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[v-vox-v]

THIS MAN IS SO PATHETIC

I was rewatching the season and I slowed it down to read the news scroll he had on the screen lmfao

↓

SO THE RADIO GUY’S BACK. I DON’T THINK YOU NOTICED. I DIDN’T AT FIRST — I WAS TOO BUSY BEING A MUCH MORE INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT PERSON. BUT FUCK IT. NEWS IS SLOW TODAY I GUESS. I’M TOTALLY NOT WORRIED ABOUT THIS GUY AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU BE. I TOTALLY WRECKED HIS SHIT LAST TIME HE TRIED ME. THANKS FOR ASKING.

[sims3fiend]

Stutter reducererer

EDIT:

This is now somewhat avail for both versions of the game in S3SS if you go into Streaming -> Throttle checkbox or use the preset file (which will help a lot more). The patch for lot loading on view is still steam only tho but tbh doesn't make a huge difference, it's also in S3SS under patches.

Original post:

Thought this deserves its own post since I'm still bugfixing the new Sims3SettingsSetter (hopefully not for long...)

A fix for stutter at last! Well, close enough.

Before

After

This enables a debug variable called "Throttle Lot LoD Transitions" that, you guessed it, throttles lot LoD transitions. What this means is that lots no longer all load at once causing horrific stutter, instead just a bit of a dip. I've also done a small additional patch that should™ remove the frustum/view component of lot loading (might be unloading? not sure, need to look into it further), so you can spin (in place) to your hearts content without loading lots.

There's a lot of related settings to further tweak how the lots are throttled (15 total under streaming), but that'll be something for S3SS. Likewise, this is STEAM ONLY, if you're on EA or another version, this will all be settable in S3SS. I haven't had any issues reported with it thus far, but feel free to message me w/ the details of any crashes (along with any xcpt logs), likewise if you don't see any difference, please also message me. It's a very simple patch and shouldn't mess with anything.

Super embarrassed I didn't find this sooner since I looking for a way to throttle lots loading and there's literally a setting called Throttle lots....

STEAM ONLY STEAM ONLY STEAM ONLY

Full: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5326250/

No patch version (setting only): http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5326252/

Source: https://github.com/sims3fiend/S3LotLoDThing/blob/main/README.md

You will need an ASI loader, I recommend dxwrapper

[kumakechi]

giving my favourite bearboy the social link he deserves

[kaiserouo]

best hunter you can hire in the origin system

okay maybe she's a bit more profit-driven than i thought

[flowersforthemachines]

WIP Wednesday (but it's not writing)

Thank you @thedissonantverses and @thewardenisonthecase for tagging me <3 mwah 🫶

Taking a small break from writing after posting a bunch of things to work on my other passion: messing with things. Ever since I was a little girl I came up with the Grey Warden Bellara headcanon, I wanted to give her a GW-themed recolour, and I'm finally sitting down to work on it :)

Lots of rough spots on it for now, but. I'll trust the process.

And if you'd like to read my Grey Warden Bellara manifesto.... You can find it here on AO3...... Just saying..........

Tagging @inquisimer @mythals-whore and @saessenach :)

[nor3gertz]

ohh... stupid cunt...

[solargrove]

does anyone actually play with 28 day seasons?

[tsbs-darksun-confessions]

Are you alright with physical touch? Like, brief ones?

Example: Someone (that you know) approaches you and gently pokes a ray.

Hi there!

our dearest Dark Sun is- well... currently unavailable! So I'll sadly be answering in his stead... Fret not! I have past memories I can pluck and use either way!

Anyways, Doctor J is on the case!

When it comes to physical touch or affection, Dark Sun is a lot more reserved, he tends to keep his distance from those he doesn't trust or know very well

He tries hiding it, playing it off as being polite, but it's easy to tell if he doesn't like you from how much efforts he puts in keeping his distance!

When it comes to people he's friends with, he can get a little touchy, it's simple things that are done with hands, like handshakes, grabbing, tapping, flicking, ect

He doesn't really do hugs or casual touches when it comes to friends

Then comes people he's really close to! If this stage is somehow reached, he's surprisingly affectionate, if I didn't know any better I'd say he's touch starved

He's more receptive, and likely to initiate, leaning onto one another, hugs, or just general closeness!

As it stands currently, Nexus would be the one Dark considers closest to him, and the one he trusts most.

Although....

Well... For a moment I had hoped he'd found others to get close to, if nothing else but because he needs other people to call home....

But-.... It obviously isn't going so well...

Here's the memory anyway

[thunderc1an]

btw everyone- Im not going to be making a 2024 version of the big Warriors: The Prophecies Begins drawing I do every year. I'm planning on skipping the year 2024, since I think the 2023 version is actually spectacular, and I want to let myself grow as an artist some more before I tackle it again.

[tired-writer-in-progress]

I'm having Persona 3 thoughts right now.

Imagine if in Portable, instead of romancing Ken (why ATLUS, why would you think it was a good idea)

We could have romanced the other male students.

It's canon that Hidetoshi can fall for FEMC. Why couldn't have Keisuke or Bebe fall for her too?

Why can't we have Bebe trying to read japanese poetry to her and messing it up in such a way that has FEMC laughing at how adorable he is? Why can't we have Bebe sewing a kimono for her?

Why can't we have Keisuke playing music for her (or painting her, since that's what Reload does now ig-) and recording it before sending it to her? Why can't we have Keisuke teaching her how to play an instrument and blushing at her smiles??

WHY CAN'T WE HAVE HIDETOSHI BEING A BIT OF A GUARD DOG WHEN MALE STUDENTS TRY TO FLIRT WITH HER??? WHY CAN'T WE HAVE HIM BEING SO SOFT AROUND HER IT'S UNNATURAL FOR HIM AND OTHERS CAN'T SEE IT???

ATLUS???

[v-vox-v]

Does anyone else miss the old Tumblr app icon?

ITS SO UGLY NOW 😭

[sims3fiend]

Sims 3 Settings Setter

DON"T USE OLD USE THIS INSTEAD: https://sims3fiend.tumblr.com/post/777075618948005888/s3settingssetter-new-new-version-new

SORRY ONE DAY I'LL LEARN HOW TO DO THIS PROPERLY LMAO I KEEP FORGETTING Proper release notes and beta edition

I've added support for setting any Config or Option setting, plus live editing of many many others, so it's now release time. Full feature explanation below, but essentially this lets you edit lots of settings ingame directly instead of having to make .package mods, and provides a "better" and more shareable way of editing GraphicsRules.sgr settings (IMO). Sorry if a new post is annoying idk what I'm doing

THIS IS A BETA, I haven't tested a lot of the settings, there are bugs, etc.

DOES NOT CURRENTLY WORK WITH THE EA VERSION

Downloads: Sims File Share Sims File Share - Less stutter config GitHub

More info about what it is (I yap a bunch) under :)

Installation and use

Please note, some settings wont appear until you load into a world.

Download the ASI file and wack it in to your Sims 3 base directory, where the ts3w.exe is located. If you're using one of the presets, make a folder called s3ss_presets and pop them in there (you'll need to activate them in the presets menu ingame).

Make sure you have an ASI loader, these are either from Smooth Patch's ASI portion or dxwrapper. I recommend dxwrapper, just make sure you set the LoadPlugins value to 1 (should be default)

Start the game, you might experience a little more of an initial "freeze" when starting the game than usual, this is from the script logging a bunch of config calls during initialization, there's like 800 or something nuts. It should not have any negative impact on regular loading or gameplay, and I plan to turn the logging off… eventually.

Press Insert to open up the menu. Go crazy and change everything, make the sun huge, crank bloom up, live.

Check the box next to a live setting to have it save for next time you launch, same thing for config but you also have to press save down the bottom because I forgot

Help I crashed/the game doesn't start with the mod!

Please send me your hooks_log.txt if you're experiencing any crashing issues. If the crash is because you set some value to like 7 billion, that's on you, you can just delete the line out of script_settings.ini or go to Settings -> Clear all settings

If you can't get the game to run with the mod, lmk also, please tell me if you're using a launcher, if you're using any other .asi mods, using dxvk, etc. as well as what operating system you're on.

Features

Live Edit

This is the new™ and now main part of the mod. I've mapped out several/most of the exes main "settings" (anything that interacts w/ 0x005a00a0 and some that don't) areas, which allows you to now, in game, change these values whereas before it was a whole arduous process of making .package mods. I mapped these all statically so some of the offsets/addresses might be wrong.

I was gunna list the settings but there's 260~ of them so maybe not?

I plan to add missing specific individual settings from Config eventually. If you think a setting is missing, or if you think I've mapped a value wrong (i.e. you know it has an effect but it's not working with my mod or is crashing you, or one value is changing multiple things), please let me know. Render/er is definitely missing some, that's because the function is scary and I don't like it.

Values (sometimes) have sliders with the min and max value I found in the exe set, if you want to go higher, you can double click to type in your own number.

Some interesting things you can do with the settings:

Set max lots higher than 8 AND increase the radius so it actually shows (will crash if set too high ~35+, need to investigate) by changing values in Streaming

Play in a game where the sun never sets or rises by editing Sky Common -> Sunset/Sunrise Time

Change shadow settings (includes the same thing as LD's shadow extender mod under), extending shadows (they will still look hideous, writing a post about why currently)

Change various light settings to get the perfect look for your game. Some popular mods edit these values for their looks (presets soon?)

Do whatever… this is…?

Game Config

The function we're hooking (0x0058c380) only seems to effect Config (GraphicsRules.sgr in the .exe directory) and Options (Options.ini in the documents/Sims3 directory), but logs a whole bunch of other thing. Feel free to toggle the option in the settings tab and try changing a bunch, it should in theory work because the function is reading and writing but somewhere it gets overridden or something idk 🤷

It lets you set any that fall under those two categories/headings, which means there's some like ForceHighLODObjects that aren't in the actual file and are settable. You might notice some show different values than what they're set as in your config, this could either be that I'm hooking it too early (I don't think I am), or the value is getting overwritten or changed somewhere in the exe. If there's a setting that's in the file but not in the list that you think does something, lmk, but it should capture everything.

I haven't mapped all of the Config/Option settings to Live Edit as they're all split up in the exe, if there's one you want in particular, lmk.

Presets

I've prepared a preset with just the essentials from my GraphicsRules file post with the idea that you can then use this with a stock GraphicsRules file instead of having to manage different versions, giving you the ability to toggle certain things back to default. I might make some visual "enhancement" presets or something later, either based off popular mods or my own insanity, we'll see.

Presets go into the s3ss_presets folder, and currently they stack rather than replace (not intentional but I might keep it)

Known issues:

Rendering toggles need to be re-toggled each load - Easy fix I'm just lazy

Options settings overwrite the actual Options.ini file (idk why??)

Occasionally D3D9 wont hook, I can't replicate this reliably to test so lmk if you can lmao

I mapped all the settings pretty hastily, so some are bound to be wrong

Was flagged as a virus briefly??? Praying this never happens again because I have no idea what to do to fix that dshjakfhhsdaj

Presets stack, if you apply a preset and you have existing values, they stack together… I kind of like that though as a concept so I just added a clear all option to settings, I might rework it later.

Some Live Edit value locations might change during gameplay, resulting in the menu displaying them incorrectly and crashing the game if edited in a broken state. I've checked most off them and they don't seem to, but Render ones did. Let me know if you experience it as I can probably find a static pointer like I did for Render.

Planned things:

Searching. God that'd be good…

Go over existing maps again, some I did early on before I supported static values, 4 float arrays, etc. so I've probably messed some up

Adding every single GraphicsRule.sgr setting to Live

Maybe adding some of my performance mods to it? Or should I keep them as their own individual thing? Mmmm I dunno

I still haven't looked at the way everyone else has been editing the "live" settings, so I should probably do that, there's probably a lot of info out there but at this point I'm too invested in my weird approach djsakfsksaffsa

Updates:

18.10.24 - Hopefully fixed an issue effect people using launchers, as well as a fix for the process hanging after quitting (would look closed but the process is still there in the bg). Also fixed presets applying. 17.10.24 - Hopefully fix a D3D issue that might've resulted in the game freezing/looking frozen. Handles D3D device resets. Will expand in the future to cover other areas maybe.

[minakatana]

[daltianclan-fan464]

(( oh marcille,,,, she takes up so much space in my brain,,, especially post canon marcille.

The guilt she probably feels after everything? she probably wants to work extra hard to stay in everyone's good graces after she almost let the demon go haywire. Even if she did it to protect herself after the canaries started chasing her, she still feels- so awful

i feel like she's always learning everyday that a desire of her's is gone. So she's always struggling and trying to learn how to manage it-

i talked about this to a friend of mine, but i compared it to having a chronic illness in a way. And just- im left thinking about Marcille and the consequences of entangling herself with the demon. And how affected she is after it. She's lucky to have an understanding support network, but that doesn't negate the fact she still has so much lingering guilt and she wants to apologize and make up for it :(( But she doesn't know how to :(( you cant just apologize for almost letting the demon go free. ))

[flamingredanon]

Random thought but WD Gaster and Alphys' story being similar to Sir Wilford IV and Terrence Suave's story.

Gaster and Wilford being the two greats at what they do (Royal Scientist and Toppat Leader) but somehow become missing in strange ways, with Gaster falling into his own creation and Wilford only being referred to as still living but is not there.

Then we have Alphys and Terrence being their successors, two people that have to live up to the high expectations of the formers, (even if Alphys doesn't really remember Gaster) and how their impulsive decisions have caused harm, accidental or otherwise, to those they were supposed to help, eventually being removed from their position at the end of it. But despite their mess ups that they still have others that are their friends. (Alphys has Mettaton, Undyne and sans and at the very least Terrence has Right and maybe Reginald)

[sadmages]

WELCOME BACK SYKO SURANA