This is great! Well done! I'm so glad it's working for you now.
Yes, I personally think it's better to use Easy CASP Editor. That's what I do! Or rather, that's what I did many years ago.caccigirl wrote: ↑March 1st, 2022, 6:38 pmMight you possibly be able to confirm for me that it would be better to use CASP Editor to hide a bunch of the Maxis-made CAS items, rather than Blacklisting (again, assuming I am using the correct term 'Blacklisting'?) them with Master Controller, in order to speed up the CAS load time in-game?
Blacklisting is the correct term but the reason I don't use it is because you can only blacklist 30,000 lines. That may seem a lot but it's not really when you think of all the variations of clothing. We have more details about this in our guide about Blacklisting which you may have seen already but I'll copy the relevant part down below because I can't link to it directly. I highly recommend reading the whole page as well if you want to understand the differences completely.
"Warning
Due to the vast amount of CAS-parts (EA-packs, Store Content, Custom Content) within the game, players are unable to blacklist (hide) a large amount of these CAS-parts with an Invalid_Tuning mod or Valid_Tuning mod (CAS-parts you would like to use).
The maximum amount of lines you can insert in this mod is approximately 30,000 (you'll need a text editor to view the number of lines used, preferably NotePad++). Going over this amount will prevent the mod from loading properly and it will be unable to hide any previously selected CAS parts in the game's CAS engine."
The next paragraph on the Blacklisting page goes on to say that Easy CASP Editor is a good alternative. There's also a link to our guide on how to use Easy CASP Editor which I'd completely forgotten about.
As for speeding up the loading process in CAS, having less to load is always going to help but there is a little tweak you may not have heard about that can improve game lag in general, as well as in CAS. It's called "Smooth Patch" and is available on Mod The Sims here: https://modthesims.info/d/658759/smooth ... 1-2-1.html Make sure you read the documentation over there and you may also want to take a look at my post about it here as well. chatterbox/topic10091