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19th Jun 2024 at 7:49 AM
Last edited by peepeevs : 21st Jun 2024 at
2:28 PM.
Lots of issues creating world the way I want to. Need help! (Delete lot, add bigger lot, loading in game)
So, I have been at this for days trying to work this one out on my own trying to do everything I can, but I think it's just time for me to bite the bullet and just admit I am in need of help here.
I have been trying to work with the CAW tool trying to edit a world that was installed with the Sims 3 downloadable content (Sunlit Tides, one of the EA created worlds). Now I don't have a whole lot of experience with this tool admittedly and it is honestly not very user friendly. I felt I could get away with trying to just do something relatively simple, but apparantly even that is too difficult.
Sorry for the wall of text. TL;DR is:
1. I can't figure out how to delete a lot in CAW
2. I can't figure out how to add a lotsize larger than 64x64
3. I may not have the proper version of CAW, but I don't know how to get my hands on a more proper version
What I have been meaning to do is this: I wanted to make a really nice big home on the top of the mountain. This would mean I would have to get rid of the lot already there (it's just some public park lot or something; not very important anyway), flatten out the mountain surface and expand this surface somewhat, and then place a new bigger lot over there.
Now I have figured out how to open the world in CAW as according to
this thread , so that has not been too difficult. However, naive me thought it would be pretty easy to delete a lot in CAW, but this just seems impossible. I can find the lot in the recources, and delete it, but that stil leaves the actual lot (the plot of land designated as a lot) behind. This is an issue since I can't edit the surrounding area properly if there is a lot that operates on its own settings of height and such. I have tried to edit it by clicking the " Edit in Game" option since you can easily delete lots that way, but for some reason the world will not load in-game. The default worlds provided by the sims 3 CAW seem to load in this way just fine though.
I realise that part of the reason may be that it is not an unpopulated world, like most CAW threads seem to suggest you use. Most of the threads pertaining to this however seem to suggest that this is an issue when you try and delete a populated lot, which I believe a community lot like the one I'm trying to get rid of, is not. Also, given that the thread I linked to is talking about downloaded worlds, I assumed that these worlds would be populated anyway.
I actually also have a second issue that I can't seem to solve: I would like to be able to add a lot in its place that is bigger than the 64x64 that the game provides as the biggest lot. I see 2 ways for this; either I add the lot through the CAW, or I try and make use of the a mod to add my desired lotsize to the "edit own" options. For the second one, I have obviously been trying to make use of
velocitygrass's mod , but it has not been working for me correctly it seems. It is not that the mod doesn't work at all, since I was able to add one lotsize through the cheatcode (I forget the exact parameters, but it was 32x32-ish or something), but many other lotsizes I tried seem to give no response. I figured that it may be due to the fact that I can only go so far with how big I can make a lot, but it does not seem to work with most smaller lotsizes either.
Lasty, I would like say that it is possible that it does not work properly for me due to the fact I was not able to download CAW directly from the EA site, and I am not entirely sure I'm using the correct version of the tool. When I try to download it from there, i just get a blank pop-up, and no further responses. I tried finding another option to download, but most of threads related to this topic have links that no longer work, so I'm left a little lost here as well. If someone knows where I can download a proper version, I would appriciate it (game version is 1.67 btw)
Sorry for the long text, but I wanted to give a good breakdown of all I have tried and done so far. I really hope somebody can help me out here, because this is as far as I can go on my own I'm afraid.
Thanks for reading