What do you use to tell stories for your Sims?

@texxx78 You should see a button in the Universal Control Panel (UCP). It looks like a tiny photo album picture. You can't miss it. Click on that button. The game will take you into Cameraman mode, and you can focus the camera and take a picture. Once you have taken a picture, that picture will automatically go into the active Sim's photo album, and you can write a little title and description.

For me at least, I really dislike the built-in memories system, and I usually disable all memories. Instead of creating auto-memories, I just make custom memories/snapshots and fill up the scrapbooks that way.

@waterywatermelon thank you so much! A way to write my family's history in game, with pictures... This is amazing!

I don't. I play wants-based

i store it in my head and separate screenshot folders until i come and type it up on forum post maybe

though that becomes kind of complicated once you've been playing the story for long time and haven't wrote anything up :sweat_smile:

Have finally found a way to tell TS4 stories in the TS2 way. It's more cumbersome as it involves an outside game display, but does the same job with the benefit of not needing the game to see/read the story. The basics are:
Set up a story folder per household
Play game and take your shots, keeping story elements in mind
After playing, move the shot files into the relevant folder(s)
rename files so you don't have the date-time issues that can't handle AM vs PM and change of year. I start with 001 and go from there
using your graphics programme (I use the provided Windows Paint for simplicity), add a blank space for captions and the text function for writing them. Voila! you have your stories.

This has revolutionized TS4 for me, moving it out of boring into usually fun.

I mostly take photos in whatever method the game allows, and the “story” is usually in my head as I take some general photos. I don’t share my stories much, though.

I defs miss the old TS2 exchange with options to upload stories in the form of photo albums along with sims and lots. It also housed the forums. I'm old though! :)

> @Simmingal said:
> i store it in my head and separate screenshot folders until i come and type it up on forum post maybe
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> though that becomes kind of complicated once you've been playing the story for long time and haven't wrote anything up :smile:

Haha it’s funny because the same thing happens to me with my blog. I usually take pics, edit, post them in my drafts/queue and write the way later. Sometimes I’m so ahead that I don’t even know what to caption the pictures anymore :D

I plan my stories as I play according to who my Sims are attracted to. I play Sims 2 mostly.

mods and screenshots