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One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse
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#1 Old 7th Feb 2009 at 12:04 PM Last edited by Inge Jones : 3rd Jun 2009 at 8:08 AM.
Default Sims 3 package viewer
This post has been edited to prevent confusion. The s3pi (Sims 3 Pakage Interface) library and demo viewer is at

http://www.simlogical.com/Sims3Tool...x.php?board=6.0

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#2 Old 7th Feb 2009 at 12:30 PM
Ooh! Fancy!
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#3 Old 17th May 2009 at 8:03 PM
Inge, assuming you can sign in (cause I haven't been able to for some reason even though it appears others have) it appears that you can download some objects ect now from the new TS3 website. That way you can see if the package viewer works or not. http://llnw.thesims3.com/exchange/objects

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One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse
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#4 Old 17th May 2009 at 8:19 PM
It tries to bring up the login popup but fails with page not found. If someone would like to send me an object that might be easiest

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#5 Old 17th May 2009 at 8:22 PM Last edited by Hunter240x : 17th May 2009 at 9:45 PM.
yeah, same here... but you have to sign in to post movies and several people have already posted movies on the site using clips provided by EA. So obviously people can or atleast could've signed in. Some of the objects etc. do have a download count so people have downloaded them. Maybe someone will see this and send them to you.

EDIT 4:45 p.m. - and now the site can't even be accessed to view anything. It asks for a password right away.

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#6 Old 23rd May 2009 at 7:01 AM
Sounds good. Is this program like SimPe?
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#7 Old 23rd May 2009 at 9:41 PM
No. It is going to be a base library of utilities that modders can use to make front-end tools. SimPE loads the tools to recolor, edit sims, edit meshes, and everything else even if all you want to do is change the way an object works. The sims 3 version will let you just download and use what you need and ignore the rest, although you will need the main S3PI files for anything built with them.

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#8 Old 23rd May 2009 at 11:20 PM
Ghost, I know you probably said that as much in basic terms as possible but I still have no idea what you mean. Do you mean it will all be seperate tools instead of an "all-in-one" tool like SimPE?

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One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse
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#9 Old 24th May 2009 at 10:46 AM
Rather than just Quaxi and SimPE this time, there are *several* people making tools. Peter and I are focussing on a library of functions that other toolmakers can use if they choose to. Those functions can be used in all-in-one tools like SimPE or specialised small tools for individual tasks.

Other toolmakers who are not using our library may be making large or smaller tools, I don't know.

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#10 Old 25th May 2009 at 10:11 AM
I, for one, much prefer smaller tools that do one - or a few - things very very well, and aren't as resource hungry as SimPE became.

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#11 Old 25th May 2009 at 11:22 AM
I don't think the Monolith Tool is going to return in TS3. We seem to be fragmenting into many small tools already, and the structure of the game is such that there are a lot of existing general-purpose tools that do the job better than any tool someone could assemble specifically for TS3.

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#12 Old 28th May 2009 at 7:37 AM
I agree. I imagine there will be minimum of 6 or 7 shortly after release.
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#13 Old 31st May 2009 at 12:19 AM
I have the game, Sims 3 I bought overseas. It is really great. I just cant wait to download customs for skin, hair, clothes, and sims.
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#14 Old 1st Jun 2009 at 10:29 PM
You got it before the June 2nd release? Where? If so, register it and goto the sims3 site and download one of the objects and take a look at the package, come back to discuss your findings so we can get working on the mod tools.
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#15 Old 2nd Jun 2009 at 12:00 AM
I just hope modders like Warlokk and his wonderful skins can be adapted for sims3. Hate that insimanator went away.
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#16 Old 2nd Jun 2009 at 8:26 PM
File to test from Sims3 site
I just download a few custom items there. If you would like one to test send me an email at [email protected] and I will send it to you
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#17 Old 3rd Jun 2009 at 5:49 AM
One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse
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#18 Old 3rd Jun 2009 at 8:04 AM
If anyone has downloaded the s3pi library and demo viewer, please remember to keep checking for updates at Sims3Tools! Vital fixes are being made all the time. Last release was as recently as yesterday.

http://www.simlogical.com/Sims3Tool...x.php?board=6.0

"You can do refraction by raymarching through the depth buffer" (c. Reddeyfish 2017)
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#19 Old 3rd Jun 2009 at 7:54 PM
I'm probably the only one here thats all for a 'monolith' editor as opposed to several niche tools. But sometimes in the course of setting up a story arc you have to cross many different aspects of the game, and flipping back an forth between tools screams less joy to me than one (albeit vastly complex) interface.
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#20 Old 4th Jun 2009 at 1:26 AM
Having worked with SimPE a lot in creating a variety of objects, I think I'd prefer a smaller tool that does the task I need at that time. SimPE is a memory hog.
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#21 Old 19th Jun 2009 at 8:14 PM
This looks like a great place to start again with the BHAV's for TS3!! :} Thanx for the heads up on this tool!

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One horse disagreer of the Apocalypse
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#22 Old 20th Jun 2009 at 9:43 AM
Lol - there are no BHAVs in TS3, the technology is completely different. Looks like Edith finally retired

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#23 Old 15th Jan 2010 at 4:22 PM
This isn't working...The link is broken, I think.
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#24 Old 15th Jan 2010 at 5:35 PM
Wholly necromancy Batman!

S3PI is hosted by MTS now: http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=604

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