PAPER MANTIS

Spellcasters to Witches: a text override mod 

Updated for pronoun patch (5/24/2022)!

I’ll be honest: I think “Spellcaster” is a silly name and I immediately disliked it. I understand that choice is part of EA’s attempts at making TS4 gender-inclusive, which I support, but I still don’t like “Spellcaster.” so to make myself happier, I made a simple text override mod to change Spellcasters to Witches, and I felt at peace.

I’ve also created five other versions of that same mod to share with you all, changing Witches to Wizards, Warlocks, Sorcerers, Magicians, or Mages. feel free to pick whichever one you like!

info + download below!

This is a tutorial on how to add a colour slider for cc hair, clothes, shoes etc. Links to resources are highlighted in bold within the steps for you. The tutorial can also be found publicly on my patreon for easier viewing here :)

Step one: download thepancake1 and MixoreYukii’s UI colour slider - (link is at the bottom of their post), for this you only need the UI, you do not need all of the downloads that add the slider to the sims 4 maxis hairs and clothes.

Step two: download an up-to-date version of the sims4studio (pick windows or mac version)

Step three: create a folder somewhere called ‘batch exports’ (the name honestly isn’t important, just something you will remember, can put the folder anywhere)

Step four: open up the cc package you want to add the colour slider to via sims4studio, for this tutorial I am using oma-simmer’s Panda hair.

Step five: go into 'warehouse’ in the cc package.

Step six: select tools, modding, convert RLE2 to LRLE

Step seven: once sims4studio is finished converting the files, select done and then highlight all of the new LRLE files and select 'batch export’, export these files to the folder I asked you to create earlier.

Step eight: at this point you should not have saved the cc file, exit the file leaving it unchanged and getting rid of the RLE2 to LRLE conversions you made.

Step nine: Re-open the cc package in it’s original state, go back into warehouse and select 'batch import’, import all of the LRLE files that you exported into your 'batch exports’ folder.

After importing these LRLE files you should now have the original RLE2 files and the new LRLE files both inside the cc package. Now click save.

In game you should now have a colour slider for this cc hair.

Here are links to videos of me using the new slider in-game for this cc hair, some cc clothes and shoes.

as someone who dls a lot of cc from a lot of places, i’ve had to take a LOT of precaution when it comes to safety online for those pesky short links that infect ur computer with random garbage. here are the extensions i personally use to bypass most shitty linkage

disclaimer: please don’t come to me and tell me im taking money from creators by using these extensions. if you want to click on adfly links, go ahead! this is just for the people who don’t. also, don’t take these links as a get out of jail free card for online safety. people are crafty. use common sense to avoid getting a virus. this will just lower your chances of getting a virus, or just save you some annoyance.

adblock plus- p much the most popular extension out there. i use it on all sites even outside of cc downloading. sadly a lot of sites are taking action against adblock, adding counters to their links, or even keeping you from accessing the site at all. it’s easy to disable the extension for single sites though, or you can just leave the site altogether. still, adblock is incredibly useful!

the rest of these extensions are for the google chrome webstore. im sure there are similar extensions for whatever browser you use though. just check your browser’s webstore and im sure you’ll find similar, or you could just switch to google chrome

ad(fly) skipper - bypasses adfly’s counter and takes you straight to your download

short.est skipper - same deal as the last one, and currently my most useful extension, since a lot of creators are using short.est instead of ad.fly lately. short.est is annoying because it has a lot of different redirect urls it can take you to with different domains, but the devs of the extension were good about blocking most, if not all, of the domains short.est uses so it’ll skip it no matter what.

tsr ad skipper - bypasses tsr’s countdown. it’s not necessarily a safety extension, just saves you time and keeps tsr from being more annoying than it has to be.

TSR Ad Skipper no longer works to my knowledge. The Website spits back a server error whenever I had it installed! I use this mix of Chrome Extensions and it covers just about everything.

AdBlock Plus - Basic web adblocker extension

UBlock Origin - Same as above

Adguard AdBlocker - Same as above

All those extensions block ads on TSR (and elsewhere), but there’s nothing currently I found that skips the countdown. At least now you can be safe while waiting for it. The rest of my extensions are for protection against Link shorteners and such. There’s no one extension that bypasses all the link shorteners that exist out there so I have a few that manage to catch everything but ouo.io and one other i can’t remember the name of.

adf.ky killer - skips over adfly and similar sites

AdSkipper - catches some of the things adf.ly killer can’t.

Skip Shorte.st ads - for some reason, the above two extensions never caught shortest links. So I downloaded this and now I can bypass them so -shrug-

Universal Bypass - This is a catch-all for any sneaky shit that isn’t covered above.

Link Redirect Trace - With this if a redirect is particularly stubborn from some greedy creator I can just open this extension and copy the direct link to the dl page. I use it a lot to find and provide the direct links to meshes from creators who use multiple redirect links. 

URL uncover - Similar deal to link redirect. I have both but honestly you could just use one. 

TSR freemium - VIP experience without VIP cost. Gives access to cart and all other vip features. Requires tampermonkey or similar.