Hello! So I had a question. I am hoping to find a list of all of the names possible by the in-game name generator for The Sims 4. My friend can't buy the game because she is worried certain names will come up. Please, can anyone help get me a list of names? I can't access anything in the game files and nobody on support has been able to help me. I just need all of the names that start with the letter "G". Thank you for even looking here!
If your friend doesn't like a particular name she can just type another name or she can omit using the random name function altogether.
It is not when making sims. It is NPCs and Townies. She can't change those names.
Are you talking about if you add an NPC or Townie to your family? Because this is outside of that. It isn't that she wants to change names either. She just wants to keep from seeing a name in general. She has OCD and cannot see or hear certain names, otherwise it will send her into her rituals or a panic attack. She wants to avoid that, but play the game.
Hi @trash2017
do you need lastNames only ? The file is really huge and has lots of different languages.
These is G lastNames for english base game
There's other sections though that arent' as easy to c/p as EA didn't bother to sort them anymore. If you PM me the name you're concerned about, I can check for that.
When the game creates a new sim on its own, it will randomly choose a name for them from these huge lists of names it has available. Once the sim is created, you can modify the sim and their name in CAS. But that won't stop the problem of seeing them in the first place.
Hmmm... if it's only a few names, I suppose someone could make a mod to remove just those names from the game. It shouldn't be hard if the name lists are in the tuning files. But as @crinrict said, there are a LOT of them in there.
Is there a guide to find name files in the game myself? I have no problem looking for it and finding it myself. I actually need first names. Not last. ☹️ Sorry, I probably should have specified.
I'm not sure if there's other files that also contain names and there's several sections. Not sure if you can search in there.
There's als a tool called XML Extractor for The Sims 4 at MTS. You can use that to extract all the game files and then open the one you need in a text editor and search there easier. Tool hasn't been updated in a while but still works well for me to extract files,
Maybe there's an easier way in S4Studio as well, I'm not an expert on the tool
Sims 4 studio will do it much easier as you mentioned. I've got dozens of mods I maintain and I always use it to extract the tuning files every patch, so I'm quite familiar with it.
To extract the tuning files all at once, Once the program is open and done indexing the files in the game. (This will happen again after every patch)
Select the "Tools" menu, then "Extract Tuning"
At the bottom of the new window, check only the "Use Subfolders" and "Extract All" boxes, and click on "Export"
You'll get a new window asking where to extract them to. It's best to choose a NEW EMPTY folder somewhere and let it go. It'll take a while to extract.
The files won't take up a lot of disk space, currently around 700 megs, but there will be a LOT of them, over 100,000. Once they are on your hard drive, you can search them at your leisure. Windows 10 has search features that will search the contents of all the files at once, that's how I do it.
