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Offline TsalagiMahariel

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Custom signs, problem replacing only a few small icons
« on: October 19, 2015, 02:36:43 AM »
I am attempting to create a Zodiac sign changing mod to change from the Greco-Roman zodiac of the real world to a custom system of mine. I first extracted the large and small sign pics as well as a CAS pic related to the personality sub menu from deltabuild0, then I created new custom sign pics (both large and small files) for all signs, erasing the image on the old sign pics and placing mine in their place, including on the CAS related file. I also extracted the stbl from deltabuild0 and changed the names of the signs there to mine. I successfully manged to get the All the icons to appear in CAS and when you go to simology and hover over the icons all the desired names appear, also in simology all the small signs work... EXCEPT 2, Aries and Sagittarius. I've tried scaling the image up and down, changing color back and forth using new icons, even using 1 of my others which work, and merely rotating it to the opposite direction and yet still those 2 signs small pics remain default, even with my mod in the overwrite folder. I've even cleared the script and thumbnail cache. Can anyone provide some guidance on what i can do here to get those last 2 small icons to work? Its very important to me. I've looked for help all across the web with nothing so far aside from the suggestion of clearing those 2 caches, which they admitted might not help but couldn't hurt. Like I said clearing them didn't help and I have no idea what to do to make them change, so I'm looking for any suggestions.

Offline _Annika_

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Re: Custom signs, problem replacing only a few small icons
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2015, 12:00:46 AM »
Is it possible that those two signs were patched at some point and there is another file elsewhere that needs changing too?



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Offline TsalagiMahariel

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Re: Custom signs, problem replacing only a few small icons
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2015, 01:46:01 AM »
I don't know, maybe. I've searched the deltabuilds and fullbuilds for everything from Aries, Sagittarius, to sign to CAS to zodiac and no results show anything visible. Surely it'd have a visible connection wouldn't it?

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Re: Custom signs, problem replacing only a few small icons
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2015, 05:36:10 AM »
I honestly don't know. It has been so long since I played with Sims 3 mods. There are a LOT of files to go through. You'd have to be very thorough. Don't forget EP's too. If you're aware of any mods that do something similar, check them out and see if you can find the thing that you have missed that way.

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Re: Custom signs, problem replacing only a few small icons
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2015, 11:46:28 PM »
As far as I'm aware there are no other mods of this kind. I even searched the web for any and found nothing.

I've looked through DeltaBuild0, DeltaBuild1, DeltaBuild2, FullBuild0, FullBuild1, FullBuild2, & GameplayData.

Nothing else until I happened to think that since looking up CAS helped find the proper file to replace the icons on the personality submenu signs worked and the sign appears on the simology panel, so I searched for 'simology' and was able to find a file with, among other things, the Aries icon, which I replaced and it now also works properly. Sagittarius I found on another file with a simbot, or whatever its called I guess from into the future (I don't have it) I haven't tried it yet but I expect it will work also.