#hood replace

1. I have a simless university that I would like to fill (Katatty universities). Can I add the maxis universities, move ALL the students (except townies and profs) to family bins, transfer them all to Katatty universities and delete the (empty) maxis ones? It's safe? What would happen to the townies and the profs? Would they remain or be eliminated?

I’ve always felt that Veronaville got stuck with a most unfortunate terrain. It’s just... not pretty, and I prefer that my terrain supply the scenery and background rather than use extra skyboxes or horizons. If you feel the same, have I got a makeover for you!

This is a clean, empty hood with a new terrain, slightly adjusted roads, and tidied deco that fits around the vanilla hood’s lots and roads, so, with Hood Replace, you can have a new look in a Veronaville you are already playing.

Put the hood, VERR, in your regular Sims 2 Neighborhoods folder where you have Veronaville (usually N003). Back up your Veronaville.  Before replacement, the hood is clean and empty. Take a look around and see if you like the changes I made. (You can, of course,  use this to build a custom hood. It’s just a regular clean, empty hood.)

When ready, exit the game and use Hood Replace to replace the parts you want. You can choose all or keep your deco and/or roads if you like. Notice the slight adjustment to the road that makes the bridge line up better with the roads and river.

Let Hood Replace fix elevation. (I didn’t click bridges because this bridge is just deco.) If you don’t have a lot of extra lots or deco, this should be all you need. I tried mightily to make everything fit nicely without changes to the original hood. If any of your extra lots need to be adjusted, though, usually, you can just pick them up and let them down again to snap them into place. If you don’t like the changes, you can always roll back to your backup or use Hood Replace or Lot Adjuster to fix things. None of this can harm your sims or hood, but... you backed up, right?

I didn’t get fancy with hood deco. I mostly just moved trees out of the water and tidied up so you wouldn’t have to. I did get rid of the aqueduct because it just didn’t look right to me. You can add it back, of course. I have Nopke’s Blurryskies DR in for pics, no other CC. I noticed that Criquette’s embankments fit quite nicely in this hood, though, and I might try those in my own version. I’d love to see what you do with it!

I’ve spent a lot of time in the desert and, in my experience, it’s just so much more interesting than the one in Strangetown. Strangetown isn’t a bad terrain, but I wanted to bring to it a lot more depth and variety, so I’ve created a replacement for it. Like my Verona terrain, it’s also a good way to get some nice scenery and horizons without using extra game resources. What a deal, right?!

You have here a clean, empty hood (perfectly fine to use as a normal new CC hood, too), so you can copy its terrain onto your current Strangetown.

Just back up your Strangetown, then plop the downloaded/extracted file, STRR, into your regular Neighborhoods folder and use Hood Replace to copy the terrain from mine to yours.

There are no road or deco changes here, so simply copy terrain and let Hood Replace fix the elevation. No adjustments will be needed to vanilla lots or deco. If you need to adjust a lot you have added, usually you can just pick it up and let it down to snap into place. You have a backup in case anything doesn’t work the way you want it to. See Veronaville replacement post for more general instructions on using Hood Replace.

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