

Run the game, and find your content where the creator said it would be (build mode, buy mode, Create-a-Sim, etc.).Įxtracting from RAR, ZIP, or 7z: You will need a special program for this. You will get a message letting you know when it's done.Ĥ. Wait for the installer to load, and it will install the content to the game. Then press the Install button below the list.ģ. Find the item in the list and tick the box beside it. Load the game's Launcher, and click on the Downloads tab. If you do not have this folder yet, it is recommended that you open the game and then close it again so that this folder will be automatically created.

Cut and paste it into your Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Downloads folder. Run the game, and find your content where the creator said it would be (build mode, buy mode, Create-a-Sim, etc.).ġ. If you do not already have this folder, you should read the full guide to Package files first: Sims 3:Installing Package Files wiki, so you can make sure your game is fully patched and you have the correct Resource.cfg file.Ģ. Cut and paste the file into your Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Packages folder. Click the file listed on the Files tab to download the file to your computer.Ģ. Custom thumbnails for easy identification.Īnubis360 for the control texture, Pooklet and Shockshame for their diffuse textures, Delphy for DABOOBS, Peter and Inge Jones for S3PE and s3oc, Wes Howe for the MS3D plugins, CmarNYC for the amazing meshing toolkit, Nysha for putting up with my questions and her invaluable advice on this (and all my projects!), and heaven for her support and feedback.New diffuse with Anubis' EA highlights for the control.Scalp and face textures (on most of them).Proper mesh tangents (so no weird shine in CAS).They are NOT default replacements, nor do you need the original version for them to work. The styles that have a recolorable accessory can be found in the hat section of the catalog. They appear in the everyday, formalwear, sleepwear, swimwear, athletic, career, outerwear, and naked categories and are set to valid for maternity and valid for random. These hairstyles are for teen, young adult, adult, and elder females. So I went through and stripped off all the ugly junk that EA puts on so many of their hairstyles, redid the textures, and made a few other various improvements (such as resizing them, correcting bad mapping, fixing bone assignments, and the like). There are a lot of beautiful custom hairs out there, but for all the cashiers and bartenders and other random sims who seem to build up in my saves I didn't want to use those super high poly CC meshes on them. The first of two parts, I started this project because I wanted more hairstyles for my townie sims.
