Tutorials for the Game

[phoebe91]

Mkay, so I've been meaning to get to this, but I'm going to create various tutorials which I hope will help someone out Most of them will be on frequently asked questions here so that if someone new comes along and wonders the same thing, we have something to show them, and with pictures! To feel free to submit any ideas to me, and hopefully I'll get to them. But of course, if you have made or found any good tutorials, feel free to post them or link them here

I'm going to make this my "main post" and post links to tutorials that will be in this thread right here so that no one has to go fishing for them. I'll post my first tutorial on how to change the active household soon! But here's a list of what I'll be making now or in the near future and hopefully, there'll be a link added to them when I'm done. Oh yeah, and I won't just post the link to them in a seperate post, I will actually post the tutorial in a post, pictures and all xD

TUTORIALS

Changing Active Household
Work - Getting Promoted and all around how it works
How to Take Pictures in The Sims 3 (and where to find them)
Tips and Tricks - Various things to make your life easier
Skills Tutorials - Just the special different things that are in the game related to skills

[phoebe91]

Changing Households



Okay, so you’ve been playing a family in Riverview, let’s say the Lawsons. But you want to switch and play Don for a while, maybe in the same neighborhood? But you don’t know how! So let me walk you through the steps with pictures, of changing family. So first off, you want to go back to the neighborhood, to the same family, so press play.

*plays jeopardy music while it loads*




Alright! We are back in Riverview. But, wrong family, right? Well, we’ll fix that So, first you want to select the “…” button, called options.




The menu pops up and you want to pick “Edit Town”




It comes up with a window asking if you’d like to save. Pick whatever option you need to. I selected “Just Continue” since I just got into the family. But if you’ve been playing your family for a while and then decided to switch, saving might be a good idea.




So then you come to this screen (I cut some of it out of the picture, don’t want the picture too big). This is where you can move things around town to suit your needs better. But right now, all we want to do is get to Don!




So, you see that little button on the side, saying “Change Active Household”? That’s what you want to pick.




Then you get a confirmation window.




But be careful, you WILL lose your wishes and things, so be sure you’ve done all you REALLY wanted to do in your current family before switching over.

However, there is a mod at MATY that will allow you to keep the wishes and opportunities if you so desire. There's also a lot of other stuff thrown in the mix also




And now you are back to your original screen where you can “Create Sims”, “Choose Household”, or “Move in Household”. If I really did want to play Don, I would have chosen the “Choose Household” and then found Don’s, but instead, I changed my mind. But for now, that is how you change households!

[sim323]

great tutorial Phoebe! but I think for the switching household tutorial you should add the fact that you can keep the wishes with a mod

[phoebe91]

(19-06-2009 11:10 PM)Yo! who ate my cheese!@ link Wrote:great tutorial Phoebe! but I think for the switching household tutorial you should add the fact that you can keep the wishes with a mod

You can? =o I haven't been mod hunting at all so that's why I haven't added it.

[sim323]

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/in...185.0.html

[phoebe91]

That is a freaking awesome mod xDD I might add it to my own game! I'll add it to the tutorial right now.

[b-rad]

Nice job!!

I might download that too O_o