Wild popularity of the Security Guard effectively killed my Tripod site, and I had to hold a fundraiser to pay for a new web host. Don Hopkins, Tom van Dijk, and James Sausville come to mind. I thank the brilliant individuals in the community who made object hacking more accessible. Over time I lost interest in skins and became fascinated with the potential of objects in The Sims. So I opened a Tripod site and uploaded my skins and a few objects. Much to my surprise, they achieved relative popularity. I started by submitting my skins to The Sims Resource. Some of these old relics are still on my website. Before I knew it, I had made a few of my own creations (mostly skins). Expansion packs and custom content followed. When I started playing The Sims so many years ago, I was young and naïve, simply enjoying the game as it was. In short, I have lost interest in The Sims. If either of these apply re-download the object and put ALL of the contents into your game.I feel like I owe the Sims community an explanation for my inactivity. Some NPCs may appear as just a floating pair of hands because they use the game hand textures, but the skins and meshes are missing for the head and body. Without them the NPC has nothing to wear. The other cause is forgetting to put the skins (clothing, head, meshes and sometimes hands) into the skins folder.
To fix this download the object again and put ALL. iff or any related controller file in with your other objects. One cause of an invisible NPC is forgetting to put the NPC. It is often reported that NPC's that go with community objects are invisible or appear as just a pair of floating hands. The only advice I can give is to weed out things you don't use.
It is an old game that was never really designed to deal with vast libraries of additional items. There is no precise value, but it seems to occur when the total volume of game content reaches about 2.5 to 3.5Gb. There is a limit to how many downloads the game can hold. This issue occurs quite often with players who have been playing for a long time, at some point new items they add to their game cease to show up.
All I can suggest is to make sure you're checking the correct gender and age, skin colour for heads, and that you're not looking for buyable skins in your Sim's dresser at home! Only New Downloads Missing We have never used meshes with weird and funky names that the game won't recognize, and all zips do include all the parts needed to support the texture we've created.Īll skins on our site were fully tested in game when they were made and again in 2011 (to make sure they hadn't mutated over time!), so there's no reason why they shouldn't work in your game.
This does get reported occasionally but truthfully I've no idea what is the cause aside from failing to install all the parts in the zip to the correct skins folder.
This means you do not have the required expansion pack installed that is needed to support that object.ĭelete the file from your game, or install the missing Expansion (note it is strongly recommended that you install ALL expansions for The Sims 1 if you want to use any custom content). From there, the file paths shown in this instruction topic will be accurate. If you cannot find the suggested file path on your computer because the game is installed differently, then use your computer's search function to locate 'The Sims' folder. Please double check the instructions provided above. If you do not know what the file extension is, try right clicking on it and selecting 'properties' to see more information. The different types of files have different folders they should live in, putting all the files inside the zip you download into the correct folder based on their type is very important. Please read this topic if you're unfamiliar with zip files:
Your game does not know how to open the zips you download from the internet so you'll need to open them before installing them. If none of these fix the issue, try the related links listed at the bottom of the page. Please check through in order until you find the one that applies. There are a number of possible reasons why custom content does not show up in game. These are identified by the letter L, S, W, H and F instead of B or C.