knowing what to put where (mods)

[Dark]

so... i've never had a game with two "mods" (mods/tray) folders before; so i'm semi completely lost on knowing what goes where. i've looked on the net to see if anyone has a "what goes where" type explanation on literally that, what goes where; but all i get are sites/vids on how to install the mods, which i already obviously know how to do. currently i'm trying to add outfits/meches to the game to try making it look less cartoony; but where do i put what?

can anyone explain to me the list of what file extentions go into which folder?

[Coffee Addict]

if its a .package it goes into the Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods folder

if its a blueprint or householdbinary it goes into the Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Tray folder

basically all the mods goes into the mod folder where as downloaded sims and lots goes into the tray folder

EDIT: .package blendfiles and TS4scriptfiles CFG files goes into the mods folder

[Dark]

what about animations?

[Coffee Addict]

those would be classified as mods, anything put in the tray folder shows up in your library like lots or sims, everything else pretty much goes into the mod folder

[Xautos]

Anything that is a modification that is separate from the game, including custom content like hair, eyes, body overlays, traits, animations and so on those go into the mod folders.

The tray folder is for households, lots and rooms you have saved to your gallery page from within the game. those gallery items of yours shows up as a pile of SGI, HHI, Trayitem and Householdbinary file extensions in your tray folder (to put simply, since "0x0[numbers and letters].[file extension]" is impossible to make sense of).

[Dark]

so..... if i have modded files that are householdbinary, tryitem, sgi, and hhi; do i put those in the tray? i ask because their files from a mod, not something i personally made myself.

[exolae]

scripts and package files go into the mods section, if its a zip file you'll need to extract it first

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Dark:

so..... if i have modded files that are householdbinary, tryitem, sgi, and hhi; do i put those in the tray? i ask because their files from a mod, not something i personally made myself.

basically gallery items? sure put them in the tray. those items will load. But if the gallery lots, rooms and households have the correct mod to go with it is another matter altogether.

if you don't have the correct mod, the game will automatically remove those features from the gallery item on loading. if mods and scripts are disabled? any modded content is taken away leaving bald sims in underwear, lots missing items all over the place and the same with rooms, all after they are loaded in from the gallery.

[Dark]

haha yea.... i'm getting alot of bald underwear sims. i only have the base game for now and seem to be finding all the right modders who arent putting requirements on their page haha. yea these are all modded items so far; so i wasnt sure where to put those extentions because they're apart of a mod, but would normally be something you'd put in the tray folder, not the mod folder.