Faye
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Post by Faye on Nov 5, 2021 13:57:45 GMT -5
Apologies if this has been answered somewhere else. I'm trying to clean up my Mods folder and have searched through several different forums/Google/etc for the answer but it seems like there may not be a simple one for this. Which, if that's the case, that's fine! But everything else I've tried to do has been pretty neatly solved by one of the many utilities available out there, even if it takes some time (the revelation that CAS Tools will apply changes to all swatches instead of the one-at-a-time method of tuning that S4S needs...*mind blown* -- even though S4S has a better UI for actually creating content, for me personally, and comes in INCREDIBLY handy with this current project). ANYWAY What I'm trying to figure out is if there's a way to a) identify if a package is the mesh for any other packages in my Mods folder (the old case of "why do I have this shirt again?") and b) if so, identify which ones so I can pull the add color swatches trick (where applicable and the clothes aren't too different) Help!! Thanks in advance, Faye (@ondigitalwings on Tumblr) |
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Post by Faye on Nov 11, 2021 19:34:09 GMT -5
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Post by Fwecka (Lolabellesims) on Nov 12, 2021 0:27:04 GMT -5
I don't know if there is a way. I don't think so. What I do when I download a recolor is rename both files so they have the exact same name but I add the word "recolor" to the recolor file. That way they are listed with each other in the folder that I keep them in. It's work but what else can you do?
Or, make a new folder that's for recolors and the files they need only and start putting your recolors and their needed files in that folder.
I do both: I rename files and I have a special folder to hold them.
Another thing you can do is when you download the recolor and the file it belongs to zip both files with an archiver such as 7-zip. And when you want to open the file open it into a separate folder. Right-click the file, choose "Extract to..." It will extract to its own folder. That will keep the contents separate.
Honestly, the only thing I can think of to do is put, say, 50 files in your document's mods folder (the Electronic Arts folder) and one of the recolors, click the My CC button and just start selecting files one-by-one. Hopefully, the file you need will be in that batch and you can rename it as I described above and stick it in a special folder, also as described above. If the file you need isn't in that batch, test a new batch. It's a lot of work.
You can maybe narrow things down by only testing certain files. For instance, if your recolor file is for a top then test a batch of top CC, not skirts or shoes, or whatever.
Or, google the name of the recolor file so you can find the original creator and read what file the recolor goes with. That's a lot of work, too.
I don't know of a quick way. Sorry.
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Post by mauvemorn on Nov 12, 2021 11:59:27 GMT -5
The only known to me way of checking whether something is a recolor or not is by looking at the included files in the warehouse. For that you'd need to open every file (you cannot preview the warehouse in My cc, i think, you could add them to \s4s\mods folder and preview that way but it will be too troublesome).
So my only suggestion is to go to the Mods folder and type recolor/recolour in the search bar, then move those files away from the mods folder. After that you can search for the names of the original
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