briegames cc finds

1) Open the game & create your sim

You will need to know 3 things about your sim to locate it with Sim Ripper:

First and last name

What outfit you want to export

The number of your save file

Personally I've used the same save for the last 2 years, so the last one's not an issue for me.

Using a separate save file and a NPC-removing mod is probably worth it if you plan to do this often, like for making CC previews.

2) Open your save file in Sim Ripper

After the loading screen, you'll come to this blank one. Click on "Select" in the upper right corner.

When selecting your save file, only select the version that has nothing after the "save" extension. Think of it as your "base" save file that has all the correct info in it.

Click open to open the file in SR.

3) Find that sim

When your save file loads in, if you just have a regular one with default townies, you'll likely have a ton of names to sort through.

I prefer to use the 1st box and first by first names, since they're easiest to spot for me.

Then, you can use the 2nd box to narrow down results to specific types of sims. (I can never remember if my sims are YA or Adults lol)

Next, sort through the list til you find your sim's name from the start.

Finally, they might load in wearing the wrong outfit. You can use the 4th box to change what outfit they're wearing. It takes a while to load up, so that's why I recommend knowing it ahead of time instead of searching in Sim Ripper.

4) Export your sim's files

To export your sim, just click the "DAE" button. I am pretty sure I'm using the out-of-the-box settings on my sim and they work perfectly fine for me, but you can mess around with those if you want.

Next, name your file (I use the default title) and make sure the file type is .dae (it will be by default).

Then hit save, export any additional sims you want, and close Sim Ripper. You won't need it again.

5) Import into Blender 4.0

I totally forgot to delete the cube first, but all you have to do is press X on your keyboard and then click "Delete" unless you want your sim to be swallowed by a featureless gray cube, that's your choice big dawg

To import your sim, click "File" then hover on "Import" and click "Collada (.dae)" to open your file explorer.

Simply navigate to where you saved your sim's .dae file, select it, then hit "Import" in the lower right.

It will look like this if you did it correctly so far!

6) Make it look right

Use the middle mouse button to pan, rotate, and scroll your view in front of your sim. Makes it easier to see what you're doing.

First, you will go to the upper right corner and change the viewport settings. All you have to do is click on that button that is outlined, if it is selected it will turn blue. This adds all the shading and color to your sim.

That's all you have to do, as your sim has all the textures loaded in (or should) already! This is why I prefer 4.0 over older versions - you used to have to connect those manually and it got tedious fast.

However, if you want to do things the right way instead of being lazy like me, you will also do these steps:

2nd, you will go over to the Scene Collection panel and click the down arrow next to where it says "rig." If you have imported multiple sims, then "rig" will have a number after it for each sim, and you will have to do this process separately for each one. Then select your sim's name (or whatever you named the file, that's what it will show up as).

Then, you'll go down to the bottom right corner and select the Materials tab. The icon looks like a sphere with checkers on it.

Finally, you will scroll through that panel to the bottom where you'll see the "Settings" tab. Here, all you need to do is changed the "Blend Mode" dropdown to "Alpha Hashed."

Note: If your sim wears glasses then these steps are necessary to make the glass render correctly however I have been having trouble with that lately and it seems to be a different process in 4.0. If anyone would like to drop a comment on how to render a sim with glasses in this version of Blender, then please do.

7) Prepare for posing

To get your sim ready to pose, you will go back up to the Scene Collection panel and click "Pose". It will turn blue.

Then press the "I" key on your keyboard. I as in "island" because my dumb browser font doesn't make it clear what letter that is.

The black menu will pop up and you can slowly move your mouse down, then click on "Location, Rotation, & Scale."

If you did it correctly, your screen will look like this with a new option in the Scene Collection panel and that little yellow text to the left!

congrats your did it!

// font credits

Bad Comic

Comic Neue Sans

Short Stack

Friendly scribbles

Mabook

Shantell Sans Normal - Irregular - Bouncy

Stanberry

Suplexmentary Comic

Pixeloid

Matrix Sans Regular & Video

Comic Mono

// about UI mods

They usually edit one of these two UI files, or both:

GFX files: often edited to add/modify the functionality of a UI.

Examples: More Traits in CAS, Searchable menus/UIs, UI Cheats Extension, TOOL, etc.

Texture (DDS) files: often edited to change the texture of a UI.

Examples: CC wrench icons, main menu/loading screen override, and world map replacements.

Both: UI recolors often edit both files above as text colors are handled by GFX files and the textures are edited separately. Some main menu and loading screen overrides also edit both if there's a new functionality added to them.

// GFX and texture file(s) comes as a set for the UIs they're made for

For example, the main Calendar UI comes with one GFX file (calendar.gfx) and one Texture file (instance # 999522802c8b1c5c). Meanwhile, the Edit Holiday & Plan Event UIs have their own set of GFX & Texture files. This can be further confirmed by checking the GFX file and see which external image it's referencing to in the file.

because of this, it makes it easy to pinpoint which UI mod is causing a glitch, hence the creation of this guide :p

// cause of a UI glitch

Whenever there's a new game update, the GFX and texture set are updated together if a new functionality is added to a UI. With that in mind, when you have a UI mod from the previous patch laying around, you now have one half outdated/modded UI file (i.e. GFX) and one half up-to-date/unmodded UI file (i.e. UI texture) loaded up by the game (or vice versa), and that discrepancy in version is how you get the UI visual glitch!

Here's an example of a UI known to break (guicomponentlibrary.gfx):

There are instances where only the GFX file gets updated and not the textures, causing little to no visual bugs, or in another case, having 2 outdated UI mods from the same set (i.e. custom wrench icon & more traits in cas mod). So even if there seems to be no visual bugs, some UIs may still not function as it's supposed to (mainly after big game updates). Always a good idea to check all of your UI mods.

// list of UI mods and their associated glitches

what you're here for :-) // ⚠️ important note: I'm reproducing these examples using old UI files I exported & edited myself and doesn't reflect the current state of the mods included below. UI mods that haven't been broken since Dec '24 aren't included. Use this only as a frame of reference!

Firstly, download and install GShade, unless you've already got it installed, then just be sure it's up to date.

Click, or right click pics below and open in a new window to see them in more detail.

Now I don't currently have it installed into any of my games, bc I mainly use Reshade 2, so if you need to know how to do that, you're in luck! I'll walk you through it.

Click Add New.

Then locate your TS4_x64.exe, except if you're fully updated, in which you'll need to locate your TS4_DX9_x64.exe, but only if you plan to opt out of using DX11, then click Next.

This will open another window with a bunch of ticked boxes, and tbh I didn't mess with any of these. Many them are greyed out anyway, and it all works fine for me.

So if yours look like this, then you should be fine too.

Lastly, at the bottom you can preload some presets if you like, but it's purely up to you. They aren't required.

When done, click Install.

There will be another window that asks you where you'd like to save your pictures. Once again, this is purely up to you, click Browse to locate your preferred folder, or if you use programs like Nvidia for screenshots, just ignore it, and click Finish. Then when it asks if you're okay with the chosen location, click Yes.

Once you've finished, TS4_x64.exe should show up in the Installations tab of your GShade installer, which means you're part way there! Now, click on the Custom Shaders & Textures button at the bottom, this will open the folder where you need to install ReLight.

Locate your ReLight_ALPHA_0.2 download. Mine was in my Downloads folder. Double click it, or unzip it, and you'll find a couple folders inside it.

Click or right click pics below and open in a new tab for more detail.

Here's a side by side comparison of the GShade Custom Shaders folder we just opened, and the ReLight_ALPHA_0.2 folder we unzipped and opened, so you can see how there are two identically named folders. The goal is to put whatever is in the Shaders folder of the ReLight folder, into the Shaders folder of the Custom Shaders folder, and then repeat this process again for both Textures folders, until they end up looking like this...

In conclusion, your GShade Custom Shaders > SHADERS folder should have these two files in it...

While your GShade Custom Shaders > TEXTURES folder should have this .png in it...

Good? Now let's turn on The Sims 4.

When you've opened you game, load your save ( idkw, but the GShade UI won't open in the menu screen ), then hit Shift + Backspace on your keyboard to open up the GShade UI. You can choose to go through the tutorial, or skip it. Either way just keep clicking continue or OK until you get to the Home panel. Now, I've got a preset already, if you've got one too, good, activate it, if you don't there should be like a default one you can use until you create one or get one. Main goal at this moment is to find ReLight in the list of shaders, and activate it so we know it works. Tick the Performance Mode box at the bottom, and scroll down 'til you find this...

This list should be alphabetized so just scroll down to the Q's, then tick the box beside it. Then click Active to Top, and scroll back to it. One thing I would suggest is binding it to a key ( right click while hovering over it ), this will make it easier to find if you lose it again, since clicking Active to Top also recalls any shaders that are bound, even if their box isn't ticked ( isn't active ).

I've bound mine to F8, but it's up to you what you wanna use, I only suggest it be F6 or above, since The Sims 4 already uses F1-F5 I believe.

⬆️this is how the doors open and close

⬆️sims may clip through the door

⬆️light source: the gate and door are grouped separately, and will follow the light color of different rooms.

⬆️the dirtied version have doddles on the gate, one of them has written "DLLM", which is an abbreviation of a Cantonese swear word. Details of its pronunciation and meaning can be found from this video by Jimmy O Yang. ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

⬆️A: Door and Gate open || B: Door opens only || C: Gate opens only || D: no doors || E: no gates ||

⬆️sim will walk around the opened door instead of through it. i.e. it may block path.

⬆️meaning of the phrases written on the red papers:

one horizontal paper - 出入平安: wishing for safe entry and exit three papers - (left) 大吉大利: wishing for general good luck (right) 和氣生財: harmony brings wealth one diamond-shaped paper - 福: "blessings"

❇️Hong Kong Style Front Door

- polycount: A-C: 672 (high)/ 230 (low) || D: 554 (high)/ 254 (low) || E: 174 (high)/ 92 (low) - 36 swatches (4 door colors x 4 designs x clean/dirty) - basegame

⬇️DOWNLOAD SFS: A || B || C || D || E || MERGED || or Patreon (Free)

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❇️Hong Kong Style Front Door Gate Décor

⚠️This is just a wall decoration, will not cutout walls.

- polycount: 526 - 32 swatches (8 colors x 1 clean swatch x 3 dirty swatches) - basegame

⬇️DOWNLOAD SFS or Patreon (Free)

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❇️Chinese Doorway Spirit Tablet

These are Spirit Tablets. Details of what are these and the meaning of the phrases written on them can be found on Wikipedia.

Here is a short version of the meaning of each tablet:

A - 門口土地財神: dedicated to Tudigong, an Earth Deity, wishing luck and fortune B - 地主神位:  dedicated to the Landlord god C - 門官福神: dedicated to the Door Gods D - 定福灶君: dedicated to Zao Jun, the kitchen god E - 天官賜福: dedicated to the Jade Emperor, wishing blessings from the Gods F - 前后地主財神，五方五土龍神: similar to B

- polycount: 320 - 12 swatches - basegame

⬇️DOWNLOAD SFS or Patreon (Free)

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❇️Old-Timey Doorbell

- polycount: 378 - 12 swatches - basegame

⬇️DOWNLOAD SFS or Patreon (Free)

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❇️Very Simple Plastic Doorstop

- polycount: 36 - 12 swatches - basegame

⬇️DOWNLOAD SFS or Patreon (Free)

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⬇️DOWNLOAD ALL⬇️

ZIP with Merged Doors (SFS) || ZIP with Separate Doors (SFS) ||

⬆️texture slightly breaks when look from certain angle...

⬆️sometimes when first placing the fan the blade will appear sideways. blade will snap back to normal once placed.

Here are the details:

• 5 swatches • §850 • Base game compatible • Easily searchable in the Buy catalog by typing “SimMattically”