Thanks for the links- we were having a bit of a discussion here: http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=623606

In this case, we're interested in the game's internal shaders- if we could get them opened up, things like the skin and hair shaders could potentially be edited.

No problem, I figured it was worth an ask, thanks for the answer.

Don't know where to ask, but I figure this is one of the more knowledgeable TS3 forums out there.

Me and a couple of other simmers were talking about the Shaders_Win32.precomp file (located in the Installation folder, under Game/Bin/), which apparently contains the shaders for TS3.

Apparently there is a continuity of the precomp file between TS3, TSM and TS4: (https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/796772/shaders-win32-precomp-info)

@J. M. Pescado, any idea of how this file might be opened? There was a bit of discussion happening here: (http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=5496556&posted=1#post5496556)

If a way is figured out of opening the file, there might be some potential opportunities for better shaders for TS3, much like what has happened to TS2.