07-23-2011, 02:57 PM
5C4C5B52523E0 wrote: Thanks, but this seems to me a bit complicated method to get the old mansions to work with the HD application.Well... it's less than ideal, certainly, but complicated? Really? The only major complication is when the original mansion uses custom graphics. Essentially, it's:
1. Download/start rezycle
2. Drag/drop mansion on it
3. Rename/move directory to custom mansion directory
That's not *terribly* complicated, really. Granted, it is pretty inconvenient. This is something I had to do a lot of when editing the original mansions. I ended up trying to do as many edits as possible (saving lots of backups), and exporting as close to the end of the process as I could. I ended up automating some of this through scripts, but it was intended for my specific needs. I was looking at using Applescript to automate it in a more useful fashion, but still the basic steps aren't too bad.
I haven't checked recently, but do all the existing custom mansions have comments (in the forum) that mention whether or not they use custom graphics? That would be useful. It should be possible for a few volunteers (I'd volunteer), to go through all the custom mansions that don't use custom graphics, convert them, and zip them up. This way, the initial burden would be shifted to mansion designers (or volunteers) rather than players.
Furthermore: Am I right in that people with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) will not be able to make or edit any custom mansions until the HD editor is out after a few months?Yes, unless you take one of the options I've read online - none of which are all that attractive, and nothing I'd expect a casual Mac user to do - especially for the sake of one application.
Again, this is less than ideal, but it *is* the current situation. All that remains is to make the best of it where we can. On the positive side, some things have been fixed that were problematic before - the ladder glitch, for example, that caused issues with a lot of custom (and a few included mansions) was fixed in MM HD.