Tiny Filesize Invisible Driveway for Lot Builders

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Invisible Driveway: Before and After
Purpose
To provide a replacement invisible driveway recolour of trivial - less than 2 kB - filesize. Both the driveway and the driveway extension may be made invisible. This recolour is compatible with both Nightlife and FreeTime.

Complex lot builders are often juggling their included objects in order to keep the uploaded filesize within the 10 MB limit. I noticed that roddyaleixo's popular invisible driveway weighs in at 686 kB and realized that with the advances in Sim 2 modding that we have made over the last five years, I could create an invisible driveway recolour of much smaller size. Strangely enough I could not use the techniques I learned with my invisible speakers to totally eliminate the TXTR and TXMT from the recolour but had to content myself with a 1x1 transparent pixel and a stripped-to-the-bones TXMT.

I tested if this recolour is automatically packaged with lots. Using AnyGameStarter I discovered that with EPs from Nightlife through to Seasons these recolours will be included by the lot packager, but with Bon Voyage and later EPs they will not. As far as I can tell, this appears to be a game bug, and apart from making this recolour into a standalone object - which would defeat the purpose of making a tiny filesize invisible driveway - I do not know of a way to force a recolour to be automatically packaged. So if you do upload your lots and use Bon Voyage or later EPs with this driveway, please remember to include this recolour in a separate archive with your other unpackaged recolours.
Terms of Use
You may include this recolour in any uploaded lots, whether for free or pay. Please include a credit and link to this page.
Additional Credits:
StephSim for her object requests, general inspiration, and the use of her medieval challenge Parson's Lot to model this recolour. Hexameter's Farm Wagon is shown on the driveway
SimPE and CEP for Sims 2 object creation
Corel Web Photo Paint, IrfranView, Microsoft Photo Editor and GIMP 2 for graphics file conversion, processing and sizing
Numenor's AnyGameStarter, for development and testing
This custom content if it is not clothing, may require a seperate download to work properly. This is available at Colour Enable Package (CEP) by Numenor.
sdDrivewayNightlife_Invisible.zip
| Tiny Filesize Invisible Driveway Recolour
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Uploaded: 18th Apr 2010, 730 Bytes.
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Install Instructions
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Mac: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
- Mac x64:
/Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
Need more information?
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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Updated: 9th Feb 2011 at 9:08 PM - Put technical notes in an infobutton
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