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i’ve just discovered a little mod that has changed my (sims) life probably forever! it expands both the CAS menus and the in-game menus to save you the pain of clicking a million times. the CAS one is compatible with the widescreen CAS camera fix, and they’re all super easy to install (just drop into the downloads folder)!

Download widescreen UI by Chris Hatch

[CAS version is in post #2, change appearance post #23, buy/plan outfits post #28, and if you have a MTS account, thank Chris for this lifesaver!]

#cc creator #reference

catchymemes

cheshireinthemiddle

I’m so mad that people do this. Get a job.

shadows-ember

This is why I grab EVERY card reader and try to rip it off the machine before inserting my card.

avelexi

Good to know!

#real life tips #real life #reference

memento-sims

Just a bunch of new sliders! I included a brief description of each one so you can choose what to keep and what to delete. They are shown in order in the preview.

Personal sliders

Face depth. Ideal to create sims with flatter faces.

Outer Eye Corner Position. Moves the outer corner of the eye horizontally. May cause deformation of the eye texture.

Inner Eye Corner Position. Moves the inner corner of the eye horizontally. May cause deformation of the eye texture.

Pupil Height. Moves the middle of the eye up and down. I made this one to fix those eyesets with off-centered pupils. Not perfect, but does the job!

Septum Height. Moves the vertex that connects the nose with the face up and down.

Septum Depth. Moves the vertex that connects the nose with the face in and out.

Septum Height V2. Moves the vertex between the nosetip and the face up and down.

Requested sliders

Nosetip Pinch. Makes the nosetip sharper or rounder.

Nosetip Height. Moves the nosetip up and down.

Greek nose. Gives your sims a straight nose with a prominent glabella. The end result will vary depending of which face template you apply the slider to.

Chin Width. Changes the width of the chin without making it rounder.

Ears Height. Moves the ears up and down.

Upper Lip Size. Changes the size of the upper lip by moving its vertices up and down instead of resizing them.

Upper Lip Asymmetry. Makes one side of the upper lip bigger than the other.

Teeth Remover. Teeth are overrated anyway!! 😤😤😤

Lower Lip Size. Changes the size of the lower lip by moving its vertices up and down instead of resizing them.

Lower Lip Asymmetry. Makes one side of the lower lip bigger than the other.

Lower Lip Shape. Gives the lower lip the appearance of an inverted upper lip (it’s hard to explain lol). The end result will vary depending of which face template you apply the slider to.

Download

#ts2 #sliders #reference

memento-sims

Here are two sliders that have been very useful lately:

Eyelash Remover Slider. This is the updated version of my No Eyelashes Slider. They use the same package, so you can’t have both in your game. This one moves and resizes the whole eyelash mesh instead of just pushing back the first row of vertices. Same goal, but the new one doesn’t seem to cause glitchy eyelashes.

Teeth Height Slider. Sometimes when you heavily edit your sims faces their mouth and teeth become misaligned. This slider moves the denture up and down so you can relocate it in its right position.

Yeah, the thumbnails aren’t the usual ones. That’s because doing them this way it’s easier for me and tbh these sliders were mostly for personal use, but I just can’t help sharing everything I make lol. Please let me know if you run into any problem with them, especially the teeth one. For some reason it made BS crash at first but then it worked just fine??

Download

#ts2cc #sliders #reference #cas

riverlandfarm

15 reasons to build an herb spiral for your garden (By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

(By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

Whether you’re a city mouse or a country mouse — with a high-rise patio or 1000 acres — building an herb spiral near your kitchen allows you to partake in the sustainable permaculture revolution and have fresh organic culinary herbs at your fingertips. An herb spiral is a compact vertical garden built on specific principles allowing for individualized management of wind and water flow to create the ideal garden in a limited amount of space.

The spiral is a natural form that provides an efficient method for managing space, storing and sorting. Using the natural universal design of a spiral, the forces of gravity and water flow are utilized to their fullest allowing for proper drainage downhill. Herbs that thrive on drier soils live at the top, whereas those needing more moisture reside at the bottom where water collects. This form allows for planting of a widely diverse number of plants, and creates natural, sunny and shady areas — a perfect miniature microclimate landscape environment. The herb spiral as a permaculture form that allows you to create your own ecosystem and become self sufficient. The format can be adapted to large gardens if space is available.

Stone or block building materials allow for retention of heat and insulate plants in colder weather or at night, while acting as the backbone for the structure. Collect water at the bottom and have a small fish or frog pond or even a bog and grow edible water plants. An herb spiral can be built even on a concrete foundation and filled with the richest biodynamic, organic earth to support any plants included.

The spiral should always be built to move in the direction of water drainage in whatever hemisphere it’s located in — for example, in the Northern hemisphere, water runs off in a clockwise direction and the opposite is true for the Southern hemisphere. This allows for optimal positioning of the pond at the bottom and reduces evaporation. The spiral can be built as a round or oval shape to take advantage of the movement of summer sunlight.

15 REASONS TO BUILD AN HERB SPIRAL FOR YOUR PERMACULTURE GARDEN

1. Maximize growing space to grow more food. 2. Multiple microclimates available for optimal plant growth.

3. Healthier plants where growing needs are met and companion planting is easy to reduce insect problems and foster beneficial plant relationships for better growth. 4. Aesthetic garden focal point.

5. Maximizes space even in very small areas on top of concrete or in high-rise buildings. 6. Harvesting access is easy and all plants are effortlessly accessible. 7. No bending, everything is at waist height — hooray!

8. Save money by growing your own food. 9. Eat organic, using heirloom seeds and avoid pesticides and genetically engineered seeds. 10. Reduces maintenance, little weeding and easy to turn and mulch.

11. Manage water amounts and use natural forces to perpetuate the growing season. 12. Reduce building costs when you use local available materials. 13. Use drip irrigation or a small sprinkler for easy watering and irrigation.

14. Create a bio-diverse habitat for creatures who come to visit. 15. Build an herb spiral to grow medicinal herbs to avoid Big Pharm drugs.

Sources for this article: http://www.mitra.biz http://themicrogardener.com http://welcometovoluntarysimplicity.wordpress.com http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/creating-an-herb-spiral/

#real life #reference #gardening

shaylatoadbackup-deactivated202

A home for forgotten but very loved abandonware

I get a lot of questions about the ultimate collection, and like most I got the UC during the promotion where it was given away for free a coupe of years ago. But, EA has announced they will no longer be giving out the UC. They haven’t supported it in years, or even sold it. So it is officially abandonware, and has found it’s home on oldgamesdownload.com, a trusted website that only uploads abandonware, primarily classic and older games. So no, you do not have to worry about piracy.

I will not be answering questions, or help with installing, or ‘fixing’ the game to work with win10. Because they have a very handy and straight forward youtube tutorial on how to install the UC, and the internet has a million links (like this one) on how to remedy the graphical issues that win10 users experience.

I also will no longer be answering questions about the UC, since I added all of this to my FAQ page.

DOWNLOAD THE SIMS 2 ULTIMATE COLLECTION

#sims 2 ultimate collection #ts2 resource #reference #sims game #must have

saartje77

Getting started with TS2, a resources & recommendations post

Hi guys, I saved this for myself & figured this might be useful to others as well, so here you go.

Things to download before getting stared:

SimPe

clean installer

CEP

Resolving some common issues:

Remove black squares (if this does not work, you might have to use the boolProp simShadows false cheat)

Increase resolution

My list of must have’s:

Face template replacements. Because EA’s are urgh. You can download some here or make your own

Clean/empty hoods. Depending on your cup of tea, you can clean up the existing EA neighborhoods or replace them with empty versions & you can create a clean custom neighborhood with your own townies instead of the maxis defaults. You can find more info, instructions & replacements here, here and here

Sims default database. Since some of maxis cas items & objects are pretty icky, you can replace them with cc. There is a database for CAS and for objects

ACR (Autonomous Casual Romance). Because who doesn’t need their sims kissing, or trying for a baby all on their own. You can also randomize the gender preference of a single sim or even the entire neighborhood.

Userstartup.cheat. Cheat that allows you to enable some cheats upon starting the game & allows cheats to be shortened (for example snapn instead of boolProp snapObjectsToGrid false)

Neighborhood deco. So you can get your hood to look like this You can find a list here

Custom sky. It looks amazing. Get it here

maryannsims2

Thank you! It’s very useful

danies-simsational-blog

hi, do you have any main mods you couldn’t play without that you could list? or just ones that come to mind. thank you!

Hey there. I’m gonna go ahead and try my best to the most important ones I use. I will bold the ones I find most vital to me. :)

ACR - Autonomous Casual Romance

AgeMoreTownies - Allows up to 10 townies to age when your playables age

antibusinessdecay - Keeps your business from imploding as long as you check in

antifoodnap - Makes Sims wake up from their food at the same energy level they would if passed out on the floor

antiredundancy - Only spawns one of each type of NPC, unless more are needed

AnyLTWforallaspirations - Enables all Lifetime Wants for any Aspiration

BO Children Get Bottles - The name says it all.

BO Feed Baby - Allows females to nurse babies rather than use bottles (this version is non-autonomous)

BO KidsandPets Unattended - Allows Sims to leave children and pets home alone

BO No Sim Loaded - Gets rid of messy tokens that slow your game

BO No Trash Memories - Stops useless memories from building up

BO Skill while Tinkering - Sims build mechanical skills from tinkering

Bodyshop Sliders added to CAS - enabled Bodyshop sliders for Create-A-Sim

Call Chat Fun - Talking on the phone now gains fun

Children Sleepover - Children can have Sleepovers

CJ Job Stopinator - Allows you to keep a Sim at a career level

CJ Smarter EP check - Used in other CJ Mods

Community Lot Parties - Can have parties on community lots

Community Skilling - Sims gain skills on Community Lots

Crib Sleep Night - Toddlers sleep through the night

Double No Kids - No kids in Double Beds

ffsdebugger - BatBox for certain useful debugging options

Homework Skills - Gains skils while doing homework

ij Use Inaccessible Beds - Sims can get into beds even in they are blocked by walls or objects

InSimenator - Another super useful debugging objects

Dave Luv Faster University Education - I use the 48 hour semester version

Control This Sim - Adds a command to the Sim menu to make a Sim controllable

Homework Sometimes - Some days give homework and some don’t

Maxis Objects Centerpiece Enabler - Sims can eat at tables with a centerpiece on it

Marriage Last Name Dialog - Allows you to choose what last names your Sims take when married

Hacked Coat Hook - Allows clothes shopping at home for free

Work Bring Friend Dialog - Allows you to choose whether a Sim brings a friend home from work or not

Child Support Controller - Causes child support to automatically be paid by parents not living with their children

Multiple Subhoods - Allows multiple choosable Subhoods

No ZZZ While Sleeping - Gets rid of the floating ZZZs when Sims sleep

CEP - Color Enabler Package - Super important for recolors

Phaenoh Phone Book - Allows Sims to look up other Sims they don’t know

TashaFaun NPC Careers - Adds joinable careers for each NPC type

Enable Rent Furnished Apartment - Sims can rent furnished apartments rather than it appearing empty

Female Impregnation from Alien Abduction - Enables females to become alien pregnant by abduction

Multiple Roommates - Allows Sims to recruit multiple apartment roommates

New LTWs Enabled - Adds 4 new Lifetime wants: Artist, Show Biz, Natural Science and Paranormal careers

LTW requirements lowered - reduces the lifetime want requirements

No Autonomous Swing Child Around

No Baby Harassment - Sims won’t obsess over babies constantly

No Empty Pot - No need to empty potty ever

No Shoving from Look Through - Sims won’t show up to shove you for using the telescope

Perfect Plants - Shrubs and flowers never die

Multi PT Mod - Poppet’s version of a multiple pollination technicians mod

Pregnancy Wear Any Outfit - Pregnant Sims don’t have to wear the maternity outfit, instead wear anything with a preg morph

Poiple NoMoreLeafyHair - Plantsims keep normal hair

Sims99Fanatic No Plantsim Skin - Plantsims keep normal skin and eyes

Selectable NPC - Lets you choose which NPC you want to hire

Sim Blender - Another super useful debugging object

Stay Things Shrub - A shrub that, when placed on a lot, keeps all the objects on the lot upon a Sim moving out

SW Throw Massive Parties - Sims 2=>Fixes=> Generic (all versions) fixes=>Throw massive parties

No Censor Blur - Removes the censor blur (on SexySims; Requires login; NSFW)

Teen Nanny - Allows for a teen Nanny instead of elder

Townie No Memory Loss - Townies keep their memories when moved in

Triplets & Quads - Allows a chance for triplets or quads to be born

Witch No Change Outfit - Witches keep normal clothes

Young Adult Shoppers - Young Adult Sims shop at businesses too

AnyoneFightBurglars - Enables an option to fight a burglar

CJ-ThereCanBeOnlyOneProfessor - Game only spawns one Professor of each Major

CJ-TownieApartmentResidents - Townies move into apartments instead of social Sims

no-red-pause-mod - gets rid of the red border when the game is paused

Phaenoh Lifespan Mod - Adjusted lifespans

simNopke skyFix - improves the sky

Visitor Controller - Another useful debugging object

zz_HL_RugFixesBin_ALL - Rugs won’t look wonky when placed off grid

#reference #mods #resource list

pr1nceshawn

Situations Any Nurse Can Relate To.

avelexi

Too true guys...

#not sims #life

esotheria-sims

hi. your sims are so beautiful and your lists about your favorites are so helpful. thank you so much. would you mind to list your favorite lipsticks as well?

Thank you, kind anon! ^_^ You know, I could’ve sworn that I’d already made a list with my fave lipsticks at some point in time but I just looked through my wcif tags and that doesn’t seem to be the case, so! Time to remedy this little mishap. ;)

[note: the ones with the asterisk* are my personal favorites]

Jessi-dot: Rocks&Stones lips & Warm Your Bones lips | Precious Little Thing & Meant To Say Lips* | Perform Miracles lips | Such Violent Things lips | General tag: Livejournal

Bruno: Torsklappar Lipstick* | Lip Candy Lipgloss | 50 Flavours - Lip Colour Superset* | General tag: Mod The SIms

**BONUS 1 - LIP OVERLAYS: Skell’s Au Naturel lip textures | Skell’s Sparkly Glaze*, Sparkly Sheen*, Bruno Lipchic, Bruno Lip Overlay, Liblush Overlay, Frosty Overlay | Goat’s Rensim Luts Glosses* & Layerable Gloss*

**BONUS 2 - RANDOM LIPSTICKS: Just a folder full of random, old-ass lipsticks that I’ve been hoarding since God knows when, reuploaded because I have no clue where the original links are or if they’re still available. There are some E-Studio lips in there, a few by someone called Fiona, some old LaPink and Barcelonista crap, that infamous Tifa Lip134, a few more gloss overlays and some other stuff- the swatch is shown below. Dig into it and have fun! :)

avelexi

The motherload of lipstick sets!

#ts2cc #lips #makeup #reference #cc reference #resource list

mrs-mquve-cc

Anon asked for more hairlines, and I deliver! :) Here are @ilikefishfood‘s straight hairline and Almighty Hat’s edits of Lilith’s hairline in the rest of the colors that I use.

ILFF’s hairline is binned as blush but Hat’s are binned as full face makeup. Sorry they are all in mixed-up order, I don’t know how to change that other than editing the sortindex values in each file and that would literally take forever. DOWNLOAD ILFF Straight Hairline Hat/Lilith Original Hairline Hat/Lilith Slight Hairline Hat/Lilith Lifted Hairline Hat/Lilith Widened Hairline

If you would like these in the original Pooklet naturals you can get them here, here, and here.

#ts2cc #hairlines #makeup #reference

drewinthesky

Some more GIMP Palettes!

Hi guys, hope you’re all good and ok!

I’m sharing 5 more palettes I made last week - honestly I didn’t know many of them, but I couldn’t help and add them to GIMP as soon as I found them :)

They’re all from different creators, so I’m gonna link the original posts under!

The first one is by @hafiseazale and was originally posted here.

Then we have the Ricardo palette by iCad (@dramallamadingdang) that was shared here (I simply love it, it’s becoming one of my favourites!)

“Pastelette” was made by @pooklet - never used it, but it looks great for children related stuff! (original here)

I thought I already had all of @poppet-sims palettes but I realised I missed this lovely one! (original here)

And, finally, we have another wonderful palette, this time by @zoragraves that was shared in this topic at GoS!

I don’t know if I’m just weird or what but seeing all these colors available makes me so happy :D

SFS - Some More GIMP Palettes (shared folder)

Individual downloads:

Skunky

Ricardo

Pastelette

True Romance

Elements

Don’t forget to check out the previous ones too!

Credits:

CattusAmicus

HafiseHazale

iCad

Pooklet

Poppet

Zora-Graves

zoragraves

wheee, thank you Drew :D

#ts2 #gimp #reference #important #ts2 resource

withlovefromsimtown

Nosey (Download)

19 nose makeups in 14 colors each

Categorized as Blush

Layerable with other makeup but not with each other (because you do not need 2 noses, it would not make you smell twice as good)

Made to match my Birthday Suit skins, but wide range of colors & good blending should work well on most (if not all) human-toned skins.

Why did I do this? I hate myself. Good shortcut to not having Sameface all over your neighborhood.

If you liked it, maybe Buy Me A Coffee.

avelexi

Nosemasks for days!

#ts2cc #nosemasks #makeup #cc reference

sims2packrat

Since tumblr is great and censored some posts in this blog so that they’re only visible to me anymore, here’s links to the Wordpress versions of the same posts since I have pretty much zero confidence in them to return those posts back:

Some clothes by Flowermisty

RoseSims makeup

RoseSims hair

RoseSims clothes

Some Hawk/Manamn files

Ephemera FWM Fixed Skin

Ephemera Realistic Skin test

Ephemera Hairs

If you spot other flagged posts do let me know and I’ll expand this list.

#ts2cc #cc reference #tumblrgeddon #resource list #reference

tee-sims

List of helpful programs for The Sims 2

SimPE

Delphy’s Download Organiser

Sims2Pack Clean Installer

CatOfEvilGenius‘ Tooltip Adder

Free Duplicate File Finder

#reference #ts2 resource #resource list #helpful #programs

simtanico

Hi! do you use photoshop 3d to make your skins? if so how do you prevent the "lines" on the skin that happens merging down? thank you!

I do! I’m not good at it at all and I’ll probably die before I start ever being good at drawing directly.

Anyway, there’s really no way to completely prevent the lines and seams since it’s essentially like trying to glue a paper directly on your three-dimensional face and expecting it to fit and mold perfectly and not rip. :(

However, if you want some tips on how to deal with them and how to get not better but different results.

So it’s a combination of a couple of things:

1. Having a good base to fade them out with the opacity setting, a mask layer or just erasing.

This works a) while in 3d mode. Don’t be afraid to blend beforehand!

This is how it looks before I merge on Rami. See the masking layer? I couldn’t get his nose right to save my life so that was my focus

I try to make sure the base is a similar color as the skin, and that can be adjusted at any point with clipping mask adjustments (I use them religiously as you can see below lol)

Right here is the base layer I’m using which is Goly’s Zac skin with some custom lips I slapped on

2. Using the healing brush or clone stamp tool to erase seam lines

The process isn’t completely perfect but for Dan’s skin it worked out pretty well since I use the heads ripped from my game so I can better suit the sim I’m making a skin for. That in itself is a process and results may vary. And definitely not a guarantee that it’ll come out well.

Erhm, back to my point: so it didn’t give me a lot of trouble like OTHERS *cough*everyoneelse*cough* on the nose area but we got the normal lines after merging…

BTW, I also copy and paste the result from the merging onto my actual skin project so I can edit/blend back on to my base as necessary.

I still had harsh lines even after reducing opacity and masking

But here I masked and faded some things (yeah, unfortunately, a lot of the facial hair)

Here’s with some crappy spot healing brush tool use. it ain’t cute but it gets the job done

You honestly just have to get a little creative with things to make sure it looks passable in-game at least. The nose depending on your sculpt may honestly not even look great. It’s really evident especially if you rip the head how much your sims depend on sliders bc the textures look awful

i mean look at rami’s nose!!! LMAOOOOOO. still not cleaned up and probably never will be. a skin is a delicate ecosystem truly

3. Play with the angles and the photo you merge down with. ofc it kinda goes without saying that if you have more detail on the side of the face you can just move the head and merge it down where you have the corresponding photo or texture. (I used different lighting so you can see better)

as shown up in #1, I have the head at an angle because my reference photo is at an angle. I also played with the proportions with the free transform function so make sure i compensated for the angle. It’s weird but hey it’s more detail then i’d have without it!

Then copy the merged down result and copy it on to your actual skin psd and delete everything else that isn’t necessary. it can help frankensteining and blending the detail you need without that stretching and seams where you can’t work with them.

4. OMG i forgot to add: 3d mode might not give you a workable or pretty texture but it CAN give you an excellent reference on where things go. So if you wanna merge down and then use that to liquify and move the original image around for higher quality on your psd, it might work! I’ve tried it tons of times, it’s not foolproof but does help in making a blendable base at the very least!

It’s helpful when you’re using textures from other games and whatnot as a base

A blanket-statement disclaimer: I don’t know shit so don’t take my word as gospel.

#tutorials #tutorial #reference

lesyasun

The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection Petition

As you know, EA has announced that they will no longer give out the TS2 Ultimate Collection in Origin. I was informed that people started a petition to urge EA to continue distribution. Just wanted to spread the information and share a link with you. If you want to help fellow-simmers to get the Sims 2 game, you can sign it here.

avelexi

Please, sign this everyone!

#important #reference #petition #sims 2 ultimate collection #sims 2 ultimate collection petition

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