ModTheSims3? MTS3? Sims 3 Custom Content? We're not going anywhere! MTS2 is renaming to ModTheSims and expanding for TS3 content. Accept no imitations - this is the official ModTheSims site!
Never made any custom content before? Start with the easiest, most basic stuff (which you can make with all free programs) - Walls, Floors, and Ground Cover!
Just installed the Sims 3 1.2.7 patch or about to? Read this thread for some helpful advice to keep your custom content working!
I have been involved with computers and engineering a long time (I was excited when Popular Electronics first published a story about a 'personal computer' in 1976 which had a whole 256 bytes of memory). I no longer work in engineering, opting instead to raise cattle in central Texas.
This is the sixth calendar year that I have been fascinated with 'modding the Sims 2', and helped decode some of the mesh data types, and I wrote and maintain the Sims 2 mesh plugins for the MilkShape 3D editor.
Oh, and that fellow shown to the left is my faithful dog Shadow. Neither of us can see as well as we once did.