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Writing Tips Master Post

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Character writing/development:

Character Arcs

Making Character Profiles

Character Development

Comic Relief Arc

Internal Conflict

Character Voices

Creating Distinct Characters

Creating Likeable Characters

Writing Strong Female Characters

Writing POC Characters

Building Tension

Plot devices/development:

Intrigue in Storytelling

Enemies to Lovers

Alternatives to Killing Characters

Worldbuilding

Misdirection

Consider Before Killing Characters

Foreshadowing

Narrative:

Emphasising the Stakes

Avoid Info-Dumping

Writing Without Dialogue

1st vs. 2nd vs. 3rd Perspective

Fight Scenes (+ More)

Transitions

Pacing

Writing Prologues

Dialogue Tips

Writing War

Writing Cheating

Worldbuilding:

Worldbuilding: Questions to Consider

Creating Laws/Rules in Fantasy Worlds

Book writing:

Connected vs. Stand-Alone Series

A & B Stories

Writer resources:

Writing YouTube Channels, Podcasts, & Blogs

Online Writing Resources

Outlining/Writing/Editing Software

Writer help:

Losing Passion/Burnout

Overcoming Writer's Block

Fantasy terms:

How To Name Fantasy Races (Step-by-Step)

Naming Elemental Races

Naming Fire-Related Races

How To Name Fantasy Places

Ask games:

Character Ask Game #1

Character Ask Game #2

Character Ask Game #3

Miscellaneous:

1000 Follower Post

2000 Follower Poll

Writing Fantasy

How to convert CAP patterns into 100% working package files

(tutorial originally by @ohmysims, I just copied it, put the screenshots back, and wrote it without the “keep reading” cutaway that’s in every reblog I found. Click on images to enlarge them. See my notes at the end. Wayback Machine backup)

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Thanks to this god-blessed tutorial, I’ve been able to convert some patterns made with CAP into 100% working package files. And I thought I should keep a record of the process here for future reference. I only rewrote the exact same tutorial with pictures and this tut is really simple.

I. Convert a pattern made with Create-a-Pattern tool into package format. (Read this tutorial if you don’t know how to convert.)

II. GIVE THE PATTERN A NEW RESOURCE NAME

The cause of the notorious Materializing Materials error is that ALL the patterns made with CAP has the SAME instance value (*). So, the solution is to give each pattern a unique instance value.

Open the file with S3PE. Double click on the _IMG tags with instance of 7edd20633162e6ce.

Click [Use resource name]

Write down any unique name

Click FNV64 button. It will regenerate new instance value.

The instance has changed to 0xAEE5CFA2DED89772. Copy the value except for the first two letters (0x).

III. EDIT XML TO HAVE THE NEW RESOURCE NAME

Right-click the _XML that has the type 0x0333406C and select [Notepad] so you can edit the xml file.

Replace 7edd20633162e6ce with the value you copied in Step II-5. In this case it is AEE5CFA2DED89772.

Save the XML file and close the notepad.

Select YES to commit change AND SAVE.

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Notes by @sweetdevil-sims​:

This tutorial applies to patterns that were converted from .sims3pack to .package format.

(*) this is NOT the reason for the Materializing Materials error. The issue described and fixed by @ohmysims. manifests as multiple patterns being replaced by the image of a single pattern. The MM error is caused by an extra space where there shouldn’t be one. For more info, check these resources:

MTS thread with several ways to fix the MM error

Tumblr post with a tutorial for fixing the MM error

The fix for the “Materializing Materials” error is independent of the one for the Create-a-Pattern conflicting resources error (which is described in the tutorial above).

Downtown Roles Mod Tutorial - TS3 - Mature Gameplay Ideas

NSFW 18+ mature content / a long read   

TLDR: this is a compilation/recommendation list of mods, a tutorial on how to set up NPCs, and how to tie it all together to add some mature gameplay to your save. 😈

Misukisu/Virtual Artisan had a “Downtown Roles” mod that sadly does not work anymore for the latest versions of TS3. Her mod basically allowed players to add role sims to community lots so your sims could have more NPCs to interact with, making the lots feel more alive in a mature "downtown" sort of way.

I was inspired by her mod and I want to share how you can recreate and expand her mod’s functions with Nraas Register and Arsil’s Custom Generic Role mod. Some players might already know how these mods work, but it was a new discovery for me. I didn’t know how useful role sims could be! It got the gears in my dirty mind turning.

The main purpose of this mod list/tutorial: to add role sims to community lots for your main sims to interact with, while they’re out on the town. These will be sims outside of your household. Their main “job” is to hang out at the lot. You can let the game generate new sims to fill these roles, or assign existing sims in the town to fill the roles.

Examples of role sims you can create: 

A regular patron at a dive bar for your sim to befriend or make enemies with.

A sexy single sim at a beach, gym, pool, bar or club for your sim to mingle and hook up with. 

An escort at a brothel for your sim to woohoo with (Passion mod). 

A client for your sim to sell drugs/weapons to (MonocoDoll Vile Ventures mod and Arms Dealing mod) - I have not tested this but in theory it should work. 

You can add multiple role sims on each lot. You could have a number of partygoers on a club lot/a number of escorts on a brothel lot/a number of mobsters or criminals on a warehouse lot who will always be there when your sim visits.

Why role sims?

Townies are unpredictable - you never know which lot they’ll show up on, and how long they’ll stay. Role sims will consistently be there as the supporting characters in your main sim’s story. 

Having consistent NPCs at certain locations around town can help with story-driven gameplay scenarios.

You can move a household of your own sims into town and assign them to fill various roles. See pretty NPCs around town!

If you let the game generate new sims for the roles, then it saves you the hassle of setting up new households yourself. You can always edit them later in CAS.

Limitations: 

According to Arsil, it seems like sims who are already employed (such as most townies) will be removed from their jobs if they are assigned to be role sims. So I would avoid using any employed townies for this unless you are ok with that. Use unemployed residents instead.

I believe the role sim cannot leave the lot during the designated work hours. Your sim cannot form a group with them and go to another venue. However, you can invite the sim over or hang out afterwards from the relationship panel.

Mods Needed:

Nraas Master Controller + Integration Module

Nraas Register

Arsil‘s Custom Generic Role mod (both the floor marker and the desk)

Passion (if you want your sim to be able to have sex with the role sims on the lot or have the role sims dance on the stripper pole) 

MonocoDoll’s Vile Ventures mod (if you want to create NPC clients for your sim to sell to) 

MonocoDoll’s Arms Dealing mod (if you want to create NPC clients for your sim to sell to) 

How to Set Up: 

Step 1: Install the mods listed above. Then, open the save file you want to add some downtown sleaze to. 

Step 2: Find a community lot you want to add role sims to. This could be a bar, nightclub, brothel/motel/strip club, a run-down warehouse or block of buildings, casino, etc. I have downloaded many lots from Flora2 at ModtheSims and @simsmidgen here on Tumblr that fit the gritty urban vibe.  

Step 3: Enter Build/Buy mode. You can do this from Live mode. 

Press Ctrl + Shift + C, enter this cheat: testingcheatsenabled true 

Press the Shift key and click on the ground of the community lot. 

Click on “Build on this lot”. 

You can also enter Edit Town mode to renovate the community lot. 

Step 4: Place Arsil’s Custom Generic Role floor marker or desk on the lot. Place one for each role sim you want to create. They are located in Build Mode -> Community Objects -> Misc. If the desk looks out of place, use the floor marker instead. 

Step 5: In Live mode, click on the object -> Settings to set:

The name of the role (clubgoer/stripper/escort/mobster/etc.) 

The “work” hours the sim will be on the lot for 

The days off 

The motives to freeze or not (I recommend freezing all the motives to avoid interactions being interrupted/sims complaining due to low motives) 

If the sim you want to assign to the role already lives in town, click on the object -> Nraas -> Register -> Select -> Choose criteria -> select the sim from the list. I would avoid choosing any employed townies as they may lose their job when switching to this role. Choose unemployed residents to avoid conflicts.

Remove assigned roles: click on the object to remove the sim from the role.

Step 6: In Live mode, click on City Hall -> Nraas -> Register

Allow immigration: choose whether you want new sims to be moved into town to take the roles (enable this if you want the game to generate new sims for the roles) 

Allow immigration = False: if you set this option to false, then a new option called "Find Empty Roles" should appear. You can then assign any sim to the role object you placed, from City Hall.

Allow resident assignment: choose whether you want existing unemployed townies to be randomly assigned to fill the roles (I recommend to disable this. I had Buster Clavell show up to work at my strip club. NO!)

Pay per hour: I'm not sure how to adjust the pay for each custom role but you can just leave it at the default or change it globally

Remove roles: click on the object to remove the sim from the role, or click on City Hall -> Nraas -> Register -> Global Roles -> Remove by sim

Step 7: In Live mode, give the game some time to generate the role sims. Visit the community lot and have a look at your new role sims. The role sims should autonomously interact with other sims and objects on the lot. Using Nraas Master Controller, you can take the sim into CAS to give them a makeover, edit their traits, or replace them with a sim from your sim bin. 

Step 8: Make your sim interact with the shiny new role sims and play out the storylines you always wished were possible. Public hookups, functioning brothels, selling drugs and guns - this is what The Sims 3 was made for, baby!!! 

Related Mods:

Arsil’s Exotic Dancer Stage - if you have a club community lot, you can use this mod to hire dancers. You can use role sims to add other NPCs to the club such as guests, shady business sims, or non-dancer sex workers. 

Nraas Relativity - this handy mod can slow down the speed of time so your sim can spend more time doing their "activities"

Nraas Woohooer - if you don’t want the explicit sex animations from Passion, you could use this mod instead to provide more woohoo options. 

Passion - for brothels/strip clubs, this mod will add sex animations and the ability to have role sims dance on the stripper pole. 

MonocoDoll’s Vile Ventures mod and Arms Dealing mod - you can use role sims to create more clients for your sim to sell drugs and weapons to, like different individuals/gangs/mobs. You could have different clients hanging out at different spots in the city. 

LazyDuchess Lot Population - this mod populates community lots with townies, and they can interact with the role sims you’ve created. 

Service Sims Out on the Town - this pushes service sims to visit community lots, to add even more variety to your crowds. 

Conclusion

If you made it to the end, thank you for reading. Please let me know if you try out this style of gameplay, and if you have ideas for more role sims and community lots to make. This tutorial was NSFW-oriented but you could easily adapt it to create NPCs for SFW community lots.

Three New Pasta Recipes

I was eating one of my absolute favorite foods, Chicken Alfredo the other night, when the realization that I know how to make custom recipes sunk in, and I had a new idea. And that idea turned into this!! Here are 3 new Fettuccine Alfredo Recipes for the Sims 3!!!!

The Recipe Details:

These all require Level 4 Cooking Skill and can be served during Lunch and Dinner.

Fettuccine Alfredo: Requires Garlic, Butter, and Parmesan Cheese

Shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo: Requires Shrimp, Garlic, and Parmesan Cheese.

Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo: Requires Chicken Breast, Garlic, and Parmesan Cheese.

Please Note: The Butter, Parmesan Cheese, Chicken Breast, and Shrimp ingredients come from various cooking mods, but because all 3 of the recipes have Garlic, a Base Game included ingredient, they are also Base Game Compatible and you don’t need to download the mods if you don’t want to. However, if you want the custom ingredients, they are listed below:

1. Cooking and Ingredients Overhaul by Cinderellimouse-

https://modthesims.info/d/548787/cooking-and-ingredients-overhaul-more-nectar-ingredients.html for the Chicken Breast and Shrimp.

2. Baker’s Basket Plants, Ingredients and Recipes by Icemunmun-

https://modthesims.info/d/594851/baker-s-basket-plants-ingredients-and-recipes.html for the Butter.

3.   Green Vegetable Plants,Ingredients and Recipes by Icemunmun-

https://modthesims.info/d/555310/green-vegetable-plants-ingredients-and-recipes-update-23-02-2016.html for the Parmesan Cheese.

I hope these make your sims as hungry as I was making them! Have fun and enjoy!! I couldn’t upload the file to Simfileshare at the moment for some reason, so it’s on mediafire instead. Sorry about that.

Download Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/d26cutnpoarssyh/LaurenisasimmerFettuccineAlfredoRecipes.rar/file

cc free sims

well hello there~ im here with cc free sims that someone asked for :) hope you guys enjoy them if you do add them to your game! do with them as you please haha (idc what you do tbh as long as you credit if you use them as a base)… click their pictures for their names or get to know them under the cut!

EDIT: idk which eps i used exactly but everything + high end loft stuff pack :)

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AAVE in Kpop Fandoms

(sorry for grammar mistakes/typos im just not feeling it right now lol)

I just feel that this is something that needs to be talked about, not everyone would agree but for those that do, please read and feel free to share your own opinions or experiences.

AAVE has taken over the kpop fandom. If you dont know aave, it is african american vernacular english or black english as referred to by some (or ghetto english as referred to by…some). If you still don’t know what it is well then google is your best friend. The use of aave is seriously the most annoying thing that I would have never expected to annoy me…ever. I know you’re probably wondering why, right? It is because I, myself, am an aave user and have been all of my life. It is my preferred way of speech, although I use “proper” english a majority of the time. So yeah although I speak the “proper” english dialect, my dialect is that of certain southern aave. So how am I annoyed by my own/similar dialects? There are many reasons that I will discuss but it is mainly because aave is utterly, unremarkably overly used all the while being misused to the point that it isnt even ridiculous anymore; its maddening. You think I’m being dramatic? I wish I were, because I am so mad right now. (lol nah just a little bit)

The amount of kpop fans misusing words [and/or phrase] like “hater” [or “hate on”] is just cringe worthy. But its not just that, there are other aave words and phrases that are misused; i’m sure that we all can think of one that gets on our nerves when used incorrectly. I simply brought up “hater” and “hate on” because its just everywhere, i cant escape it, especially on this blog in particular. (not towards the admins i love you guys!)

A lot of kpop fans (we all know those kpop fans) even have the audacity to argue using aave and cant even properly get that way of speech off of their tongues none-the-less off the tips of their fingers to type like… what makes them think…? ..Idek. Or, even worse, they try to boast their bias(es) by using aave…but they use it wrongly (lmfao) -_-. Its just… its bad. (I wish I could give proper examples but i’m sure someone can share some examples that bugs them or that they’ve seen often. However, Its no biggie really.) I guess the one thing i can think of is people telling others to “stop hating on (bias’ name)” but its like seriously your bias, is (probably) freaking amazing, no one is hating on them simply because we are criticizing something (bias) has done. Everyone should be accountable for their mistakes and/or actions; simply calling them out is NOT “hating” in any shape or form. People act as though you cant constructively criticize anymore; foreal though how are people gonna get any better if there is not any acknowledgements, acceptance, nor accountability for their actions? That just allows them to just do what ever they please and people will still mindlessly worship the ground they walk on…that’s just not okay. I may have digressed a bit but… lol.

Anyway, the point of this submission is not to tell people to stop using aave nor to just rant (ok so yeah it is a rant but its not ONLY a rant ok lol) but I just want people to be aware of the things that they are saying. If you are going to use it, at least have some kind of foundation of the meaning(s) behind them, where it comes from, and learn how to use it properly (and actually have some respect for those that do use it in life because wow ppl talk mad shxt towards frequent aave users but majority of them try to use the same words/phrases to look “cool” or to impress others. No, stop, dunt do that.) AAVE is like speaking a new language and it has its ways that work and its ways that do not work. Believe it or not, aave has its own structure. The people that are not aware of this are just butchering it because of the lack of…exposure to actual USERS of the dialect(s). (Because foreal foreal, how many non-black (or non-african american) kpop fans have besties from the hood. Not saying that all aave is spoken from people inside those areas but a lot of it does come from there, just an example.)

One more thing that I have noticed about the use of aave in relation to kpop blogs: The blogs that are obviously black (or african american) and use frequent and proper aave (yes proper because lets admit that even some blacks cannot use aave properly lol they arent expected to ofc im js) are blogs that tend to not be as popular. They have all the components of a quality blog and are amazing people but just…not popular or even known; especially not as popular as the obviously non-black kpop blogs that stan kpop-hiphop and have the frequent misuses of aave (and often culture appropriation, which the misuse(s) of aave can been seen as such also). However, that’s just my observation but, I think that says a lot about the kpop fandom…

Well, that is it! I hope you guys had a good read or something!

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All credits go to @sg5150 - Original post here

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All my conversions are in package format and base game compatible. You can view the polycount in the .zip file. Download HERE at SFS, always ads free!