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[Velcon]

So...It's been about a year and I decided to buy the rest of the expansions I didn't already have, install the game again, and install all of my custom content that i had downloaded again. ( Fixing the stuff that needed fixing )....

I use .package files, I dislike sims3packs because they take up too much space.

Sooo...

I can't get anything to work. Nothing. Not one CC file. Not even the store content stuff. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...I have the .cfg file where it needs to be, or well, where I was used to putting it, a mods folder created, mods where they are supposed to be according to google searches, ect....

but still...nothing works. I'm on version 1.33 with -every- x-pac and stuff pack up until show time. Does anyone have any idea what I need to do to make my stuff work ?

I've spent the last 3 hours googling and reading up on custom content for sims3 and have had no luck fixing anything. The content used to work...but that was almost a year ago....

[frisbud]

Where are you putting the Mods\Packages file -- in the Program Files area or the Documents area? I ask because when the game first came out, it was to go into the Program Files area. However, in May/June 2010 with the Ambitions expansion pack and its related game patch (1.12/2.7/3.3), the location changed to the Documents area which also meant a change to the Resource.cfg file.

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*ETA: EA has changed the way the game now reads third party scripting mods. You no longer need to create a Mods folder in the Program Files section of the game.


EA Patch Notes said:

Players who play The Sims 3 with game modifications can now create a folder in which to place their game modifications. The folder should be located here: C:\Documents and Settings\YourComputer\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods

When Mods are placed in the official Mod folder, a notification will appear to remind players that Mods are installed.
Placing Mod packages into the Mod folder is an officially sanctioned way to bypass assembly signing verification. The Resource.cfg file must be placed in this folder in order for the modifications to work correctly.

So you would make a Mods folder in the Documents section of the game C:\Documents and Settings\YourComputer\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods inside of which is a folder called Packages and you use a modified Resource.cfg file which looks like this:



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Priority 500
PackedFile Packages/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*/*/*.package

which is also placed inside the Mods folder. Use Notepad to open up the existing Resource.cfg file. If you do not already have a Resource.cfg file then either download the altered one from Mod the Sims or create one using Notepad or any other form of text editing software.

[Velcon]

Documents. I've followed the guide and they still won't show up...I mean I know that a lot of mods were broken with generations....but I would at least think SOME of them would still show up. >.<

[frisbud]

When you installed the content, did you install all of it at once, or did you install a few things at a time and check to see if those were in the game before moving on to something else? Have you tried clearing the four cache files in the Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims3 folder?