So, since I can't make a forum post, I'll say it here: I have no idea if it's a side effect of my mods or not, but my sim adopted 3 babies... And one of them was a full on seasons expansion Alien baby. Not purebred, but according to mastercontroller, it has 0.03155554% alien DNA and it's a light yellow-grey-green. I also have no idea how to post any pics of my own, but not sure it'd matter since every 'picture' on here for me is a picture of some speedometer thing telling me to upgrade my account on a different website to view 'third party hosting'. Anyone else ever had this? Is it just incredibly rare? My only mods are nointro, story progression, master controller and traveller.
Nope. Not letting me put the links for the screenshots in. Still says I have to be around longer. .-. Ah well, my original reopening still stands- still want to know how to add in the Beautiful Vista moodlet manually. Even if I need CAW, though I have no idea how to use CAW properly. Try to open Sunset Valley and you can noly load/edit the lite version and it destroys things like the waterfall...
This is where the pets get dropped off and the carpool shows up (even a pushbike in the inventory doesn't help with the carpool problem) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/336886370406760448/411660172050825217/unknown.png
And this is where they got stuck. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/336886370406760448/411674499084189698/unknown.png
I think it's most likely because something is wrong with the patch going up like a driveway. Either way, I have to wait a week before I can play again anyway- started glitching really bad, apparently could be corrupted. It was crashing without so much as an error, just closing, any time I went to a different world after loading one up, even just switching them in the edit town mode... Sadly I have to wait until the bandwidth resets just to be able to redownload it all. I figure that plus a bunch of other issues, can't hurt to reinstall in case one of my mods screwed it up or something, like traveller. Issue started suddenly, no changes to the files, no new mods, nothing, just suddenly started doing it every time without fail this morning. No changes to my computer either. .-.
I still really really want to be able to add Beautiful Vista to lots, I really think they messed up by not adding it to Waterfall Way in Sunset Valley. XD
As you wish. But unless you have done some tinkering yourself in the Program Files (x86) area, or are suffering from hard drive corruption, there is almost never any reason to reinstall the game. The contents of the Program Files, which is all the installs provide, do not change over time and mods do not affect those. Only patches do, but there hasn't been a game file changing patch issued for TS3 in over four years now. TS3 mods operate totally alongside of the game and out of the user game folder in Documents, not inside the game engine at all. This is even true for the five commonly in use what we call Core Mods, they are still totally independent of the game install.
Pulling your user game folder out of Documents instead, such as to the Desktop for safekeeping, thus forcing a new one to be generated on the next startup, is a more standard way to provide a no-content "factory reset." Although I suspect even in a new instance of Twinbrook spawned, the lot in particular will probably behave around the same way.
"MoonlightSaviour;c-16338135" wrote: It is my fps. And it really is that high, I'm quite proud of the gaming beast of a computer my brother in law built for me. I use fraps so it always comes up. It's much lower in the actual gameplay, that was in the build/buy mode. It's usually below 100 in game. XD But for some reason the starting cutscene goes well over 4k. No idea why. Also, the university mascot still parked there, I tried making some of the lot at the front slope down. Haven't adopted pets yet, made the new Sim with 2 dogs already.
Below 100...okay, but what is the refresh rate of your monitor? Most of them are 60 Hz. Some of course can run higher, but I've never heard of one that runs higher than 240 Hz (and that would be pretty extreme). The fps rate should never exceed the refresh rate of your monitor in any of the game modes.
Apologies if you know all this already, but excess frame rates on actual gameplay, higher than your monitor can interpret, are the equivalent of digital noise. They don't impart quality at all, they lead to graphics glitches, lag, screen tears, crashes, and can ultimately burn out your graphics card and system board. Unlike newer games, TS3 does not have a built-in fps limiter.
For what it's worth, I would strongly suggest making vsync take hold and use whatever tools you can (Nvidia, AMD, RivaTuner, MSI Afterburner, sure on fraps if you can get it to work, whatever might be relevant) to cap that as a very high priority before continuing gameplay.
"@MoonlightSaviour;c-16308995" wrote: Still can't make new posts, sorry to necro this one- does anyone know if there's a mod or a way to use CAW on an existing world without removing things like the waterfalls to add the Beautiful Vista moodlet? I tried just saving the lot from Twinbrook, but it doesn't keep the moodlet... I really want it (And honestly it should be there by default) on the Waterfall Drive home on Sunset Valley.
Beautiful Vistas are assigned to lots, not houses. Meaning that lot has a Beautiful view... no matter the house on it. :)
There are worlds which have been made available for CAW~CAWster has it.
Your save won't work with the newly exported saved of SSV.... the saves correspond with world numbers, not world names. IIRC, they'll be considered different worlds.
if i remember right there's an option in storyprog to turn off the chance of alien hybrid offspring.
by default there is a small chance that immigrants (or in this case adoptees) will be alien hybrid. make sure you go through the storyprog options one by one to tweak it how you like before you play, not only is this a great way to just dive in and get to know the mod but you'll learn what everything does faster resulting in better gameplay.
the option will be something like chance alien hybrid (5)
Hi @MoonlightSaviour, I will leave the technical advice for Igazor, but I can clear up some of the other things you mentioned.
You can't post images yet, since you are still a new member, once you've gotten full member status you'll be able to post pics. These new-member restrictions exist because of trolls/spammers infiltrating the forums. Here is a thread about that member/new member stuff.. member-or-new-member-everything-you-need-to-know and the off-topic forum might be helpful to get your post count up :wink: .
Once you are a full member, the options to add images & links will show up in the toolbar above the posting box... thusly: https://i.imgur.com/ac3i4iU.png?1
You'll have to link to an image hosting site to post pics; I use Imgur personally, and Flickr is also popular with users here. Both Imgur & Flickr offer free image hosting & are quite reliable.
All you have to do is paste the direct link to the pic into into the tool, or, if you use Imgur, it has a "BB code" link option which already has the tags in it. ( I don't know what options Flickr offers)
The images with the "speed dial" you're describing are hosted at Photobucket, a pay hosting site, and the "upgrade" message that you're seeing pertains to the image posters' Photobucket accounts, not to people viewing the pictures. (so don't worry about upgrading anything)
Unfortunately Photobucket changed their policies recently,
From Wikipedia: "As of June 30, 2017, Photobucket dropped its free hosting service, and requires a US$99 annual subscription to allow external linking to all hosted images, or a US$399 annual subscription to allow the embedding of images on third-party websites, such as personal blogs and forums. This policy change, enacted with no advance notice, has been highly controversial. As a result, users who previously relied on Photobucket to freely host content embedded on forums, blogs, and websites must either pay the annual subscription (previously there was no charge), or switch to another 3rd party server and recreate every link (potentially thousands) for every photo previously linked to Photobucket."
so the "speed dial" thing does show up a lot, especially in older posts, and a lot of users with Photobucket accounts have been switching to other hosting sites.
Welcome to the forums & good luck :smile:
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