The sims 1 download buyable skin

In our example, we'll take a skin of a formal dress, for woman, in its buyable format, so it will be a HD version, but the process is the same for all the skins. The installation of the skins found of this is a bit different from other files because they're zipped on Mac, and not on PC for skins found on other sites, the installation is like the one I described for objects or walls.

Sorry to be different here, but it's the only way I can make my skins available for Windows users too. This way of installation can also be adapted and used for other files objects, walls and floors. Then, click. Click on the " Save this file to disk " button, then click on OK.

I don't know how you organize your disk, but I like having an Internet Downloads folder on my desktop, so I always save my files in this folder. In any case, click on where you want to save the download it can be on the desktop, in another folder, it's up to you You don't need to do anything there. Then, select all the items you want to unzip by clicking once on it you can select more than one by clicking with the Shift key pressed. Skins are Bitmap files. Don't bother about the "Icon" file: it's there because the files have been zipped on Mac, but it's useless for Windows; you'll even get a message saying that a password is needed, if you try to open it, so just ignore this file.

As long as you know where installing the skins, it's not useful to read the Read-me included with skins. You absolultly need to extract the.

CMX and the. SKN files, so select them both and drag them on the Skins folder. There's always a Read-me for the credit of the mesh; you should extract it to your desktop and read it. The author of the mesh has sometimes useful informations for you: can you redistribute this mesh, and how, how it has been made, where it has been found And here we go: you have installed your skins! If your skins don't appear in your game, if you only see the hands of a NPC you have download, check your Skins folder:.

This folder should content only files , not a single folder. If you see a folder somewhere, its content won't appear in your game, so you need to open the folder and take the files that are inside and move them in the Skins folder. You can now delete the empty folder. Take a ticket to our affiliates! Full Step-by-Step to install Skins How to download, unzip and install skins in your game.

Name of the expansion What skins are concerned Sims The Sims casual wear no-buyable HD Hot Date adult buyable pajama adult buyable formal adult buyable swimming-wear SV Sims Vacations adult buyable winter wear children buyable winter wear children buyable pajama children buyable formal children buyable swimming-wear SS SuperStars adult buyable high-fashion. For installing easily our skins, we're going to create a shortcut for the Skins folder on the desktop.

Once it's done, you will use this shortcut for all the skins you want to install. Note that you can also create shortcut for your Downloads folder, Walls and Floors, but let's see first how creating the Skins folder shortcut: We need to find our GameData folder, so click on the Start button , at the bottom of your Windows screen, and click on "Find The look of your find window might be a bit different as I use a french version of Windows Open your GameData folder by double-clicking on it.

You'll have your Skins folder near the hand, now, each time you need it. The process is the same as for the skin. Once you have a particular mesh, you don't need to redownload it. For example, once we'll have the Bfafit mesh, we don't need to redownload it for all the dresses that use this same mesh, unless we need another version of this same mesh we have downloaded the HD version, but we could need the Sims version someday.

Anyway, let's click on the name of the mesh to download ; be sure to download the same version as the one you chosed for the skin HD, SV, Sims Bad installation There's some folders in the Skins folder. Their content won't show up in the game. Correct installation This folder contents only files. It's perfect! Help the site to stay open! As noted above, these instructions also apply to the skins worn by NPC's and for 3D mesh parts which belong to some objects these are rare but we do have some on the site.

Add ALL. You can recognize ordinary clothing files as the mesh names start with the letter B, heads with the letter C. Buyable Clothing is a special case, in order to be able to buy them from a community clothing store you'll need to put all the.

There are a number of possible reasons why custom content does not show up in game. Please check through in order until you find the one that applies. If none of these fix the issue, try the related links listed at the bottom of the page. Your game does not know how to open the zips you download from the internet so you'll need to open them before installing them.

Please read this topic if you're unfamiliar with zip files:. The different types of files have different folders they should live in, putting all the files inside the zip you download into the correct folder based on their type is very important. If you do not know what the file extension is, try right clicking on it and selecting 'properties' to see more information.

Please double check the instructions provided above. If you cannot find the suggested file path on your computer because the game is installed differently, then use your computer's search function to locate 'The Sims' folder. From there, the file paths shown in this instruction topic will be accurate.

This means you do not have the required expansion pack installed that is needed to support that object. Delete the file from your game, or install the missing Expansion note it is strongly recommended that you install ALL expansions for The Sims 1 if you want to use any custom content. This does get reported occasionally but truthfully I've no idea what is the cause aside from failing to install all the parts in the zip to the correct skins folder.

We have never used meshes with weird and funky names that the game won't recognize, and all zips do include all the parts needed to support the texture we've created.

All skins on our site were fully tested in game when they were made and again in to make sure they hadn't mutated over time! All I can suggest is to make sure you're checking the correct gender and age, skin colour for heads, and that you're not looking for buyable skins in your Sim's dresser at home!

This issue occurs quite often with players who have been playing for a long time, at some point new items they add to their game cease to show up.

There is a limit to how many downloads the game can hold. There is no precise value, but it seems to occur when the total volume of game content reaches about 2.