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With Minraed For this issue we will be heading down to to the local pride parade to celebrate with our friends and learn a bit about crowd control when photographing parties and events.

I am going to be using T.O.O.L mod by Twisted Mexi for this tutorial. I will explain how I use T.O.O.L for photos, but the basics of how to use the mod will not be fully explained here. You can find everything you need to know over at https://twistedmexi.com/

T.O.O.L mod and Pose Player to the rescue

find pose player here getsims4studio.com/thread/2617/andrews-studio We have a typical party scene where your Sims just do whatever they want. Trying to get them in position is like herding cattle; they never stay still long enough..

Step 1 Strike A Pose

Step 2 shft + left click to open the T.O.O.L menu

Step 3 Toggle Active Object the selected sim will turn green. Once you move the sim you can use Elevate or Rotate to position them.

Any Sim that is in a pose or not in an active animation state can be moved just as if it was any object being manipulated by T.O.O.L.

Step 4 Don’t Walk Away! Our Sims are always off wandering when we need them to stay put. Pose player is a great crowd controller. Set your sims into any pose to hold them still while you work on the others.

Using every day action poses like sitting at a table, or standing chatting, or walking hand in hand along with the pose player and T.O.O.L is a great way to set up extras in your scene. It could be used here to set up a background crowd of Sims while you photograph the stars of the show.

Lot: ! Pride Parade ! By thegrimcookies “This is my moment to take exactly who I am and what I was born into, what I’ve become, and all of the growing pains I went through in life and turn it into an artform.” Priyanka

Canada’s Drag Race alumni Winner

1st Drag Queen ever to be featured on the cover of Elle Magazine

Once you are done with your photos you can move the rearranged sims to an open and accessible space again. This is easy enough to do with the T.O.O.L. Mod features, or by using “teleport here” in live mode with cheats turned on.

The quickest way to get them back to a playable state is to hit shft + left click again and use “reset object”.

I won’t lie, this can be a very tedious process, but when you have a vision and you just won’t be happy until you can capture that image as you have imagined it then the fuss will be worth it.

I’d like to give a special shout out to THE real Lea Morgana for allowing me to use her as a feature in this little event. You can find the no-cc version of Lea in my gallery. ID Minraed You can also find Lea Morgana on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/leamorgana I hope you have learned something new that will be helpful for your photos and stories.

Share your party photos with us. Tag #SUPsimtography and #simmedupmag

You can find me on Simstagram @minraed and on Twitter as @MinraedArzhel

More photos and credits for the Sims that were party guests on my blog www.simaginarium.com