Category: The Sims 4 on a Mac

Creating Sims 4 CC on a Mac – Sims 4 Studio now available

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For all you Sims 4 CC creators out there who use a Mac, no need to run Windows in Boot Camp or a VM anymore, Sims 4 Studio is now available for OS X El Capitan. It is still in beta and doesn’t have the full functionality of the Windows version yet (so maybe don’t get rid of that Windows installation just yet) but it’s still what you’ve all been crying out for for so long. Hopefully more features will be added in the future to bring it up to the same level as the Windows version. There are apparently some new features not yet added to the Windows version though, which is pretty cool.

Sims 4 Studio — Introducing Sims 4 Studio for Mac-Appleseed (20160829)

I’m not a CC creator so have no experience of using any CC tools but I’ve seen enough posts from Mac users wanting to be able to work in OS X rather than Windows.

You can find all the information and links over on their tumblr here – http://sims4studioofficial.tumblr.com/post/149009729571/introducing-sims-4-studio-for-mac-appleseed

Making a sun room

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For so long I’ve been wanting to build a sun room in the Sims 4 using the glass roof awning from Get Together. It can be found in Decorations > Sculpture:

Sun awning

And over the last couple of days I’ve finally got round to it. It’s not perfect, the roof edges are a little lower than the lowest wall height, but with some trims and fencing it’s fairly easy to cover up the dodgy looking bits. And it’s fully functional too!

Click on the image to see a bigger version:

pool

sun room

elevation

side view

Water slide bug in the Sims 4 Backyard Stuff Pack

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If your Sims are glitching out whilst using the water slide in the new Backyard stuff pack it may be because you have integrated Intel graphics. This is affecting both Macs and PCs but most of the reports are coming in from Macs running different versions of OS X. Intel chips can be found in 13″ MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, MacBooks, entry level 15″ MacBook Pros, Mac minis and 21″ iMacs. So most Macs unfortunately.

The good news is that EA are aware of the issue and have managed to reproduce it. Let’s hope they fix it soon.

Update (22.07.16) – EA have just released a beta fix for this issue in the form of a mod to add to your game. Please read SimGuruModSquad’s post here for instructions and links – http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/895111/beta-fix-for-lawn-water-slide-animation-issue-on-backyard-stuff-pack

Update (26.07.16) – This issue has now been resolved in todays patch 1.21.40.1220.