Old aging mods should still work in GEN. I just put mine in and it works. Screenshot here: http://lion-twinbrookredux.blogspot.com/2011/06/upgraded-to-generations.html

I play "long" so that a week is a year, and this mod has a life expectancy of 70 years:

    baby 1 week (0-1 years)
    toddler 4 weeks (1-5 years)
    child 7 weeks (5-12 years)
    teen 6 weeks (12-18 years)
    YA 17 weeks (18-35 years)
    adult 25 weeks (35-60 years, same concern with breeding years. I wish there's some declining fertility mod, is there?)
    elder 10 weeks (60-70 years, and beyond)

It's working now at the GEN patch level, including 2.17/3.13/4.10/5.8/6.5/7.3, 

Hmmmmm, that's strange. Started a new game folder in my documents, vanilla game, they would autonomously dig, but no scraps get collected, and no notifications. With notifications in your case, I would think they did collect autonomously. Keep an eye out, even if it's 1.22. I'll patch soon.

I haven't seen it reported, so it's probably just me, but I have never seen autonomous "dig through" producing scraps in sim's inventory. But if I direct them, scraps get collected into their inventory. Is this a bug or tight pants?

(This is still LN/patch 1.19. No Generations yet.)

That's the reason invisible is better.

Is anyone aware of invisible mailbox and invisible trashcan for residential lots? I'm placing sims in a tiny lot with a tent and have them live off the neighborhood. I wish the mailbox and trashcan can be invisible.

Thank you very much. Yep, it's just a mirror clone.

I googled and searched "podium" in mts and my sims 3 blog, but couldn't find this podium.

I'm not sure if it's just a mirror clone or it actually gathers an audience.

These are from the blog: http://anisdwelling.blogspot.com/

Gaming mainly.

hmmm. ok. which should i consider then? I'm not going to build myself/my friend. It just is not going to happen.

Time to buy a new puter. Is Dell Inspiron 580 good to handle TS3 (and maybe TS4)? Link here

Does it make sense to upgrade its Intel® Core™ i5-650 processor(4MB Cache, 3.20GHz) to i5-760 processor(8MB Cache, 2.80GHz) for $70?

And upgrade its 6GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz- 3 DIMMs to 8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs for $60?

I'm going to use Windows7 Professional, 64bit.

Many thanks.

This is exactly what the maker of the Overlook Bay at the BBS is saying. How did they manage to make Sunset Valley and Riverview with this tool?

Finally: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=392122

I meant something might be wrong with the school the way it's built. And I thought if it is, then this must have been brought up already. It's not that bad. Sometimes they can even exit on their own (i.e., with the "go home" on their thumbnail). Like I said, they are not really stuck so no need to ResetSim. They just couldn't find the path to go down the stairs and exit the lot without me guiding them every step of the way. They have the path blocked bubble above their head.

This is probably old news, but I came in late playing SV. Well, I'm actually not playing SV. I transplanted the school to another hood.  Sims (adults) love to visit the school lot, and I found that they are unable to find path to leave.  What's wrong with it?  I often found them on the top (the playground), but couldn't find way to come down/go home. If I guide them step by step - first to the top of stairs, and then use stairs, and then get to the curb - and then they can go home.

I replaced all the stairs, but it has no effect.

Is there a complete list of new things in this stuff pack with pictures? The official site does not have anything. Nor does snootysims. I don't like what i have seen on the few screen shots. I'm trying to decide if it's worth the trouble to get it.

I don't think they really "swim" in the "body of water" in the world. They just walk into it and get submerged.

I have had this from the beginning. It's not new. I always tried to turn it off but can't find a way no matter what I try.


Yeah, informative, but useless and obstructive.

In paint mode, ‘Routing Opacity' is down to nothing. Reds persist.

To burninate, delete:
DCCache
InstalledWorlds
WorldCaches

in My Documents (XP).

Now a question. Can you get rid of the red spots when you paint the terrain? It's automatically generated if the terrain is steep. I can't erase it or disable it. It's blocking the view to paint the terrain.

Tried again, and this time I changed the grid rotation after a few lots, and still got stuck. You can see the distant lot is where I can draw a lot again. What's wrong with my CAW?

It's normal. The bridges will "land" on the ground height, not the water height. You will have to "raise" it. "Move" it along Y axis with "snap to grid" off. Roads do connect/snap to bridges if you carefully drag the road to the edge of the bridge, not through it.

No, I had one-tile gap, two-tile gap, three-tile gap.


Very funny.


I can attest to that. Sometimes CAW just does not allow one-tile buffer and demands a two-tile buffer instead, for no reason, even when everything is snapped to grid, and the ground is absolutely flat.

But my weirdness is not quite like the two-tile buffer though. After I lined up a bunch of lots, I could not draw any lot or place road in a roughly 100-tile radius.

I'm trying to make a world specifically for lot building (see this thread).  I got a weird problem with placing lots. I can't draw more lots after only a few lots (8, 11, 13, something like that) . Roads can't be drawn in that area as well (you can see they stop going towards the lots on the pic).  Expanding the gap between lots to 3 does not solve the problem.








I have been putting dozens of lots together with one square in between. Proof:

You may want to give this world a different name. Springville is the very first custom world uploaded at MTS and a lot of people remember that name. And without saying too much, you may not want to be associated with that.

I also love the farming area, and like generally the variations in the terrain.

I totally understand your problem about using lots from various places. I'm just like you, having horded so many nice lots and just wanting to plop them down in a custom world. For me personally, finished lots are the least concern and I couldn't use most of the worlds out there as it is any way even after bulldozing them (sub-neighborhood setup, lot sizes, deco, etc.). So a world with reasonable build-up of terrain forming, terrain painting, forestation, road network, spawners, etc., and uploaded with CAW files is what I'm looking for.

For example, for your world, I'd like to flatten down the biggest mountainous area and develop that into another sub-hood with MOAR lots, change the road texture, get rid of the space shuttle and some other decos, and most importantly change the lot sizes to fit my needs.