#simpe

1. Open the mesh .package file in SimPe;

2. Select "Resource Node (CRES)" in the Resource Tree menu and open the item shown under Resource List;

3. Make sure "Plugin View" is enabled (bottom menu of SimPe);

4. In the "Content" tab, open the "Blocklist" drop-down menu and select the line "cLightRefNode";

5. Select the tab "cTransformNode";

6. In the panel displayed, on the first column (named "Translation"), change the value of "Z" to a number that matches the height of the lamp mesh you're editing.

NOTE: For 2-story lights that sit on the same height as Maxis' chandelier, the value that I used was 1,521330 (taken from HugeLunatic's mod). For CC lights of a different height, you might want to try different values, according to your personal preference.

7. Click "Commit" and save.

For my own game, I edited two custom lights using the same height value ("Z") that HugeLunatic did for the M&G chandelier (1,521330) . I'm not sharing them here because both creators are still active, but I'm tagging them in case they wish to update their files. They are:

@lordcrumps' "Slightly Off Track Lighting", from his 4t2 Industrial Loft Kit; and

@limonaire's conversion of Industrisim's 2-story industrial chandelier.

1) Find the character(s) you want to delete

As soon as you open the program, you will find a blank space in front of your eyes. Do not panic! Look at the icon at the top-left of the screen, and hover over them to look at their name. If your neighborhood is in the Neighborhoods folder, go to "Neighborhood Browser" (three colorful people together and an orange block) and pick from the window that will open your neighborhood. If it's not inside of the neighborhood folder, go on the "Open..." icon (open blue folder) and find the folder. Go inside of it, find the .package main file (do not pick subhoods) and have SimPE open it. I am going to delete Vidcund Curious from my dualhood.

2) Navigate from the Resource Tree on the right to SDSC, then click on the SDSC of the character. From here, go to the "More..." Section and take a good look at what's there.

We need to delete Wants & Fears, Memories, Skills & Badges and Family, accessing them from this menu.

3) Open Skills and Badges and set all values to zero.

4) Remove Memories and Tokens.

You can navigate from here to the Memories of the family. Once you're here, select ALL the memories of the sim and remove them, tokens too! Do NOT click on cascade delete, but click on the little blue remove which is situated right on the screen.

Make sure to remove all memories of the sim from everyone else who has them, so switch to other familes as well to delete them. Memories such as "Vidcund Grew Up Badly, Met Vidcund, Had Very First Kiss with Vidcund" etc... all have to go.

5) Go back to SDSC, "More.." Menu and open Wants & Fears. Delete it.

In case you struggle to, directly access them from the resource tree on the left of the screen and find the one with your sim's name on it. Cross the wants and fears out. Right click and Delete!

(I think it's easier from the resource tree.)

CHECKPOINT! Do not forget to save regularly, because simpe might forget to!

6) Go to Family Ties (Resource tree or More section) and find the Family of your character. Remove all of them.

Select a character yours is tied to and then click on the blue, little remove. Make sure to do the same for everyone who is related to the sim, or at least double check the ties didn't remain on their side!

7) Back in SDSC, go to the "Relationships" tab and remove all of them.

Right click on the portrait of a sim and click "Delete Relationship".

9) Delete the character file from the Characters folder and its entry from the SDSC.

Open "More..." and keep in mind the name of the character file. Once you've written it down, cross it out on the SDSC and save (otherwise simpe won't apply the change).

Now open the Characters folder inside of your neighborhood and delete the character file.

You can now go on and delete it.

That's it! No more character!

Bye Vidsie!

HOLD UP, what if I messed up something?

Do not panic!!! Everything can be fixed! Random instances left behind will be the last one of your problems with the awesome Hoodchecker by Mootilda. In case you get a mess akin to the one shown in the picture, run the software and remove all of the leftovers.

One small note: memories that other sims have of the now deleted character must be removed or modified with another subject they point to by you.

Repeat for another sim you wish to delete.

Now, some general tips!

For Townies and Service NPCS or random strays, it takes way less than this, especially if they're freshly spawned. They usually do not have relationships, important memories, family ties or relationship to other sims, so you can straight up just write down their character file and then delete it from the SDSC and the Characters folder. In this way, you can batch remove so many unnecessary characters all in one sitting. They may leave some Initialized tokens behind, but hoodchecker can remove those.

I suggest removing family ties before removing the character and its associated file, as Simpe might give an error if it tries to visualize the family tree from a relative that is still connected to the nonexistent person.

Save a trillion of times because Simpe doesn't. Save especially when you remove SWAFs and SDSCs because it won't keep in mind of these changes many times. Memories also are fincky, so save when you're removing or modifying them.

Here are examples & values for four adult female and four adult male voices.

It's NOT possible to change voice type gender or age group by editing Voice Type value

AF1 0xFD34, AF2 0xDE83, AF3 0x354A, AF4 0x3949

AM1 0xEF85, AM2 0xDCF8, AM3 0x0D95, AM4 0xE918

These samples are from phone call conversations. Second and the last male voice is by the same voice actor but it has different 'dialogs'. AM 0xE918 seems more assertive (?).

*To be honest I'm not sure if it's a different voice type or does it depend on personality? I need to look into that. TS2 only had four voice actors /for adult voices?/ but that doesn't mean there are only four voice types, right? 🤔/