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Outfits / sensible black shoes

« on: October 28, 2011, 01:49:38 PM »

YOU WILL NEED THE SHOES ADD ON TO USE THIS.

I'm afraid inspiration hasn't struck me anywhere near as much on shoes as it has stockings, but there was one fairly obvious omission that was comically easy¹ to rectify.

¹I ain't kidding.  Simplest Texture File Evar!

I thought "hey, let's look into shoe textures" - <stones>paint it black!</stones>.  It'll never be good enough to keep, but it'll do as a starting-point-experiment.  (looks) 

Actually, that looks pretty good for something that took more work to hack the XML file than the texture.  And it's not a complicated XML file.

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Characters / Re: Faye, first character

« on: October 27, 2011, 11:55:57 AM »

Nice job - particularly like the work on the eyelashes...

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Outfits / Re: Some stockings...

« on: October 25, 2011, 12:44:33 PM »

Very nice

Maybe a White fishnet too? There's black fishnets both in this pack and in the official stockings pack, but no white ones to go with some of the white underwear?

I'm working on another pack (might be a week or two, depends how much time I get) - I'll include some in that...

(edited later to add: done)

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Tools / Re: Pronzilla's People Permutor v0.7 - jewellery (+hair with styler add-on)

« on: October 24, 2011, 01:09:02 PM »

You get some cool combinations you'd never have thought of

That's the fun of random.  What people do when they're being "random" usually isn't, but computers can be much better at pretending to be really random.

Of course, sometimes it just does something batshit insane, and you have to go "OOOOOkaaay.  Next!"

thanks everyone!

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Tools / Re: Pronzilla's People Permutor v0.7 - jewellery (+hair with styler add-on)

« on: October 22, 2011, 08:06:38 AM »

Just tried this excellent range of girls and worked brillaintly first time I loaded the game, but the second time I tried it froze the game screen and would only work without the extra girls..

Not sure I entirely follow what you mean here.  Do you mean that PPP froze up, or SexSim? 

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How to make things for Sex Sim / Re: How to make bigger boobs (or smaller ones)

« on: October 21, 2011, 12:45:05 PM »

hmmm.  I think the stuff about the xml for "flop" was removed a patch or two back when it was broken - but doesn't seem to have been added back in?

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Characters / Re: Carly: A sweet brunette (some assembly required)

« on: October 18, 2011, 11:42:51 PM »

No worries.  Thanks to Jak's help behind the scenes, we now have the technology to provide a zip.  Woohoo!

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Characters / Re: Carly: A sweet brunette

« on: October 18, 2011, 07:49:07 AM »

ooooooh bollox.  Uploaded the wrong file(doh!).  and now it won't let me upload the correct one.  I'm working on it.

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Outfits / Some stockings...

« on: October 17, 2011, 01:17:09 PM »

YOU WILL NEED THE STOCKINGS ADD-ON TO USE THESE.

A small selection of stocking layers for those with more traditional tastes in sexy legwear.

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Characters / Carly: A sweet brunette (assembly no longer required)

« on: October 17, 2011, 01:07:14 PM »

As-is, she requires Ayumi, for the hair.  If you don't have Ayumi, this thread will tell you how to tweak the XML to use hair you do have...

Added later:

Having removed the wrong file that I originally uploaded (sorry about that) I'm now having problems uploading a nice well-formed zip file.  So, I'm going to try uploading the bits.

You need to structure things like this:
...Sex Sim\Runtime\user_created\characters\f-pronzilla-carly.xml
...Sex Sim\Runtime\user_created\characters\textures\pronzilla\f_BODY-carly.png
...Sex Sim\Runtime\user_created\characters\textures\pronzilla\f_HEAD-carly.png
...Sex Sim\Runtime\user_created\characters\textures\pronzilla\f_LIMBS-carly.png
...Sex Sim\Runtime\user_created\characters\thumbs\tn_f_pronzilla_carly.png
...Sex Sim\Runtime\user_created\characters\thumbs\m\meter_carly.png

Added later still:
aaand now I've managed to get the zip uploaded.  The zip already has the right structure (unless I goofed again)

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Tools / Re: Pronzilla's People Permutor v0.7 - jewellery (+hair with styler add-on)

« on: May 04, 2011, 03:19:56 PM »

I was starting to wonder about that, but wasn't entirely sure I wasn't imagining it.  Glad I'm not cracking up.  Much.

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Tools / Re: Pronzilla's People Permutor v0.7 - jewellery (+hair with styler add-on)

« on: May 03, 2011, 02:14:26 PM »

Just to add: as people have commented elsewhere: the custom hair colours make a surprisingly big difference to the feeling of variety...

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Tools / Pronzilla's People Permutor v0.7 - jewellery (+hair with styler add-on)

« on: May 03, 2011, 02:05:46 PM »

Pronzilla's People Permutor v0.7

This version is obsolete, look for a newer one elsewhere in this board...

Changes from last version:

• added basic jewellery controls
• tweaked to find all hair styles you have installed, rather than only the ones used in installed characters
  • now picks up the alternate no-glasses version of Vanessa's hair, for example
• added support for the "no hair" style (not selected by default)
• added hair colour support (only if you have the styler add-on).  includes:
  • the "dye" colours that come with the hair styler add-on
  • a few natural colours via RGB ranges
  • a few "dye" colours via RGB ranges
    • based on the non-natural colours in the standard dye pack
     

What is it?
Pronzilla's People Permutor is a totally, utterly, UNOFFICIAL, Java-based utility for Ripened Peach's SexSim. 

PPP creates random girls (only, for now) by mixing up the girls you have installed (body texture from one, hair from another, eyes from yet another, and so on).  It can also change the body proportions a bit.

It creates 10 files in /Sex Sim/Runtime/user_created/characters, named f-ppp_0.xml to f-ppp_9.xml, containing random girl definitions.  So, the next time you start up SS, you'll see 10 extra girls named "ppp 0" to "ppp 9".  I'm sure you can figure things out from there.

PLEASE NOTE:                                                         
PPP WILL OVERWRITE ANY EXISTING XML FILES NAMED f-ppp_(x).xml

IF YOU HAVE VERSIONS OF THOSE FILES YOU WANT TO KEEP (SUCH AS OUTPUT FROM PREVIOUS RUNS) COPY THEM ELSEWHERE BEFORE RUNNING PPP AGAIN, OR THEY WILL GET WIPED.


How do I install it?

First, you're going to need to install a Java runtime from http://www.java.com/

Once you have that installed, just create a directory somewhere on your system and put the ppp.jar file in it.  Anywhere on the system will do, but the closer it is to your SexSim directory, the less work it will have to do when you first run it (see below)   

Double-click the ppp.jar file to run it. 

Note for Windows 7/Vista people

Sexsim keeps its "user_created" data in its program directory.  If you installed sexsim in the "program files" directory, and you run as a "normal" (non-admin) user, that means that PPP won't be able to write directly to those directories, because Windows protects them from editing to avoid things getting accidentally trashed.   

There are two ways to work around this:

• PPP will detect that it's being blocked.  It will then write the files elsewhere instead, and you can manually copy the files into place.  (ppp will tell you where to copy them to/from).
• I am told (but have not tested myself) that if you put PPP actually in the sexsim directory, things will work (This tricks windows into thinking ppp is part of sexsim, and cuts it some slack)

What does it do?

The first time you run it, it'll go hunting across your system for your copy of SexSim, and record that location in a ppp.properties file next to the ppp.jar, ready for next time.  This bit might take a little while (maybe a few minutes at worst) but it only happens once.

Once it's found Sex Sim, it'll scan the Sex Sim directory to see what it's got to play with.

Finally, once it's ready to go, it'll let you play with the options, and then generate the custom xml character files. 

Along the way, it will also spit out a ppp.log file in the same directory as the .jar file.  You probably don't care about that - it's just a slightly-more-detailed record of what gets shown in the log window.

Things I'd like to add someday

(disclaimer: inclusion in this list doesn't guarantee I'm ever going to actually add a feature, just that I'm thinking about doing it some day)

• permuting/morphing males (this may take a while, and I'll probably won't start until jak gives the xml/texture file details)
• internationalization (this will also take a while)
• support for choosing which teeth textures get used (if and when I see any teeth textures that are actually different from the basic one)

Any requests?
If there's anything you'd like that's not in the above list, feel free to suggest/ask about it here.  No promises, but I'll see what I can do...

The files
ppp.jar is the program itself.
history.txt is just a list of what got added in what version, including bug fix descriptions.  probably very dull, but included for completeness.

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Tools / Re: PPP v0.6.1 - The "no witty tag-line" release, but faster

« on: May 03, 2011, 12:35:54 PM »

Is there anything I can do to help prevent this in the future?

Nope, this one was moronitude purely of my own making.

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Tools / Re: PPP v0.6.1 - The "no witty tag-line" release, but faster

« on: May 02, 2011, 02:51:56 PM »

Actually, after a little digging, I'll make an educated guess:

It's going bang when it tries to use Samantha's hair.  Try deselecting her hairstyle in the relevant tab, and see if things work better.

This is fixed[1] in my code already, so it'll be sorted in the next release.

[1]i.e. it won't explode when it tries to use hair it doesn't recognise.  'Cause it's bad to explode every time Jak releases a new girl...