Tutorial: Invisible Plumbobs in The Sims 4

This is a very simple tutorial on how to make the Plumbobs in TS4 invisible.

You will need:

-Notepad or a similar program.

-Basic understanding of RGBA colors is a plus, but not required. You can still follow this tutorial if you just read that and said, “What the hell are RGBA colors?” :)

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1. Find your install directory. Here’s mine:

2. Open the ‘Game’ folder, then the 'Bin’ folder. Find the file called Default or Default.ini

3. Open the file using Notepad. In the second section, it will say [PlumBob] followed by several lines of code. It will look like this:

[PlumbBob] playeractivecolor = 0.43, 0.78, 0.12, 1.00 # green otheractivecolor = 0.00, 0.33, 1.00, 1.00 # light aqua notactivecolor = 0.00, 0.00, 1.00, 1.00 # blue npccolor = 0.86, 0.86, 0.86, 1.00 # light gray interactionnegativecolor = 1.00, 0.00, 0.00, 1.00 # red interactionpositivelocalcolor = 0.80, 1.00, 0.75, 1.00 # bright green interactionpositivenonlocalcolor = 0.94, 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 # bright blue motivestatered = 1.00, 0.00, 0.00, 1.00 # red motivestateorange = 1.00, 0.50, 0.00, 1.00 # orange motivestateyellow = 1.00, 1.00, 0.00, 1.00 # yellow socialgroup = 1.00, 1.00, 1.00, 0.50 # white translucent

4. The numbers are the RGBA values of each Plumbob type in the game. For example, on the first line: playeractivecolor = 0.43 (red) 0.78 (green) 0.12 (blue) 1.00 (alpha) #green. This is your active Sim’s Plumbob in it’s normal/happy state. To make the Plumbob invisible, we must edit the alpha channel (translucency): 1.00 is fully visible, while 0.00 is fully translucent (invisible).

5. In the image below, you can see the changed values in the blue boxes. I’ve set them all to 0.00 to make the Plumbobs invisible:

6. You can play around with this if you still want the Plumbobs to show up, but be less visible or a different color. If you have a basic knowledge of RGBA this should be easy. TIP: You can also leave the npccolor and socialgroup Plumbobs visible by leaving those values alone if you’d still like the Sims your main Sim is socializing with to have Plumbobs. Some players find it easier to see who their Sim is interacting with by having those.

My Self-Sim’s family, Plumbob-free:

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A big thank you to reddit user, Alzeric for the original tutorial. You can view that here: HOW TO: Change your Plumbob Colors. I take no credit for this, I simply came across his/her tutorial and made my own with pictures.

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Enjoy and Happy Simming!