You must find the switch off option in the Graphics category. The textures, which is not HQ based, would be seen in black throughout the game. Some more things you must know about the mod are that it supports all languages and gender types. Also, you could switch your Shadow maps to 4k base, if you feel the lighting is comparatively higher than it has to be.
To know more, follow the article below. The following would be the considerable ways, which would tell you how to use the high-quality mod:. Before you move ahead with all the information and download links, you must make sure you do not combine the non-HQ textures with high-quality ones.
As you might use the edited installation of the Graphics. You could increase the compatibility by resizing your textures. It automatically does that for you, but in case you want to do it manually then follow the steps below:. Note: If you want to apply the Sims 4 texture mod, the game would appear with slower loading time and could make it slower than usual.
This happens because the HQ textures are way more significant in size than the normal ones. There might not be any significant changes yet observable. Merging could surely help. Before you read the steps, you should know that one must change two lines of Graphics. You must visit the official site of the mod to download it and save them to your mods folder.
Also, make sure there are no existing files, which could cause a glitch to the mod. There are numerous modules at your disposal, such as the Realistic mods.
Go try it out! Bear in mind, that there is so much HQ Mod content out there now. You will need to do a few things:. Please follow the following steps precisely and in order:. Alf-Si was perhaps the pioneer of this and we recognize and thank her for the work she started.
But the most up to date files can be downloaded from the following Creators:. All of the files for download must be placed in your Mods folder. I highly recommend that you create sub-folders for each pack to make them easier to find when auditing your Mods folder.
So you will need to download the following HQ textures:. CmarNYC has eleven Zip files for you to download, but it's quite fast. Each zip file must be unpacked and the contents placed into your Mods Folder. And it seems an impossible thing at this point in time to convert textures for some default Face Paint category items such as the "Mac Cosmetics" items and the four Face Paint for Star Wars to mention but a few.
But so far this doesn't export into a workable file format such as DDS Image where it can be worked with for conversion to HQ. So that means you will find some Face Paint category items will make your Sim all-black or all-flesh colored. Which simply means that CAS item doesn't work and you will have to choose something else. Your Mods Folder:. You are now ready for the final stage of your setup for HQ Mod. Change your settings as shown in the picture below.
Most notably, you must have the graphic setting for Sims on Very High. But that's it. You're now ready and enabled for HQ. Not much to do, but you should be mindful of a few things. EA Patch Updates They can be as much a pain as they can be a relief, in general. Of course we don't live in a perfect world so sometimes patches can harm our game HQ or non-HQ.
So be diligent to always keep a backup copy of your GraphicsRules. You should also make a backup of the HQ Mod version. I suggest that you name it GraphicsRules HQ. You can still save this in the same folder as the other version of this file. To be honest, you cannot stop it. But after the Patch has finished, you can always archive the new file and restore your backup HQ version.
This ConfigOverride folder is designed with the intention to provide a folder where you can place your HQ Mod version of the GraphicsRules. But so far it doesn't work! So keep doing it the classical way as already described. One day it may work in the future! Sometimes it is hard to let go of CC that is hard to replace on your Sim.
It's like a favorite hairstyle or a favorite outfit. I won't go into great detail on how to use this tool. But I did find it simple and self-explanatory. But if you look at it and have no clue what all the settings are, then I suggest to not tamper with the default settings of the tool. They are fine as they are. But try converting one or two CC at a time by isolating them in a folder all of their own and converting them.
That's it for now! Be sure to bookmark this webpage as a reference in the future. In particular those ones that have an impact on HQ Mod.
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