Birthday Directory Now Celebrating: No One (That We Know Of)!!
Hi there and welcome to the Birthday Directory!!! Before posting for the first time, please make sure to read this entire post - especially the Important Rules. It is very much appreciated!!! Important Rules: 1) Please do not just post your own birthday without saying Happy Birthday to whomever is having a birthday on the day of your post. We will NOT place you in the directory until you follow this rule. 2) We need to know a little something about you, so we can make your card special! Sims 3: In the About Me section of your Sims 3 My Page, please add some things that you like (favorite colors, hobbies/interests, animals, movies, books, etc). If you only have a Sims 4 account:: There isn't an About Me section, so within your first post requesting to be added to our directory, please add some things that you like (favorite colors, hobbies/interests, animals, movies, books, etc). This will make our lives a whole lot easier, and your card will be much more personal. :) 3) If you are not an active member (no activity in at least 9-12 months) of the Sims 4 or Sims 3 site, we will mark your name with (Will be removed for inactivity). If we have marked your name with this, we consider you as inactive. To reinstate your active status, you will need to post in this thread. If we don't hear from you for an additional year, your birthday will be removed from the directory. The birthday team uses their own personal time, without pay, EVERY day researching and making personalized cards for EACH active members' birthday. It would be too much energy and a waste of time for us to do this for someone who may never see it. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. Additional Rules: 1) Please do not quote the months below. We just need you to wish a Happy Birthday to whomever is having a birthday that day, and your month and day of birth. We promise we will figure out where it goes! :wink: 2) Please do not request any store items or place a link to your wishlist here. 3) We can only accept requests to be added to the Directory by the member posting the request. If you would like to add a friend, please urge them to visit this thread and sign up. Birthday Team Members may add someone else's birthday, at their discretion. Multiple Accounts Notice: Please do not add multiple accounts to the directory. If you already have multiple accounts listed here, please leave a message on the My Page of one of our active birthday team members. We will respect your privacy in this matter. If we find that you have more than one account and you did not inform us of it beforehand, ALL your accounts will be taken off the directory. Thank you for your understanding. ---------------------------------------------------- Thank you to all those that consider this thread a happy place to come to, a place where we can celebrate and help brighten our fellow simmer's day!!! :smiley: http://dl7.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1780/1780327vl5fqskqr0.gif Month Links: January February March April May June July August September October November December ---------------------------------------------------- Our Fabulous Birthday Directory Team: ______JediAriel____________Lissykin__________chocbubbles__________StephBE_______TEXASKITTYKAT__ http://lvlt.thesims3.com/sims3_asset/sims3_asset/avatar/shard000/000/005/340/69/543/medium.jpg Current Schedule: **JediAriel, TEXASKITTYKAT & StephBE on hiatus for personal business** Lissykin: Monday, Friday, Sunday chocbubbles: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday If you have any questions or need help with something, please don't hesitate to contact either Lissykin or chocbubbles. You can leave us a message in this thread, or contact us on our My Pages. Right now, we are doing the main Birthday Cards in rotation. So, although more than one of us may post birthday wishes each day, only one of us will be in charge of the main/larger card for that day. ---------------------------------------------------- Special Messages: JediAriel is taking a break from this thread as of August 2016 due to health issues. Should you need help or have questions, please contact Lissykin or chocbubbles. Thank you. . . . . . .****March 17, 2014: Message from TEXASKITTYKAT!!! Thank You's & Info**** . . . . . .****March 4, 2014: Important Announcement!!! Asking for prayers!!!**** . . . . . .****Feb 15, 2014: Update!!!**** . . . . . .****November 11, 2013: Please click here for some important news!!!****
SIMS 3 CHALLENGE LIST (updated March 17th, 2019)
The purpose of this thread is to create a current list of all available challenges for The Sims 3. This includes Legacy and many other type challenges. There have been other threads in the past, but they haven't been updated in at least a year, so here's a new one that will be much more up to date. Please feel free to add any new challenges in the comments! Any thoughts on how you would like to see this list formatted are welcome. Thank you to @ybboccobby04ybboccobby04 , @iButterfreeiButterfree & @ELIROCELIROC for all the work you put into the original posts. ***PLEASE NOTE: Many of the challenges on the old thread had links to the OLD forums for sims 3. That forum no longer exists and I couldn't find any rules for them anywhere else...so they were not put on this list. If you find any let me know!*** I have organized the challenges below by "types" of challenge. Links to find each type are here: Legacy Challenges Gameplay/Story Based Challenges Building Challenges Selection / Contestant Challenges Holiday / Special Event Challenges TV / Movie Fan Based Challenges Pet Challenges HOW TO SUBMIT A CHALLENGE 1. To submit a challenge to be added to the list, please include the challenge name and a working link for full challenge rules. 2. Challenges submitted MUST have their own forum thread or blog/website post for rules. Any challenges posted with rules within this thread will NOT be added to the list. 3. Read below for tips on creating a new challenge. 4. Feel free to ask any questions you may have! Here are some excellent tips when creating a new challenge, written by @EuphorialQueen: When I am reading thru a new challenge suggestion I look for a few key items: What is the story behind the challenge? Tell me something to make me interested in reading more about the challenge. Is it based on another existing challenge? Is it a complete challenge with a beginning, middle and end? How do I start, how do I play and what is the ultimate goal or how do I 'win'? Do the rules or guidelines seem reasonable and can goals set by the challenge actually be achieved? Has the person posting the challenge play tested it? By posting a challenge on a blog or in the forums it is much easier to discuss and ask questions. When updating a challenge or change the guidelines just edit the thread where it is posted. Starting too many threads on the same challenge or subject only adds to confusion and leads to information being lost. These are only suggestions and offer a view of how I - as one person - review challenges. Thank you for your time. Edit: Use spell check and complete words to make reading your post more pleasant and easier to understand. Want to write stories about the challenges you play? Here is an excellent guide to SimLit by @Julyvee94 http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/884045/a-quick-guide-to-simlit/p1 Want to submit stories you have written for others to read? Check out this awesome archive by @mastressalita http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/861629/the-stories-and-legacies-index-submit-your-stories/p1
BUILDERS' 101 - For Builders from Novice to Beyond
BUILDERS' 101 "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." Frank A. Clark This forum was managed by MerryWiddow and the THe Sims Creators' Consortium team. It is now inactive and all questions can be directed to the Admin Team at THe Sims Creators' Consortium. Welcome to Builders' 101. We will enjoy helping you with all of your questions with regards to every aspect of building from the inception of the idea to the uploading of the lot and Promoting your Asset. This is an opportunity "To Learn Together": You from us and us from you. Please follow the forum rules when making posts. You will find them here. Forum Rules. Please take a moment to read them. Thanks. JOIN US AND LET'S LEARN TOGETHER This is for all Simmers, of all ages and all abilities who want to build or are already building! Do youfeel that you have no idea what to do, where to start? Why did that Lovely House you worked so hard on just slip by unnoticed? Here we are going to learn 'New Ideas' and get 'Tips and Tricks' from each other and share our 'Ideas and Creations'. We will learn from each other and together we will all grow to become better builders. HOW IT WORKS Take pictures of your Work In Progress (WIP) and share it with us on this thread. (See Picture Posting below). Our visitors will look at it and give you constructive tips about his or her ideas on what each thinks you could or should do with your WIP. You will receive comments that may be seen as negative, but please, remember it is only to help you become a better builder. The opposite is also true: You will get a lot of praise for good work and ideas, etc. Post a link to your build here with links to photo’s, stories or video! We can all have a look at what you’ve built and learn from it, or help you to make the lot better. Get somebody else's view on your build. or ask any question about building. If one of us doesn't know the answer, we can find an answer to your question or problem. Any link to wherever you promoted your build. But wait, did you promote your build? More about promoting your build later. Thinking of Taking the Plunge and Becoming a New Builder Or Maybe You've Already Taken the Plunge but are Unsure! Let’s start with what it is you want to do or learn and work from there. Novice,Intermediate, Good, All Levels of Builders: START, POST, LEARN Remember whatever is said is the opinion of the person posting, the decision to use it or not lies solely with you. TIME FOR HOMEWORK Updated: It is now called Learn to Build. You will find it on TS3 Creators' Consortium. Registration is free and it is a fun site for all aspects of TS3. Learn to Build Assignments ELEMENTS OF INTERIOR DESIGN CHALLENGES Elements of Interior Design Challenge Index at TS3 Creators' Consortium II. Creations that deserve a second look CFE Learn to Build Assignments are also available at TS3 Creators' Consortium II. TUTORIALS IN 3RD POST A WALK THROUGH OF YOUR BUILD IS AVAILABLE BY REQUEST : YOUR BUILD MUST HAVE NO CUSTOM CONTENT GLOSSARY OF TERMS MOO = MoveObjects on/off CFE = ConstrainFloorElevation true/false WIP = Work In Progress CAS = Create a Style as used in the interior design aspect IRO = In regards of DLs = Downloads REC = Recommendation more will be added as they come up. PROUD SUPPORTER SIGGY Proud Supporters Siggy can be used at any time if you want to show that you support this Thread. Copy and paste this code into Signature under My Preferences. Just remove the asterisks. http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d93/evenstar15/proud.jpg Have fun! MerryWiddow
Friendly Simmers here, having a chat, won't you join us?
I'm wondering if anyone else is as crazy as me and ready and waiting for the sale to begin? lol, I've always known that I was a Sim Addict rofl For any Simmers that come to our thread we have a little problem with seeing our posts so the way to get around that and see all the latest posts is to add numbers to url Example this is the latest post http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/12368/304822.page#9836878 so take the first set of numbers 12368 and you add numbers to it so I would maybe add 2 numbers so if I added 2 numbers it would then make it 12370 so just change the last number and add to the last number and you might have to do this several times to see all the posts, you can also add more numbers than 2 if you prefer or as few as 1 which would then make the number 12369. Hope this helps :thumbup: Happy Simming
Funny Sims 3 screenshots
I searched the forum and found many threads of this kind, but they are quite old and some of the pictures aren't visible any more, so I thought it would be fun to start a new one. So, post your screenshots of funny glitches, hilariously appropriate or inappropriate thought clouds, townies (or the Grim Reaper) doing unexpected things ... I'll start with a few of mine: Agnes Crumplebottom bathing in the sink: What WooHoo looks like with the bed and covers removed (when I went into camera mode, the furniture just disappeared): Someone is stuck under the floor of the Sunset Valley library? Must be the Loch Ness monster! Please add yours!
Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads, & Effects *** New Textures by Rusty333P Added Jan. 2014
Here are the links I know about for CAW textures. If you know of any others post here and I'll pop them in the top post. Terrain Textures 14 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr http://i.imgur.com/62U9jaE.jpg 15 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr http://i.imgur.com/gRzOeGv.jpg Roaring Heights Textures, Roads, INI Files and Colour Ramps by Zerbu @ mediafire http://i.imgur.com/AoxyCqE.jpg Oasis Landing ini, color ramps, and Future World Designator @ Cawster Oasis Landing Textures, Roads, by Zerbu @ mediafire Oasis Landing Textures, Roads, by Mr. C @ EA Caw Forum Added Nov. 2013 http://i.imgur.com/sIzG5TB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fe2u5oc.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bhJUjfH.jpg Midnight Hollow Textures, Roads, Height Map,Distant Terrain, INI & Color Ramps auntielynds @ MTS Added June 2013 http://i.imgur.com/Go9fNS0.jpg http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/mh_roa10.jpg Boardwalk Wood Plank Texture Pack by aminovas http://i.imgur.com/xxidQXO.jpg Isla Paradiso Textures, Roads, INI & Color Ramps by Zerbu @ mediafire http://i.imgur.com/xADyQsx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bJqTVtY.jpg Collingwood's Terrain Textures by MrCrumplebottom1 Added June 2013 http://i.imgur.com/YRV9tkv.png Dragon Valley Textures, Roads, Height Map, INI & Color Ramps auntielynds @ MTS Added June 2013 http://i.imgur.com/XwosP4G.jpg http://i.imgur.com/s9Zp3Bl.jpg University Town Textures & Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added March 2013 Nothing exciting, but here they are. :wink: http://i.imgur.com/VkARDvP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EIOd9qs.jpg Aurora Skies Textures, Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added Feb. 2013 http://i50.tinypic.com/309ki6b.jpg http://i49.tinypic.com/15wyrlh.jpg Monte Vista Textures, Roads extracted by 123456123456123456 @ Mediafire Added Dec. 2012 Monte Vista Textures, Roads, Height Map, Distant Terrain, & ini & Colour Ramps extracted by auntielynds @ MTS http://i.imgur.com/dib6Q.jpg http://i.imgur.com/dUkMS.jpg Mr.C's Supernatural Textures & RoadsEA Caw Forum, added Sept. 2012 Moonlight Falls: Textures, Road, Height-Maps extracted by Atakoy @ MTS http://i.imgur.com/09LG1.png Sunlit Tides Textures & Roads - mediafire download http://i48.tinypic.com/6gv637.jpg Mr.C's Lucky Palms Textures & Roads EA Caw Forum, added July 2012 Lucky Palms Textures & Roads - box download added June, 2012 Lucky Palms Textures & Roads - mediafire download http://i45.tinypic.com/28sqwyh.jpg Twelve Tempting Terrains by Simmiller @ MTS added April, 2012 Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - mediafire download Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - box download http://i.imgur.com/N8XvB.jpg Lunar Lakes Textures & Roads - mediafire download http://i.imgur.com/coPkw.png http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/8zbte10.jpg http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/hlvkj10.jpg Appaloosa Plains Textures - mediafire download Appaloosa Plains Roads - mediafire download Appaloosa Plains Textures - box download Appaloosa Plains - Roads box download http://i.imgur.com/UGt0a.jpg I have 47 new textures for you by HturnerP added Sept, 2011 http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/hturne10.jpg MrCrumplebottom1 HiddenSprings Textures extracted by Mr. Crumplebottom added Aug 28th, 2011 MrCrumplebottom1 HiddenSprings Roads added Aug. 28th, 2011 New Grass, Water, and Sand by NILXIS @ Nilixis Sims3 added Feb 7, 2011 Textures Extracted from other EA games by Ouerbacker added Jan 29th, 2011 http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/q_110.jpg http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/q_210.jpg Apocalyptic/destroyed terrain paints by VampireSim @MTS added Jan. 18th 2011 In this post are distressed, in game textures as well. CAW Terrain - Simple but useful recolours of EA terrain paints by Armiel @ MTS added Dec. 30th 2010 http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/armiel10.jpg Late Night ,Bridgeport Textures Extracted by Emmies Bridgeport roads extracted by Emmies Added Nov. 6th 2010 http://emmies.dreamwidth.org/3821.html http://i55.tinypic.com/23jr51u.jpg Twinbrook/Ambitions Textures extracted by Drowssap Twinbrook/Ambitions Roads extracted by Drowssap http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/ep02_t10.jpg http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/ep02_110.jpg http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/ep02_310.jpg :!: Beach Rock Texture Pack with matching in game Terrain Paint by HystericalParoxysm @ MTS These are some of my favorite, go-to textures 130 Custom Textures Pack by Stw405 Horror Texture Pack by Chellemh29 This is her thread This is the mediafire link to Chellemh29's textures New Terrain Textures for CAW - Extracted from Ts2! by MrCrumplebottom1 added Sept. 4th Faerie Grass set by Ghost at CS3 @ mediafire Matching Sidewalk Tiles: Terrain Paints and Texture Files by Simsimsillion Snow & Ice Textures from auntielynds added Nov. 2010 Auntielynds Water Textures Folder My Opacity Folder http://i.imgur.com/2Sdoa.jpg BSI Regina's Caw Textures & Shire Road mediafire https://app.box.com/s/983oxlxng0u2txe5wvbd box download http://i.imgur.com/obz1gQg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/NTm02x8.jpg Caw Terrain Packs & Create A Road: Urban Street Pack Ice age Terrain Pack by Ashillion http://i.imgur.com/6kPeauA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Afc5uEr.jpg Eruption Terrain Pack by Ashillion http://i.imgur.com/uPCo6mR.jpg Badlands Terrain Pack by Ashillion http://i.imgur.com/AbZq8U1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g9WLYM1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kYOPzPm.jpg Fossil World Terrain Pack by Ashillion http://i.imgur.com/cHYF9yp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/rQFxVQ4.jpg Create A Road: Urban Street Pack http://i.imgur.com/9Mq00sK.jpg Martines CAW Textures Megapack http://i.imgur.com/qtMuu.jpg English Road Textures! ;D by MrCrumplebottom1 added Jan. 30th, 2011 Drowsapp's Snow Tire Track Road http://i51.tinypic.com/afhdef.jpg Water_Cat1s French Road Texture Wyndhane's Custom Roads Pack Pictures Download Link CAW Textures by MerryWiddow http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/mw_tex10.jpg Viewing your .dds textures so you don't have to guess Mystic Thumbs .dds Viewer for Windows Source Texture Organization Instructions for installing your new textures: When you download click on save and then download them where you can find them. Okay now you have your files downloaded I will walk you through putting them into your game. I'll write this for beginners like I was just a few months ago. Find your files and then open up Windows Explorer. On the left hand side under Folders, go down to Documents, then to Electronic Arts, then to The Sims 3 Create A World, then to UserToolData. then click on SourceTextures. Now just drag and drop the new .dds files into the SourceTextures file. http://i35.tinypic.com/2lv1hkg.jpg Adding the Textures to your World Palette http://i44.tinypic.com/30x9yit.jpg Make Your Own Textures If you would like to try your hand at making your own textures here is a link: The Easy Way to Create Terrain Textures or here is a quick tutorial: Using Gimp 1. Get gimp, and the .dds plugin. Links here, and how to do the plugin, very easy...Free Image Editors for use with Caw 2. Pick a pre-existing texture from your Source Textures File. If you want pink grass, get a grass texture you like. Choose something that's not too dark. 3. Drag and drop this into gimp. you get a pop up like this, un-check the Load mipmaps box. http://i38.tinypic.com/kbbng0.jpg 4. Click on "Colors" on the menu bar, and the "Hue-Saturation" http://i38.tinypic.com/6sdg78.jpg 5. Now you get this pop up and you just mess around with the sliders. http://i36.tinypic.com/15g9gm8.jpg 6. Under "File" click on "Save as", and name it, and click "Save". http://i35.tinypic.com/2155zk.jpg 7. Then just save with these options, and your done. http://i37.tinypic.com/1zdmalw.jpg At this point I always do another "Save as" and save it as a jpeg. now when you are looking for your textures, you can see them. You can also get your own new textures. Google "Free Seamless Textures" and you'll get a bunch of different sites with interesting textures. Just make sure they are cropped to 1024x1024, or 512x512. You'll lose some detail in the texture if they are 512, but for some textures you only use to highlight it's better to have them at the 512, they are a much smaller file size, which will help lower you're overall world file size. Easy Peasy :mrgreen: Obtaining DDS Plug-ins and installation
Achievement Thread - Guide on how to achieve them
I decided to start a new achievement thread, to help fellow simmers who might be needing it. At the moment, it still could be typos galore, though, so I will most likely have to edit it several times... I came up with the following categorization: Easiest achievements are what I refer to as the item type achievement, which requires you to acquire a specific item and use them sometimes once, sometimes couple times. They are also the most numerous ones. They are listed like: "Perform the "Genious IQ" interaction five times". Most can be done by anyone, and once you've performed whatever you have to do, sell said item and move on to the next "chore". Next are gathering type achievements, which require you to acquire some items and, sometimes to use them. Listed like "Collect 10 space rocks" or "Use the gem cutting machine to cut gems 20 times". Again, those can be completed by anyone, and do not need a specially created sim. Next are venues type achievements. Require you to do something specific (or several specific actions) at a specific place (or a small number of specific places) (places here meaning either venues or rabbitholes), like "Have your face painted (and etc...) at the festival". Once again, most of those can be completed by anyone, and do not need a specially created sim, though at time some traits might help. Next are social type achievements. Require you to perform social interactions with other sims and/or achieve a set level of relationship with a single or more sims. Traits definitely help for those. Next are career type achievements. Require you to reach a certain level in a specific career and, at times, to do something specific. Traits definitely help for those. Next are skills type achievements. Most of the time, require you to do an action or interaction that is specific to a specific skill, or that mainly require this skill. Traits definitely help for those. Next are traits type achievements. Require you to have a sim with a specific trait and perform something specific. Like: "Have an Insane sim talk to themselves 15 times". Next are lifewishes type achievements. Require you to have a sim with a specific lifewhish and fulfill it. Traits definitely help for those. Complex achievements are those that require multiple complex actions, and sometimes a great deal of gametime. However, there are not many of them. Online achievements are achievements that may or may not have little to do with the game itself, but rather with the TS3 online community. Bugged achievements are achievements that are bugged for some reasons and won’t trigger. I’ve listed three of them. There are also some other achievements that are no longer unlockable, and that I’ve listed as having been removed by EA. I couldn’t find an exhaustive list of all of them, so if anyone has a link about those, it would be appreciated. Also, though basic achievements can be done in a single action, some players may be tempted to get the more elaborate ones using multiple sims or households. So I added a note when an achievement requires to be fulfilled by a single sim (Sim specific), or pools all your household efforts (Household specific), or pools all your sims efforts, in all the saves you play using a specific computer together, for its fulfillment (Cross saves). A word of advice regarding achievements: Unless explicitly required to do so, avoid working on an achievement using or targeting an occult, as a lot of them won’t trigger. I’ve also added some personal tips and suggestion. There are some achievements that I still haven’t unlocked, and I marked those accordingly. The following list is an updated version of: http://simsvip.com/sims-3-achievements/ http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/achievements.php as some achievements have since been added or removed.
