Float your cursor over the far left one and it will tell you your base game patch version - you need to have at least patch version 1.12 or later. Look down at the very bottom left corner - you should see some tiny little icons. The easiest way to find your game version is to open the game Launcher. Your base game will have to be patched to 1.12 or later to use the new method of handling custom content. This guide will explain how to convert your method of handling custom content from the old way to the new way. package file content, allowing us to place it in a specific folder in Documents rather than Program Files, and simplifying the process by no longer requiring the d3dx9_31.dll file for script/core mods. With patch 1.12, EA has added support in Sims 3 for. package file content, and the way it was being done worked, but it was not designed to work that way. package files can be installed has changed.īefore patch 1.12, the game really didn't have support for. Installing Sims 3 Packages - Old Way to the New Way 1 Installing Sims 3 Packages - Old Way to the New Way.When you place this mod into your main mods folder, is it held with an 'Overrides' folder? The Overrides functionality does not come with the standard Resource.cfg.

Lastly, the modder may have actually created a new Resource.cfg with an 'Overrides' folder setup, so that while in the main mods folder it overrides anything that could potentially conflict with it. What I'm guessing here is the mod in question may be older than the Maxis patch where script mods could never be read while inside a folder. Put a script mod into a folder, then put inside another folder, then the game cannot read it. Maxis patched that yonks ago so that script mods could be read inside a folder. How old is the mod? Because when TS4 was first released, 'script mods' (Not Package mods) could not be read by the game if inside of folders. Though now I'm baffled as to why a modder would even do that? If its needed for a mod, then that is what the mod is doing, folders within folders more than the standard issue. Tells the game how deep to read folders within other folders subfolders. then you start to see the need for an edited Resource.cfg. If a modder made it so folder A holds a package file, that goes inside folder B with another package file, that goes inside folder C with yet more package files, that all goes inside folder D with even more package files. The original version only goes two or three folders deep.

That's to have a folder, within a folder, within a folder, so the game knows how many levels deep to read them. What reason did the modder specify for needing a new Resource.cfg file? The only reason where using an edited version from the one originally provided is to have more embedded folders.

Sims 3 resource.cfg for mods