Sims Related - FYI

[orikes]

This is just an FYI for the simming folks that read this journal. For those of you concerned about InSim going the way of the dodo, there is an alternative out there.

The Sim Blender by TwoJeffs.

I think it's a little clunkier to use than InSim, but he just added a wholes lew of family options that let you do even more family linkage than InSim does. He's got a few very neat options on there if you can get used to using the menus. I don't like how it forced me to scroll through the entire neighborhood's worth of sims to do what I wanted, but I do appreciate the options it offers.

Comments

[profbutters.livejournal.com]

WOW. Thank you! I've been told this is better, and it certainly has some shinies I wanted, but the one thing it didn't seem to have before was the family stuff, and of course that's what I needed most. If the family thing had been available before, I might have been able to set Flavius and Publius as cousins without killing everybody like that!

I think I will test drive this in my challenge neighborhood. Originally I wanted Uranium to be Secundus' aunt, but stuff got busted out of CAS and there were inappropriate heartfarts between Rhys and Uranium, and the upshot was that she wound up being Cypress wife and Rhys' mom. Which made a wrong situation even wronger.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

Apparently you still have to do the parent/child connection to actually get the family tree to show up correctly, but other than that, sims will be marked as family to one another if you use the other settings.

It does look very shiny. I was really excited about the renaming features, but I found them really difficult to use since you have to scroll through an entire list of sims in the hood to do what you want.

[lauriempress.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I think I'll check it out.

Lauri

[leaths.livejournal.com]

I do like the sim blender and TwoJeffs has even added a teleport option, which makes me happy because now I can remove inge's since I already have a simblender on just about every lot.

The name options are a pain, though, no doubt. It takes forever to scroll through an entire neighborhood of pictures.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I wish he would use the radial menu options that Paladin put on his teleporter. It divides all the sims up into type (Playable Sim, Townie, Downtownie, Dormie, NPC, etc.) and it makes it much easier to scroll through the thumbnails to find the sim you need. I should probably suggest it instead of silently wishing for it, though. :)

[leafy-lettuce.livejournal.com]

I luff this particular shiny - it is the only thing I use in my game. <3 I've never had any problems with it, while InSim - back when I used it - seemed to bork my game quite a bit.

I personally don't mind scrolling through to find the names, but that's probably because the alternative seems to be... D: Manually going through menus to try to find that sim! At least with the pictures I know I've got the choice right.