Untalented Builder (●´ω｀●)ゞ

I have always cried every time someone told me they restarted their game because of this glitch.

NO. STOP. READ NOW!

When you have this glitch/bug there is no need for you to quit the game or end it through the task manager. All you have to do is

1. PRESS F5 on your keyboard - This will give you a menu.

2. Select with your keyboard arrow or Click Edit Town or Edit in Town whatever it’s called.

3. The UI bar will be back to normal!

4. Then you can choose to return to game or if you’re building/furnishing a house,click on the house again and edit :)

5. You won’t lose any progress.

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This tutorial shows you how to convert Sims3Packs to working Packages. It focuses on Patterns, Houses, Worlds and Sims!

BEWARE: Patterns as .package MUST be merged (I recommend CC magic) or they cause an insane lag!!

In all seriousness, did you know about this tool? Because I didn’t and it’s made my life so much easier. Come with me, I can show you the wooooorld -

ok I’ll stop singing.

1. Download this nifty russian program from here  and install.

2. Open and navigate to or copy paste in the link to the folder you want to view. Note that this will read both package and sims3packs, sim and library files, can be set to multiple languages and shows you how many buy/build or CAS files are in there. You probably don’t want to open a folder with 1000 files in it though, that’s too much for it to read and it will run out of memory (and you will get an ‘out of memory’ pop up for every file - trust me, it’s annoying). I try to stay under 400, it behaves nicely then.

3. In options I set the thumbnail size to the largest (256) so I could really see what I was looking at. Observe that when it generates the previews, it shows you the location in the catalogue, price, actual file name and catalogue name. SO HANDY! Why the hell haven’t I heard of this thing, in all my years of simming?!

Honestly this program has made weeding out unwanted files an easy task. Especially hairs! How many hairs don’t contain actual previews? This thing generates icons, honestly.

Theoretically you can install and uninstall files through this, though I haven’t tried. The editor pulls up blank for me (I seem to be missing some part of the program but it’s not important enough for me to go hunting) but honestly my favorite thing is just being able to see, at a glance, WHAT is in the packages.

Simsfileshare “404 Not Found” error fix!!

All you have to do is delete the “www.” part in the url, and it should redirect you to the download! Made a (poor quality) GIF just in case my instructions are confusing!

@787happiness asked me for industrial windows, these are my fav.

1. Einfach Simlisch town build set 

I’m thinking for my next build, I’ll be using these windows... (ʃ⌣́,⌣́ƪ)

Running games in windowed mode is usually preferable to fullscreen, the main advantages are:

faster access to your desktop

better performance in some games

screenshots and video won’t turn out darker than expected (I think this problem occurs if a game has it’s own display settings that, when set to fullscreen, internally override your monitor’s settings without actually displaying properly- feel free to correct me on that)