry, in CTU, go to Designs, pick whichever design has the stencil on it; then under the Stencils tab, make sure all the dropdowns are set to None. Commit and save.

random.person, well, kinda depends how you look at it

. If you're not changing anything, then you can do it either way - a default replacement is neater, but a non-default can't ever conflict with anything.
Either way, I would suggest changing the gender flags in S3PE - you don't need to use CTU at all for something so small.

Thank you. I just checked and it does show all at none already and I never chose a stencil one, but it has the stencil/logo in game

1st Mar 2012, 08:51 PM	#24
whiterider Original Poster Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27817 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	In that case, check the Logo tab, and also the overlay texture - if it's not one of those, it's magic.
	"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

1st Mar 2012, 08:54 PM	#25
poppyberry Test Subject Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 54	Ah...well, must be magic...lol. Defo not an overlay, I deal with those all the time. Logo is clear too.

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