Hey there!

Just wanted to give you a brief heads up to you uploaders out there. We've made some changes to better optimize MTS2's servers and bandwidth:

1. When you upload, it is now required that you can only submit ONE .rar or .zip or .sims2pack for the file that you are sharing. You may not share .zip equivalents or .rar equivalents. Meaning, you can not upload hair.zip and hair.rar because someone doesn't like .rar files or someone requests it in the thread. That is what Q-Xpress is for. This will save on server space and bandwidth.

2. Also, images are now restricted to 8 maximum per post. If at all possible, please combine your images into a collage of some sort. This also saves on server space and bandwidth.

3. If you need to update your file and you are using the same exact file name, it will now replace the existing file *and* retain your download count, view count, and post ID.

4. Just as a reminder, the Electronic Additional Programming section will be closed in a few days. All attachments will be deleted. We apologize for this inconvenience. Please see this site news for more information.

5. LASTLY, what is up with the "me first" posts in Downloads? Seriously folks, there is no contest as to who posts first. You win no prize. Well, maybe the boobie prize and a dunce cap. Try thanking the creator instead.

Thanks for your continuing cooperation!

Me first!

...I mean, no.3 is extremely useful; the "replacing" works with with both binaries and images, correct? In particular, I'm referring to the case when I post an image, and I refer to that image in another post (using the [_IMG_] tag). Replacing the image (keeping the same filename) will preserve the external link, too?

*bops Numenor (only because I can) *flutters eyelashes*

Yes, as long as the file name is exact, if you have to replace it, the download & view count will stay the same.

I have a question. If you have say two different versions of something you made and want to give the downloaders a choice, can you put them in seperate .zips as long as you don't make .rars of those exact same files?

Aaargh...Now everybody's going to post only rars, aren't they? I can't use rars OR q-xpress cause I have a mac, download stuff on the mac and move it to my PC to play with...I can see the logic, of course, but this really does cut down on my options...

SSChan,

Well, if you make 2 seperate versions, then they'd be called different filenames, so that isn't a big problem.

Venetia,

We are still allowing .zip files - it's just that people have tended to upload *both* and this isn't really needed.

Venetia, why don't you use the StuffIt Expander? It's an extremely well-know freeware program (I know it, and I don't even have a Mac ) that expands anything: rar, zip, bin and many other formats.

Thank you SO much for #3... this would have helped quite a bit early on with my project. All the rest sound great too, once I quit mis-reading it and thinking we were only allowed to post 1 zip/rar file per upload post, that would have been difficult... :D

Thanks for everything!

Venetia, you should also be able to download the rar files and save them to your mac as rar files and transfer them to your pc as rar files. They're smaller anyway.
If you can't download because the mac wants to display them instead of save them, pm me and I'll see if I can figure out what settings you might need to change (I have an OS 9 mac and OS X mac here - let me know what your setup is)

edit, I have the answer. So far I haven't gotten the OS 9 working (so if someone is doing a transfer with os 9, write me a private message and I'll try and work at it more)

BUT for OS X - control-click on the download link and then "download linked file" from the pop up menu and you'll save the rar or zip files w/o any problems, and they decode fine.

Numenor: I do have StuffIt, and it does work, but instead of getting the files nicely downloaded, it shows up as text like this..



tiggerypum: is that what you mean by display? It does that for all the files here that are rar.

And if I can finally get to to the pc, how can I expand them anyway? StuffIt comes up with a formatting error for most rars that I *can* download, they aren't the right type, I guess. So I just have the still non-expanded files when I transfer...and downloading the rar program doesn't work.

Thanks for the help guys anyways

Well, I made a new posting with an upload in it to the "BodyShop Meshing" forum.
It wouldn't accept it until I picked a category. And the only category that was on the list was 'recoloring'.
This is one of my [TESTERS WANTED] type messages, it's a new plugin (tsx) for truSpace (where all the .cob files come from) to extract the mesh data from a GMDC.
So, Lucy, start 'splaining...
<* Wes *>

daysies says: (because she overwrote poor Hunter's post)

Basically, we're trying to cut down on people who upload .zips or .rars of let's say daysies.zip and then upload the equivalent of daysies.rar. It's totally unnecessary when the contents inside the .zip/.rar are identical. Just pick one file type you are used to and only upload that type. We're not forcing you to pick .rar because it's smaller.

If you have one MESH, you can label that mesh1.zip. If you have 3 recolors for that mesh, you can either name it recolors1.zip (which contain all) or recolor-a.zip, recolor-b.zip, and recolor-c.zip (if you want them separated andyou don't want downloaders to get "all").

We're just trying to cut down on the # of files because it's really just a waste of space and bandwidth.

im ok with all but number 4 ...im very sad about them being removed since the creators worked hard to make them but i know that you must have a good reason for doing this ...

wes_h,

Thats a different problem, not related to upload and I've added a "Tools" category to cope with it.

Hunter,

You can have say:
Object1.rar
Object2.rar
Object3.rar
Screenshot 1.jpg
Screenshot 2.jpg
Screenshot 3.jpg
etc

If you need more than 8 screenshots then I suggest you use a collage - one per object.

uh oh
i just been checking my downloads and as none seem to have a box checked, i went to edit them but if i choose original nightlife & uni, it wont work. it only works if i select nighlife and uni. not sure about original checked on it's own though.

does that make sense i hope?

edit
just relised i stuck this in the wrong thread sorry.
it should've gone in the suggestions thread

Hunter! MY BAD! I edited your post instead of quoting it. So sorry! However, I think I clarified myself in your post. Whoops!

Well, it looked related. The category thing is new. I edited my message and changed it. You're quick.
Thanks,
<* Wes *>

ok daysies... just wanted to make sure I understood it correctly before I uploaded anything. I do use .rar which I guess is a good thing since you say they are smaller.

I am very new to uploading files here at MTS2 and am a bit confused. I want to upload a set of walls, but I do not know how to 'batch' the sims2.package files into one file. Can you please explain how this is done, or direct me to a thread where it is explained? Thank you so much!

I'm so glad you covered the no first posts. It gets really annoying and it seems like no one stops, no matter how much you tell them! :nod:

asdf,

Yes, you will have to call them different names now. This wont affect existing threads *unless* you choose to update the images.

Calling different images different names is quite normal and is recommended on any system.

galilea, to put a set of your walls all into one file, you need to make a folder or folders on your hard drive. Then COPY the files from your sims folders into the new folders you made. Then you make a zip or rar file of the folder, and post the folder.

So say I made 10 walls for kids and 5 floors.

I'll take a few screenshots to show them all off. (I actually use the printscreen button and alt-tab out of my game and put them into paint, crop off uneeded stuff and save as jpg)

Then I make a folder named, say tigs-kids-wallsnfloors
I select the files from my game folder and I copy them and paste them into the new folder
Then I right click on the folder and tell my pc to zip it (you could rar it also, just depends on what software you have installed)

Then I upload my screenshots and the zip I made.
You can organize your work in whatever amount of folders makes sense, although many people find it handy to be able to download entire sets instead of one piece at a time.

I personally find it annoying when files inside rar files are in folder, but it might just be me. I'd rather have something like that set of walls without any folders. Also if people extract a file like that without looking, it's going to create subfolders instead of going into the main folder, isn't it?

Yeah, I was really mad about this when I first heard it, but the number of random music video uploads is really getting out of hand. At the request of Simsmomma, I've decided to upload my own videos to a site I'm creating. It should be up and running within a few days.

Quick question: what about the people who put their movies into the wrong category (like entertainment instead of additional programming)... will those get deleted, too? If they aren't, that's not really fair to those of us who chose the right category, now is it? (I'm guessing it's not allowed to change the subcategory for the purpose of saving my videos...)

purplepaws,

Basically all Music Videos and non Sims2 made videos (which is pretty much most of the ones we have) will be removed. This includes this mis-labelled as Entertainment.