Adding new Sim Faces

[CambroNZ 3]

Hey I am currently looking to import new Sim Faces in the Move a Sim in feature in SC4. I'm using them for an RP story of my city I'm working on and one page of default Sim Faces is not enough characters for my city. I tried the link in this long inactive old relevant post in search of a solution but the link is now inactive/broken. Is there as updated link?

[CorinaMarie 29,578]

On 8/14/2016 at 1:26 AM, CambroNZ said:

I tried the link in this long inactive old relevant post in search of a solution but the link is now inactive/broken. Is there as updated link?

Many old linkys got broken in one of the site upgrades. Here's the corrected one:

The image for the above does not appear relevant, but here's what I get on "page" 2 when I installed the mod:

And 3 more "pages" of blue faced Sims. I believe one is supposed to then pull up an individual .bmp in an image editor and then put in the image you want. I'll test that soon.

Anyhow, allow me to welcome you to Simtropolis. This is a wonderful site and I'm so glad I found it and joined. One thing I'll mention is that the moderators generally frown on bumping years old threads. I'm hoping in this case none of them will lock this thread because it is the only one I found which has mention of the Addon and therefore I feel it was appropriate to bump it. I'm glad you did cause I've been interested in adding different MySims and just hadn't got around to looking into it.

Installation is simple. Unzip the file and then place the MySim folder in the SimCity 4 folder like this:

 

Check back in a little while and if I've found anything new about altering the picture itself, I edit that information into this post provided the thread does not get locked.

 

Edit 1: Ok, so I used my avatar image (which I'd saved as grayscale a long time ago) and I resized and cropped it to match the 36 x 41 pixels of one of the existing .bmps in the addon. I overwrote the file Bella_c0c6298e.bmp. And here's what I get in the game:

I have no idea why it turned yellow tho. Check back for more edits to this post if I find out anything new.

 

Edit 2: Ok, problem solved. I first converted (a copy of) my avatar image to RGB then did the resizing and then saved it as Bella_c0c6298e.bmp. Here's what I got and showing I renamed her and made it my correct zodiac sign:

 

And here I am moving into a crappy neighborhood:

 

I traded in that blue clunker car for a cute little pickup truck. Here I am on my way to a new and exciting job at Galvin Techtronics. I hope it's not too difficult being a clerk. I do wish the age were editable so I could make it my real age.

 

Edit 3: So, having played around with this a wee bit more I went back to the most original image for my avatar that @Odainsaker found for me in this post and cropped the image better. I moved into a new city tile and because of my wealth level I could get my fav car:

 

[Prophet42 1,501]

I moved these two posts from the old thread that they bumped into their own seperate topic.  Please do not bump old threads (especially ones that are 7 years old).  If the old thread does not have the information that you need in it, then start a new thread.  Thank you.

[matias93 7,535]

I would also add, with some Photoshop skills you could also change the faces of the advisors. They are stored as flat FSH files on one to the main DATs and the game wraps it around the 3D heads, just as The Sims does.

[Shuna Tempest 25]

Ich habe es wie beschrieben gemacht, aber es funktioniert nicht. Was mache ich falsch? Mir werden nur die Standardpersonen angezeigt.

So kleine Änderung habe es hinbekommen wollte jetzt den Kommentar löschen geht aber nicht also nicht drauf reagieren.

 

Spoiler

I did it as described, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? I'm only seeing the default people.

I managed to make a small change and now I wanted to delete the comment, but it doesn't work, so I'm not responding to it.

 

[CorinaMarie 29,578]

Oh, my @Shuna Tempest! I didn't see your post here earlier because I rely on the beeps to notify me.

It's good you posted here which I did get beeped for. The method in this thread is different from the Hexy Details one, but I can help with either one.