Difference between revisions of "Tutorials:TS3 General Modding Tutorials"

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Introduction

All of these tutorials will teach you how to edit parts of your game to create new things, interactions, gameplay, etc. We advise that when you attempt a tutorial, make sure you backup the files you are editing first to avoid a loss of important data (we promise it won't blow your game up *cough* )

What will I need?

All the tools you will need can be found on each specific tutorial, or you can find some of the tools used below.

Tutorials

• Sims 3 XML Tuning Modding
• How to Make a Simple Texture Replacement by ThomasRiordan

• Custom Painting In Sims 3 by Snaitf and Srikandi
• How To Clone A Painting And Change the Texture
• Mini-Tutorial: linking stairs, railings, and fences by Srikandi
• Object Modding (aka adding interactions)by Kolipoki
• Core Modding Tutorial (For complete and total nincompoops, like me!)
• To learn how to setup your Visual Studio to do game mods, see Sims 3:Creating a game compatible Visual Studio project
• IL and DLL overview / tutorial
• How I made a new toilet class with its own tuning

Modding Tools

The Lepid Llama Unpacker by Echo

Extract the contents of a sims3pack exported file. Choose the sims3pack, select the file to extract, and click Export Selected" on the bottom left.

• Lepid Llama Unpacker

Postal Package Editor by Echo

A tool for exploring the innards of the game's package files.

• Postal-Package Editor

S3PE Demo Package Editor by Peter Jones

A package editor to view package contents and edit files.

• S3PE Demo Package Editor

s3pi Library - Programmers Only

The start of an open source library for programmers creating tools for TS3. 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. Created by Peter L. Jones.

• s3pi Library

TS3 STBL Editor

An editor tohange ingame text, like item description, job description, job names, etc.

• TS3 STBL Editor

Sims 3 Package Explorer

A tool to examine, extract, replace and modify Sims 3 package content, by Okeanos.

• Sims 3 Package Explorer

Neighborhood Workshop (formerly Save Game Editor)

• Neighborhood Workshop by TigerM

Snaitf's FNV Generator

• Snaitf's FNV Generator

Simple Encoder for Making Hashes

• Encoder for Making Hashes by ChaosMageX

Experimental Object Cloner

A tool to create new Sims 3 objects by copying and renumbering parts of an original game object. Created by Peter L. Jones

• Experimental Object Cloner