#ts4 tip

[crazy-lazy-elder-sims]

coming from a WCIF friendly simblr ( me) leave the ppl that don't want to do wcifs alone like seriously leave them alone some people are not here to be at your service 24/7 they just wanna log in and post their art/gamepaly talk to friends and that's it. NO ONE is under obligation to help you even if you ask nicely. boundaries are boundaries and yall need to respect them. doesn't fucking matter what you think should be done if a person said no it means no.

alternatives to bothering non wcif people and harassing them through their inbox:

-see if they have a cc finds blog and look through that

-see if they have a pinterest board for sims 4

-see if they have their likes public they probably liked the cc they used

-see if other people have used this cc and if they are wcif friendly

-see if their friends have ccfinds they also probably get cc from there

- go on google and search “sims 4 theme of cc mm/alpha” so for example “sims 4 y2k top MM” “sims 4 layered hair alpha” and check newer pinterest pins

- go to @/public-ccfinds @/lightsleepertrait @/alwaysfreecc and look through the latest reblogged posts

- ask your simblr friends

- most discords have a “wcif” channel utilize that

-try to recognize the creator even if you got it wrong looking up “sims 4 leahlillith layered hair” when you are looking for Anto hair believe it or not will get you there faster cause google connects most cc creators with the same style together (based on people clicking on similar creators when cc shopping its algorithmic work)

all of these methods are tried by yours truly and i usually only end up doing 1 or 2 of these and i find the piece quickly everything will take max 15 mins of your time which is more efficient than sending anon and waiting 1-4 businesses days to begin harassing the simblr into giving up the link of the cc.

hope this helps ^-^ 

[rebouks]

Did you know you can make sims look in a specific direction whilst they're posed?

Hit shift+tab to enter first person mode

Aim the camera where you want your sim to look (make sure your game isn't paused otherwise the sim won't move - you can press 1 in first person mode to set time running)

Hit pause (by pressing P)

Hit shift+tab again to exit first person mode

Voila! Your sim is now looking in the direction you pointed 'em!

A neat little cheat to get multiple uses from the same pose! 🤸‍♀️

[sojutrait]

qian beauty just launched !

[pictureamoebae]

TS4, DirectX 11, and ReShade

Patch notes today say that finally (finally!) The Sims 4 is moving over to use the DirectX 11 rendering api. Until now TS4 has used DirectX 9, which has given us some limitations when using ReShade.

They're bringing the official rollout sometime in the future, but for now you can opt in to switching to DirectX 11 on a voluntary basis.

You don't need to uninstall your game or install a new version. To switch to using DirectX 11, update your game with today's patch, and then click on Manage > View Properties from the The Sims 4 game page on EA App and enter -dx11 in the advanced launch options box. You can remove this at any time to go back to using DirectX 9.

Note: the game developers have warned in the patch notes that some mods may have visual glitches until they are updated to accommodate dx11, so it may be advisable to wait until your mod authors have confirmed everything works okay

If you have ReShade installed currently for DirectX 9 you can make it start using DirectX 11 instead by finding the d3d9.dll inside your Bin folder and changing its name to dxgi.dll. No need to uninstall and reinstall ReShade, that's all you need to do. If you want to go back to using dx9, just revert the name back to d3d9.dll.

The main benefit of using ReShade under DirectX 11 is that you'll have access to more shaders than usual. You've probably noticed a lot of red errors (also known as compiling errors) -- those are more often than not these days caused by DirectX 9 limitations.

[pixelglam]

How to start your own save file (+ LOTS of tips, advice & mods) by Amelie

Watch Video Here

1.Pick your save file

Empty Save (personal favorite)

Simlicy's Save

Lilsimsie's Save

2. Take inspiration from real worlds i.e. New Orleans for Willow Creek, New England for Brindleton Bay. Find a theme/style for each world to make it cohesive.

More examples would be:

San Sequoia | San Francisco

Windenburg | Germany & Austria

Sulani | Tahiti

San Myshuno | New York (atleast part of it)

Oasis Springs | Arizona

Henford on Bagley | English Countryside

Mt. Komorebi | Japan

Del Sol Valley | Los Angeles

Tartosa | Italy

3. Finding beautiful builds on the gallery | tips & showcase in video

Video of my favorite gallery builds

Some lots I have in my save file

My favorite gallery creators (scroll down)

4. Map Replacements

5. Tool Mod

Used to further customize your save file & add cars, trees, etc.

Can also be used to change apartment windows

Tutorial

6. No random townies Mod

Prevents the game from further spawning and generating townies

Make sure to have enough unemployed sims that can fill npc jobs such as waiters, baristas, etc.

7. Sim spawn overhaul Mod

Sims only show up in their own residential worlds

Adds realism and doesn't break immersion

[farfallasims]

Somewhere in a Latin American inspired world...☀️

[cinamun]

OMG Y'ALL!!!!

So I usually never have this problem because, up until a few weeks ago, all my mains were living in either one or two level homes. Well, now that one is in a 4th floor apartment and his parents having a master bedroom on the 3rd floor of a townhome, I've been dealing with super speed camera again.

What is super speed camera? Its where, when you're in tab mode and the camera speed gets faster the higher up you go or the further out you go. Its hard to explain, and y'all may have already figured this out by now, but I haven't...

UNTIL NOW!

Shout out to this person who, with just showing how to change a few numbers, saved me a horrible horrible headache.

Might be useful to you.

[biancml]

Overrides List | Part One

In this list I will share some default replacement (overrides) for those who want a realistic gameplay with more details. You can find the Part 02 Here.

Kids

bassinet

infant rug or blanket

watermelon swing

baby bottle 1, 2, 3 or 4

infant bath & rubber duck

Selfcare

razor

spa nails & nail polish

towels & brush teeth

toothbrush 1, 2, 3, 4 or eletric

Random

bridge

suitcase

fireplace

umbrellas

bills & cards

fish, rabbit & cow

ceiling 1 or 2

boxing gloves & tennis

korean magazines

cars & school buss

cleaning spray & mop

paintings, brushes, pencil & photo

Kitchen

bread plate

lots storange

sponge 1, 2, or 3

cutlery 1, 2, 3 or 4

cutting board 1 , 2 or 3

pans, dishware & red cups

Foods

food stalls

bubble tea

foods 1 or 2

coffee to go

ice cream shop

delivery bag & grocery bag

coffee bag 1 or 2 & milk bottle

pizza & pizza hut box or pizza delivery

Eletronics

remote control

phone wallpaper 1, 2 or 3

phone icons

computer games & tv movies

game consoler, ps3 controller or ps5 controller

airpods, airpodspro, podsmax or airpodsmax

Phones

iphoneX, iphone7, iphone11, iphone12, iphone12cases, flip, nokia, galaxyS20, galaxynote8 or others

[simplyanjuta]

Transferring animations between rigs (e.g. adult to child)

The steps below describe how to transfer an animation from an adult rig to a child rig but the method should be applicable for any transfer between human rigs.

However, I haven't tested other constellations. Let me know if you have any other tips, suggestions, corrections or run into any issues.

Many thanks to thepancake1 for helping figuring out the details that are not obvious at all 💛

I posted this little guide in Creator Musings for someone wondering about it but sharing it here as well.

Step 1)

Export the adult sim animation you want to transfer (=your source) to Blender.

Open a blend file with a child rig (=your target).

Append the adult rig with the animation to the child rig in Blender (File > Append > Select the blend file > folder "Object" > select rig and mesh there)

Select the animation from the adult rig for the child rig (select the child rig in the Outliner menu > select the scene tab in the properties panel below > in "S4S AnimationTools" select the adult animation as the "active animation")

This will get the job mostly done, but the animation will be offset and jumping around, as you see below. To correct for that you will need to set up several constraints as described in step 2.

Step 2)

As you see below the height of the ROOT_bind of the adult sim and child sim differ by about a factor of 0,7:

You can check the exact location in edit mode:

The ROOT_bind of the child rig is located at 0.6920, the ROOT_bind of the adult rig at 1.0112 on the Z axis, which gives a factor of 0.6920/1.0112=0.6843354430379747

With that information you now need to do the following (see image below for comparison, I also uploaded my blend file with the set up here):

In the Dope Sheet menu, select "Action Editor" and press "New Action" there to make a copy of the selected animation.

In the Dope Sheet Summary uncheck ROOT_bind (thus disabling the animation on the root bind for the child rig). Update/Correction: However, the rotation channels need to stay enabled (this only matters if the ROOT_bind is rotated in an animation). The setting should look like this:

In the Transform menu type in -0,6920 on the X axis for ROOT_bind (thus resetting its position to 0 in the animation; can't properly explain why X axis is chosen here instead of Y but it has sth to do with how local rotations of a bone are determined according to pancake)

Create a "Copy Location" constraint for ROOT_bind of the child rig targetting it to the ROOT_bind of the adult rig (this is done in the Properties panel > Bone Constraints), set Influence to 0.6843354430379747 (factor calculated above), deselect "Z"

Create a second "Copy Location" constraint for ROOT_bind in the same way but this time deselect "X" and "Y" and instead select "Z" and check "Offset".

The animation will now play as expected:

Step 3)

All you need to do now is bake the animation (thus applying all the constraints you set up). Select Pose > Animation > "Bake Action...", then check "Visual Keying" and "Clear Constraints" in the pop up. The animation will now work stand alone and you can delete the adult rig.

Alternatively, if you use Pancakes animation tools, you just need to export the clips, the constraints will be applied automatically.

[simmermya]

Resource Page | Mods and CC I have been meaning to create a resource page for quite a while, so here it is! These are my must-have overrides, mods, and custom content that I always have in my game. I will continue to add more to it as time goes on!

Lighting Mods

Sunblind Better In-Game Lighting (bright base) Shine CAS Lighting (white) No-Glo V2 No-Blu V2 (darker)

Overrides

CAS Position Tuning CAS Organizers CAS Background (#f2f2ef) CC Wrench Replacement (white) More Columns in CAS (4) Map Replacements Loading Screen UI Normal Sim Pictures No Bump Mod

CAS Defaults

Default Underwear Bare Skintones Default Eyes Remove EA Eyelashes Default Feet Defined Hands Eye Shine Remover

Skin Details

3D Lashes (1) (2) Body Hair Cleavage Overlay (1) (2) Skinblend (1) (2) (3)  Pearl Teeth Hairlines Edges Nose Overlays

Gameplay Mods

Wicked Whims (18+) Basemental Alcohol (21+) First Impressions Road to Romance MC Command Center UI Cheats Extension Childbirth Mod TOOL Mod No Makeup/Accessories on Townies Turbo Careers Meaningful Stories

[householdbinary]

some of my favourite sims from 2023 (happy new year!)

[emwheezie]

I modded tf out of my sims and have been constructing backgrounds for my comic. This is a work in progress of Tony and Meg's apartment from when they first move in.

I'd be DRAWINg these backgrounds in, not just using the screenshots btw loll. This is mostly so I can get a feel for the 3D space they move in and I can draw their house consistently. There's already a lot of things I want to change/not draw exactly how it is in the game.

[rebouks]

Keeping Lag to a Minimum...

I was chatting about a few things I do to combat lag over on discord and realised I do quite a bit of maintenance to reduce lag/load times. I decided to write em all down and before I knew it, I had a big ol' list. Here's hoping it helps!

Save/File Tips:

Clear your caches (located in the same spot as your mod folder fyi) I usually delete the onlinethumbnailcache, avatarcache and localthumbcache caches every time I exit the game, the main one to delete regularly is the localthumbcache file, they're just temporary files but it can get pretty big after a while.. if you're having any mod issues, particularly ui ones, it's always worth deleting that to see if it helps.

Remove any saves you're not using from your saves folder, and keep an eye on save file sizes. In my experience, any saves over around 30-40mb start to get a bit laggy. Things that bump this size up are the amount of townies in game and the amount of lots/objects in the world.

Regarding the above point, I regularly bulldoze lots I don't need anymore, just to save the game from having to cope with extra shit to load in the background and reduce save file bloat.

Similarly, I delete a lot of unnecessary townies. Also, try to keep the amount of outfits on townies to a minimum, ain't no townie need four swimsuit outfits, the game will thank you..

If you have cheats enabled you can usually shift-click/delete object on things like random coffee cups or stray cupcakes sims foolishly drop around the world (or eat em.. whatever tickles ur pickle) just get rid!

Whilst we're keeping objects in game to a minimum.. I try to clear sims inventories now and then, including townies. You can do this via mccc even if you're not currently playing that household by heading to MC Cleaner -> Sell Sim Inventory/Sell Household Inventory. RANDOM LUMPS OF CLAY BEGONE!

Think of a save file like a lot.. the more objects in it, the laggier it gets! Try your best to remove anything or anyone unnecessary where you can.

Hit "Save As" instead of "Save" now and then - the more you overwrite a save, the more chance it has of going wonky, treat your game to a fresh one now and then and remove the old one from your saves folder (maybe don't delete it right away in case you wanna roll back, keep it somewhere safe).

If you can (although ik it can be a pain) set up a new/fresh save, you'd be surprised how bogged down old ones can get! For legacy players, it's usually best to do this whenever you have a small family to save yourself some pain, since you can just save the household and take em to a new save (you will lose sims inventories/household inventories/relationships with sims outside the household tho so beware! Pictures/other collectables can be saved to a lot however, and you can always cheat back relationship bits etc.. bit of a last resort but new saves are shiny and fast!)

Make sure your Screenshots/Video folders are empty - move em somewhere else, it works, trust me. If you have a lot of custom music installed try n' clear some of those out too.. the smaller that Sims 4 directory is, the better.

Delete any last exceptions/last crashes (same spot as your mod folder again) you don't need em unless you're planning to upload em somewhere for help.

Settings Etc:

If you get a bad lag spike, opening the main menu and/or saving can randomly stop this. If it doesn't, try exiting the game, clearing your localthumbcache and restarting.

Clearing all notifications from the game panel can also help.

If you can, close all other apps and background apps you don't need whilst playing, ts4 is super memory hungry so it can definitely help.

The GraphicsRules Override file by Simp4Sims can reduce lag/latency and make your game look a little better in the process!

Srslysims Simulation Lag Fix mod can help reduce lag too (if you've altered the game speed via mccc tho, don't use this unless you plan on resetting it to default).

If you aren't keen on, or barely use a pack, consider disabling it.

Not ideal, especially for those of us taking screenshots, but lowering the graphics settings whilst playing definitely helps.

If you use re/g-shade, consider switching it off whilst playing and only turn it on for screenshots.

A clean and tidy pc/laptop runs better in general. Remove anything you're not using/don't need anymore to free up space, remove temp files, clean up your folders now and again etc etc.. especially that dreaded mod folder, speaking of...

Managing Mods:

SORT OUT YOUR MODS FOLDER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.. skdsjdjs it doesn't have to be immaculate but at the very least try n' clear it out now n' then. Also try to separate your script mods/overrides from the rest, patch days don't need to be so stressful ;-;

Personally, I don't merge my mods; if something breaks it's much harder to pinpoint! It makes it easier to find/delete specific mods too.. and let's face it, there's usually one or two items in that set you could do without lmaooo.. also, don't think it helps much tbh! Yeah you could say the game doesn't have to work as hard to load merged files but that's debatable, it's still the same amount of items/polys at the end of the day ¯\(°_o)/¯

If you like merging files and/or see results from doing so, you can merge stuff you definitely know you're never getting rid of, especially CAS/BB stuff.. but steer clear of merging gameplay/script mods! If a merged file seems to be the culprit when using the 50/50 method, try unmerging it and 50/50ing it again! You might not need to get rid of everything if something's borked.

Bulk Rename Utility can be used to remove all spaces and special characters from your mod files, the game doesn't particularly like loading those so it'll thank you.

The Sims 4 Mod Manager is a great way to sort through your mods, you can easily see, move and delete files from here (not great for build/buy, poses etc as thumbnails are usually missing, but great for CAS stuff). An extra hint with this that I've noticed is that if any of my mods get renamed with [D1] at the beginning after looking through them via the mod manager, it means it's a duplicate file so you can get rid.

I also use the Sims 4 Tray Importer to help me sort through mods. Simply save a sim/lot with any cc you don't want and find it in the importer, you can then go through all the cc in the cc tab and delete/sort it (I also use this to sort cc if a bunch has the wrong tags etc, makes it easier to find in my folders by saving em to a lot or w/e - it also spots duplicates which is handy).

It's a ballache, but the 50/50 method is tried and tested if you're having issues.

I like to keep an abandoned cc folder tucked away somewhere, that way you can remove mods willy nilly without stressing about losing them. If you change your mind, you can always grab it back!

[trentonsimblr]

Screenshot tip!

So idk if I'm late to the game in figuring this out and ya'll knew this already BUT I wanted to share in case someone else can benefit from this tip!

Historically when I'm working on a scene and a character is overexposed, I mess around with light placement and decreasing the intensity of the lights. Sometimes I'd get it just right and other times I'd get it close enough and say "screw it"

While working on a scene for chapter 6 I tried something different. I changed the color of the light from white to grey. NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENCE! It fixed the issue and didn't impact the overall brightness of the room. It makes total sense when you think about it and I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it sooner. I'm sure there's instances that it won't work but it's a great tool to have in your back pocket!

Here's the difference:

Here's the exact settings I have all of the lights on:

[pixelglam]

How to make The Sims 4 aesthetic (Tips & Mods) by Amelie

Watch Video

Mods mentioned

Map Replacements

Loading Screen

Cas Background (sage)

Gshade/reshade preset 'pearl'

Sunblind Lighting Mod

Better Ingame Lighting (average base)

No Random Townies

Tips

Cultivating your own sim style

Makeover existing townies & lots

Look for lots on the gallery to incorporate into your own game & inspire gameplay ideas

Use pinterest for inspiration for builds & big life events like your sims' weddings

Try incorporating your own real life aesthetic & style into the sims

Gallery Recommendations

By me/@pixelglam (more to come) x

By @farfallasims x

By @biancml x

Gameplay Ideas (based on my own aesthetic/style)

Host a tea party with friends

Weekly spa days

Galentines Dinner or romantic rooftop dinner for love day

Vacation on a yacht in Sulani (search yacht/catamaran on gallery)

Play Tennis

Do ballet/go to a ballet class

Selfcare Days

Girls Night In/Out

Go on vacations to sulani/selvadorada/mt. komorebi/etc. & utilize the rental lot or have your sim stay at a spa

My resource page featuring all mods, defaults, etc.

Favorite gallery creators

mellowcat

ratboysims

botsbotts

BuildsbyCamilla

CatSaar

simlicy

OshinSims

AvelineYT

SimCubeez

Mandykay77

dreamists

schnuck01

SarahAmina

Jenn2606

simsontherope

gizky

PeachesPlace

K1mmy

lilsimsie

JessicapieYT

RachelPedd

summerrplays

giuliabuilds

[farfallasims]

Countryside Farmstead 🐄