Most Wanted Hacks

[strangetomato]

First of all, thank you to everyone who helped me to troubleshoot my game issues in the last post. As always, I appreciate your help immensely. In the end, it was a simple matter of placing the no-cd crack in the wrong folder. I feel a little better knowing that I'm not the only one who has made the same mistake.

My next hurdle to jump in the quest to get my game running properly again is to rebuild my downloads folder. You see, I may have lost my entire uberhood (with ALL of the households played to 14 sim days) and a good portion of my downloads folder to the hard drive failure of my old PC. *deep breath* I'm okay. There's very little I can't just shrug off these days. And let this be a lesson to you all. Go make backups, and not just half-assed ones where you sort of have copies, but not really, and you're just swapping in and out hoods without also keeping a copy in your external drive. Seriously, double check that you have a decent backup. Do it.

On the bright side, I do still have Elsewhere and the Tomato Legacy and all of my other hoods. I also, by some strange luck, still have my Bodyshop and Build Mode sub-folders of my Downloads folder. What I do not have: Hair, Buy Mode, Defaults, Hacks, and Storytelling (hacks and pose boxes) sub-folders. I'm going to take the first two as a blessing in disguise and a chance to scale back my cc a little. I'll gather up the hair and recolours of buy mode items as I realize what I truly need and want. Defaults, I'll figure out. Hacks, I need pronto. Storytelling stuff is also pretty key.

What hacks do you absolutely need for your game? I know I need the MATY Director's Cut and ACR 2.0, and some of the others are coming back to me as I look into it, but I don't remember everything I had. If you wouldn't mind tossing out some of your must haves for me to peruse (or share a link to your resources post), I'd really appreciate it.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I usually have InSIM installed as well. I find it to be the easiest way to do certain things, even though other teleporter hacks and the Sim Blender can perform a lot of the same functions.

It's most likely Gunmod's camera hack. I don't know of many other hacks for the camera, though I'm sure there must be others. That's truly a must for anyone wanting to take decent shots of the game.

I'm a huge fan of the freezer clock, too. It makes posing sims a joy, not a struggle.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

The thing with InSim is that it's one mod that does everything. It consolidates a bunch of stuff that can be done less conveniently with boolprop and miscellaneous little hacks. It is the One Mod To Rule Them All.

I found lots of camera hacks on MTS but not many were for multiple camera modes. There were others, but it's still likely Gunmod's.

Yeah the freezer clock cuts out the endless fiddly frustratiom of trying to make all your sims do the right animations simultaneously.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I like that about InSIM, too. If I recall correctly, the Sim Blender was created because InSIM hadn't been updated for the most recent EP at that time and simmers couldn't use it. If it hadn't been unavailable, the Sim Blender wouldn't even need to exist (though it does add those nice randomizing qualities, which is fun for creating townies and such).

Really? Well, I've learned something new today. :) I've never looked into it, since Gunmod's works well for me, but it is nice to know that there are alternatives out there.

The Freezer Clock is one of those mods that leaves you wondering how we ever did things without it. The answer: with great difficulty. Haha! It could sometimes have amusing results, but most often it was just crazy-making.