These are rubric items that are shared in all sections and show up for everything.

The title above the post text controls the rubric's category, a number indicating its display order in the list, and its title, with no spaces between the word and the dividing | character: Category|Display Order|Title

Numbers for display order set quite high are so they will show up after the lower-numbered ones on the section-specific thread.

Titles that begin with ** are rubric items that will not apply to every upload (an "Other" sim is not going to need a comparison picture or be evaluated based on likeness, for example) and thus can be set to N/A by the moderator when evaluating an upload. Links below the title are provided to the creator along with the rubric reasons and are links to the appropriate section of the guidelines, relevant tutorials, etc.

In the post text, the numbers at the beginning of a line indicate the star rating for a particular rubric item, with a possible 1 to 5. Exactly how these numbers are used will vary based on the type of rubric item... Is it a "was it done right? yes or no?" type evaluation which would have only 1 or 5 as options? Or a matter of quality that will be more of a sliding scale including 1, 2, 3, 4, 5? Or something else?

A dividing | character can be given at the end of any one of the 1-5 star items to give a link that is relevant to that item.


Note to moderators: This first post (the summary) must be maintained manually. If you delete or add a rubric item or reorder anything, please edit this first post. All edits to Common Rubrics (that is, this page) requiring editing its summary must be manually updated on every single individual rubric thread. Please copy the # link to use in the summaries, not the post number, to view the individual post.


Files
50. Rar, Zip, or 7z

Information
1. Title and Description
2. ** Resource credits

Screenshots
50. Size
51. Lighting and Distance
52. Image Editing
56. Images in Post
57. **Show all items
59. In-game

Other


Special

Note: These are the only rubric items that can be rejected for on their own, with no other rubric items selected at all.

1. Uploader requested
2. Stolen content
3. Other
4. Duplicate
5. Uploads in Sets
6. Not Completed Requested Changes
7. Pay or pirated content
8. Adult content
9. Content we do not allow

Creator Guidelines: Creating Archive Files

1: Your file appears to be corrupt. Please double-check that you have a working file on your computer by trying to open the rar/zip/7z file, and once it's uploaded to MTS, try to download the file and open it yourself to ensure that it got uploaded properly.

1: You have packed your creation into a rar, zip, or 7z file. However, you have double-compressed your file (a zip inside a zip, for example), which is not necessary and does not increase compression. Please put your files just inside a rar, zip, or 7z file without "nesting" them. You can use folders inside the file to organize things if you need to.

1: You have packed your creation into an archive file, however you have also included a non-necessary file containing all packages (or other files) combined.

3: Your upload is properly packed into a rar, zip, or 7z file. However, you have included some additional stuff in your file (like a Thumbs.db file, images, text file, etc.) which are not necessary. Consider removing these from your file, as they are not needed for your creation to work.

5: Your upload is properly packed into a rar, zip, or 7z file, and you have not included any additional files or double-compressed anything.

1: There is little or no description of your creation. All creations on MTS must have at least a short description of what it is (for example, "This is a set of 3 formal dresses in red, blue, and green," or "This is a family home in Craftsman style," etc.). If you need help with writing a description, you can ask for assistance in the Creator Feedback Forum.

1: There is a description of your creation, but it is not in English or has significant grammar and spelling mistakes to the point where it cannot be fully understood. If you need help with writing a description, you can ask for assistance in the Creator Feedback Forum.

2: There is some text in the upload post, but it does not adequately describe the creation. All creations on MTS must have at least a short description of what it is (for example, "This is a set of 3 formal dresses in red, blue, and green," or "This is a family home in Craftsman style," etc.). If you need help with writing a description, you can ask for assistance in the Creator Feedback Forum.

3: The title and description for this creation adequately describe the upload. However, a little more work on the description could make it truly interesting and really encourage people to download your creation. You may also want to check our guide on post formatting.

4: The title and description for your creation clearly explain what you have made and give downloaders a good idea of what they're getting.

5: The title and description you've given your creation are not only descriptive, but interesting and creative!

1: The pictures of your creation are either thumbnails, or are just too small to see quality. At least 800x600 pixels good minimum size to aim for, but bigger is better! Your images can be up to 2560x1440 pixels, and 800 kb, so you have lots of space to work with!
1: The size of your pictures are at least 800x600, but they have been resized in a photo editor and are blurry and pixelated.

3: The pictures of your creation are big enough that the quality can be seen. However, it might be a good idea to add a few pictures that are larger, to show it off a bit better, or consider doing larger pics for your next creation. At least 800x600 pixels is a good minimum size to aim for, but bigger is better! Your images can be up to 2560x1440 pixels, and 800 kb, so you have lots of space to work with!

4: The pictures of your creations are of a good size, so that we can see your upload well.

5: The pictures of your creation are magnificently large, so it's very easy to see!

1: Some or all of the required screenshots are too dark for us to see this creation properly. Please make sure that outdoor shots are taken during a sunny day, and indoor shots are taken with all lights turned on. | Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

1: Some or all of the required screenshots are too bright for us to see this creation properly. If taking shots indoors, make sure to turn on enough lights that we can see the creation, but not so many that the pictures are overexposed. | Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

2: Some or all of the required screenshots are taken outdoors, rather than inside, and are too dark for us to see this creation properly. For TS2 and TS3 we strongly recommend taking required screenshots indoors for the best lighting. | Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

2: Some or all of the required screenshots are taken indoors, rather than outdoors, and are too dark for us to see this creation properly. For TS4 we strongly recommend taking required screenshots outdoors for the best lighting. | Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

3: The required screenshots are lit well enough for us to see the quality of this creation.

4: The required screenshots feature good lighting which makes it easy for us to see the quality of this creation.

5: The required screenshots for your creation feature beautiful lighting with no areas too bright or too dark. Well done!

1: The required screenshots have two or more significant problems with image quality, such as being very distorted, blurry and crunchy, and/or heavily edited in a photo editor (such as Photoshop). This makes it impossible for us to assess the quality of your creation. All required should be straight from the game with minimal editing that does not alter the in-game appearance of the items. Minor edits like cropping, collaging together photos, adding a small border or unobtrusive text are fine. Filters like sharpen, blur, levels, colour adjustment, etc., should not be used on the required screenshots, as downloaders would like to see what it will look like in their game. To avoid distorting the images or making them crunchy, make sure to maintain the correct aspect ratio when resizing images, and never enlarge images. Also make sure that your photo editor is not compressing the images too heavily when saving. You may edit any additional screenshots as you like, of course, but make sure the required ones are not edited.|Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

2: The required screenshots for your creation are very distorted, either stretched or squashed. This is most often caused by resizing the image and not retaining the aspect ratio. It can also be caused in TS2 by not having "use square pixels" checked in your game options.|Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

2: The required screenshots for your creation have been edited in a photo editor ("Photoshopped") and it makes it impossible to tell the quality of your creation. Required screenshots should be straight from the game with minimal editing (cropping, collaging together photos, adding a small border or text is fine). Filters like sharpen, blur, levels, colour adjustment, etc., should not be used on the required screenshots, as downloaders would like to see what it will look like in-game. You may edit any additional screenshots as you like, of course, but make sure the required ones are not edited.|Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

2:The required screenshots for your creation are very blurry or crunchy, which makes it impossible to see your creation(s). This can be caused by several things: Enlarging screenshots, using the in-game camera (C key) in TS2, turning compression too high or quality too low when saving images in your graphics editor, and using image formats other than JPG. Your images can be up to 2560x1440 pixels, and 800kb - larger images usually mean better quality.|Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

3: The required screenshots for your creations have been edited in a photo editor ("Photoshopped") but the edits performed do not significantly alter the in-game appearance of this creation.

3: The required screenshots for your creation are a little blurry or crunchy, but not so much so that it interferes with seeing the quality. Your images can be up to 2560x1440 pixels, and 800kb - larger images usually mean better quality.|Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

3: The screenshots have a very heavy fisheye effect; this distortion makes it difficult to see your creation.

5: The required screenshots for your creations are clear and have not been edited in a photo editor ("Photoshopped") in any way that alters the in-game appearance of the creation. This gives downloaders a good idea of what your creation will look like in their game. Thanks!

1: Some of the required screenshots are taken from too far away, and some are taken from too near. In both cases, it makes it impossible for us to evaluate your creation fairly. When you take your pictures, frame the image so that your creation fills the whole screen, while ensuring that all parts of the creation are visible. |Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

2: Some or all of the required screenshots for your creation are taken from too far away, so that we cannot clearly see the quality of your item(s). When you take your pictures, frame the image so that your creation fills the whole screen, while ensuring that all parts of the creation are visible. |Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

2: Some or all of the required screenshots for your creation are taken from too close, so that we cannot clearly see the quality of your item(s). When you take your pictures, frame the image so that all parts of the creation are visible. |Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS


3: The required screenshots are taken from a sufficient distance so most of the creation can be seen. However, it would be better if you zoomed in or out a little, so that your creation fills the whole screen but no parts are cut off.|Screenshot Basics|Screenshot Basics CAS

4: The required screenshots are taken from a good distance, so no parts of the creation are cut off but it's still close enough for us to see everything.

5: The distance on your required screenshots is perfect, neither too close nor too far!

1: Some of the required screenshots are hosted on a service like TinyPic or Photobucket, instead of being attached to the upload thread. Please upload all required pictures using "Manage Attachments." Also, while it is okay to add images to your post text using img tags, please make sure there are no more than 4 of these images in the text.

2: Some of the required screenshots are hosted on a service like TinyPic or Photobucket, instead of being attached to the upload thread. Please upload all required pictures using "Manage Attachments." You may include additional pictures using the img tags, but all required pictures must be uploaded to MTS.

2: You have more than 4 images linked in the description/text part of your post using the img tag. To keep loading times down, please limit the number of inline images to 4 or fewer, or place additional inline images in an infobutton so that inline images do not all automatically load.

5: All your required pictures are attached to the thread for your creation, rather than hosted on a service like TinyPic or Photobucket, and you have 4 or fewer images linked in the description/text part of your post using the img tag. Yay!

1:Your upload consists of multiple items, but the screenshots do not show everything you are sharing. Unless otherwise stated, all required screenshots are required for each and every thing.

2:All the items included in your upload are shown, but the screenshots of the additional items are too small to see the quality of those items.

2: All the items included in this upload are shown, but some of those items are partially obscured or cut off. Please make sure that all items are fully visible.

3:All the items included in your upload are shown, but the swatches or thumbnails of the additional items could do with being a bit bigger.

4:All the items included in your upload are shown with all required screenshots. Great!

5:All the items included in your upload are shown with all the required screenshots, and you've really done a great job showing off every single thing you've made.

1: The creation requires pay content to function in-game, or includes pay content as part of the uploaded files.

2: The upload links to optional content (such as items packaged/saved with but not included with a lot or sim) which is an item you must pay for, from a site that is simply a repository of unmodified content uploaded without the creator's permission, EA content converted to the base game with no other changes, or pirated EA Store content.

5: Your upload uses all free or EA Store content.

1: This creation consists of adult content, containing nudity (exposes or shows female nipples, or the genitals or butt crack of either gender), sexual content, swear words, or illegal drugs. Content like this must be uploaded to our adult site, Sexysims.

5: This creation contains no adult content that would need to be uploaded elsewhere. Thank you!

1: The upload consists of one or more of they types of content we do not allow on MTS. For a full list and details, see Uploads NOT allowed in MTS Creator Guidelines.

3:Some of the resources used in this creation (like textures, images, or meshes, for example) seem to have been made by another creator and reused in your download. This is okay. However, for future uploads, we strongly recommend providing a link and credit to the original creator of each resource. Without proper credits, your sims creations are vulnerable to copyright takedown notices, from which MTS cannot protect you.
Please see our Resource credit guidelines for more details.

4:There are some credits for the resources (textures, images, etc) used in this creation, which is awesome! However, it looks like some of those links are incorrect or do not provide the recommended info. While this is not required, for each resource we encourage uploaders to provide the creator's name, the name of the resource (or a description), and a link to the original post/page for that resource. For example: "Wood texture by Creator1 - www.creator1.com/woodtexture". Search results like Google images don't count! Please see our Resource credit guidelines for more details.

5:All of the resources used in this creation have proper attribution to their original creators, yay!

1: You have requested that this upload be removed. We hope you resubmit it later when you get it sorted out!

2: You have requested that this upload be marked Changes Required. Let us know when you've made the changes!

1: This upload is mostly or entirely made by someone else, and claiming you made something yourself when you didn't is both lying and stealing.

1: If a creator would like to upload their content here, they are welcome to do so themselves, but please don't upload on someone else's behalf.

1:The user that created this content has been banned since it was uploaded, and thus there's no reason to waste time ticking any rubric items except this one, since they're never going to see the PM anyway.

1:The content is for a game other than Sims 2 or Sims 3 or Sims 4. We do not have a section in Downloads for any other sims games, currently. Downloads for Sims Medieval can be attached to a regular thread in our Sims Medieval Discussion Forum, with the category set to Downloads when you make a new thread.

1:This is not game content.


2:The content has been uploaded to the wrong section. Please make sure to choose the correct section when sharing content.

1:This upload is a duplicate of an existing upload. While we appreciate the effort put into the creation, it doesn't make much sense to host an item that is essentially identical to one we already have.

1:This upload is a duplicate of one you have already uploaded. Please see the PM regarding your other upload for any changes you may need to make.

1:You've uploaded multiple similar or closely related creations in separate threads. Please upload closely linked sets in one thread.

3:You've uploaded multiple similar or closely related creations in separate threads. Please add the other parts of your set to THIS thread!

1:We can not approve this upload as it needs some changes to meet the Creator Guidelines. As there has been no update to the upload in the given time frame (1 week) we have removed the upload. Please review the reasons given in the Changes Required PM, and make the required changes before reuploading your work.

1:We can not approve this upload as it needs some changes to meet the Creator Guidelines. You have repeatedly made only some of the requested changes, but not all and so we have removed the upload. Please review the reasons given in your Changes Required PMs and make the required changes before reuploading your work.

1:Your bypass (or previously approved) upload needed some changes to meet the Creator Guidelines, however, there has been no updates within the past 3 days. We are therefore sending this back to the moderation queue, where it will wait for further updates.

1:Your bypass (or previously approved) upload needed some changes to meet the Creator Guidelines, and was sent back to the queue, however, you have not done the required updates within the past 4 days. We have therefore removed the download from the site. Please review the reasons given, and make the required changes before re-uploading your work.

2:We did not approve the upload as first uploaded as it needed some changes to meet the Creator Guidelines. Some of the required changes to the upload were made in the given time frame (1 week), but not all. Please review this PM and make all of the required changes.

1:This upload is unable to be moderated as there is no description and/or no pictures. Please read the Creator Guidelines before uploading.

1:Make sure all of the required screenshots are taken in-game. Pictures taken in any other way (Create-a-Sim, Body Shop, a 3D editor, texture file, etc) are not allowed as required screenshots. You may include screenshots not taken in-game as extras if you desire.
3:All of the required screenshots are taken in-game, on a lot. Thanks!
5:All of the screenshots, including both required and extra screenshots, are taken in-game, on a lot. Thanks!

1:We cannot properly assess the quality of this upload. Make sure to check out the Required Screenshots and Quality sections of the rubrics for more details on how to improve the upload. Once the issues are fixed, we'll be able to assess the quality section of this creation

1: Please remove all advertising from the description and pictures of this upload. This includes links to your website, any social media (Tumblr, Youtube, etc), Sims 4 gallery, or sponsorship site (Patreon, Ko-fi, etc) in the description text, and any logos/usernames for such sites added to the upload pictures. There is a more appropriate place for this info on your MTS profile.

2: All advertising from the description text of this upload needs to be removed. This includes links to your website, any social media (Tumblr, Youtube, etc), Sims 4 gallery, or sponsorship site (Patreon, Ko-fi, etc). There is a more appropriate place for this info on your MTS profile.

2: All advertising added to the pictures in this upload needs to be removed. This includes your user info on any social media (Tumblr, Youtube, etc), Sims 4 gallery, or sponsorship site (Patreon, Ko-fi, etc). There is a more appropriate place for this info on your MTS profile.

5: Thank you for removing all advertising from this upload!