You don't need Seasons to run the latest Awesome.  You can update the game to 1.42 for free. 

Alternatively, if you know how to edit, you can go back to the version of Awesome that you were using before and remove the timebomb.  If you don't know how to edit, don't try that or it might make your toilet implode.

In the days of TS1, Maxis was not keen on modders.  It took forever for even the simple Tmog to be created and I can recall the amusement when they grabbed a 3rd-party developer and then trapped him under a non-dislosure agreement.  Modding in those early days was done with a hex editor.  So although the game was simpler, modding was not too easy for most.

I think that the OP is asking for something equivalent to the task of herding cats.  Having said that, I am grateful to them for the link to the granny SDK.  I am so old-fashioned that I had not thought to look for the dratted thing on a p2p system.  I have zero graphic talent but I love having the tools.

I won my tussle with paypal today so the $25 should now have transferred to you.  I cannot imagine Life Without MATY!

I scraped together another $25;  Paypal hates me tonight alas so it will come your way tomorrow WE NEED MATY

Have you tried going to your Sim's Exchange page via your browser, instead of using the Launcher? 

If you do it that way, choose to Save File rather than Add to Game.

Municipality supported with a mere $32 but at least it's a start.  I'd miss my daily lurk if the site went down.

As someone else who has been in the Simming communities since the dawning of Sim time, I am often amazed at how many people do plunge straight in without lurking for a while.

Ah, those were the days.  Usenet, that's where we used to hang out before all these modern web-based forums sprouted and yes, we signed our online posts ;  it's not a 12-year-old foible at all.

If we all typed our words without taking any care to make them form sentences that mean what we wish to say to the majority of people who read them, then we would be unable to communicate effectively.

LOL.  I don't know about everyone else, but for me?  It's because it's Friday afternoon, it's so hot that all the cats are drowsing in the shade, my hard drive is taking forever to defrag and it's more fun to prod the MATY forum than anything else right now.

Different "from", not "to".  There is so much that is grammatically wrong with that sentence.  Tut.

But really, this is degenerating into "Didn't!"  "Did too!"

You're.  For "You are".

LOL!  Yes, that's another thing that MATY is for -- enjoying in a strange way.

Ah, that's where you make your mistake.  MATY is not friendliness, MATY is not calm and mature conversation.  MATY is grabbing a file, ripping into it, talking about the guts of the quivering beast, and then twisting them into a suitable pretzel for everyone's enjoyment.

Hang around for a while and lurk.  For about 3 years.  Then you might understand.

Now that's what I call Awesome!  I'm going to have to have that as wallpaper.

As has been stated before, this is MATY.  To elaborate, it's More Awesome Than You, a title which should tell you something about the kind of people who are most active here.  It's not a standard buddy-buddy forum.  You don't come here to be loved or fawned upon or greeted with open arms, you come here for information and downloads to make your game More Awesome.

So, if you don't want to be nominated for any Sheeple Awards, first off you should lurk a lot before asking stupid questions, see how those who have posted most handle things, look to see if your question has already been answered, use a spell-checker if you're shit at spelling, and then close your eyes and plunge into the water.  If you don't want chunks bitten off you, don't play with the tigers.

As for RL disabilities or difficulties, that's a whole different subject and not relevant to forum life.

FART ( Fade's Awesome Readjustment Tool )

JAMS ( Jfade's Amazing Modifier for Sims )

FESTE ( Fade's Essential Sims Three Editor )

Oh, I love this fight.  It's one of the best even for MATY; what I love most about it is that there is only one person actually fighting.  Got to give the guy kudos for that.

Thank you for the analysis.  As one who has not yet downloaded the game, I find the discussions here intensely interesting, and this snippet in particular :


is going to help me to decide whether to bother with the new shiny game or not.  I don't like to be forced into playing an open-ended game such as The Sims in one particular way so, unless the final release fixes the above gameplay issue, EAXis is going to have to do without the cash from people such as I.

No, it matters not one jot.

It's entirely possible that both claims are valid.  Capable modders would most likely try for the no-censor first, since that's what people are clamouring for, so both might have been working on the same thing separately at the same time.  The Shaders_Win32.precomp in Shaders_Win32.7z is dated 23/05 at 14:25 and the one in Sims_3_Censor_Patch.rar is same date at 15:25.  So I guess whoever did the one in Shaders_Win32.7z  is the first to create it, but that doesn't mean that the other one is a thief or plagiarist.

I think you'll find that the names are rld-sim3.rar, rld-sim3.r00, rld-sim3.r01 etc.  Have you got the default windows settings for your folders?  Try going to tools, folder options, View.  Un-tick "hide file extensions".  Then you'll be able to see that they are not all named identically.

Open rld-sim3.rar with Winrar and it will open the whole set of rar files to let you extract the iso.