sims 4 [ABANDONED] Porkybork's World 2.0 (DL links in OP)

[porkybork]

So I was gonna post some pics of the portraits I made last night, but then I didn't

 

But here they are now!

 

Portrait of the Goths:

Description: Before Bella and Mortimer, there was Cornelia and Gunther. This young couple were revered for their refined yet unpretentious behavior as well as their goofy quirks. Greed never corrupted their hearts. It was merely the bliss coming from their life of wealth and pleasure.

Depicts Gunther and Cornelia Goth as young adults.

 

Pride of the Landgraabs:

Description: Money. Power. Notoriety. These words don’t even begin to describe the Landgraab legacy. Their lineage is populated by warlords, pirates, admirals, and mafiosos. This is said to be the last image of Chester and his family before he and wife mysteriously vanished.

Depicts Chester and Queenie Landgraab as adults, and Nancy Landgraab as a teenager.

 

These two portraits will be included with the final version of the GtW pack.

[jukem]

I just love your work.  I have plenty of other sims I've downloaded from various places but it takes a lot of downloading and moving files to get them in the game, plus they have to be families that I create.  But your save is the best because it's only three folders of files and can be used as a base, which covers all the townies too, then I can add families or Sims as needed.

 

I haven't found a single character appearance of yours I don't like.  From what I've seen of 2.0, most changes I like better and some not as much, but that's not to say the new character isn't still gorgeous!  It's more of what I prefer for that specific character.  Worst case, I either swap them out and change their name, moving them in somewhere else, or I just change their name and keep them in as another household addition.  You do such an excellent job on both guys and girls so thank you for your hard work!

 

I think my only complaint is going through all of your files trying to find and separate any default replacements if I have my own, since I keep those in a separate folder in Mods and don't want duplicates or more than one default replacement of the same thing.

[porkybork]

Finished making over the Criminals!

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Ali Jaber:

 

Arabella Gardner:

 

Benjamin Dunn:

 

Isabelle Tripp:

 

[talia]

Love this! I was using an older version last time I played Sims, and now I'm trying this one, but I got an error on extraction:

"Data error :  Wrong password? : PBW Mods\LeahLilith_MiyahHair_001.package" 

It looks like it's extracted 2578 of 2588M. It crashed when I tried to run it until I deleted that MiyahHair package, and now it seems to run fine.

[porkybork]

@jukem Hey, glad you like it!

Could you be more specific with what you mean by this:

On 6/27/2020 at 12:45 PM, jukem said:

I think my only complaint is going through all of your files trying to find and separate any default replacements if I have my own, since I keep those in a separate folder in Mods and don't want duplicates or more than one default replacement of the same thing.

Do you mean default replacements for certain types of CC? Or something else?

 

@talia Hey there. I've never heard of this being an issue, but you can download that particular hairstyle here: https://thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-hair-hairstyles-female/title/leahlillith-miyah-hair/id/1421854/

Could you tell me what programmed you used to extract the files with? I know some programs are more effective than others.

DAE have the same problem?

[S-Plays]

5 hours ago, porkybork said:

DAE have the same problem?

I did not have any problems extracting your files. I've used WinRAR since forever, never had any problems with that as my extracting tool.

 

Also, after hunting for information and diving into my LE's, it seems one issue that's causing myself & others to error is related to the Get Together pack, specifically they keep mentioning clubs, no ETA on when Maxis/EA is going to fix it, but I know its being looked in to. Not sure when you planned on working on that expansion for 2.0, but figured I'd give you a heads up.

[porkybork]

8 minutes ago, S-Plays said:

I did not have any problems extracting your files. I've used WinRAR since forever, never had any problems with that as my extracting tool.

Okay. Until @talia responds, I'm just going to assume they were using a faulty/nonoptimal program and recommend they use WinRAR instead.

 

12 minutes ago, S-Plays said:

Also, after hunting for information and diving into my LE's, it seems one issue that's causing myself & others to error is related to the Get Together pack, specifically they keep mentioning clubs, no ETA on when Maxis/EA is going to fix it, but I know its being looked in to. Not sure when you planned on working on that expansion for 2.0, but figured I'd give you a heads up.

So, if I understand correctly, it's not my fault? Since you kinda brought it up, here's my planned order for each expansion related update:

1. Base Game
2. Get to Work (current WIP)
3. Spa Day (small update)
4. Dine Out (small update)
5. Get Together (big update)
6. Outdoor Retreat (tiny update)
7. Vampires (medium update)
8. City Living (big update)
9. Jungle Adventure (small update)
10. Cats and Dogs (big update)
11. Seasons (tiny update)
12. Strangerville (big update)
13. Get Famous (big update)
14. Island Living (big update)
15. Realm of Magic (medium update)
16. Discover University (medium update)
17. Eco Lifestyle (???)

Just as a quick note, the whole "big/small update" thing is based on my own estimation of what the workload will be once I get to it. Keep in mind that I didn't start following a planned path of development until about a month ago, so my reworks have been kind of all over the place. I think I've completed every household in RoM and DU, and I've worked on a few households from every pack I own, so the estimated workload may not be entirely accurate. In fact, I think once I'm done with GtW, the updates will come out faster. The thing that's really slowing me down right now is the NPC workers. It's not that they're hard to make, there's just a lot of them.

 

Speaking of which, I've finished 4 of 6 librarians!

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Chester Gieke:

Peter Ottomas:

Priya Ramaswami:

Stella Roth:

 

More stuff coming later!

[johnkrist]

can u upload in google drive?

[S-Plays]

7 hours ago, porkybork said:

So, if I understand correctly, it's not my fault?

True, your save files are not at fault here, the Eco pack from what I've seen(at least in my game) has brought up these issues:

 

-Build/Buy mode can not be accessed unless you have loaded into a family in your save. Going into build mode from just the world view BEFORE loading into a family gives me this error. Once in the world, I can then use build mode from world view regardless if it's my active house or going to manage worlds

-Get Together has an issue with clubs, not sure exactly what it is. I tested with the default households & your custom ones from 1.0, I get the Server/Club error regardless

-University is having a roommate error, I've noticed that being mentioned in my LE's, but haven't tested anything, just seeing what other people have posted in the EA bug forums and in MCCC discord

-Parks have been a slight issue, took a custom sim on a date, got an error 109, which was(supposedly) fixed with the June 10th update. Not sure what caused it, but haven't had the chance to retest. This issue could be related to the Get Together bug as random clubs sometimes use parks as their hangout when your in that active lot

 

No ETA on when we'll get another patch update to fix these issues, but EA/Maxis are aware and are doing what they can to resolve. I just wanted to give you a heads up in case that was the next pack you were going to work on, in case a fix wasn't out yet

[jukem]

On 6/28/2020 at 6:13 PM, porkybork said:

@jukem Hey, glad you like it!

Could you be more specific with what you mean by this:

Do you mean default replacements for certain types of CC? Or something else?

Yes, certain types of CC.  You might have a default replacement for a skintone, feet, or other in your CC folder.

 

File names aren't always intuitive that they are a default replacement so I have to go through and read each file name that I can rule out (such as clothing, makeup, etc.) and then filter out whatever is left to see if it is a default replacement or not.  For example, here are two files I left out:

simdulgence_cas_ymTop_RealChest_Default_Smooth.package

[MER]FaceShineN01.tsr.package

 

You also had the TURBODRIVER_WickedWhims_Tuning.package file in there which I left out since I already have the latest version.

 

It just takes some time with all those files.  I can't just select all and move to Mods.  It would just be a little easier if the files that replace a default were in a separate folder so I could choose.  It's not a huge complaint, more like a request that if you could, great!  If not, I'll manage.  ☺️

[porkybork]

@jukem Okay, I getchu now. I use default replacements for male torsos, female breasts, penises, and feet because I think it makes the sims look more realistic and offers a little more variety than what the vanilla game provides. The face shine by Merci isn't a default replacement, it's a blush that makes a sims face look shinier. I honestly don't know what the WW tuning file is for or what it does, I just included it to be safe. I've said this before at earlier points in this thread, but I'm really ignorant when it comes to programming and how computers work.

 

I don't think I'll make a separate folder just for default replacement stuff since not a lot of people seem to mind. If the tuning file can be safely left out, then I'll remove it once I'm ready to release PBW: GtW.

 

That said, if enough people come out and tell me that they'd like me to do what you suggested, then I'll consider it.

[jukem]

@porkybork To be honest, I actually like those MB feet WAY BETTER and I use them instead of the ones I used before.  I also kept the Simdulgence RealChest, just not the default one.  The WW Tuning file is only useful if the person is using WW and has the WW Scripts file.  I would assume it wouldn't hurt anything if they have the tuning file without the scripts file, but it might cause issues if they are using WW but have a different version and end up overwriting theirs with the one in your mods.

 

I don't mean to make this all a big deal, I just wanted to point this stuff out.  I should also go through the rest of my mods with a fine tooth comb.  I have so many different eye colors now for example, that I can barely make any changes to the eye type LOL (see attached), but that's my own problem.

 

Thanks!

 

[porkybork]

12 minutes ago, jukem said:

I don't mean to make this all a big deal, I just wanted to point this stuff out.  I should also go through the rest of my mods with a fine tooth comb.  I have so many different eye colors now for example, that I can barely make any changes to the eye type LOL (see attached), but that's my own problem.

 

It's all good.

Yikes lol. Yeah, there's a reason why I only use face paint eye colors.

[S-Plays]

10 hours ago, jukem said:

I should also go through the rest of my mods with a fine tooth comb.

I finally sorted out all my CC a while ago for the first time. Instead of sorting by type of CC, I sorted by CC creator. Took me 3-4 days, and I was on leave from work, so 13-14 hours per day. I also re-downloaded all the CC to make sure everything was the latest version if it did get an update. Think I have at least 200 folders now.

[DarkAudit]

1 hour ago, S-Plays said:

I sorted by CC creator

As long as the author's name is in the filename, this method is soooo much easier. Except for YOU, beloallure! Love your stuff, but "X by beloallure" is SO freaking annoying!

[porkybork]

Finished the Gym Trainers!

Spoiler

Hannah Bell:

Moxie Logan:

Richter Steele:

Rick Contra:

Sally Riley:

Wylie Luck:

 

[Vengeance_11]

6 hours ago, porkybork said:

Finished the Gym Trainers!

  Reveal hidden contents

Hannah Bell:

Moxie Logan:

Richter Steele:

Rick Contra:

Sally Riley:

Wylie Luck:

 

Is it just a coincidence that one of them looks like your avatar Sim? 

[porkybork]

5 hours ago, Vengeance_11 said:

Is it just a coincidence that one of them looks like your avatar Sim? 

Lol yeah. I didn’t realize how similar they looked until now. That’s what happens when you use the same skins and hairstyles, I guess.

[DarkAudit]

Just night shift thoughts: would my MCCC tray sims as NPCs setting (2/3 to 3/4 NPCs are tray) mess with the NPCs you're working on, or will they be okay as they'll already be in the save?

 

(Not a big deal. It's 3:30am here and the place is empty.)

[porkybork]

11 hours ago, DarkAudit said:

Just night shift thoughts: would my MCCC tray sims as NPCs setting (2/3 to 3/4 NPCs are tray) mess with the NPCs you're working on, or will they be okay as they'll already be in the save?

Honestly, I have no fuckin' clue. I don't really know how MCCC works beyond using it to add skills and points.

11 hours ago, DarkAudit said:

(Not a big deal. It's 3:30am here and the place is empty.)

Jesus Christ, where the hell do you work, an actual graveyard?

 

In other news, I've gotten halfway through the O'Mackey family. I was going to just do Gabe and Patricia as librarians, but I found their household's story interesting enough to create Gabe's ex-wife and daughter. I think I'll incorporate Alexandra into Basemental's "Gangs" mod when I get around to that update (no ETA on that), change Gabe's career to education in the DU update, and change Patricia's career to journalism around the same time.

Spoiler

Patricia Wan:

Gabe O'Mackey:

Alexandra O'Mackey:

Jules O'Mackey:

 

[S-Plays]

New patch is out, new version is 1.64.84.1020

 

I had no LE pop up or generate in my folder when I logged in, and I was able to go into build mode from the world view before loading into a family. I'll do some more extensive testing later when I have more time, I was in game for 10 minutes, traveling to different lots I had issues with before that appear to be fixed.

 

 

[porkybork]

1 hour ago, S-Plays said:

New patch is out, new version is 1.64.84.1020

 

I had no LE pop up or generate in my folder when I logged in, and I was able to go into build mode from the world view before loading into a family. I'll do some more extensive testing later when I have more time, I was in game for 10 minutes, traveling to different lots I had issues with before that appear to be fixed.

Sweet. Thanks for the heads up.

[porkybork]

The bartenders are done!

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Jared Frio:

Newton Baker:

Heathcliff Baker:

Gala Ball:

Julienne Knack:

Molly French:

All that's left to do is the repoman, firefighters, and aliens. Until then, have a nice day!

[porkybork]

Finished the firefighters!

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Mack Hinson:

Ervin Simpkins:

 

The repoman ended up being Lucius Kane, who I've posted a picture of before in the thread. All that's left are the aliens! We're so close to the update!

[porkybork]

Just a small update for today's progress. I went back to the Birth Queen, Xena Zyrak.

Nicknames aren't really a thing in TS4, but I like to imagine that her alias is Cherry Blossom. I really like the idea of this alien chick having a hippie-ass, aggressively feminine fake name for some reason. So, say hello to...

 

 

"Cherry Blossom":

 

Lookbook:

Spoiler

 

Disguise removed: