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• Better Graphics Mod Sims 4

• The only thing i see is that the room is brighter

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• The only thing i see is that the room is brighter

  
  Me too.
  
• Whilst the 'after' picture are more realistic, I actually prefer 'before' I find it to have a more cozy calm atmosphere.

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• Thanks for this. I definitely prefer the lighting and the way the shadows hit the skin with the mods. I prefer the cc skin and eyes, too.
  If I make sims with the defaults, they tend to be very cartoony with big heads and huge eyes. They just don't look right as human-ish types. This would help.

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• All I need in the Sims is Magic, Seasons, Survival, Adventure
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• It looks over saturated and lighting mods like this are annoying when you play.
  The Sims team purposely do things so you can play in the dark but still understand whats going on. Lighting mods like this mean you can lose your Sim in the dark.
• The modded lighting is much better. Actually, @jackjack_k , a guru admitted a while ago they weren't content with the lighting themselves and I absolutely agree with that. It's bad inside (too dark or too yellow) and it was one of the things I noticed to be still the case (modless) when I opened the game a week ago. The colours in the 'after' pictures are way too mellow to be called over saturated. I in fact don't see much difference in colours, which is a good thing. They just catch more light, which is the purpose of light. Definitely going to install this mod, thanks OP.

  
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• It looks over saturated and lighting mods like this are annoying when you play.
  The Sims team purposely do things so you can play in the dark but still understand whats going on. Lighting mods like this mean you can lose your Sim in the dark.

  
  I use this mod and it doesn’t make in-game darkness extremely dark – just less blue.
  I also use default replacements (not only for skin and eyes, but also for eyebrows and some objects), I’ve always done, in previous games too. However, in TS4 it doesn’t work that great because the art style is too cartoony in general. The art style fitting the best to my preferences was in TS Medieval, hopefully TS5 will go in that direction
  The other thing that bugs me in TS4 is that I can’t reach as high quality of textures as in TS3, and I can’t take my beloved face screenshots without blurriness Here is a comparison:
  Another thing I do to make my sims at least slightly more realistic is using alpha hair, it definitely looks better for me than those plastic helmets.

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• Hmm, I may have to try the lighting mod. The outside lighting seems just fine, but for some reason the indoor lighting in this game is really abysmal.
• edited May 2016

  It looks better. Using CC 3D eyelash replacements makes a difference too. I was able to make Sims look more realistic using CC. Mainly using eyelash, eyebrow, hair, makeup, and skin overlay CC. No CC eyes.
  

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• Cool! Thanks for the tips. I definitely prefer the warm lighting in your after pictures.

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• I can't see much of a difference other than brightness. There are some cc skin textures and such that will make Sims looks much more realistic but the trouble is for me, they stand out as looking out of place against everything else. What's the point in having detailed Sims when they still live in a cartoon world. It just looks odd and they seem like they don't belong in the game.
  The mods you mention though seem to keep things looking quite natural still. I'd probably download the lighting fix.

• The modded lighting is much better. Actually, @jackjack_k , a guru admitted a while ago they weren't content with the lighting themselves and I absolutely agree with that. It's bad inside (too dark or too yellow) and it was one of the things I noticed to be still the case (modless) when I opened the game a week ago. The colours in the 'after' pictures are way too mellow to be called over saturated. I in fact don't see much difference in colours, which is a good thing. They just catch more light, which is the purpose of light. Definitely going to install this mod, thanks OP.

  
  I do agree about the tone (being too blue) however, that said, this still defeats the purpose of why Sims appear light even in the dark, is due to being able to play easily. I tried a mod similar in other Sims games, and while it looks good in terms of how it looks, it's not ideal for playing.
  Also, the red in the couch for example, is way too over saturated. A couch isn't going to look that vibrant from a simple wall-light.
  It goes into the opposite end of unrealistic. While The Sims 4 has too much darkness, and blue tones, this goes too warm, and too bright for the setting. And I'd prefer too blue (which isn't so bad when you change the lighting the game provides to warm) and use lights that admit a good amount of light, than have someone look like they bumped the contrast in my game.

• It looks over saturated and lighting mods like this are annoying when you play.
  The Sims team purposely do things so you can play in the dark but still understand whats going on. Lighting mods like this mean you can lose your Sim in the dark.

  
  I use this mod and it doesn’t make in-game darkness extremely dark – just less blue.
  I also use default replacements (not only for skin and eyes, but also for eyebrows and some objects), I’ve always done, in previous games too. However, in TS4 it doesn’t work that great because the art style is too cartoony in general. The art style fitting the best to my preferences was in TS Medieval, hopefully TS5 will go in that direction
  The other thing that bugs me in TS4 is that I can’t reach as high quality of textures as in TS3, and I can’t take my beloved face screenshots without blurriness Here is a comparison:
  Another thing I do to make my sims at least slightly more realistic is using alpha hair, it definitely looks better for me than those plastic helmets.

  
  It's a 2 Part mod. One part of the mod makes things less blue, and one changes the lighting engine.
  The Sims is supposed to be cartoony, The Sims 2 and 3 took it into a different direction, which is fine, but the goal is to keep it cartoony. Which is why The Sims 2 and 3 looked more realistic, but the Sims themselves still looked like animated characters.
  Realism in The Sims would be the death of the franchise, and EA know that.
  I actually prefer The Sims 4 screenshot you took, instead of Sims 3. The Sims 3 one looks too close, so you can see the harshness and the fact his fave is a bunch of textures. The Sims 4 blurs slightly so you can't see the fact it's a bunch of textures and looks nice and smooth. If it bothers you, you can simply turn it off in the Options menu.
  I prefer the 'plastic helmets' because it suits the game. If we had The Sims 4 hairs and the game was more realistic, then no. LOTS of games are now using the 'plastic helmet' hair because it's a current trend. The alpha hairs actually look outdated to me, and look like something from 2009. Also, while hair in The Sims 2 was fine, I hate the 'Sims 3 hair' look because it literally looks like your Sims are all wearing cheap wigs. There's only a small handful of Sims 3 hairs that I actually like.
  Some of the base game Sims 4 hairs look awful, but post-base game, they all have a nice texture to them, and they look good.

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  Which option do you mean? All I found is “use uncompressed sim textures”, I have it checked, but it doesn’t provide as good texture quality as TS3 with HQ mod (I tried to recreate it in TS4, but it wasn’t possible, the effect was this, and it wasn’t exactly what I intended ) And why would realism in The Sims be the death of the franchise? It’s always been my dream about The Sims, realistic graphics and supernatural elements of gameplay, where I can smoothly join day-to-day life with magic, and realism would enrich that experience Normal day-to-day life without supernatual elements but with cartoony graphics isn’t as tempting for me as my vision; if The Sims doesn’t provide it for me, maybe at some point in the future a competing product will, who knows

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• Nah I don't think CC alpha hair looks better in the Sims 4, It's kind of tacky.

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• The modded lighting is much better. Actually, @jackjack_k , a guru admitted a while ago they weren't content with the lighting themselves and I absolutely agree with that. It's bad inside (too dark or too yellow) and it was one of the things I noticed to be still the case (modless) when I opened the game a week ago. The colours in the 'after' pictures are way too mellow to be called over saturated. I in fact don't see much difference in colours, which is a good thing. They just catch more light, which is the purpose of light. Definitely going to install this mod, thanks OP.

  
  I do agree about the tone (being too blue) however, that said, this still defeats the purpose of why Sims appear light even in the dark, is due to being able to play easily. I tried a mod similar in other Sims games, and while it looks good in terms of how it looks, it's not ideal for playing.
  Also, the red in the couch for example, is way too over saturated. A couch isn't going to look that vibrant from a simple wall-light.
  It goes into the opposite end of unrealistic. While The Sims 4 has too much darkness, and blue tones, this goes too warm, and too bright for the setting. And I'd prefer too blue (which isn't so bad when you change the lighting the game provides to warm) and use lights that admit a good amount of light, than have someone look like they bumped the contrast in my game.

  I agree I don't hope this mod will put sims in the light where there's no light. My issue in the game however is, that they're quite often even in the dark when there is a light. As for the red, I don't know if that wall-light is the only light in that room. The 'Before' pictures look way too gloomy and darkish to me.
  OP, do you have links to the mods by the way?

  
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• I agree I don't hope this mod will put sims in the light where there's no light. My issue in the game however is, that they're quite often even in the dark when there is a light. As for the red, I don't know if that wall-light is the only light in that room. The 'Before' pictures look way too gloomy and darkish to me.
  OP, do you have links to the mods by the way?

  Yeah that's the thing is the Sims 4 is supposed to be cartoonish, but it looks so dark and depressing and dull indoors with the lighting and faded versions of colors. I mean outdoors is bright, but indoors it looks like they are living in a morgue.

  'The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.' -Dr. Seuss
  Everyone is a Simmer.
• edited May 2016

  It looks over saturated and lighting mods like this are annoying when you play.
  The Sims team purposely do things so you can play in the dark but still understand whats going on. Lighting mods like this mean you can lose your Sim in the dark.

  
  I use this mod and it doesn’t make in-game darkness extremely dark – just less blue.
  I also use default replacements (not only for skin and eyes, but also for eyebrows and some objects), I’ve always done, in previous games too. However, in TS4 it doesn’t work that great because the art style is too cartoony in general. The art style fitting the best to my preferences was in TS Medieval, hopefully TS5 will go in that direction
  The other thing that bugs me in TS4 is that I can’t reach as high quality of textures as in TS3, and I can’t take my beloved face screenshots without blurriness Here is a comparison:
  Another thing I do to make my sims at least slightly more realistic is using alpha hair, it definitely looks better for me than those plastic helmets.

  
  It's a 2 Part mod. One part of the mod makes things less blue, and one changes the lighting engine.
  The Sims is supposed to be cartoony, The Sims 2 and 3 took it into a different direction, which is fine, but the goal is to keep it cartoony. Which is why The Sims 2 and 3 looked more realistic, but the Sims themselves still looked like animated characters.
  Realism in The Sims would be the death of the franchise, and EA know that.
  I actually prefer The Sims 4 screenshot you took, instead of Sims 3. The Sims 3 one looks too close, so you can see the harshness and the fact his fave is a bunch of textures. The Sims 4 blurs slightly so you can't see the fact it's a bunch of textures and looks nice and smooth. If it bothers you, you can simply turn it off in the Options menu.
  I prefer the 'plastic helmets' because it suits the game. If we had The Sims 4 hairs and the game was more realistic, then no. LOTS of games are now using the 'plastic helmet' hair because it's a current trend. The alpha hairs actually look outdated to me, and look like something from 2009. Also, while hair in The Sims 2 was fine, I hate the 'Sims 3 hair' look because it literally looks like your Sims are all wearing cheap wigs. There's only a small handful of Sims 3 hairs that I actually like.
  Some of the base game Sims 4 hairs look awful, but post-base game, they all have a nice texture to them, and they look good.

  
  I AM ABSOLUTELY AGREED WITH YOU. It is true some TS4 base game's hair looks poorly designed, especially the one with so huge hair strands & thick textures. While TS3 base game's hairstyle models are the worst imo, even compared with TS2.
  I would never use CC hairstyles for TS4, it just looks bad and they are not compatible at all. Except KIJIKO's CC hairstyles fits with TS4, it looks nice because it used the same concept of default TS4 hairstyles.
  

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• I see a difference in skin theirs more texture to it but even if I closed up with cc skin it would look the same if I download this would the sim details stay the same or improve more human?

The next thing that has changed my Sims 4 experience is a simple but oh so glorious CAS Add-On by @sparrowcc It’s a 2 part Mod that has revolutionized the way I make my sims. This Add-On puts category tags in Accessories, Skin Details and Tattoos, and the next update for the mod will include an icon tag for the acne section, which I am lucky.

The Sims is the iconic and massively popular life-management sim that needs no introduction. It’s been incredibly popular since its first entry in 2000, and has only been getting more and more popular with each entry. The Sims 4 is no exception, and it’s been getting the same surge of post-release expansions and DLCs that the rest of the games get. Naturally, though, these expansions can’t cover everything, and there a lot of things fans want that hasn’t yet been covered by expansions and DLC.

The Sims 4 has gotten the mod treatment by its avid and dedicated community, though, so there is hope. The Sims 4 is a fun game anyway, but with the huge amount of mods available you can make it something amazing and endlessly replayable.

Check out these 15 mods that make The Sims 4 bigger, better, and more replayable. Also read – games like the sims 4.

Here are 15 Sims 4 Best Mods for PC

1. Houseboat

Want to have your Sim(s) live in a boat? Well, now you can. This mod allows you to turn the decorative houseboats into fully-fledged houseboats. They’re small and compact, which creates an interesting design challenge. Find the best way to fit as much (or as little) furniture into your boat as you can and enjoy your new life on the water!

Download here.

2. Candle Making

Candles are pretty cool. They’re fun, charming, and moody. Why not fill your home with them? Or make your Sims date nights’ extra romantic with these hand-crafted candles? This mod lets you create your own stylish candles and place them around your home to create your own mood.

Download here.

3. Young Adults Can Have Kids

Why can’t young adults easily have and raise children in The Sims? If that’s something that interests you, this sims 4 adult mod might be for you. This mod essentially makes it easier for young adults to have and raise kids on campus. Neat!

Download here.

4. Old French Village

A cool and charming little settlement inspired by old-fashioned French villages. It offers 10 places to live, including that sweet mansion for Sims who like grandiosity, and a pub and café. Naturally, there will be some style clashes once you start decorating, but it’s still just a nice place to live. Impressively enough, modder catdenny put together the whole thing using assets that were already in the game.

Download here.

5. True Happiness

This mod, created by roBurky, aims to make your Sims’ happiness more “fleeting, meaningful, and personal”. By default, Sims’ native mood is happy, and let’s be honest, nobody is happy 100% of the time. It’s just no realistic. This mod changes the default mood to be “fine”, and makes it so that Sims only become “happy” when something good happens, like starting a relationship, eating a good meal, working out, etc. The default state won’t make your Sims unhappy, though, so don’t worry, it simply “fine” the default positive mood.

Download here.

6. Get To College

One thing long-time Sims fans know is sorely missing from The Sims 4 is the ability to take your Sim to college/university. The Sims 2 and 3 had University expansions, but 4 is yet to get the same treatment. Until that expansion is released, this is the best way to get your Sim a higher education.

Download here.

7. Playable Pets

The semi-recently released pet-centric expansion, Cats and Dogs, is a great add-on for animal lovers. You get to make your own cats and/or dogs and have your Sims love and nurture them! What could be better? Well, what if you could play as these pets, too. That’s exactly what this amazing little mod does. A must-install for pet lovers!

Download here.

8. Become a Sorcerer

A cool, weird, and wonderful mod that lets you turn your Sims into magic-wielding sorcerers that possess a variety of abilities. You can also choose your Sims’ alignment, using your powers for good or for evil. The choice is yours, and there’s plenty you can do with this fun little mod.

Download here.

9. Tropical Getaway

This Tropico-esque mod allows you to relocate your Sims to a sunny and beautiful tropical island. You’ll need the Outdoor Retreat pack for this to work, but once you do, this warm, warm paradise is yours to own!

Download here.

10. Custom Food Interactions

This awesome mod lets you add a plethora of food and food types that the base game doesn’t include. From mini pizzas to dumplings, soups, and canned foods, this mod is a great way to increase the variety of food on offer to your Sims. You can also browse for specific food mods, but you’ll need the base Custom Food Interactions mod first.

Download here.

11. Less Musical Chairs

It might not seem all that interesting for some, but if you’re someone who hates how much Sims move around mid-conversation then you’ll get the appeal of this mod. Less Musical Chairs aims to make Sims do exactly that: it stops Sims acting they’re playing musical chairs so much! A simple mod that may be of little interest to some but huge interest to others.

Download here.

12. Height Slider

Oddly enough, when creating your Sims, you can alter their width but not their height. This simple mod changes that. You can now change the height of your Sims, so that not everyone is the exact same size. Makes sense to me! Now not everybody will be the same height and won’t look so… samey.

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13. Replacement Paintings

Once your Sim has been an artist for longer than two days, you’ll start to see the same paintings again and again. The lack of variety can really get dull. This mod allows you to pull in a huge number of abstract and classical paintings in from the web and put them up in your home once your Sim has painted them. Awesome stuff!

Download here.

14. Gender Preference

This mod may not be what you think. Gender preferences refer to the gender that your Sim is attracted to. You can make it a slider out of 100, meaning that you can make your Sims completely attracted to men and not women, completely attracted to both men and women, or partially attracted to one gender and entirely to another. There’s a lot you could do with this simple mod, and it’ll spice up your Sims romantic life.

Download here.

15. MC Command Center

This huge sims 4 pregnancy mod allows you control almost every aspect of your Sims’ lives, their world, and the people around them. You can scan a Sim to see if they’re pregnant (and even choose to terminate that pregnancy if you so wish), blacklist clothing items that you never see them on anyone, make it so your Sims have a shower and breakfast closer to when they get up, and much more. It’s a huge mod that could change the way you play dramatically. Only recommended for experienced Sims players that are looking for a drastically different experience.

Download here.

These are 15 of the best mods available for The Sims 4 on PC. There are plenty more out there, but these are just some of the best to get you started.

Let us know if you think we missed anything!