Hey modding friends - I wanted to get some feedback and comments from you about how the gallery matters to you and your Mods & CC. Now that it's available through more than just the game (web gallery for example) do you find you link to it more? Is it helping you share your CC or Mods? Do you wish you had other features or capabilities? Is there something different you'd like the gallery to be doing for you? I've been really excited to see how people are using the gallery in general but you, as modders & CC users, might be looking for some other features or elements that wouldn't come up in the general conversations or threads. Thanks!

I don't use CC (so far), but I've seen a lot of people saying that they can't see their own items that have CC in their own Library if they're playing offline - it only shows up in their Library if they have the Gallery online with showing CC ticked. Maybe the Library could be disconnected from that setting? I'd want that for sure, as I usually have the Gallery offline.

I like to be off-line but found I must get on-line to find my sims and lots with CC in them. That can be a bother because of switching on and off the internet, lots of times it fails and I have to waste another few minutes to retry the connection.What has happened with the lot categorization? It is not persistent and have to be reset by going in the lot, place the lot and if you set the lot's category, it's not set from manage world. You have to go back in and set it again. Can be a bother if you are setting up a new world, the constant going in and out is lots of wasted time.

I would love to see it be a, "one stop shop" for all of our cc needs! Perhaps with the ability to add our own pictures? Sometimes the way we advertise an item (in-game of course, not PS) helps determine the download. I create mostly on simblr. I would love to create for the gallery. Plus, I need to get my member status up in this forum anyway. ♥

Thanks for commenting! I think the point about finding your OWN items is super important. That's something we have talked about here too. I think being able to add your own pictures is interesting (though riskier to manage in some ways)

Items that contain CC do not show up anymore on the gallery since the latest patch. I would like items with CC to still be able to show up on the gallery so people can download those items. Maybe items with CC can automatically show the link to the download site, so simmers can download them into the game if they like that CC. That way if people who upload their creations to the gallery won't have to remember where they got their CC from. Maybe even include the CC in the downloads on the gallery like how it was possible in TS2.

What does the Gallery do for you?

luthienrising
Hero+
10 years ago
I don't use CC (so far), but I've seen a lot of people saying that they can't see their own items that have CC in their own Library if they're playing offline - it only shows up in their Library if they have the Gallery online with showing CC ticked. Maybe the Library could be disconnected from that setting? I'd want that for sure, as I usually have the Gallery offline.
blewis823
10 years ago
I like to be off-line but found I must get on-line to find my sims and lots with CC in them. That can be a bother because of switching on and off the internet, lots of times it fails and I have to waste another few minutes to retry the connection.

What has happened with the lot categorization? It is not persistent and have to be reset by going in the lot, place the lot and if you set the lot's category, it's not set from manage world. You have to go back in and set it again. Can be a bother if you are setting up a new world, the constant going in and out is lots of wasted time.
bbdollz
10 years ago
I would love to see it be a, "one stop shop" for all of our cc needs! Perhaps with the ability to add our own pictures? Sometimes the way we advertise an item (in-game of course, not PS) helps determine the download. I create mostly on simblr. I would love to create for the gallery. Plus, I need to get my member status up in this forum anyway. ♥
SimGuruLyndsay
10 years ago
Thanks for commenting! I think the point about finding your OWN items is super important. That's something we have talked about here too. I think being able to add your own pictures is interesting (though riskier to manage in some ways)
StripedRainbow
New Spectator
10 years ago
Items that contain CC do not show up anymore on the gallery since the latest patch. I would like items with CC to still be able to show up on the gallery so people can download those items. Maybe items with CC can automatically show the link to the download site, so simmers can download them into the game if they like that CC. That way if people who upload their creations to the gallery won't have to remember where they got their CC from. Maybe even include the CC in the downloads on the gallery like how it was possible in TS2.
blindxsecrets
10 years ago
I always have to have my gallery offline, because whenever I try to connect it freezes my game unless my tray folder is empty. So having my items with CC show up when offline would be amazingly helpful.

I will admit, having the gallery on the website lets me link to things much easier now! Love that addition!
Zvitatzki
10 years ago
but it still make no sense to present our sim in beatiful clothes skin and body when other can do nothing not even use it via the community since the galery does not transfer our used CC

this must change if we can share our creation the downloader shall receive the used CC too
BlueBlack007
10 years ago
I like that i can create my characters and add them to the gallery, but it is so time consuming when we have to add in all the places we went to , to get the mods /CC , what upsets me more, is the fact that some people tell you they want the exact address of where it came from, but we cant always do that, cause some sites you have to look yourself, and not be lazy bout it, My point is If all the CC that we use could some how be in the gallery, or in part of the game, that would be a lot better and safer for us who do like to use CC.
Suecom
New Spectator
9 years ago
I really do think it would be helpful if simple re-colours of objects could be transferred through the gallery without having to provide a link to an outside source for the content. Bearing in mind the limited colour options within the game (no colour wheel or CASt) and knowing how often re-coloured objects were shared on the Sims 3 Exchange, it would improve the game so much more if re-coloured objects could be uploaded and downloaded by players. Re-coloured custom content isn't quite the same as game changing mods but seem to be categorized as such on the gallery.
cozycorg
Seasoned Newcomer
9 years ago
"SimGuruLyndsay;808572" wrote:
Hey modding friends - I wanted to get some feedback and comments from you about how the gallery matters to you and your Mods & CC. Now that it's available through more than just the game (web gallery for example) do you find you link to it more? Is it helping you share your CC or Mods? Do you wish you had other features or capabilities? Is there something different you'd like the gallery to be doing for you? I've been really excited to see how people are using the gallery in general but you, as modders & CC users, might be looking for some other features or elements that wouldn't come up in the general conversations or threads. Thanks!

I like to view the gallery in web browser rather than in game as some days I just want to look for something rather than play and it's not worth loading the game up. BUT you have no option to view custom content in the web browser version of the gallery, there's no CC check box like the in game gallery. I can't view my own CC sims in this way or other sims that might have CC. I would really like an option to view CC in the web browser.