Hey! Would you happened to still have the CAW files for Oakshore and, if so, would you be willing to share them? I'd love to make some minor modifications for myself and being able to edit the world in CAW would make that much easier. Thanks!
Yes, I do, but first I’m about to tell you a secret about CAW. And then publish it so it isn’t a secret anymore.
HOW TO OPEN ANY WORLD IN CAW WITHOUT YOUR GAME EXPLODING (In Eleven Easy Steps!)
1. Open CAW. Create a new world, call it NewWorld1 or whatever the shit, Make it with height map 300 and the terrain map file LargeFlatMap300.
2. Wait for it to load, and then File > Save As into a folder called ‘PLEYITA IS REALLY COOL’ on your desktop.
3. Download whatever world you want to edit. Install it into your game via launcher.
4. Open S3PE. File > Open the .world file you saved in the PLEYITA IS REALLY COOL folder on your desktop.
5. Go to the file menu and go to Resource > Import > From .package. Go to the other .world file, the one you want to edit, which should be in your InstalledWorlds folder in your main sims 3 folder in your documents.
6. Box will pop up. Use the settings Replace Duplicates, Use Resource Names, and Compress. When it asks you if you want to autosave after every import, press no.
8. When it’s all done look for the file called WPID in the resource list. Right click it and press Delete. You also want to delete the UNKN file with the resource number 0x296A6258 (note that you can sort by resource name alphabetical/numerical order by clicking on the header of that column for easier hunting). Deleting these is crucial, it makes it so that it doesn’t conflict with the original unedited world and causing your game to go WTF.
9. File > Save this thing you just did in S3PE. Close S3PE.
10. Open the .world file you saved in the PLEYITA IS REALLY COOL folder on your desktop in CAW once more.
11. It’s the world you wanted to edit! Perfectly editable in CAW and won’t conflict with the old version. Be sure to give it a name, description and thumbnail image by right clicking the .world file in the resource list when you’re done.
Now that I’ve shown you how to do this to any world, ever, here are the Oakshore CAW files as a bonus. But yeah, it’s easy to do so next time you really like a world but want to change a little tiny thing about it (aka. why i learned how to use CAW because i’m picky) now you know how!
Edit: I have no idea what edition of Oakshore those CAW files are, they were uploaded in late 2013 apparently. My CAW projects are on another hard drive I can’t get to right now. So if this isn’t the edition of Oakshore you’re looking for download the Oakshore version you want from pleyidump and do the steps above.
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