[ARCHIVE] Road to Live Release
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While the forum was down I updated the blog with a little teaser:
http://freeso.org/pools-are-coming-soon/
Here are a few more GIFs of it in action:
http://freeso.org/pools-are-coming-soon/
Here are a few more GIFs of it in action:
Advanced pool building rules are a little while off, right now you can build and place objects below pools...
Noel
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This may seem like a huge longshot but would it be possible to import expansion pack objects and careers from The Sims 1 Complete Collection into the Sims Online? (After release) personally I would love to explore a "magic town" with a bunch of other sims and performing magic with others. Obviously this would be highly complex and Im not expecting a yes but that would be amazing to explore 
other than that amazing progress on the game as of this far
other than that amazing progress on the game as of this far
Like we have said to zero35... no, that not possible cause it would be a violation of copyright...This may seem like a huge longshot but would it be possible to import expansion pack objects and careers from The Sims 1 Complete Collection into the Sims Online? (After release) personally I would love to explore a "magic town" with a bunch of other sims and performing magic with others. Obviously this would be highly complex and Im not expecting a yes but that would be amazing to explore
It would be possible if we added the requirement of owning The Sims Complete Collection, however that would leave out a ton of people who haven't bought a 12 year old game.. Not that it's impossible, it just won't happen on official servers.
Nemmeron
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I've completed initial work on the PIFF patch format. This allows us to patch any object in the game with modifications made in the IDE! Right now this only extends to string and tree resources, but soon you will be able to modify basically all chunk types! Above is an example of one such completely useful object modification which was saved to a .piff and automatically reloaded the next time the game was started.
We'll be able to use this to fix bugs with certain objects (such as those you might see in the Terrain Tool which have broken code references or bad strings), add complex features to existing objects and clone existing objects while changing graphics or code (eg. a folded chair reskin that can be picked up by a sim, the limit is really your imagination!) All of this without redistributing any of the original resource, thus all modifications are safe from copyright violations.
Saving to iff directly works too, of course, though I have not set up a way to load arbitrary standalone iffs yet.
The patches themselves use a dynamic programming Longest Common Subsequence algorithm to determine a sequence of add/remove changes to get from one file to another. This algorithm unfortunately has space complexity of O(n^2), so I had to split the difference calculations into individual blocks of size 1kb. (squared that still uses 1MB RAM to run!) I'll look into whether this causes any issues or can be better circumvented in future.
The work won't appear on GitHub until pools are stable.
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I've completed initial work on the PIFF patch format. This allows us to patch any object in the game with modifications made in the IDE! Right now this only extends to string and tree resources, but soon you will be able to modify basically all chunk types! Above is an example of one such completely useful object modification which was saved to a .piff and automatically reloaded the next time the game was started.
We'll be able to use this to fix bugs with certain objects (such as those you might see in the Terrain Tool which have broken code references or bad strings), add complex features to existing objects and clone existing objects while changing graphics or code (eg. a folded chair reskin that can be picked up by a sim, the limit is really your imagination!) All of this without redistributing any of the original resource, thus all modifications are safe from copyright violations.
Saving to iff directly works too, of course, though I have not set up a way to load arbitrary standalone iffs yet.
The patches themselves use a dynamic programming Longest Common Subsequence algorithm to determine a sequence of add/remove changes to get from one file to another. This algorithm unfortunately has space complexity of O(n^2), so I had to split the difference calculations into individual blocks of size 1kb. (squared that still uses 1MB RAM to run!) I'll look into whether this causes any issues or can be better circumvented in future.
The work won't appear on GitHub until pools are stable.
When FreeSO gets released, i make sure i play 24/7 ^^
Tori Sim
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I hear ya, back in the day, I played until the sun came up LOL Good thing I was not working then
The is the best MMO out there, and the best on it , is that it is A Sims Online gameWow... as a true geek.
Because no one could create such a great MMO Social Game like The Sims, i wish, they wouldn't shut down TSO in 2008 ...
Unfortunately, the animations for the pool slide are not available. To stop it from hilariously freezing the game, it's going to be patched to be useless.
Noel
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Well there goes my hopes and dreams lmao
Darn, well if anything maybe that could be an additive post-release for unofficial servers such as peer-to-peet connections?
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Forgive me for not having read the entirety of the forum
I am quite lazy lol but doesnt that raise the question of copyright violations if the game is basically based off of The Sims Online. Please excuse my daftness In any case it isnt a problem at all I was just curious. Curiousity may have killed the cat but superstition brought it back
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