Updates: 9/19/2012 v.2 + some comments
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m22cdbtoday, finally (that's the database for The Sims Medieval Conversions to The Sims 2, btw). It's not complete yet (especially since my sign-in to Plumb Bob Keep is broken), but it's getting there. Not nearly as many new TSM conversions these days...
Superfluous commentary:
It's organized a little different than 322cdb, and deciding how I wanted to do it is mostly what kept me from really diving into it for so long. =p Individual posts onm22cdb are more specialized since a)there aren't beaucoup store sets and expansion packs for TSM, and b) I wanted to experiment with a higher level of granularity in my tagging. Most posts are limited to displaying an individual item; if something came as part of a set from the same creator and it's all in the same image, then I'll tag according to all the items pictured. If an item is duplicated...well, there are 2 duplicated conversions currently, and I handled them each differently. For a certain table, one creator had it pictured as part of a set and the other had it standalone, so I just made 2 entries and put links to the other on each. For the other, a statue, I just put both on the same page-- more like what I do with 322cdb. I'm not sure whether that's tidier or messier, but there's a logic to it either way. =p
On hair conversions:
By all means leave comments about recolors and meshes belonging in sets! I probably actually already know about them, but you never know. Stuff from places like The Big Trade-Off is easy to miss, for example. There's a link to a spreadsheet on the sticky post where I've been keeping track of things... I just need to actually get it all on here, i.e. the tedious part of cropping and resizing and uploading pictures. And of course, the longer I wait, the more behind I get-- there's around 100 converted hairs [that I know of]!! Which is why I encourage comments as a couple of you have done, because it puts up an organized record of such things more quickly than I'll be getting to it. :) Thanks, guys!
m22cdbtoday, finally (that's the database for The Sims Medieval Conversions to The Sims 2, btw). It's not complete yet (especially since my sign-in to Plumb Bob Keep is broken), but it's getting there. Not nearly as many new TSM conversions these days...Superfluous commentary:
It's organized a little different than 322cdb, and deciding how I wanted to do it is mostly what kept me from really diving into it for so long. =p Individual posts on
m22cdb are more specialized since a)there aren't beaucoup store sets and expansion packs for TSM, and b) I wanted to experiment with a higher level of granularity in my tagging. Most posts are limited to displaying an individual item; if something came as part of a set from the same creator and it's all in the same image, then I'll tag according to all the items pictured. If an item is duplicated...well, there are 2 duplicated conversions currently, and I handled them each differently. For a certain table, one creator had it pictured as part of a set and the other had it standalone, so I just made 2 entries and put links to the other on each. For the other, a statue, I just put both on the same page-- more like what I do with 322cdb. I'm not sure whether that's tidier or messier, but there's a logic to it either way. =pOn hair conversions:
By all means leave comments about recolors and meshes belonging in sets! I probably actually already know about them, but you never know. Stuff from places like The Big Trade-Off is easy to miss, for example. There's a link to a spreadsheet on the sticky post where I've been keeping track of things... I just need to actually get it all on here, i.e. the tedious part of cropping and resizing and uploading pictures. And of course, the longer I wait, the more behind I get-- there's around 100 converted hairs [that I know of]!! Which is why I encourage comments as a couple of you have done, because it puts up an organized record of such things more quickly than I'll be getting to it. :) Thanks, guys!
