My writer sim gained celebrity status by publishing novels.

I can also confirm that my self-sim is now a level 2 celeb thanks to simply completing painting opportunities. This was before Showtime had been released.

Is there a way to copy one sim's appearance onto another?

I have two different saves of the same family (one mostly for staging pictures and such, one for actually playing the game). I gave someone a makeover in one save, and I'm wondering how I can apply the same makeover to her in the other save. I can think of two ways that might work; 1) Made-over sim is copied into my library, so I could delete the "original" and insert the copy in her place, using MC to re-create the family ties and such, or 2) Export the made-over version to the sim bin, and use MC to edit the "original" in CAS then select the madeover version from the bin.

I'm just wondering if there's something much easier that I'm overlooking.. and I'm kind of hesitant to use either of those ideas because they both sound, umm.. dangerous somehow, like I'm just asking for something to go wrong and cause my save to blow up

Edit the sim in CAS via cheats, save them as a default, go to the other sim, pick the default. I think that should work.

Thanks! That's what I meant by #2, I guess I was worried about the weird stuff that can happen when you edit sims in CAS through cheats. Maybe I'll just keep a third save before I know for sure it didn't make anything implode

AFAIK this doesn't work unless you use MasterController's Advanced options or the "bodysnatch" command of AwesomeMod.

Yes, I realize this. But having my level of OCD, I am uncomfortable with the idea of the unwanted software idling in the background. True, it's good that it isn't "in your face", but until there is an imperative reason for me to patch, I'd rather just not have it.

Back to the bug: I do use a little bit of CC, though it only happens sometimes.. not often enough that I can say it's from anything I have downloaded. From what I've seen it's just a location that gets borked, like 'the local business office' or 'the grocery store'. Then there's no way to reach it, so I can only cancel the case. Any more information would be helpful.

I use MC, and it seems to have worked (including the different outfits, makeup, etc)

On a different note, does anyone know of a fix for stuff stolen by kleptos to eventually respawn? Also to be able steal from community lots again?

"Ask Sign" will tell you if the two sims have compatible signs, which will help them get romantic. The way it works is -- the signs are divided into two groups, and you're compatible with the signs in the same group as you. So you have a 50/50 chance of being compatible with any given sim. (Kind of silly IMO... you don't need 12 signs to implement it that way, could get the same effect with 2 )



Fix? I believe that's working as intended. Why would you expect it to respawn? :O

You can always go into Edit Town and replace it, or put out even better stuff for your kleptos

Is it? I can only burgle a place so many ti times before it's picked clean. Seems to me things should be respawning not just so my kleptos can steal it again but so those unfortunate victims don't have to live in an empty house. But more importantly I want back the ability to take things from community lots. That was patched out... xD

When was that patched out? A few weeks ago my klepto Sim stole some light fixtures from the Lunar Lakes science center. That was with 1.33 and AwesomeMod. It might of course be AwesomeMod's doing because the light had respawned, too.

According to what I can dig up, it was a patch that came with WA that altered that. Stealing things that are outside on community lots is still possible. But prior to that we were able to steal pretty much anything.. inside or out. Including the major statues, flagpoles, various other items that are now off limits. I'm not sure if awesomemod undoes this or not.. I'm still willfully stuck in the past at 1.29, however, so perhaps the community would test that for me.

Edit: Hunting up a wiki page, apparently, Klepto-ing is fixed via awesomemod. Well, now, it appears that it might be a good time to patch. Seeing as how trying to keep too many twallan mods on at once has made my game fubar. -hyperventilates- Okay, I'm gonna do it. But I don't have to like it. I'm hoping this will fix the problem.. I need a hug.

Does anyone knows how to reset/reduce a Sim's skills?

And is there a way to un-become a celebrity?

The only way I know of is by using Twallan's MasterController Cheats. Adjusting skill levels are in the Advanced section and celebrity level is in the Intermediate section.

You can also download a Harder Celebrity Mod from here in order to prevent your entire town turning into celebs.

http://www.modthesims.info/d/424239

Huh? Where?

My MasterController doesn't have such options... Advanced section only have "Edit in CAS", "Force Kill" and "Reset Sim" (which doesn't reset skills). And my Sim is already a celebrity, so the Harder Celebrity Mod isn't helping much.

Add-on to Master Controller, you download it in the same section of the site.

"MasterController Cheats" - it's an extra module you'll have to install alongside MasterController.

You need to download the additional Cheats module for MasterController.

^^Ah, so you had several tabs open, too

If you were to make friends in a foreign country, do they become older or do they stay the same age?

They will age while you are at home and their aging will stop, like yours, while you are on vacation.

I remember that once I've been to a site that had all the rabbitholes listed and also details on how many floor tiles they occupy and how many additional tiles they need to fully function, but I can't find it anymore. Does anyone here know?

Custom Sims 3 has those listings. It would surprise me if they weren't also somewhere in the wiki here.

They are found here at CS3: http://customsims3.com/forums/thread-101.html

Great! Thanks! Aaaand...bookmarked.

They are also listed on the wiki although a few are missing. I updated a lot of them myself.

Treeag has a book that lets you set the skill level you want. I like it a lot. If they have creativity 9 you can set it to 5 and let them paint more.
http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=293562

I have a lot of road flaws like that. I thought it was because the road could not handle the custom lot. If I dont customize it only happens on hills.

I have a wheel but I sometimes forget and use the arrow keys anyway.

How do you get self sims?

You create one in your own image in CAS?

I know. I have treeag's Book of Talent, but last time I checked, it doesn't have the option to 'unlearn' skills- only increase them. Anyway, the Master Controller Cheat worked just fine.

Speaking of Twallan's mods, I read someone mention in a blog that having the DebugEnabler will give you an option to "make statues" of Sims. However, I don't see this option in my DegubEnabler; so does the DebugEnabler have some sort of add-on mods (like the MasterController Cheat) which I don't know of or something? thanks

There are no add-ons to DebugEnabler. The option is called Sculpturify.

Does anyone know if 'Organic' versions of the meals count for the 'Perfect Chef' achievement? I thought they would, and am pretty positive I have completed it, but I've not been notified of its completion, or received the badge for it. I'm getting annoyed that I'll be doing it again.

I haven't been playing for a while, and just patched last weekend to 1.34. I haven't done 1.36 yet. My question is if anyone else has had an invisible sim who didn't have a plumbob? It happened to the tattoo guy in my game - he became completely invisible but still could do a tattoo and townies could speak to him and you could see his speech and thought bubbles. You couldn't click on him. 'Fix invisible sims' in Debug Enabler didn't make him visible. So I annihilated him. Just wondering.

It sounds like your textures had problems loading or something. If it happens again, try entering "resetsim First Name Last Name" in the cheats bar without the quotes and see if it works.

Thanks for answering - I forgot to say I tried 'resetsim' and that didn't work either. I don't think I ever had a sim become invisible before that wasn't an active sim. I also forgot to say that my sim was there getting a tattoo and one moment the NPC was there and the next moment he was invisible. Wish I could remember exactly what else was happening when he disappeared, but I was more focused on Debug Enabler>Fix Invisible Sim.

Oh, stupid questions! Perfect, I'll be here all day! So I am creating a lab, this is the first time I play an inventor so I want to add a bunch of science stuff. I was wondering about this screenshot...



There are some items I have never seen (I have never played the science career either). Are they some sort of rewards? How do I get/unlock those? Aka, the alien in the tube (is that what it is?) that ray thingamajigger, etc.

Stupid question is stupid.

I think the alien in the tube is an object from PandoraSims, a crappy site with porn stuff. The other items in the back of the room should be from there too. The rest in the front side of the room is buydebug stuff & LT rewards.

I think the alien stuff is actually a prop from buydebug. It came with Late Night and is one of the movie sets. It's actually quite huge, the alien in the tube, the control panel and the lab table with that ray thingy are all one object.

The rest are the fishtank from HELS, one from the store (Futureshock), the chemistry table from GEN, PETS terrariums, two more items from the Futureshock store sets, a buydebug junkpile and the drafting table and inventor bench from AMB, and some inventions you can create on that bench, including the time machine in the back on the left.

So Pandora is selling Buydebug things. Huh color me NOT surprised. Anyway, hmmm What's missing from the pic... The ant farm is from Pets, the gray box near it is the Pets LT reward pets cleaning machine. Videogame from the Store Futureshock sets. The ceiling lamp is either LN or SHT (can never remember). Rocket lamp from GEN.

Is it possible to completely delete/remove sims3pack cc without reinstalling my game?

I wasn't paying attention and installed a couple of lots that apparently came with a slew of cc and now I have all this unwanted crud just lurking about my hard drive. I've tried to delete them via the Launcher but none of the individual objects (furniture) showed up on it, just the lots which I have deleted as best I can.

If you still have the Sim3Packs around that you want to have in game, you can delete the contents of the DCCache folder, which contains a group of .dbc/ebc files that are the combined contents of ALL the S3Ps you installed. Delete the contents of the DCBackup as well. Now, just reinstall the S3Ps you actually want through the launcher (or CCMagic if you use it, or want to start using it), and you're all set. Make sure you clean out the library of any lots and sims you might have customized with any of the content from the now unavailable S3P lots you will not reinstall.

This only works, of course, if you still have all the S3Ps archived away somewhere to reinstall the content you want. Otherwise, you can still get rid of all the custom S3P content you have by deleting those files mentioned above without reinstalling the game, but without, obviously, S3P content. Note that this method does not affect any content you installed as package files in the mods/packages folder (if you have any).

Just wondering, but is it possible to remove a Sim's 'career clothing'? I don't like the career clothing the game likes to assign my Sims.

If you are up to date with patches, or at least the Showtime patch, you can plan a new career outfit simply by using the dresser or mirror, there is a new "career" outfit option. You can't delete the default, but if you add a new outfit, your sims will use that one.

Is there a secret to getting the 'Your Right To Party' badge? I've had 4 awesome parties, but I've gotten nothing. =/

Are you talking about the BBS badges you can get for your personal page and avatar? Then you should ask there lol. Don't hold your breath for an answer, there are a LOT of badges problem.

Thanks for taking the time.

Turns out I had to remove every piece of cc including my .packages to get rid of the unwanted stuff because some of the crud seemed to be .packages. This is really strange because I can identify every individual .package in my Mods folder... but anyway, everything is now deleted and the problem solved using the MTS game help instructions here.

Moral of the story: pay close attention when downloading (try not to be completely distracted by the pretty).

I have wanted to ask this forever, and please remeber that I am a Theatre arts/Computer Major so I know the color wheel rules and stuff. but

Does this match?

It does match, but it's very......green. I assume that's the look you were going for. You might want to add some complimentary color for accents to break it up a bit.

Plus, that bed on the right is FAR too white. Maybe throw in a couple of earthy browns?

If you're talking about the painting on the wall? It's perhaps not quite crashing in colors. I would think it's kind of Egypt on a wall in deep Connecticut somewhere. You have a teenager living there? Well I would get rid of it. Even if it's not quite crashing, it's not doing the interior any good and looking out of place.

With your art degree probably having such a thing on the wall would not be good if you can't blame the teenager.

So any idea why I wouldn't be able to install store content now that I've patched my game up to 1.36 (and installed the store content patch thing)? It keeps telling me my software isn't up to date. Do Lunar Lakes and Lucky Palms require stuff packs, of which I have none? I'm so confused.

Try the Patch Downloader from the downloads section. It usually does a much more thorough job than the Launcher does.

Don't know if this is your problem, but once I couldn't download from the store because my game was patched incompatibly with whatever Origin update I had.

My next stupid question is: do stray pets have traits? I adopted a stray cat and dog, using Mastercontroller, of course and neither pet has any traits. But maybe I messed them up. It doesn't seem to matter - just wondering.

Not sure how, or if, MC would mess it up, but stray pets do have traits. Not sure why yours don't.

That's actually how I updated my game. I was two patches behind.



Thanks for the tip. I have the two towns downloaded from the store, no problem, but I can't get them to install. I'm using the launcher because if there's a better/easier way to install towns, I don't know it.

I also can't get the silly tablet to work in my game. Installed, yes, working, no.

I don't use any mods at all and sometimes strays in my game have traits - sometimes a full set or maybe one or two - but sometimes they don't. I'm not sure what influences it but I've had about a 50/50 mix of both situations.

Funny, 'human' service NPCs have the same problem; most only have 3 traits.

I was thinking of building a restaurant/bar type community lot, but I realised from when I have made a couple before that when you place the food registers and then take a sim to visit the lot, only certain (seemingly random) meals ever seem to be available. Is there any way to change and select which meals are available from these registers at each specific placement? Because I wouldn't want to go and build a high class restaurant and then have everyone eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, if you see what I mean...

My problem is an odd one. I noticed the front door of my sim's apartment building was littered with the same book. By chance, my sim was outside picking up one book when another sim came by and drop it. Is there a way to fix this problem?

Here's my stupid question: Why is the spiral staircase tab in build mode empty? Or are they added in an EP or stuff pack. I currently have the base game, Late Night and Pets

Yes, you'd need Generations for spiral staircases.

Are any of the Sims living on the lot members of the book club?
Are the books being delivered or dropped by random Sims?
Is there a public reading area on the lot?

I'm just thinking more info might be useful here.

Does anyone remember the Billie Jean video where Micheal Jackson just stepped on the floor and the tiles lit up under his feet? Can that be done in Sims 3?

My turn to ask a question instead of answer one.

If I set a community lot as a Coffee House and set it up with a stage, will it still behave correctly if I put Hogan's Deep Fry Diner on the lot instead of the official coffeehouse?
I'm asking because this is what I have done and I have just come from playing the game where a SimPort Sim was sent to perform at my coffeehouse. He arrived and performed BUT my Sim could not watch the show; it just dropped from the que after being selected.

Is the book's name something like "How to Serve and not be Served?", if so, they are the books for SHT proprietors and I had the same issue when I placed an apartment building in Starlight Shores, some ten books in the lobby and outside. I also watched one of the proprietors constantly trying to pick one up and then drop it back on the floor. No idea, why it's happening.

When testing a world for someone we kept seeing the book litter and it turned out that sims were not able to enter the apartment. Send a sim there and see if the front door or the elevators needs to be replaced. If those are working fine, then check to see if the NPC doors work.

I think it should work. I did the same and apart from one bugged Simfest it has worked fine so far. I don't use Simport, however, so no experience there.

Its the only stupid question I could think of *smile* it is very green, so I might sprinkle some rubies around

I get that kind of reflection a lot, the bed is the same value as the the wood but it has a metal property instead of a fabric one, I did change the bed to the HELS single and took a light out. Why do they default to metals?

There was a "rug" similar to this in The Sims 2 Nightlife. The Chazz Gassed Incandescent Floor Tile I bet one of the modders around here could copy that object and tweak it to fit into the Sims 3 world. I think it only lights up/changes colors at random tho, so it would also have to be modified to light up only when a Sim steps on it.

Or if it was created as a regular light and paired with the secret floor switch from WA it could be triggered to turn on that way.

Hey, that would be nice for a night club!

That's exactly why was I was asking, I wanted it for a nightclub. Thanks Maceman44 and Chreai.

Follow up, I couldnt find any pillows. I do appreciate the advice, there should be a thread for just decorating advice BTW ... IMHO.

I was trying to do it as nice as the upstairs and I think I failed.

Considering your playstyle I think you have a rather restrained taste in decorating . This is what I use to help me overcome the overly sleek:http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Ok, now my question:
I found these bones in Appaloosa Plains. Are they available for the mere mortal player somewhere?

I would change out that rug for something/recolored in a complimentary color. You still have your green motif, but it will be less overwhelming. BTW, I like the new choice in art.

They show up in CAW; do they perhaps show in the World editor part of the game?

Ha, I always tend to forget about the World Editor because I hardly use it - trees look so off when placed from within it - but no, the rocks are there under Landmarks but I couldn't find the bones. And they are neither in buydebug nor community objects, while that covered wagon can be found thrice.

Those bones are in one of my World Editor More Stuff mods here at MTS.

Shimrod's mod was what I was going to suggest next!

Excellent. Thanks to both of you.

My sims keep rolling the "meet a vampire" want.. though half of them ARE vampires themselves and the other half live with vamps / roll the want while interacting with one. Is this a known bug, or mod conflict? It doesn't bother me enough to have to get rid of any of my mods if that's the case but it is a bit annoying.

My Sim keeps getting that want when around his mother, who is a vampire (and obviously he knows her). He also gets the "hunted" moodlet when around her, even though they are best friends... doesn't make much sense to me?

Sims have complicated relationships with their parents, just like humans do.

Is there any way to quickly create a "clean" default pudding face Sim? With clean I mean a Sim with no career or special outfits attached.

My butler has disappeared but is still charging me weekly, and I can't fire her because I apparently have to do it in person. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Try resetSim "name of the butler" maybe it works and he come back and you can fire him.

I'm playing Lucky Palms right now and does anyone know if the food truck can appear there or is it exclusive to Bridgeport?? I see the ice cream truck around town now and then and am just wondering where the food truck is. What's necessary for the food truck to appear??

The food truck will only show up if you place them in the world to begin with. To do this you will need a mod to add the food truck and its related parking space to the catalogue.

There is also the known issue that the trucks will only drive around on the roads from lot to lot if the world is classified as a City, like Bridgeport. In all other worlds (Suburbs) the trucks will just teleport from lot to lot instead.

Its also recommended that you place a minumum of 5 food trucks with extra empty spaces for them to move around to and from.

What!?!? And here I've been thinkin' I just couldn't find it!!

Would you happen to know who makes such a mod, and/or where such a mod could be found???

I've made a "Dance Club", zoned as such, which I built in Bridgeport. But when I've saved a copy to my lot bin and tried to place it in any other world than Bridgeport, even when the intended lot is zoned as a Dance Club, the option of placing it there just disappears. I can't work out why?

pcexpert has a mod that enables the food truck and parking space in the vehicle catagory here> http://www.modthesims.info/d/424758

Simsample has made the food truck and parking space available in BuyDebug in post #3 of this thread> http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=427515

I personally use simsample's files.

The patriarch of the Alehaster clan in my game just died. I got a notification saying he is dead...but that's it! Geeze, aren't the rest of the family supposed to mourn? They don't even seem to realise he's gone. There's no option to have a funeral. Is it because he wasn't in the active household when he died? His tombstone was at the graveyard, so I went and placed it in a Sim's inventory and tried to have a funeral but the option would not show up so I had all the relevant Sims go "mourn" his grave. And shouldn't his funds have been distributed among his relations, at least? What's going on here?

Twallan's traffic mod now allows the food truck to turn up without the parking spaces.

Why does glitched custom content (like the shirt that makes babies have long fingers) appear in the game when the sim you downloaded on the exchange wasn't even wearing it?

'Nuff said.

Sorry but ever since I got a virus from downloading stuff on the Exchange from Sims 2, I've NEVER downloaded anything from the Exchange since and that includes Sims 3. When Sims 4 comes, I'll be continuing that practice.