some of these secrets made my jaw drop. i've been playing sims 3 since the day the base game released all the way back in 2009 and i had no idea about some of these. the low foundation one in particular is going to be a game changer, i've been using platforms as low platforms for YEARS! and the disabling object fade cheat is so great, i've always hated how some things disappear on me when i get too close! thank you for this video
I'm so glad the Sims 3 community is still active! I've been playing this game since 2009 and I still manage to learn a lot! Thanks a lot for your last two videos! They are really nice to listen to, the editing is great and I can't wait to see the next ones (if there are any planned) Oh and by the way, can I ask you if you have the reference of the loading screen that we can see at 0:14? It's beautiful :)
Thank you very much! I’m glad you enjoy my content :) The loading screen is my own, I modified an existing mod. You can find the link on my Twitter, just search for “loading screen”. But it was never meant to be published, so it might not work for you the way it works for me.
4 years after the release of the sims 4, k stopped playing it and switched to the sims 3. Ts4 was the first sims game when I finally had a laptop that could handle sims games (my first computer i got in 2011 and it was a laptop because those you can take with you when you travel and can study on them) it was a year or two after ts4 release and I struggled choosing between ts3 and ts4 but I picked ts4. I regret every coin spent on this game. It has its pro's (mods easy to manage, CC examining programmes, easier building) but those are not worth the cons, heavily overpriced (not as much as the store but...) and its kind of reperetive compared to ts3, also lacks some fun features (they try to bring back them from time to time, like they did with rabbit hole cinema)
Still playing the sims 3 upto this day. I am almost 27 and i grew up with the sims 2 at first and when the sims 3 came out i was skeptic. Later on i had a stupid moment and got sold all of my sims 2 (i needed money). Nowadays i am soooo sad i sold all of those 😭 i am seeint so many videos of features and facts i never knew about as a kid!
I always wondered why creat a style tool was so dang laggy when switching between modes. That makes a ton more sense now actually that it has so many hidden drag and drop features 😅
Definitely not enough people know that pressing F10 hides the whole interface, so you can record landscapes without any notifications interrupting the view! And also still use the mouse in no-interface view without Tab. The number of things given to a Sim, changing edge colors and rotating camera on Tab was a wow to me :O
I am a hardcore Sims 2 fan but I have played Sims 3 a bit too and wow I am just floored! They added sooo many amazing hotkeys and easy ways to use build/buy. Absolutely love that you can drag and drop styles like that, wow! Awesome video, really enjoyed this!
About the foundation trick, there is a similar trick that would let you raise the terrain at a desired height relative to wall height. If you raise the terrain between two rooms, you can use the flatten tool on the roof level of the rooms and the terrain will be at wall height, minus the height of an alt-placed foundation or platform. From there, you can change the height of the terrain by placing stairs. Holding shift and dragging when placing stairs on terrain let you choose how shallow or steep the steps is. Also, holding alt while placing stairs let you place 1 single step. Bonus for CAW users: Do you know that you can use the flatten tool to match the terrain height of a lot to your world?
Thank you so much for the friezes cheat!!! I just knew the devs didn't use the complicated workaround with the terrain tool that we see in every video! Of course they had a direct command
been playing the sims franchise since the first one came out and didn't know some of the things you showed in this video. awesome to learn new things about a game that will never get old.
Omg, played this game since its launch and I had no idea about the first tip as well as many others. This is by far the best Sims 3 tips video I’ve seen. Thank you 🙏
I've seen friezes on some buildings and always wondered how it was done, I used to build some walls and change their heights with "constraintfloorelevation false" but it was so expensive and unpractical... I'm sooo happy !!! :D
The floor edge colour thing, I found a new favour I hadn't really considered before, when I recoloured the side of a deck. I frequently used it when making basements, as I like painting the outside of basements to totally black, so the edge needs to be blacked out too.
Something that I never see in these tips about create-a-style is the little color “pips”. You can drag them the same way as the square swatches, only instead of replacing it, it replaces the channel! So if you like the color of something but want a different texture, you can just drag the color over. It is really useful for wallpapers, cabinets and anything else that uses metal/wooden textures!
Im actually new to the pc version of the sims 3, i got it for my 18th birthday along with seasons, supernatural,university, and into the future off of steam which means sadly i dont have the quantum suit that you get from the limited edition version of into the future that you get from the retail version (disc) but its good to know several of these tips and tricks because i use to play the wii version of the sims 3. The one where you can actually controll the sim with the wii nunchuk which was epic but then i got sims 4 for free after it became free on steam which is very different from 3 because 1 TS4 has no open world which sucks 2 unlike 3 you have actual moods which is very confusing half of the damn time.
I finally played sims 3 as it’s the only one I missed and I like it so far except for the camera rotation is on the menu instead of the mouse like on sims 4. It’s annoying but other then that I’ve been enjoying it.
Seriously what’s with the Grim Reaper? They need to get rid of that. They should come up with an alternative like if the person to login throughout their life, they do an angel and if they do like bad things throughout the life, they get a werewolf or vampire something other than the Grim Reaper.
I've been playing since the pandemic and knew none of this! Had to pull out my notebook. The adjusting relationships and job performance feels illegal to know. But adjusting the needs 1 by 1 has SAVED ME from "Make All Happy". Hated using that since it affected everyone. Thanks yooou😊
This video was awesome!. Very helpful tips. I've been playing this game for so long and I'm still learning so many new things, especially the build tips and the inventory one. Also the dragging the CAST preset while holding shift for changing the entire wall is a life changer. Thanks for sharing btw do you know how can I find that loading screen at the beginning of the video? can you tell me what to google?
Thank you! I’m learning a lot of new things too! The game is huge. The loading screen is my own, I modified an existing mod. You can find the link on my Twitter, just search for “loading screen”. But it was never meant to be published, so it might not work for you the way it works for me.
It's been a long time since I played Sims 3, I knew something and then forgot it, but some things are totally new to me, for example, I've never changed baby clothes, usually I can't wait for them to grow up!😅
I wonder if I have some mod already fixing it because I seriously use these cheats and objects all the time and never noticed anything like this and I do play with aging on! 🤔
@@SimMattically simler90’s mod fixed only some of it in update 152. The game still resets sims age when they get tattoo or plastic surgery. Simler90 said he’s working on mod that’ll also fix it and he’ll released in near future.
Whereas in the Sims 2 you can drag skills, personality, interests and hobby enthusiasm (if you have FreeTime) sadly you cannot drag skills in the Sims 3 or anything in the sims 4.
hey thanks so much i play sims3 and its the best, but the problem is i only have base game and high end stuff exp pack. and one town- sunset valley. thats all i have. i installed some mods. i was hoping to have a night club and one more spa, also that spring harvest mod, i installed all that but they dont work, theres no that lobotomy spa or malibu night club or spring harvest recipes and extra seeds and stuff. am i doing something wrong or i need more expansions pack or that doesnt matter? i have the cc loader. few other mods are working ok. Also my freaking screen is to stretched. i disabled the full screen thing in option but then it looks normal and sharp but its to small. i played with all the available options there but its just not right. it doesnt look like yours. like, normal, you know what i mean. mine is streched, it looks unrealistic and details look slightly blurry because of it. its not clear like yous, it looks like im playing something from 20 years ago. im on acer nitro 5 laptop.
I don't understand the wall item adjustment. This video and everywhere else i look online says to hold down the left mouse button and an arrow will appear but that doesn't happen for me. When I hold down the left mouse button the item just keeps changing direction. I can't move it up and down the wall. It's incredibly frustrating because I could really use the ability to adjust the placement of an item on a wall. It's annoyances like this that make me prefer Sims 4 even though 3 is more fun.
Would you mind if I transcribed some of these to text and photo and put it on tumblr? I'd also link back to your video, of course. There were enough things here I either didn't know or forgot about, that I wanted to share with the crowd that doesn't watch videos much.
You mean I don't have to use constrainfloorelevation cheat when I want to have a modern roof???? I've been playing the sims 3 for so many years and never knew "placeFriezes" cheat was a thing
I learned how to use this cheat not long ago, and I was also shocked because I remember 2011 and Twinbrook where friezes were everywhere and I had no idea how to make them!
some of these secrets made my jaw drop. i've been playing sims 3 since the day the base game released all the way back in 2009 and i had no idea about some of these. the low foundation one in particular is going to be a game changer, i've been using platforms as low platforms for YEARS! and the disabling object fade cheat is so great, i've always hated how some things disappear on me when i get too close! thank you for this video
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've been playing Sims 3 since 2009 as well so I'm trying to share some of my knowledge. 😆
I'm so glad the Sims 3 community is still active! I've been playing this game since 2009 and I still manage to learn a lot!
Thanks a lot for your last two videos! They are really nice to listen to, the editing is great and I can't wait to see the next ones (if there are any planned)
Oh and by the way, can I ask you if you have the reference of the loading screen that we can see at 0:14? It's beautiful :)
Thank you very much! I’m glad you enjoy my content :)
The loading screen is my own, I modified an existing mod. You can find the link on my Twitter, just search for “loading screen”. But it was never meant to be published, so it might not work for you the way it works for me.
can you still uplaod on the world?
Sims 4 could never be as amazing as sims 3🥺❤
Frrr ❤😊
Ive played the sims 3 for 14 years and I’m still learning cool new stuff about it
Don’t remove remove a pregnancy moodlet, it can make them prema preggers.
Hot
@@milesthe2tailedfox LMAOOOOO
@@milesthe2tailedfox oh noooo
@@milesthe2tailedfox but then you need mods that can remove the ban on some activities for pregnant sim😂
@@milesthe2tailedfox😟
so glad there are people still play the sims 3 to this day like me
I still play TS3 sometimes and I think its still a lot better in someways than TS4. Thanks for the video Happy Simmin :)
4 years after the release of the sims 4, k stopped playing it and switched to the sims 3. Ts4 was the first sims game when I finally had a laptop that could handle sims games (my first computer i got in 2011 and it was a laptop because those you can take with you when you travel and can study on them) it was a year or two after ts4 release and I struggled choosing between ts3 and ts4 but I picked ts4. I regret every coin spent on this game. It has its pro's (mods easy to manage, CC examining programmes, easier building) but those are not worth the cons, heavily overpriced (not as much as the store but...) and its kind of reperetive compared to ts3, also lacks some fun features (they try to bring back them from time to time, like they did with rabbit hole cinema)
I’ve played both and I go back to TS3 way more every time. The sims 4 was a downgrade
The only cool thing about sims 4 is that resize tool, you can make a TV absolutely Gigantic. or did they remove that? :/
Not someway but better that sims 4..sims 4 is a crapy shit
@@freeasabird30no
Still playing the sims 3 upto this day. I am almost 27 and i grew up with the sims 2 at first and when the sims 3 came out i was skeptic. Later on i had a stupid moment and got sold all of my sims 2 (i needed money). Nowadays i am soooo sad i sold all of those 😭 i am seeint so many videos of features and facts i never knew about as a kid!
I always wondered why creat a style tool was so dang laggy when switching between modes. That makes a ton more sense now actually that it has so many hidden drag and drop features 😅
Definitely not enough people know that pressing F10 hides the whole interface, so you can record landscapes without any notifications interrupting the view! And also still use the mouse in no-interface view without Tab.
The number of things given to a Sim, changing edge colors and rotating camera on Tab was a wow to me :O
Yes, I forgot about putting the F10 trick in my video!! But I'm glad I could surprise you with some other tips! 😁
Listen ive been playing sims 3 probably since the year it came out and knew NOTHING about some of these tricks. THANK YOU! *subscribed*
Still playing TS3 here (since it came out). I can't stand TS4... Thank you so much for these tips!!!
Aww, the sims 3 community is so cozy!
Clicking on moodlet is a game changer, especially if you have two story house. Thanks for the tip.
Наконец-то я узнала, почему глючат эти лестницы!
Огромнейшее спасибо!!! 💋
I am a hardcore Sims 2 fan but I have played Sims 3 a bit too and wow I am just floored! They added sooo many amazing hotkeys and easy ways to use build/buy. Absolutely love that you can drag and drop styles like that, wow! Awesome video, really enjoyed this!
Thanks for watching!
TS3 will always be superior
About the foundation trick, there is a similar trick that would let you raise the terrain at a desired height relative to wall height. If you raise the terrain between two rooms, you can use the flatten tool on the roof level of the rooms and the terrain will be at wall height, minus the height of an alt-placed foundation or platform. From there, you can change the height of the terrain by placing stairs.
Holding shift and dragging when placing stairs on terrain let you choose how shallow or steep the steps is. Also, holding alt while placing stairs let you place 1 single step.
Bonus for CAW users: Do you know that you can use the flatten tool to match the terrain height of a lot to your world?
Recently started replaying sims 3 and I so needed these tips thank u!!
The inventory shift to choose how many to transfer is a sanity saver! Thank-you so much!
~FM :)
Some of these I've known since the game came out, but there were some that blew my mind and will be a gamechanger, for sure!
The 'Create A Sim' for a newborn doesn't pop up for me, and it never has in all the years i've been playing :(
More than a decade playings Sims 3 and I had no idea these things can be done!!!
I still play TS3 and I didn't know like 50% of these. Thank you so much! Saving this video for future reference
Thank you so much for the friezes cheat!!! I just knew the devs didn't use the complicated workaround with the terrain tool that we see in every video! Of course they had a direct command
been playing the sims franchise since the first one came out and didn't know some of the things you showed in this video. awesome to learn new things about a game that will never get old.
I have been playing TS3 for more than 10 years and still didn't know half of these. Very helpful video, thank you so much!!!
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Just started getting into Sims 3 again and I am obsessed with this video! Thank you soooo much ❤️
You're so welcome! ❤️
I recently started playing TS3 and it honestly blew my mind. I started playing 4 when I was 11ish but it pales in comparison to TS3.
Omg, played this game since its launch and I had no idea about the first tip as well as many others. This is by far the best Sims 3 tips video I’ve seen. Thank you 🙏
OMG THE FRIEZES I HAD NO IDEA AND BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT FOR SO LONG
I've seen friezes on some buildings and always wondered how it was done, I used to build some walls and change their heights with "constraintfloorelevation false" but it was so expensive and unpractical... I'm sooo happy !!! :D
Back in 2011 I had no idea how the houses in Twinbrook are built :D took me all these years to finally understand!
I did not know about clicking on needs 😮
This was very helpful ❤
So helpfull dude, thank you so much for making these videos about the sims 3 ( Cause I love the Sims 3 a lottt) 🥰🥰🥰
This makes me want to go back to The Sims 3 and try all the new tricks I've learned in this video :-o Awesome video.
The floor edge colour thing, I found a new favour I hadn't really considered before, when I recoloured the side of a deck. I frequently used it when making basements, as I like painting the outside of basements to totally black, so the edge needs to be blacked out too.
i'm literally playing the sims 3 since 13 years nonstop and didn't know a lot of of these. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
I play The Sims 3 for 12 years and there are some things that I didn't know about!!
TS3 is so vast
Something that I never see in these tips about create-a-style is the little color “pips”. You can drag them the same way as the square swatches, only instead of replacing it, it replaces the channel! So if you like the color of something but want a different texture, you can just drag the color over. It is really useful for wallpapers, cabinets and anything else that uses metal/wooden textures!
Im in shock, there's so much I didn't know!! Thanks for the video ❤
Im actually new to the pc version of the sims 3, i got it for my 18th birthday along with seasons, supernatural,university, and into the future off of steam which means sadly i dont have the quantum suit that you get from the limited edition version of into the future that you get from the retail version (disc) but its good to know several of these tips and tricks because i use to play the wii version of the sims 3. The one where you can actually controll the sim with the wii nunchuk which was epic but then i got sims 4 for free after it became free on steam which is very different from 3 because 1 TS4 has no open world which sucks 2 unlike 3 you have actual moods which is very confusing half of the damn time.
Definitely learned some tricks here! Thank you~
Happy to help!❤️
Okay with cheats and moodlet I know u can make friends faster and or moods with needs but I didn’t know u could do it with the work proformence
AMAZING VIDEO!!! Bravo! Thank you soo much! ❤
How do you sell the wallpaper?
With CTRL!
@@oceanegougeon3025 ty!
Wait what even job performance as well dang did not knew that
oh hey I've been playing this game since it came out and you managed to get a few I hadn't seen before, good work!
Thanks!
Its so sad, all this work in Sims 3 only for this system to be thrown away in sims 4
This is very useful!!!
I love these cheats thank you
I'm such a sims 3 freak and still i didn't knew few things for example thing about foundations and babies lol
I finally played sims 3 as it’s the only one I missed and I like it so far except for the camera rotation is on the menu instead of the mouse like on sims 4. It’s annoying but other then that I’ve been enjoying it.
What do you mean by "it's on the menu instead of on the mouse" ? I always rotate the camera using my mouse
Seriously what’s with the Grim Reaper? They need to get rid of that. They should come up with an alternative like if the person to login throughout their life, they do an angel and if they do like bad things throughout the life, they get a werewolf or vampire something other than the Grim Reaper.
Wat the Grim Reaper is iconic
You can also take pictures from your photos and use it as wallpaper.
Omg your voice sounds like Abi (onlyabidoang)!!!! 🤣🤣
Thank you!
what. i've been playing sims 3 for a decade and i didn't know half of these, ty!! :P
Thank you for this video
I've been playing since the pandemic and knew none of this! Had to pull out my notebook.
The adjusting relationships and job performance feels illegal to know. But adjusting the needs 1 by 1 has SAVED ME from "Make All Happy". Hated using that since it affected everyone. Thanks yooou😊
You're very welcome!
This video was awesome!. Very helpful tips. I've been playing this game for so long and I'm still learning so many new things, especially the build tips and the inventory one. Also the dragging the CAST preset while holding shift for changing the entire wall is a life changer. Thanks for sharing
btw do you know how can I find that loading screen at the beginning of the video? can you tell me what to google?
Thank you! I’m learning a lot of new things too! The game is huge.
The loading screen is my own, I modified an existing mod. You can find the link on my Twitter, just search for “loading screen”. But it was never meant to be published, so it might not work for you the way it works for me.
@@SimMattically Thanks I'll look it up
jak zawsze, ratujesz mi dupę mordo
There's a lot here i didn't know, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! 😊
Have been playing day and night since 2013 and I just knew most them here and it is 2024 already
I knew a bunch of these, and I was so surprised by some!
Amazing!!!
Is it mod that changes Sim face expression? :0 (When Sim is not happy/angry)
I didnt know so many of these, i had no clue you could change the edge of the floor that is so useful!!!
WTF? you can just transfer all the colours to the other object at once???
thanks
some tricks I never know or forget it LOL
how your sims 3 work so well? i need to know this i struggle with bad performance!
Smooth patch (LazyDuchess) + DXVK fix + Gameplay Core mod (MTS) + NRAAS mods (Master Controller, Error Trap, Overwatch, Debug, to name a few)
Also, props on making a video I actually watched to the end. I usually give up about 30 seconds in. xD Great list of tips.
Thanks!
How you opend the writing field?
Its ctrl + shift + c if you never figured it out
WHERE WAS THIS VIDEO IN 2016 WHEN I NEEDED IT SM 💀😭
Well, it's here now! 😂
I knew i've heard polish accent!😁
Thank you
been playing sims 3 for more than a decade and it's my first time hearing about friezes oh my god
I know, it's shocking 😂 especially since we've had them since around 2011...
3:57 how do I sell existing wallpapers?
Hold CTRL while clicking :)
I am TRYING to use mods but it's not working, any advise that can help?
It's been a long time since I played Sims 3, I knew something and then forgot it, but some things are totally new to me, for example, I've never changed baby clothes, usually I can't wait for them to grow up!😅
Your loading screen looks so good. Which mod are you using for it?
It's my own personal mod :)
Oh man, I love this. The building cheats are awesome, thank you
good vid
Thanks :)
2:30 - Warning - Editing sim in CAS with cheats will reset their life span
you know I just found that out recently with my legacy household, I had no idea before that!!
Oh, I had no idea, I've never noticed 😱😱
@@SimMattically get the "no CAS age staggering" mod to stop this! This also applies to tattoos and the stylist set 😫
I wonder if I have some mod already fixing it because I seriously use these cheats and objects all the time and never noticed anything like this and I do play with aging on! 🤔
@@SimMattically simler90’s mod fixed only some of it in update 152.
The game still resets sims age when they get tattoo or plastic surgery. Simler90 said he’s working on mod that’ll also fix it and he’ll released in near future.
Whereas in the Sims 2 you can drag skills, personality, interests and hobby enthusiasm (if you have FreeTime) sadly you cannot drag skills in the Sims 3 or anything in the sims 4.
sims 3 foreva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome, thanks!
Wow, this is a useful video, I didn't know like 80% of these things. hm :[
Glad you enjoyed! :D
hey thanks so much i play sims3 and its the best, but the problem is i only have base game and high end stuff exp pack. and one town- sunset valley. thats all i have. i installed some mods. i was hoping to have a night club and one more spa, also that spring harvest mod, i installed all that but they dont work, theres no that lobotomy spa or malibu night club or spring harvest recipes and extra seeds and stuff. am i doing something wrong or i need more expansions pack or that doesnt matter? i have the cc loader. few other mods are working ok.
Also my freaking screen is to stretched. i disabled the full screen thing in option but then it looks normal and sharp but its to small. i played with all the available options there but its just not right. it doesnt look like yours. like, normal, you know what i mean. mine is streched, it looks unrealistic and details look slightly blurry because of it. its not clear like yous, it looks like im playing something from 20 years ago. im on acer nitro 5 laptop.
Looks like u need to adjust your screen settings
The baby clothes doesn't work whit me
I don't understand the wall item adjustment. This video and everywhere else i look online says to hold down the left mouse button and an arrow will appear but that doesn't happen for me. When I hold down the left mouse button the item just keeps changing direction. I can't move it up and down the wall. It's incredibly frustrating because I could really use the ability to adjust the placement of an item on a wall. It's annoyances like this that make me prefer Sims 4 even though 3 is more fun.
Excellent video! 👍🏾
Wow… the Sims 4 is worse than I thought…
omg i love your loading screen cover! where is it from if you don't mind asking
Thank you very much! I made it myself :) I didn't release it tho.
Sims 4 could never!
0:01 ...even though with mods you can control your lifetime happiness points exactly?
Would you mind if I transcribed some of these to text and photo and put it on tumblr? I'd also link back to your video, of course. There were enough things here I either didn't know or forgot about, that I wanted to share with the crowd that doesn't watch videos much.
Sure :) if you do, let me know! I might use this redacted text for tweets on my Twitter!
why does the lady in the thumbnail look like kris jenner.
I started playing sims in 2013 and I knew everything :/ I play too much...
Nah, you're an erudite
@@oceanegougeon3025 on sims 😭😂💀
You mean I don't have to use constrainfloorelevation cheat when I want to have a modern roof???? I've been playing the sims 3 for so many years and never knew "placeFriezes" cheat was a thing
I learned how to use this cheat not long ago, and I was also shocked because I remember 2011 and Twinbrook where friezes were everywhere and I had no idea how to make them!