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Swimming baths...............do them first by raising the ground where you
want them, adding the pool then building around it.
Oh and by the way, 16 clicks of the up terrain button equals the height of a
wall.
"Granny Crabapple" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Sanantone" <shys10512INJECTIFIED@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Granny Crabapple wrote:
> >
> >>Another dim question from the keyboard of Granny.
> >>
> >>
> > Just had a look at mine and the first one "Sims2 folder" is c:\program
> > files\ea games\thesims2\ (the second one is Sims 2 University, but that
> > one is greyed out) the third one, the savegame folder is C:\Documents
and
> > Settings\your name\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 note the
lowercase
> > in the first and the uppercase in the second, I don't know if this makes
a
> > difference or not but I've typed it out exactly how it looks, if you
have
> > the Nvidia tools installed,(for Photoshop) that one reads Nvidia DDS
Tool
> > Folder C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\DDS Utilities
>
> Never mind; this might be essential reading for another baffled customer.
> It is funny how something you type in all the time suddenly refuses to
work.
>
> > Have you downloaded the latest SimPe http://sims.ambertation.de/
lol
> > I just went to the site and found that it's been updated HUGELY,
>
> Not again!!!! I hate the sound of the 'hugely'. It was quite huge enough
> last time I downloaded.
>
> so
> > I will d/load that one, you always need the latest SimPe, and it's
always
> > being updated, if you just want to recolour Maxis objects have you tried
> > using the Wizards of Simpe, its located in C:\Program Files\SimPe open
> > that folder and you'll find a button with Wizards of SimPe, right click
> > that and send to desktop, it's a lot quicker than using Object Workshop,
> > (bear in mind the object needs to have recolours already, I think
there's
> > a way to do them without but you'd have to look for a tutorial for that,
> > there's probably one at MTS2.
>
> Ho? I will check this out. The stone/brick pediments weren't there. 8(
> As it is I am having horrible problems trying to get the roof to stay on
the
> top layer of my Victorian swimming baths.
> Trouble is. Victorian = steps to go up to the main door. You need them. It
> looks right.
> Swimming baths = back down to the terrain layer, so I have to have more
> steps inside. Then I need a double window to give light on the water. And
> another, one storey up, on the same wall = three stories of windows on one
> wall.
> Now enclose it all up, leaving a big space over the balconies and put one
of
> those slopy/flat-top roofs and... The flat part of the roof floats in the
> air because of the damn pool!!!!
>
> And the top story wall I put a big row of those arched windows and it
looks
> like the ruddy Crystal Palace - before it burned down - and in the middle
of
> all this I thought 'what the hell am I doing all this for? Put the Sims
in
> and you never see the upper windows anyway.'
>
> I went back, with great relief to my 1930's middle-income semi detached .
> Who wants a Municipal Public Baths, anyway? Not this cookie.
>
> Granny
>
>