#scenegraph plus

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SceneGraph Plus V2 - Clothing Recolours

SceneGraph Plus V2.5

Adds support for creating clothing recolours

Watch the video

Other changes

Hood deco objects (XNGB resources) are now supported

Added an "Auto realign to grid after applying filters" option

Added a validity check to OBJD resources that checks for version 0x008C and both EP Flags 1 & 2 being set to 0x0000

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SceneGraph Plus V2 - Sounds Updated

SceneGraph Plus V2.7

While working with @morepopcorn to make linking sound resources easier, it was discovered that neither HLS (UNK 0x7B1ACFCD) nor TRKS resources are needed to play custom sounds from BHAVs. (It was not investigated if they are still needed for custom sounds references from animations to play.) See their post about it.

This means that the Sound ID text resource (STR# 0x4132) entries can link directly to audio (MP3/XA) resources.

Audio resources do not have a name (unlike object, coding, scenegraph, etc resources) - just a TGIR value.

When working in SimPe, without a name to "Fix TGI" with, it is necessary to manually generate the I and R values and enter them via the Resource tab.

SceneGraph Plus (prior to V2.7) does make this slightly easier, in that you can select the Audio resource and enter a unique name in the Name: text area and it will automatically fix the I and R values. It is however open to mistakes, as there is no easy way to copy the required names from the STR# 0x4132 (Sounds ID) text resource.

SceneGraph Plus V2.7 adds a new way of working with sound resources. To enable this, from the Mode menu make sure Advanced is checked, then, with no files open, from the Options menu check the "Sounds skip TRKS and HLS" item.

Opening a .package file containing a STR# 0x4132 (Sounds ID) resource will now show it linking directly to audio resources.

Normally when shift-dragging a resource over a missing resource, the link in the parent to the missing resource is changed to the TGRI/name of the dropped resource. However, as audio resources do not have a name, this behaviour has been changed.

When dropping an audio (MP3/XA) resource onto a missing child of a STR# 0x4132 (Sounds ID) resource, the sound name in the STR# entry is used to rename (and automatically fix the I and R values of) the dropped resource.

As there is no easy way to disambiguate multiple audio resources in the same .package file, it is probably best to keep each audio resource in its own .package file, as then the name of the file can be used to identify each MP3/XA sound.

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SceneGraph Plus V2 - Clothing Recolours Updated

SceneGraph Plus V2.6

Added support for texture-less materials when creating a GZPS recolour.

Fixed bug creating a GZPS recolour when the associated STR# isn't in the same .package file.

Fixed bug exporting XTOL/XMOL chains.

DBPF Library fixes (these will appear in other apps as and when they are updated)

Fixed bug reading (old) .package files with only TGI index blocks

Made the decompression code less picky about the size stated in the header

Thanks to Latmos and sg_the_bee for bringing these to my attention.

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SceneGraph Plus V2 - Updated

SceneGraph Plus V2.4

Adds support for selecting multiple blocks of the same resource type

Watch the video of multi-select and exporting re-colours

Other changes

Fixed a bug in Delete Chain

MMATs will now display with a suffix of "(Hide)" if hidden in the catalog

XMOLs/XTOLs can now be exported/extracted

Exporting a GZPS/XMOL/XTOL also exports the associated STR#

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SceneGraph Plus V2.0

SceneGraph Plus V2.0

SceneGraph Plus V1 was all about displaying and fixing scene graph chains.

SceneGraph Plus V2 is wandering off into the realm of extending and adding parts of scene graph chains.

V2.0 (beta) is focused on object recolours

making a non-recolourable object recolourable (messing around with the GMND resource's tsDesignModeEnabled block)

adding a default recolour to an object (linking a new MMAT to the object's CRES and TXMT for the selected recolourable subset)

adding additional recolours to an object (adding and linking new MMAT/TXMT/TXTR resource triples)

Best illustrated with a video, which is handy as we recorded the presentation I did recently for The SimForge discord channel.

Join The SimForge discord : Watch the video

For the time being, I recommend that you keep a copy of SceneGraph Plus V1.10 as V2.0 is still beta. I've not updated the file that tells SceneGraph Plus V1.10 that there is a newer version available, so you won't get the "updated" popups if you need to revert to using 1.10

Prefer to answer questions about this new version on discord.

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Sims2Tools Minor Updates

General

Picking an unsupported version of SimPe in the Config Dialog now displays a link to this post

Outfit Organiser V3.1

Selected folder in the tree view retains highlight when selecting packages within the folder.

Log Watcher V2.3

Added UnknownTokensColour for the display colour of unknown inventory tokens.

SceneGraph Plus V1.9

Added option to extract a Maxis GZPS recolour.

Hood Exporter V2.2

Added WhosTheDaddy transform - see here

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SceneGraph Plus V2 - Updated

SceneGraph Plus V2.2

Complex Mesh Support

Added support for complex meshes, that is, those with multiple SHPE, GMND or GMDC resources linked from the same parent resource

LIFO Support

When updating the texture for a TXTR resource, linked LIFOs can be removed

When updating the texture for a TXTR resource, linked LIFOS are also updated

When duplicating a TXTR resource, linked LIFOS are also duplicated

Non-texture TXMT Support

Added support for displaying/changing stdMatDiffCoef, stdMatAlphaBlendMode, stdMatLightingEnabled and stdMatUntexturedDiffAlpha properties for a TXMT without an associated TXTR

Various Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements

Added config dialog option to mute warnings about thumbnails not being available

Thumbnail warnings are only muted if the app is in advanced mode Resources needing a paired 3IDR now report a missing 3IDR as an issue

Fixed bug where MMATs created from a TXMT block were in the wrong group

Fixed bug when dropping a TXMT onto a connector from an MMAT didn't change the (displayed) MMAT name

MMAT's will now display the associated texture if the texture dialog is open (texture dialog can be opened from an MMAT)

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SceneGraph Plus V2 - Updated

SceneGraph Plus V2.1

Various enhancements that didn't make it into V2.0, and a couple of bug fixes.

Enhanced Issue Display and Detection

Mouse-over tooltip for a block displays any issues

Visual changes for fixable vs non-fixable issues

Checks for only default strings in Models, Materials and Subsets STR# resources

Various subset validity checks

DDS Enhancements

Added support for Raw8, Raw24 and Raw32 formats

STR# Enhancements

Added support for the STR# Subsets resource

Materials resource can be added from the OBJD's options

Dropping a CRES onto the Models block will add a link to that CRES

Dropping a TXMT onto the Materials block will add a link to that TXMT

Right-clicking on a connector from a Models or Materials block and selecting "Unlink" will remove that entry

Extracting and Exporting Enhancements

Fixed a bug with extracting (saving as SimPe package.xml format), cause by an extra closing bracket at the end of a number

Added exporting (saving as a .package file) functionality - work-in-progress, only tested for MMAT chains

General Changes and Bug Fixes