This was because staff on both sites felt that the line between the two sites was blurring and disliked having to send people to the other site constantly to have their questions answered. At the release of The Sims 3 in , they changed their name from ModTheSims2 to Mod The Sims and started to host modifications for that game as well. Forums for The Sims 4 opened in , and the ability to share creations became available shortly before the game's release. Downloaders should note that the site has no standard compressed-archive format.
Only members can download from and post on ModTheSims. Membership is free as it is their philosophy to provide their service at no cost to the user. Although Mod The Sims is not a pay site , donations are encouraged to help cover server costs. Users are able to make a one-time donation or pay for a monthly subscription. Benefits include custom titles, larger avatars, larger PM inbox, and the ability to remove ads.
For a time, users were also given the option to purchase products from The Sims series through Amazon. There is a link in the instructions page for the mod so follow that if you want the memory.
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Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Method 1. Choose a site to download custom content from. Most custom content will appear in addition to the currently existing game content.
Recolors can be for existing Sims 2 content or for another creator's custom content. This will add more color options in Create-a-Sim or Buy Mode. Custom Sims will appear in the Sim Bin in Create-a-Sim, and custom lots will appear in the Lots and Housing bin in the neighborhood view. Default replacements will replace an in-game object or Create-a-Sim piece with a piece of custom content. Check for any content requirements.
Some custom content requires certain expansion or stuff packs, or a mesh from another piece of custom content. If you don't have a required pack or mesh, the content won't show up or appear properly in-game.
Read the download description to see if the content requires something. Download the content. Click on the link to download your content it'll vary depending on what site was used. The content will be saved to your computer's main Downloads folder. Extract the content. Most creators compress their content into. While Windows and Mac can extract. On Windows, use 7Zip to extract files.
On Mac, use The Unarchiver to extract files. Double-click the file to extract it. Place package files into your Downloads folder. If the file extension is. This icon is used on wikiHow as fair use because it is being used to provide how-to instructions. Install Sims2Packs with Package Installer. This will open up Package Installer and display the name and description of everything you're installing. Click Install to install the content.
Custom lots cannot be installed if they were made in a game with expansions that you don't have. Enable custom content and restart your game. Once you've added custom content to your game, you'll get a box warning you that you have third-party content in your game.
Click on "Enable custom content" near the bottom of the dialogue box, and then click OK. Once you've done that, restart your game. Check if the content is showing up. If you see the new content with a star in the corner of the thumbnail, your content is working! In Buy and Build Mode, things are sorted by price, so you might need to search to see if the content is showing up.
If only some content is showing up, you're probably missing something, like a mesh or a required expansion or stuff pack. Files themselves can sometimes not work, but this is uncommon. Default replacements won't have the custom content star, but will show up in place of the original game content.
Method 2. Check a mod's description for incompatibilities or required expansions. Because mods alter game code, they can require certain expansion packs to run properly, or have different versions per expansion.
If two separate mods change the same code, they can also cause problems when used together.
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