I finally worked out the genetic issue I was having with SimPE. Thank you to everyone who gave me advice. It was all very helpful. I'm pretty sure it was the skintone and skintone range lines that I was messing up somehow, and all the codes that I was using were correct. So, you know how I tested this... and I got a baby with red hair from Johnny and Phi (I gave Phi recessive red hair, by the way)!

Well, it's official. Ophelia really does love Johnny and Ripp equally. With the return of InSIM (w00t!), I was able to even up the turn ons, so that the boys were both attracted to blondes with makeup and Ophelia is attracted to guys who are fit and have high charisma, which applies equally to Johnny and Ripp. With all factors equal, so is the chemistry.

Okay, at the risk of scattering spoilers all over place, I decided to show you these pics. It's the sort of thing you just HAVE to share. The first thing made me pee in my pants a little from laughing (not really, but just about), and the second is a really scary looking glitch that I hope is not the first signs of Very Bad Things happening in Strangetown (well, Bluewater Village, actually, but it's essentially the same thing).

The thing about young adults is that you never see their formalwear, so imagine my surprise when I finally saw Ripp's formal attire and it looked like this...

music_simbol  wanted to see some Ripp-in-leotard action around here, so I went ahead and put the whole trio in ballet gear. So here they are, with 100% more leotards.

Between snapdragons, hobby lots, vacations, the new aspiration meters, and all of the associated rewards, things have never been easier for Johnny, Ripp, and Ophelia. Life is good.

Ripp recently gained enough enthusiasm in the Music and Dance hobby to have access to the secret lot, so he decided to visit, and he invited Johnny and Ophelia along.

I spent some time tonight testing out some ideas for a photo shoot of Llama Dance Party to make some band posters, but then I realize that I can't really do anything the way I used to without InSIM. It's a lot worse than I thought it would be. I really depend on the ability to make sims selectable when setting up my shots. How else am I going to move everyone around? I can teleport a sim in, but then I can't control them. I can't tell them to practice the instrument instead of perform. I can't even tell them which instrument to play. I can't select another sim, so there isn't a plumpbob in my shot. *sigh*

I see now that it's going to be impossible for me to get my next update out unless I have InSIM. I'm either going to have to wait for it to be updated or risk using the current version with Free Time. I've heard many people say that using the object version with FT is no problem. Is there really nothing to worry about?

Here's a little something that I've been working on for my next update. It's a photo booth photo for Johnny's bedroom, which I've created myself and will add to the game by recolouring a painting with SimPE. I had to do it this way because you can't stuff three sims into a photo booth, which is a real shame, since people do it all of the time in real life (I know that I have, many times). I considered posting a WCIF post to the Sims 2 community, but then I figured that if someone had created a hack that cool, I would have heard about it by now. So, using Jaydee's Photo Poses Animation Box, I took the matter into my own hands.


All I have to do now is update SimPE and do the recolour. It's been updated for K&B Stuff, but I can't seem to extract the files into the program folder that I created for it on my computer. I followed the instructions to the letter, but my system will not allow them to be placed in the folder (yes, the computer must take all of the blame for this, not me). I don't know if it's some security setting, or what, but I'll gladly take suggestions, if you have any. I run Vista, if it makes any difference.

Remember Wheezy? He's Nervous Subject's puppy, and he's been stuck in a weird ageless state, like Peter Pan, refusing to grow up. I couldn't have him staying as a puppy in the story any longer, and I needed to show him in the next chapter, so I aged him up with InSIM.

This is the greatest moveobjects glitch I've ever created. In fact, I created a YouTube account just to show this to you. It's that good.

( Ripp shows off the raw power that all Grunts are born with. )

The best part is the satisfied sigh he gives at the end.