#ts4 tips

[cinamun]

Alpha clothes can be tricky, amirite? Right. You know who your friend is? The SPOT HEALING BRUSH!!

I'm using PS Elements but I'm sure this tool is available regardless of which version you use. I'm also certain there's probably an equivalent in whatever editing program you use. I use this to fix clipping, mesh holes, you name it.

[eljeebee]

Friendly reminder...Bathing Outfits

Check your sims' bathing "outfits", especially for storytellers! Bathing outfits are the outfit your sims "wear" when taking a bath or showering. You'll see them naked especially when you have Wicked Whims. Now I know some won't care about their sim's naked outfit, but if somewhere and somehow you plan to take a scene where they're in the bathtub contemplating life, you might want to check their bathing outfit.

Usually, skin details carry over the bathing outfit, but eyelashes (the CC ones AND the EA ones, yes even those, smh..or maybe because they're overrides? who knows, anyway) won't carry over. I'm not sure why this happens, but maybe because of excessive use of CC (lol), but it can't hurt to check. Hair? That depends, sometimes they carry over, sometimes they don't, especially alpha hairs. Makeup will also sometimes show up during bathing, so if you want them to be bare and naked properly, choose an existing outfit you have, say, your sim's sleep outfit no.1 to copy the bare face and accessories (rings, earrings, NAILS).

The steps are:

MCCC > MC Dresser > Copy/Paste (I will assume you have the selected outfit to be copied) > Copy Accessories (for the eyelashes/nails/or if you want their ring to be worn, why not) > Copy Makeup > Copy Hair (if applicable)

Exit the MCCC popups, direct your sim to the shower or bathtub. When they're bathing, click MCCC > MC Dresser > the outfit on the top should indicate "Bathing (0)". Paste the stuff you've copied (Accessories and/or Makeup) by clicking Copy/Paste, then Paste Accessories/Paste Makeup/Paste Hair (don't choose all outfits, because then, all your outfits will be barefaced)

Please do this on ONE SIM at a time! We don't want pasting these on the wrong sim!

[biancml]

Most Used CC | My Favorite CC For Building

To make it easier for those who always download my lots, here is a list with the creators/cc that I use the most. This list does not include all the creators used in all lots!

My most used CC creators for building

Harrie

Pierisim

Felixandre

Charlypancakes

Max20

Wallpapers | Sooky, Sims4luxury

My most used CC collections for building

Plushpixels | Urban Outdoor

Syb | Pavillion, Arabesque, La Ferme, Plouf 

Peacemaker | Floorboards, Classirondack 

Awingedllama | Wall Flag, House Numbers

Rvsn | Light

Mrolkan | Cool Pools

Lijoue | À Louer

Plants | Loverat Plants, Zamia Plant, Weeds

[niftyseasons]

its simple to have fun in sims 4 for me.

aging on for everyone, let your sims be your own people. be picky with your mods so ur game dont lag unnecessarily. set mccc and neighbourhood stories to work along each other, so your stories outside your household progress. get a mod to stop random townie generation so the only new people you’ll see will be the offsprings of your townfolk. basiclaly youre running an ant colony in the background. of course to make sure the offsprings wear decent clothes as they grow older, you get a custom dresser.cfg file from mc command so they wear normal clothes. at least your “new townie” will have families and autonomy, instead of being randomly generated nobodies that have no backstories like tf ?? of course you could use import tray sims in mccc if u want, i personally dont do that. if there are hot sims i want in my game, i’ll populate them manually :p hence i use a mod to stop random townie generation altogether. and errrrm, play normal lifespan. thats my personal preference tho but u do u.

oh, comes in handy too- learn how to use notion as much as you can to keep track of your pixel people because holy hell once you know what youre doing with notion, the sky’s your limit. coz what do you mean im making a whole social media page simulating twitter while my sims beef with each other over a man 😭 i’ll show yall some day. i dont really post in depth of my sims stuff on tumblr coz usually it’s just for my eyes to see (hence, notion lol)

anyways the links:

this youtuber’s channel that covers a lot of helpful storytelling / gameplay tips + she also has some notion tutorials for your sims

+ any notion tutorials you can find on youtube lol

custom mc.dresser file (requires mc command)

or you can just search up on the internet for more and copy the strings in ur config. anyways this is especially helpful if you have a lot of packs so your sims dont end up naked lmao.

realistic story progression for mc command (life changing)

no townie generation.

really helpful mods

im too lazy to link but u can search it up

personality, hobbies, hopes and fears by missyhissy. seriously, get itttt.

some of the mods from the user tyjokr, theyre really good for gameplay.

and obviously rpo but everyone and their mamas have rpo. just dont get all the modules if you dont wanna play a game that goes by 1 frame rate per sometimes.

hope this was helpful byee

also for mods , scarlet realm mod list checker tool is a godsent what the helly

[riverofjazzsims]

Did you know ....

that the following feature will result in

Sims loading in from the gallery looking like who shot john

at minimal 50 what the f*cks

contemplation of game deletion

a drink, a big one with little dicks on a stick

more days than i want to think of resetting everything back as it was - hopefully

How do you avoid this you ask...

Dont do it

dont permanently delete the backup files

even if the devil himself shows up and tells you he will clean your house head to toe , cook you dinner and rub your neck and not fall asleep - DONT DO

see options 1-3

dont be a River and do the above steps

let me save you the headache and the fugly ass sims

why is this option the complete opposite of my thinking.. like am i the only one that thought it would ADD the occults to all the CAS items in a particular folder etc not all occults and remove the human tag

got dayum just talking about it require me to get chocolate and a glass of wine

that concludes my ted talk

[hood-simz]

pro tip that it took me 11 years of playing this game to figure out:

if you're a builder that focuses on clutter (but this goes for any object, really), just pick everything you want for the corresponding rooms as you go thru the categories & put it all in them as you go

i feel like this may be obvious, but it took me 11 years of playing to figure that out...

[pixelplayground]

Love all the new pics, amazing work as always! May I ask if you could provide an aerial view of the kitchen? I struggle a bit with kitchen layouts - or rather, I have way too much layouts I like and never seem to make my mind up on which I prefer, so this would help to see your vision and be inspired! Looking forward to more pics from this beautiful estate!

Hello @omglolapink,

For kitchens, I definitely subscribe to oversized *go figure*, and frequently have two islands (one prep, one dining).

This is the current layout of the Virginia Estate. I almost always include a drinks station area, pantry area, informal seating, family entry, and then a separate panty/butler's kitchen to hide unsightly things like the trash, fridge, coffee machines, etc.

[random-townie]

Tweaking up the Festivals Calendar for my save file

Check also the previous post on how I created brand new holidays with new traditions and changed the calendar layout to 21 days per season.

I think festivals in TS4 are generally a really nice feature.

I like the random calls from friendly Sims to invite me to the festival. Sometimes my Sims are stuck in tedious routine and trip to a festival with some friends or to meet new Sims is a nice way to keep yourself reminded not to make every sim day exactly the same.

The thing about the Festivals is that as players we have no control whatsoever on the their schedule. You can freely delete, edit and create new holidays with traditions of your choice without any mods, but festivals just pre arranged by the game and they happen when they happen.

This can be fixed with another great life-quality mods that is very vanilla friendly - Schedule Festivals Yourself by @zerbu.

So here are my rules for the Festival Schedule.

I don't necessarily want certain festivals to happen in winter, I want Sims in their party outfits on a San Myshuno night out not freezing to death.

All of them will happen way less often, because of both game/mod limitation to have only 1 holiday per day and because I want them to be more rare, hence more inviting to take part in them if next one is gonna be only next year.

Humor festival happens after the Bloomfest, think of it as Aprils Fool .

It will be followed by GeekCon on Sunday.

Flea market will be happening on one Saturday each Spring, Summer and Autumn.

Spice Festival as above, but on Fridays.

HSY Cheerleading and Football Team events will happen twice a year - before the Spring Break and Harvestfest in the autumn.

Second week of the summer is when I combined Youth Festival and Series of Sulani Festivals in a row with the Summer Break holidays I added before. I think of some of the worlds like Sulani to be mostly vacation worlds. Sims can plan summer holidays there to attend all of the festivities.

Fishing Competition and Flower Festivals are for the next weekedns, let's give Sulanians a chance to catch a breath from all the tourists.

Beginning of autumn hosts series of Finchwick Harvest Fair events, where all 5 fairs will start in the middle of first week/month and progress over the next 5 days. It's also a chance to have longer vacation in H-n-B to attend local fairs and admire the nature. Locals will have only one chance year to show off their biggest harvest/best farm animals.

After the Spooky night holiday Sims can attend Festival of Light. In my irl home city we have a light festival each year in the autumn, when evenings come earlier to fully enjoy the show.

The first day of winter is Sunday and it is the day when everyone goes to Mt. Komorebi for a Snow Festival.

And last but not least there is Chess and Computer Science weekend in "January".

And here is what it looks so far in my Random Save File . WIP - missing Romance Festival and L&D festivals and more custom icons to better identify some of them. Hope you enjoy it and get inspired to try something new in your game 💚

To schedule Festivals you need to add a new holiday on any day you wish and pick respective festival from the traditions list. It even adds likes to the traditions/festival activities based on your Sims characteristics, which is an extra sweet twist. I still need to play test the mod but I give it much hope.

Shout out to Peter Plays It on YT for his videos on all the festivals to keep me reminded of their character and fit them better in my Sim year.

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If I ever share my save file publicly I'll surely include all the must have small mods that make the gameplay better and allow customization for things that IMO should just be a part of the game.