Aliennooboo’s SweetFX Settings
How this differs from the original settings by @brntwaffles:
No vignette(/gradient effect)
FXAA Anti-aliasing (instead of SMAA)
How SweetFX differs from Reshade:
It’s super light and shouldn’t have much effect on your game performance, as long as your PC isn’t too old and cranky.
It can’t do any super fancy tricks like change the DOF.
If you want your game to be permanently more colorful and brighter, SweetFX might be your thing! You can have SweetFX turned on even during gameplay, unlike most Reshade presets.
Back up your files just in case anything goes wrong!
Download and extract the .zip file I uploaded, you should now have a folder called Aliennooboo SweetFX. This is the only thing you need to download to get SweetFX - no separate programs or anything!
Go to your desktop, right-click your TS4 icon and select “Open file location”. You should now be in the Bin folder (the path ends in The Sims 4 > Game > Bin).
To be safe, you might want to back up everything in your Bin folder as well!
Open the Aliennooboo SweetFX folder and copy everything from there to the Bin folder. DON’T copy the whole Aliennooboo SweetFX folder, ONLY the contents of it!
This action should not try to replace or modify any existing files in the Bin folder. (Unless you were using SweetFX before. If you were, I suggest you remove the old files before installing my files there, to make sure all the files are correct.)
And you’re done! Open your game and enjoy the new look!
If you want to uninstall, just remove all the files you copied into your Bin folder earlier.
If something isn’t working quite right, see my SweetFX help tag. Feel free to message me if you have questions!
F10 to take screenshots. They are saved as .bmps in your Bin folder. If you use the C key, the SweetFX effects won’t be visible in your screenshots!
If you want to hide the UI in the screenshots, you have to go into Tab mode before pressing F10.
You can try turning off edge smoothing and post-processing effects in game settings. Personally I have edge smoothing set to High and post-processing effects turned off. The combined edge smoothing of the game and SweetFX looks best to me. If your computer can’t handle the game’s own edge smoothing, the one provided by SweetFX is still better than nothing at all!
According to @brntwaffles you can’t use SweetFX in windowed mode (apparently the game crashes if you do), but I play in windowed mode and I don’t experience crashing.
This doesn’t conflict with any lighting mods.
If you have a Bin_LE folder, you probably won’t be able to use SweetFX! (This folder came with the Legacy Edition release.)
SweetFX was made for Windows and doesn’t work on Mac.
You can’t use SweetFX with Reshade to my knowledge.
SweetFX works with SRWE. Thank you for this information @misschaii!
The preview pictures above are unedited when it comes to brightness, colors, etc. But I have to mention that I use very brightly colored items in my game, so that might make the indoors/sim preview on the bottom look brighter than someone else’s gameplay with these settings.
@brntwaffles has a rather vague TOU and it’s unclear whether releasing an edited version of their settings is permitted; if they ever come back and want me to take down this download, I will!
I highly recommend that you download these lighting mods as well, to get the most out of my SweetFX settings:
The game WILL look darker if you don’t have these installed, especially the indoors!
A huge thank you to @brntwaffles for the original settings!
