hi i'm mm outfitters and today i'm going
to walk through how to download sim and
house tray files on a mac
so to start i'm going to download this
sim by renlish sims i'm on their tumblr
page so i'm just going to scroll down to
the download link
and download this household
so in order for your sim to show up how
it does in the preview page
you'll need to download the cc as well
however for the purposes of this
tutorial i'm just going to go ahead and
download the sim
now that the sim has downloaded let's
open up finder and navigate to the place
where i downloaded
for me that's the downloads
and you can see here that it's
downloaded as zip
we can't have zip files in the tray
folder so we're going to need to
decompress this zip file basically open
it up
most newer computers come with a zip
extractor already built in
this means that for zip files you do not
need to download any additional programs
you can double click on the file and it
will open up for roar or 7-zip
extensions you'll need to use an
extractor tool
these file extensions are less common
however they are used occasionally
for those files you can download the
unarchiver which is free in the app
store
since this is a zip i'm just going to go
ahead and double click on the file and
it will
open great so now we can see that the
file is open and let's see what's inside
you can see here that these file
extensions are very different from what
we've seen with mods and cc
and if you do see these extensions this
typically indicates that these belong in
the tray folder
so now we've opened up the zip file
let's go ahead and add these to our tray
folder
to make it a bit easier for myself i'm
going to open a new tab in finder by
pressing command
nt
you can see now that we have two tabs
one for my downloads and one that opened
on the desktop
now on the sidebar you should see a
shortcut to the documents
if you don't see this you can go to
finder on the top left hand corner
click on it
and then go to preferences
and just make sure that this documents
tab is
ticked off
now we found our documents folder let's
open it up
let's open up electronic arts
sims 4
and then let's go down to the tray
folder
so as you can see the tray folder is
empty so let's go ahead and add our new
downloaded household
so i'm just going to navigate
back to where i downloaded my household
and i'm going to drag all of these and
just strap them into the tray one thing
to note is that for the tray folder you
can't have any other folders within here
otherwise sims won't load correctly
so make sure that you're just dragging
the files themselves into here
the process for houses is pretty much
the same so i'm going to go ahead and
show you that now as well
so now i'm going to download this house
so scroll down to the download link
and go ahead and download that now that
it's downloaded let's navigate back to
our downloads
and here is the house we just downloaded
as you notice it came zipped again so
let's go ahead and just double click on
that
and open that up
so now we can see these are the files
for the tray folder
so let's go ahead and navigate back to
our
documents
electronic arts
sims 4
and then tray
and i'm just going to come back to my
downloads folder
and drag and drop those files in there
so now that we have all the necessary
files in our tray folder let's go ahead
and open up our game
before we can play we need to tell our
game that we want to use mods
so let's go into the options
into the game options
and then this tab called other
once in here you should see two options
one enable custom content and mods and
the other script mods allowed
for sims houses and lots you only need
to enable
custom content and mods for them to show
up
however it is best practice to just
enable both so i'm going to go ahead and
do that
now in order for these changes to take
effect
we need to restart the game so let's go
ahead and do that now
now that we've restarted our game we
should see our new household in our
library so let's go ahead and navigate
to the gallery
go up here and select my library
so this is the house that we downloaded
you'll notice that this house appears
here because it doesn't include any cc
the household that we downloaded does
include cc so we'll need to click off
this include custom content button
for the sim to show up
and here's the sim that we downloaded
you can see it's successfully loading in
my library
since i didn't download any of the cc
the sim won't look like this in my game
but it's just for you to see that the
sim was successfully downloaded
hope that helps and happy simming