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Contents

  • Whats New?
    • Introduction
    • Create a Sim
    • Emotions
    • Neighborhoods
    • Whats Your Story?
    • Building and Designing
    • Is That All?
  • Make a New You
    • Introduction
    • Creating a Sim
  • Get a Job
    • Introduction
    • Choosing a Career
    • Going to Work
    • Michaela the Secret Agent
    • Horace Gets Fired
  • Build Up Those Skills
    • Introduction
    • Skills
    • Child Skills
    • Mentoring Skills
    • Collecting
  • Tour of the Worlds
    • Introduction
    • Willow Creek
    • Oasis Springs
  • Achievements
    • Introduction
    • Careers
    • Player Feats
    • Relationships
    • Sim Feats
    • Skills and Crafting
    • Wealth and Collecting
  • Feelings, Lots of Feelings
    • Introduction
    • Emotions
    • Moodlets
  • I'm Home
    • Introduction
    • Households
    • Moving In
    • Pre-Made Households and Homes
    • Willow Creek
    • Oasis Springs
  • Architecture and Design
    • Introduction
    • Build Mode
    • Building a House
    • Furnishing and Decorating
    • Building Venues
  • Meet Other People
    • Introduction
    • Relationships and Socializing
    • Events
    • Families
    • Aging
    • Death
  • Sharing
    • Introduction
    • The Gallery
  • I Need More Stuff
    • Introduction
    • Living Room
    • Kitchen
    • Dining Room
    • Bedroom
    • Bathroom
    • Study
    • Kids Room
    • Multi-Room Objects
    • Hobbies and Skills
    • Outdoors and Landscaping
    • Styled Rooms
    • Home Design
  • Living the Sim Life
    • Introduction
    • Meeting Your Needs
    • Michaelas Life
    • Aspirations
    • Whims
    • Spending Satisfaction Points

The Sims 4 Guide › Sharing

The Gallery

The Gallery: where you save, share, and discover The Sims 4 creations.

The Gallery is like an evolving portfolio of households, lots and rooms by The Sims 4 community. You can save and share your creations, or discover creations by other The Sims 4 players. It can be accessed throughout the game from the icon that looks like a couple of photos in the screen’s upper right corner.

The Gallery has four distinct sections:

  • The first section is the Home screen, which is a summary of Gallery activity since the last time you visited. It features an activity feed, which will show your recent activity, trending hashtags, which will show you what’s hot in the community, plus cool stats about the Gallery.
  • The second section is Community. This is where you will see all creations by The Sims 4 community, and where other players will find everything you have shared.
  • The third section is My Library. This is where you will find any creations you have saved, either from in the game or from the Community section.
  • The fourth section is your Player Profile. Your profile page is what other players see when they find you on the gallery. You can use this area to talk to other players or tell other people about yourself.

You can find all saved creations— your own or from other players—in My Library.

Note

To interact with the Sims community so you can share creations and download the creations of others, you need to have an account on Origin. This is easy to do and the game walks you through the process during installation. If you have played The Sims games in the past, or other EA games such as Titanfall, Battlefield, or several others, you probably already have an Origin account. Just log in with your existing user name and password.

Saving to My Library

When you are in Create a Sim or Build Mode, you can save your household, your current lot or even one of your rooms by clicking the Save icon in the upper right corner that looks like a file folder. A window opens up that allows you to name and to type in some information about your creation.

Tip

The Save function in Create a Sim saves your entire household. However, if you want to save individual Sims so you can use them in different households, create one Sim at a time and then save each Sim separately. Then once you have all of your individual Sims saved, you can simply open the Gallery to My Library and apply them as you wish. This allows you to use Sims how you want them without having to recreate them for new households. You can then set new relationships within the new household. You can also take a household that you have previously saved and merge it into an existing household.

You can also share your household or lot when you save it to My Library.

To save creations by other players, go to the Community page in the Gallery. There you can browse through all of the creations, divided into various categories. See something you like? Click on it and save it to your My Library so you can then apply it and play with it.

Applying from the Gallery

If you are creating a household and want to add a new Sim, just click on the Gallery icon while in Create a Sim. You can either select one of the households you have previously saved in My Library, or you can grab something new from the Community section. Then you can apply it and choose to merge with or replace the existing household. It is that easy.

You can also apply a lot—furnished or unfurnished—to a different location. While in Build Mode, open the Gallery and find your new lot. Make sure it isn’t bigger than your existing lot, then simply apply it. This will replace whatever is on the existing lot with whatever is on the new lot. This allows you to create a great house and then move it to another larger lot if you want to make it even bigger. You could even apply a new room to your existing house.

Note

The lots you save are not limited to just houses. You can save and apply any lot, including parks and venues.

Sharing to the Gallery

Sharing your creations with the community is also easy. Go to My Library in the Gallery and select a household, lot, or room you’ve created. When the window for that creation opens up, notice a button in the lower left corner. The icon is a cloud with an arrow on it. Click on this button to share the current creation. Be sure to name and write a short description of your creation in the provided box. Now other players can view your creation and use it in their own games.

Sharing your items enables commenting!

Tip

Downloading households and lots created by other players in the community is a great way to learn and get new ideas. See what types of outfits other players have created for their Sims. Also look at the styles of the lots created by the community. When you apply a lot into your game, you can even pick one room and save that room into My Library so you can apply it into another lot and use it in a home of your own.

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