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"Shelby Hair" set problems

I've had several people today tell me that my Shelby Hair set has missing zips for the entire set as well as some of the recolors, so I've temporarily withdrew it until I can figure out why it's not working and hopefully get it fixed. It should be published again sometime in the next couple of days

ETA: I've reuploaded all the files, and I think it should be fixed now. It will be republished tomorrow.

ETA Again: It's published now and it looks like everything is working

Two lots pending

Simford City residential lot "Blue Studio" (unfurnished) and community lot "Pyramid" (furnished) have been submitted. I've used Cyclonesue's Invisible Driveway, wallcolors, newspaper stands and also her table, which is one of my favourites. Spaik's stairs are great, look really lovely and makes building lots much more fun! Tabbylou offers variety to the basic game content with her recolors. Lianaa's floor tiles match so well with Cyclonesue's wallcolors, I use a lot of Lianaa's tiles! And Steffor's Universal curtain gives a right atmospehere, I simply love it!

Immigration and computer worries

Well after months of planning, stressing and running around we are finally on the final stage of our immigration planning and if there are no more delays should be leaving SA at the end of July.

To keep my site updated I was planning to build a ton of lots and then set them to release slowly over the next few months till such time as we are settled on the other side.

Unfortunately after completing 3 lots (and before saving them!) my computer has died without any warning and since we are leaving soon we have decided not to replace it. Now I am working from my laptop with is great for getting on the net and my work but not really not set up to run the sims2. I am hoping to still be able to get a few lots done on the laptop but they will have to be base game only as that is all I can run on here (although I want to try uni and see if I can get it to work) :-)

Anyway, this is the start of a new adventure for our family and we are all very excite (and stressed at at this point) but I am very glad to know that no matter where in the world I go I will still be able to keep contact with everyone here on TSR.

Regards
Strawbz

Collection Folder Update

I just added a collection folder to the Victorian Inspired Study set. As time permits, I will continue to create and add collection folders to some of my older sets. Take Care and Happy Simming! Carolyn

Custom Animations!

Thanks to Echo's brilliance and some well written tutorials, I'm finally getting the hang of making completely custom object animations. Right now I have a lot of ideas for "environmental ambiance", subtle things that add detail to the game. Swaying trees, grass that billows back and forth, signs and flags that swing back and forth.



I started with the idea of a maple tree that sways in the breeze, but that didn't go quite as expected... so instead I've put that off a bit and am now working on garden signs that sway back and forth.

Cribs and Fences

I had a request a while back to make versions of the two cribs and change table from Free Time that would use the original crib's bedding for their bedding and ruffle textures. It's taken me a while to get around to it, but finally they're done, and due out on Monday. Unfortunately I neglected to note down who made the request, so I can't tell you who to blame... errr, thank... for this particular set of objects. The one oddity with this set is that, since it uses the standing padding from the Kinder Kontainer to texture the hanging ruffles, the texture on those parts is basically upside down. Sorry, there was no easy fix for that short of completely rebuilding the ruffles (and thereby tripling the poly counts of them) so that I could map it differently. And I'm not that much of a perfectionist! I also recently went rooting through some old work of mine from a while back - from 2004, pre-TS2 - to see if any of the odds and ends I'd been meshing back then was worth trying to salvage as a TS2 mesh. And promptly stumbled over this fence I'd made to use in an Unreal level: I had to completely rebuild the vines from scratch for it to work well in the Sims, but the resulting set of fences will be out this coming Wednesday. They co-ordinated reasonably well with the "Perfectly Square" gate that came with the base game; an entirely serendipitous result that I didn't plan for, but noticed once I was trying them out in-game.

Sea Witch...

For those of you who are wondering where the Sea Witch lot went, it would appear that due to technical difficulties the Sims2Pack file seems to have disappeared. :( This appears to be a site issue, and not a creator issue from what I have read in the forums. The staff will be in soon, and then I am sure they will help us all get this sorted out.

Until then, I have removed the file completely and will try again after we have figured out what the problem is. Thanks for your patience, and sorry for any trouble.

--Illiana

June Updates/Files Removed!

~*~Files Removed Again!! - Update: 8 June~*~ Same issue as yesterday with files being reported so I removed them again. It's a site issue! I retested my files today to make sure they work in-game and everything worked fine. I think I might pull the files until I hear something about the issue being fixed. I'll try to keep you all updated. Again...Sorry for the inconvenience!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ~*~Files Removed! - Update: 7 June~*~ I had three reports for missing files submitted on my Seasons Child Sundress set which caused TSR to automatically removed them. Because of that I decided to removed all the files for this outfit and will re-submit them tomorrow. The issue with the files is a site issue and not my files. Apparently, the file missing problem has happened off and on in the last week or two. Some people have had to wait a few hours and try again to get the files to load. If you have this problem again, please wait and try to download the file at a later time. Sorry for any inconvenience!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ~*~June Updates!~*~ Sorry guys...I'm a little behind on updates. I try to get something new out once a week but sometimes things don't go as planned. I was gone for three weeks for a family emergency in MS and just got back home in VA a few days ago. Currently, I'm trying to get things at home in order after being gone for so long. I might be a little slow getting recolors out over the next few weeks but I will try to do my best. Fortunately, the weeks I was gone I had enough recolors finished to complete the month of May. You guys probably didn't even notice I was gone. Right now I'm kinda pushed back again so I'm slowly getting around to finishing up various projects. I do have some stuff complete though and I'll get that out to you guys first. Hopefully, I can finish up more wall recolors and maybe even work on a few object recolors. Here's what I have for you guys this month... This outfit was originally a Maxis adult mesh but I thought it suited elders more so I changed it up a little and re-categorized it. Hope you all like!

Upcoming previeuw & submitting errors

Hi, dear Simmers! I have problems at the moment with submitting sets. I get an error message that says the set that I just created is not mine! Or.. it says I must have a least 2 items into a set. Wich is very strange, because I submitted 3 or 4 different items and it keeps telling me and telling me over and over again that I do not have a set. Stupid error!! It's very strange and I don't know why this happens, because never had problems with submitting a set before. I posted my question about it at the forums, hoping that there is someone who can give me a answer. Especially because I did see that I am not the only one who gets this iritating error. Here's a previeuw of the 3 different Toony T- shirt sets for boys- and 1 Toony set with 4 outfits for Toddlers, wich I am testing in my game to shoot some pictures for a nice previeuw. There's a lot more to upcome, but we have to wait until the error problem is over. I hope it wil be very soon! Thanks for reading and your sweet attentions. I wish you all a very nice weekend! Grtz, Dirtdevill

Cancer

My dad's cancer has comeback again. He was diagnosed around Christmas 2006 after about 3 years of him being in pain, at first the doctors thaught it was piles, he was taken in for an op then they discoverd something that changed my family forever, he had cancer. They had to operate and he ended up with bags to collects his waste. Then they found another tumor in his liver and he had part of his liver removed. After a few months of him being clear he got an infection in his 'area' and they discoverd that it was another secondary. So I may not create as much because of this but I'm still here, if anyone is going through the same sort of thing or has been through it then I'm here to talk, I would like advice and I could possibly give some.