Difference between revisions of "Game Help:World Routing Lags"

The only sustainable solution is to open up the world in CAW, and edit the non-routable areas so Sims would not go there anymore. To edit the .world file yourself, you need to do the following steps. They are not that complicated if you know CAW, but it is tedious.

STOP! Backup before proceeding! Have you made BACKUPS yet? If not, go do so Now!

These are summarized instructions. If you don't know what I mean or how I get from step A to B, read the tutorials first and learn how to use CAW separately, which is out-of-scope of this FAQ. The CAW tool is extensive and this is not meant to be a step-by-step guide, so be warned!

• PREP: Make a project folder for yourself, either on Desktop or however you organize your modding projects. This is just my methodology, you might have your own and don't have to follow mine. But if you don't, this is foolproof. I'd know - I'm the fool who made all the mistakes and have refined the steps to the ones below. :)
  • I have 2 subfolders in here named
    • "World Orig files" containing
      • untouched copies of all the worlds I'm editing
      • subfolders named "<town-name> resources" for each world I'm editing
    • "edited resources" containing
      • copies of the world saves from CAW's path "\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Create A World Tool\UserToolData\Worlds"
      • subfolders named "edited <town-name> resources" for each world's resources I extracted
• In CAW: Using the original method from the "editing premade worlds" guide to
  • create a new world in CAW,
  • give it a name and save.
• In S3PE:
  • open this newly created world,
  • import the original game world,
  • I have an extra step to prepare for the next patch, extract all the 4 named resources to the "\World Orig files\<town-name> resources" folder so I can do a FileDiff with the next version, in case EA make changes to them in a patch
    • WPID 0xF609FD60 (World - World info: ID, name, desc)
    • UNKN 0x296A6258 (World - Type: city, vacation etc)
    • UNKN 0x05CD4BB3 (World - Routing info)
    • UNKN 0x05DA8AF6 (World - Routing info)
  • remove the 2 resources identified, and save.
    • WPID 0xF609FD60 (World - World info: ID, name, desc)
    • UNKN 0x296A6258 (World - Type: city, vacation etc)
  • close the world in S3PE and exit.
• Back in CAW:
  • open this world in CAW again, input the info like name, description and thumbnail and Save As under a different name,
  • now that you've saved it, scroll around to the various spots I identified and just repaint with the blue non-routable paint. Read over Armiel's Routing tutorial as needed,
  • save when you're done,
  • close the world and exit CAW.
• Back in S3PE: Open this file back in S3PE and extract these resources, use the Filter options.
  • UNKN 0x05CD4BB3 (World - Routing info)
  • UNKN 0x05DA8AF6 (World - Routing info)
  • UNKN 0x9063660E (World - Roads & Walkways)
  • _IMG 0x00B2D882 0x00000001 (DDS Image)
  • MODL 0x01661233 0x00000002 (Object Model aka Object Geometry)
  • you can close this world and exit S3PE.
• proceed on with the next solution, except you don't need to download any "<Town>FixedRouting.zip" as that is the output of the steps you've done here in this section.

• Download the "<Town>FixedRouting.zip" for the world that you want to fix and extract it.
  1. Base game's Sunset Valley
  2. WA's 3 Adventure destinations:
     • Shang Simla (China)
     • Champs Les Sims (France)
     • Al Simhara (Egypt)
  3. Ambition's Twinbrooks: [link here]
  4. Late Night's Bridgeport
• Be sure you have the correct resources for the correct world! If Windows Explorer don't show same number of files as stated in the download thread, logout from MTS, remove cookies and try re-downloading.
• In S3PE: Open S3PE as Administrator.
  • Now go to the path for the game whose world you want to fix.

STOP! Backup before proceeding! I hoped you have made that backup by now, because we're about to make changes to a game file here. Screwing up at this stage without a backup means you need to uninstall, reinstall + patch and start the whole process over.

• OK, warning done, Ready?
• To save you some scrolling up-n-down, here again are the paths:
  1. Base game's Sunset Valley: \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds\Sunset Valley.world
  2. WA's 3 Adventure destinations:
     • Shang Simla (China): \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds\China.world
     • Champs Les Sims (France): \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds\France.world
     • Al Simhara (Egypt): \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds\Egypt.world
  3. Ambition's Twinbrooks: \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Ambitions\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds\Twinbrook.world
  4. Late Night's Bridgeport: \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Late Night\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds\Bridgeport.world
• Open the appropriate world file that you downloaded the "<Town>FixedRouting.zip" for in S3PE.
  • From the Resource menu -> Import -> From file, navigate to the location where you have the "<Town>FixedRouting.zip" extracted.
  • Ensure the dropdown for the filetypes show all *.* as we want to import everything.
  • Select all (Ctrl+A) the extracted files and click Import.
  • Save the file and exit. Remember to simply do a Save', not a Save As.
  • Remove caches and test the game.

• You can also download the .world file itself if you don't know how to or cannot use CAW and place it in the respective paths above.
  1. Base game's Sunset Valley
  2. WA's 3 Adventure destinations
     • Shang Simla (China)
     • Champs Les Sims (France)
     • Al Simhara (Egypt)
  3. Ambition's Twinbrooks: [link here]
  4. Late Night's Bridgeport: [link here]

STOP! Backup before proceeding! I hoped you have made that backup by now, because we're about to make changes to a game file here. Screwing up at this stage without a backup means you need to uninstall, reinstall + patch and start the whole process over.

• OK, warning done, Ready?
• Download all parts of the world, and rename them to get rid of the "MTS_ellacharm3d_<numbers>_" portion. See Game Help:DFDD4 Download the File#Content with Multi-part files.
• Right-click on the file with "part1" in its name and "Extract here", or whatever command your program uses. See Game Help:DFDD5 Extract from Archive#Multi-part files.
• Place the extracted & joined .world file in the appropriate path and replace the default version.
• Delete caches before starting game (though might not be necessary).