#mod: simidge

[midgethetree]

Hi, Midge. I interested in ChrisHatch's Visit Other Sims (AL), but when I ran SiMidge it reported conflicts with RomanticStandards objectinteractiontestfix, riskywoohoo-birthcontrol from RCC, your VisitorControllerWithPersonality, as well as dreadpirate_woohooteens_noteenadult,dreadpirate_adultsgosteady_lastnamedialog, CJ-MaternityPayFix and pqw_MoodSwing. Screenshots: imgur com/a/iLJi64L. CHJ's mod found here: ilovethesims2cc /post/173979009037/. Could you tell me if they're compatible, please?

(anon about CJH's visit other sims mod). By the way, I also tried to check for conflicts with CJHWalkToOtherSimsAL, but SiMidge would stop responding when I did that. If the conflicts shown on the screenshots I took are solvable by loading order, would you mind trying to check for conflicts with that one file as well, please? I'm guessing it's unlikely, with that many conflicts, but anyway, I'll keep the mods I previously had if those conflicts can't be avoided. Happy New Year, Midge!

Generally with a complex mod like visit other sims you need it to load after mods it conflicts with.

Go back to RS and get RomanticStandards-objectinteractiontestfix-visitothersimscompatible, not RomanticStandards-objectinteractiontestfix. This is an exception to the aforementioned rule and should load after visit other sims, since that version is specifically designed to work with that mod.

As for the side effects of having visit other sims load after the other mods: with risky woohoo car woohoo won't be risky. With the visitor controller, sims won't be automatically forced into the lot's set outfit upon exiting a taxi/car/etc if you use that VC feature. With adults go steady there won't be any issues.

My guess is the conflict with woohooteens would have visitothersims preventing teens from woohooing in cars. Mood swing will lose some dialogs needed for popups unless you copy them into the dialog string set in visitother sims. I have not looked at Cyjon's maternity pay BHAV, but that looks like it might be a pretty crucial BHAV for the mod and this might be a one-or-the-other situation.

I don't have the same set of mods as you do, so me running a conflict scan of CJHWalkToOtherSimsAL isn't going to be that helpful. Instead I fixed the issue with SiMidge that caused it to hang when using the specific-file conflict checking option with files with large resources. Please redownload.

[midgethetree]

Hi Midge, why do I get this error for this particular file when scanning with SiMidge? imgur(.)com/wxh59ZY(.)png || For some reason, the program adds extra dashes for this particular file, even though I moved it to a different folder within Downloads. Also, that "erroneous" file isn't empty and thus isn't reported in the Error log file. Could it be that the path name is simply too long?

Hello! If by adding extra dashes you mean making slashes (\) into double-slashes (\\) that's normal. That is definitely a long path name, when I tried to replicate it my computer wouldn't even let it get as long as yours because it was enforcing some length limit. Definitely try shortening that path name.

[midgethetree]

Hey Midge, thanks so much for updating SiMidge, it really is a wonderful tool, very powerful!! I just have on suggestion that maybe you could add a count of how many conflicts there are at the end like the HCDU has? As often when I run the HCDU after adding mods, I just check if that count has changed after adding new mods and if it hasn't I know HCDU hasn't picked up anything new. Thanks so much for the tool anyway, it's incredibly useful!

Hi! I'll definitely add this to my to-do list :) Glad you found SiMidge useful!

[midgethetree]

SiMidge is so amazing! It found over 30 duplicated files I had that no other sofware would find because they were named slightly differently. The layout is also so much better than HDCU. I don't want to speak ill of a software that helped us so much, and for so long, but my eyes would hurt when trying to read the whole report. Not to mention being able to look for conflicts with an specific file is such a time saver! There's so much more to say, but there's a character limit hehe. THANK YOU!

I'm glad you found it helpful <3 I used HCDU too for many years of course and it definitely helped, but it had its limitations too 😅 (glad I can easily find STR# conflicts now!)

[midgethetree]

When I ran SiMidge, I got an error log with "error empty file [path]" for dozens of package files from various CCs. What to do now?

If it's dozens of packages you might want to double-check them, but if you open them in SimPE and see nothing there - then they're definitely genuinely empty and should be deleted (possibly redownloaded, if the problem wasn't with the file uploaded). If you found any files that aren't empty that caused that error let me know so I can check them myself and see why SiMidge isn't able to search them.

[midgethetree]

 @paradoxcase replied to your post “Would you consider making it so that SiMidge can...”

Yes, just now, I made a mod that overrode the TTAB and TTAs of sim-created paintings, which conflicted with the override of the same resources in TwoJeffs’ Paintings Stay Viewable hack, and SiMidge didn’t find it and I had to find it manually and it took like hours

For some reason TwoJeff’s mod stores instance (high) differently than most package files... I’ll study it more and see if I can figure out the problem.

[midgethetree]

I just installed your SiMidge, but I get the error message "failed to execute script SiMidge". I have a custom location for the Downloads folder, but no locations.txt was generated. What should I try next?

And from an anon with the same issue:

Hi, I can't get SiMidge to work. When I launch it, it gives me a fatal error: "Failed to execute script SiMidge". When I launch it in debug, it doesn't even give me that, just opens the command prompt for a second then closes it. I'm using Windows 10. The error log has two "Errno 2" instances and two "Errno 13" instances, all centering on the locations.txt file not existing, and "Permission denied" (to create it?). Should I be running it in a specific way/place? Thanks!

Having an entire error log would've been much more helpful, but it does sound like SiMidge was not given permission to create locations.txt and that has been causing issues. One solution might be to move SiMidge, another might be to use admin permissions to manually create locations.txt yourself. Here's what it should look like, be sure to change the folder paths to match your computer & sims 2 installation:

C:/Program Files (x86)/Origin Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Fun with Pets/SP9/TSData/Res/Objects/objects.package C:/Users/[PUTYOURUSERNAMEHERE]/Documents/EA Games/The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection/Downloads

If those don't help, please send me the full error log.

[midgethetree]

Hey Midge! Hope you're well. I've been using your Simidge for a while, and maybe I don't know how to do this, but can you tell if there's a way to check if I have more than one default per outfit? I have some meshes that are weird for different ages, and as far as I've looked, it didn't have any duplicate defaults, but I was wondering if I messed up, and that default is lost somewhere else in my download folder.

Hi! Have you tried the Find > Duplicate Meshes option? If both defaults are made in the "old way" with the mesh overwriting the Maxis mesh, that should find them.

For defaults found in the "new way", you probably want to find the 3DIR for that outfit. Since you know the weird outfit you could (hopefully) remember and find one default, and if it has a 3DIR in it use SiMidge's general search function to find any 3DIRs with that instance in your downloads folder.

These kinds of defaults are meant to cause less conflicty issues though, so my guess is at least one of the defaults is directly overriding Maxis resources.