More clothes for kids

@SemaviLady This is totally awesome! Though I already have a lot of patterns installed... It takes me like 30 seconds to load the fabric category lol.

With this it might go up to a minute but it's too good to pass up.

Oh gosh everyone, *blush*, I'm not the creator of Simlicious's patterns. :) I'm just another consumer of well made goodies for this game.

I do however, have yet another useful suggestion for those who have favorite patterns from the Exchange.
- Why it's important: There are times the game will LOSE a favorite Sim3Pack from the game and that can cause your sim or recolored objects to get corrupt or invisible.
-- The solution to that, is to convert your favorite Exchange Simss3Pack patterns to Packages (for the mods folders) so they won't be subject to the glitch that causes Sim3Pack to get whacked from your game.

It's important to know that it is tricky to convert patterns made by the EA's Create a Pattern tool to packages.
This is because CAP sometimes inserts extra spaces into the coding, and it uses a generic ID formulation -- so unlike other Sim3Packs that can be converted to Packages with automatic tools, you actually have to hand edit using several tools. {It may seem daunting but once you do a few it becomes quite easy.)

So here it is, an excellent and complete step-by-step tutorial on how to convert your favorite exchange patterns or your own CAP creations, to fully functional packages. This tutorial is done by @Ktarian
You can find the tutorial here:
https://ktarsims.tumblr.com/post/156605400183/pattern-hoarder-tutorial

Ktar also converted some favorite Exchange patterns, arranged them into collections that are ready to simply drop into your mods pattern collection. There are (as of this time of posting) seven pages of patterns to explore. You can download all of them and decide on your own keepers. Go the very bottom of each page to get the link to the next page.)
You can access them here:
https://ktarsims.tumblr.com/tagged/packagedpatterns

Have fun! Happy Simming.

So if I delete uninstall a pattern from the launcher will my objects that use that pattern go invisible??

Several things can happen. If you have many objects that use the pattern, your game may hang and fail to load (that progress bar at the start of the game, ceases to move at a certain point), or your game may crash. In my experience, I had a lovely pattern I got from Exchange. it worked great for a month that I started a new sim. I liked the pattern so much I made it her trademark, so some accent pieces in her house had the pattern and her career outfit and vehicle also had that pattern. It was fun, so far so good.

Then POOF one day the pattern disappeared. My sim was only visible from her bright green plumbob. I couldn't find her vehicle and the couple pieces of furniture that had the pattern reverted to a default color for the EA item.

I was able to find the pattern in the installed items of the launcher. So what I did was go back into the game and changed the pattern of everything I could remember using the pattern for, back to a default. I removed the customized career outfit. I removed the Sims3Pack from the launcher by using the uninstall option then completely deleted the pattern. I turned the pattern into a package and now it works as long as I'm using my mods folder.

Here's a link from the EA support site which has a part near the bottom, that mentions pattern problems (-it mentions the CAP issue which I discussed above).
see:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/HOW-TO-Find-and-remove-bad-custom-content-CC/td-p/2759940

Are there any bad patterns out there or are they always safe?


There are a few older patterns that were not made with the EA Pattern Tool that don't seem to work properly anymore. Usually you see long loading times in CaSt, especially when you try to access the Misc patterns.

There is also an issue if CAP patterns are converted into Package files. See this for details: CaST does not load – Materializing Materials

Sometimes a simple reinstall will work, other times you have to get rid of them. If you stick to newer patterns, you should be fine.

I see that you own most EPs including Generations, I can't think right now about certain items included in other packs. So you should be good.
{If you *do* want CC items that's another story, but I agree with the general idea to avoid it because many unofficial clothing items really don't look good in game and you need to be very picky when downloading unofficial content.}
So I went over the store items for kids and these are the ones I personally like:

For girls:
Prep School Uniform for Girls (Homecoming)
Childrens Pioneer Dress (Farm Fresh Folk Set)
Walking Through Cornfields (Country Livin')
T-Line Dress (Mid-Century Modern Dining and Style Set)
Crafty Patches (Boho Vintage Women's Collection)
Lil’ Sophisticate with Bow (Romanza Bridal Party)
Mischief Baker (Faire Folk Attire)
Sunny Sundress
Short Sleeved Hoodie
Dauntless Lady
Flower Girl
Bloomer Blouse

For boys:
Teacher's Threads (Homecoming)
Prep School Uniform for Boys (Homecoming)
Woven Wonder (Boho Vintage Men's Collection)
Over-sized Shirt
Hippin' Outfit

"Avatarit;c-16500258" wrote:
I see that you own most EPs including Generations, I can't think right now about certain items included in other packs. So you should be good.
{If you *do* want CC items that's another story, but I agree with the general idea to avoid it because many unofficial clothing items really don't look good in game and you need to be very picky when downloading unofficial content.}
So I went over the store items for kids and these are the ones I personally like:

For girls:
Prep School Uniform for Girls (Homecoming)
Childrens Pioneer Dress (Farm Fresh Folk Set)
Walking Through Cornfields (Country Livin')
T-Line Dress (Mid-Century Modern Dining and Style Set)
Crafty Patches (Boho Vintage Women's Collection)
Lil’ Sophisticate with Bow (Romanza Bridal Party)
Mischief Baker (Faire Folk Attire)
Sunny Sundress
Short Sleeved Hoodie
Dauntless Lady
Flower Girl
Bloomer Blouse

For boys:
Teacher's Threads (Homecoming)
Prep School Uniform for Boys (Homecoming)
Woven Wonder (Boho Vintage Men's Collection)
Over-sized Shirt
Hippin' Outfit

Thank you so much! Those are great!
You put a lot of effort into your comment and that means a lot to me :smile:

@ItsJanier You're very welcome! :blush:

"SemaviLady;c-16498962" wrote:
Several things can happen. If you have many objects that use the pattern, your game may hang and fail to load (that progress bar at the start of the game, ceases to move at a certain point), or your game may crash. In my experience, I had a lovely pattern I got from Exchange. it worked great for a month that I started a new sim. I liked the pattern so much I made it her trademark, so some accent pieces in her house had the pattern and her career outfit and vehicle also had that pattern. It was fun, so far so good.

Then POOF one day the pattern disappeared. My sim was only visible from her bright green plumbob. I couldn't find her vehicle and the couple pieces of furniture that had the pattern reverted to a default color for the EA item.

I was able to find the pattern in the installed items of the launcher. So what I did was go back into the game and changed the pattern of everything I could remember using the pattern for, back to a default. I removed the customized career outfit. I removed the Sims3Pack from the launcher by using the uninstall option then completely deleted the pattern. I turned the pattern into a package and now it works as long as I'm using my mods folder.

Here's a link from the EA support site which has a part near the bottom, that mentions pattern problems (-it mentions the CAP issue which I discussed above).
see:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/HOW-TO-Find-and-remove-bad-custom-content-CC/td-p/2759940

Are there any bad patterns out there or are they always safe?


There are a few older patterns that were not made with the EA Pattern Tool that don't seem to work properly anymore. Usually you see long loading times in CaSt, especially when you try to access the Misc patterns.

There is also an issue if CAP patterns are converted into Package files. See this for details: CaST does not load – Materializing Materials

Sometimes a simple reinstall will work, other times you have to get rid of them. If you stick to newer patterns, you should be fine.

@SemaviLady you gave the answer to the 'Materialising Materials' problem in your earlier post.

In the tutorial by @Ktarian you posted a link to above, and I've posted here again, there is an explanation of what causes that particular issue and the solution is given. It is an easy fix if you follow the tutorial. There is an extra space following a colon that has to be deleted. This tutorial will explain all.

https://ktarsims.tumblr.com/post/156605400183/pattern-hoarder-tutorial