The Sims 2 (Windows)

This page contains info on data for the game The Sims 2 (Windows).

Also applicable to The Sims Life Stories, The Sims Pet Stories, and The Sims Castaway Stories

Viewing Game Files#

SimPE#

The quintessential tool for viewing files for The Sims 2. It can view most any file type inside a .package or .dbpf file.

The latest "official" release is 0.75f_QA, which adds support for the (now discontinued) The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection. Prior releases only included support up to The Sims 2: Mansion & Garden Stuff.

There is an additional community-made release with 0.77.69, which also includes support for The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection, bundles several other separate community-made programs and utilities, adds support for some unofficial community-made expansion packs and add-ons, among other things.

This release also includes scantily-clad pin-up girls in several menu elements, supplementary program icons, and in the installer. So be advised.

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File Type Quick Reference#

To do: There's *way* more

Listed alphabetically by full name, as per SimPE's display method.

For further reading on what exactly these resources do, please consult the following pages on ModTheSims:

• File Formats

• Information on CRES, SHPE, GMND, GMDC, TXTR, TXMT, and MMAT and how they all releate to one another

GMDC Files#

The 3D Models/Meshes. SimPE's built in GMDC viewer offers the option to export as a .obj file. However the conversion process tends to "flatten" all subsets into a single object when imported into 3D modeling programs. So it is best to use plugins made specifically for importing GMDC files, there are community created plugins for both Blender and MilkShape 3D.

Blender

• Version 2.8 and up

• Version 2.79

The GMDC Plugin for Blender 2.8 is also capable of importing CRES files as well.

MilkShape 3D

• Version 1.7.8 and up

Texture Files#

Divided into LIFO and TXTR files. Both use DDS compression.

LIFO files are the highest resolution textures used and are stored twice. Once with a 0_lifo, and again with 1_lifo both at the end of their respective file names. 0_lifo contains the highest resolution version, while 1_lifo has the same texture, at half the resolution of its 0_lifo counterpart.

TXTR Files contain all sizes of a singular texture excluding those that already have separate LIFO files. The lead is half the resolution of 1_lifo, and contains all sizes to a power of 2 down to 1x1 for the purposes of mipmapping.

Types of UI/ui Files via Instance#

File Directories#

To do: You guessed it. There's more!

Note that for the basegame, the following are in TSData\Res\Sims3D, while subsequent expansion packs, stuff packs, and the Stories games are in TSData\Res\3D.

Neighborhood Sim IDs#

Pleasantview (N001)#

Strangetown (N002)#

Veronaville (N003)#