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[freezerbunny-sims2]

Tutorial: How to build a stream with lots in The Sims 2

@bayoubashsims​ asked me how I made the stream in my recreation of Magic Town in TS2, and I said I would write a tutorial. I’m not very good at writing them but I tried. Let me know if I missed anything.

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[jonnyparable]

Brick by Brick

Sigh well not really, but it feels like it sometimes. Anyway, I decided to take some shots of my building process, mainly for myself, in case I needed to replicate this whole thing again, but thought it might be interesting to share the process, as I like seeing how Simmers put their lots together from scratch, although I hope this isn't too gratuitous.

So, this lot is called the Bay of Thieves, it was once a haven for pirates, but has gone through massive gentrification, and is now a cluster of fancy restaurants.

I don't really do anything too advanced cos I'm lazy and a little impatient, so no real planning or counting tiles most times. For these river bank lots, I like to terraform slopes/ramps going down to the water, rather than only stairs, as I suppose goods from the harbour would be easier to push up slopes than stairs. Although some stairs do connect at some points. I then flank the steep sides of the terraformed slopes with foundations, which will become battlements, followed by building up the actual structures. Most of which will each be a different business.

Next, I add wallpapers and fenestration, which usually takes me the longest for some reason cos thats when colour gets involved. I usually pull out to the hood at this point to tweak the hood decor around the lot, to blend it in with the "set dressing". In this case, I altered the rocks, moving them into the unusable fringes of the lot, and then added in Criquette's embankment and street lamps over the "beach", which will become the alfresco dining area. After which, its just going back in to add trees (my favourite bit), and the rest of the details. And below is the finished lot! But not really, cos I still have to do the interiors.

While I do try to replicate real life locales so its relatable, I tend to mix the cultures into a regional style, in this case, North-African and Anatolian, instead of just importing a real culture wholesale.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed this post if you made it this far and that you found it interesting!

[decat2]

Wow, that looks so amazing!

[simnopke]

Self-Workout

This mod unlocks a non-autonomous workout interaction (that looks like the stereo workout interaction) for children and older Sims who have at least 2 body skill points. It can be performed anywhere by clicking on your currently selected Sim. This mod also adapts that interaction to features introduced in expansion packs: skill bonuses, body temperature, snow, plantsims, and enthusiasm. Despite that, it should still be base-game compatible.

Statistics (in percentage points of bars per hour):

Comfort: -15

Energy: -7.5

Hygiene: -25

Water (plantsims): -50

Fitness: +4.2

It’s an exact copy of the values used in the stereo workout interaction.

Conflicts

This mod can be used with Active Workout Self Pie Menu Interaction by syberspunk but must load before it. The syberspunk’s mod will just replace conditions of showing up the interaction.

Credits

Ciastko jfade (The Compressorizer!) Creators of SimPe

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simNopke-selfWorkout

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[terasim]

Merry Christmas in July!

A little thing I shared at GOS.

[simlishwitch]

ATS' toy stove in @shastakiss' pirate & cluedo woods. The metals are two of @shastakiss' new smooth metals, black & silver. @itsdiamondeyesuniverse's updated mesh is included, which I have also edited to be centered & up against the wall. Animations don't line up properly, so until I can figure that out, @itsdiamondeyesuniverse's mesh is included. If you want the more food options, you'll have to get the files from here. Compressed & swatches are included.

Download @ SFS.

[simlishwitch]

I posted a stocking stuffer at GoS :)

[keoni-chan]

hi, could you please tell me wcif the sofa with the adorable mushroom blanket in your last post?

Hi!

The sofa is an add-on for the Bootlegged Comfort Sofa that came with Freetime. It's by CTNutmegger and you can download it here. That cute mushroom recolor is by datapeach and you can download that here

[keoni-chan]

10 Oak Road really is tiny. I suppose the sims who will be living here will have to sleep on the couch… 

Still very much a WIP :)

[thimblesims]

4t2 Cottage Living Conversions & more:

Basket of Cozies - 550 Polys

Fiddle Leaf Fig - 781 Polys

Legacy Teapot - 276 Polys (Slave)

Legacy Tea Set - 488 Polys (Master)

Main Squeeze Cannisters - 333 Polys

The Kings Cookware - 370 Polys

Use Your Words Pitcher - 200 Polys

Body Form Display Cardigan - 1328 Polys

Body Form Display Chic Vest - 1091 Polys

Body Form Display Dress - 742 Polys

Body Form Display Poufy Shoulders - 692 Polys

Credt:

EA

Ravasheen

Download:

SFS

Mediafire

[sims2packrat]

TS3>TS2 Island Paradise AddOns by mustluvcatz

A dining table and an end table to match the converted plastic chair from Island Paradise AND a bunch of recolors. :)

Now- this is where it gets tricky. HugeLunatic and Veranka both converted this chair. So I did this for both conversions. In the download there are 2 folders: you can only have 1 since the tables have the same GUIDs. I did it that way because there’s no reason to have 2 of the same chair. So choose which set you want! 

The meshes: a 1x1 dining table and a small end table. Both have custom shadows if you want to use them indoors- the end table doesn’t get close enough to the wall without cheats to see the shadows but they’re there! Both tables are slaved to the chair in each set.

The recolors: there are 7 recolors of the chair in each set- blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, black and grey. There are 11 recolors of the cushion in the HugeLunatic folder- 6 of those are the cushion textures from Veranka’s conversion. There are only 5 cushion recolors in the Veranka folder because I forgot to do the textures from HugeLunatic’s conversion. :( Sorry about that! The cushion and chair recolors are all separate packages so you can pick-n-choose which ones you want OR delete in game without goofing things up.

Thanks to those who answered me yesterday.. *hugs* .. I hope the yellow looks better now!

https://app.box.com/s/dov7o5giefkunbbt1hnn

Thank you so much @tvickiesims! :-D also, Digi’s dead-box-links-re-director is recommended as usual ;-)

[tflc]

Garden Flowers Visible in Neighbourhood - DEFAULT replacement

There have been a few instances of people improving the appearance of lot imposters in neighbourhood view (or when on another lot) just recently.  So I thought I’d join in and actually release these - they’ve been hanging around in my Downloads folder for well over a year (if not longer).   Don’t you find it irritating when you build a lovely garden on a lot like this:

And then this is what you get when you look at the lot from the neighbourhood view.

With these default replacement mods, you get this instead:

What these little defaults do is force the game to use the on-lot mesh (i.e. the regular mesh) of the basic flowers in neighbourhood view so you can now see the flowers in the imposter.  The files are tiny and can be dropped in your Downloads folder.  To see the effect though, you need to go into a lot, make a small build change and save - to force the game to update the lot imposter.  I usually either place a floor tile or build a segment of wall.  You can undo the change immediately - it doesn’t matter - all you are doing is convincing the game there’s been something changed and it needs to overwrite the last save and make a new imposter.

There are 18 files here: defaults for the half-size flower beds and full-size flower beds for the 9 basic flowers that come with a full version of the game:

Daisies of our Lives

Dandy Daylilies

Grand Gerberas

Iris Surprise

Merry Marigolds

NoPalitos Prickly Pear

Papavers Poppies

Perpetual Pansies

Top Tulips

Download at tflc: https://littlecarping.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=14&pid=19#pid19

Read on for a bit more information (or visit that link, there’s more there too)

There are a few caveats to this:

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[simlishwitch]

Moune999's aclove seating retextured in @shastakiss' pirate & cluedo woods. The fabric is repo'd to jonesi's bed blanket. I didn't do any recolors of the blanket, but there are tons around. These meshes have new guid's so they wont conflict with moune's orignals. Please pick up @hugelunatic's fixed version of the blanket here if you don't have it already. Compressed as always.

Download @ SFS.

[amythestfenix]

Pizza Pappa Continued…

@lilsisterg wanted to know if the oven in my previous pic showing my WiP lot was functional. Yes, it is now since I’ve worked on it all day, but it’s not perfect. It’s my mashup of work by people more awesome than me! The actual oven package and coding is by Katy76 from the PCSims/SimsModBoard Italy Restaurant with the mesh changed for Lithium of SimsDesignAve’s Chateau stove. It can not be used with the original as the GUIDs are the same. I’ve retextured it for Pizza Pappa.

The biggest problems with the animation are shown in pic 2 (cooking pizza is invisible because the pizza model is actually out to the right of the peel, so it’s outside the oven mesh) and in pic 3 (finished pizza is momentarily invisible).

The finished pizza will be either “Italy Restaurant” or “Restaurant Maxis”. The first appears like in pic 4 on a serving plate which I’ve retextured. The carrying animation is against gravity as you can see in pic 5. The Maxis pizza appears in a box like the delivery pizza and I couldn’t capture the interesting animation between pics 6 and 7.

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@sheryl-lu wanted to know if she could get all the stuff in the WIP photo. The answer is - eventually. If there’s something you really would like right away, it’s best to ask specifically :)

[moonfi]

second floor ✩

[simmergetic]

[mdpthatsme]

THIS IS FOR SIMS 2!

Lady Alcina Dimitrescu

I am not one for making celebrity/fictional character sims, but an elegant, powerful 9′6″ lady vampire?  I had to have her in my game.

mimoto-sims converted her outfit and accessories for TS4 HERE. shushilda converted her outfit and accessories for TS3 HERE.

However these items, were way too high poly for TS2.  I decided to go on an adventure of recreating each item and I am pretty pleased with the results.

Under the cut for more details:

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