Some Unused/placeholder/test Animations From TS3! I Thought They Were Pretty Interesting, Especially

Nexus Mods :: The Sims 3

SimPanel

Adds and UI panel to manipulate sims

A custom UI Panel mod by Battery at Nexusmods! (I can't believe I missed this!😮) Battery mod notes:

If you used the first version of this mod note that the activation has moved to control + right click. This mod adds a UI panel to the game which allows you to change sims buffs motives and interactions. If you are familiar with Nraas MasterController you can think of this mod as an condensation of some small part of its features.

You can bring up the panel by pressing and holding the control key and right clicking on a sim in Live Mode.

The SimPanel can be kept up during gameplay allowing to access two sims data at a time. Download from Nexusmods (needs registration) Other mods by Battery including: Recipe Editor Quick Recolour How Old Are You

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VIDEO TOUR OF URANESIA (HD)

Here’s the longer video I said I was working on! In it you can see an overview of the different areas of the world.

Hope you enjoy it :)

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Some tips for The Sims 3 Buy/Build

Install LazyDuchess’ Smooth Patch to alleviate lag, esp in Buy/Build and CAS.

Keep your CC merged and organized, esp your patterns, this will also alleviate a lotta lag across all modes.

When building on community lots, or any lot rlly, avoid going to the edit world menu, and just put testingcheats enabled into the cheat window, then shift+click the ground of the lot to enter Buy/Build mode. This makes leaving it to save a lot easier, with less “preparing” screens to possibly get hung up in.

Lower your settings, you don’t need any adjacent lots loaded, and you certainly don’t need super water on either. You can always switch these back on when you’re done.

While you’re at it, remove your HQ mod, and turn off your Reshade/Gshade preset, or at least turn off your depth shaders. I only ever turn on my depth shaders when I’m taking screenshots for better fps while playing. The DoF shader esp requires a lotta resources your game could be using to simulate all those 78 townie sims instead.

Save as… vs Save, I Save as… at least every third save. It’s also just good habit to keep backups.

When using the CASt tool, set down everything you plan to CASt first, then switch to a category like the wall tool to avoid eventual lag and drag when using it a lot. Love yourself. You don’t have to suffer using CASt tool in an overpopulated category like misc deco.

Utilize the clone option through testing cheats to duplicate already CASted objects, it’ll keep your design just like the dropper tool, but it’s a lot less time consuming, I promise.

Don’t be afraid to use the swatch save tool for objects you use often, esp community lot objects, as it helps to keep your aesthetic consistent. I also keep all of my favorite streetlamps, benches, and public trash bins etc in a convenient custom collection folder to speed up the process of doing multiple lots in one sitting. These handy tools are there, use them.

The issue with custom counters. They mess up sometimes, if you can’t recolor it suddenly, here’s how to fix that. Now if you can’t place down a cupboard suddenly, even though nothing’s in the way, and you’ve got moveobjects on activated, try putting it on the wall a tile over, and then try adding it to your desired spot again. Lastly if you set down counters or cupboards at a corner, and it messes up the textures, but you can still recolor it, you could do what the video I linked above does, or you could simply pull out the CASt tool, and switch it back to any of its original swatches and click the check, then feel free to recolor it as you want.

Railings will also do the “can’t recolor” trick too, but this is a simple fix, just delete it, and replace it, and you’re good.

“Oh no, I switched between buy and build mode, and now my catalogue won’t load, and I can’t click on anything at all!” Don’t panic, hit F2 and/or F3 on your keyboard, these are shortcuts for switching between them, and if you’re lucky it’ll load properly again. Should you get the bug where you load a category and it’s somehow empty, don’t fret, just click on a different category and this should fix it. Then if you get the bug where all the objects you put down disappear suddenly, sorry your game is haunted. Call an exorcist, or just reload, they might reappear if you do.

Tbh, if you run into any kind of major bugs, it’s likely a sign to either save immediately or just restart your game. These only ever show up when you’ve been at it a while ( at least for me ), therefore starting fresh wouldn’t hurt. Probably also wouldn’t hurt to check whether you might’ve installed something the game didn’t agree with by running Dashboard, or put it through the ol’ Save Cleaner.

Honorable Mention: Keep an eye on the texture sizes and poly counts of objects. I know it’s tempting to build these ultra hyperrealistic lots with clutter at every inch, but unless you’re just doing it for screenshots, or for your story, or using it very sparingly, it is not by any means recommended purely for gameplay. This is just the truth when it comes to any Sims game. You don’t want lag, or max memory crashes, or save errors? The Sims 3 is a 32bit game, that’s almost old enough to drive, be easy on it.

Info and download under the cut

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Liberated Cows

Three edits of the store’s cow-shed. Please read the instructions carefully.

A working copy of the Store’s cowshed must be installed in your game to use these edits. However, they won’t override the original or each other. -> If you don’t have the Store’s cowstable, use the script-file that is included with the download.

Included are:

The two cows formerly inside the shed now standing on the pasture

Only one of the stationary cows on the pasture. It’s the outer cow, so with this edit you won’t have three cows standing conspicuously side by side.

A pile of hay with only the milkable cow walking around it. I couldn’t make a completely invisible shed because you can’t grab the walking cow in buymode.

These can’t be recoloured with the Create a Style tool. If you install them unedited, the cows will be EA’s colours - I thought this easiest for players who like to keep it maxis-match, are uncomfortable with S3PE or don’t have a strong graphics card. The footprint still reflects the original object’s dimensions (you’ll still need the space for your cow to walk around).

You can customize these edits by importing different cow-textures into the packages. I remapped the stationary cows to use the same uv-map as the walking cow. All currently available cow textures are included in the package as DDS files, along with instructions how to import them. With friendly permission of @aminovas, I included her detailed retextures as well. Preview 2 shows the two standing cows in her Jersey texture, preview 3 shows the single standing cow and the walking cow in matching Guernsey textures.

Aminovas’ default textures for the walking cow can be downloaded here and here. You can only install one of them at a time. It will affect the third cow in the original and in all of my edits, because the walking cow is actually a separate object which gets spawned by the shed.

Catalogue info: They’re found under Hobbies/Skills and Pets/Misc.

Download the Edited Cows:

SimFileShare | Dropbox

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[KHD] Country Kitchen Set

10 all new original meshes

includes sims 3 conversions by @keibea

ToU

[Download] patreon // early access - july 5