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5 Easels with Custom Paintings

by KariMinger Posted 30th Sep 2007 at 4:45 AM - Updated 8th Dec 2008 at 9:31 PM by -Maylin-
 
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Purplepaws
Scholar
#2 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 8:20 AM
Nice work! I know I'll put the children's easel to good use.
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Mihura
Scholar
#3 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 10:11 AM
A good idea ! This is a simple way to vary paintings in the game. Thank you KariMinger.
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Cora99
Test Subject
#4 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 10:17 AM
Hats off to your staff of tireless painters, that was well worth it ;-) Great idea and sorely needed, thank you so much!
xptl297
Instructor
#5 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 10:44 AM
Very good, thanks. It opens also the possibility of "discrimination" (I like to make objects available for groups), in the case I can make the Kids esel to be used only by kids. Thanks for that.
I only hope now that someone comes with an automatical sell off (most of the time I keep only the final "expert" painting level and would like that they sold the "tests" ones self).
Psychosim
Top Secret Researcher
#6 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 12:14 PM Last edited by psychosim0 : 6th Oct 2007 at 7:07 PM.
So, when my sim uses the "digital" easel, he will paint "digital" paintings, and with the "blues" easel they will be "blues" paintings? Wow, you're a genius! I didn't know this is possible. I appreciate your work a lot, finally my famous artists can have their own style! yay!

edit: It requieres pets No wonder it made my game crash (tested not before today) I hope you succeed in making it base game compatible.
lesse
Lab Assistant
#7 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 4:51 PM
I'm actually excited about these. Thank you, I can't wait to try them out in-game.
Loff
amc462000
Scholar
#8 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 5:04 PM
more choices? oh yes! thanks so much for making these!
KariMinger
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#9 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 5:18 PM
Quote: Originally posted by psychosim0
So, when my sim uses the "digital" easel, he will paint "digital" paintings, and with the "blues" easel they will be "blues" paintings?
Yes. Each easel pulls paintings from its own canvas package. Currently, there isn't a way to link more than 12 paintings to a canvas, but it should be possible. I just didn't want to tackle that yet!
Phaenoh
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retired moderator
#10 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 6:01 PM
Wish I had thought of this, so cool!
Matze
Lab Assistant
#11 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 7:00 PM
Very good and beautiful idea! Thank you very much.
You are right - the old paintings are a little bit boring now.
There are some default ones, but not in this great variety.
Thank and your painters you once again.
KariMinger
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#12 Old 30th Sep 2007 at 10:31 PM
Ack, found an error on the kids easel. Now fixed. One silly line in the BHAV I forgot to change was making sims jump who tried to interact with it.
BastDawn
Lab Assistant
#13 Old 1st Oct 2007 at 2:22 AM Last edited by BastDawn : 1st Oct 2007 at 5:35 PM.
This is a terrific idea, and I will enjoy using it on my larger computer with most of the expansions on it. However, I will not be able to use the easels on my OFB-only computer because it crashes that setup. I did a little research, and found that the objects require Pets. If you want them to be base-game compatible, you'll have to remove the "scratch" and "chew" options for them.

There's a tutorial for that here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=193642 But if you do it, the easels won't have the ability to make custom paintings. ("Custom" in this case meaning from the "Paintings" folder in the My Documents\Sims 2 folder.)
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poisonsilvi
Space Pony
#14 Old 1st Oct 2007 at 8:50 AM
Fabulous idea - thank you so much for those ! *swoon*
Silvi
wicca_gal
Field Researcher
#15 Old 1st Oct 2007 at 4:04 PM
O.O oh my word....
*bows down to you*
thanks bunches! these are absolutely awesome!
KariMinger
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#16 Old 1st Oct 2007 at 7:31 PM
Quote: Originally posted by BastDawn
This is a terrific idea, and I will enjoy using it on my larger computer with most of the expansions on it. However, I will not be able to use the easels on my OFB-only computer because it crashes that setup. I did a little research, and found that the objects require Pets. If you want them to be base-game compatible, you'll have to remove the "scratch" and "chew" options for them.

There's a tutorial for that here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=193642 But if you do it, the easels won't have the ability to make custom paintings. ("Custom" in this case meaning from the "Paintings" folder in the My Documents\Sims 2 folder.)

Darn. Forgot about those, thanks Dawn. I'll change the listing for now and see about removing scratch and chew. Honestly, I wouldn't miss those options myself.
lesse
Lab Assistant
#17 Old 14th Oct 2007 at 8:02 PM
Quote: Originally posted by KariMinger
Ack, found an error on the kids easel. Now fixed. One silly line in the BHAV I forgot to change was making sims jump who tried to interact with it.


I think that may be a problem with the kid easels for my game. Whenever anyone tries to paint on it, the interaction gets canceled when they try to paint. So... I'm assuming that they'll be able to paint now?
Loff
DJ Herself
Lab Assistant
#18 Old 31st Oct 2007 at 8:22 PM
I'm still not able to use the Kids Easel. I get an error every time I try.
KariMinger
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#19 Old 9th Nov 2007 at 3:50 AM
Hmm. Just in case, I've repackaged and reattached the easel I've been using in game. It's been working with no issues for me. It's possible I didn't replace the file correctly last time, so I did name it (the .rar, not the package file) differently to make sure it's definitely not the old one!
lesse
Lab Assistant
#20 Old 9th Nov 2007 at 11:45 PM
The kid's easel is the only one still not working for me. I put it in the game, and when a sim goes to use it the action cancels out and the sim jumps back from the easel. The only difference I find (in-game) about the kid easel from the other easels are the fact that it's named the same as the regular easel and is the same price, where-as the others are not. I don't know if that has any difference of significance, but I would really love to use it.

Thanks.
Loff
KariMinger
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#21 Old 10th Nov 2007 at 1:09 AM
And you have redownloaded the file (since 11/8), correct? What EP's are you using?

There really is nothing different between the easels, once correctly coded. Initially, the kid easel wasn't. Long story short, I'd not fixed all the references in the BHAV and the darned thing didn't know which end was up when trying to create a new canvas. The file I uploaded last night is the fixed file, straight from my game, which is working in my game just as the others.
moonracer1313
Test Subject
#22 Old 11th Nov 2007 at 6:16 PM
This is an amazing feature! Thanks so much for doing this! Would be great to see more themed easels released in the future (gothic, fantasy, sci-fi, romantic, still life, etc).

The only "problem" I see with the sets is that all the paintings are equally good in quality (visually, to us that is). Though that tends to be the case with all custom painting sets.
KariMinger
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#23 Old 13th Nov 2007 at 3:41 AM Last edited by KariMinger : 16th Nov 2007 at 3:42 AM.
Scratch that, something's wrong. I'm wondering if I did something to the files in my game when I recently uninstalled/reinstalled BV. The canvases package for the kids easel has gone poof. Actually, it has for all the easels in my game...but that doesn't affect anything since these files are still here. Pulling the kids easel for the moment. I'll update it. Sorry, kids! :P

EDIT: Ok, fixed. Just play-tested and seems to be working fine.
Starfish of Terror
Forum Resident
#24 Old 17th Jan 2008 at 8:39 PM
This is genius! It's sort of like the default replacements, but better -- because you can have even more options when painting. You're absolutely amazing, thank you so much for this. <3

My only issue is the fact that the Impressionist paintings don't line up like they're supposed to, since there's white borders around the edges of the paintings. That's probably just an aesthetics thing though. :]
mainegal32
Lab Assistant
#25 Old 23rd Jan 2008 at 7:12 PM
Fabulous idea. Thanks for sharing.
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