I'm working on a Smart Home mod for The Sims 3. The PrismHome Hub mod is made to work with the game’s existing systems whenever possible, while adding new ways to control and automate the household lot.
Features include:
Security System
Enable or disable a simple lot security system directly from the hub (Burglar Alarm).
Lighting System
The Lighting System is based on a reverse-engineered version of the game’s own automatic lights behavior. Since the game already detects when a Sim enters a room and turns the lights on, PrismHome expands that logic by also detecting when Sims leave the room, allowing the lights to turn off automatically when the room becomes empty.
It also includes automatic outdoor lighting: outside lights turn on automatically at 6:00 PM and turn off automatically at 5:00 AM.
It also supports light intensity and color options using the game’s native light system, plus Night Mode, which lets players set a schedule for dimmer automatic lighting.
Sprinkler System
Manage lot watering from the hub, with options to enable the system, water manually, stop watering, or set a watering schedule.
Maintenance System
Includes Energy Saving, which turns off TVs and stereos when no household members are home, and Maintenance Alerts, which notifies the player when broken objects are found on the lot and an option to call a repairman.
Temperature System
The Temperature System automatically reacts when Sims receive hot or cold temperature moodlets. If the system detects that a Sim is too hot, it cools the indoor environment; if the Sim is too cold, it warms the room instead.
When active, it uses the game’s own temperature comfort moodlets, such as Pleasantly Warm and Pleasantly Chilly, to make the indoor space feel more comfortable without replacing the game’s original temperature system completely.
Entertainment System
If a compatible cinema screen is placed on the lot, PrismHome unlocks Cinema Mode. When Sims are watching, only the lights in the same room are turned off. But you need Large as Life Movie Screen from Le Cinema Plumbob.
If you want to test it, send me a message here, please.
Do you use the NRaas mods? Has the information on the NRaas website and forum ever been useful to you? If so, a moment of your time please!
I’d like to share the current situation with Simblr – which you can also read about directly from the site owner here:
https://www.nraas.net/community/topic15428
While it seemed like we were entering an era of old-internet revival and indie websites in the fight against the dead-internet, a significant road block has emerged. Prices have inflated drastically for server parts, memory, storage, and server-hosting itself. This puts all non-profit online communities in peril.
As a result, the site owner has opened a Patreon so that the community can help cover the costs of keeping us online.
Important clarification:
The NRaas mods are NEVER going to be paywalled.
The project will remain open-source and free for everyone. Donations are optional.
These mods are still in active development!
The site and mods have been maintained by Chain_Reaction since Twallan's retirement, providing countless updates and support. Lots of cool stuff over there if you haven't updated in a hot minute.
There is no pressure to donate if your situation does not allow for it. Thank you for the consideration!
Long post ahead with information on the situation and some incentives for reaching membership goals.
If you've had some trouble accessing the site over the past week or so:
The situation is directly caused by the greed and encroachment of something we’re all uncomfortably familiar with: AI companies and the companies investing in them (of simmer relevance, that includes EA and Krafton (InZoi)).
NRaas is not the first nor will it be the last to be affected. Website servers already suffer from bots trawling and scraping their content – including your content that you write and share just about anywhere. Now they’re being bought off entirely.
Archives and file-hosting are at high risk. Myrient is a recent example of an archive that went offline for this very reason.
It can feel a bit grim, but I want to assure you that the burden isn't yours to bear as an individual. As a community, it's actually quite easy to become hostile - and more important, unprofitable - to these invasive species as it were.
The past 26 years of modding and storytelling was OVERWHELMINGLY built upon free software, non-profit websites, and shared resources. A few unscrupulous paywallers and corporate greed isn't going to rewrite that history. Greed is the minority - but it does try to eat everything in its path.
That's all I ask - if you enjoy the fruits of The Sims community or enjoy being a part of it, make it just a little more inconvenient to swallow us.
Do not tolerate GenAI in our community spaces.
Do not support EA or Krafton. Let obscurity and irrelevancy devour them.
Do participate in the community wherever you think you'd find a little piece of purpose - make a blog for your stories, come chat with us in the Chatterbox forum at NRaas, make your first mod.
Lastly:
In a separate post, I'll be posting some CC incentives that will be released as milestones are reached. This content will not be paywalled - it will be posted for free as thanks to the community.
This is being offered on my own accord and is not the official reward for any particular tier. None of the proceeds are going to me!
Please look out for that over the weekend, I still need to take all of the preview screenshots which is perhaps the least exciting part of making CC.
And thank you, on behalf of the volunteers at NRaas.
Greetings! I'm sorry I'm still trying to find all my stuff that got deleted. I will be probably just merging everything into one big rar and putting it out. ANYWHO THIS A new hair!!
Excited to be releasing my first interaction mod on Monday 9/29!
I was inspired by several amazing TS4 mods that add custom social menus for realism and added drama, and decided to try to bring that to the Sims 3!
Your sims can quickly make new enemies (or besties) with the use of the new Baddie Socials Menu. The mod uses EA animations (for now) and also adds 12 new custom buffs that will be given to your sims when using any of the 10 new interactions! Each interaction will be fully tunable so that you can adjust the relationship gains, sim availability (age & species), buff behavior, etc.
I am finishing up this mod and will be wrapping up my new 'Elder Socials' mod soon after. I also have quite a few ts4 to ts3 recipe conversions complete that I will hopefully be releasing soon! Note: I'm very new to the modding community so not exactly sure of the protocols around releasing conversions. I'm still waiting on a response from the original creators regarding permission (they will all be released for free as they are not my original mesh).
Thank you to everyone on ts3CreatorsCave and my patreon for being incredibly patient, helpful and kind! <3
Hi Nicolette, I hope your well! I recently started 'vlogging' my sims content and I have been trying to download your cc, but the SFS links don't work. Is there any chance you can share a folder of your cc? I would really appreciate it, your work is amazing, and it'll definitely help with my content :)
ACTUALLY NGL, ima try and do a folder soon. my stuff got deleted from SFS idk why. ima have to reupload literally everything
Took me a while, but I finally sourced the mods I use for Late Night gameplay - you can find the rest of my EP lists all linked here under ‘Modpack Lists’ :)
Firstly, an important note about Bridgeport performance & mods:
Bridgeport is a notoriously unreliable town, I personally only got it to load once I had a big mod cleanout, but I know other people haven't had problems with this, so it seems to be luck of the draw tbh - if you're going to be playing in Bridgeport, I'd recommend limiting your mods to the bare essentials as much as possible - make sure you don't have a whole bunch of script mods installed at once, as that appears to be a contributing factor, and uninstalling resource-heavy mods such as NRAAS Storyprogression has helped others as well - anyways, good luck & I hope you're able to get it to work!
And as always, if you have any other suggestions of mods I should add to this list, please let me know!
With that disclaimer out of the way, onto my modpack for Late Night! ⬇️
EllaCharmed's Fixed Bridgeport
I've heard mixed things about the world fixes, but Bridgeport is so buggy I couldn't get it to work no matter what I tried (I think my mods folder is too big) - some people said this fix worked for them and it's worth a try if you're having issues!
NRAAS Overwatch
This mod is an essential in any sims 3 save - but especially in Bridgeport as cars / sims tend to get stuck way more often!
Faster Elevator Moving / Loading
This can help reduce lag in cities with elevators as normally they take an age
LN Camera Fix
This fixes the issue with the camera in high-rises going all over the place when you're in tab mode, and allows you to control it better - it also removes camera drift & increases the camera lower / maximum placement
This mod is incompatible with Aikea Guinea's lower/no drift camera mod - but it has all the same features as that mod, so you can just replace it!
Ani's SimDrinks / 'Get Drunk' Mod / Drunk Walk Version / PhoebeJaySim's Drunk Mod
Gives your sims moodlets / reckless impulsive interactions / mood buffs depending on how much 'juice' they have at the bar, which makes clubbing much more fun imo - the only thing about Ani's mod that's kind of unrealistic is that the moodlets last 24 hours! But for me, the entertainment factor of my sims turning up to work still drunk from the night before is pretty funny, so the length of the moodlet doesn't bother me :P
The 'Drunk Walk' version makes sims walk with the 'pond walk' from Seasons when they have the 'drunk' buff (I'm not sure if seasons is required for this to work, but it might be!)
PhoebeJaySim's Mod is newer and it has quite a few more interactions available!
LazyDuchess's Lot Population Mod
This one is an essential for any town really - but it's especially good in Bridgeport as it means the clubs and so called 'hot spots' actually have other sims in them instead of being completely empty
New Dance Routines Mod
Adds in new dance interactions for sims, using animations from the sims 4 - sims will do these actions autonomously so it adds in a bit more variety for nightclubs
Subway Charge
Does what it says on the tin, sims now have to pay a variable amount for a subway journey based on their age
Less Space Needed for playing Bass
Very small fix that reduces routing issues with sims playing the bass
No Stretch 'Children Can' Series
As well as adding a bunch of interactions from other EPs, this mod also allows ur kiddos to play the instruments that come with Late Night, which is my favourite use of this mod (as it makes no sense to me that kids can't learn the piano until they're teenagers!)
Better 'Lifestyle of the Rich & Famous' LTW
Updates this LTW to make the money goal higher and adds in a 5-star celebrity requirement - making it much better for Late Night gameplay
Celebrity Difficulty Mod
Makes becoming a celebrity variably more difficult depending on what version you choose - this also makes the celeb system less annoying as your sims have much less of a chance of accidentially becoming famous
This mod also alters what actions are seen as 'disgraceful', so getting divorced or having a child out of wedlock will no longer make your sim be banished from society
Bouncers want bigger bribes
This list is becoming 'how to make your sims lives harder' but that's just how I like to play my game lol I love a struggle - anyway this mod does what it says on the tin - bouncers want higher bribes so your sim genuinely won't be able to get into an exclusive lounge if they're broke (which makes gameplay much more realistic)
Only Papparazzi / Occult can 'Eat Cake' from Cowplant
This mod is really silly, but I love it because it means you can pop a cowplant outside your celebrity houses to act as a bodyguard against paparazzi - which I think is just a really fun feature bc paps are annoying asf and there's not really another way to protect against them lol
🦇Vampire Mods:🦇
sHoNi's Vampire Overhaul
I personally use Bite, Minor Things and Thirst - it alters some things about vampires that used to be small annoyances for me (eg: you now don't have to ask to bite sims, you can just attack them - which makes much more sense!)
Contains a bunch of new 'personalities' for NPC vampires, this basically makes them a bit more dangerous / impactful to the gameplay of your town as NPCs will convert other sims to be vampires etc
Dead People Don't Glow
This stops vampires having that visual 'glow' override that can look kind of weird and yellow/greenish - this mod has been said to work for some peoples games and not others, I have no idea why that is, but it works for me on the most recent patch! I'd recommend putting it in your 'overrides' folder instead of your main 'packages / mods' folder as that appears to make a difference for some if it's not working
Silent Vampire Run & Powers
Turns off the noise for some of the vampire effects - which can get obnoxious / annoying after a while if you're playing with a main sim who's a vampire
Human lifespan for supernatural sims
Some people love the fact that vampires (and other occults) are basically immortal in TS3 - I'm not one of them as I usually play vampires in households with other human sims and it annoys me that they don't age, this mod makes it so that they live a normal lifespan :)
Hey guys! I don't know whats going on with my simfileshare but it was disabled recently so majority of all my things are gone. I'm trying to get them back up and emailing simfileshare to see whats going on.
I wasn't planning to do another release until I actually finished the whole UI, but it has been brought to my attention that some people were still seeing the original blue panels in build & buy modes, which turns out is caused by shop mode being turned on. I'd like to provide a fix for this, and in doing so I might as well just upload everything I've completed so far.
The next release is likely to be the completed and polished version unless major issues are reported (and please do let me know if you find anything wrong or broken so I can fix it!)
New in this version:
Create a Pet
Create a Bot
Blueprint mode
Saving animation
More popups and tooltips
Shop mode live/buy/build/CAS panels
Various fixes and improvements
Incomplete/missing in this version:
Most online features
Some popup windows and tooltips (but I believe I have most of them now!)
Compatibility:
See my post here for a tutorial on making conflicting mods compatible with the UI.
✅ Lazy Duchess's Catalog Search mod
✅ CAS background mods
❌ Other UIs such as Clean UI, Blackout UI, and any recolour mods
❌ Loading screen replacements
❌ Karma powers mod
❌ xcas core mod
Recommended mods that pair well with the UI:
Piggy pink CAS background
Thought bubble icons
Moodlet icons
Trait icons
Modern map tags
Pretty Pause Border
Cuter Speech & Thought Bubbles
Thank you all again SO much for all your support and for pointing out issues and conflicts. I couldn't do this without your help! Please do continue to let me know if anything is broken or missing, there are so many things to test that I'll inevitably miss some without the extra help.
Credit: Gradient Blue loading screen by emelie.ikj on MTS (I just used their text strings files as the base for my loading screen text)
Download v1.0.0
If your game is not in English and the loading screen shows the original Sims 3 logo, try this loading screen version instead and please let me know if it works or not, I can't test it myself :(
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