I use the Sim’s favorite color to help me choose clothing. See my chart below if you want to get really technical. I prefer to create Sims with a wide variety of hair, eye, and skin colors for better genetics. A better name generator is Namey – if you don’t want to use the in-game randomizer.

Usually I can get a decent name in a few clicks. I keep whatever name I get unless it doesn’t make sense due to race/ethnicity (or I just hate it). This gives me a greater variety of body shapes. I keep the body modifier sliders exactly as they are after randomizing. Here are the steps I take to create my Sims: But I find that 24 Sims is just about right for starting out a new world. You could also create couples or families at this point if you prefer. I prefer to create single Sims and then allow them choose their own partners in-game based on attraction. I create a total of 24 single, young adult Sims – 12 males and 12 females. Once you’ve installed your empty world, load your game, create a new game, and you’re ready to get started! Creating Households I like the empty world Redwood Harbor by My Sim Realty. Sometimes I just want to play instead of building for weeks at a time, so I appreciate premade empty worlds. You can also make your own empty world if you’re familiar with CAW. My Sim Realty has several very high quality empty worlds you can choose from. My favorite is Deery Meadows if you want to build everything yourself or Redwood Harbor if you want all the rabbit holes and houses already built. The first step is installing an empty world.

You could also use this guide if you play with story progression, but want a custom world filled with your own Sims. In this guide, I use a premade empty world and populate it with Sims for rotational gameplay. This is NOT a tutorial on using Create-a-World (CAW). The metadata has been maintained.This is how I setup a custom world in The Sims 3, starting from scratch and building up my world from nothing (similar to my Sims 2 method). These files have the lots already emptied for you. Sookielee from Custom Sims 3 has graciously allowed us to make her Caw Files available here at Cawster. Moonlight Falls Distant Terrain Mediafire Just type in Star in the search field, it will be the first one. It’s name in the Metadata catalog shows up as “ Street Star“. You will not need to have this in your Documents/Mods folder. You need to have The EP Supernatural installed for the distant terrain to show up. package needs to go into your Caw Framework. The Distant Terrain is enabled to show up in Caw Metadata. Moonlight Falls Unpopulated Caw Files Falls Unpopulated Caw Files Ini, & Color Ramps.

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