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The Problem™

For years it irritated me that inactive sims, like mixologists, bouncers, shopkeepers, and other townie sims without a vehicle, would spawn one of two cars - a Sloppy Jalopy or a Big Lemon.

There is no way to change this, as no matter what, even if you replace the cars in the inventories of those sims, when they de-spawn and re-spawn, they'll have one of these cars again.

This wouldn't normally be a problem, but they leave these cars everywhere, and if you're trying to play a game set in the last decade, these cars just look really out of place.

The Solution!

This mod replaces the model and textures of the Sloppy Jalopy and the Big Lemon with those of the Wornado Triage and the Tofunda Wagon, respectively. The idea was to keep the cars as realistically more affordable models, while being newer and more in-line with today's common car colors.

These are default replacements, and will replace every instance of the Sloppy Jalopy and Big Lemon in the game world. Every NPC who would have been using the old cars will now use the new cars automatically.

Hovering over them and viewing them in the catalog still lists them as the Sloppy Jalopy and the Big Lemon, but they will show the icon of their new models.

Note that this does not affect the cars that specific service sims drive, such as maids, the repo man, social workers, etc.

Additional Info

Since I figured that you might want to still have the old cars for gameplay purposes, I cloned them and gave them the exact same title, description, and price as the original cars. They will appear in the catalog with a CC icon, but are otherwise identical to the originals.

This means that if you have sims that currently own a Jalopy or Lemon, they will be automatically replaced by the mod. You would just need to sell their current car and buy one of the cloned versions.

This is an entirely cosmetic change, and removing the mod from your Overrides folder will return NPC cars back to their normal appearance.

This mod has been an on-and-off WIP for me since literally the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics (though doesn't it feel like that was just yesterday?), and I'm so excited to share it now!

Hopefully, this helps breathe new life into your game and beautify your parking lots!

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As a techie, I have been absolutely in need of a more modernized laptop for my sims. Since TS3 was released in 2009, laptops in-game were modeled after the laptops of that era, which were about as thick as a flipping dictionary and just in general very out of date for the type of laptops many of us carry around these days. I found myself exclusively only ever using the PeachySoft laptop from TS3 University Life, which is still one of my favorites, but I wanted something different. I see this adorable little laptop in so many TS4 posts as deco, and I took on the painful totally fun challenge of bringing it to TS3 as a new laptop for our sims.

List of Changes/Notes

The original I converted from Pierisim was the decorative version of the object (there was also a TV variant, but the deco one worked better for this project). Unfortunately, TS4 does not have functional, portable laptops like TS3 (as far as I know). This meant it was an extremely annoying process to get this to work and it's a miracle it did! It just took...millions of hours. I essentially had to split the model into multiple parts, scale them into size a million times until I got it just right, then "glue" them back together, and then assign bones (which was interesting, when I accidentally assigned the screen to the mouse bone early in testing).

These are fully foldable, functional, portable working laptops just like any other laptop in TS3 that your sims can carry around, open and close, and use on tables, desks, islands, and the ground.

For now, these are not recolorable. My priority was to get them functional and to add details to them to make them look cute, so that was not something I added, though they come in several different colors. In the future, I hope to make them CAST-able and add even more fun details.

I took immense care to clean up the textures these do have. The originals, like many TS4 textures in general for some reason, just had severe color banding and DDS artifacts in-game. So I carefully re-handpainted the gradient textures and added noise to reduce this as much as possible. The speaker grill textures are not perfect, but I tried my best.

The original texture didn't include keys (many EA laptops don't either), so I have added a fully Simlish keyboard! :D Complete with icons and little details. There's also little symbols on the underside of the laptop now like in real life, that tell you not to throw it away etc. I have always loved these little details and when I tell you this was the absolute most fun part of this project, I mean it.

There are two versions. The SimBook Air and the SimBook Pro.

The SimBook Air...

is a smaller, more compact laptop than the default TS3 laptop size, more in line with most laptop sizes these days. It is also much, much thinner than the default EA laptop, as I was trying to make it as thin as possible. This is accomplished by a tiny gap between the screen and body, which is visible only from certain angles when the laptop is open. This cannot be fixed/mitigated - the thinner you get the laptop, the worse it is. This is due to EA's bone placement for the animation of the laptop, which was designed for a much thicker model. This really is as good as I could get it without it looking too bad. - It costs less than the SimBook Pro. - It provides +7 Fun and +2 Environment score.

The Simbook Pro...

is roughly the same size as EA's default laptop size. It's wider and a little bit thicker, so there is no gap between the body and screen on this one. - It costs more than the SimBook Air - It provides +9 Fun and +3 Environment score.

Product Boxes 📦

I have also had Simgo's Apple Store set for TS2 on my mind for years. It was one of the very first ever conversions I did for myself back in 2020. I decided to recolor the boxes to match these in case you want to make a store display or if you just want your sims to also hoard their aesthetic tech product boxes for no good reason lmao. There are multiple variants for both the Air and Pro models, such as different specs and colors. All in Simlish.

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Items are located in Misc Deco. The incense burner is functional, requires WA. The storage tray and organizer have slots.

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The TS3 posters have recolorable push pins. The TS4 posters do not.

The photos above show the posters in-game in TS3. The below photos are from TS4. I don't play TS4, but since these posters were originally for TS4, I decided to try my hand at porting them over as Simlish recolors. If there are any issues, please let me know. Here are a few TS4 in-game photos, playing around with resizing them etc... (I'm not a TS4 player, so please pay no mind to the low quality of these pics hah):

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TS3 💚 TS4 💙

Frames are recolorable, and can be moved up and down the wall.

Items are located in Misc Deco and Wall Hangings. I had the absolute honor to see Stevie Nicks live last year, so I was inspired to make a framed poster for her, but then got carried away. I'll probably make more of these in the future, but for now enjoy this random collection. Albums: Currents by Tame Impala, Electra Heart by Marina and the Diamonds, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan, The Wild Heart by Stevie Nicks, Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots, Riot! by Paramore Credit to connivingskittlebitch for the Simlish Riot! and Blurryface cover images. Saved me a *lot* of time in Simlish-ifying.

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Not all presets are displayed in my preview images - in total, there are 36 different poster swatches (all previews can be viewed on makesims's original posts above).

All have recolorable frames and can be moved up and down the wall.

Located in Wall Hangings and cost §75 each. Catalog: Spooky Movie Posters Vol. 1 by Spooky MakeStudios Happy Simblreen! Get in the mood by decorating your sims’ homes with Simlish posters for these movies: Beetlejuice, Carrie, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Friday the 13th, Get Out, Halloween, Halloweentown, Hereditary, Hocus Pocus, It, Jennifer’s Body, Midsommar, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Scooby-Doo, The Silence of the Lambs, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Exorcist, Trick ‘r Treat, Us, What We Do In The Shadows. Converted 4t3 from MakeSims by riverianepondsims.tumblr.com (2025). Spooky Movie Posters Vol. 2 by Spooky MakeStudios Happy Simblreen! Get in the mood by decorating your sims’ homes with Simlish posters for these movies: Fear Street (parts 1-3), Zombieland, Unfriended, Twitches, The Phantom of the Opera, The Mummy, The Craft, Silent Hill, Perfect Blue, Ma, Happy Death Day, Freaky, Child’s Play, and The Blair Witch Project. Converted 4t3 from MakeSims by riverianepondsims.tumblr.com (2025). @simblreenofficial

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Not all presets are displayed in my preview images - in total, there are 13 different poster swatches (all previews can be viewed on makesims's original post above).

All have recolorable frames and can be moved up and down the wall.

Located in Wall Hangings and cost §320 each. Catalog: Women of Horror Posters by MakeStudios Show your love for some of the most iconic women in the horror genre with these 13 prints! Characters featured: Morticia Addams, Emerald Haywood, Nina Sayers, Heather Mason, Naru, Ellen Ripley, Bride of Frankenstein, Thomasin, Laurie Strode, Carrie White, Wendy Torrance, Lydia Deetz, and Adelaide Wilson. Converted 4t3 from MakeSims by riverianepondsims.tumblr.com (2025). @simblreenofficial

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Most items in this set are recolorable, depending on the item. Some items have presets with variable amounts of recolorable channels or overlays on them. Most items have a non-recolorable preset (the original texture) with additional presets that add recolorability . A few items are not recolorable - the Preparedness Hat, the "I Want to Believe" poster, and the Tinfoil Hat, in particular.

The display t-shirt is not a 1:1 perfect exact conversion - the original texture just did not cooperate with TS3, so I re-created the Simlish text on the shirt in order to create the overlay and make it recolorable. The hanger as well - I had to re-draw this part of the texture, so it looks slightly different than the TS4 counterpart. It's not perfect, but overall more visible and less pixelated/noisy than what TS3 did to the original texture (iykyk)!

Feel free to use the t-shirt without the overlay as a base to make your own display shirts if you want, just credit me and littlecakes!

Items included from the preview photo are the objects on the wall and on the table. The table can be found here, though I likely plan to update it soon.

Items are located in Misc Deco and Wall Hangings. All items have SpaceStores Co. at the end of their name, so searching for that using a mod will bring them up. @simblreenofficial

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I love, - Simlish - Signs - CAW stuff among other things. So...this set, for TS3. All are accessible in CAW. But first, if you haven't already... - You'll need to set up your CAW to use custom content by using this tutorial here: Create-a-World CC Framework Tutorial Then place them in: - C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Create a World Tool\Packages AND -Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Packages (or install through a CC organizer like CC Magic) This will ensure that they show up both in CAW and in your game (including Edit-in-Game mode, which looks at installed CC to your game, not to CAW itself). Additionally, if you use them in your world and later upload it, the end user will also need to install the CC to their game for them to show up. You can share these as required CC for a world, but please, no paywalls. - My screenshot was taken in CAW, so it lets you place stuff all over the road and wherever, but in-game it will most likely say "absolutely not pls no items on the road thx". So just FYI placement is more limited in the in-game world editor.

All cost §200 in-game. Located in Misc Decor/Outside/Lawn Ornaments, and in the Edit Town World Editor.

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When I saw this set, I really wanted it for my sims. I love stationery, pink, and cute little clutter objects...so I just had to do this one.

Items included from the preview photo are the objects in pink, specifically.

The dictionary object can be found here.

Items aren't recolorable, but come with the TS4 original swatches (viewable on Soloriya's post linked above).

Items are located in Misc Deco, prices range from §5-30 simoleons.

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