A collaborative space where those with good will port the objects from the Alpha version of classic The Sims (Jan 1999) for proper use in the final product (Legacy Edition included!). If creating CC is your forte and you are interested in contributing, don't hesitate to share your own creations so we can showcase them etc. Otherwise, have fun with the objects that have already been ported!

You may be familiar with the other thread where similar porting efforts have been taken exclusively for the objects originated from 1998 prototypes of the game. To avoid information overload, we're now separating the ports by year simply because it seems a reasonable thing to do right now; but one day we might change our minds and pretend this thread never existed at all.

Objects



Subject to updates whenever needed.

Legend:

🎵 = Has custom sound(s). Please extract the contents of the zip directly to the "Downloads" folder, otherwise the custom sounds will not play

🌲 = Faithfully ported script.

💃 = Has custom animation(s)

Sample	Source	Comments	Author	Status	Download
	PaintingC1.iff	Had a really short useful life in the development span of The Sims (first and last documented appearance dates back to early 1999 until it disappears), it's funny that some pre-release media capture it somehow! Its catalogue name is "Tacky Painting", however all existing sources call it "Velvet Elvis". Oh, no; "Velvet Elvis" is so much cooler. You might say it's a real-world culture shout-out and some sort of predecessor to a more copyright-friendly Velvet Clown. Who'd ever want Elvis to pay them a visit and cry and sob and juggle nonstop, anyway?	LUCPIX	🌲	lpx_1999_paintingc1.iff
	Fountain.iff	A fun little factoid on this object's script is that it has the Watch interaction enabled; in commanding the Sims to do so, they turn their heads and face the fountain for a few seconds, irrespective of the distance between the Sim and the object. It may seem a little useless if you miss the original context, but it's in reality the earliest known implementation of the "look at" primitive; it makes, for example, the Sims look at each other as they talk during meals, or when they are having a good time in the hot tub in groups. Grab this pdf, turn to page 42 and check out D. Hopkins announcing the then-newly implemented primitive.	LUCPIX	🎵 🌲	lpx_1999_fountain.zip
	ChairLivC.iff	At last a functional (and, surely, downloadable) iteration of that chair that has been living in our games all along... in fact, it might signify a moment where the pre-rendered sprites sported fancy and smooth edges for the first time ever, hence why it won't look weird in your game, even as a beta object. Woo-hoo!	purplewowies	🌲	pw_chaircheap_rescuedpalt.iff
	ChairLivM.iff	A rare Maxis object only seen in really dusty and specific pre-release media. Contrary to my former belief, this chair isn't a later iteration of ChairLivC... in fact, they both coexisted in a common buy mode listing... alright, digressing is over, please have fun.	LUCPIX	🌲	lpx_1999_chairlivm.iff
	Hyper HomeMaster 5000DX Mach3	Not a Maxis beta object per se... However!, early releases of HomeCrafter (most precisely, Hyper HomeMaster 5000DX Mach3) had a built-in tool where you could generate highly compressed painting CC off a single canvas template. Because the painting generating tool was compiled a few months prior to final The Sims' release, you can assume that the generated paintings differ a little from their final painting equivalents' overall behavior. While they're mostly broken in the final product — for beginners, they attempt to call missing sound and animations IDs, so it's definitely not what you'd call immersive — it's interesting that they're compiled as a 2.0 IFF other than the final product's 2.5. It has its downsides, of course. Importing the Hot Date catalog definitions to it was a little bit of a nightmare, whilst it seems like they do not quite recognize CTSS resources that were supposed to give it a name and description. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As a gimmick, I added a _BMP resource where you will view, through a dialog window, a picture of me as a baby "in full", accompanied by an annoying sound effect! =)	LUCPIX	🎵	lpx_1998_baby.zip
	SoccerBall.iff	Maxis briefly toyed with the idea of a soccer ball object in The Sims 1 around early 1999 but scrapped it almost immediately (conclusion taken via pre-release media research!). No traces of its .iff files (or their corresponding BHAV scripts) remain in the retail build, though two kicking animations—one for children and one for adults—apparently managed to survive? Without actual code, it's impossible to say how the object functioned, but given how group activity objects typically work in the game, it was likely meant for both solo and multiplayer use as a group activity. The object I just hacked builds on that assumption. It’s obviously cloned off of The Sims Online’s soccer ball but reworked to allow more autonomous play — The Sims 1 fashion —, where Sims don’t need constant player input to kick it. It also doubles as a Body Skill training object. If the beta soccer ball didn’t work at least somewhat like this, I’ll eat my hat!	LUCPIX	🎵💃🌲	Download Page

NEW DOWNLOAD:

Sample	Source	Comments	Author	Status	File
	Fountain.iff	A fun little factoid on this object's script is that it has the Watch interaction enabled; in commanding the Sims to do so, they turn their heads and face the fountain for a few seconds, irrespective of the distance between the Sim and the object (even so, the head turning animation does not seem to work in the base game, at least not in my local game). It may seem a little useless if you miss the original context, but it's in reality the earliest known implementation of the "look at" primitive; it makes, for example, the Sims look at each other as they talk during meals, or when they are having a good time in the hot tub in groups. Grab this pdf, turn to page 42 and check out D. Hopkins announcing the then-newly implemented primitive.	LUCPIX	🎵 🌲	lpx_1999_fountain.zip

Expect the new CC thumbnails to be rendered in game based on the old, non-blue template:


NEW DOWNLOADS:

Sample	Source	Comments	Author	Status	File
	ChairLivC.iff	At last a functional (and, surely, downloadable) iteration of that chair that has been living in our games all along... in fact, it might signify a moment where the pre-rendered sprites sported fancy and smooth edges for the first time ever, hence why it won't look weird in your game, even as a beta object. Woo-hoo!	purplewowies	🌲	pw_chaircheap_rescuedpalt.iff
	ChairLivM.iff	A rare Maxis object only seen in really dusty and specific pre-release media. Contrary to my former belief, this chair isn't a later iteration of ChairLivC... in fact, they both coexisted in a common buy mode listing... alright, digressing is over, please have fun.	LUCPIX	🌲	lpx_1999_chairlivm.iff

MOVING OLD DOWNLOADS FROM 1998 TO 1999:

Sample	Source	Comments	Author	Status	File
	Hyper HomeMaster 5000DX Mach3	Not a Maxis beta object per se... However!, early releases of HomeCrafter (most precisely, Hyper HomeMaster 5000DX Mach3) had a built-in tool where you could generate highly compressed painting CC off a single canvas template. Because the painting generating tool was compiled a few months prior to final The Sims' release, you can assume that the generated paintings differ a little from their final painting equivalents' overall behavior. While they're mostly broken in the final product — for beginners, they attempt to call missing sound and animations IDs, so it's definitely not what you'd call immersive — it's interesting that they're compiled as a 2.0 IFF other than the final product's 2.5. It has its downsides, of course. Importing the Hot Date catalog definitions to it was a little bit of a nightmare, whilst it seems like they do not quite recognize CTSS resources that were supposed to give it a name and description. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As a gimmick, I added a _BMP resource where you will view, through a dialog window, a picture of me as a baby "in full", accompanied by an annoying sound effect! =)	LUCPIX	🎵	lpx_1998_baby.zip
	SoccerBall.iff	Maxis briefly toyed with the idea of a soccer ball object in The Sims 1 around early 1999 but scrapped it almost immediately (conclusion taken via pre-release media research!). No traces of its .iff files (or their corresponding BHAV scripts) remain in the retail build, though two kicking animations—one for children and one for adults—apparently managed to survive? Without actual code, it's impossible to say how the object functioned, but given how group activity objects typically work in the game, it was likely meant for both solo and multiplayer use as a group activity. The object I just hacked builds on that assumption. It’s obviously cloned off of The Sims Online’s soccer ball but reworked to allow more autonomous play — The Sims 1 fashion —, where Sims don’t need constant player input to kick it. It also doubles as a Body Skill training object. If the beta soccer ball didn’t work at least somewhat like this, I’ll eat my hat!	LUCPIX	🎵💃🌲	Download Page

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NEW DOWNLOAD:

Sample	Source	Comments	Author	Status	File
	PaintingC1.iff	Had a really short useful life in the development span of The Sims (first and last documented appearance dates back to early 1999 until it disappears), it's funny that some pre-release media capture it somehow! Its catalogue name is "Tacky Painting", however all existing sources call it "Velvet Elvis". Oh, no; "Velvet Elvis" is so much cooler. You might say it's a real-world culture shout-out and some sort of predecessor to a more copyright-friendly Velvet Clown. Who'd ever want Elvis to pay them a visit and cry and sob and juggle nonstop, anyway?	LUCPIX	🌲	lpx_1999_paintingc1.iff

I thought I'd give porting a 1999 object or two that doesn't have some sort of existing version (even if not perfectly accurate, like how my chair a few months back was just a palette "rescue") a try... and while it's giving me real trouble (largely with sprites, for some reason), I thought I might share this initial behavior check for the grill, for a laugh.



Mercedes, I expected a better finished meal from someone with 8 cooking points...

(And they EAT the raw meat, too! But it magically turns into a hamburger once they've got it in their hands... )

Starting up a more rigorous manual exploration of the 1999 alpha files, I encountered a sample of an unfinished bed object that does not show up in the catalog (every prototype has at least one of those!); it appears to have been made not too long past the compilation of the 1998 demo.

In spite of its less campy "post-steering committee" appearance, the object itself follows the classic SPR# conventions: zero antialiasing, z-sprites being represented as isolated indexes off their respective color equivalents... surely represents a transitional visual moment. From observational criteria, the pool table/fountain/stairs/rubber plant/bbq/microwave/paintings were officially the first objects that received antialiasing treatment ca. ‎September 1998.

It's not a single bed, but it looks strangely narrower than an ordinary double bed - even narrower than the beds that predate it.

All of its "unmade" draw group variants are a direct duplicate of the bed graphics in its "made" condition.

Does not look quite suitable for a port , but still very interesting!!

BedDubX.spf
‎July ‎30, ‎1998, ‏‎12:15:10 PM

Unnamed
"Besides its classic style, this bed has all the latest in mattress technologyto give your Sims more comfortable sleep than cheaper beds."

So, I wanted to share that I've been doing a bit of work on the 1999 grill and... I've made no headway, lol

I can't figure out what's causing the tree break it's encountering--I THOUGHT it was maybe the food object since I'd ported 1999's MealSnack alongside it but pointing the "create" step (back) to the basegame food iff doesn't (consistently) fix it. I'm starting to think I broke something somewhere else... I think if I can't figure it out I might systematically frankenstein the basegame grill and the 1999 grill together until it works right...

EDIT: Stroke of genius and I figured it out. It actually seems to work mostly right (even changes sprite, which the final game food object doesn't do with the 1999 grill unmodified) by changing a very small number of things in the grill and MealSnack... other than that after they finish cooking the meal it just... poofs out of existence instead of them putting it down!