Replaying Sims 3 -Venues

[Guest]

Hello, i am restarting to replay Sims 3. For some reason i like Kinky World so much more.

 

Anyway, everything seems to work but there are a couple of things, i have to relearn.

For example, i would love to have the diner to be useful. Can you replace it with some venue where you can actually go inside and play?

Some other building i think can be visited by the sim.

 

Oh, i only have the base game. For now.

 

Since i played mostly Sims 4 for awhile now, Sims 3 is very different how you do things. At least for me.

In a nutshell, i want to get kinky inside the venues.

Thank you so much

[landess]

Rabbitholes are just that. Many custom buildings require objects listed as 'rugs' which have the same effect as Rabbithole doors.

 

 

There are several buildings made to 'replace' certain rabbitholes but then the rabbithole features will not be found unless the associated 'rug' is also used. For example: Some have made custom theaters so Sims can go inside, sit in a seat and watch a large screen TV. While this opens up opportunities, it's not truly a theater that shows movies - and the rug allows the various professions to be pursued (musician/etc.) needs to be placed on the lot somewhere if that is the players intention. Sometimes this will be provided or alluded to by the creator.

 

If one is diligent, they can find Store objects/sets which can also suffice. I have the Bistro downloaded which is a true diner. Sims enter, sit and have menus to order from.  The player must first assign chefs to the stoves and servers to take orders, but it works very well and adds a level of realism that one can see EA was hiding behind a paywall. (Yes, you can have topless waitresses, or even Hooters Girls if you find the outfits)

 

It's easy enough for players to recreate hotels and motels from experience, and using KW - they can set the venue to Hotel as long as there is a bed on the lot.

 

With 2 different dance poles available (Kinky World's and Kicker's) creating strip clubs or other variations is easy enough.

 

If you want to experience KW to it's fullest - you'll eventually need to invest in several EP's as well.

>University allows players to have a working high school that functions separately from the rabbit hole one (which will continue to support children's educational needs).

>Into the Future allows players to explore the world of sexbots among things.

>Nightlife brings the entire club scene into the game, along with Stripping on table and counter tops instead of just the floor. Also more options for spiking drinks with a variety of drugs.

>Seasons bring agriculture and town festivals - which give even more animation options from the current packages available here as well as allowing one to grow their own weed.

>Generations has more to offer including the chemistry lab - making Simoiine (and more) instead of stink juice and other juvenile stuff.

>Supernatural give player new life states - The Witch got some new kinky spells.

 

There are a variety of objects selected for use by specific animations, many found in EP's, Stuff packs (Motorcyles by DailyCard), and store items - like the massage table. It depends on your own investment in time and/or money to what you can acquire for use in your game.

 

I could go on, but suffice it to say - the more EP's you have, the more you find to do with KW. I have ALL EP's and no Stuff packs.

[Guest]

Yes, seems like. I already marked a couple of "highly rated" EP.

Just need to wait until (winter is coming) go on sale.

 

Anyway, ok. That explains it.
Just started with Sims 3. And it is different. Mostly the key assignments.

The worst is CAS. Its sooo different and i mostly end up with same looking sims.

 

Anyway, everything seems to work just fine. The venues were really one thing i was looking for.

 

Kinky World is, imho, the better framework in Sims. It offers so much more. I read that 409 (i think that this is the version) is the last release. Well, the game is now so old.

 

Anyway, i am enjoying the game so far, again.

Thats were i started modding, so its nice to see it again.

 

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[landess]

As for CAS and same looking Sims - yes - there is a default head for both sexes. It's best to download a lot of facial sliders to give options. Another option is to save the unique townies in CAS so you have more variety when starting a new sim. I get tired myself of starting with the same potato face each time - so making a change and then using that changed Sim the next time (and so on) allows me to be more creative.

 

 

 

 

 

[Yotix]

Venues ... the default "rabbit holes" don't offer much. I usually play photographers, alchemists or other self employed careers to avoid having to fast-forward all the time.

- there's "rabbit hole rugs" so you can create your own buildings (such as a restaurant with a food counter and a bar maybe?) and just place the rabbithole entrance on it.

- Lot type warning: I think EA limited the actions sims will do depending on lot type. A pool in a gym won't get used much, a pool in a Pool will. My pool bar in the gym pool never had a single visitor.

- there is some custom EA store content that changes (not sure if it improves) how some venues work. Midnight Hollow has a weird ownable store, maybe for sculptors? I never understood how these work (and uninstalled the world, as it was a *cough* unofficial download with broken custom content.)

- Kinky world venues like brothel, restaurant, dance, bar seem to be only relevant if you pursue the KW prostitution career

- When I last tried the KW exhibition career, not a single photo shoot took place in the building I'd designated as "studio". May have been in an older build though,

- Weed growing in KW does not require Seasons as far as I know

- CAS: Yes it's slow. I'm quite sure it became even slower when I installed lots of custom stuff, and back to "almost bearable" when I deleted most of the stuff from The Exchange. 

 

So, uh, roleplaying ... 

- Easy sex: Consider a Witch (Supernatural) or, even easier, a Genie. Witches have a "Horny curse" where the victim will have to agree to the next kinky suggestion. As a Genie you can temporarily make most sims a part of your household for four hours. 

 

Careers with some scheduling:

- The Showtime expansion adds Singer, Magician and Acrobat careers, you'll busk for small change a lot but also play gigs

- Late Night bands work similar. You'll want a mod to actually get gigs. https://modthesims.info/d/532058/update-30-mar-2016-audition-for-band-gigs.html

- The Stylist career during the day gives you tasks to, talk to sims, then change them in CAS. Architect seems to be similar.

 

Do what you want, when you want:

- Alchemy, Gardening, Painting are fun but slow to level up. Your sim will spend a lot of time researching/gardening/painting and lose money at first, unless you cheat. These careers are okay money makers after you finish the challenges (brew 150 potions, finish 30 paintings, harvest 600 items etc).

- Photography is overpowered, especially if you can find (or cheat up) the egyptian camera early on. On level 10, I just find a route with some high-value subjects. Like, go to the Garden for photos of special plants (worth around 800 each I believe). Then I stand on the stairs of the City Hall and photograph all the subjects I can find, like Stadium, Town Hall, Park.  Off to the Alchemy store for photos of "Expensive stereo", "Magical Items". I then sell all photos over 100 to the alchemy store, and sell the rest in the inventory. This easily makes 5000 credits for maybe three hours' worth of ingame work.

 

Cheating

- The nraas mods come highly recommended, but require some configuration. e.g. I use nraas overwatch which tells me when sims get stuck in the landscape, but have to turn off "stuck check auto reset", "clean inventory", "clean outfits" for it not to interfere with KinkyMod. MasterController and MasterControllerCheats give you commands like "edit sim in CAS","reset sim" or "set skill level" so you can fix broken situations (like a Zombie moaning outside your garden gate for six hours).

- if a sim gets stuck use Ctrl-C to open the console and 'resetsim Zoe Blackwood'

- To get EA debug commands use Ctrl-C and 'testingcheatsenabled true'. Then click on floor or objects for some debug commands. Get rid of those with 'testingcheatsenabled false'.

- to get hidden items normally only available as dungeon loot, career reward or from vacations: Ctrl-C , 'testingcheatsenabled true' , 'buydebug on' , then enter the Buy Menu and "sort by category". A "?" build menu should pop up and contain e.g. gem spawners, seed spawners, all types of plant, that expensive Egyptian camera, and so on.

 

Potato sims:

As far as I can tell there is a default face that nearly all the default sims use. If that annoys you and you're willing to edit half the town in that slow CAS, get MasterController and MasterController cheats and just edit them in CAS. I keep doing that just to get photos of female sims that don't have "pantyless" (a KW photo type) as the title. 

 

 

 

[Guest]

On 9/19/2021 at 3:50 AM, landess said:

As for CAS and same looking Sims - yes - there is a default head for both sexes. It's best to download a lot of facial sliders to give options. Another option is to save the unique townies in CAS so you have more variety when starting a new sim. I get tired myself of starting with the same potato face each time - so making a change and then using that changed Sim the next time (and so on) allows me to be more creative.

 

Oh yes. 

 

Now i have lots of sliders. Sometimes some do not work for some reason, but most do.

 

I kind of wished that there would be a "blank slate" of sim. Random option is a no no since that creates due the sliders very strange sims.

So i usually take the first sim that appears and mold it.

 

Here is my current sim. Its a female teen but you can make her old anyway. The hardest part was to find acne or some pimples. You know, teens.

 

I use also a posture slider and a fuller lip slider to give them lips some volume. Most of the time, i think i am not a good creator. The couple of times were is started off with a sim, they all looked a like the same. Like genetics curse. They were on their own pretty, but i wanted to make a more average sim. Someone where i can, yes, thats the sim i like. Not getting platonic here.

[Guest]

@Yotix @landessThank you for sharing.

 

I have to admit that i play currently are more mundane play.

Teen with 7 male relatives under one roof. Men are all evil, mean. My character has whoohoo, exhibitionistic, flirty and neat. Got to have someone cleaning.

This works fantastically well. The only downside is, my PC does not got out of the house.

I have them set to autonomously, so they do what they do. I am not interfering.

 

The rugs, well, this is a let down on the game. Sometimes works well, other times not so much. So i kind of avoid them for now.

Besides, i am missing most EP's anyway. So i will add that later.

 

Witches? Heh? Yes, i can imagine that this works great as well.

 

So far, i am not playing whore anymore. I found the current play quite entertaining.

 

All young men are working, the elder stay home and have fun, if they desire.

 

I think my bottom line is, that Sims 3 is quite nice and has more options than Sims 4. But if you get accustomed to the eye candy, its hard to go back.

What works well with Sims 4 is the animations for the most part.

 

And yes, i need to get these EP's.

 

I wish there were other custom traits available and career choices. But there are none that i could find. So KW is the way to go.

 

NRaas. Yes, i think i have most of the addons. The list got quite long now. So many options that it is hard to remember sometimes. The one problem facing a teen is the school. So i found out that you can change that to homeschooling and drop the homework and never go to school. Funny enough, my sims got an A for some reason.

 

If i go back when i started (again) to pick up Sims 3 and KW, i did not know any settings. So i had to relearn that. Now, i kind of know now which switches i have to change for getting the result i want.

 

My ideal play would be back alley, some rundown city with lots of trash and crime.

But i haven't gotten yet into the world building. I still did not get the editor working. (Steam & key).

 

I found some pre-made buildings on TSR that are a series called Twinbroke. Looks really nice but requires EP's.

 

Venues in general seem ok. I think just walking in would be nice but i can see why they use a rabbit hole. 

 

So right now, my play is mostly inside the house. Though my sims talks a lot with the mail carrier. Who know what will become of that.

 

Cheers

[landess]

51 minutes ago, wutpickel said:

they all looked a like the same

 

Yep. That's our fault as creators. Sometimes we don't have a lot of time we feel to populate a world - so we fall back on several settings we 'always' use to modify a potato head Sim and after awhile, all these Sims start to look alike.

 

As a guy, I'm always amazed at how much make-up (which is being perfected over the years) does to stimulate the male mind. So I make sure to remove ALL makeup when creating Sims. Then as I add make up, I can be more discreet in it's application. Using more on less attractive Sims, and less on ones I find pretty.

 

Still - one will find after years of being held hostage in CAS, there's only so much one can do with the limited way the sliders/bones/mesh work. This is where I started thinking outside the box, and I also try to copy 'real life' people as the subtle differences are a great way to train the eye when making subtle changes. Since I am using KW, there's a good reason for me to try and imitate porn stars, TV/Movie characters, and other themed Sims to get more bang for my buck (Prostitutes hate that saying).

 

I did want to say though - try making the features smaller for a more 'plain looking Sim'. Don't be afraid to widen and narrow the head as well - beyond the 256 default value setting - Increase the CAS facial slider multiplier to achieve this. Making a head wider/smaller or narrower/larger should help one to have a different 'canvas' on which to place a face.

 

This sim head is much wider than the default, but it looks fine with the proper size decrease, and facial feature placement.

 

 

Spoiler

 

This Sim is based on a YouTube Reactor named Magic Magy. While her videos can be easily found - I happened across this picture (without glasses)

 

 

She has a very wide face and high hairline, so it was fun to try and copy the look.

 

 

>As you experiment with sliders, you'll learn which ones cause serious animation mis-alignments and then you'll make up you're own mind how much deformation you will accept for 'everyday' play. Hint: The butt size slider is notorious for causing the legs to bend at the knee more than normal - in severe cases causing the lower leg to pass through the upper - looking like they lost their kneecaps and the leg is bent backwards . . . . .

 

 

Final thought: As I began looking for more ways to define my Sims - I began use of sliders that affect only one side or the other as the 2 halves of a face are never identical. Just to mention a few the above Sim has un-even: Eyes, eye-lids, eye rotation, Brow rotation, brow curves and upper lip 'twitch', but just enough to be different and not obvious.

 

 

 

[landess]

45 minutes ago, wutpickel said:

career choices

 

 

[Guest]

@landess 

 

Yes, i think i should do that.

I was more reluctant to widen the face. Most of the time i did not like the chin. But i will try more.

 

Though it is hard to make a copy of someone inside Sims. Maybe nearly but no copy.

Now, i am not aiming anymore for big hooters or ass. Though my last character has, but that because of NRaas. There is "bust Size" switch. Had to try.

 

I think i may need more sliders, though i do have already lots. Maybe not for every aspect.

Let me see what i can do with the head size before it looks silly. I like the idea though. Just have to have some canvas. 

 

Now, i am not even aiming for "sexy cloths" but rather would have more regular clothing. Though i haven't found many i actually like. 

 

To me the question is always, do i like it?

Would i like to spend some time with my sim?

 

The last one i actually liked a lot. The original version did not have to big breasts really and no butt.

Which brings me to butt. Do they really break the animation? Did not know that. So no butt then.

 

I did shorten my sim to have a more distinct elevation between the generations.

 

Makeup is surely a driver. No objection to that.

I think i will use less in the future. More nuanced. What was important to me are features like imperfection. This makes a character much more believable. 
But i will try more and see what comes out of it.

 

What i really love, is the pantyhose that i am using. This is from LL. Really nice. But it suffers from the same game crap that Sims 4 suffers. Toes are not hidden. Oh well.

That's stimulating.

https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/18970-ech-open-crotch-tights/

 

 

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, wutpickel said:

To me the question is always, do i like it?

BINGO!

 

But, as a newbie, always look around. Not sure which Mods Folder set up you used, but the one by Nonsequitur has a "Test" folder. Convenient even for those not creating stuff, as you can download something, stick it in the test folder and if you don't like it, easy to find to toss it.

 

Pudding face Sims are mostly in base game, and some generated NPC's in later EP's. Nraas randomize genetics and using smaller numbers can change up appearances, but as said, it will use some sliders and create weird stuff sometimes. Play with genetics is also good to quickly change a Sim's looks using donors. There are other genetics randomizers I have heard about, but those are enough for me.

 

Also as mentioned, I tend to customize townies, and even a few of the homeless NPC's like Bridget Hemlock, and save them to bin. Then, if I start a new game and am in that city, I take the Sim into CAS, go to the bin and do a full replacement. Saves time. As I get or make new CC and want a change, I just save the new and then delete the old.

[landess]

3 hours ago, wutpickel said:

Which brings me to butt. Do they really break the animation?

 

No. A broken animation wouldn't work. The 'butt' slider moves the feet forward on the ground as you increase the size of dat booty. So for reasons, there's some kinda pivot point at the hips or so that do this. Go into CAS and just check it out as you move the slider. This results in the knees being out of 'position' when the leg bends, yet the ankle position attempts to reach the original destination which increases/decreases the angle the leg was originally meant to be at in any given pose or animation.

 

Animations of the sexual variety tend to bend the joints at even more extreme positions, so this also magnifies the result. Like I said - just experiment and find what you can 'live with'.

 

Hip Height can also affect things like this, so mixing various sliders will obviously have some effects one just has to be looking out for. Narrowing the shoulders too much makes eating and drinking not line up for other examples.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, landess said:

 

No. A broken animation wouldn't work. The 'butt' slider moves the feet forward on the ground as you increase the size of dat booty. So for reasons, there's some kinda pivot point at the hips or so that do this. Go into CAS and just check it out as you move the slider. This results in the knees being out of 'position' when the leg bends, yet the ankle position attempts to reach the original destination which increases/decreases the angle the leg was originally meant to be at in any given pose or animation.

 

Animations of the sexual variety tend to bend the joints at even more extreme positions, so this also magnifies the result. Like I said - just experiment and find what you can 'live with'.

 

Hip Height can also affect things like this, so mixing various sliders will obviously have some effects one just has to be looking out for. Narrowing the shoulders too much makes eating and drinking not line up for other examples.

I will check that.

 

I encountered a weird thing with peeing. My character, and i haven't really add much butt, was bending the lower legs upward. Normally they sink into the floor but in this case went up. Looked funny. She has the knees not straight so i might have to fix that.

 

Btw. are the sliders that are better than others or is this just a question of taste?

 

I tried to install mostly sliders that were mostly positively mentioned somewhere here.

 

But its useful information as to what impact slider action can have. Its test and see for the most part i think. So i will observe how the sex action, when it occurs, will look like with my new character.

 

 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

BINGO!

 

But, as a newbie, always look around. Not sure which Mods Folder set up you used, but the one by Nonsequitur has a "Test" folder. Convenient even for those not creating stuff, as you can download something, stick it in the test folder and if you don't like it, easy to find to toss it.

 

Pudding face Sims are mostly in base game, and some generated NPC's in later EP's. Nraas randomize genetics and using smaller numbers can change up appearances, but as said, it will use some sliders and create weird stuff sometimes. Play with genetics is also good to quickly change a Sim's looks using donors. There are other genetics randomizers I have heard about, but those are enough for me.

 

Also as mentioned, I tend to customize townies, and even a few of the homeless NPC's like Bridget Hemlock, and save them to bin. Then, if I start a new game and am in that city, I take the Sim into CAS, go to the bin and do a full replacement. Saves time. As I get or make new CC and want a change, I just save the new and then delete the old.

I can see the test folder thing. It makes sense if you add something new to the game and not sure.

Unfortunately his clothing causes my sims to have very huge breasts. So i sadly do not use them, though i like them.

 

With genetics, i really have to try it as it is actually overwhelming to me. So many options.

I never thought of randomly creating a Sim through NRaas. I know it has adding family members which will be quite useful.

 

At the moment i am not yet there with creating homies, i mean townies.

That will come too.

On Sims 4 there are options were you can specify how much percentage you like from any given gender which was fantastic. Its like Fallout where you can have a city with only males and one women. Or reverse. ?

Btw. i still did not get the "bin". I assume that is sharing? Because i am trying to locate it via directory and can not find anything, except exports and saves (savesim). It took me some time to get some terms right like CAS. Even if you play or start playing, terms do not matter much. Later they do. So i am behind.?

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, wutpickel said:

I will check that.

 

I encountered a weird thing with peeing. My character, and i haven't really add much butt, was bending the lower legs upward. Normally they sink into the floor but in this case went up. Looked funny. She has the knees not straight so i might have to fix that.

 

Btw. are the sliders that are better than others or is this just a question of taste?

 

I tried to install mostly sliders that were mostly positively mentioned somewhere here.

 

But its useful information as to what impact slider action can have. Its test and see for the most part i think. So i will observe how the sex action, when it occurs, will look like with my new character.

 

 

 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, landess said:

The 'butt' slider moves the feet forward on the ground

Not all sliders are created equal. I have tried a slider, and have one I use, but I have never been able to solve all of the counter equations. See, example, butt moves back = pelvis increase on (I think y axis) in both directions + moved toward back... at the same time, the adjacent bones may need counter movements in opposite directions, but not the same amount, and then bones adjacent to those may also require counter to the counter. Sliders get complicated.

 

However, if it's the OEM butt slider, or even Johna's, they are probably not the problem. Saw this on the Passion thread a while ago...

35 minutes ago, wutpickel said:

bending the lower legs upward

Are you using knock knees sliders by chance? I believe those were tracked down as being the ones that buggered with animations, not the butt. Some leg slider that shifted knee position.

 

You don't randomly create the Sim using Nraas, just in Master Controller advanced are genetics options, including randomize. As I said, do not go crazy with numbers, and I do not think there is a reset, so if you change a Sim, it is changed. But, there is also transfer genetics, which has levels of transfer, so you can do many different things.

 

I use a bunch of different sliders, but One Euro Mutt is usually good, and a large variety.

33 minutes ago, wutpickel said:

his clothing causes my sims to have very huge breasts

He likes to make his own altered bodies, like TS4 creators make preset bodies. I avoid it. I may make minor alterations, but keep the size because I do not want a drastic size jump in my game.

 

The bin... OK... My family is in Bridgeport (Late Night EP3). I have redone most of the townies and some homeless to some extent, but not too radically. This is Caroline Custard...

Spoiler

EA version, although I made default replacement shoes.

In CAS, bottom left corner. See the  6 blue silhouettes? That is the bin. Click there, and you will find a few EA premade Sims, and as you have KW, the KW premade Sims also show there,

Also above, the 3 dots next to Caroline's thumbnail... THAT is the button where you can save your Sim to the bin and/ or export as a sims3pack to upload if you wish.

 

There are several categories. Age, gender, etc...

Ones with folders next to the thumbnail are ones I created or altered and saved, and not in this pic are the KW Sims. Those without the folder symbol are EA premades. I have 179 total saved Sims and FemmeBots. Bots are saved in the bot station screen which is Into The Future (EP11)

That was Caroline, bottom center...

I really did not do a lot to her, just got rid of that hair, minor slider adjustments... I may have changed other outfits, but left her everyday. Another more drastic change was Beau Merrick, 2nd row, 1st column. So, when my family goes to Bridgeport after a new game, as each Sim pops up in notifications, I click to them, quick take to CAS, hit the bin and done.

 

[Guest]

10 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

However, if it's the OEM butt slider, or even Johna's, they are probably not the problem. Saw this on the Passion thread a while ago...

Are you using knock knees sliders by chance? I believe those were tracked down as being the ones that buggered with animations, not the butt. Some leg slider that shifted knee position.

I use a bunch of different sliders, but One Euro Mutt is usually good, and a large variety.

He likes to make his own altered bodies, like TS4 creators make preset bodies. I avoid it. I may make minor alterations, but keep the size because I do not want a drastic size jump in my game.

Well, no. I do not use that slider. I have some. Here are my current sliders.

This new sim i created was one that came up. So it used the sliders randomly. I fixed it up and was happy. But its the first sim where i seen the legs so nicked in. If thats the right word.

 

10 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

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EA version, although I made default replacement shoes.

In CAS, bottom left corner. See the  6 blue silhouettes? That is the bin. Click there, and you will find a few EA premade Sims, and as you have KW, the KW premade Sims also show there,

Also above, the 3 dots next to Caroline's thumbnail... THAT is the button where you can save your Sim to the bin and/ or export as a sims3pack to upload if you wish.

 

 

 

Ah, yes. I use that as well. I was trying to save Nraas and KW settings. I still do not know where these are saved so i could export them really and reuse them.

Anyway, i do it the same way. So thats the bin. ?

 

 

 

10 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

There are several categories. Age, gender, etc...

Ones with folders next to the thumbnail are ones I created or altered and saved, and not in this pic are the KW Sims. Those without the folder symbol are EA premades. I have 179 total saved Sims and FemmeBots. Bots are saved in the bot station screen which is Into The Future (EP11)

 

I was more careless i think as i did not save every sim i created. So some are just lost. Not a big deal. I save them now and have them exported.

Most of the time its because i have no connection to that sim, so its not a loss for me.

Its quite funny when you think about. Talking about connection to a sim. How strange.

Anyway, i do like to preserve them now just for the future or when i want to replay perhaps.
My biggest challenge is men. I did not download a lot of items for men at all. So they look more generic in nature. Quite horrible in fact.

 

 

 

[Guest]

24 minutes ago, wutpickel said:

Here are my current sliders.

Need to remove the TS4 vagina package as nothing TS44 works in TS3 and may crash your game. Also, the XCas slider 100 package is worthless. Use Nraas Master Controller for that.

 

Your leg problem is going to be something you will need to find yourself. Take your Sim into CAS and see what sliders have been applied to it. I would start with any leg sliders first. Move JUST ONE to the zero position if it is not already at zero and write down what you did. Then, see what happens in game. May be the only way to figure out exactly which is causing the problem.

 

Many problems are unique to an individuals game because of their individual set up. What mods you have are different from mine, or @landess, or pretty much anyone else who might read this. That is reason to ask for screenshot of folder. I may recognize something that is known problem... I may not. Someone else may see something that I do not know of!

 

Not important to save every Sim you make. I often save a Sim and later delete it, as I find no use for it, or I may have removed CC it was wearing and do not feel like updating. 

 

I remake some male townies and others not so much. Those in Bridgeport needed serious help! Although a few simply do not interest me, and so did nothing with them.

[Guest]

40 minutes ago, LadySmoks said:

Need to remove the TS4 vagina package as nothing TS44 works in TS3 and may crash your game. Also, the XCas slider 100 package is worthless. Use Nraas Master Controller for that.

 

Your leg problem is going to be something you will need to find yourself. Take your Sim into CAS and see what sliders have been applied to it. I would start with any leg sliders first. Move JUST ONE to the zero position if it is not already at zero and write down what you did. Then, see what happens in game. May be the only way to figure out exactly which is causing the problem.

 

Oh no. What embarrassment. 

I have TS4? ugg...

 

I found out that i can avoid blowjob not aligning by using the cmar height slider a little. This seems to work well. I usually like to have them a little shorter but that does not work with the animations.

 

Now i will retest this. See if anything changed. 

[Yotix]

22 hours ago, wutpickel said:

I have to admit that i play currently are more mundane play.

Teen with 7 male relatives under one roof. Men are all evil, mean. My character has whoohoo, exhibitionistic, flirty and neat. Got to have someone cleaning.

This works fantastically well. The only downside is, my PC does not got out of the house.

I have them set to autonomously, so they do what they do. I am not interfering.

 

 

Autonomous playable sims will only choose actions on the current lot. They will go to work or go home in some situations, like after school. But yeah it's annoying.

 

Apparently Nraas StoryProgression allows sims to autonomously change lot. (This post says so: https://modthesims.info/t/551234 but contains an old link to Nraas.) Nraas can be found here https://www.nraas.net/community/Mods-List  The Story Progression setting you're looking for is "Push". As far as I can tell from a glance at the docs https://www.nraas.net/community/StoryProgression-Interactions you can set a chance for sims to be "pushed" to another lot, and you can configure lots to make sims more or less likely to be "pushed" there.  

 

 

As for the family you describe ... I tried something very similar. The game I wanted was to be the only playable sim in the household, with non-playable roommates who do their own thing, like eat, read, dance, go to work, and molest my sim.

 

So I bought friendship potions, threw them at some cute vampire dudes, and asked them to be roommates. They moved in and ... stood in the kitchen staring at the fridge, and didn't go to work the next morning. I quit that game.)

 

 

Googling just now I found that roommates don't seem to work at all. But this might work: 

"Another way to approach this if you are still using NRaas mods is to set a regular household member to Not Selectable using MC (MC Cheats module " (Nraas MasterController Cheats, I have that installed but never tried that option yet.)

So they'd be part of your household, you'd just remove them from your UI. The "go with" option works if you want them to join you; if you want them to go somewhere else, you could try Story Progression, or just make them selectable again by clicking the sim -> Master Controller and finding the correct option. (Nraas has tons of options so it can be daunting at first, but their mods are also VERY useful in many situations)

... found in this forum https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/935382/roommate-situation 

 

[Yotix]

1 hour ago, wutpickel said:

I have TS4? ugg...

 

Unfortunately this is an easy mistake. I doubt there's anyone on the forum who never installed a TS2 or TS4 item in their TS3 folder by mistake. 

(Google and others have a lot of confusing results, clicking on a result in a "Sims 3" search will often land you in a TS4 or 2 page ?

 

As for non-aligning animations: I get these with sims wearing high heels that actually make the sim taller (Download section, JoshQ "Impossible Heels" ❤️ ), or when teenagers and adults interact (KW option). I don't think the misalignments can be avoided.  (Annoying for screenshots, I know.)

In Fallout Las Vegas the alignment was so bad the sex framework included key commands for moving and rotating characters during sex animations, if I remember right. Not sure if something similar exists for Sims.)

[landess]

2 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

Need to remove the TS4 vagina package as nothing TS44 works in TS3 and may crash your game. Also, the XCas slider 100 package is worthless. Use Nraas Master Controller for that.

 

I was going to say the same thing.

 

 

1 hour ago, wutpickel said:

not aligning

 

If you change any 'bone' length/height/etc. ,  Then things will not line up correctly. FACT. I use the height slider to keep all females from being too tall in heels. But when an animation starts, it seems the Sim wearing heels WILL drop into the floor about the same amount as the heels raise that Sim. Kinky World has a very powerful AND useful too in the DEBUG section called MOVE. Besides being able to move most ANY object it is great for aligning Sims whom we have messed with their sliders. While in build mode i will place something and get it as close to how I want it (don't forget to hold ALT key when placing objects as this unlocks the directional rotation from the floor grid/Hold ALT, place and drag) and then use KW/Move to fine tune it - VERY useful for things on top of shelves/tables/etc.

 

 

Sims are ALSO saved when you create a save game.....    Just load the save and take any one of the Sims into CAS to use/save. Yes - this is why several of my saves are so large - the save must contain information for not only the world and objects, but every fuckin' Sim in town and I tend to customize them ALL.

 

Edit town: Save a sim from any home to the household library bin - you may need to split the home up to get a single Sim alone.

 

> Just save the game before doing anything first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, wutpickel said:

I have TS4? ugg...

HAHA! You have vaginas! OY!!! It is OK... this is Lovers Lab after all!!! )))

Yes, the height slider and animations is an annoyance, as I also adjust female Sim height.

1 hour ago, Yotix said:

Autonomous playable sims will only choose actions on the current lot.

What are your autonomy settings? My Sims do all kinds of things without me telling them to. They chat, clean the house, do laundry, read, play chess, play computer, paint, water slide, watch TV, video games (had to remove it because all my FemmeBots would do is play video games).

1 hour ago, Yotix said:

Googling just now I found that roommates don't seem to work at all.

I believe that requires University? I remember a while ago when EA had a patch, it worked in Bridgeport without having Uni, then the next patch, no longer worked. Not 100% sure, as I now have Uni and have no issues with roommates.

 

[landess]

11 minutes ago, LadySmoks said:

What are your autonomy settings?

 

I believe Yotix was making a statement about a Sims autonomy and current location. That they won't just go 'off the reservation' on their own without a 'push' from either the player or the game to go to another lot/location. They only have the current lot and the Sims/objects located there to interact with autonomously.

 

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I didn't have an ANT farm growing up - but now I got the Sims.

 

 

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, landess said:

That they won't just go 'off the reservation' on their own

Ah... well, no real need for your family to go wandering about the town is there?