Lol - what filetype is a 4D453634?

hey! very nice! :D
i will give it a try!

thanks for sharing, dizzy!

dizzy2, do you think this would be handy tool for those who have discovered that Maxis objects have done missing in the build/buy mode catalog because a download overrode it?

I don't know if this will help with regard to missing objects (never seen that happen before). This should definitely help with regard to things that could conflict, though.

um...everytime I try to download this zip file I get an open browser, which is this page? Is this just one of those Delphy or Mich is updating the site-try again later?
Kay

What is with the "d2check.cpp" - in which folder do I have to copy this?

Thank You VERY MUCH! I have been hoping for a program that can find duplicate GUIDs in my dlds. Hope this is it. Thanks!!

The cpp is just the source. You can ignore that if you want.

With objects conflicting with Maxis objects - you can use the apps.log in the log folder.

All the conflicting guid's are listed there if you do a find on "TSObjectFolder". It includes all the custom objects regardless of what folder they are in.

Kiri

What are you talkin' about, Kiri? There's no such thing.

Hey I use this and thank you works well.
For you confused pp; ot checks for conflicts in all your downloads and reports them. This in turn lets you know what files conflict with other files. This lets you deside what file you want to remove(delete) from your downloads folder..

and to add this gets put in the downloads folder....

Thanx for this download it helped greatly.

Does it work with the subfolders inside of the download folder?

This will help me greatly, I'm always breaking something in the name of progress.

Probably.

Here is a message I posted over at MATY when I was using this tool. I thought I might mention it here as a warning to any other users.



Also... as a reply to a poster's question above, it works in sub-folders in the sense that, if you copy the executable file to any folder, it will check for conflicts between all those hacks WITHIN the SAME folder. I do NOT think it will check for conflicts throughout ALL subfolders in your main Downloads folder.

As I understand it, the tool ONLY checks for conflicts between any .package files that MUST ALL BE IN THE SAME FOLDER. That's why, in order to check for GUID with Maxis code, dizzy explains that you have to copy the object.package to the SAME FOLDER as the hacks that you want to check. If you do this, I recommend running the check somewhere OUTSIDE your Downloads folder i.e. you should make some test or checking folder, with the hacks you want to check, maybe on your Desktop or somewhere else innocuous, and run your checks there. Anything you consider safe, you can keep/copy into your actual Downloads folder.

It would be a bad idea to have a copy of the objects.package in the Downloads folder or ANY subfolders within that directory tree. This will most likley cause conflicts, pretty much rendering most if not all of your hacks ineffective.

This is a great tool for checking hack compatibility if you know how to use it properly.

Ste

Unless you renamed it to load first. The downloads folder cascades internally and any resources found in there aren't loaded from the program folders.

"To send the output of this program to a file, specify the output file in the command. To do this from a command shell, for example, type:

d2Check output.txt

The above will produce the output of this program into a file called "output.txt" (which you can examine later with any text editor)."

I don't really understand how this works. When I open the program it does show a list of files that are corrupt but how do I get the textfile exactly? (I cant type into the window that shows the corrupt files. I just starts immediately without me being able to change anything until it says 'press any key to continue' and then the window just disappears.

Open up notepad and type "d2Check output.txt" into it. Save it with the .bat extention in the same folder as the program. Open the bat file.

Version 1.3a

Bug fixed: Files with spaces in name were not checked.

Will it tell me what globel download does what, because i downloaded somthing and now it won't let me put windows in a building wall, it keeps on saying "must be in center of tile", so i deleted all me downloads and put the game back on but it still won't let me put windows in. Any help will be appreciated.

donna40, open this file: My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Config\userStartup.cheat. Remove the line that says "boolProp lockTiles false".

I think the d2Check GUID scanner would be very useful for doing quick checks on GUIDs while developing one's own objects, since it is very small, light and fast.

Unfortunately however, without the ability to recursively check subfolders, I do not find the program practical in my case. I have over 3600 files in my download tree, and trying to copy all these files into one temporary directory so that I could use d2Check would be a monumental task.

For GUID checking on a large number of downloaded contect organized in subfolders, I would recommend SimPE. From the SimPE Tools menu, select "Scan Folders". The program will default to the Download directory. In the Scanner Settings tab, ensure that "GUID Scanner" is selected, and also select "Recursive", then press the Scan button. In the fullness of time SimPE will check all Download content, with respect to both itself and the Maxis files. The result may be sorted for duplicate IDs by clicking at the top of the "Duplicate GUID" column. Note that duplicates with Maxis objects are very often intentional.

Cheers - David

Also, the results of all SimPE scans can be saved for future reference.

Sophie-David -- you mention that duplicates with Maxis objects are sometimes intentional. I wondered about that, but knowing little about modding I didn't know for sure.

So how do I know if I should remove duplicate GUIDs?