MC Dresser

The MC Dresser module contains functionality specifically oriented to creating a list of items wanted (included list) or not wanted (excluded list) within your Sim community. It allows saving and loading specific outfits and only allowing those outfits, if desired, for certain categories. It also allows configuration of Custom Definitions which provide the ability to further control skin details, scars, tattoos and such as Sims get older or for randomly generated Sims.

There is a lot of documentation for this module, so feel free to use the links below to skip to the part you need.

Include and Exclude Lists

All of the configuration of these lists is handled through command-line actions (which can be run from the Sims command-line control-shift-C within a Sim lot). The first time a command will need to be run for a specific Sim, a first name and last name is usually required. After the initial command, MC Dresser will remember the last specified Sim and the name can be omitted from subsequent commands until switching to a different Sim.

Any time an outfit category is an argument in the command-lines for MC Dresser, multiples may be specified by delimiting them with a period, or all may be chosen by using “All”.

For example, add the current hat from the current outfit for John Smith to the included item list:

• dresser_wl john smith hat All

When adding a hair-type item to a dresser exclude or include list, it is recommended to always use ALL for the outfit. It MAY work if you don’t, but there is a good chance it will have problems. Known issue with hair cleaning/randoming is that the color of the hair may not be correct if the Sim is in the current lot. After the game reloads that Sim, it will be correct. This seems to be some Sim 4 flakiness. I tried several things to work around it but none of them worked, so for now, it is what it is.

If we only want to use include list items for a category, a single excluded item can be added manually to the mc_dresser.cfg file. For example, if I only want female elders to use included items, I would have to manually add this line to mc_dresser.cfg:

B.F.EL,*,All

1. “B” - Exclude
2. “F” - Female
3. “EL” - Elder (Options are ‘CH’ for anyone less than a teen, ‘YA’ for Teen, Young Adult and Adults, and ‘EL’ for elders. This is based on the clothing category groupings as Teen, Young adults and adults use the same clothing.
4. “*” - Exclude all items. This is a bit like Use Only Saved outfits, but instead, it only allows items from the Included Item list for Sims to be worn. For Use Saved-only outfits, one or more outfits must be saved for each category. For Exclude all items, one or more outfit part must be on the include item list for each body part in CAS (Outfit Top, Outfit Bottom, Full Body Outfit, Shoes, etc.)
5. “All” - For all categories (Options defined below delimited by a ’.’)

If an item doesn’t exist in the included list for a body part for a specific category, then the item already worn will remain worn. An exception is if the item is “removable”, meaning that the sim doesn’t have to wear something in that slot. Examples are accessories, glasses, hats. Those items will be removed if a item doesn’t exist in the included list. There’s also a random chance that they will be removed rather than using a item from the included list.

Below are some examples of using the dresser_copy command in various ways.

MC Dresser Console Commands

Using MC Dresser Custom Definitions

Custom Definitions provide the player with a way to set-up different types of CAS parts that can be configured to automatically be added to Sims as they age-up or on randomly generated Sims in the world. The number of these definitions that may be used by a player are not limited by MC Dresser, so the player can make as many as they want. The player should take care, though, not to configure definitions that conflict with one another since MC Dresser trusts the player to handle the analysis of that factor. Custom Definitions are defined by CAS outfit age groups. As such, Teens, Young Adults and Adults all share the same definitions for the same gender. The other ages each have their own Custom Definitions as CAS does not share outfit items for those ages.

Custom Definitions are defined by a name, which the player assigns. It can be anything meaningful to the player for this definition.

Custom Definitions are based on several CAS categories, which may contain a combination of body types.

Each Custom Definition may have a Use Custom Definition Percent configured. This is the percentage chance that the current definition will be applied to a randomly generated Sim created by the Sims 4. Note that this does not apply to random Sims that are replaced with imported tray Sims. There is another setting for that.

Each Custom Definition may have a Use Parent Values Percent configured. This setting is used for Sims as they age-up. Mainly, this applies to teens. When a Sim ages from a child to a teen, if there are any Custom Definitions for the Teen/Young Adult/Elder group that have a percentage set in this setting, and if the parent has one of the Custom Definition parts defined in this definition, then that part will be copied to the teen as part of the age-up. This can be used for things like copying the freckles from a parent as the child ages into a teen.

Each Custom Definition may have a Change Tray Percent configured. This is the percentage chance that the current definition will be applied to a randomly generated Sims created by the Sims 4 if that Sim is generated from a tray Sim. By default, Sims created from the Tray do not have changes applied based on Custom Definitions. However, if the player does want that to happen, they can set the percentage chance for the imported Sim to have a Custom Definition applied here.

The final step in defining a Custom Definition is to add any Outfit parts that should be part of this Custom Definition. To do that, a Sim will have to have the desired parts equipped in CAS which can then be added from the MC Dresser Custom Definition dialog. I’ll go through an example of all of this below.

A Custom Definition Example

Going into Edit Definition, I see that the Freckles definition is listed there.

Some things to remember:

• Different Custom Definitions can be created for the same Body Group Category. I could do a Freckles group, but could also do another definition for Moles or anything I wanted. As long as they don’t share the same CAS Body Type, they won’t overwrite one another. Each definition can have its own set of percentages to be applied differently. There are many types of CC out there that use the different categories for totally unrelated things. I’ve seen many skin overlays for example use a category from the Skin Defininition group.
• The definitions are gender-specific and age-group specific. You can’t use the same Freckles group for females as males and you can’t use the same definition for children as you would use for teens. The parts all have different ID’s in CAS for the different genders and ages so MC Dresser has function the same way.
• Like I said in the example, I think it’s easiest to generate a household of Sims with different variations of the parts you’re wanting to use in your definition. I would only create them with one of those at a time. For example, I would do all of the freckles before doing a household with moles. This is simply because most users aren’t going to know that 0x0000000000008fa4 is the CAS Outfit ID for freckles or moles. If you have more than one defined on a Sim, you’re likely not going to know which one applies to which item the Sim has equipped.

Body Types That Do Not Random

The way that script mods have to communicate with the Sims 4 to get new outfits for Sims requires calls to CAS for new outfit generation. Some of the body types do not come back from CAS with different random outfit parts. Because of this, when doing cleaning or randoming on these Body Types, in addition to excluded items being defined it is also REQUIRED to have items stored in the included list as well. If there are no items on the included list, there is no way for the script to replace anything currently on the Sim since CAS will never give an alternative. Below is the list of Body Types that do not return random options when calling CAS so require items to be defined on the included list.

Body Type Argument Definitions

In dresser commands that require a body type, either the Sims 4 Internal ID or the Body Type value may be specified unless otherwise specified. For those that I say use the ID only, it’s because there’s a space in the Body Type and that will cause problems parsing the command.

Outfit Category Argument Definitions

In dresser commands that require an outfit category, the outfit abbreviation must be used from the definitions below. Except when using “All”, any combination of the outfit abbreviations may be specified by using a period as a delimiter in the command-line.