Difference between revisions of "Sims 3:Modding"

Revision as of 14:09, 27 June 2009

CAS (Create a Sim)

Things you can stick on your sims - skintones, clothing, and more.

Delphy's CTU

Currently in beta - allows creation of new stencils, full clothing retextures, and more.

• Delphy's CAS Texture Unitool

CTU Tutorials

Tutorials on using Delphy's CTU:

• Creating Clothing Stencils by daluved1

• Quick and Dirty Guide to the CAS Unitool by Hanlon Razor

Patterns

Burberry, burberry, burberry.

Delphy's Pattern Packager

The Pattern Packager program allows you to add new Patterns (aka items that appear in Create a Style) to your Sims 3 game.

• Delphy's Pattern Packager

TSR Workshop

The TSR Workshop tool has a pattern plugin that can be used as an alternative, offering a somewhat easier GUI and auto-upload to TSR, if you are a member there.

• TSR Workshop

Pattern Tutorials

• Four-Color Patterns In Paint Shop Pro 9~Graphic Intensive! by Misty 2004

• Pattern Guides at TSR

• Colour Patterns in Paint Shop Pro by Regina

• Separating Patterns Without Vectors by JaneSamborski

• Custom Patterns by HystericalParoxysm - French - German - Italian

General Modding

Creating gameplay modifications and the like.

The Lepid Llama Unpacker by Echo

This is a fairly simple tool to extract the contents of a sims3pack exported file. Simply choose the sims3pack file when prompted, then select the file to extract and click the "Export Selected" button on the bottom left.

• Lepid Llama Unpacker

Postal Package Editor by Echo (Alpha)

If you're joining in the fun of figuring out file formats and how to make mods, this is a pretty good place to start. If you're looking for content-creation wizards, this is probably not what you're after just yet. This is a very generic tool, for exploring the innards of the game's package files.

• Postal-Package Editor

S3PE Demo Package Editor

This is a package editor, created mainly to test and demonstrate the s3pi library, but it is quite a useful package viewer/editor and packer in its own right. Created by Peter L. Jones

• S3PE Demo Package Editor

s3pi Library - Programmers Only

This is the rudiments of an open source library to support people wishing to make tools for The Sims 3. It is written in C# under .Net 3.5 and contains wrappers that implement methods to read and write package files, unpack packed files, and interpret several file types.

• s3pi Library

Modding Tutorials

• Sims 3 Gameplay Modding for Dummies by Inge Jones
• Sims 3 XML Tuning Modding (a more user friendly version of the above tutorial, with pictures)

Installation and Content

To help you get custom content working in-game, and other related utilities.

Delphy's TS3 Install Helper Monkey

Use this program for easy set-up and installation of Sims 3 .package files.

• TS3 Install Helper Monkey

Delphy's Sims3Pack Multi Installer

Designed for mass installing multiple Sims3Packs into a specific folder.

• Sims3Pack Multi Installer

Marhis' TS3 Framework Installer for Mac OS X

Help has arrived for Mac users looking for an easier way to install Sims3 .package files.

• TS3 Framework Installer for Mac OS X

JFade's 3Viewer (Beta)

The 3Viewer aims to be a Sims3Pack Installer, Editor, and overall Download Manager all without using the Launcher provided by EA. Think of it as the Sims 3 version of the Clean Installer with additional content management capabilities.

• The 3Viewer

JFade's The Compressorizor Redux! (Beta)

The Compressorizer Redux! will compress DBPF package files to save hard drive space. Just like the Sims 2 Compressorizer, the Sims 3 Compressorizer allows you to pick a directory and will search for all known file extensions utilized by the game.

• The Compressorizor Redux

Building

Instructions and help on building the perfect lot in Sims 3.

Building Tutorials

• How to create a basic roof with different slope angles
• Building an Aquarium pool in S3
• How to build a specific lot type, where to have a party and why it matters
• How to Create Split Levels With and Without Warped Walls

Meshing Tools

WesHowe is doing great work with some Milkshape plugins:

• Sims 3 tools (packages and mesh)

Meshing Tutorials

• Modifying a TS3 Mesh by Wes Howe