Heads up for anyone wanting to transition from Origin/EA to Steam:
The Steam Spring Sale has started, until March 21 Sims 3 basegame, as well as all EPs and SPs are 60% off.
This obviously also goes for Steam players who don't have all DLCs yet and want to expand their collection.

I assumed they were talking about CAS templates because they asked if Add Sim will put them in CAS. If that's not what they meant, my bad.

The premade Sims in CAS don't exist anywhere yet, they are just templates to use as base for Sims you are going to create. If you want to use them in a world, you first have to create a household with them in CAS, which you can then place somewhere in the world. If you can't place them in a dorm dir...

If you have the Master Controller Cheats module, you can manually change a Sim's age under Intermediate. You can either specify an age in Sim-days ( Age:Absolute ) or the number of days in their current age-state ( Age: Relative .) if you don't mind all Sims going back to the start of their current ...

Do you by any chance use the Smoothness Patch? Something about what you describe reminds me of this warning by Chain_Reaction:

Chain_Reaction wrote: ↑

February 18th, 2024, 5:20 am

My stance on the patch it's self remains that it is experimental overall as the simulator running at a faster rate than designed could pose issues

Ash257 wrote: ↑

March 7th, 2024, 7:58 am

Idk why this happens lmao

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Sometimes the only answer to that question is 'because it's Sims 3.'

Glad you figured it out and got it working.

Have you tried a fesh save of that world? If the lot works there, you could try saving it to the library and replacing the broken version with the fresh save.

the doors, windows and the elevator door seem to be invisible apart from the frame sometimes? When I place them down, they mesh wrongly with the wall and the frame is visible but theres only the wall "inside" the door or, if its the arch, the wall instead of open space. . This happens when you have...

The "please read this before posting" is the sticky at the top of the forum board that Igazor pointed at. We get a lot of people lately asking for help without reading the stickies, at some point mods' patience starts running out. You're the one who doesn't know what mods they have, either didn't re...

I just checked the simblrs I follow, turns out most of them haven't been updated in months, if not years. :( But that goes for me as well, so can't complain. Some that do still update: Posts mostly screenshots of sims, sometimes builds, with an asian style: https://simsmono.tumblr.com/ Posts screens...