Sims 3 Loading Randomizer is a great tool for seeing a new loading screen each time you boot up your game and keeps things from feeling stale. There are several steps, however once you break it down, each step is fairly simple.
Step 1:Download the mod here. Choose the first download option/the one uploaded most recently.
Step 3: Open the check_requirements.cmd file to automatically check if .NET 6.0 has been installed on your system. The program cannot run without this. If you have it installed, feel free to delete this file.
Step 5: Open RLSOption.exe. See below for the correct configuration: Game Version:The Sims 3 Action:Launch Other Programs TS3W.exe Location: navigate to your Sims 3 installation. For me this is C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 3\Game\Bin. Select TS3.exe if you are playing via EA launcher or retail/disc. For Steam players, select TS3W.exe.
Step 6 (optional): Set the icon to the correct one by downloading this icon file here. The program is going to create a shortcut on your desktop with a default, non-Sims icon unless you specify this here.
Step 7: Hit Save and Create Shortcut. You're done!
You will now see a new Sims 3 icon on your desktop which you will use from now on to open the game. It randomizes the loading screen by switching the .package file out with a new one in your mods folder each time you open the new desktop shortcut, and then automatically launches The Sims 3.
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Conflicts: The RLSOption.exe program may tell you it found conflicting mods. This usually happens if you already have a custom loading screen in your Packages or Overrides folder, in which case it needs to be removed. If it's a false-postive (like replacements for neighborhood loading screens which won't actually conflict) you can set it to ignore these. See here for a brief explanation.
Tiny UI Fix users: You will need to add a special line to your Resources.cfg file inside your Mods folder and then re-run the configurator. Open the spoiler below for instructions.
Open the Resources.cfg file using Notepad, then copy & paste this entire chunk of code to the top:
Then, re-run Tiny UI Fix's configurator. Make sure there are no loading screen files inside the Packages folder yet before you do this (the randomizer may have placed one if you ran the game already).
The configuator may show a message similar to this:
Code:
There are packages that were scaled by the Tiny UI Fix that will be loaded after the Tiny UI Fix, which will cause the scaling to not take effect.
Those packages are: Packages/MTS_Randomizer_LOADING_SCREEN.package
Would you like to adjust the "~/Documents/The Sims 3/Mods/Resource.cfg" file to load TinyUIFix/tiny-ui-fix.package after the scaled packages?
These lines would be added to the start of Resource.cfg:
Priority 20100
PackedFile TinyUIFix/tiny-ui-fix.package
Priority 0
Choose NO so that it does not undo your edit to the Resources.cfg file.
This tells Tiny UI Fix to leave the loading screen alone, or else you will be stuck with whatever loading screen was present when you last ran the configurator.
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