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Blender Short Cuts

It seems to be a very complicated program at first. I also remember i thought i would never learn this program when i first downloaded it. Deleted and downloaded it back again so many times. But if you are working with custom content for sims, even only recoloring, you need some basic information and knowledge about blender.You know we need Uv maps and multipliers etc… And belive me it is not that hard. In the event, you dont have to know everything or be a blender pro. You will find some short cuts that can be useful while using it, in this article. Before starting you need blender 2.70 version to be compatible with sims 4 studio since the latest version is not compatible yet. So, lets start;

Shift + F5 – allows you to see your mesh in 3d view
Ctrl + Right click on your mouse – makes you go to the next screen
Ctrl + Left click on your mouse – makes you go to the previous screen
Space – opens the tool box
Tab – you can go in and out from edit mode with this short cut. Another way for this is ALT + E combination
F1 – opens file browser window, allowing you choose the file you want to open
F2 – opens file browser window, allowing you to save your active blend file
Ctrl + Q – brings the menu that asks if you want to quit blender or not
Ctrl + Z – undo last operation
Ctrl + Y – redo last operation
Shift + D – allows you to copy the selected mesh or mesh parts. After copying the mesh, ” G ”, grab mode will be activated, allowing you to choose a new location for the copied mesh.
G – move tool – After selecting the mesh, hit ” G ” and you can move the object. Here you can use x,y,z axis just after hitting ” g ” , to limit the movement on the desired route
R – rotate tool. After selecting your mesh, with hitting ” R ” on your keyboard, you can rotate it. Here you can use x,y,z axis just after hitting ” r ” to limit the rotation on the desired route.
S – size tool. After selecting your mesh , with ” S ” button on your keyboard and moving your mouse, you can resize your object. Again if you want to limit the sizing on a certain route, you can use x,y,z axis.
A – selects or unselects all
Ctrl + B – opens bake menu ( it is very important for us since we need the multiplier for recoloring our meshes )
Alt + G – clears mesh location
Ctrl + J – joins selected mesh parts into one mesh
V – allows you to go in out from vertex paint mode ( we will see how to use it for lights, to light properly in game later)
X – opens the menu that asks if you want to delete the selected mesh or mesh parts
Z – opens solid mode
Alt + Z – opens or closes textured mode
H – Hides selected mesh or mesh parts
Ctrl + H – Brings back hided mesh or mesh parts
Shift – H – Hides unselected mesh or mesh parts
Ctrl + Tab – allows you to switch between vertex , face and edge select modes.
Ctrl + N – calculate normals outside
Shift + Ctrl + N – calculate normals inside
Shift + Ctrl + F3 – allows you to save the whole blender window as an image
Ctrl + O – brings the menu that shows the latest saved blend files to choose and open one
Num + – zoom in
Num – zoom out
Num 7 – allows to see your mesh from top view
Ctrl + A – Its makes the changes permanent that you made in object mode such as rotations and sizing..
Shift + A – brings the menu to add a new mesh

I hope this basic information will be helpful to those who want to get start with dealing blender. I know my english in not perfect and there may be some translate problems. Sorry for this. I find some tutorials very hard to understand, maybe because of my english or maybe the manner it is written so I will be working on more articles and tutorials to show basic prodecures in a simple manner.

Sims 4 Rewards Guide

People who play or played sims 3 will remember these rewards, which we could buy with the points that are earned by welcoming our sims’ needs. We also have these rewards at sims 4 but it is a bit different to get them. Unlike with sims 3, we cant get them from the user panel. You can collect satisfaction points by fulfilling the desires of your sims as it was in sims 3 and with these points, you can shop at ” The Lifetime Rewards Store ”.

Here are the rewards you can buy from the store;

Instant Fun – costs 100 points – fills the fun need to the maximum level
Instant Hygiene – costs 100 points – fills the hygiene need to the maximum level
Confident Potion – costs 200 points – sims who drink this potion will become confident for 3 hours. Will be very helpful if you are looking for a promotion or a new relationship.
Energized Potion – costs 200 points – drinking this potion will make your sim energized for 3 hours
Flirty Potion – costs 200 points – drinking this potion will make your sim flirty for 3 hours
Happy Potion – costs 200 points – drinking this potion will make your sim happy for 3 hours
Inspired Potion – costs 200 points – drinking this potion will make your sim inspired for 3 hours. Can be very useful if you are about to write a novel or making art.
Sleep Replacement – costs 400 points – fills the energy need to the maximum level
Always Welcome – costs 500 points – with this reward your sims will act like at home when visiting other sims’ houses and they will be welcomed by the house owners regardless from the friendship level.
Gym Rat – costs 500 points – your sims will have more fun while working out and they wont loose hygiene
Moodlet Solver – costs 500 points – removes all negative moodlets
Insta – Large – costs 750 points – will help your sim get weight. Doesnt effect muscles
Insta – Lean – costs 750 points – will help your sim lose weight. Doesnt effect muscles
Mentor – costs 1000 points – with this reward, sims can help other sims while building skills. But for mentoring, the sims must be at level 10 at that skill.
Morning Sim – costs 1000 points – with this reward, sims will develop skills easier at mornings
Night Owl – costs 1000 points – Reverse with the morning sim, with this reward, sims will develop skills easier at nights
Speed Reader – costs 1000 points – make your sims read books faster, doesnt effect reading skills
Free Services – costs 1500 points – sims receive all services for free such as pizza delivery , caterings, repairs etc..
Marketable – costs 1500 points – sims sell their crafted items for more value
Potion of Youth – costs 1500 points – sims who drink this potion go back one time period back. For example , elder sims become adult, adult sims become young adults and etc…
Creative Visionary – costs 2000 points – gives your sims more creativity. More chance at writer and art careers
Entrepreneurial -costs 2000 points – more chance at career promotions
Frugal – costs 2000 points – will cause reduce at your house bills
Independent – costs 2000 points – your sims social needs decay slower
Observant – costs 2000 points – with this reward you sim can learn the traitsof other sims by just meeting them
Shameless – costs 2000 points – with this reward, your sims wont be embarrassed by anything. Also prevents emotional deaths by embarrassments
Steel Bladder – costs 2000 points – your sims wont need to go toilet with this reward and unwanted accidents will be avoided
Beguiling – costs 2500 points – your sims can make other sims flirty easily with this reward, even strangers
Anticeptic – costs 3000 points – Hygiene need decays slower even you are at gym
Carefree – costs 3000 points – your sims wont get tense with this reward. Useful for building careers, because you sims wont get tensed by hard working
Connections – costs 3000 points – your sims can start their careers at higher levels than usual with this reward
Fertile – costs 3000 points – higher chance in trying for babies. Also higher chance for twins and triplets
Great Kisser – costs 3000 points – Success in kissing and gaining charisma with every kiss
Hardly Hungry – costs 4000 points – your sims will need to eat more less with this reward
Never Weary – costs 4000 points – need for sleep will decay. Your sims wont need sleep for 24 hours and you can have more time for other things
Professional Slacker – costs 4000 points – no demotions or fires from jobs with this reward. You can miss some days from your job and it wont effect your career
Savant – costs 4000 points – gain skills faster
Super Green Thumb – costs 4000 points – more skills at gardening, plants will live longer with this reward and you will harvest more
I hope this guide will be helpful for those who are looking for lifetime rewards. More guides will be coming soon.

How To Kill Your Sim in Sims 4

 

It is not easy to kill a sim as it was in sims 3, since we had some type of cheats. But in sims 4 we dont have them ( yet ).

Here are the types of deaths in sims 4;

Natural Reasons ; old age , hunger , cowplant attacks , electrocution , fire , overexertion, rocket ship crash landings
Emotional Reasons ; anger, embarrassment, laughter

Hunger

To kill your sim by hunger, first you need to avoid that your sim act independently. Because when sims get hungry, they will go to eat with a natural instinct to survive without your control. If you put your sims in a room without any doors for 24 hours and keep them away from eating, they will die because of hunger.

Electrocution

To kill your sim by electrocution, first you need a broken electronic device in your house such as an oven, fridge, television, stereo or a microwave ( Repairing sinks or toilets are not included in this type of death). If your sim’s ” handiness skill ” is low ( especially lower than 5 ), probably they will get electrocuted when trying to repair broken electronics. They wont die at first shock, but they will be at ” singed ” moodlet for the next few hours. ( avoid your sim to take a shower in this period, since it will help with the singed moodlet ) While in this moodlet, second attempt to repair an other broken electronic device and getting the second shock, will cause the death of your sim.

Cowplants

If you dont feed your cowplant for 12 hours, it will attempt to trick the sim around with a piece of cake. At this point, if you try to get the cake, your sim will be eaten by the cowplant. After that, it might spit the sim back or kill it. It is only about your luck.
You can get more information about cowplants in our ” cowplant guide ”.

Old Age

At sims 4 , there are 6 life periods for sims, which are , baby, child, teen, young adult, adult and finally the elder period. If you want to wait your sim, die from natural reasons, it is enough to wait for the natural time period.

Overexertion

Elder sims will get tired easier than the younger sims. If you work out your sim enough and get the ” dangerously tired ” moodlet, you can continue ( try woohoo for example ) 4 hours more and it will cause your sim die by overexertion.

Fire

It is very possible to start a fire, by making your sim cook without any cooking skills. There are no firemans at sims 4, so if you dont choose ” estinguish self ” and there are no other sims to help you estinguish the fire, making your sim stand in the fire will cause its death.

Rocket Ship Crash Landing

If your sim has low skill level at ” rocket science ” , exploring space may end up with the crash of the rocket ship. And your sim can die from the flames.

Embarrassment

There are 4 levels of emmbarrassment which are; embarrassed, very embarrassed , humiliated and mortified.
Stangers walking in toilets or showers , peeing ground while other sims around, embarrassing conversations with other sims, getting rejected by a wedding proposal, low hygiene in public or around other sims, strangers walking in during ” woohoo” are some of the options which will help your sim get embarrassed. When your sim gets mortified moodlet, you need to calm it down in a few hours. Or it will die because of embarrassment.

Laughter

There are 4 levels of laughter which are; playful, very playful , silly and hysterical.
You can watch comedy programs in tv, watch comic videos in computer, read funny books, tell or listen jokes enough to make your sim’s moodlet ” hysterical ”. And if you keep that emotional state for few hours, your sim will die by laughter.

Anger

There are also 4 levels of anger which are ; angry, very angry, furious and engraged.
Fighting with other sims, mean social interactions, getting cheated, looking at an angry painting or sculpture, playing with mischief interactions will cause anger at your sim. And if you dont help your sim calm down while in engraged moodlet for few hours, it will die by cardiac explosion.
No matter which way your sim die, The Grim Reaper will appear soon to take your sim. At this point you can choose to let it go or ” plead ” for the dying sim. If you are lucky enough, your sim will continue to be alive. Otherwise you will be left with a tombstone.

I hope this guide will be helpful for those, who wants to kill their sims easier 🙂

Sims 4 Baby Guide

In this guide we will examine pregnancy, babies and also some cheats about them. Lets start.

ADOPTING

You have two options to add a baby to your family. You can either have your own baby or adopt one. To adopt a baby, you have to spend $ 1000. You will have an option to adopt when you click on a computer. After you pay $ 1000, you will get a list of babies and children with pictures and names. You can choose the one you want, a baby or child. About an hour later, you will get a notification about they brought your new member of your house. After you get your baby, you can change his/her name.

PREGNANCY

If you dont want to adopt and have your own baby, lets see what you need to do 🙂

First of all what you need of course are a male and female sim. You will have to go though some interactions and build a relationship before having the option ” try for baby ”. If your couple gets married and have maxed romance bars, it will probably one of the first options when you click on your partner. After trying for a baby, female sim can buy a pregnancy test by clicking on a toilet for $ 15. You will get the result as soon as you use the test. If you get pregnant and dont do the test, a notification will show up the next day as ”eating for two ” to inform you.
Mostly, pregnant sims give birth to a single baby. But you can use ” fertile ” ( It is available for 3.000 satisfaction points at rewards store ) to reduce the chance of having twins or triplets.
Pregnancy in sims 4, lasts for 3 sims days. You will have the same pregnancy signs such as nausea and vomitting which we also had in sims 2 and sims 3. But in sims 4 , there are some new additional signs for pregnancy. Pregnant sims will tend to behave capriciously or have backaches etc… which adds more fun to the period of pregnancy. Male sims can give massage to pregnant sims these days to comfort them a bit 🙂
Labor will start before 3 hours from birth. Your pregnant sim will be on + 40 uncomfortable moodlet during this period. If you want you can use the option ” deliver baby at hospital ” and skip this labor time. Otherwise you can do all the actions in this time with your pregnant sim , eat, drink etc..

GENDER

There are some actions which effects the gender of the baby. Eating carrots and listenning to alternative music can raise the chance to have a baby boy. And if you want to have a baby girl, you can eat strawberries and listen to pop music to reduce the chance.

MALE PREGNANCY

Male sims can also be pregnant by alien abduction in sims 4. But for this you need the ” Get to Work ” expansion pack. To get abducted by an alien, you can join the scientist career and use satellite to contact aliens. This will reduce the chance for alien visit and so, abduct your sim.

BABYCARE

We cant control babies until they become children, so they need parents to take care of them. You need to feed ( bottle or breast ), change dirty diapers, give attention to them. Only mothers can breast feed babies, others can only feed them by bottle.
There are no notifications about baby needs, so you need to be careful with signs and his / her cry. For example , green fog on the baby shows that it is time to change the diaper. If baby cries , you may have to feed or show some attention like playing with them. When all the needs are provided, baby will go into sleep authomatically.

Parents can go outside or go to work leaving the baby at home by the ” day care ” option.
The worst part is unlike sims 2 and sims 3, we dont have toddlers in sims 4. Babies directly jump into the child stage. You dont have to wait for the normal age time. At the time you want, you can click on the bassinet and choose ” age up ” option. Otherwise, it will take 3 sim days for a baby to age up.

CHEATS

There are also some pregnancy cheats if you prefer to play with them.

sims.add_buff Buff_Pregnancy_Trimester1 – your sim will look like as she is pregnant at 1st Trimester.
sims.add_buff Buff_Pregnancy_Trimester2 – your sim will look like as she is pregnant at 2nd Trimester.
sims.add_buff Buff_Pregnancy_Trimester3 – your sim will look like as she is pregnant at 3rd Trimester.
sims.add_buff Buff_Pregnancy_InLabor – Your sim will give fake birth but there wont be any babies.
pregnancy.force_offspring_count (simID) (count) – you can write the number of babies you want instead of ” count ”. But you need to be careful with the household limit.

Movie hangout stuff

Movie Hangout Stuff Pack is announced to be published at 12 January 2016 which will be the 6 th pack for sims 4 by EA. It will have 88 new additions, 36 of them will be found under build / buy and 46 of them will be found under the outfit category. The first thing which draws the attention at first sight  is the oversized TV which includes 10 original films. You can choose your films from action to romance, from horror to comedy as your taste. There will be also 2 family films to watch whole family together including kids.

Sims will react with shock , cry or a laughter according to the films they are watching.

And of course pop corns are coming as they cant be thought inseparable with movie nights. Popcorn Popper will let you have your popcorns traditional, with cheddar or caramel. But be careful while watching horror or comedy films. Sims may react and jump with scare or with a laughter so pop corns can fly everywhere 🙂 Pop corns will cost between $10 to $25 and some options will require cooking levels.

The Stuff Pack will include new furnitures and decoratiVe objects.

As well as indoor lounges you can also create outdoor movie lounges and watch films under the stars.

Social interactions will be effected based on the choosen movie.

You can invite your friends for a movie night to your houses.

Sims can give spoilers to other sims about the films that they havent watched yet.

Your sims can declare their favourite movies and talk about it with each other.

8 new movie posters will be found under the paintings category with the pack.

Also a few couple of outfits and new hair styles will be included.

Tropical Themed Objects

Bohemian style designs

Guys will get more outlets but less hairstyles than ladies.

Male Sims will get long and navy hairs finally.

More conservative styles for the elder sims.

While female children will get 2 tops and 1 bottom, male children will get 1 top and 1 bottom. But they are not new meshes, just retextures of the base game meshes.

3 new styled rooms will be ready for use.

Some of  few new objects are a projector, beanbag chair, posters, mirror coffee table, a big tree with lanterns on it, rugs, curtains and paintings.

And for last here is a list of 10 movies you will be able to watch with the new pack

 

  • Diamonds are for sims
  • Roaring Vice
  • Simder
  • Sims of the Dead
  • The Khlumsee Sisters
  • Adventures of spaceship simulation
  • Moonlight Massacre 3
  • Lost Dog’s Journey To Home
  • Collage Cram
  • Superkids

It is not clear yet but assumed to be around $9,99 as the previous stuff packs.

 

10 Things about Sims 4

 THE SIMS 4

 

1-With richer emotions and various personality traits, your sims will be most expressive ever. Especially storytellers will love these innovations.Emotions can boost sims performances. As well as positive emotions also negative emotions can unlock special interactions.

2-Sims can naturally move around the world, participate or leave the groups easier and they can do many actions at the same time. All these cause sims to behave more natural that it will be fun to watch them at neighbourhoods as well as playing the game.

3-Enhanced menus and lay outs makes you reach everything you need to know available. On the top left menu you can see your sim  that provides you all the information with face expressions and body language.

4– You can visit all the worlds without restarting your game. Visit neighbourhoods, go to a gym in another world, visit secret locations and more.

5-With more ethnicities and body shapes you can create limitless sim characters.You can customize appereance, fashion, walk style, aspiration and personality traits. You can create from child to an elder sim with selected gender and race. Also you can choose to play with randomized sims and can create multiple sims for one family.

6– It is like a shopping catalog including accessories , outfit and make up in one click. But if you compare it with sims 3 clothing choices it is much more limited. You cant use custom patterns and can only choose colors that come with particular clothes. There are 5 outfit categories from everyday clothes to work uniforms. But you are not limited to it, you can wear your everyday clothes for work if you want.

7– Offers new and innovative build mode tools that will help you to express your creativity easier. Furnished or unfurnished ready rooms can be selected  dropped into the game. Or can choose your new house from the amazing creations on the gallery shared from fellow simmers. New tools allows fast and easy set up and new features allows to find what you are looking for quick and smoother.

8– In build mode, the new push and pull system allows you to size and shape rooms easily. After your lay out is ready you can dive into the diverse building tools. Walls and Empty Rooms, doors, windows, roofs, wall patterns, floor patterns, roof patterns, foundations, stairs , fences, gates, pools, fountains, terrain paint, styled rooms, wall sculptures, roof sculptures, columns, outdoor plants,spandrels ,roof trims, friezes and exterior trims and stair railings will meet you there.

9– Gallery is directly accessible in the game. Just pressing F4 shortcut you can open the gallery. You can upload your creations or download content from other players. Full houses or single rooms can be added to the gallery. You can even download other sims which comes with their own personalities.

In addition you can favourite cretions and give ”likes”. You can find favourite creations according to the likes.

10– And finally, you can also find custom content creations from the community. There is an option to browse creations with or without custom content if you dont want to play with mods. Sims, rooms or lots on the gallery may contain custom content and you wont be able to get that stuff with the download. The necessary custom content should be added to your game first.