Question: Reusing neighbourhood names in The Sims 2

[marazion]

This question is about custom terrains in TS2. I'm trying to fix a couple of mine, and I stupidly used the final name I would like to give one of them on a test neighborhood. Now I can't reuse the name. Is there any way to change the name of a neighborhood somewhere in the program files so that I can reuse it?

Comments

[ritaxis]

1.If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, the terrain maps are in the Sims 2 Documents file under "SC4 terrains." You can rename those files like any other files. (I have xp, so I right-click and choose "rename" from the menu that comes up. I don't know how this is in more modern OS's where the computer is more in charge of things)

2. If you're talking about the neighborhood itself, you can just name it whatever you want. It doesn't matter if the name's in use, because the game saves the neighborhood as "N004" or whatever. So as far as bringing up your neighborhood, the game isn't confused, just you. But you'll probably know which one is which, though at one point I had so many San Similleros that I did get confused. I was ready to delete them all and start fresh anyway.

That being said, you can probably edit the neighborhood name in a text string somewhere in SimPe.

And lastly, if it's a test hood, you could scrap it if you wanted to?

[meetme2theriver]

2. That's not actually true, the game won't let you use a neighbourhood name that's already in use.

But you can easily rename any neighbourhood ingame. Just click on its name and type a new name.

[starling_1]

Thank you. I rename those files in the terrain folder as soon as as I pull them out of SimsCity. I could scrap the test hood name but it's one of the most important subhoods for something I really don't want to rename. I can't scrap it. I wish I could. If I could rename it, I would. I've tried. I will try again. Thank you.

[ritaxis]

I must be mistaken about it, though. Follow Meetme2theriver's instructions: she has much more experience. I must have named my old neighborhoods tiny variations, and not the exact same thing, and remembered it wrong.