Object Editors

These tools should work if you have The Sims or its expansions for the PC. They will allow you to create or modify objects for The Sims. To download the files, you may either click the ‘Download Here’ button to start the process or you may be directed to a specific site where you can download it from there. You can also view a larger picture of the program by clicking on the thumbnail image provided.

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Before you download: We are in no way responsible for the patches or programs on this site in terms on how they may effect gameplay. All of the files hosted on our site are virus free so you shouldn’t experience any issues on that matter, however some downloads may modify how the game performs or a game’s files. For the most part, we may not be able to help troubleshoot any problems with programs and/or patches. Also, please keep in mind that these are incredibly old, so its possibly that they may not run on your current operating system and they are no longer supported by their creators. Thanks for understanding!

Animation Alchemist

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

Animation Alchemist is simply said a program that allows one to change the animations an object uses. You simply open the IFF file the object is stored in and select the STR# resource containing the animations (usually a2o and c2o). You select the animation item you want replaced and double-click the animation from the list. Alternatively, you can select the animation and click “Set”.

Art Shop

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Creator: SimFreaks
Source: SimFreaks

SimFreaks is brokering a Sims 1 Painting program by SimsPlus, which allows you to put your own paintings and tapestries in the game.

What’s different about this program from other programs? You can create 1,2 and 3 tiled paintings, posters and tapestries with ease. Simply choose from one of the 18 starter frames, which will auto select a canvas, choose your painting and let Art Shop do the rest.

Experienced object makers can also create new bases by cloning existing templates as well.

This can be purchased from Simfreaks for 7 bucks, brought to you by SimFreaks.com.

Blueprint

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Creator: Bil Simser
Source: Simprograms

Blueprint is an object utility for The Sims that takes 3D input and pops out IFF object files for use in the game. blueprint allows you to tweak the imported 3D file, making sure it has the right textures and size, set the name, price, and description and set the room values and flags for an object. Then through a simple wizard, you export the object and create a brand new object for The Sims. This simple utility makes all the trouble of hand-painting 2D bitmaps go away forever! The preview of your object is done in real-time inside the program, simulating what your object looks like in the game. There are hundreds of free meshes available on the net for use with blueprint or you can create your own with almost any 3D program. blueprint also includes a full suite of 3D tools that you can use to create you own complex shapes.

ChangeIT!

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Creator: Judhudson
Source: Simprograms

Similar to SimPaintShop, ChangeIT! will allow you to give televisions brand new screens! By using The Sims Transmogrifier, you can clone an existing TV, and use this program to import any images you want for the television screens. It’s really easy to use, and supports all of Maxis’ existing TVs, even for Superstar users! It even has a nice, sleek design thanks to Captain from Megasims.com. So what are you waiting for, download and start changing your television screens with ease!

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

Codex

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Creator: k200406
Source: Simprograms

Codex is an advance object editor, based off of Edith. The most obvious difference between Codex and other object editing utilities is its BHAV editor, which presents SimAntics scripts in the visual flowchart style in which the language was meant to be coded.

For a guide to coding in this style, seek out the online course material for the computer game design class Ken Forbus taught at Northwestern University, which is still on the Web somewhere. It comes with a tutorial on Edith, Maxis’ internal development tool.

Codex is not Edith, but the BHAV editor is modeled on what’s presented in this tutorial, and on a video of Edith in action that Sims programmer Don Hopkins made available online.

Constant Contraption

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

This program is capable of editing Behavioral Constants. Behavioral Constants are values that are used in the game. The programmers who make objects decided that certain values (like -100 or 596) are not stored in the script but in a separate resource, the BCON resource. It is easier to fine-tune an object that way and the Edith program they use allows to add comments. I’ve decoded the TRCN resource, that handles these comments / descriptions partly and have created this program for you.

It can edit the values as well as the descriptions. I suggest someone makes a website or something about these constants, I’m sure its worth the effort, as the programmers at Maxis decided to remove all comments before shipping the game. One can clone an object and edit the Behavioral Constants with this tool to increase the comfort of a chair, by example, or change the number of times an alarm clock rings.

Guid Getter

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Creator: Judhudson
Source: Simprograms

This program I created retrieves GUIDs from objects. This is extremely useful for object hackers to look for GUIDs so they can change them in another program. It’s now been updated with a much nicer look. It can even retrieve the original GUIDs that the object was cloned from! Please note: The program does NOT like hacked objects, it will freeze up on them, it’s only meant to be used on Non-Hacked objects.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

IFF Pencil 2

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

IFF Pencil 2 is basically an editor for IFF files that edits almost everything: STR#, FAMs, TTAs, CTSS, OBJD, OBJf, BCON, BHAV, TTAB, DGRP, and so forth. Only a few resources haven’t been done yet (SPR2, SPR# and SLOT). The script.txt file contains the most recent SST code. SST means Scripted SimAntics Translator and it’s a self-made scripting language that is completely written for effective translation of SimAntics code to readable stuff. The fun of it is that you can edit it yourself.

MenuEditor

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Creator: Bil Simser
Source: Simprograms

MenuEditor is part of the blueprint suite of tools and provided as a handy way of quickly editing menu options along with their scores. With the MenuEditor application, you can edit these values (along with other attributes about the menu items) and increase, decrease or completely remove the scores they affect in the game and make your object more appealing to certain Sims. This is different from the catalog values which are displayed when you purchase an item. There the values are single digits. In the MenuEditor, they’re presented as ranges that might be altered based on the personality of the Sim.

Features:

• Simple but powerful editing capabilities of menu options
• Change menu names, properties and autonomy scores
• Alter motive values for individual menu items
• Graphical Preview of Object for Identification
• Works with all languages supported by The Sims

Object Depreciation Calculator

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Creator: Bunny
Source: Bunny’s “The Sims” Page

If you create objects for your Sims game, SOD Calc can help by automatically determining the depreciation values based on the object type. SOD Calc follows the formulas used by Maxis for the original Sims objects. It also suggests “Room Rating” values for decorative objects.

ObjectEditor

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Creator: Bil Simser
Source: Simprograms

ObjectEditor is a simple utility to edit most properties for a single object. This tool is where you change various information on new and existing Sim objects. With it you can change the name, price, description, and placement for an object. The advanced properties allow you to how quickly an object drops in value, build mode flags and more. The ObjectEditor is part of the blueprint suite of tools but a stand-alone version is offered here for your convenience.

Features:

• Edit objects quickly and easily
• Automatically detects the installed path to The Sims
• Open and edit as many objects as you want (or need)
• Object Preview so you know what you’re editing
• Supports The Sims, Living Large, House Party, and Hot Date objects

ObjectViewer

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Creator: Bil Simser
Source: Simprograms

ObjectViewer is a simple viewing utility to view object files. Similar to SimExplorer, it lets you browse all object files in the game, from various angles and optionally export the images to standard graphic file formats.

Features:

• View objects quickly and easily
• Automatically detects and locates your Sim objects
• Displays full filename where object is located to view duplicate objects
• Supports multi-tile objects and assembles the images together
• Unique rotation control to view objects from 4 different angles
• Select near, medium or far zoom levels
• Customizable background color
• Export to standard graphic file formats
• Supports The Sims, Living Large, House Party, Hot Date & Vacation objects

Pi Sims Sounds

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Creator: Pi
Source: Pi Sim Sounds

This tool will finally let object creators add custom sounds to actual in-game objects! You can even add in .XA files from other objects! If your an object creator and would like to add custom sounds to your object, give this tool a shot. The drawback though is that if you plan on offering it to download, the downloader will need this program to hear the sounds. It’s still great though!

Rug-O-Matic

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Creator: Don Hopkins
Source: The Sims Transmogrifier Homepage

The Sims RugOMatic lets you quickly and easily create rugs for The Sims, with your own pictures and descriptions! Simply ‘drag and drop’ a picture, name, price and description into RugOMatic, and press the ‘Weave My Rug’ button. RugOMatic automatically manufactures a new rug, with a text description that you can read in the game!

RugOMatic also writes a web page describing your rug, including the name, price, description, a picture preview, and a link to the downloadable “iff” object file, to help you keep track of your objects, and share them with other people on the web.

Script Station

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

Want Edith? Well, this program is the closest you can get to getting it. This has to be the most powerful tool that has been created. What it does is edit the Behavior of Sim Objects. You can do amazing stuff with this program if you take the time to learn, it can give a whole new feeling to objects. You can even add menus, interactions, animations, and more.

ShowNTell

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Creator: Don Hopkins
Source: The Sims Transmogrifier Homepage

ShowNTell lets you quickly and easily view objects for The Sims, with different views and its description! Simply ‘drag and drop’ an IFF file, and its name, price and description will load.

In order to use, all you need to do is click “ShowNTell.hta” and the program will load, asking you to drag and drop an object into it.

SIF Builder

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Creator: Bil Simser
Source: Simprograms

SIFBuilder is a program to build SIF (Sims Information Files). These are simple text files that you can attach to your objects for ownership and provide some information to the end user about them.

Features:

• Simple creation, just fill in the form and click “Save”
• Saves author information in the registry for later retrieval
• Supports The Sims, Living Large, House Party, and Hot Date
• Automatically fills in info from existing IFF files

SimCategorizer

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Creator: James A. Sausville
Source: Paladin’s Place

SimCategorizer is a program that will allow you to re-categorize your objects for use with the Hot Date, Vacation, Unleashed, SuperStar and Makin’ Magic categories. This allows the objects to be used downtown (by selecting a downtown category), on Vacation Island, on the Unleashed community lots, in studio town and in magic town.. The existing catalog information (room and function flags, name price and description) may also be changed. Objects in folders and objects in FAR files may be edited. Includes support for read-only IFF files. Also includes a fix for the T-Mog sprite palette problem.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

SimExplorer

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Creator: Bil Simser
Source: Simprograms

SimExplorer is a utility to view resources inside The Sims. This includes IFF (Objects), SPR (Sprites/Bitmaps), WLL (Walls), and FLR (Floor) files from The Sims. The layout and use is just like Windows Explorer, but instead of getting file details you get object details including a preview image, name, price and description of the item. This handy utility will let you organize those hundreds of floors you just downloaded quickly and easily. You can also use it to peek inside of objects and see what makes them tick.

SimFlux

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

This is another old program. It edits lots of things like objects, houses, careers, iff files, and more. It’s one of Tom’s earlier programs that I like to have on the site because it is still useful to people in a way.

SimPaintShop

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Creator: Judhudson
Source: Simprograms

Now Supports Multi-Tiled Paintings!! SimPaintShop is a tool that will let you create new paintings based on some of the templates in The Sims! By using The Sims Transmogrifier, you can clone a new painting, and use this program to import any images you want to create new paintings! It’s similar to Art Studio, but has a wider selection of choices. The best part of this tool is that it now supports Multi-Tiled paintings, allowing you to create bigger sizes! So give it a shot and start creating your paintings today!

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

SimOrganizer

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Creator: Garrett Berg
Source: Simprograms

SimOrganizer is the answer to all of your object categorization needs! This extremely easy-to-use program allows you to view and edit an object’s name, description, price, and most importantly: catalog sorts. You can also view the objects thumbnail (if it has one). If that’s not enough, SimOrganizer also has a feature called “presets” with the ability to save common object categorizations, allowing you to categorize any object with a single click! In addition to all this, you have the ability to fully control what directories the program looks in for IFF files.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

Sims Object ID

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Creator: Antoine Potten
Source: Simprograms

Object crashing your game? Well, then you need this program. This cool utility check’s all of the objects you have downloaded and checks for their IDs. If a duplicate ID is found, then you can remove it and fix the game’s crashing problem. A really useful program, which all people should have if they download objects.

Sims ThingCat 1.2.1

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Creator: Bunny
Source: Bunny’s “The Sims” Page

ThingCat will scan your Sims objects (.IFF) in the Objects folder, UserObjects folder, Downloads and all Download sub-directories. It also scans any archives (.FAR) that it finds in the UserObjects folder. It still has problems with a few multi-tile objects! ThingCat can save your catalogue to a tab-delimited text file which can be imported into most spreadsheets and word processors.

Sims ThingCheck 2.1.4

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Creator: Bunny
Source: Bunny’s “The Sims” Page

ThingCheck will scan your Sims objects (.IFF) in the Objects folder, UserObjects folder, Downloads and all Download sub-directories. It also scans the Objects.far file and any archives (.FAR) that it finds in the UserObjects folder. ThingCheck reports duplicate filenames, duplicate GUIDs and some invalid objects.

Strings Scavenger

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

The Strings Scavenger is a program to edit the Behavioral Strings (STR# resources). These strings, which are in fact texts or some words, are used everywhere in the game. They are mostly used by the scripting code, for instance for the texts and titles of the blue message boxes in the game, or for the animations.

Usually, the “Dialog Prim String Set” resource is used for titles and texts of message boxes. There are multiple resources for the animations. For example, “a2o” (Adult To Object) is used for animations of adult persons that use the object and “c2o” (Child To Object) is used for children that use the object.

This program is rather simple to use. When you open a file, it will show a list of resources and the user can select a resource to display the information. There are three “groups” in the program. The “Properties” group is for more advanced people and if you simply edit strings, it won’t be necessary to change these. The “Strings” group lists all available strings and allows you to select one to edit it in the “Editing” group. I did not add possibilities for adding and deleting strings. Just like Constant Contraption, this program was build to allow the user to edit existing objects and do some fine-tuning. Adding strings won’t be needed. It will be available in new versions of IFF Pencil.

Note: you only need to be concerned about languages when the string you are editing is displayed in the game. These are usually the MakeMenu and the Dialog strings.

The Sims Art Studio

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: The Sims.com

You can now create new wall paintings out of your favorite bitmaps and jpegs, then have your Sims actually buy them and hang them on their walls!

The Sims Hot Date Object Organizer

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: The Sims.com

The Sims Hot Date Object Organizer allows you to set objects created by The Sims Art Studio and other programs so they sort correctly in the catalog and are available for purchase Downtown. Happy Shopping!

The Sims Menu Edit

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: The Sims.com

Now when you clone an object you can change the interaction text that appears in the pie menu! Just download this file to your desktop and double-click it to install The Sims Menu Edit.

The Sims Transmogrifier

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Creator: Don Hopkins
Source: The Sims Transmogrifier Homepage

This object editor allows you to recreate existing furniture by editing the colors, name, description and cost. This download includes the tutorial document which talks you though creating your first new object. From there on, it’s plain sailing! If you intend to create objects for the community, we strongly recommend getting a unique cookie from the T-Mog website.

TransPatcher 2

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

This is a little tool which you can fix the odd colors in Vacation and Unleashed with. This is caused by some problems in the Sprite (SPR2) resources. The symptoms show up after cloning and this program is designed to solve the problem either automatically or manually. Most of the time you should use “Quick Patch” so the default palette is used. (If the item-specific palette can’t be found, the default or common palette for that SPR2 resource is used.)

In some cases the specific palettes are needed and in other you want to manually change the palettes. For these things you can use TransPatcher 2. (Maybe it should be called Palette Changer)

Xantippe

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

Xantippe is a very simple XA – to – WAV converter. You don’t need to convert WAV to XA because the game can play WAV files.