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Can't get custom families or households to show up in family bin
shandra2183
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Been playing sims 3 the last few years and then sims 4. Just started playing the sims 2 again and trying to remember where to install cc. I also am playing with ultimate collection. I have tried installing custom families/households and when I go into the game they are not shown in the family bin. I also tried downloading a household with house and no luck with that either. I am using clean installer to install things and win war. Just don't know what I am doing wrong. I have tried putting them in downloads, savedsims and teleport and nothing shows up in the bin. I download plan lots and they show up. I download regular sims and they show up in cas. Here is a link to a household I am trying to install. thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims2-sims-families/title/soup-sims%3A-raspberry-and-raphael-soup/id/813922/ Anyone who can help, I would appreciate it.
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Which version of Windows are you running?
I followed the link about installing instructions, there is none for Windows 10.
Installing instructions are the same across the board, .package files go in the Downloads folder and .sims2packs get installed via the game installer or Clean Installer. I do know house files get put in the Temp folder by the installer and when you load the game or if in game, you change hoods/load a lot and return to the hood/go to a subhood - they then show up in the Lot Bin.
I'm not using the UC though so I don't know if the path to the my docs/sims 2 folders are the same.
@SleepycatDSL Thanks for your help, when it comes to packaged lots with families, I am finding that the house is showing up in the lot bin without the family.
Try creating a new family and then when you've "accepted" them, and it goes to the neighborhood screen, try putting them in the bin. Also, make sure that you're in the neighborhood you want to play them in, because I don't think they transfer from neighborhood to neighborhood. The custom couple I made, are in my custom neighborhood people bin. So, maybe the family you're looking for got put into a neighborhood different from where you had intended to play them? Just a thought.
If you use a packaged Sim or a Sim residing in a lot, they are available to use in any neighbourhood of your choice.
In the Sims2 game, if you Create-a-Family (or single Sim), after you accept the family and return to the neighbourhood, they can be found in the family bin awaiting you to move them into a lot. These families can only be placed in that neighbourhood until you place them on a lot and then you could package the lot file. This file could be saved to another location for future games e.g. an external drive.
If you use the Body Shop to Create-a-Sim, after creating you save the Sim.
Go into your game, any neighbourhood, and Create-a-Family.
After choosing a surname for your family and you are on the next screen of creating/editing the first Sim, in the Saved Sims folder (bottom left of screen), the Sim you created should be there for you to select.
I think this is where you find them - I confess I haven't made Sims in the Body Shop for over five years since Sims2.com was taken down.
Hope this helps?
Good luck!
Sorry, but that's just not true. In my custom neighborhood, the ONLY Sims available in the People bin are the ones I created. The pre-packaged ones aren't there. Before I created them and put them in the bin, that bin was empty, so the Sims from various neighborhoods pre-packaged in the bin are NOT available in any neighborhood you want to use them in. They're only available for particular neighborhoods.
Sims created in CAS (aka create a family/sim) go into just that neighborhoods Family Bin.
Sims that are made in Bodyshop, are available in the Sim bin (don't recall the exact name) in CAS, in all hoods.
I only know that the premade sims in Pleasantview who are in the bin (not a house) when I load the neighborhood do NOT show up in other neighborhoods, and NOTHING but empty lots and empty pre-made houses show up in my custom neighborhoods. The people bin is blank until I fill it.
At the moment (correct me if I am wrong) you are still playing with the Sims2 base game and University.
With further expansion packs (Seasons and beyond), Sims are available to be placed in every neighbourhood created.
For you, in Pleasantview, the Oldies and Burbs are in the Family Bin - if you had the other expansion packs installed, you would find about 10 Sim families intended for the new neighbourhoods but can be placed in every other neighbourhood.
If you create new neighbourhoods, the only Sims available are the ones you create.