

These are the ones especially made for the Sims 3. They are smaller in size and can be installed using the Sims 3 Launcher. They have the Sims 3 as an icon - light blue box with a plumbob. It’s for you to choose whichever you want. Some custom contents in the internet gives you both options. Now, most of the custom contents you are going to download are zipped. They are in this format because they download faster. Your computer already has an unzipping program, but there is a program out there that unzips all kinds of zipped files so you might want to download that for future use. When you see your zipped files, highlight and right-click on them. Extract Files… - If you want to extract these files into a separate folder. Perhaps a folder you will dedicate to all of your custom contents so as not to clutter your downloads folder.Ģ. Extract Here - If you have already placed your zipped files into a separate folder. If you choose this, everything will be downloaded on the same folder where your zipped files are located.Īssuming your files are all extracted and are ready to go.ĥ. sims3packs and paste them there in the downloads folder.Ĩ. Check all the files you want to use and install.ġ0. After all your items are successfully installed, go back to the downloads folder. You can now safely remove these files to save space !:)ġ. Download this * Resource.cfg file from modthesims.ĥ.

Right click and choose New Folder, name it ModsĦ. Open Mods folder and paste there the Resource.cfg file you’ve just downloaded.ħ. Right click again and make a New Folder, this time name it PackagesĨ. The sims 3 will read them as its own and it will automatically show in your game. They need to be there if you want them to show up in your game.
