Bluegenjutsu over at the Naughty Sims Asylum has a mod that allows you to buy all books from different worlds in the home world book store.
You'll need to register for free. There are various versions under:
Buy All Books/Read Books Faster/Children Can Read Skillbooks
http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php...update-7-30-14/

Sorry, can't help with the leaves. I don't recall having that problem so I must have a mod for it but I hope someone can recommend one so I can figure out what it is

Bluegenjutsu has a Fall Leaves don't accumulate over at the Asylum you could get after you register there. There are actually a ton of awesome tuning mods over there.

Does anyone know what gifts sims can receive from the gift pile in Seasons? Wondering if gifts are randomly picked from all objects in game (even store items and cc) or if there's a specific list of items. And, if the latter is true, how/where can I modify the list to include more gifts and/or randomly generated ones?

Pretty sure it randomly gifts from any and all objects in game, though it leans towards those which are entertainment or deco items. I have gotten CC items from the gift pile before.

You can remove them with MasterController's Object Stats command.
For the whole town it should (perhaps) be: CityHall/NRaas/MasterController/Town/Object Stats/Local and then select the leave piles from the (very long) list that pops up.

Are diagonal pools possible to build? If so, how?
Any way to disable grid on stairways ?
If I change a resort to other lot, will The Great Buffet table remain on it?

Sweet! Thank you, orose!

Can anyone explain me how RH rugs/doors work or If I have the right download installed? Last time I used, it only included Purchasing estate interaction. Do I need to do additional setup to define what kind of RH it behaves as?

You should have a huge set of rugs/doors in your catalog, and select the one for the rabbithole that you are placing. It needs a large amount of space around it so that sims can enter/exit. Pets (and the related patch) changed how everything works, so if you have other functional CC you are probably patched to the point where you need the Pets version of the rugs/doors. (I think it's 1.26 or higher...) If you don't have the EP that provided the rabbithole you are trying to replace with the rug/door, that would be an issue as well.

I don't remember what the minimum recommended area around them is, but I tend to make sure that there are at least 4 squares in front and behind, and 2 squares on each side of a rug. Doors just get the 4 squares on both sides. But you shouldn't have to specify what kind of rabbithole it is, because that was defined when you placed it.

Thanks (although I have to manage to find a download and install it before returning to this thread after my reply, though a 'Bistro' rug and door appears to be missing).

So I'm trying to create a video that I could use for my school presentation for a vision of own-dreamt dining facility. I have built on a empty a town for testing and filming it with just the owner home and dining facility. The Commercial lot is just a building with a diner RH lot which also includes an actual restaurant (ani's modification of BSU store set) and the teppyanachi grill. Anyway, I wanna cut to the chase:

Are there any other tricks I could utilize to make an accurate (as possible) portrayal of a restaurant? Mods, hacks, or just in-game vanilla tricks? Should the lack of residential houses be a concern for attracting customers? How do I increase the count of customers up to 15-20? How do I change the attire of chefs & waiters? Is there a way to lock rooms (like the kitchen) to restrict access from non-employees & owner?

@SneakyWingPhoenix Nrass PortraitPanel lets you have like 24 sims in a single family, I would just have the staff and the customers be completely under your control. (that way you don't have a bunch of dumb townies who won't listen to a single thing you say that just stand around waving their arms like dummies.)

does anyone know if Reshade 3.0 works with TS3? every tutorial I've seen recommends Reshade 2.0. But does 3.0 conflict with anything? Do i need to set anything up differently?

also does anyone know if there is away to limit frames in windowed mode? Nvidia Control Panel enables Vsync on fullscreen mode, but anytime i try to play windowed my game runs at 850 FPS and my GPU whines as if it's begging me to end it's life.

Try Nvidia Inspector. Riva Tuner might work too.

Is there a mod that you guys know that allows to give access to only certain sims (npcs included) only? Preferably If it's the one you're using.
How do I make chefs (at ani's oven) wear their attire?

And how I can spawn/generate sims onto community lot to visit when there are no other inhabited residents (nor such lots) present?

Go Here from NRAAS allows you to specify sims for a lockable door or gate, and has it locked for anyone else.
But I can't help with forcing uniforms or generating people to visit a community lot if there are no valid sims to be dragged in. I suppose you could make sure that tourists are not being blocked...

Just wondering, why NRASS doesn't come with pie menus rather popping new windows for every interaction? Imo it would be much more intuitive, won't disturb the flow of time and would be quicker to exit.

Is there a way to get a specific Sim infected with nraas Vector?

Not positive about this, would have to check the next time I am in-game, but I think there might be such a command available if you temporarily enable debugging on Vector. I do know that a command to completely cure one or more sims who already have a disease is there. The Vector debugging commands were never documented.

Probably because of the relatively small number of pie menu items that can show on-screen at a time as compared to the much larger number that can show and be scrolled through on menus.

Thanks! How do you enable debugging on it?

On City Hall, NRaas > Vector > Show Debugging > True

You would want to switch that back to False once finished though as the debugger will start generating all sorts of Vector related disease reports that are not necessary and can potentially drag down regular gameplay if it is left on.


Edit: Finally remembered to check this. Yes, the debugging function puts an NRaas > Vector menu on sims that isn't otherwise there with the choices of Infect, Cure, and Inoculate and then a choice of which disease(s) you had in mind. Not sure that I'm happy to have helped or sad that your sims can now be miserable on demand, but take your choice.

Pretty sure that if you put them into the bin and place them down later they have to purchase lots again.

General rule of thumb, any late or all night session the plans for which begin this way is destined to end well, due to proper advance planning. No good can come of anything that is done at 3am or later without those two necessary ingredients.

Do you have Error Trap or Overwatch?

It happened once in my game too. http://modthesims.info/t/608986

Nraas Go here might be able to help you here. But I don't think it's completely avoidable

Hmm. Maybe I should have been more specific but if the "pizza" had been a store brand version that once cooked tastes more like cardboard than the real thing and the caffeine had been of the instant variety rather than something actually brewed, the results are not likely to be as good.

If it's not too late, I would suggest an MC Reset Everything on that world and then a reload in the hopes that it resets the routing. I've heard of games where this happens, sims doing laundry for example end up all over the map trying to reach places that are undefined or should have undefined coordinates. A similar issue can sometimes be seen in these games where sim protests are staged under water or in a forest on the world lot at the very edge of the map. I would not want to play a world forward once it starts doing that, if the MC Reset doesn't fix things.

I don't know who Milo is, would that be a resident Role Sim or a homeless NPC? You may want to switch off SP's homeless management option (I never intentionally have it on myself anyway) if it's going to start doing unwanted things with your world's homeless population. By default though, there shouldn't be any emigration of actual residents out of the world with SP in charge.
NRaas > SP > General Options > Options:Households > Manage Homeless > False