How To Create A Realistic Save File 🤎 | The Sims 4

foreign [Music] hi guys and welcome back to my channel recently I shared my world overview video and many of you were interested in how I got my game to look so realistic today I'm going to share with you guys some tips and tricks on how to make your save file realistic aesthetically and a few gameplay tips that I use to connect with my characters first let's talk about map overrides or map replacement there are many of these online however I prefer to use these by 20th century Plum Bob because they're so detailed a gameplay tip that I use is to play with limited worlds I usually start with a blank save file Link in the description below and populate worlds that are similar in style and climate like Willow Creek and Magnolia Promenade this helps keep my game realistic so that my Sims aren't traveling to tartosa on a random Tuesday as you guys can see Willow Creek is populated and other worlds are not my favorite gameplay tips to use for realism is to use World Lighting mods this can make such a big difference in your game I play on a Macbook so I'm not able to use reshade however I do use the sunblind mod by softer Haze this allows my world to have different lighting better lighting throughout the day throughout the sunset um the night it just looks so much better and it enhances your game tremendously I also recommend using a Sim lighting mod I use this one by Northern Siberia wins it basically makes your sim brighter and they kind of appear how they do in cast so you're able to see more details on your sim for instance the Sims outfit you can see the details perfectly her jewelry her clothing the texture of her clothing even down to the soles of her feet my next tip is to populate your world with realistic homes sometimes I create my homes from scratch most of the time I download them from the gallery and renovate them some of my favorite Gallery creators include seamlessly I think she does a great job at creating realistic homes with garages and driveways and they're always beautiful floral Sims is a new Creator but I love her style so much and Mel Castro she also does a great job at creating Suburban builds my next tip is to add as many realistic details as you can using items such as bicycles same colored mailboxes gutter systems on the house satellite dishes on top of the house all of these things can make your home feel so realistic and so lived in one of my favorite things to do is to add cars to the street using the tool command at first the tool command was very daunting for me but then I learned how to do it so what would you do is select your car place it in the direction that you want it to face and then open up the tool command using the shift T buttons then you'll select move and then you'll select the car and then you'll just select the area where you want it to go so we'll put it right here on the street and boom there you have it a car on the street next I want to talk about Community Lots so for Community Lots I love to make sure that they're populated with activities for all ages I also make sure to add a lot of debug items like these trash details I love adding dumpsters I love adding trees I love adding bicycles and most importantly I love adding parking lots I know that the Sims 4 doesn't have cars but there's something about adding cars that really make the world stand out now let's focus on townies I use the no random townies mod Linked In the description to completely stop the game from generating those wild townies I prefer to have my Sims walking around from my gallery and I think it just looks a little bit more realistic to do this I use MC Command Center to populate my world with my own Sims so click on any computer go to MC Command Center select mcpopulation select populating settings import tray settings and then import trade percent I use 100 so that all 100 of populated townies will be mine as you can see you can explore other settings but my favorites to include are include clothing click on this to ensure that your Sims will be populated with their original clothing including custom content I also like to use import SIM name I do skip if name exists because I don't need two Avery Islands walking around and lastly I use the import bypass appearance this ensures that the Sims maintain their physical attributes like their size their age and their physique so make sure that's enabled some of my favorite Gallery creators for Sims include gen 2606 or X Urban Sims here on YouTube ocean Sims for obvious reasons and Sims on the Rope they create amazing townies and NPCs for service Sims once I found a family that I like I simply save them to my library and once they are in my library MC Command Center will randomly use them as townies based on the options we selected as you can see I usually just add a bunch of single Sims to one household specifically for this purpose you all may spot someone familiar from our current let's play the easiest way to create a household full of townies is from Create a Sim Incas simply select Addison from the gallery and then select the Sim that you would like to add as a potential townie I like Mora so I'm going to merge her with our household and there she is just keep repeating this until you have a full house I also like these four brothers from Ocean Sims so let's merge them and there you have it from here I usually give Sims makeovers just to add my own style and my own custom content I will be creating a more in-depth video about how I create Sims and Create a Sim so just stay tuned for that next I want to talk about family relationships it's very rare that I start a game with One Singular Sim I always make sure that I give them at least one friend or family member so that we have some sort of connection and a little bit more personality speaking of personality I highly recommend the lifetime aspirations mod this mod expands the normal base game aspiration and adds a few new custom ones so that they're more realistic for example if your sim wants a big happy family they will actually aspire to have six grandkids or if your sim wants to be fabulously wealthy they will expire to earn at least three hundred thousand dollars similar to aspirations I always give my Sims realistic normal careers how often will you meet an astronaut at the bar and if you have comment that down below but most of my Sims are doctors lawyers Engineers teachers and some of them even have part-time jobs my next gameplay tip is to use the club system from the get together expansion pack to create unique friend groups so this helps connect like-minded Sims that have a lot in common so if your Sims don't have any friends or family or you just don't feel like creating any this is a great way to find some so for example our team every here is creating a group specifically for teens called the group chat I highly recommend using the more Club icons mod to add more cute icons to your game the icons also help give me inspiration to create many different clubs that I probably wouldn't have thought of and she's purposely leaving her brother out of this group oh my gosh this allows your Sims to have some connections and friendships in their relationship panels of course they won't have a lot of relationship but that's something that you can expand on now let's talk about social events because now that your Sims have friends and family it's time to get together I love using the calendar system to schedule different social events some of my favorite social events are custom and they'll be linked down below but you guys know my favorite the family Barbecue my last tip is to play with aging off in fact I use a mod to age Sims by their age group I prefer all of my Sims to age gracefully with other Sims in their age group this mod allows you to enter a cheat command similar to other cheats in The Sims 4. for example when I enter the cheat age underscore up underscore all children all children's Sims will age together you can do this for almost every age group this helps me manually control all age groups individually and that is all you guys again I just want to thank you all for making it to the end of this video like I mentioned before all of the mods and recommendations that I mentioned in this video will be linked in the description below if you like this video please make sure to give it a like a comment and subscribe and I'll see you guys in the next one bye guys

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Length: 8min 41sec (521 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 10 2023