| What
to do with the downloads? |
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All
downloads are compressed (zipped). To use them you need a (un-) compressiontool
like WinZip (Shareware) or QuickZip (Freeware).
The
unzipped files must put into following Maps:
| Objects |
File-Type |
Map |
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| furniture,
doors windows, etc. |
*.iff |
c:\...\The
Sims\Downloads |
 |
| walls |
*.wll |
c:\...\The
Sims\GameData\Walls |
 |
| floors |
*.flr |
c:\...\The
Sims\GameData\Floors |
 |
| roofs |
*.bmp |
c:\...\The
Sims\GameData\Roofs |
 |
| skins |
*.bmp/*.cmx/*.skn |
c:\...\The
Sims\GameData\Skins |
| Whats
the meaning of the two letters at each object? |
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At
every object image you can find two letters. That are the short forms
of the Expansionpacks which are needed to use the objects.
Here are the shortforms and the meanings:
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TS
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The
Sims |
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LL
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Living
Large |
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HP
|
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House
Party |
|
HD
|
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Hot
Date |
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V
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Vacation |
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U
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Unleashed |
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SS
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Super
Star |
All
Objects with TS can be used with any extensionpack. All other objects
could only be used if you have the concerned expansion.
| Why
doesn´t some downloads work? |
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If
you have problems with downloading some or all objects, there could
be a problem with your downloadmanager. Please deactivate it and try
again.
You can also try to download with right click.
Sometimes there are problems with some firewalls. If you use one,
you can change the settings to lower security, maybe you must deactivate
the firewall at all. Don´t
forget to reactivate it right after you have ended to download!!!
| Will
you also make objects for Sims2? |
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Unfortunately,
there is no object creating program at the moment to make objects
for Sims2.
Maxis announced this at the earliest for 6-9 months after the release
of Sims2.
So we all have to manage the game without dl-objects until march -june
2005. :(
I´m really willing to make objects for the second version, too,
but actually, I can´t say what happens to SimGedoehns in the
meantime. A half or 3/4 year is a long time.
| What´s
the reason for the premium sets? |
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Webspace
makes costs
Maybe some of you didn´t know, that making a website makes a
lot of costs for bandwith and webspace. All free webspace is made
and useful for private homepages. SimGedoehns, with round about 100.000
visitors/month, is far beyond to be a private homepage. With other
words I need much more capacity and this is expensive
Most objects shall stay free
I want to offer as much objects as possible for free. But this is
only possible when at least the costs for my website can be paid.
Thats the reason for one premiumset each month. These sets are usually
an expansion to a free set. If you want to have the full offer of
SimGedoehns you can get it for a fair price of 2€ per month.
SimGedoehns
is a fulltime job
I´m spending very much time to all of my sets. I need often
more than 60 hours to build a single set in the known originality
and quality. Normally there are two sets per month, so creating is
alsmost a fulltime job. Further I have to spend a lot of time for
updating and maintainig my website and to answer lots of questions
and problems in my guestbook and via email.
In the face of the required time and work, a monthly payment of 2€
seems very reasonable and fair to me.
It´s in any case better, than making a pure paysite.
| Why
is this site called SimGedöhns? |
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Gedöhns
is a german slang word and just mean stuff or rubbish. As I was planning
my site I didn´t have any idea for a nice Sim site name. So
I used this "temorarely" to make the logo and sitedesign.
But I didn´t had a better idea so I went online with this name.
No it is a little bit to uninternational I know, but all of my german
fans don´t want another name. I tried to ask for suggestions
in a german forum, but anybody told me to stay with this name :)
So I fear you have to do it with it now ;)
Feel
free to recolor the free objects on my site, but please don´t
redistribute the original (not changed) files in any way.
The premiumobjects may not be recolored, cloned or redistrbuted in
any way.
Filesharing is not allowed.
Pictures of my objects may be distributed without my permission.
Credit would be fine, but is not nescessary.
To download and use any of the objects on this site is on your own
risk.
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