Genderswapped Uberhood

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Cross-posted from GOS, just in case the servers ever go down again.

Way back in June 2012, the Maxis Taste livejournal community had their Gender Bender dare. I found it very enjoyable, and as genderswapping the sims turned out to be easier than I expected, I decided to go and make an entire genderswapped uberhood, using Tarlia's clean templates.


Of course, the whole thing spiralled out of control. Genderswapping a few characters for a dare was a lot less work than genderswapping every single playable. Then I had to fiddle with pregnancy code for the Ottomas and Patel families. Then I decided everyone needed makeovers. And then I thought I'd try adding character data to the dead sims, because that had stopped me genderswapping Hero Monty and Oliver Specter's dead spouses. And then I decided to recreate all the storytelling images. And that's what's dragged this project on for so long. There's a lot of images and they ranged in difficulty from sims needing no changes, hugging in their hallway, to images of aged down sims, dead parents, random townies, all doing unknown animations on lots that don't exist and I wound up putting the whole thing aside for a few months. But when the Gender Bender and Bodyshapes theme was announced as the monthly theme, it was the push I needed to finish the damn thing.

So what do you get here? You get all the premade playable families, plus the university households, genderswapped. Dead spouses are genderswapped. This includes Hero Monty and Oliver Specter's spouses, who weren't genderswapped in the test version I uploaded some time ago. The Tricous are genderswapped. Bella Goth is genderswapped. The rest of the townies, service sims and dead sims are NOT genderswapped.

When it comes to pregnancy, Brandon Broke and Pascal Curious are still pregnant. Brandon Broke has received a grant of $1000 for his contribution to medical research. Pascal is the victim of very careless aliens. Petra Ottomas and Reena Patel are expecting babies with their husbands.

The Belladonna Cove apartment residents are in the family bin; this was done when Belladonna Cove was turned into a subhood and I figured I'd let you all move them back in. The University bin students are also still in the bins, again, I thought you might like to move them into housing of your choice.

Many Pleasantview, Strangetown and Veronaville sims have been given more appropriate hobbies and lifetime wants. If a sim's blurb says they like pottery, then they'll bloody well like pottery. If they like animals and they're a popularity sim, they'll probably want 20 animal BFFs. Please be warned, some elders have job-related lifetime wants which won't be possible to achieve unless you have the noagediscrimination hack from MATY, which I fully recommend you get because EAxis screwed over elders when it comes to jobs, which meant romance elders were doomed to be skirt-chasers and knowledge elders had no desire other than to max all skills.

So, the important stuff. You will need all the expansions and stuff packs, except Store Edition. The uberhood uses Tarlia's Viper Canyon as a base hood and all the other neighbourhoods as shopping districts, so you will need this mod by Mootilda to be able to access them. Tarlia has given her permission for this, and full credit goes to her for creating Viper Canyon and the subhoods and also for fixing a huge amount of premade borkiness.

To install the uberhood, you will need to place the N021 folder in your \Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\ folder. It should then show up in the neighbourhood selection screen when you next run the game. If it doesn't, try deleting the neighborhoodmanager.package file. If it still doesn't show up, make sure you haven't put it in a subfolder, something I have accidentally done more times than I care to remember. If you already have a N021, you will need to either remove it while you play this hood or use a batch file renamer to rename all the files.

And finally, I make no guarantee that this hood is free from corruption! When I was working on another version of this hood, memories started vanishing and I wound up with a bunch of children with lifetime wants. I ended up going back to an old version I uploaded for testing last year and while I'm pretty sure I know what caused the trouble and have avoided it this time, I cannot be 100% certain. Also, while I have added back character data to sims who were missing it, I can't promise you they're totally safe to play with. I didn't see any immediate problems when I was resurrecting them all over the place for pictures, but then I didn't actually play in depth with them, so resurrection is at your own risk.

Please, please, PLEASE let me know if you discover any problems. I've been poking around in this thing for a while and fixed a few problems like severed heads and broken faces, but I have no idea if I caught everything. I have used HoodChecker on this hood; there were a lot of Incorrect Subject Instances, but this is apparently a known bug that occurs when adding a subhood and after telling HoodChecker to fix them, I got a clean report. Also, I know that there are five Unknowns in the Sim Browser, but I've search the GUIDs and they refer to the NPC Penguin, Bird, Skunkskin, Robot and Remote Control Car, so they should be fine.

So! Here's the download link: DOWNLOAD

ETA: I've since found out that the N009 neighbourhood number has been used by another shared neighbourhood, so I've changed this one to N021 and updated the link. Someone also pointed out to me that the Oresha Hoh Var Sorority would've been founded by Gaia Wrightley's great-grandmother, not great-grandfather, so that's also been fixed.

Comments

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Very nice work. :) Sometime I might actually have the time to give this a shot!

Just as a heads up: You don't actually need Mootilda's mod to select the shopping districts when they've already been added - just to add them in the first place, which you've already done. But it doesn't hurt to have that mod anyway. :)

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Aaah, thank you! The screenshots confused me, I thought you needed it to be able to access them all. XD Still, yes, it's a good mod to have on hand.