View source for Body Shop Clothing package

[[Body Shop]] creates a ''Body Shop Clothing package''. Most, if not all, custom-made clothes that are available everywhere in sites were made with Body Shop. These files (sometimes) appear as ''Skins'' or ''Recolour/Recolor''. Some of them require a custom-made [[Modding Glossary|Mesh]].

This file is a [[DBPF|package]], and it's usually compressed by [[zip]] or [[rar]]. The package file (extracted from the .zip or .rar file) must be placed in the [[Downloads]] subfolder of the main The Sims 2 folder.

User created packages appear in the SavedSims subfolder.

== Structure ==
The structure of the package usually includes 7 types of files. Some of them are repeated. Usually those files are:

* [[0C560F39|BINX]] - 
* [[AC506764|3IDR]] - The file which controls references to other files - used to link recolours to the mesh
* [[53545223|STR#]] - A string resource. The description (in human-readable natural language) of the recolour is stored here.
* [[EBCF3E27|GZPS]] - The Property Set. Age, Category (Formal? Swimwear?), Gender, Outfit (Top? Bottom? Full?), etc are stored here
* [[E86B1EEF|DIR]] - Used only if compressed files exist in the package
* [[49596978|TXMT]] - Material definitions.
* [[1C4A276C|TXTR]] - Texture files.

== Software ==
There are some software that can read the information from these packages and return them in a human-readable form:
* [[SimPE]] is the most complete tool to read and change a package. Just run SimPE and Open the package file. Some care must be taken to change a file, but these operations are safe:
: in the Property Set:
:: change the category (for example, from underwear to formal)
:: change the age between Adult (0x8) / Young Adult (0x40) / (Adult + Young Adult) (0x48)
: in the Text Lists
:: change the description (there is just one string, with ID 0x0)
* [[Detect Pets Body Shop bug/Source Code|A code in R that reads (only) a package]]
* [[Describe all packages/Source Code|A code in R that displays the description of all packages]]
* [[Delphy's Download Organiser]] also identifies these kind of packages, along with the the category and the ages

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