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32 minutes ago, sim333 said:

someone who just plays TS3 is already asking for problems.))

if it works with 1.5 GB, why not?

Personally I don't care if they do if they choose too but some people may want to keep their game running with as few problems as can be had considering how buggy the game is.

 

If you have a problem with letting someone know they are asking for potentially having to deal with a lot more problems than they need too, well guess what too bad.

 

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Well, I understand both thought processes here: The default EA uses a huge file so sets an example for a working limit. Master mod makers have another limit and they are also some of the people responsible for getting this monster (sims 3) under control. Because Of the problems I had with editing my 1st Merged package, keeping them smaller and more content focused has been my goal. Making sure they stay within the limits provided by Twallen and company won't be a problem for me.

 

While I continue to accrue CC, it HAS slowed over the last 2 years or so, with only an interest in new towns/worlds making these CC downloads the biggest impact. I do find myself asking 'Do I REALLY need that?' and 'How much will I USE that?' This comes after many years, having to remove CC sims3packs, and edit merged packages. Free CC makes it easy to hoard, but then doing game maintenance educates the self to be more disciplined when choosing.

 

I'm guessing If I was a mod maker, I'd likely have 2 separate installs knowing what I know now. (or use 2 different computers)

 

 

>>>> Side note: Having the Monte Vista world installed for my Roman/Greek theme (thanks again JoshQ for the suggestion) I happened to notice something. I had no idea this was based on a real location as accurately as it was. Why did I realize this? Watching the Twilight Saga again recently (I have all 5 on computer - Think what you will, at least it's consistent and has a complete story arc) when Alice is driving Bella to stop Edward from exposing himself I'm looking at the road winding up and the town color/architecture and realize this IS Monte Vista (It's actually in Tuscany, ITA). Now if I ever decide to use that town again, perhaps I will create The Volturi as an evil playable family, and play with aging on so the game replenishes the population from my evil deeds.

 

https://twilightsaga.fandom.com/wiki/Volturi

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

Anyways I learned something about a real location in the world and Now should check Assassin's Creed 2 again as I remember Tuscany being one of the locations. (I seem to remember an oblong walled city)

 

https://freesims3downloads.tumblr.com/post/94981696876/monte-vista-gold-with-fix  -As Always- Make a back up before installing anything in case one makes a mistake, or there are problems.

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1 hour ago, spaceman1 said:

well known modders to keep merged packages below 300 mb

Must have missed that part. I have 2 hair packages 1 GB and 1.5 GB. Game runs fine for the most part.

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1 hour ago, LadySmoks said:

Must have missed that part. I have 2 hair packages 1 GB and 1.5 GB. Game runs fine for the most part.

That's because when those modders left the game they cleaned up their blogs or deleted them with the knowledge they had lost forever to only a few that remember and followed their blogs.

 

Twallan, Buzzler, Icarus_Allsorts  and a host of others would still be around today helping people if wasn't for a group of players that popped up around 2013 and are still around today. Those players argued with, trolled, called those modders names and pretty much treated modders like shit. Cmar is one of the few Sims 3 modders around but moved on to Sims 4 and no longer bothers to respond to people on the Sims 3 side due to how they started treating her and is close to completely walking away because of how Sims 4 players are treating her. Scarlet Kat Queen a modder and expert world builder for the Sims 3 also left the Sims 3 and moved on to the Sims 4 for that reason and has completely left the Sims 4 scene because how Sims 4 players treated her. I mean what's the point of staying around and leaving the great information they once had when their fellow players that once treated them with respect start treating them like shit. 

 

Then there was a very knowledgeable former member here Namaradus who was a modder and Master of CAW as well as being a former SimGuru he was one of people on the Sims 3 development team he lost his job with EA when he put his foot down and stood up for the players when he demanded that the bugs in game get fixed, convert the game to 64bit and to stop rushing the development so the job gets done right. Then he came here and got trolled, disrespected and treated like shit by some of the Sims 3 players here and completely walked away and deleted his profile here but at least he left his posts that contain a lot of what he knew.

 

I used to make mods for the game as well but got feed up with being treated like shit. Going off topic a little but as many have noticed a lot of modders today get Patreon pages that because they see how modders of the past got treated and figured if they have to put up with that treatment they might as well get paid for it. And lately I've seen Sims 4 modders who once said they would never ever have a Patreon page are now getting them because of how they are being treated by players. Players complain about modders getting Patreon pages but fail to realize that when you act as if a modder is there to serve you, answer your beck and call and owe you because they made a mod is the reason why they get those pages. It's going to get to the point where finding free mods is going to be impossible.

 

Sorry for going on a rant but smartasses like sim333 really set me off.

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17 minutes ago, spaceman1 said:

Sorry for going on a rant but smartasses like sim333 really set me off.

Rant accepted - Some really good information and history. Glad you took the time to share. Some surprising revelations as well. As for everyone going to Patreon, I have my own feelings about that, but given one cannot outright 'sell' mods based on other companies work I guess it's a working loophole.

 

As for sim333, I've noticed many posts are tongue in cheek, with a more light hearted approach and should be taken as such. You know that guy that busts your balls sometimes, but it's all in fun and a smiling 'FU' is the typical response....

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21 minutes ago, landess said:

As for everyone going to Patreon, I have my own feelings about that, but given one cannot outright 'sell' mods based on other companies work I guess it's a working loophole.

Unfortunately they can actually that has already been challenged. The only thing that companies actually own are the textures and meshes. The script code games use is actually owned by MS as game companies make variants of the various types of coding language that MS makes available which also open source and have to abide by the terms MS sets on that. People can use Blender and various other programs to make their own textures to be used with a game and can use the meshes as a reference while creating their own mesh to use for a game. So as long as they are actually not using the textures and meshes they can. Now if they where just recoloring the textures and using the meshes that the game has then no they can't.

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3 hours ago, spaceman1 said:

Sorry for going on a rant but smartasses like sim333 really set me off.

sim333 is really a good guy. I understand how "The Olympians" of modding were treated. It comes from the child like mentality of people playing these games, and demand perfection in every aspect, even though they are incapable of doing anything for themselves. Read a few pages of this thread, and you'll get the picture pretty quickly! They don't bother to read anything, and seem to want you to connect to their laptop and do the complete set up for them. Some, have actual issues, but most could figure it out themselves if they bothered to read, or open the KW menu and actually open the sub-menus, but they expect to put the KW packages in their Packages folder, a few animation packages, and instantly have their sims go at it on command... granted, the Wikipage being gone has made things worse.

 

I don't bother trying to help as much as I once did. Not worth the effort.

 

I make open bottom dresses and other CC. I was tutored by Josh Q, one of the best around. I'm STILL learning new (to me) and better ways almost every day.

 

During my quest for more knowledge, I have read many posts, blogs and tutorials by all you have mentioned, and a few others. I have tried making animations and failed miserably! Tedious! Scripts? Core mods? I'll continue when I get off the floor from laughing at myself!!! So, even though I may not think an animation, or other mod is very good, I won't b!tch about it too much, as I understand the effort involved... I just don't use that animation or mod, or put up with the deficiencies. The same with all CC.

 

I'm far from great. Most of what I make are combined, altered EA meshes and usually use someone else's texture... if they don't demand their texture not be used, and I ALWAYS give full credit to the original creator... sometimes, a link to their pages.

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17 hours ago, landess said:

Not sure it's just KW. When using Kuree's save cleaner, it lists saves made while abroad, even though after returning they aren't in the 'usable' list when starting the game....

Dunno. I haven't read up much on the whole "travel" thing, not really something I like, since there's that whole save & load break that's sometimes lone enough to cook & eat dinner during. ? But I do recall reading (prob nraas related) that when a sim travels, it's not a "full" sim, there's a lot that EA "leaves" back in the main world (thus why "edit in cas" doesn't work for tourists). So, my thought was that perhaps the smaller travel profile whatchamacallit (are those still made?) caused some of the KW-related "issues".

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1 hour ago, LadySmoks said:

Read a few pages of this thread, and you'll get the picture pretty quickly! They don't bother to read anything

I don't really need to the thread I already know that most of the users don't read anything cause I've lived it.

 

4 hours ago, landess said:

As for everyone going to Patreon, I have my own feelings about that, but given one cannot outright 'sell' mods

To clarify a little more even though they could they actually aren't charging for the mod but for their time and they can lock their works behind a paywall. If you ever get the chance take a look at creators that lock their work behind a paywall as opposed to those that use Patreon as merely a tip jar for people that just what to show appreciation and show support to the creator and their project. I can give one example one modder who has since walked away from modding had a popular mod for Stellaris his mod had over 100,000 downloads had a Patreon page as merely a tip jar out of thousands who downloaded only 6 people ever donated to his Patreon page regularly and only had at most 57 supporters at it's peak.

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17 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

near us

A few states over, IIRC

 

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got FIOS

Not really an option... renting a condo sucks ass, but also "neighborhood" availability... the cable competitor that's spammed the mailbox might get a call... if we ever get out of house arrest.

 

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slowly raise your price

sometimes "slowly" is instantly, as soon as the "discount rate" expires.... ya know, the "discounted rate" I was on for like 15 years or more. SMH

 

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sneak mommy's credit card!

To quote another movie (Leon):  "Kids should be in school!"  muahahahahaha evil bastard, I am...  this has me wondering if it'd be possible to create an "ASCII" skin for TS3.  That w/ KW would bring back memories of the 90s and "ascii porn" ... but I digress...

 

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I tend to just go to the debug menu, click on always accept, do what needs to be done, and switch it back. )))

My issues w/ KW "taking over everything" is more about how once your sim inevitably reaches a certain exhibition level they constantly start shedding clothing. all. the. frigging. time.  IRL real exhibitionists even have restraint and understand societal decorum, so they don't go stripping in their offices. But sheesh! KW wasn't coded that way.  (cue your complaints about panties on/off)

 

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want to play a game

OK. now you've got me wanting to watch that movie again. But, sheesh, he looks sooooooo young in it. ? 

 

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or Big Blue like you and landess, but my gaming laptop does okay most of the time with a 5.24 GB mods folder. ) And I just merged a few packages.

What? Everyone doesn't have a hugeass custom built powerhorse?  lol  I've almost never had a system less powerful than work.  Almost all the time it's the other way around.

Anywho... back to KW-ish.  Do your sims constantly "chat with webcam" or is this a symptom of me trying out a newer version than 375?  I can't quite recall (yeah, no, I've still not created the "full change log" that I once wanted to) when that stupidness was added in... but it seems they want to do that instead of, oh, you know, use the toilet or eat when things are "in the red".  SMH

 

edit:  ok, looks like the 1st mention of "webcam" was version 0.3.0 build 346, but the dev sometimes pre-added things before actually making them part of the game.

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8 hours ago, spaceman1 said:

It's long been advised by Twallan, Pescado, Cmar, Buzzler and few other well known modders

For all the newbies:  if you don't know who these modders are, go start reading.  Especially Twallan, even though that person "retired" sim-eons ago, there has been few to understand EA's underlying system better.

 

Also for the newbies:  if you don't have a working EA + mods + CC environment (that already includes decensoring, performance enhancements, skins, etc.) then getting KW to be anywhere near how you want is gonna be a futile excercise in frustration.  KW should be the last thing you add in the long list of making TS3 sex-like (or adding realism).  NEVER ever ever start with KW.  You will have frustration!

 

Lastly:  learn how to search and read past posts on forums.  TS3 has existed for (guessing) longer than you've been alive, and KW has been around (guessing) longer than you've had puberty.  So read (skim) all 626+ pages!!!!  Pretend you're studying for a driver's test, and you actually want a car!

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19 hours ago, landess said:

I worry

Yep. Me too. Even though I prob found LL from a site that suffered that fate, way back in my gullible overly innocent minded starting-out days of adding "realism" to TS3. Found a huge "modball" that I had to toss about 25-30% of it. There's disgusting "people" (using that term loosely) out there. Heck, there's a part of KW I'd love to see purged completely (that i****t one), and I'm constantly disgusted by how many have those desires, but at least it's off by default. Moral ranting done.

My issues w/ it in KW, is that everything else in KW winds up being a "only do that" (or, put differently, taken to the Nth degree) instead of lightly sprinkled around... which has me thinking that is odd, given how French cooking seems to be built on subtle flavors instead of bold, heavy-handed, overdone, seasons.  (2nd food reference today, yeah, I'm starving.... but at least I'm not standing with my mouth open looking up pointing at my mouth like an EA-default mor-Sim-on.)  Gah... how does anyone play TS3 w/o a few hundred MBs of "correction" (annoyance removal) mods?!?  It's that basis that has me wanting to roundhouse kick to the head these n00bs who come to KW w/o knowing jack? about playing TS3.  ?‍♂️

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Has anyone noticed a decrease in performance with S3 in Windows 10?  I upgraded my pc recently and went from W8.1 to 10 and it seems to me the already shaky-leeky memory management of S3 under W8.1 has become shakier and leekier still.  I've tried all kinds of tricks to improve the way the game handles memory usage but it reaches the 3.2 G ceiling much faster now.  I keep alt-tabbing to RamMap and emptying working sets and standby lists but unless I play on a small and sparsely populated world, I CTD very quickly - especially when I use KW and switch between ongoing animations to try and simulate an actual 'play' session.  It's almost unplayable now.  S4 is obviously much more stable, and Wicked Whims is great, but ye gawds those sims are shallow and dumb!  And I'm quite tired of the same worlds all the time.  And we can't expect anything from EA.  If the rumor is true, the next instalment will be some online thing...

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On 5/16/2020 at 10:58 AM, James2112 said:

Selfie Creation to 'High'. 

Be careful with that, there's a very small (200-ish IIRC) limit from EA on how many photos a camera can hold, after that you'll start getting error alerts in-game. And this setting applies for all sims in the world.  If you do keep it on this, you can try using the aforementioned "save cleaner" tool, which (as part of its functions) deletes all photos.  (Of course, if you're a sentimental fool like me, you're not gonna want to delete all, but just "most" so you'll have to do it manually.)

 

What I tend to do is use NRaas Master Controller and do this rough few steps:  city hall | nraas | master controller | town | object stats | local | (find the oniki.kay.photos in the list and select that thing... name is approx, but it'll get you close)  That will remove just the KW selfies, and will save a ton of memory.  (Play around w/ the other options besides "local" and you might find more things to purge... kinda like those KW books that seem to duplicate themselves in every bookshelf every few sim-days.)

 

On 5/16/2020 at 11:09 AM, landess said:

the Privacy function

Which setting do you use?  I think I've got mine on "exhibition".

 

18 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

Don't know why

I had a few from AT3 that I'm still clueless as to why I couldn't get them to work as extracted packages, so wound up with a lot more sims3packs than I wanted (I wanted only actual "official store" items to be there & all non-EA stuff to be packages, but, well... that wasn't possible.

 

18 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

I've also been trying to go thru those packages in the DCCache. Yes... PITA!

Did someone ever claim modding TS3 would be easy?  ?  No, really, I'm actually asking.  It seems that a lot (not you, just messin' w/ ya) seem to think it should be utterly simple.  (And, yeah, those DCCache files are a royal PITA... but thanks to those manual cleaning instructions, like what landess posted, it's not really all that hard now.  Just time consuming.)

 

18 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

If I download from TSR, it tries to automatically load the sims3pack.

That was an "easy fix" in older Firefoxes, but modern users don't want to think, so such settings are hard (if even possible) to find in other browsers.  I have that file type associated w/ the launcher in windows, but somehow I have Yandex downloading, not running, the files from TSR. Yandex was a Chrome clone, but is now more an Opera clone, which is still kinda a Chrome clone... sigh... anywho, I'm assuming you're using Chrome, so this might help:  https://lifehacker.com/reset-chrome-to-stop-automatically-opening-apps-1820404423

 

18 hours ago, landess said:

I'm saving for a quantum computer and hopefully it will have enough horsepower to finally run the Sims 3 perfectly. ?

Given that TS3 is still a 32-bit program... ?  I keep hoping someone will come up w/ a way to force a 32-bit program to use more memory... kinda reverse clustering, or something... latest tweak, on my part, was increasing the GPU memory (which I'd somehow missed until now) but I'm not seeing any in-game changes.

 

18 hours ago, landess said:

There are 2 versions, but only one seems to work

Looks like I had settled on 1.1 (exe date of 11/28/2012)... I know I tried 1.2, but don't recall why I deleted it.

 

5 hours ago, landess said:

Glad you took the time to share.

Ditto.

 

5 hours ago, spaceman1 said:

a group of players that popped up around 2013 and are still around today. Those players argued with, trolled, called those modders names and pretty much treated modders like shit.

Kinda felt like it was before that, when "users" (more generally) started being little whiny entitled brats w/ just about everything, but maybe not.  I do know it was about then that "the web" started being overly ad-inundated and features started being actively removed from programs (web-based as well as phone, and now desktop) to appease the lazy asshats.  JS was "evil" before about 2013, but then Goohell and FaceRant both released JS app frameworks forcing the web to move (back) to thick-clients and s/w vendors to start cutting features to "reduce staff overhead".  Looking back, wiping those whiny asshats off the planet would've been better for the industry... but, well... !#$!#$!@$ laws.

 

5 hours ago, spaceman1 said:

he lost his job with EA when he put his foot down and stood up for the players when he demanded that the bugs in game get fixed

Yeah, companies seem to have all implemented a "zero-tolerance" policy against anyone standing up for end-users and "demanding" anything that would actually improve their products.  Found that out the hard way a few times, myself... if only I could remember it all the time. ?  

 

5 hours ago, spaceman1 said:

I used to make mods for the game as well but got feed up with being treated like shit.

Such is the reason I never create apps, s/w, etc. and rarely post anything to github, et al.

 

5 hours ago, spaceman1 said:

is there to serve you, answer your beck and call and owe you because they made a mod is the reason why they get those pages.

Heck, thanks to a few other sites & a ton of reading, I've learned that users have that opinion even if they do send $1 or $5 to the developer.  Few, if any, ever actually want to pay what it actually should cost for development.  (lol, more'n a dozen years ago had a restaurant reach out to me for a site. gave them a quote at a unreasonable hourly rate. they passed. That quote was far less than a 30-sec radio spot. SMH. If businesses are cheapskates, users who have much less $$$ are gonna be as well.)

 

2 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

the Wikipage being gone has made things worse.

Yep, especially since the newbies don't have a frucking clue about how to find things... they probably still believe their photos on their iphones are safe, even after how many high profile hacks of iCloud/whatever happened. SMH.  Anywho, to anyone who actually still knows how to read: always go to web.archive.org to check for copies of sites that no longer are live.

 

Near as I can tell, Fandom charged money & KW prob just wasn't pulling in enough to keep it alive.  This is basically one of the last good archived copies of the KW wiki:   http://web.archive.org/web/20200303234612/https://onikikay-kinkyworld.fandom.com/wiki/Oniki_Kay's_Kinky_World_Wikia

 

2 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

I don't bother trying to help as much as I once did. Not worth the effort.

Only reason I'm being "helpful" today is the week+ abscence.

 

2 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

I have tried making animations and failed miserably! Tedious! Scripts? Core mods?

I ain't got sh*t for graphical skills, those died after 7th or 8th grade art class when a lot of my work was "stolen" before an art show... that and my school not having any art classes beyond those years.  Skill withers and dies if not fed regularly.  And, well, C# is just like every other programming environment from M$: shitty if you don't drink the magic koolaide from Redmond and sacrifice your 1st 5 kids, and swear everlasting loyalty to the almighty company.  F that!  I know enough to read the code, to a point.  But KW's dev never got the memo that "hungarian notation" was no longer recommended, sSo sReading sAnything sIs sHard having to drop the type prefix characters... er... well... such is life.

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1 hour ago, grallonsphere said:

Has anyone noticed a decrease in performance with S3 in Windows 10?

I'll have to leave the pre-win10 compares to others, but a few questions:

Do you run ts3w.exe directly, or use the launcher?

Do you stay "logged in" in the game, or stay logged out until you absolutely need it?

Have you tried these steps:  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131162350 ?

 

 

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2 hours ago, jdw6 said:

To quote another movie (Leon):  "Kids should be in school!"

I had said this to landess a little while ago... that most asking whiny questions here are probably kids home from school, afraid to get caught with charges on mommy's credit card for various sites advertised here, and just want to make KW and TS3 into their private whack it game! OY!!!

2 hours ago, jdw6 said:

My issues w/ KW "taking over everything" is more about how once your sim inevitably reaches a certain exhibition level they constantly start shedding clothing. all. the. frigging. time.

You have a problem with that? I'm trying to test clothing CC!!! I make a dress... I dress a couple of sims... I direct them to move, sit, dance, whatever, to see whether or where there is any clipping, AND.... OF COMES THE DRESS!!!!!!!!

2 hours ago, jdw6 said:

Do your sims constantly "chat with webcam" or is this a symptom of me trying out a newer version than 375?

I had a sim a while ago that was constantly online, but I think she was doing the post and check reply thing. I think webcam might be tied to an EP I don't have?

1 hour ago, grallonsphere said:

Has anyone noticed a decrease in performance with S3 in Windows 10?

Right click on your desktop icon and a window comes up. There's stuff about program compatibility and you can manually set it so TS3 supposedly runs as Windows 7, 8, or whichever you choose.

34 minutes ago, jdw6 said:

Did someone ever claim modding TS3 would be easy?

Modding is easy.... it's making it actually look good and or work right that's hard! )))

 

Thanks for the link... I'll check it out.

39 minutes ago, jdw6 said:

I ain't got sh*t for graphical skills

What little I know about animations, they're done in Blender using pose rigs. MaryJane posted a bunch of stuff. Rigs with bouncy boobs! It's basically digital claymation! At least that's how I see it. Move a leg... move an arm... move the other sim's butt... move a hand... take a picture. Now think about animations where eyes are moving, individual fingers, mouths... lips curl... OY!!!!!!! Next frame... actually, movements are smoothed out between frames, and a bunch of other stuff happening so you can move things a bit more than you might think, but still, tedious.

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So i have a probably very simple question, when my sim puts on a towel after shower or goes into the whirlpool naked my hairdoo changes. i use a CC hairdoo from nightcrawler and on the naked outfit it gets replaced with some ugly short hair EA version. how do i set up these outfits? in CAS they wont show up and everything look right. i have a feeling something overrides my outfits, but i havent even figured out what that whole outfits tab under KW does... on a related note how do i put bras and panties in my inventory, because that option remains grey all the time.

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3 hours ago, jdw6 said:

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Do you run ts3w.exe directly, or use the launcher?

Do you stay "logged in" in the game, or stay logged out until you absolutely need it?

Have you tried these steps:  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131162350 ?

 

 

 

1) Was still using the launcher -  but I'll try that instead

2) Nope, never logged in - memories disabled - settings to medium (kind of a bummer since a new 8G vid card was added in the upgrade)

3) Yep, including increasing the local page file on the drive that contains all my games

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8 hours ago, jdw6 said:

when a sim travels, it's not a "full" sim

I purchased World Adventures upon release - as a Digital download way before there was ever an Origin ( I since have also a disk copy ) and have always felt it was more of a minigame using parts of the main program and reference files. Only once did I use edit world to create a custom home to purchase after the visa level was high enough. Now in hindsight I realize they are just 'custom worlds' without specific lot's and some script changes to how the game 'treats' the sim. If there is no school, the teens are forever on summer vacation. Using that example can be applied to many of the Sims activities.

8 hours ago, jdw6 said:

To quote another movie (Leon)

Spoiler

 > I doubt many noticed Leon lurking in the left background of this previously posted shot :) 

 

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8 hours ago, jdw6 said:

once your sim inevitably reaches a certain exhibition level

I have no issues using master controller to drop a Sims exhibition level to whatever I choose if they act up too much. You gotta keep your foot on the throats of these Sims or it looks like another 'Girls gone wild' video.

8 hours ago, jdw6 said:

But, sheesh, he looks sooooooo young in it

Try Ladyhawk....

8 hours ago, jdw6 said:

Do your sims constantly "chat with webcam"

No, but then I like to use a laptop from inventory so the desk(s) can be used for more 'creative' endeavours. As per a previous discussion on Sim 'habits', I tend to not have them do certain things so it never gets added to their 'history' of activities in an effort to curb unwanted actions. Some that have in the past do autonomously enter into that activity.

7 hours ago, grallonsphere said:

I've tried all kinds of tricks to improve the way the game handles memory usage but it reaches the 3.2 G ceiling much faster now

Another thing to consider (learned from Kuree's save cleaner info) is when using CAS/Build-Buy, or any other game mechanic which forces file loading into memory, is the limit will be reached much quicker. The Sims 3 is terrible at clearing it's own user cache of these files once loaded. Even worse is the retaining of selections from CAS from when the player makes a change - there is the option to 'undo'. This is never purged and remains in the save, creating unnecessary bloat. I can play for many hours if I stay away from CAS/Build-buy. Once I start using those features I know I'll get an Error 12 sooner or later depending on the world save (large highly customized world saves are more prone to happening sooner).

6 hours ago, jdw6 said:

Which setting do you use?

Pretty much all three, depending on my 'theme' for that save series. If I use exhibition based, I tend to set it to 7 for Sims to participate in wild public sex. As mentioned before, keeping privacy high makes Sims more 'realistic' opting to find a private location and be subject to increasing horniness if 'caught' before satisfaction is had. Seeing them sneak off for Woohoo just seems natural.

6 hours ago, jdw6 said:

Few, if any, ever actually want to pay what it actually should cost for development

I've mentioned it before - I'm not here to provide a monthly paycheck for a mod that may never get 'finished'. I have no problem sending a 'thank-you' one time payment for something I would have paid for like any game I buy. I believe many people whom engage in the monthly thing are more interested in steering development.

6 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

their private whack it game!

Now I want to see another variation on the Sims 'Whack-a-mole' game - Just replace the 'pop-up' parts.... hehe  Just need Michael Jacksons 'Beat It' playing in the background.

6 hours ago, LadySmoks said:

It's basically digital claymation!

If that REALLY is all it is, then perhaps I may get motivated as I have some experience with that from my old days using ThriXXX's Sex Villa 3D. That is how one of the create your own scene mechanics worked. Tedious yes, but like watching any animator - they run it, back it up, make small changes, run it again, more changes, till satisfied. It also made things easy by having what you seem to have mentioned - the program would logically move the skeleton rig between positions saving the 'animator from having to to do 30 frames per second'. Then there's the obvious looping/repeat mechanism, which also allows for small nuances during the loop.

4 hours ago, eatassorskatefast said:

I’m having issues with the abortion option at the hospital and it’s not giving me an option to click on it is there anyway way to fix this? 

Things like this remind me of why I tend not to use pregnancy or have aging on. Considering KW is fairly 'intricate' concerning the whole breeding thing, perhaps you went to the hospital 'too late' to have an abortion.....  If all else fails, one can simply use Master Controller to 'End Pregnancy'. I wish life had a Master Controller.....

3 hours ago, DanBilzerian said:

when my sim puts on a towel after shower or goes into the whirlpool naked my hairdoo changes.

There are 'hidden' KW outfits which cannot be accessed through default EA or NRaas Master Controller menus. Once set, I find no way to adjust them, being the CAS whore I am. 2 good examples would be the school uniform (after created and used by a sim, any changes to them like hair is ignored by KW) and the KW naked outfit. I found this one by using the KW nude venue option for a beach. I noticed the Sims were NOT using the naked outfit I created for them in CAS and there was no way to change that. If I selected 'my' naked outfit for them to wear, they would just change back to the KW version.

 

Now this is different from the EA default. That outfit can be modified, but it won't 'do it' itself. You'll have to use either NRaas Dresser to copy things to ALL outfits, or use Master Controller to change the Nude outfit once you change into it (it replaces the everyday oufit in CAS and unlocks every clothing option in every outfit option while in CAS). Be aware Copying some things like accessories to ALL may have issues like underwear - now swimwear will show underwear, and since it's not an option shown in default, you have to go back in using the nude outfit, or change settings in Master Controller to unlock all outfits for that category.

 

Now for your problem: I have no experience with the towel after bathing, and could be the KW nude outfit with a towel, and I have no knowledge of how to adjust that. Skinny dipping in a pool or hot tub on the other hand IS default EA and in my experience, uses the naked outfit which can be adjusted in CAS. After adjusting your sim in CAS/naked outfit, it's easy enough for you to figure out which one is used with the towel.

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5 minutes ago, landess said:

more of a minigame

Minigames strike again.... oh, wait.... that's what KW is. lol

5 minutes ago, landess said:

 > I doubt many noticed Leon lurking in the left background of this previously posted shot :) 

Yep. I certainly didn't. But, then again, from that distance, it could've been a half dozen other characters. ? 

5 minutes ago, landess said:

looks like another 'Girls gone wild' video.

yeah.... and maybe that was the intent. That sort of scripting is really what I'm wanting to try to figure out... setting min & max skill levels.  The min would be to solve these new sims who have kids but absolutely no "woohoo" / "kamasimtra" (whatever) skills, and the adults who somehow managed to get a highschool diploma w/o any of the core curriculum.  (Personally I start all Teens at 2, YAs at 3, and A/E at 4 for several things, like science, logic, cooking, writing, social networking... although I prob should put new teens at a 5 for the soc.net. thing & the adults/elders at a 1... lol)

5 minutes ago, landess said:

Try Ladyhawk....

Dang. I gotta find that one, looks like a good cast.

5 minutes ago, landess said:

No, but then I like to use a laptop from inventory so the desk(s) can be used for more 'creative' endeavours

Gotcha, and good idea. I do keep a desk empty, somewhere, just so teens can do homework at it.

Oh, and speaking of computers & KW: I'm pretty sure I'm remembering correctly from the code that the ITF holocomputer cannot be used for the KW webcam shows. I think the really cheap desktop (w/ the CRT... lol @ the kids who are now wondering WTF a CRT is) also can't be used for those.

5 minutes ago, landess said:

CAS/Build-buy

I've found CAS sucks more than B/B... um... literally (memory) and figuratively. lol

5 minutes ago, landess said:

keeping privacy high makes Sims more 'realistic'

Ah. Hmmm. I know that's been mentioned. Odd I've not played at that setting yet. Gonna have to try to remember to change it next time. Not wanting to chance issues w/ loading the game w/ a slow drive format going... tomorrow.  (and, I also don't know WTH I didn't let it do a "quick format"... prob something about this drive might've had issues so wanted it to be more methodical...)

5 minutes ago, landess said:

hehe  Just need Michael Jacksons 'Beat It' playing in the background.

The hot dog eating contest would be another potential for alterations... just w/ the Weird Al spoof of that song. "

5 minutes ago, landess said:

I wish life had a Master Controller.....

And NRaas Vector... ? But, right now, I'd settle for the built-in money cheats. sigh

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4 hours ago, DanBilzerian said:

So i have a probably very simple question, when my sim puts on a towel after shower or goes into the whirlpool naked my hairdoo changes. i use a CC hairdoo from nightcrawler and on the naked outfit it gets replaced with some ugly short hair EA version. how do i set up these outfits? in CAS they wont show up and everything look right. i have a feeling something overrides my outfits, but i havent even figured out what that whole outfits tab under KW does... on a related note how do i put bras and panties in my inventory, because that option remains grey all the time.

This reminds me of why I disabled that "towel after shower" feature. But I thought I was able to shift-click on the sim, choose 'edit in cas', and actually get their current outfit to "fix" things... but that might've been the equally fubar'd KW uniforms "feature".

Oh, and I disable KW's ability to update outfits as well, sorta... it's on in one place, off by the towel option.

As for the bra/panties thing: do you have underwear enabled in settings? (I'm thinking that's in general, but look around in there... should be on by default, but maybe you turned it off by accident.)  Also, is it actually showing any bras/panties in the KW settings?  Should be at least 1 in there from KW itself, but, well, it's kinda easy to accidentally remove things if you're just clicking around.

 

Other than that, I'm assuming you see the option to "grab a fresh pair of panties" when you click on a dresser, but it's just disabled... that makes me think they're already wearing some fresh ones, and I'm thinking KW only allows getting fresh ones if you're not actually wearing any.  So, last thing to try:  click on sim, go to kinky (not kinky world), then exhibition.  If there's something like "remove panties", click that.  Then check the dresser.

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5 hours ago, eatassorskatefast said:

I’m having issues with the abortion option at the hospital and it’s not giving me an option to click on it is there anyway way to fix this? 

Maybe silly question, but does your sim household have enough §§§ to have an abortion?  The KW abortion (type of surgery) is not free and it won't let you do it if you don't have the finances.  (That is actually in the code checks to cause a greyed out option.)

 

Specific to abortion, the option is also not available if:

 

not pregnant

not has shown pregnancy

hours of pregnancy > KW settings PregnancyLength / 3.0

 

The 2nd and 3rd checks seem a bit conflicting. IIRC the default is 72 hours for pregnancy length. 1/3 of that is 24. But IIRC a sim won't show until 24 hours.  Nope. the thing it's checking is if there's the moodlet showing that they're pregnant, not the physical "baby bump" that I was thinking of.  (I dug into the code a bit more.)

 

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58 minutes ago, landess said:

After adjusting your sim in CAS/naked outfit, it's easy enough for you to figure out which one is used with the towel.

Nope. The towel is from Late Night, and was added as part of later KW builds than what is here at LL, and DanBlizerian needs to start looking through the Kinky World menu, because the answer is in there... along with the next answer and the next.

 

KW uses whatever your nude default is. Hair is controlled by EA... maybe Nraas Dresser, if you have that. Easiest way is to use MC to switch to nude outfit, then enter CAS and change the hair. Then make sure the tab at the top is locked.

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9 minutes ago, LadySmoks said:

KW uses whatever your nude default is

I know the towel is worn if a sim gets 'pranked' while skinny dipping. Double check for me the nude venue setting and see if your sims wear the naked outfit you create, or another one which has NO accessories.

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