Audrina's Abode

Audrina's Abode

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Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

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How to convert sims3packs to package files

*note--I have been told not to do this with lots or worlds--never tried it myself, so not sure if it will work or not*

Step 1: you need to get these programs if you haven't yet:

http://www.modthesims.info/d/364038

http://dino.drealm.info/den/denforum/index.php?board=19.0

Now that you have those...

Step 2:  Create a folder somewhere on your computer.  I made mine on my desktop. You can name it if you want, or you can just leave it as "Folder/Folder#".

Step 3: Open the new folder you just made and make a folder within the folder (this isn't necessary but it's makes it much easier to keep track of stuff IMO) -Also, I realize I named it "extracted" (which I spelled wrong) instead of "converted". lol

Step 4: find the sims3pack you want to convert to a package file and put it in the folder you created (not the folder within the folder!) so it will look like this:

Step 5:  Open the multi-extractor.  and click on the browse button under step 1 in the program.  find where you put the sims3pack you want to convert and then click okay.

Step 6: Click on the second browse tab in step 2 of the program (this is where you want to send the files to during the conversion--I would not suggest choosing your package folder since that will  make it harder for you to find the files) and choose the folder you made within the folder and click okay.

Step 7: click the extract button.  When the program is done (it's rather fast depending on how many sims3packs you are converting (I suggest-although tedious-doing one sims3pack at a time) you will see on the bottom of the program "Done # files in # seconds with # files per second".

You are now done converting this sims3pack.  Open the folder you made and click on the folder you made inside that folder, you will now see a package (or multiple packages depending on what was in the sims3pack--converted sims may/will have more package files) file in the folder.

If you have one package file, like the pic above, rename the file and put it in your documents>electronic arts>Sims3>mods>package folder.  If you have the sims3pack installed in your game via the launcher you want to either uninstall it, or disable it, by choosing "Run without CC" in the launcher, but make sure, by checking in your game, that the conversion took to begin with. Not disabling a sims3pack you just converted to a package file, and having both in the game, could cause a conflict and/or cause the game to crash.

Before converting another sims3pack make sure once you delete your sims3pack and the package file you converted (in the folders I had you make), or otherwise, you will keep adding to the already converted file that was in the folders prior to the new conversions, thus causing conflicts and problems.

If you have more than 1 package file after converting the sims3pack (you do not need to do this if you only have 1 package file--in fact, it will make the file larger if you try to compress 1 file, so only do this if you have multiple package files after extracting your sims3pack), you will want to open S3PE and compress those files into one nice, neat package file. Once done, rename and put in your package folder.

To see how to compress using the S3PE program, I followed this tut which was easy to follow:

http://evater-sims3.blogspot.com/p/tutorial-combining-and-compressing_03.html

Simone Carley

*Note--I am well aware that if you run her through custard she will show up with a Corrupt file.  I have been practically pulling my hair out trying to find it.  When I convert her file to a package file and run her through Dashboard, the corrupt file shows up; however, if I isolate the corrupt file (through Dashboard), nothing shows up.  I have run each piece of CC, as well as run "ALL" my CC through over the past 2 days, I used on her through Custard and Dashboard and have found no corrupt files, which you can see the screen-shots of those items below. I have even stripped her of all CC and exported her with ONLY EA content and she still comes up corrupt.  She has only EA clothes on her.   Because the CC does not have any corruption files, and because the corrupt file does not show up when I isolate it in Dashboard, I can only assume this is a false corruption, and have decided that she is indeed safe for download. This "false corruption" has been happening to quite a few creators (myself included) lately.  


Simone Carley

CC used:

Anubis

Watermelon

pralinesims

Ladyfrontbum

"Juicy" by newsea

Berete's Miss L's

Sage Eyebrows
Chin Width Slider

Screenshot of package files of CC used on Simone in dashboard:

Screenshot of sims3pack files (CC) used on Simone in Custard:

Newsea Juicy Lipstick 007

Parlinesims Multicolored eyeshadow 3.0

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Due to her having this corrupt file, and low download number, I decided to remove her from downloading.

I have a new sim I'd like to share with you guys...

and I had every intention of uploading her, but something is screwed up.  I'm not sure what is going on, but she shows up "Corrupt" in Custard.  I stripped her completely down to only EA skin, makeup, hair, clothes (which she had anyway), eyes--everything.  Re-ran the EA content sim through custard.  The corruption still showed up.  HOW?!

I extracted her sims3pack file (with the CC) into a .package file and isolated those files into their own folder, ran Dashboard.  The corruption showed up, but when you go to isolate the corrupted file, nothing shows up.

I then ran each piece of CC I used individually through Custard and Dashboard--nothing came back corrupted.

So now I don't know what to do.  I really like this sim and enjoyed creating her, and really wanted to share her with you all, but not if she's going to show up corrupt! (even with just EA items on her!) Another weird thing is each time I ran Custard on her (there were a lot as I was running her through Custard as I stripped each piece of CC from her), shouldn't the "file number" to the corrupt file be the same?  It isn't.  It changed each time I ran her through custard.  I think there is something messed up with the game that is causing sims to show a false corrupt file.

So anyway...here she is:

Haven't been "playing" much...

but I have been in my game building a lot for a contest I'm going to enter -- winner wins a download copy of "Supernatural"!  and I don't want to show my lot until it's time to enter the pictures/story.  Contest deadline isn't until September, but I'm almost done with my lot!  Gives me time to go back and tweak things here and there.  

Anyway....

today I got to playing my simself legacy.  And I got around to installing Leggokatz's simself!  ^_^

This is what happened. ^_^

I moved her into this house, my yellow farmhouse:

After moving her in, I decided to have my simself go and "introduce" herself and welcome her to the neighborhood...

Only she wasn't home already!  She was at the tavern on the other side of town!

So instead of having my sim waste time in a car, I had her teleport to the lot.  Once there I finally got my simself to meet her.

And they hit it off almost immediately!

That is...until my sim decided to give her a welcome gift...

My sim wasn't too happy having her welcome gift rejected.

After cooling down for a bit, my sim went over to apologize, and it didn't look good based on leggokatz sims face.

But they continued to talk about family and pets

 Then they decided to go tear up the town, first up...the local pool!

 Swimming in formal wear, eh leggokatz? 

 My sim was playing the hold your breath contest with the male sim, and leggokatz didn't look too happy about the fact my sim was under water for as long as she was.

When my sim re-emerged at the surface, leggokatz decided she wanted to play... 

I won! 

She looked worried again...not sure about what...maybe she just realized she was ruining her evening wear with the pool chlorine? 

So we decided to go get something to eat, and then called it a day.