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.

Custom content is fan-generated content made by players for players. Custom content has always been a part of The Sims series, at least for the PC and Mac games in it. The term "custom content" generally wasn't used when talking about content for The Sims, but much was made and quite a lot is still available. With the release of The Sims 2, EA/Maxis began referring to user-made content as "custom content", and the usage caught on.

The Sims does not distinguish between custom content and Maxis content, but The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 do. In these games, custom content is marked with a "star", which is basically an asterisk.

In The Sims 2, players who wish to use custom content must specifically enable it, and must re-enable it after adding a new expansion pack or stuff pack. For players with Nightlife or later, or any stuff pack, the dialog which allows this must be enabled in Game Options. Players who want to use custom buy mode and build mode objects must also go into Game Options and tell the game to show custom content in the catalogs. Players who want to use recolors of Maxis buy and build objects must use the Color Enabler Package from modthesims.info .

Installing custom content in The Sims 3 requires some instructions and framework. Read the instructions here to learn how to get custom content to work in the game.

What is Custom Content?

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Where to download Custom Content

Note

When in the neighborhood view, the control panel for The Sims 2 contains a "Custom Content Browser", which is a small button labeled with the "star" that The Sims 2 uses to label custom content. Players should not click this button, as it will attempt to connect to TheSims2.com, which no longer exists.

This is just a very short list of some of the more popular places which have custom content. Most of these sites are for The Sims 2 and/or The Sims 3, but some have content for The Sims 4. Also, some contain at least some content for The Sims. A larger list of sites with content for The Sims 2 can be found here, but it was last updated in February, 2014.

• 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 3Around the Sims 4
  • Same creator; each site has links to all the others.
• CTO Sims (Requires registration. Has some mature content.)

Creating your own Custom Content

Tools

The Sims

• The Sims Transmogrifier
• The Sims Creator
• 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)

The Sims 4

• Sims4 Package Editor (S4PE)
• The Sims 4 CAST Recolor Tool
• Sims 4 Studio

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.