Early Morning CC Culling

[strangetomato]

Why yes I am up before dawn and organizing my downloads folder with a fiery passion. Why do you ask? :P Early morning insomnia is the worst, but I do appreciate the extra "me time" (and at least I went to bed pretty early last night).

I'm really getting somewhere with my cc organizing lately. I've decided to take a long, hard, honest look at what I actually use in-game. I'm limiting my Simgaroop hair recolours to one hue of each hair colour (making an exception for redheaded aliens, who look better with bright red, and I'm a little torn on the browns), deleting all the pretty-but-unnatural eyecolours (so no more townies with bright purple eyes), Maxis-match eyebrows (when I only ever use the three default shapes), and eye/nose/mouth shaders/corners, face wrinkles, nail polishes, bazillion glasses recolours, and maybe even some of the freckles (maybe). And that's just BodyShop!

I finally downloaded Homecrafter as a way of weeding out the last few walls and floors in colours I don't use, but I'm a little stuck on the object recolours. I did some hunting around, and the only method of identifying individual object recolours seems to be SimPE, and then deleting them from the downloads folder. Am I missing something? I'd love to be able to view and delete them all in one go.

Whelp... back to work! XD

Comments

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

(No idea if you know about this one or not, but I'll just go on like you don't) You can delete those recolours in game. When you use the tool to choose a different recolour, there's a rubbish bin icon. Just click on the recolour you want to get rid of, then the bin. I think that's the easiest way to do it.

I need to sort through my CC, but it's just so daunting!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Umm... *shifty eyes* You can do that? XD

Now I feel like a real noob. I thought it was a Very Bad Idea, but I haven't actually attempted to do it in ages (I usually just let the odd unwanted recolour go, or delete the whole set, or even better if they're named — I just don't add the ones I don't want).

It is a pretty daunting task. I've been at this for months now, on and off!

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

I think it's deleting whole meshes ingame that is bad 'cause if you didn't get rid of all the recolours they'll stay as "orphans" in your downloads.

I didn't know about this recolour tool deleting either. :O

[simtarts.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I never knew about this! Incredible helpful.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Another potentially stupid question: How do you know if you're deleting the mesh? Is it if you delete the object once all the recolours are already gone, or if you delete the first item in the list?

It's funny the things I still don't know about the game. XD

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

I think if you delete objects from the normal buy menu (not recolour tool), you delete the mesh... But I never delete any objects ingame, only occasional hair recolours and clothing recolours, so these are just learnings from the Internets and not personal experience. :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter, apparently. I have no trash can tool in buy mode. *sad face*

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Weird! I haven't actually paid attention to it in ages, I'll have a look too next time I play.

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

I've only had a problem deleting things in-game waaaay back in the early days of CC - anything made recently, like the past five years, the mesh is most likely to be seperate from the recolors. The only times I've found it linked was in clothing, anyways, and nothing by HP, Fansee, or Phaenoh comes that way.

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

If it's a linked color-mesh, the rest of the recolors will immediately stop working correctly. That's bad for the game - it leaves the other recolors orphaned and harder to find in your Downloads folder.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm....

I'm not getting the trash can tool in the object recolour, just the "add to collections" icon.

I see the trash can in build mode, but not in buy. Could it be something that disappeared after certain EPs? I have everything, so maybe that's it.

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

I still have it in mine, last time I checked. so when you go to change the colour of an object, there's no bin icon on the pop up at all? that's so weird.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. I have the folder icon for adding stuff to collections, and that's it.

Do you have all the EPs? If not, what's your highest one?

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

I do have them all. I'll check that it's still there when I load the game up and get back to you.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I appreciate it.

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

That's what I see when I go in there. I deleted that green bedding recolour and it switched to the recolour to the right of it. Works fine!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks for checking into that for me! I'll have a look at it again later.

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

that's okay!