Date: February 2, 2008
Description: This mod is basically a refinement of Jordi's Maxis hair and clothing hiders at MTS2 (and is published in accordance with the Creative Commons license Jordi uses.)
Jordi's original mods just 'hide' everything from the base game through Seasons, but I like some of the Maxis stuff well enough to keep it. So I went through and deleted a lot of the hide information, leaving only the really bizarre or ugly stuff hidden. Of course, 'ugly' is highly subjective. YMMV.
I also combined all the remaining hide information into one file and added a few items from Bon Voyage, which Jordi never seems to have got around to doing. Please Note: I don't think using this file in a game configuration which does not include all six EP's should harm your game, but I can't guarantee it, so caveat emptor. If you would like to try it out and let me know how it goes, please do!
What's Hidden: If I felt that an average person walking down an average street on an average day would see the item and go "Bzuh?" I hid it. If it was lime green or some other garish color, I hid it. If I could not picture anyone wearing it to anything but a costume party, I hid it. If it looked slovenly or excessive or sluttish or tacky, it went. Hidden items still exist in the game and will not disappear from any Sims currently using them, but they will not be visible in the catalog and will not turn up on new townies, NPC's, or random CAS Sims.
What's left (for the most part) is the ordinary, everyday hair and clothes you might see on anyone, anywhere. Mainly, it's boring. Which to my mind is quite suitable for townies. :p There's a few oddball items still visible that I found appealing for whatever reason. (I'd have nuked all the teen girl tops that don't meet the waistbands of their pants, but then the girls would have nothing to wear.) ><
If I killed an outfit or a hairstyle you like, and you are comfortable using boolprop and SimPE, you can get it back by following these instructions:
- Start the game.
- Activate debug mode by typing: boolprop testingCheatsEnabled true in the cheat box, exactly as it appears here.
- Enter CAS while holding down Shift-N.
- Go through the CAS catalog and find the item you want. Jot down the name of the item, which should appear along with a bunch of other information when you hover your mouse over the thumbnail.
- Close down the game and open my mod file with SimPE.
- In the Resource List pane, find the name of the Property Set(s) corresponding to the item you want to unhide; right-click and delete it (or them. Especially for hair, there may be several. Many items names are similar, so be very careful to make sure you've got the one you want.)
- Commit and save the file.
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