MTS2:Creator Guidelines/Pets
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Creator Guidelines - Pets
Photos Required
Be sure you have IN GAME screen shots of your pet. All Pet uploads will require the following two photos both of which are to be taken at CLOSE range and in DAYLIGHT:
One face shot up CLOSE of the animal.
And one body shot showing the full length of the animal:
- For more information and tips on taking excellent photos, please read Screenshots 101 - Or Better Picture Taking
Creativity
No plain colours unless we get to the point of being able to do our own textures. It takes 10 seconds to make a plain black or white or orange cat in CAP.
Pet uploads should NOT look like the standards Maxis breeds that came with the game. We want original, unique and quality uploads. Any Pet that is created to resemble a real life breed MUST include a photo of the actual breed for comparison purposes. Just like celebrity Sims, realism is important.
Though the rainbow colored fur provided to us by Maxis is cute, it's not realistic. DO NOT UPLOAD PETS WITH RAINBOW FUR or fur w/ stars, smilies, or symbols, or fur to fit a holiday theme. They will be rejected.
Special instances will be pets like as Dino, or a character pet (from a cartoon) that requires a rainbow colored fur will be accepted. But no green kitties and blue doggies please.
Multiples
DO NOT upload one breed in an array of colors unless it makes sense. Labrador Retrievers come in yellow, black, and chocolate. Do not upload green, blue, purple versions of them, too, in the same thread.
How to Package Your Pets
Packaging pets is done via the Create-a-pet screen in your game.
- After you have finished creating "Spot" or "Fluffy", you will want to save your pets breed for future use. You can do this using the icon shown here:
- You'll see the package icon located to the right of your CAP screen- Select the icon to package your pet into a file.
- Pets will be saved to your My Documents/EA Games/Sims 2/Packaged Sims folder in a sims2pack format.
- You can now zip or rar this file, and upload with your jpeg IN GAME screen shots to the new Pets section of the forum.
Lets see those critters!
Quick Tip
If your pet has a litter of pups or kittens in game that are not created in CAP, and you'd like to share one, it's super easy now! Just pick up the phone, and register your breed. This will create that pet in CAP so you can now go in and package second, third, and further generations of born in game pets.
Credits
Daysies for the original article.
