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hi! pardon me if i am doing this wrong, i dont spend a ton of time on forums in general so don't know much about the layout. i am a 21 year old man who has 15,000+ hours of playtime in the sims and am also an artist who is always striving to learn new artistic skills, and cc making is something i've always longed to do and finally want to take the plunge. if anyone has any good advice for someone who just made their first recolor and nothing beyond that yet, the tips would be much appreciated. this is a lot to learn!

love and light to all, from a simmer in NY!

Hello, I just created an account. I am trying to post a reply in the Wish List thread, but there isn't a reply button there for me. Do I not have access to say anything in that thread?

My name is Frankie and I've been playing the Sims franchise for far too long. I like recoloring stuff. I'm fairly boring like that.

hi Im SweetRosa, I been playing the Sims4 like forever, Wondering if someone would please teach me how to do cc.

Hi my name is Keith, I've been modding for 6 years now & I've been experimenting with tuning for a while now I've created countless mods (mainly with custom objects & traits) like psychics,firebenders,mages you name it I've attempted making it but I figured out how to use zerbu's sims 4 mod constructor custom tuning.......I was experimenting with making my own version of the grim reaper named the goddess of death possessing similar attributes to the reaper but with an entirely unique code/tuning and powers but still based and connected the same..............



So I started off making the trait using the mod constructor and it had already been finished prior to discovering this tuning method but I just could never figure out how to make trait interconnect with the game like how the grim reaper's does but then I realized that it was so much bigger of an answer than simply making a trait, so I went on sims 4 studio and extracted some reaper tuning and I deeply studied all of the mechanics of where everything connects and how the careers operate and how it all comes together so I got many tuning ID's and made all unique copies and changed up a lot of the buffs and verbiages including some of the species variables and that led me to create a trait within my trait and putting the custom tuning bar at the bottom of the trait descriptions and stuff in order to override the preexisting data with the rewritten reaper tuning you see here...........


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<I c="Trait" i="trait" m="traits.traits" n="trait_isTheGoddessOfDeath" s="16901">      
<L n="ages">

<E>TEEN</E>

<E>ADULT</E>

<E>BABY</E>

<E>CHILD</E>

<E>TODDLER</E>

<E>ELDER</E>

<E>YOUNGADULT</E>

</L>

<L n="buffs">

<U>

<T n="buff_type">39303<!--Privacy_Immune--></T>

</U>

<U>

<T n="buff_type">76684<!--buff_GrimReaper_AlwaysOn--></T>

</U>

<U>

<T n="buff_type">185065<!--buff_Temperature_Immune_To_Temperature--></T>

</U>

</L>

<T n="buffs_add_on_spawn_only">False</T>

<T n="can_die">False</T>

<V n="culling_behavior" t="immune_to_culling" />

<V n="disable_aging" t="enabled" />

<T n="icon" p="InGame\UI\Icons\Debug\missing_image.png">2f7d0004:00000000:30f0846c783606f9</T>

<V n="npc_leave_lot_interactions" t="enabled">

<U n="enabled">

<L n="leave_lot_now_interactions">

<T>13455<!--grimReaper_LeaveLot--></T>

</L>

<L n="leave_lot_now_must_run_interactions">

<T>24400<!--grimReaper_LeaveLot_must_run--></T>

</L>

</U>

</V>

<L n="outfit_replacements">

<U>

<E n="key">Invalid</E>

</U>

</L>

<L n="species">

<E />

</L>

<E n="trait_type">HIDDEN</E>

<V n="voice_effect" t="enabled">

<U n="enabled">

<E n="priority">GRIM REAPER</E>

<T n="voice_effect">reaper</T>

</U>

</V>

</I>

Eventually I began adding the other tuning codes to the career panel but only the branches of the career not the career as a whole the goal of this creation was to create a similar supernatural being to the reaper without blatantly created another basic reaper like using the same instrumental to a song without using the exact same lyrics eventually, I just added this trait data to different situation,career,role,statistic and whatever else tuning but I kept those tunings the same tuning number so it didn't create a whole new situation it just depends on where you're placing everything like you can change the role tuning number but you can't change the situation number because the goal is to give this person power in that specific situation environment............after all of this I eventually created a person equivalent to the power of the reaper without actually being a reaper and for some reason their powers respond to one another as if they're synchronizing whenever the reaper is reaping like I gave her the power to summon fire the interaction is named Hellfire and whenever this power was used either the grim reaper would show up or another pseudo goddess of death would appear as the form of a normal civilian and whenever I'd add them to my household they'd appear with an abnormal blank trait in their personality bar and whenever they did appear they'd save the victim from death but the question is why didn't the victim die any of those times if the reaper wasn't compelled to resurrect them? Well let me explain a few years back before I was good with traits to make a long story short I had a character that I gave a modded necklace to extracted with reaper tuning embedded within its code I also gave it the ability tom resurrect the dead and it had the effects of the essence of life within it so whenever someone not just an amulet holder died they'd be resurrected and removed from their urn only to be returned back home whenever you called their cellphone....but when I played with this character's life too many times (basically she died about 9 times and was resurrected constantly) one day she just stopped dying and I even had an old mod named the book of chaos who's power was to murder via electrocution,fire you know all that good stuff and still nothing worked and then I noticed she stopped aging all the children from her generation had all aged up and lived full lifespans but she remained the same and as for the reaper she was always associated began to show weakness in their immortality and started to slowly age and then I realized the amulet was connected to this reaper's powers somehow and amplifying the lifeforce of this child.......I know crazy right but I experimented with this same concept on adults and it's like it worked but it didn't last long and the power faded so basically the body of a child is more compatible than an adult because they can store more of this energy I like to call darkforce (I call it darkforce because it's like an inverse for lifeforce plus the reaper is a dark entity so I figured it was clever wordplay) but yeah I also tried to see if she could retain this power without her gem and it faded within a day or so............That's also why made this goddess because once I figured that out and how this energy can make you invulnerable and immortal I wanted to make a being I could siphon even more of this power from and honestly to test my skills to see if I could create something of equal caliber or even more powerful....someone more powerful and I did it took a hell of a long time but I cracked the code literally......... there's alot more to the story but that's the best spiel I could give without writing a whole book about my discoveries...........But yeah I hope to post this mod soon and I can give a greater explanation of her powers and abilities and other connections I've witness between her and the reaper if you really wanna know more...........and hey who knows maybe my story can help you create other amazing traits and objects & I hope you enjoyed my findings thank you.............

Hi everyone! 

My name is Vibez/Kai, feel free to call me whichever you prefer! <3
I've been playing sims since Sims 3
I absolutely love the game, and I'm currently trying to create cc for sims 4!
I love to draw, create outfits, create sims and play games! 
I'm autistic, so I may be a little slow sometimes haha 

Not really sure what else to write here lol, but I'm really happy to have found this forum and s4studio, this way I can get help on trying to create some awesome cc for you guys to use! <3