Hey folks,
how are we all doing today. Woke up this morning in a hardworking mood and decided to look at some of the coding in the sims 3 and it definitely is a good way to scare people lol. I have read HP's tutorial on XmL modding but its only describing how to access the code does anyone no how to read it that can give me a bit of advice to get started Thanks for your time guys.
Joe :D

Most of it is explained in the XML files itself in plain text. Just go poking around through some of the files and read what they say in 'em - some are really long weird lists that don't seem to be useful, but others are pretty plainly obvious what they do.

This might be a bit advanced for you depending on whether you know much about programming, but when I need to find a *specific* XML value, or if I want to know whether something can be XML-hacked or not, I use .NET Reflector to search the core DLLs (you have to extract them first). Every tunable XML file corresponds to a class, so if you know the class that contains a tunable value, you can look up and change it quite easily.

You can also just extract all the XML files and use a program that will search within them (Notepad++ is a good one) for specific keywords.

Thanks for replies i must be really thick cause i dont think it is self explanatory lol i was like this bhavs but i ended up gettin it then they bring out sims 3 lol typical... i had an asylum setup in sims 2 and with lots of custom mods and objects so slowly trying to change it to sims 3 hopin i can make it more realistic in sims 3 but everything seems totally different so im like a wee newbie again lol. Another thing what makes sim3 hard is the the way the sim3 creators name everything. Do yous know if their is tokens like in sims 2 that you could add sims to like inge jones prison tokens?

Thanks again for reading

Joe :D