Custom content

Not to be confused with Mod or Tool.

See also: Game guide:Installing custom content

Custom content

This article features user created custom content, mods or tools. It is not supported by Electronic Arts or The Sims Wiki. Use at your own risk.

Note

In The Sims 2, objects which use custom meshes have been known to disappear from inventory if custom content is disabled. This does not appear to affect custom recolors of Maxis objects.

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What is Custom Content?

Much custom content allows players to make aesthetic changes to Sims; skins for The Sims, clothing, accessories, and genetics (hair color, hair styles, eye color, skin color, etc.) for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. Skins/clothes often use custom meshes.

Objects are another popular type of custom content. Customizing an object often involves recoloring all or part of it, but may involve changing its shape. Some creators have even made what are effectively new objects.

Custom walls and floors have always been popular, as have custom lots, houses, and buildings. The Sims 2 allows custom terrain (made in SimCity 4), neighborhoods, and sub-neighborhoodsh content for The Sims 2 can be found here

• The Sims 3 Exchange
• ModTheSims
• The Sims Resource
• Garden of Shadows
• Simbology
• More Awesome Than You
• Insimenator
• LianaSims2
• AnnaMariaSims2 AnnaMariaSims3
  • Same creator; each site has link to the other.
• xSIMS.de (mature content)
• The Sim Supply
• Simslice
• Paladin's Place
• Parsimonious
• SimLogical
• Secret Society of Woobsha
• Around the Sims Around the Sims 2 Around the Sims 3
  • Same creator; TS3 site has links to the others.
• CTO Sims (Requires registration. Has some mature content.)

Creating your own Custom Content

Tools

The Sims

• The Sims Transmogrifier
• HomeCrafter
• Milkshape
• IFF Pencil 2

The Sims 2

• Body Shop
• HomeCrafter Plus
• SimPE
• Milkshape
• Blender

The Sims 3

• Sims3 Package Editor (S3PE)
• Milkshape and Blender, as above
• Sims3 Object Cloner (S3OC)

Tutorials & Creator Forums

The Sims

• Simblesse Oblige
• The Secret Society of Woobsha

The Sims 2

• MTS Creation Tutorials and Forums

The Sims 3

• MTS Creation Tutorials and Forums

Tips

• Keep downloaded files organized and the number small. Custom content can consume too much RAM. It also makes it easier to track down problems.