Pause and Resume Game with Space
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Have you ever played Sims 3 after a long break and your left hand automatically reached for WASD and the space bar only to be surprised by a sudden and wild camera pan on your first press down on space as your game tries to find the next sim in your houshold, when all you wanted to do was to simply pause the game?
No more of that! This mod overrides the space bar to instead toggle the game speed. If the game is currently running, a press of the space bar will pause it. If the game is currently paused, then the previous game speed will be resumed.
Requirements
You need the Mono Patcher Library by LazyDuchess since an original EA method is being overridden. You only need its package files, the ASI file is not required.
Conflicts
The method being overridden is Sims3.Gameplay.InWorldState.OnTriggerDown.
Any mod which touches this method will conflict with this mod. So most likely any mod that changes the existing key mapping will be affected by this.
Acknowledgements/Credits
A huge thank you to
- Eca for the support and for giving me the nudge in the right direction
- LazyDuchess for the MonoPatcher Library
- the team behind NRAAS for the unprotected DLL's
Programs used
- S3PE (used to create the package)
| Filename | Type | Size |
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| Shadowsun252_SpacePause.zip | zip | |
| Shadowsun252_SpacePause.package | package | 4752 |
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Shadowsun252_SpacePause.zip
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Uploaded: 11th Oct 2026, 4.0 KB.
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Uploaded: 11th Oct 2026 at 11:47 PM
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