I feared so, thx!

First of all I want to thank p00jkins for the time and effort that she put into this tutorial and for sharing it with the rest of us. I *finallly* got the EP a couple of days ago and I had some time today to fix my custom careers etc.

The one thing that was not mentioned in the tutorial, is that you have to change the Group ID of the new (extracted) files to 0xFFFFFFFF aswell. I neglected to do this when I converted one of the custom careers and it caused my game to freeze when loading the lot.

Tug, I converted the Mafia career without any problems, it's working perfectly for me. It has always been one of my favourite careers. It was based on the business career, not the criminal career, so perhaps that is the reason why your conversion doesn't work?

Well..I'm off to do some catching up...

Albino, that is supposed to be done even in the old custom careers, so i felt it went without saying. But oh well,

I am wondering how You could alter the amount of money that our sims get when they retire???

I had downloaded the Richest $im custom career, where my sims got $70,000 a week while employed, but when they retired they suddenly made $381 a day, $2,667 a week!!! What happened to the roughly $35,000 that they should have been making weekly??

Hmmm...not sure about that, are all careers giving out the same pension? (to your knowledge?)

Hi Poojkins, I'm having a problem. I started doing your tutorial, but my SimPE doesn't match what you're saying. I d/led and opened the base career and clicked on Behaviour Constant, but I did not see anything that came close to your description. In the right window, all I see is "Behaviour Constant (BCON, 0x42434F4E). That's it except for SubType, Group, Instance, Size and Offset. They all say the same thing. There is no Top Memory, Tuning Chance Card Levels, or Tuning Flags no matter what tab I click on. Am I just being dense or what? Please help. I want to update a couple of custom careers that I d/led to be compatible w/ep1. Thanks!

Try launching SimPE using the Start Menu item called "SimPE (Classic GUI)". This will make SimPE look like what the instructions expect.

I'm suprised your not a moderator here!

May I ask a silly question? How exactly does one change the GUID? :monkey:

Look at the tutorial found in my signature

I've got a question:
Sorry, if someone explanded yet, but i want to know how to delete the levels of a career.
So that I have only 4 levels than 10.
Please explane that in easy english, 'cause I can't understand all english words (especially not realy the colloquial english)

OK- I've been experimenting a bit with careers with low numbers of levels, and I found that using SimPE version .48 to delete levels causes some problems as you get to level 5...


Now, I've created a career with only two levels, but I cheated a little- I downlaoded the Stay at Home career by naidia and modified it from there. I've uploaded a base 1 level career for you to work with and add levels to- this is how you do it.

First, you'll need the newest version of SimPE from http://sims.ambertation.de/ (version .48c)

Next, open the one level career in SimPE and open bidou's career editor-


Once opened, go to "Levels", then "Insert levels"


Voila! A new career level!


Now you can add as many or as few levels as you wish.

I hope this helps you out- if you have any problems, don't hesitate to ask

Superfly

Can we have some clarity on this one please?

I've tried twice to update a Pre-EP career this evening with no success, and both times the game just froze before I could enter the Lot.

Now I need to clarify these instructions so that I know for certain I'm doing it right - then I can blame the custom career - or if I'm doing it wrong, in which case I'd like to know how to do it right.

First I'd like to clear up this point about importing the Behaviour constants from the Base(EP) to Custom(TS2 Orig):



Well, there aren't three, there are six. Three files have a ".simpe" extension and three have a ".simpe.xml" ext. Which three do I need?


Secondly, On importing the Behaviour Function:



This time there are two - again, one with a ".simpe" and one with a ".simpe.xml". Which one do I need?


Thirdly:



How do I do that? Before extracting it? After? After importing? At what point, and how?
I loaded one of these extracted files into SimPE just now, and took a look. Under "Group" it says, "0x7F5AA90E"(THE Group ID for Criminal), but there seems no way to change it. AND I feel compelled to ask again - ".simpe" file or ".simpe.xml"?

Can someone here please help with this?

Thanks.

OK...

"Well, there aren't three, there are six. Three files have a ".simpe" extension and three have a ".simpe.xml" ext. Which three do I need? "
"This time there are two - again, one with a ".simpe" and one with a ".simpe.xml". Which one do I need?"

When adding files to the behaviour constant and behaviour function lists the game should automatically only display .xml files to import- which are the ones you want.

Group ID. Group ID is changed after the importation off all four .xml files. If you do it before, the four files you import will still have the original group ID. To change the group ID, you require the classical version of SimPE (the original) and my tutorial found here

Hope this helps you out,

Superfly

Ah, well that's a little clearer.

So I ignore the ".simpe" files and grab the ".simpe.xml" ones, eh?

Thanks that helps.

But another point worries me. I'm using the latest version of SimPE. So I can't upgrade careers with that then?

Yet it's only the latest version that has functions for things like Vampires and Inventories, isn't it?

Is it possible to run the old classic version of SimPE without conflicts/uninstalling the latest one?

No, you can't upgrade careers automatically with the new version of SimPE (at least to my knowledge). What I've one is downloaded an EP compatible carer, and every time I want a new career, I simply copy the template career and rename it- and already I have a career compatible with the expansion pack? See?

Yes it is possible to run the classic version of SimPE without uninstalling the newer one- I downloaded the classical version with the newer version, allowing me to change a career's GUID and group ID.

Hope this helps,

Superfly

Hmmm, well I hesitate to say this, but I'm still a little confused. You see, I inferred from this:



...that you mean copying a template EP-career(then just altering the text/hours/wages etc. to match a pre-EP version) is a way to do it in the new SimPE, yes?

I hope I've inferred correctly there.

But in order to alter the GUIDs and Group IDs, you've GOT to have the old SimPE too, yes?

But then, in that case, why load it into the new SimPE at all?

I'm really sorry to be such a pain in the neck here. Thing is, I know nothing about modding careers at all(well, you'll have guessed of course), but there's just one Pre-EP career that I've desperately wanted to run since Uni came out.

The creator seems to have disappeared from this site long ago(as far as I'm aware), and after six months of hoping that sooner or later someone might have a crack at updating this one... well, I decided maybe I should do it, and I set about trying, following this tutorial.

But the more I've tried, and the more I've tried to unfathom this puzzle, the more confused I seem to get.

:sorry: I'm sorry to seem so inept - computers, I confess, are not my strong suit - but I'm really struggling with this. And all for just one career with only two levels in it.

Yes, that is correct. Copy an EP ready career and use it as a template. I think I am right in saying this whole problmem revolves around which version of SimPE to use. Now, I personally find the new GUI easy to use, so I build my careers with it, then move to the classical version to change my GUID and Group ID. If you feel more comfortable, build the whole career with the classical version- that way, you won't need to switch around.

I'm really hoping someone makes those university only careers avaliable for people who have not gone to college.

ok excuse me if this is a very old thread but I was referred here by Superfly.
Can I use one of these base careers to safely make a career which works in JUST Sims 2? I can see that they would work for University? And what about for NightLife?
And is there such a thing as an up-to-date tutorial on the Career Editor anywhere? All the links I can find seem to point to some very old stuff?

If you use these files to as a template, tehy will work for all games.

As for up-to-date tutorials... it is a sad fact that career creators are few and far between now, so only a few people put much into this section. I have contacted Psion about his tutorial, so hopefully *fingers crossed* we shall see some new information

SuperFly

I made a career by downloading and changing one of the EP careers shown earlier on this thread. I am testing with just Sims 1 and I thought I had done it ok - I only used a recent version of SimPE - and anyhow the career does not appear at all in my game. Can someone please tell me where I went wrong? I spent a lot of time on this already?

Sita, post your career up in my thread (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=96735) and I'll take a look at it- the problem could be caused by a number of problems.

Done, thanks.

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