Forum Discussion

SailorCeti's avatar
SailorCeti
5 years ago

Question on adopted kids.

I no longer play sims 3. However, I once had a family that I adored. They adopted three kids. I want to remake them, manually, in sims 4. But... I only remember one of their names. It's been way too long. I don't remember changing their name when they were adopted, or if they adopted kids are completely randomized or come from a predefined stock, so my questions are:

1) Is there a list of predefined names used by the adopt a child feature?
2) Is there a list of images of them?
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    5 years ago
    @mw1525 is correct. There are no lists of adoptable sims as they are randomly generated and will differ per world/game save in much the same way that Service Sims are once we get beyond the ones that are present as pre-mades when a game in an EA-made world starts out.
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    5 years ago
    "Metaphasic;c-17528913" wrote:
    Well, the names have to be randomized from a list, otherwise they’d be garbage. Does anyone know where the list can be found? Maybe seeing a name would spark a memory.

    I'm not sure how to extract the default name lists, but I know they can be modded. The first names and surnames pull from different lists that are each probably thousands long. I understand what you are after and why, but I don't really think this is going to help very much. I take it your older saved games do not exist on a hard drive or some other media within reach that someone else could try to play for you if you no longer have a TS3 install going?
  • mw1525's avatar
    mw1525
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 years ago
    As far as I know the names and images of the children are randomly generated. However, it has been my observation using children which my Sims have adopted, sometimes the children will have some features of their adopted parents. Good luck in re-creating your Simmies.
  • zeyneph's avatar
    zeyneph
    5 years ago
    Hey, If I don't use SP, will adopted children come with zero slider pudding faces?
  • SailorCeti's avatar
    SailorCeti
    5 years ago
    Well, the names have to be randomized from a list, otherwise they’d be garbage. Does anyone know where the list can be found? Maybe seeing a name would spark a memory.
  • SailorCeti's avatar
    SailorCeti
    5 years ago
    "igazor;c-17528928" wrote:
    "Metaphasic;c-17528913" wrote:
    Well, the names have to be randomized from a list, otherwise they’d be garbage. Does anyone know where the list can be found? Maybe seeing a name would spark a memory.

    I'm not sure how to extract the default name lists, but I know they can be modded. The first names and surnames pull from different lists that are each probably thousands long. I understand what you are after and why, but I don't really think this is going to help very much. I take it your older saved games do not exist on a hard drive or some other media within reach that someone else could try to play for you if you no longer have a TS3 install going?


    I have Sims3 installed (just to get to the GameplayData.package), and yes, my old saves are gone. I know how to load the package and browse the XML and TUN files. But there's thousands. I need the name of the individual file that has the First Name list in it. Using S3PE for this.
  • DollyGizzy's avatar
    DollyGizzy
    5 years ago
    When I had my sims adopt on TS3 I picked the name. It wasn't randomly selected.
  • SailorCeti's avatar
    SailorCeti
    5 years ago
    "rubyskywalker;c-17528989" wrote:
    When I had my sims adopt on TS3 I picked the name. It wasn't randomly selected.



    Oh, really? It's been many years, so forgive me for asking. I could've sworn it put in a random name, even though I had the option of changing it. Thanks! Saved me the trouble of continuing to look.

About The Sims 3 General Discussion

Connect with fellow Simmers and share your experiences in The Sims 3 official community.6,703 PostsLatest Activity: 30 days ago