#Mainhood update

[jadeaylasims]

The Sims 2 - Clean Templates

0. Get The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection here:

ONLY DOWNLOAD the things I tell you to WHEN I tell you to!

I recommend putting all the folders you take out in a folder called ‘OG Hoods’ on your desktop.

1A. Go to Documents > EA Games > The Sims 2 > Neighborhoods.

1B. Take the 6 folders in your neighborhoods folder out and replace them with these:

Using this ^ link, scroll down and click on #CLEAN TEMPLATES RERELEASE for the other 5 folders.

N001 = Pleasantview (Basegame).

N002 = Strangetown (Basegame).

N003 = Veronaville (Basegame).

F001 = Desidarata Valley (Freetime).

G001 = Riverblossom Hills (Seasons).

E001 = Belladonna Cove (Apartment Life).

2A. Go to This PC > Windows (C:) > Program Files (x86) > Mr DJ > The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (double click on it to open it).

When you’re ready to do 2C, 2D, etc. go back to this ^ place in your folder.

2B. Uni: Go to The Sims 2 University > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate.

Take the 3 folders in your neighborhoodtemplate folder out and replace them with these:

+DO NOT download ‘Sierra and Chandler’ and ‘Nightlife Version’, ONLY download the 3 normal ones.

2C. Downtown (Alternative = latest version from 2012):

Go to The Sims 2 Nightlife > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate.

Take the 1 folder in your neighborhoodtemplate folder out and replace it with this one:

2D. Bluewater Village: Go to The Sims 2 Open For Business > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate.

Take the 1 folder in your neighborhoodtemplate folder out and replace it with this one:

+USE THE SUBHOOD (shopping district) version!

+Optional: Download the Bluewater Village Main Hood version, this folder is called BWVM.

GO BACK TO Documents > EA Games > The Sims 2 > Neighborhoods, and put in as you did in step 1.

You will now have 7 neighborhoods when you open up the game instead of 6 neighborhoods.

+Optional: Download the Downtown Main Hood version.

*Note: It will no longer function as a Downtown (with Downtownies etc).

Use this link:

Scroll down until you see MAIN HOODS, scroll further down and download the first Downtown you see (how to download: click on the word Downtown). This folder is called N992.

GO BACK TO Documents > EA Games > The Sims 2 > Neighborhoods, and put in as you did in step 1.

You will now have 8 neighborhoods when you open up the game instead of 6 neighborhoods.

[justwierzba]

GC update

Pretty much as soon as I posted this one I was asked if I'm gonna do GC version of these, lol I didn't plan to, but since I already had prepared faced (they're all the same as in my regular Strangetown) I thought why not, so here it is Hope you enjoy :v

Download GC MainHood Download GC SubHood

PreStrangetown edit

Hi everyone Today I'm coming to you with something slightly different than usually but still a neighbourhood. Recently I found a really interesting early strangetown made by art_pale_fina on MTS. I at first decided to make some minor personal changes to it and maybe translate for friend who was interested in it but I got too ambitious not to share it here, lol (no worries, I asked everyone involved before so).

I didn't edit main plotlines or even any plotlines apart from adding Loner family, so for more info about these it's better to check out original post or just see for yourself in the neighbourhood.

Just to clear everything here, I used Carrit's ancestral sims and extras to fill the family trees and I used ChrisNewbie's recreations of some of console sims to add as townies. (Mostly aged down as it seems consoles take place after PC version, but still felt like including them). As of Polish translations I went a little creative for sims that had no canon translation, so it suits the vibe better.

I believe that's all I wanted to say, may edit post later if it turns out I missed something. Here are album pictures, list of changes, and download links below:

Changes I made:

added ancestral sims

cleaned up memories and added missing ones

replaced most of faces with more accurate recreations (Carrit's)

added missing Loner family

added all ST adult+ townies and NPCs

redid storytelling pictures to be more Maxis Match

changed some townies into NPCs (few Olive's victims)

added some console sims as townies for more variety (@chrisnewbie)

replaced already added custom townies

edited mall lot a little so the parking part looks more natural

added some graves to the cemetery

changed look of some sims to match with their original ones or personalities

fixed ages to work with default age span

fixed typos and misspellings I found in descriptions

fixed genetics of few sims

gave some deceased sims basic memories

added very few NPCs so there is no need for game to generate new ones

added Polish translation

added subhood version Worth noting:

Willow has dyed hair. Her genetics are for red hair but she dyed them brown.

almost everyone who has kids or ancestors has recessive genes now to match. Download MainHood Download SubHood

[iplaysims4]

Star is still a wild cat. The wild and crazy cat of her moms eye. Kenyatta.

Kenyatta tries to keep her body the same. It’s not always easy trying to hold on to her thickness. She is still single but chat on dating sites from time to time (I wish we had a dating service like TS3). She still runs her own Vet Clinic, caring for animals with mistakes and all.

[sunradersimblr]

Drop-in Empty Environment for Making Share-able Subhoods (Revised)

I recently went through the process of making an empty environment for UC without AnyGameStarter folllowing Moo’s tutorial, so that I could make any hood into a share-able subhood that can be attached to any mainhood as a shopping district or used to create a Megahood. I’ve been thinking about a way to share the environment with people who haven’t gone through all the steps to create an empty environment.

Earlier, I posted an empty environment as an empty game folder, but @ellupelluellu pointed out this only worked for people who had already disabled their hoods and stealth hoods. I wanted to save people that work, so I thought about it more and have come up with this. It’s a bit less flexible, but a bit more convenient and better for people who don’t want to muck about in their installation files. THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL. IF YOU WANT TO HELP TEST, THAT’D BE AWESOME, BUT IT IS STILL A TEST.

What is it?

Here is a clean environment with clean and empty hoods based on default Maxis terrains. The advantage is that these hoods should stay clean and empty even if people have not disabled their other hoods and stealth hoods. You can use these hoods, build as you like, then use the changeNeighborhoodType cheat to change them into attachable, share-able subhoods of any type. The environment already has testing cheats on and the hoods are already renamed so they shouldn’t conflict with other hoods created by the game.

What are you talking about?

If you’re not sure what all this means, read over Moo’s tutorial carefully before attempting it and always keep your game safe with a backup. Please note these are not regular hoods to play. These are hoods that the game “thinks” are subhoods, so there is no main hood from the game’s point of view. If you know exactly what this is all about, but just haven’t gotten around to making an empty environment yourself and don’t want to use AnyGameStarter, then this might be for you.

How do I use it?

1) To use my files, you rename your game folder in My Documents to something like “The Sims™ 2 Ultimate CollectionSAVE” then download and unzip the game folder and put it in C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\EAGames as The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection.

2) The environment contains clean, empty hoods, so you can build in them as you like, add CC, whatever. (Please observe Moo’s warning here not to click the back to mainhood button while editing, because, remember, there is no main hood here from the game’s point of view.)

3) When you are finished building, the environment already contains the userStartup.cheat that turns on testing cheats, so you can go ahead and use the changeNeighborhoodType cheat to change to the type of subhood you want and the subhood should be attach-able to any main hood.

As a bonus, these hoods have already been renamed so that they will not conflict with game-created hoods. For example, the first file with terrains Alpinloch through BrineyFjord, A-B, are named X001-X006. All 23 default Maxis terrains are available.

With any of these environments, it’s totally safe to delete the hoods you don’t want. If you have disabled your hoods and stealth-hood templates, you can also use the environment to create your own hoods with different terrains.

4) The subhood you create can then be moved to 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Best of Business\EP3\TSData\Res\NeighborhoodTemplate 

so it can be attached to any hood as a shopping district or whatever kind of subhood you have specified with changeNeighborhoodType.  

(Again, if you don’t know what any of this means, read Moo’s tute. Depending on the type of subhood you create, you may need Moo’s fixes to add multiple subhoods.)

5) When you’re ready to play your regular game, just rename the The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection folders again.

This has been totally revised to offer a clean, empty environment for making attachable, shareable subhoods based on any default Maxis terrain, BUT IT’S STILL EXPERIMENTAL. It’s been revised to be usable by any UC players even if they haven’t disabled hoods or stealth hoods. This should mean you can make a subhood without mucking about in installation files, creating a user cheat file, using SimPE, or renumbering your subhood because that’s been done for you. If you try these, please let me know if you see any problems, so I can fix them, and since I may have to update links, please only link this post if you share.

Aside: This may be usable by players with the disk version and all EPs, I have no way of testing that. If you try it, please let me know.

Download Clean, Empty Environment with Hoods, Terrains A-B

Download Clean, Empty Environment with Hoods, Terrains C-D

Download Clean, Empty Environment with Hoods, Terrains I-R

Download Clean, Empty Environment with Hoods, Terrains S-V

[drewinthesky]

La Fiesta Tech & Academie Le Tour as mainhood!

Hi guys, how are you? I’m currently working on so many things that I completely lost track of this hood conversion project! Anyway, since it has been quite a while without any update, I think the minimum I can do is make available both of the missing Universities :3

I also have ready both the Magic and the Hobby lots since in the poll they got one vote each, but I’m struggling to fix the lots... I’m trying to make them as easy to use as possible, so the main focus can be your gameplay.

So, are you ready?

Both neighborhoods are completely CC free, as usual;

You’ll require University and probably M&G to use them;

They have been created using the AGS and tested in a vanilla enviroment, with the UC.

Lots changes:

The Secret Societies are now community lots, although not visible in the neighborhood view. Some of the aspiration/career rewards can’t be used (like the Resurrect-O-Nomitron which doesn’t work or the Cowplant that’s not accessible) and there no special interactions related to the normal secret societies (outfits, secret handshake, hack grades);

All the dorms and greek houses have been converted into residential lots (no, this time I’m to lazy for names and prices X)

There are no Students/Premade families because I wanted to keep it as clean as possible; however no worries, the game will recreate all the NPC and townies it needs the first time you visit it. Also, I didn’t want to mess up with Young Adults in a base neighborhood. Maybe I could have age them up, but I don’t usefult that it would have been;

Since now they’re “just” base neighboorhood, all the activities related to the college are not available (creating YA in the CAS, attend classes, meeting professors etc);

I realized I’ve never expressly said where to install the hoods XD just put them in  Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods or Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Neighborhoods (UC users);

SFS - La Fiesta Tech as mainhood  |  SFS - Academie Le Tour as mainhood

Let me know if you have any issues or if you find something wrong/incomplete! :)

Don’t forget to check the index with the other hoods!

[oceansmotion]

hey, sorry to bug you! i'm having a bit of an issue with berrybury. i have the updated subhood version added to the ofb folder, but it's not showing up in-game. the one that disappeared showed up in the menu so i'm not sure what the cause of this is. it's a lovely hood and i can't wait to play it with my veronaville! thank you for making it.

Hello! Yeah, I put it up download in case people want it, but for some reason, whenever I personally convert the mainhood into a subhood, the subhood reverts back into a mainhood and disappears. I have no idea what caused it, and I keep meaning to go back and figure it out, just havent. To use BB as a subhood, simply convert the mainhood into a subhood, and it'll stay. It's only when I do it that it doesnt. lol.