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Moi's FX haus03 (17th Dec, 2005 Update)(No more Maxis default wall replacement) (a starter house, ~19.9k)

by niol Posted 2nd Jul 2005 at 1:13 PM - Updated 22nd Aug 2006 at 12:02 PM by niol : (Maxis-wall-replacement-free)
 
12 Comments / Replies (Who?) - 11 Feedback Posts
Lab Assistant
#2 Old 4th Jul 2005 at 4:42 PM
Wow. I'm usually very picky about modern houses, because so many people do them wrong IMO... but this house I can't find a single thing to complain about. Beautiful, interesting, and fun are the only things that come to mind.
Good job!

Listen! Do you smell that?
Test Subject
#3 Old 4th Jul 2005 at 8:02 PM
All your designs are very imaginative, nice job.
Lab Assistant
#4 Old 5th Jul 2005 at 4:36 PM
Cool house
really creative-I love it!
Guest
#5 Old 5th Jul 2005 at 5:29 PM Last edited by SariikRequiem : 5th Jul 2005 at 5:32 PM.
yeah, small issue. This so-called exe file it's supposed to have...it's not an exe file. it's a .7z file, and when I attempted to rename it as an exe, it ran but gave a bad driver error and shut down. Why can't you just pack the sims2pack file in the zip directly?

Granted I could take the time to read your decompression notes, but come on, what's the point of using a really odd compression method when it's completely unnecessary to do so? I don't want to go have to download some new obscure program for compression just for one house. I've never even seen a .7z file before.
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#6 Old 6th Jul 2005 at 12:49 AM Last edited by niol : 16th Jan 2006 at 9:54 AM. Reason: typos again...!
SariikRequiem,

I'm sorry for that confusion, I packed most of my lot in 7-zip lately :duck:.

From now on, only when > 1 lots are packed together will winuha2-exe be used to save space.
I'll start to update my decompression notes for other lots...

"zip" really sucks in my opinion and has been given up as a compression method for >3 years for me now. I only use it as a packager only for file format recognition @ MTS2. I don't use it in my computer systems at all except for this particular reason. I can't even remember what the programme "winzip" is like... All that I remember is the user interface was really beautiful but its functionalities suck. So, whenever, I've got something zipped, quite often I convert that into other formats like mostly "uha" and "7z", then "ace" and lastly "rar". WinRAR 3.41 or above can already decompress 7-zip archives... So, if you've got that, you should have no problem. Coz rar is also used @ MTS2, it's better to have it or similar equivalence in terms of these functions.
Lab Assistant
#7 Old 6th Jul 2005 at 3:42 AM
I use a program called 7-Zip File Manager, it's completely free, and it opens every file I've encountered except .ace. Get it at download.com. =)

Another nice house, niol.
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#8 Old 6th Jul 2005 at 5:50 AM Last edited by niol : 16th Jan 2006 at 9:54 AM.
Moro,


Thanks for your comment and recommendation. I've already got 4.15b. Power Achiver 9.11 was still using version 3.12 of 7-zip engine. However, it has a somehow higher compressibility than 4.14b (probably due to the setting of dictionary and resources volumns), but the same compressibility as the 4.15b of 7-zip manager.

7-zip manager can compress "7z" mainly and decompress a list of formats.
Power achiver, a shareware, can compress at least 7 formats without having to switch the compression setting, including "cab", "zip", "7z" and others
Nevertheless, compressing "rar" still needs winrar.
Master Cocktail Shaker
#9 Old 6th Jul 2005 at 1:06 PM
Nice design and nice price Niol
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#10 Old 6th Jul 2005 at 6:24 PM Last edited by niol : 16th Jan 2006 at 9:54 AM.
ninapinacolada,

Thanks 4 your nice comment and your attmpting to make non-EP versions of your 3 wonderfully cool houses...

:beer:
Forum Resident
#11 Old 8th Jul 2005 at 2:35 PM
Very nice thank you
Scholar
#12 Old 16th Jul 2005 at 10:28 AM
The house looks great, thanks for sharing it.
Test Subject
#13 Old 30th Nov 2008 at 11:39 PM
hi i cant download this house. its like everytime i click any of the 3 links it fails and goes to an error page of some sort. anyways i love all your houses they are different and good