SimPE 0.73.43

Use

  1. Download the file, http://downloads.sourceforge.net/simpe/SimPe_0_73_43.7z  and unpack it to its own folder.  Those users who know how to do so, may install the new files over their existing SimPE installation, taking care not to overwrite data files they wish to keep.
  2. Run SimPE by double-clicking SimPE.exe.

Always back up your game data by setting aside a safe copy of My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods before each SimPe editing session.  Restore only by replacing the entire Neighborhoods folder.  Never use .bak files or individual .package files to restore data to the Neighborhoods folder.

Changes from 0.72 to 0.73.14 

  • Insert unlinked Special Button in BHAV editor.  Like Add, but places the new line immediately below selected line.
  • Quick links between BHAV and related TPRP, and BCON and related TRCN.  These are on title bar of plugin pane.
  • Added support for Rufio's SimSheet
  • Speeded up making TRCNs and TPRPs, and added a Please Wait for if they do take a little longer than expected.
  • Swapped Teen and Toddler motive matrix columns in TTAB
  • There is a new CRES format we were unable to decode.  SimPE now handles its inability to read the CRES more gracefully.
  • Neighborhood browser used to throw an error when the Neighborhood.png was corrupt.  Now sensibly just displays a stock image.
  • In Resource List, new right-click option "Toggle filter by group".  Uses group number of selected resource to filter by.
  • For BHAVs, View and Float windows now have Extract option on title bar.  This is helpful for if you are browsing a chain of calls in Objects.package and come across a BHAV you would like to use in a patch.
  • New "profiles" system.  Set up preferences as you like them.  Then Extra.../Save preferences to profile...  (Recommend first saving default preferences to profile called "Original").  Start SimPe with a profile by commandline -profile [profilename].  Useful for if you want to easily switch between a session with minimal resource loading and a session with the full works.
  • Some changes to RTBN wizard suggested by Tunaisafish

 Changes from 0.73.14 to 0.73.18

  • Fixed Expansions.xreg for improved support to Double Deluxe.  Seems to have also fixed the Open In... problem.
  • Enhanced parameter labelling in BHAV wizard for called BHAVs
  • RTBN wizard fixes continued
  • Opening the GLOB resource no longer requires you to go away and make coffee
  • SimSheet (rufio) output now in standard CSV, with commas and quotes.  SimSheet testers make sure to keep existing SimPE for use with SimSheet until Rufio instructs you otherwise.

Changes from 0.73.18 to 0.73.24 

  • New tickbox in filetable toggles on and off ticks for graphics folders.  Using this setting as a "hackersmode" profile (also recommend untick CEP)  makes a smaller and faster SimPE process for behaviour modders, but of course is not suitable for use with Object Workshop
  • When in Advanced mode, there are now Add and Delete buttons for the sublot field in LTXT.  This is for those who wish to experiment with hacking apartment lots.
  • More -rufio output fields, including the numeric suffix indicating the character file for each sim.
  • PJSE simantics resource finder has search within string files. CTSS, TTAs, STR# tickboxes as well as Default/All language option.
  • PJSE resource finder can now find calls from objects to associated semiglobals, from BHAV, OBJf, TTAB.  Also find objects afilliated to any Semiglobal group.  "Focus" tickbox enables this, otherwise filter acts normally.
  • Folder scanner has Stop button.  This may not come on immediately as some preparatory processing is going on before the scan proper starts.
  • Parsing of params to BHAVs now takes account of the passing of temps as parameters by using FFFFFFFFs
  • Further RTBN parsing tweaks
  • Hood numbers now show on Hood browser for all users not just in advanced mode
  • TTAB entries are additionally numbered with their entry order (previously just by TTAs string reference).  This is to help with following scripting flow where there is a large TTAB - eg "push interaction" by number.

Changes from 0.73.24 to 0.73.26

  • Added Import to Private button on view BHAV.  This imports the BHAV to open package, changes its group to 0xFFFFFFFF, gives it a unique instance number within package, updates references from BHAVs, TTABs and OBJfs already in package.  (Old import button now called Import Unchanged)

Changes from 0.73.26 to 0.73.33

  • PJSE OBJD Tool Required EP Flags now sensitive to Version also become radio buttons as EA never have more than one flagged.  Once they need you to have one of two EPs in order to run an object, they set it to not needing any.
  • Ticking stuff in filetable gives more intelligent results.
  • Fixed an "index out of range" problem for French strings in Career Editor
  • Fixed a "circular reference" error in recolouring
  • Fixed column order not saving with profile
  • Fixed -localmode not recognised error (may not have been broken in last QA but was broken in interrim internal tests)
  • Check for updates now off by default, as it is unlikely there will be another full public release so this was just wasting time.

Changes from 0.73.33 to 0.73.35

  • New SWAF editor.  Includes History.  If you have a GUID index available and loaded it will use it to translate the objects, but you have to make a new GUID index, because with this release the GUID index has a new format.

Changes from 0.73.33 to 0.73.41

  • "-enable anypackage" commandline bypasses SimPE's check for DBPF format so it will attempt to open Spore etc packages.
  • Fixed problem where coming across a BCON with an unreadable TRCN stopped all future TRCNs being read.
  • Now warns if jumping to the TRCN/TPRP will open different package.
  • Changed language-related label on Career editor to match the one on Strings editor.

Changes from 0.73.41 to 0.73.43

  • images output for -rufio now correctly extensioned as .jpg
  • SimPE no longer deletes .bak files for the heck of it.