Select-A-Sim

Now compatible with Late Night and Ambitions.


Twallan over at The Simmers Club has come up with a mod that will display up to 24 thumbnails on the screen. It's called "The Portrait Panel" and is not a core mod. http://ts3.tscexchange.com/index.php?board=105.0 Make sure you read his directions.

If you need more than 24 Select-a-sim is still available.

EA only displays 8 thumbnails, no matter how many sims you have added to your house. You can overcome this limitation partially (use the spacebar or right click the sim) but, unfortunately, the camera will move to wherever that sim is. The thumbnail action of clicking once and viewing stats is not available, and that is what Select-a-Sim was designed to overcome.

Select-A-Sim provides you with a list of the sims living in the house. When you select a name on the list the active sim changes, but the camera location does not, thus allowing you to check up on everyone without changing the current action. This is also great if you don’t actually know where the sim is. Without a thumbnail you’re stuck searching the map view – or that big house you thought was so cool.

The functionality is built into a clone of the Fern Keeper, which is found in Decorations / Plants for 1 simolean. I chose the Fern Keeper because it can be placed on any surface (table or floor) and is large enough to be noticed, but small enough to blend in. Just click on the object, click “Select-A-Sim” from the menu and then select your sim from the list.

Please let me know if you have any problems. I tested it on a family with 11 members, as well as adding and subtracting members to make sure the list adjusted. I have AwesomeMod and Nraas super computer installed and ran into no conflicts. My game is patched up to 2.3.33.

Select-A-Sim is not a core mod and will not allow you add additional sims to your house. Twallan's NRaas Supercomputer and StoryProgression mods (you will need both) will allow you to have more than 8 sims in a household. AwesomeMod from Pescado at MATY will also add more than 8, but he has found a way to add the thumbnails to the display. The main difference between the two is that NRaas is not a core mod and AwesomeMod is a core mod. So basically you only need my mod if you are using NRaas. I prefer not to use core mods so I use Select-a-Sim with NRaas.