It's been a long time since I sent someone to Boarding School and I'm wondering if it's still borked or is there a fix? Does Cinrict's suggestion still work?

I'm curious, because I may upgrade my monitor in the future but not specifically for TS3. However....

Does anyone have a 4k HDR 400/500/600/1000/1400 10 or 12 bpc (bits per component/color depth) monitor and knows if that helps with color banding and dithering with TS3 or are the results the same?

I'm going to guess it may be the same according to the typical usage scenarios says "Applications need to be written with more than 8 bpc output, setting a higher value here will not improve the image of the application that does not support more than 8 bpc." I doubt TS3 supports more than 8 bpc, though I could be wrong.

Also according to the typical usage scenarios says "Using higher output color depth can help you display colors with high quality, especially for smooth color transitions and gradients."

Hi, knowledgeable TS3 Simmers! Being an incredibly stupid TS3 Simmer, I must ask some very basic questions of you. Like: is it possible to force specific dress codes for community lot visitors? Any mods or NRaas settings I'm unaware as of yet?

Thank you!

Hmmm, I wonder if either that ticket master thing in the Sims 3 store, or the velvet rope thing from uh, Late Night could implement this? The ticket thing from the store, I think you could use so only X type of sim could enter (gender, age, occult etc I think?) I wonder if you could maybe set it to "formal attire" for example?

I never tried it, but maybe there are videos of people testing it, or someone else knows.

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My stupid question today is: can I put a "port"/houseboat moor on a residential lot? Lets say I have a beach lot-house, and I go to build and make a houseboat on a "port lot" etc. If I want to travel back and forth between mainland and my residential island, how do I go about that? Could I moor the houseboat on a houseboat-moor on a residential lot? Or will this mess up my game? (Adding a houseboat moor..) Will a houseboat moor to the normal motorboat-moors? Or can I only use those walkway-moors that you build houseboats on?

You should try this mod out. It will make sims dress in the dress code of your choice on any lot its placed.
https://modthesims.info/d/477049

Thanks, MurderPrincessK! Downloaded and in use. Now onto the next stupid question. (I feel I should know this, but... Brain fail. )

Anyone knows if we can turn off that hiding of trees and hanging objects and various in-your-way stuff, like we could in TS2? My trees are disappearing if I get too close and I don't like it. A mod possibly, or a hidden option somewhere?

"fadeobjects off" cheat prevents that.
Using the "tab" camera by pressing tab on your keyboard also prevents objects from fading.

Thanks!

I have about 250 pose-listed pose packages for... reasons. I'm wondering if there's a limit to how many I can use with PosePlayer. (I was going to just separate them into ones per play session, but...)

I downloaded Kuree's save cleaner but...when I go to run it, I get the error message that "the given key was not in the dictionary." I can't copy-paste from the error message, so I hope I manually copy this correctly:

atSystem.Collections.Generic.Dictionary2.,get_item (TKeykey)
atSims3.RegistryKey.TSCC_get_Sims3MyDocFolder ()
atSave_Cleaner.Form1.Form1_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)

Is this telling me that it can't find my serial numbers for my game?

It gives me the option to quit or to continue. Continuing results in a choice of no saves to clean.

The Simlogical support page for this mod is, of course, long gone. Thus I am not sure that I have installed it correctly, or in the correct place.

I know there are MTS neighbors who use this mod, I wonder if anybody around here knows it well enough to tell me what to do?

What patch level is your game on?

Patch 1.67/Retail Disc can run Save Cleaner v1 or v2.
Patch 1.67/Steam and Patch 1.69/Origin controlled can only run Save Cleaner v1.

There's also a specific .NET requirement, but nothing will make v2 work on 1.67/Steam or 1.69/Origin installs.

Thank you so much, that's exactly it. I must have missed that information before (to be fair the link I found earlier only had v2, didn't mention v1). Found v1, downloaded & extracted it, & it seems to be working.

Edit: like for v1 is here,: https://mega.nz/file/rZME1ZKa#UMNPO...v7Gocr9ANKWb9G8

It's not entirely obvious to find currently.

Does sims 3 have any rules for how deep folders should/shouldn't go?

That depends, which folders did you have in mind? If you mean in the Mods folder, the standard Resource,cfg file allows for nesting 5 layers deep. That can be increased, but it's not recommended to do so because it can add some delay to the files being read if the nesting gets too carried away. Or did you mean something else?

Nope that's exactly what I meant. Deleted all my cc and am starting new and I like folders for organization but I didn't want to overdo it.

About pets and cars...
You know how you can sit a Sim in a car with their pets and go somewhere, but can't do the same when going back home?

Now, is that what it should be (bad design), or am I doing something wrong?

ETA: Also, why aren't my Sim's ghost friends (residents of Midnight Hollow) listed in her relationship panel? They are residents and playable Sims just like any other supernatural. They have a visitable house.

Is it just me or is Aurora Skies really laggy? Bad Routing? Is there a fixed world version out there I'm not finding?

There should be one here that fixed that, as well as the snow as well:
https://potato-ballad-sims.tumblr.c...-was-one-of-the

However, it uses a decrappified Aurora Skies as a base, so you may have to reinstall with a decrappified version of the world first.

Thanks, I skipped over that thinking it was just a snow fix, which I don't care about as I tend to turn off seasons. Reading comprehension, well, actually reading it at all would have been a good idea.

The humor value of your posts is improving. You've been hanging around the forum's Funny People more, haven't you?

(This is a personal behavior observation so it has no business being posted on an open channel. But it's also a Stupid Question, so it's right at home here. The force of the second is outweighing the force of the first.)

When creating fuller figured female sims, how do I prevent her face from also becoming fuller? I've got sliders that adjust the waist, hips and bust but facial sliders are for micro adjustments when I just don't want her face to change.

I downloaded a lot that came with two gravestones. Is it safe to put in my game? I ran it through CUSTARD, but nothing "extra" came up. Thanks in advance!

Can you move clubs, and lounges to Sunset Valley? If you can, how?

If you have Late Night and/or Showtime installed (are these the types you meant?), then there will already be a selection of them in the community lots bin in Edit Town. Or you could build your own or find some custom ones to download and install from safe places to download like here at MTS. Or you could load up a world that already has whatever you want and add the existing lots to the community lots bin to place in other worlds, again in Edit Town.