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If your sim is shown with ANY custom content, then you will need to provide links and credit for ALL pieces of custom content shown on your sim!  This is not optional!  Downloaders will need to follow the links you give as a "shopping list" to get your sim to look as it should in-game.
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If your sim is shown with ANY custom content, then you will need to provide links and credit for ALL pieces of custom content shown on your sim!  This is not optional!  Downloaders will need to follow the links you give as a "shopping list" to get your sim to look as it should in-game. Unless the content is no longer available from the original creator, do not include any of the custom content itself in your rar/zip file - only a "shopping list."
  
 
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You may use content from the EA Store on your sim, but again, you need to link and credit it as such, so people can get it.
 
You may use content from the EA Store on your sim, but again, you need to link and credit it as such, so people can get it.
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'''Please also make sure that you are clear on what is packaged with your sim and what is not.'''  In the interests of clarity and consistency, please use the following terms so it is clear to both the moderator reviewing your upload, and the downloaders reading your info.
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* "Included" means: Custom content included in the zip/rar file. Please do not do this unless the content is no longer available from its creator.
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* "Packaged" means: Custom content saved with the sim upon sim bin save/export.  Except for non-default skin (see below), your sim should be packaged with everything they're shown wearing, so downloaders can simply go get those items and your sim will show up wearing them.
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* "Optional" means: Custom content used in additional screenshots of the sim, but not packaged with the sim or included in the zip/rar file.
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Non-default skintones are not meant to be packaged with sims and can cause issues; even if there are no major issues caused, users will still have to re-choose the non-default skin anyway.  If you are using a non-default skin in your pictures, you still need to link and credit it so people can apply it to the sim in-game, but do not package it with your sim, please!
 
Non-default skintones are not meant to be packaged with sims and can cause issues; even if there are no major issues caused, users will still have to re-choose the non-default skin anyway.  If you are using a non-default skin in your pictures, you still need to link and credit it so people can apply it to the sim in-game, but do not package it with your sim, please!
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During the upload process, you will be asked to tick boxes for which expansion packs (EPs) and/or stuff packs (SPs) your sim requires.  '''This will should almost always be base-game only, no EPs or SPs required.'''  All sims packaged in .sim format will require the base game only.  Only tick EPs/SPs as required if the content you have used on your sim is absolutely essential to their overall look (for example, an item of clothing or hair that is needed to make a sim look like a certain cartoon character).  If your sim could have that content changed to something similar and still look basically the same, do not tick the EP/SP requirements, but please make sure to mention it in the text of your post ("Hair is from Supernatural, clothing from Late Night").
 
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Revision as of 03:50, 22 May 2013

Contents

Sims 3 Sims

Introduction

Made a pretty pixel dollie that you just HAVE to share? Please read the following guidelines carefully so you know what we expect for uploading your sims to MTS.

Quality

This is by far the most important factor in sim uploads, but also the hardest to quantify.

Screenshots

People want to see what they're downloading! Your screenshots sell your upload - if people don't like the look of your screenshots, they're not going to download - and if your screenshots are too bad, you won't get your upload approved.

Big Enough
The larger your pics, the better! Tiny pics won't show enough detail to see what you've made.
  • Minimum Size: 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall is a good size for the smallest pic you would want to upload. You may have smaller pics for thumbnails and the like, but for your required screenshots, please go as big as you can!
  • Maximum Size: MTS allows pictures up to 2560 pixels wide by 1440 pixels tall, and a file size limit of 800 kbs - so you can have nice, big, pretty pics. You may have to resize your pictures or apply compression to get them to fit within that limit.

Please don't just take a small pic and size it up in your graphics program to get bigger pics - this only makes the dimensions larger but doesn't add any detail and just gives you a blurry, pixellated larger pic, not a nice clear one.

Maximum Number of Inline/attached screenshots
  • Inline screenshots are images that appear in the text of the upload that load for the viewer along with the rest of the text. Inline screenshots can either be linked from the attached screenshots, or from an external hosting site like Tinypic, Photobucket, or Flickr.
  • Attached screenshots are screenshots that have been attached to the upload using the "manage attachments" feature on MTS. They display as small thumbnails until clicked on.


You may host your inline screenshots elsewhere like Photobucket, Tinypic, or Flickr - however, these screenshots hosted elsewhere must be additional "bonus" screenshots. All of the screenshots we actually require for your upload need to be attached to the thread itself. If your Photobucket account runs out of bandwidth or you delete the pics, people still need to be able to get the required screenshots on your thread.

You may now upload up to 100 pics! Of course, please keep it to a reasonable quantity... only things like huge sets, full worlds, etc. should have that many pics! Remember, you can always collage several different images together into one image if you have a bunch of stuff to show off, or want to show multiple angles of an item.

For the bonus photos, we recommend you use a spoiler tag to hide the images, then people can click on it to see them. Their pages will load faster if all the images aren't downloading at once. [spoiler=interior rooms]http:// wheveremypictureis/picture.jpg[/spoiler] The 'interior rooms' can be replaced by whatever grouping you want to present, 'hidden garden', 'pool views', 'master suite', 'kids room', etc.

You may place as many photos within a spoiler grouping as you'd like.

Required Screenshots

We require certain screenshots for sim uploads - if you do not include these screenshots, your sim(s) will not be approved!

RightArrow.gif Note: All required pictures must be taken in game and not in Create A Sim! If you only include CAS pictures, your sim will not be accepted!

Uploading

Once you have your creation made and screenshots taken, you need to make sure you have all the fiddly bits in order when uploading.

Zip, Rar, or 7z
To upload your file(s) to MTS, you will need to compress them into an archive file, which makes them smaller and allows you to include many files in one download. The archive file formats we currently accept are .zip, .rar, and .7z.

For instructions on compressing your files into an archive, please see: Creator Guidelines: Creating Archive Files.

  • Do not include multiple archives with the same contents - that is, please don't put your files in both a .zip as well as a .rar because some people only want .zip files. Choose one format.
  • Do not double-compress your files... a .rar file inside another .rar file (or any other archive inside another) doesn't compress it anymore, and it makes it so we can't see the contents without downloading, and also just makes an extra step for the people downloading.
  • The file size limit on MTS is 50 mb. If you exceed this limit you will need to split your archives. This should probably never come up except for large worlds for The Sims 3, or huge sets of smaller items.

Additional Stuff

  • If your upload is rejected or marked as changes required and you're not sure why, ask in Creator Issues.
  • If you're not sure whether your sim is ready for uploading, use the Creator Feedback Forum to get feedback on it.
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