How To Download From The Sims Resource

Downloading and installing custom content tin can be confusing. That's why we're here to assistance!

Hey all! Information technology'due south Paige with a new guide here on the TSR blog. Follow this guide to larn how to download and install The Sims 4 Custom Content (or CC) on both Windows and Mac computers using The Sims Resource!

Installing CC On Windows PCs

First, y'all'll want to find a piece of custom content you want to add to your game! I'm downloading Dress Due north 266 by Pizazz here on The Sims Resources.

As you lot tin can run across in the piece's description, this CC is a "new mesh"–that means you won't have to download any other content in gild for it to piece of work in your game. Be sure to cheque for mesh details on each slice of CC you download so y'all know your downloads will be glitch-free!

Since I'm using my free The Sims Resource account, I have to wait 10 seconds for the item to download–if I were a VIP member, it would download instantly!

When a window asks if you desire to "save" or "open up" the file, make sure to "salvage" it. As yous can run across, the file I downloaded is in the .bundle format, which means it tin go directly into my mods folder. If it'southward in a zip file or .rar file, it has to exist extracted first using a software similar 7zip or WinZip before y'all tin can identify it in your game.

Once the file is saved, I observe information technology in my downloads folder.

Once I locate it, I move the file to this location: This PC > Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods. Now the modern can exist used in your game!

Here'south how the mod appears in my Create-A-Sim catalog. The fiddling wrench icon denotes that it's custom content and not content that comes with the game.

Here's the wearing apparel on my Sim! She'south already looking more stylish.

Installing CC On Macs

The CC install process on Macs starts pretty similarly to PCs–find a piece of CC you like and download it. For this tutorial, I'll be downloading Clothing 202108 created by Arltos on The Sims Resource.

I then download the slice via the download push button after making sure that this slice of CC is a "new mesh"–as I said earlier, this means that yous won't need to download anything else in society for the CC to work in your game.

Since I'thou currently using a gratis account, I and so wait 10 seconds for my download (which I wouldn't do with VIP The Sims Resource membership).

Be sure to "salve" the file instead of trying to open it!

Once I locate the file in my downloads binder, I move it to the binder found through this path: Macintosh HD > Users > [Your Username] > Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims four.

Now that I'm in my Sims iv binder, I navigate to the folder chosen "Mods" and drop my downloaded file in at that place. Do not touch the file chosen "Resource.cfg"–that's an important file that allows your mods to work properly in game.

Once the file is in my mods binder, I can at present access the piece of CC in my game. This is the piece as it appears in my Create-A-Sim catalog. Now I tin put it on my Sims!

Here'south my Sim wearing the CC I simply installed!

Mod Organizing

Once your mods are in your mods folder, you tin organize them in any fashion you want to keep track of them. I personally suggest organizing past "engagement downloaded" in case at that place are any bug with conflicting mods in the future.

Inside these folders, I organize by CC blazon, like clothes, hairs, and shoes–you can get upwards to four folders deep with your CC still performance properly! Hither I'm showcasing the system process on my Windows PC, only information technology works the aforementioned on Macs.

If you want to get actually organized with your CC, VIP The Sims Resource members take admission to the CC Manager tool, which allows you to both install, manage, and disable all of your Sims 3 and 4 CC, as you can see beneath.