Hi! Who wants a test drive of the updated Ava Nails Box?
Originally made by @platinumaspiration using Ava's nails, updated by Puhlinnos and now getting two major features from me
Features:
pick nails by icons in selection dialog window
open a nail salon! (sort of)
as a bonus, smoothed out mesh
If you set the nail box for sale in an owned business, customers will browse and buy manicures. You decide if you want to actually choose and apply nail designs. If not - customers will pay money and move on, don't worry, they won't put on random overlays autonomously! Also, there's a menu setting to disable sales pop-ups if you get tired of doing everyone's nails, but still want the money flowing. When you don't play the owner, customers just look busy, but nothing happens
At home, it costs §10 to do nails, §50 at businesses, §0 to remove. The nailbox itself costs §5 I think and is found in Misc./Dressers
Dialog with icons allows for multiple selection, but in this case, all the nails are mutually exclusive, sims won't wear more than one design
Try it (same GUID as the original, only use one at a time)
Let me know what you think! 😊
Note to creators: please don't clone this object!
I made handy template files and a tutorial on how to use them to create your own overlay/tattoo/accessory/nail box with icons and OFB functionality. I will release them as soon as we ironed out this baby. There may be things I didn't think of
Shamelessly borrowed trait mesh from @hexagonal-bipyramid, it was perfect for the icons, if you're reading this, thank you! And thank you to all my friends who contributed ideas, I mostly captured what was already in the air, typed the code and made some files 💙
This hair was converted to ts2 (TM & AM) by @nonsensical-pixels here. I've based my textures on these naturals by Lotte @lottes-little-place (with some modifications). Lotte's recolors feature afro texture by @goatskickin
S4 original by Sheabuttyr is here.
*This is for The Sims 2
more under the cut:
Custom colors are for TM - EM aside from Greying black, which is available as natural grey for elders and custom for YM & AM.
Natural black recolor appears in catalogue next to Lotte's (darker) black. My texture has softer parting edges (and more narrow).
AM mesh hair weights were edited, I removed spine assignments in the back so the movement is a bit more realistic. I also tweaked the "scalp" parts to reduce clipping. There was a tiny patch of skin showing on the front right side - that's fixed.
Well this took a while... anyway I was trying to recreate one of my Sims 4 sims in Sims 2 and wanted all the skin details to match up perfectly so I converted the vitiligo textures to Sims 2 in an overlay box.
There are 71 separate swatches, split between arms, legs, upper torso, lower torso, and face. Face textures do work with other overlays. The preview shows multiple different skins and skintones so you can see what they look like. (The one guy is backwards because otherwise he'd be sideways). For the vitiligo textures themselves I used the Tattooer to get the general shape of the textures over and then used a custom tone of Dreadpirate's Party for One skinblend to make sure the details weren't lost on the face. The overlays work on both male and female, ages toddler through elder. There are a LOT of choices (between 8 and 21 for each body part) so I recommend making a note of what you picked in case you ever want to remove them. The box is a mannequin head (using the same texture as the birthmark overlay box because it fit the theme) and is located in misc > dressers.
Quite a while ago, someone requested a version of Ginger's Dance Tile with my animations so here it is plus a new animation for it. Like the original tile, dances usually play based on personality, mood, and some require certain skills.
Outgoing sims will twerk, playful sims will do the jump dance, neutral personality sims will do the hip dances, and sims with no body skill will do the bopping up and down dance. The shy animations are the same as the original. I might make some shy dances in the future.
Like the original tile, music needs to be on before your sims can dance
You need 2 body skill to do the tik tok dance
you need 6 body skill and 4 charisma to do the twerk freestyle
you need 7 body skill to break dance
Lastly, I changed the price to 0 and removed the energy and hygiene drain.
If you already have my Dance Animation Box, Requested Animations box, and my Twerking Anniversary animation box
DOWNLOAD V1
If you have none of those animation boxes listed above
A modded buy object. There’s been some interest in this object, so I’m posting it, even if it’s unfinished. I might do some updates in the future.
OPTIONS:
➡️ Dance!
Autonomous. The animation loops. Sims will choose a dance animation, depending on their personality. Sims with zero body skills will always choose the goofy dance. Sims will dance till you cancel it or till their needs drop too much.
➡️ Dance…/ Freestyle
➡️ Dance…/ Moonwalk
➡️ Dance…/ Breakdance
Nonautonomous. Requires some skills. Clicking on the tile will tell you what sort. The animation doesn’t loop.
All the options raise fun and drain hygiene and energy.
BUGS:
1.) The animations aren’t perfect. I tried, I really did.
2.) You can use the tile only if there’s music playing in the room. That’s a feature, the drawback is your sims have to be in the same room as the tile to be able to click on it. I’m a novice modder, I can’t fix it at this point.
3.) There is a buch of recolors, but the Design Tool doesn’t work for some reason.
I used in game and custom animations. Credit for the ts4 animations that I converted goes to Steven Studios.
You can find the tile in Hobbies/Misc.
DOWNLOAD
If there are any issues, pleeeeaase let me know, I’m like, super new to modding!
Announcing OpenSO alpha testing 🧪 Signups are open now!
OpenSO is a revival of FreeSO, a fan-hosted recreation of The Sims Online, upgraded with a modern foundation:
Runs on .NET 10 LTS with the latest MonoGame. GitHub Actions automatically builds client, server, and updated shaders for all platforms.
A C# launcher replacing the old Electron one, with an integrated patcher and self-updater.
Replaced the Mina.NET dependency with a rewritten networking and buffer stack supporting TLS end-to-end encryption.
Updated rendering pipeline: dynamic frame rates >60FPS, resolution scaling, new AA options, and optional post-processing effects for 3D mode.
New features: rebuilt Create-A-Sim with zoom & rotation plus larger icons; edit your Sim's gender, appearance, and skintone at any time from the Select-A-Sim menu; a Social Bunny NPC who shows up to help your Social need when your Sim is alone. 🐰
Fixed long-standing nitpicks, like the window scaling/mouse glitch.
Always free and open source, with no pay-to-win or donation perks.
OpenSO is early in development, so things may break or be rough around the edges. Expect frequent updates.
Player feedback will be crucial in shaping the game's direction. Once the foundation is tested under a real player load, the beta release can shift focus to new content & gameplay changes while staying faithful to the original game — as well as events, documentation, tools, and quality-of-life features.
The alpha provides starting funds of $100k to begin building. The testing world, Genesis, will be wiped for the public beta.
Signups are open now and public for anyone who wants to help playtest, report bugs, or contribute ideas and changes.
🔗 Sign up + download: openso.org
💬 Discord: discord.gg/3U3sqPnPB7
💻 Code: github.com/voicemxil/OpenSO
not affiliated with EA, no copyrighted assets included
This is a UI mod that makes selection dialog wider and higher and fit more items. You see this window when you buy magazines or video games on unowned community lots, or set up bed decorations with my Unmade Bed mod, or use other modded objects that may have been released or are going to be released soon 😏
Download
Special thanks to @lordcrumps for making maxis and clean ui pics and counting pixels with me. It was his and @simnopke's idea to make this thing bigger
Some behind the scenes under the cut
Stage 1, breaking out of the tiny window
Stage 2, figuring out how to mod UI again
Stage 3, going big! But not quite there yet
Stage 4, "should I move it 1 more pixel to the left"
🤓
Secret bonus version for behind the scenes viewers who think that smaller is better, available exclusively and only in starship colors (you can only have one version)
I made several default replacements for EF. I also made AFtoEF meshes. You can download them as CC. More information is under the cut. I hope you won't be overwhelmed by all this info :)))))) if you have questions feel free to ask
DOWNLOAD SFS
1. efbodysweatervest & efbodynanny
efbodysweatervest & efbodynanny are replaced with 4t2 Sweater Skirt Half-Tuck by @applewatersugar
you can choose: download both as one package or download only one
I made a new mesh for EF. I changed mostly breast area, but didn't change hips and stomach area a lot bacause it's already ok for elders
You can download mesh and repo recolors (you need adult recolors)
I left nanny hidden in CAS but you can easily make it unhidden in YaPE. Also you can use YaPE to make this outfit be categorized as outerwear
2. efbodydresslong
efbodydresslong is replaced with dressmosaic recolors by @pforestsims
@goatskickin has already made EF mesh but I made a lot of edits so my mesh is new
I used pforest's edited shoes + I did handswap to return bangle
I edited main morph and used maxis dress long mesh as reference so my mesh is thinner
I created new fat morph
you can download mesh + repo recolors (pforest) + 3 standalone recolors from goatskickin's post (original maxis recolor is included)
pay attention that pforest's adult recolors also available for elders so you need to edit property sets to avoid duplicates
3. efbodysilkjacket
efbodysilkjacket is replaced with layerjeans by @platinumaspiration + shirt recolors by @kaluxsims
I created new EF mesh. I mostly edited the breast area, but made fewer changes to the stomach and hips because I didn't like how the shirt looked with maxis match elder morph
3/4 recolors are by me. I just combined shirt recolors by kaluxsims with jeans recolors by platinumaspiration
you can download mesh and these 4 recolors as standalone
4. efbodytracksuit
efbodytracksuit is replaced with athletic tracksuit by @rented-space
I used the same default by ello-sims for a long time. But her replacement is merged with sweats so I created new one
I made new salmon recolor
My default also replaces suits hidden in CAS
I made tiny texture edits: yellow suit's zip was red, blue suit's zip was blue but I wanted zip to be zip (silver?) color + I removed blue color from pinkblue recolor
5. efbodysweats
efbodysweats is replaced with powerjogger by @platinumaspiration + EF mesh by @sgthebee + one recolor by @moglikes
categorized as everyday and athletic
P.S. I included only repo recolors of sweater skirt by applewatersugar half tuck and dress mosaic by pforest-sims but you can make it standalone by Repository Wizard
Hello, The Sims lovers! Recently, you probably caught @morepopcorn update about the FAME PACK mod, which is going to bring back some cool features from the Sims Superstar EP (and not only!) 🤩
I can't express how excited I am to bring brand-new animations to these iconic objects and finally see them in action inside the game. I wanted to share a sneak peek of the WIP process with you! These clips come from the Recording Studio and showcase both the successful and failed versions of doing jingles and handling rejection.
Hope you'll enjoy them! ⭐⭐⭐
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