CTSS - Revision history

Kiwi tea at 19:39, 17 September 2012

2012-09-17T19:39:17Z

MogHughson at 13:04, 31 July 2010

2010-07-31T13:04:37Z

MogHughson: Written from a SimPE perspective

2009-08-30T17:52:58Z

Written from a SimPE perspective

Jaxad0127: Fixed redirect to proper article

2006-08-03T18:51:05Z

Fixed redirect to proper article

Jaxad0127: Don't need two identical pages

2006-07-11T23:21:35Z

Don't need two identical pages

Delphy: Auto-inserted from WakkaWikki

2004-09-20T21:41:02Z

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{{OldWikiEntry}} ====CTSS====

64 - Filename (null terminated)
2 - Format Code (0xFDFF)
2 - Number of entries

''for each entry''
1 - Language Code
var - data string (null terminated)
var - comment string (null terminated)

Note that, although multiple Format Codes were used in TS1,
all the TS2 CTSS files I have checked use FDFF exclusively. [[Category:Modding]]

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 [[Image:CTSSCrossRef.JPG|frame|Tying up the instance ID in the Resource cross-refs]]One other thing to note about this resource is its instance ID. This must be the same number that is recorded in the [[OBJD#RAW_Data_-_Resource_cross-refs|Raw Data – Resource cross-refs]]. This is unlikely ever to be an issue since all objects you clone are likely to start off with this correctly cross-referenced.
-[[Category:Modding]]
+[[Category:Sims 2 Modding]]
 [[Category:InternalFormats]]
 [[Category:FormatsByName]]

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-This is perhaps one of the easiest resources to understand, the catalog description controls what you see when you buy an object in Buy Mode.
+This is perhaps one of the easiest resources to understand, the catalog description controls what you see when you buy an object in Buy Mode, but is also used whenever an object (or Sim) is refered to in [[0x0024|dialogs and text notifications]] or pie-menus.
 [[Image:CTSSInSimPE.JPG|frame|The Catalog Description plug-in view with overlay of what is shown in Buy Mode]]
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-The picture shows that there are two strings required to produce the Buy Mode catalog description. String number 0 is the title and string number 1 is the description. The other pieces of information you see in the Buy Mode catalog, such as item price and environment score are set in Object Data ([[OBJD]]), [[OBJD#RAW_Data_-_Catalog_Price|RAW Data - Catalog Price]] and [[OBJD#RAW_Data_-_Catalog_Ratings|RAW Data - Catalog Ratings]] respectively.
+The picture shows that there are two strings required to produce the Buy Mode catalog description. String number 0 is the title (sometimes called the "catalog name") and string number 1 is the description. The other pieces of information you see in the Buy Mode catalog, such as item price and environment score are set in Object Data ([[OBJD]]), [[OBJD#RAW_Data_-_Catalog_Price|RAW Data - Catalog Price]] and [[OBJD#RAW_Data_-_Catalog_Ratings|RAW Data - Catalog Ratings]] respectively.
 [[Image:CTSSCrossRef.JPG|frame|Tying up the instance ID in the Resource cross-refs]]One other thing to note about this resource is its instance ID. This must be the same number that is recorded in the [[OBJD#RAW_Data_-_Resource_cross-refs|Raw Data – Resource cross-refs]]. This is unlikely ever to be an issue since all objects you clone are likely to start off with this correctly cross-referenced.

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+{{Resource tgi
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 [[Category:FormatsByName]]

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+#REDIRECT [[STR#]]
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-{{OldWikiEntry}} ====CTSS====
+#REDIRECT [[43545353]]
-- Filename (null terminated)
+[[Category:Modding]]
-- Format Code (0xFDFF)
+[[Category:InternalFormats]]
-- Number of entries
+[[Category:FormatsByName]]
-−
-''for each entry''
-- Language Code
-var - data string (null terminated)
-var - comment string (null terminated)
-−
-Note that, although multiple Format Codes were used in TS1,
-all the TS2 CTSS files I have checked use FDFF exclusively. [[Category:Modding]]