I've been working on converting all the maxis clothing into Warlokk's bodyshape sizes.  Of course, there being 45 different sizes means this takes awhile.

After the latest batch of them, I realized that I should just modify the material definitions to reference the textures in the sims 2 files so that I can delete the textures in the clothing file and have a much much smaller file that seems to load faster in sims 2 (probably since it's quicker to process and maybe because it only has to load a texture once rather than multiple copies of it.)

So now I want to go back and edit all of the clothing I've done to do this kind of referencing.  It'd be nice if there were something such as in scan folders that would allow me to select mutliple clothing packages, type in the new stdMatBaseTextureName and stdMatNormalMapTextureName properties (I guess the alphas would be nice too, but I'm not sure how they are named), and have it delete the old textureswhile replacing the properties in the material definition.  This way doing 45 different clothing packages which all use the same texture would take me seconds to do instead of 10 minutes. As I have literally thousands to do, this would save a heap of time.

I realize this is probably a limited-use thing for most people, and I would gladly try to modifying a local copy of simpe or do my own plugin, but I currently lack the time to gain familiarity with simpe's code even if I do have quite a lot of experience doing applications in C#. But if someone wanted to do this, or if they wanted to point me in the right direction...

Thanks

They would all be in seperate files.

I already extract the txmt that has the info I want to replace, and then do a replace in each fo the files.  Then I delete all textures in that [recolor] file.  It actually takes around 6-8 minutes per 45 files depending on mouse dexterity and my ability to cope with the monotony :)

Therefore It'd be nice to be able to select multiple package files (a la Scan Folder's ability to select multiple files to perform an operation on), select a target extracted txmt file (.5tm) whose data will to replace the data of any TXMTs in the recolor packages (obviously keeping the group/instance info the same) and then have the data in each package's TXMTs replaced, and all their TXTRs deleted, resulting in about a 3KB referenced recolor package.

Keep in mind that while I say Scan Folders, I'd have no problem with it being its own seperate thing. I can see doing it through scan folders making the process take awhile as it process through everything/loads thumbnails of the textures, etc, when all I really need is to quickly modify data and delete textures.

If that can be done, you'd make me and my 4600 (roughly) recolor packages very happy.

Hmm. I'd be interested in trying to do a plugin/something similar myself, as I do have quite a bit of C# experience.

What I'd really want to do (now that I've done this process a bunch) is to be able to extract a txmt (.5tm) and then batch replace all txmts in a group of packages with that extracted txmt and delete all txtr files in those packages.  Is there somewhere I can go to find info on doing plugins (or extended the scan folders plugins)?