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NRaas Needs Your Assistance!

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.

bellakenobi

4to3 Powluna Long Skirt

Another versatile and much needed comission by @notgonnapostanythinghere!

For CF

Recolorable

Polycount: 1.2k

Everyday, Formalwear, Outerwear, Valid for random

SimFileShare | Mediafire | Simblr.cc

All credit goes to @powluna 💗💗 Download the original here

viccus

I recently learned about the Russian artist Konstantin Andreyevich Somov and immediately fell in love with his style (not only because he painted nude men towards the end of his career...🤭) I felt inspired to put some of my favourite ones into The Sims 3! I wasn't initially planning to share them, but then I thought some might like to have them in their game as well. So here you go! They are all in-game meshes, and the non-male/nsfw paintings shown above are all base-game compatible. (Some of these previews are a bit blown out by the lighting/sun in-game, please excuse.) Now, for the spicier ones...😏

First of all, don't worry, the uncensored versions are what you're gonna get, so just a fair warning if you'd either not want these or don't want gorgeous 20th-century erotic male paintings obscured by an eggplant emoji. 😂 These require a few packs in order to show up in your game. - Pets, University Life, and Into The Future.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I know I will!😉 ~~DOWNLOAD~~ Konstantin Somov Paintings Konstantin Somov Male Paintings/Poster

catharsim

Sooky88 Paintings 4t3

Be still my dark academia heart...

15 files in vertical, horizontal, and leaning variants. They all have an ungodly amount of presets. I tried my best to group them by wood tone with the exception of the fruit being all together.

All credits to sooky88. Do not claim this conversion as your own or reupload. @xto3conversionsfinds

Download (sfs)

quynnii

💜 Linzlu's Vintage Outfits: TS4 to TS3

I'm back with some more TS4 conversions! This time, they're from @linzlu. 💜

From left to right:

Young Lad's Outfit (1890s / 1900s)

Mr. Green Outfit (1900s / 1910s)

Anne Apron (1900s)

Details

Outfit: Mr. Green Outfit Ages: Young Adult, Adult Categories: Everyday, Formal, Outerwear, Career

Outfit: Young Lad's Outfit & Anne Apron Ages: Child Categories: Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Outerwear

Full credit goes to Linzlu. I just converted their meshes and textures into TS3!

Download (Google Drive)

hope43a

4t3 Sifix Seraphine Dress

Original by @sifix

4t3 conversion by me

A/YA

Enabled for: Sleepwear

Valid for maternity ✅

Channels: 1

Polycount: 11k

DL | ALT

quynnii

💜 Medieval Bumper Pack: TSM to TS3

After 5 months, I've finally converted all remaining outfits from TSM! Here are the final four (left to right):

Physician

Monk

Off-Duty Knight

Wizard

Like most TSM conversions, these outfits need invisible shoes.

Let me know if you run into any issues!

Details

Gender: Male Ages: Young Adult, Adult Categories: Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Outerwear, Career

Download (Google Drive)

swiffyjk

PSA to all users of Default Replacements in The Sims 3!!!

This issue and fix applies only to your base-game/expansion pack worlds, not custom-installed worlds or store worlds. It's also Windows/Linux only.

Do you have this issue with all of your Sims in any new base-game/EP world, where your Sims' hair looks really weird because it has an odd texture, skin/eye replacements don't load etc. until you pull them into CAS?

(Even when it's a new save and a supposedly fresh cache?)

I've figured out the solution! Your game actually still does have some cache... but it's not in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 like you'd expect.

The Fix: (Reduces a full game install size by >10GB too!)

Go to your actual game install directory, e.g.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3

2. Then go into the Caches directory and delete the .objectCache file inside (just named the name of the world if you don't have file extensions shown). If you use the discs, make a backup of this file!

3. Now, your game will actually load new textures from your default replacements! The new, modifiable cache will be found in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\WorldCaches and you can now delete that cache safely whenever you get new default replacements!

You'll need to repeat this for any EP world you have as well, if you want the fix to work on those, in the Caches folder inside their install directories:

The Sims 3, Base Game: Sunset Valley.objectCache

EP1, EP01, World Adventures: China.objectCache, Egypt.objectCache, France.objectCache

EP2, EP02, Ambitions: Twinbrook.objectCache

EP3, EP03, Late Night: Bridgeport.objectCache

EP5, EP05, Pets: AppaloosaPlains.objectCache

EP6, EP06, Showtime: Starlight Shores.objectCache

EP7, EP07, Supernatural: Moonlight Falls.objectCache

EP9, EP09, University Life: Sims University.objectCache

EP10, Island Paradise: IslaParadiso.objectCache

EP11, Into the Future: Oasis Landing.objectCache

Notes:

Be wary that using this method will make the first time you load into a world take a little longer, because the game needs to build the cache for the first time. This delay will lessen over time.

The EPX names with no 0 are for Steam, and the EPXX folder names are for EA App/Origin typically, but you might have them installed somewhere else if your install is old or via the discs.

Yes, the spacing in some of the filenames is inconsistent - yours might be different but that's how my Steam install looked

If something breaks (which I doubt would happen, but there's a possibility?), verify your Steam installation or repair your EA installation, then empty your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/WorldCaches folder. (Just re-add your backup if you have a disc install.)

This isn't me promoting regularly clearing your cache for no reason! That will cause a LOT of lag/delay. As a rule of thumb, you should only clear your cache when you add new mods or default-replacing/overriding CC, or your game isn't working properly. Otherwise, you're making the game do extra work. The cache is there for a good reason! It makes everything faster. However, if you do need to clear the new caches, caches for ALL worlds will now be in WorldCaches.

Apparently, WorldCaches is a very sacred folder on macOS, so I still wouldn't mess with that if you're not playing via the Windows version.

Steam/EA App may detect your game install as faulty because these files are gone, and redownload them, but this is rare and shouldn't happen automatically.

This has kind of been half-discovered in different situations before, but I couldn't find anything like this on a Google search. The generally-accepted solution was to mess around in CAS and NRaas, which is so slow for an entire town! It also doesn't apply to objects, and I think this fix might even help with objects too?

I've asked the Sims3SettingsSetter team if they could implement this as a patch so you don't need to mess with the files yourself. I'll update this if I get a response as that'll make things easier!

love you all! this got me giddy to try defaults again because they were SO annoying to do before

architectural-sims

THE DAY HAS COME! 👀

Many simmers have been asking me for my private Sims 3 conversions for a long time but since I uninstalled the game some time ago, I couldn't find which hard drive I saved all my custom content on... UNTILL NOW!

I'm sharing over 450 .package files of conversions from TS2, TS4, Cities: Skylines and that online game we should not mention here 😉

There are five .zip files with over 1.2Gb of content converted for my personal use over the years. I'm so sorry but as I said, I don't have TS3 installed right now so I can't take preview pics.

Also keep in mind some files could be not finished or have some tiny bugs because again, this was for my personal use so I didn't care about some things not being fully finished back then.

Feel free to do whatever pleases you with this CC (edit, share, ect.), just give credit if you consider it.

Tell me if you find any trouble, but keep in mind i don't have the game nor the programes I used installed, so maybe I can't be much of a help, but feel free to ask!

SIMFILESHARE - NO ADS

comtessezouboff

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP AAAAAAAAAAA

deniisu-sims

IMPORTANT!!!

quynnii

💜 Long Tunic with Dagger: TSM to TS3

After 15 years of playing TS3, I've finally made my first conversion. Whoop whoop!

Like most TSM conversions, this outfit needs invisible shoes (check out Danjaley's if you need some).

Let me know if you run into any issues!

Details

Gender: Male Ages: Young Adult, Adult Categories: Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Outerwear, Career

Download (Google Drive)

quynnii

💜 Constable Outfit: TSM to TS3

Condemn criminals to the pillory in style with this fancy getup!

Like most TSM conversions, this outfit needs invisible shoes (check out Danjaley’s if you need some).

Let me know if you run into any issues!

Details

Gender: Male Ages: Young Adult, Adult Categories: Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Outerwear, Career

Download (Google Drive)

quynnii

💜 Puffy Shirt and Bag Outfit: TSM to TS3

An aristocratic outfit complete with a little leather bag to store your ill-gotten riches.

Like most TSM conversions, this outfit needs invisible shoes.

Let me know if you run into any issues!

Details

Gender: Male Ages: Young Adult, Adult Categories: Everyday, Formal, Outerwear, Career

Download (Google Drive)

quynnii

💜 Long Tunic Outfit: TSM to TS3

A little conversion for clerics, priests and sims who like to trip over their robes when sword fighting.

Like most TSM conversions, this outfit needs invisible shoes.

Let me know if you run into any issues!

Details

Gender: Male Ages: Young Adult, Adult Categories: Everyday, Formal, Outerwear, Career

Download (Google Drive)

deniisu-sims

Medieval Fantasy Dump 4t3 - commissioned by @opalescenteffervescentsimblr

Proud of the reductions here <3

The capes aren't morphed - there's no need to be, really. However, for CU and PU there can be a little clipping due to the lack of up to date cape references available.

Original creators: @goldenrosesims - @vixxiesims - @lechairschair - @simverses

DOWNLOAD (package): SFS / Dropbox

sulsulzukohere

TS3 Conversion - Byzantine Clothing

I learned how to convert clothing to TS3 and my Byzantine set was first on the list. The originals for TS4 (converted from CK3) can be found here. I'm hoping to do some more soon. They're all recolorable w/ quite a few presets. Polycounts aren't through the roof, pretty much in the 3.5-7k range I think. 1k textures. No thumbnails (yet? idk). Please let me know if there's any significant issues. In order: Iustina, Alexios, Ancalime

Download: SFS | Patreon

syninplays

Millwork Wainscoting Set - ts3 version!

Reached a new level of lazyness and since the original preview was far prettier than mine I figured I could just link it hehe (below the cut is my own preview + polycounts)

>Converted all items except for the pole thingy, everything is found in the paintings category and is shiftable!

>Fully recolorable, I recommend sticking to plain colors or using wood patterns that have horizontal and vertical versions, since some of the objects have rotated textures (not my doing, it's how it was done originally)

>Mesh/texture credits go to @sims4luxury , original ts4 post can be found >here<

>DOWNLOAD< (always free on patreon)

If you feel like it, you can support my tears me on Patreon or Ko-fi 🥺🥰

vintagesimstress

Today I bring you something that's been on my mind for a veeeery long time, but I lacked the skills do make it work the way I wanted. Now, thanks to the lovely @zeehasablog who's introduced me to the realm of VFX magic, I could finally make the vision come true! A bunch of ready-to-go Brythonic huts, to be used as world deco, especially in combination with TOOL. So that we could all create not only single farmsteads but also bustling oppida 😊

The design was changed halfway through (ok, 'halfway' is putting it mildly, I was basically almost done 😬) to include all the things I learned from late Peter Reynolds, the once director of the Butser Ancient Farm and a kind-of-patron of this post. Mesh-wise we get three huts: a big one with protruding rafters and a porch, one without the rafters and a small, simple one. All of them take their textures from the first, most complex version - so in case you unmerge, do not delete those.

The regular occurrence of daub fragments, occasionally burned and thus preserving the impressions of wattles, argues that such houses were made of wicker wall in the form of a circular basket (...). The height of the walls of such houses is to a large extent conjectural although an experimental conduct of the second type of house discussed below indicated a height of 1.50 m. The waterlogged remains of an Early Christian round-house in Northern Ireland supports this estimate. -- Peter Reynolds, 1996: Rural Life and Farming, in Miranda J. Green (ed.) The Celtic World

Rafters, no rafters and a small, porchless hut. Wicker + different swatches of thatch.

Texture-wise, each of the huts comes in three versions: with walls of wattle, daub and lime wash. Additionally, the small hut also has a version in stone. All of them have a number of swatches. (They're separate files so that they could use different bump maps, in case you wondered).

Over time the wattles dry, become brittle and lose their strength but the power of the wall now lies in the brittle strength of the daub which is plastered into the wattles both inside and out. Daub itself is a specific amalgam of 30 per cent clay, 60 per cent earth and 10 per cent straw, grass, hair or any other fibrous material. Initially it is mixed with water to apply to the walls. Gradually it dries out and provided the mixture is correct, there is little cracking and ultimately the fibres both hold it together and reinforce it. It is not unlikely that a lime wash was finally applied to give a waterproof and, incidentally, an attractive finish. -- ibid.

Wattle, daub, lime wash and stone, with the very creative names of v1, v2, v3 and v4 ;)

And then all the files come in two versions: Maxis-Match, using (except for wattle and pillars) only textures from the game, and alpha, where the roof and stone textures were replaced by ones by k-hippie. So that the huts would fit your aesthetic no matter which one it is 😉. You can use both if you want to. The difference is the most striking in case of the stone huts:

Left: MM, right: alpha, which in this case means k-hippie's textures

For the full list of credits and links to the textures used, see below! (Technically you don't need them, but I guess you'd like to, so that your world would look consistent, right...?)

As the huts' meshes are not in any way constrained by the TS4 limitations - the walls are lower, the door fit wherever I put them etc. etc. - they don't look exactly like the huts you can build in game. But they're close enough to fit in relatively well, I think. Here's my attempt at making an in-game copy of one of the lime-washed huts:

An in-game built hut vs the premade deco one. No offence EA but I like mine more ;)

Last but not least: the VFX thing. Long ago I came up with the idea that it'd be cool it the huts could emit steam from their roofs, just like in real life (they had a hearth right in the middle of the floor, after all, and all the resulting smoke had to somehow get outside). And now they do! Which makes them look reeeeally cool, especially during cloudy weather:

It's an oldish screenshot, things have been fixed since, but the steam remained the same. Please ignore the mess in the foreground ;)

Important note here: in case you unmerge your package, DO NOT DELETE THE TUNING FILE. That's the one responsible for the steam appearing; without it your huts will be referencing non-existing tuning and your PCs will explode. Or something along those lines.

Hope you'll find them useful - I certainly believe that I will 😁 Enjoy (and tag me if by any chance they star in your screenshots)!

DOWNLOAD (free on Patreon, no Early Access)

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Resources used:

Stucco wall, Cleanwall, some stone wall and CL roof by EA

wall wattling 1 by mammut (Simszoo)

thatched roof and stone wall by @k-hippie (shoot, the site is down again so I can't link, but it's k-101 and k-202)

rustic tree trunk column by IDBD - looks like they retired and their stuff is gone, but you can download the file HERE.

big barn door by @simverses (mesh edited/simplified by me, to make the door more solid)

Big heartfelt thank you to all the creators - both for their work and their generous TOUs!

procrasimnation

This is really cool, and addresses one of my biggest bugbears about the game (i.e. the emptiness of EA worlds once you have hammered all the modern objects out them).

Also, if you grew up in the UK and you didn't spend a term in primary school studying either these or crannogs, culminating in making one out of paper, what were your teachers even doing?

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