Not a full on release yet, because it still has a couple of issues I haven't figured out yet. For those who tested before, just replace the files. New testers may want to read the little note I put in the zip. Here we go
Download
May Require Ultimate Collection or Apartment Life or Mansion & Garden
Get compatibility patches separately
Fixes and changes from the last time
New interaction: push Do Chores by hand (by clicking on the plant object)
No chores at parties or dates for family (if not set on the job as servant)
Hiring helpers now fulfills corresponding 'Hire NPC' wants + there's a new optional file that will check before rolling those wants if a helper is already hired (normally, only checks for NPCs)
Fixed not being able to eat at food stand (they took plates somewhere else)
Babysitting role for household members doesn't lead to motives being static all the time
Fixed 'ask for knowledge - logic' interaction (it lead to hobby instruction instead, due to small math mistake on my part)
Correctly displaying 'not for you' when clicking on a chair that's not allowed for the sim when the sim is doing chores at the moment
Fixed annoyance that 'grab a plate' or 'eat' would sometimes be unavailable for no sensible reason
Compatibility with other mods
If you use Nopke's color dye mod, you can tune my AssignTablesChairs to NOT highlight tables and chairs for setup
Made compatible with @morepopcorn's Bar Tables mod (zz patch must load after both)
CJ-ApartmentButlers and CJ-CallToMealFix are sort of incorporated, so if you have them, disable or remove them
Made compatible with Laura's 'Nobles Don't Cook' (load mine last)
Made an edit to Midge's 'Playables don't clean plates on community lots' to incorporate Laura's 'Royals Don't Clean' (load after Laura's) (I had no business doing that, it's not even for my mod, honestly surprised at myself for overdoing it, but well, it's done)
UPD: Tea made a patch for her Cafe mod here
Here's how my Helpers folder looks load order wise (you don't have to have all the files):
Known Issues
Live-in tutors set as servants canβt meditate, juggle and do some other personality based self interactions. Tutors who are not servants can do all that, but don't have my custom ask for knowledge and instruct in hobbies actions (it's either this or that situation), unless they fulfil requirements for the normal ingame actions. Fixing this issue would take redoing some stuff, I might get to it later
Queue issues: sometimes, a bunch of cooking or chores interactions would appear at once clogging the queue (you can cancel them); other times, chores action would have no icon (sort of hidden in the queue). Nothing bad, but looks very unprofessional π I'd get to the bottom of this, eventually
Part 1: Chairs Converted From The Sims 2 Console for The Sims 2
Happy anniversary to The Sims! To celebrate, I've got a set of chairs from The Sims 2 console for The Sims 2. Some of these I've added recolors for, but feel free to delete any of them if you just want the originals. The Spielbunnst Lawn Seatery is used in nearly all the Sims 2 console locations, so I'm excited to have this one out! The Xbox version uses the same texture as the Contempto Adirondack Chair, just more saturated in color. I added the other recolors from it, so we can have a matching dining chair for the Adirondack set. All recolors are merged and renamed within their respective files. If you make any recolors please let me know, I'd love to use them!
The Sims 2 Console collection file - Sims 2
Downloads:
For The Sims 2 - SFS
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Boggs Saloon Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
Price - Β§400
Category Β - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 264
Texture Size - 128x128
Elementary Memories Dining Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Has 11 swatches. 1 original and 10 created by me.
Price - Β§80
Category Β - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 554
Texture Size - 128x128
'Mod Man' Office Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Has 3 swatches. 1 original and 2 created by me.
Price - Β§200
Category Β - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 328
Texture Size - 512x256
Office Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Price - Β§80
Category Β - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 334
Texture Size - 256x256
Spielbunnst Lawn Seatery Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me. This was reconstructed using pieces of the xbox model and the Sims 2 PC Contempto Outdoor Living Lounge.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Has 5 swatches. 1 original and 4 repo'd to the Contempto Adirondack Chair
Price - Β§320
Category Β - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 672
Texture Size - 512x512
"Up" Dining Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Price - Β§1,100
Category Β - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 286
Texture Size - 64x256
Asking simblrs, WCIF a boom barrier like pic-related as CC (doesn't need to work, can be decorative) for the Sims 2? I need it for a military base. Thanks in advance.
If anyone is still interested I've been using a crossing gate from Ultimate Railway Set by Criquette, here some lq screenshots:
Hood View | Lot view
It's a hood deco so you don't have to have to buy it (important for BACC etc.) I also edited the texture in SimPE to remove the traffic control pole π§
There's been some word going around that Livejournal will become inaccessible for a lot of us given the current situation of the world. (See: Reddit - English-language LiveJournal is apparently not long for this world, save your favorite old fics now!
With that said, I rushed out and created a Livejournal Importer! meaning that if you want to backup your stuff from livejournal, but wasn't looking forward to the amount of copy pasting, you no longer have to! I've automated this all for you! :)
Note: Do make sure it meets the TOU!
What about creators who are no longer around?
There is always the Deadsite repository for mods if you'd like to share some content (make sure to request the livejournal first if it's not there!!)
However, if you want to backup some useful stories or tutorials, feel free to make an account for this! Call it something along the lines of: "TS2 Livejournal Archive Team".
There are a couple ways to go around and have others help out:
Add Collaborators. This can be done on each post. It's not account-wise so that might be hard.
Ask me (Lyralei ππ») on discord to change the ownership of the post(s) to that of the "archive" account, and I will gladly do it!
Reach out to the people who want to upload under said account. Just make sure to give the password of the shared account to people you seriously trust enough with it!! (Although, this goes without saying, never share your own password with anyone. Just in this instance for a group project, do it through a message please. Not publicly. And never use your own account's password for this! Go with a unique password instead.π)
A couple of things you should do before sharing under an archive account:
Make sure that the creator hasn't been around for a long while.
Make sure the content is either a story, mod, tutorial or useful text post to be archived (random life updates and such won't be accepted).
Make sure to use the project feature! Make it something like: "Skell - Fortune & Romance" and post the posts under that project. This makes it easier for people to navigate!
Can I upload my own livejournal items myself?
Of course! If you don't have an account yet, feel free to create one and start uploading whatever you want to back-up! Whether you use the importer for it or not, that's all fine!
Hello, The Sims lovers π₯Ή After months of work, the first episode of a new series is finally here β a nostalgic tribute to the golden era of the game and Studio Town from the original title.
This new story explores the lives of characters, creators, and Sim actors whose brightest days are behind them, as they search for a new path after the fall of STV Studios. Told through a slightly twisted lens, with a touch of dark humor and a wink to the audience, the series playfully parodies familiar stories we all know.
So hop on the nostalgia bus for anyone who misses the Superstar expansion pack, and imagine how it would look in The Sims 2 edition. Iβd be incredibly grateful if you gave it a few minutes β€οΈ
This series is available in both POLISH (original) and ENGLISH. However, this is my first attempt at recording English dialogues, so please donβt be too harsh β I did my best! ππ
This has been such an amazing and fun journey! We're beyond happy so many great artists could join us and turn this little idea into a beefy magazine! We want to extend our thanks to each and every contributor and we hope you had as much fun creating for the zine as we had seeing, reviewing and assembling everything. π
How can I read this zine?
We coded this cute online flip book (big thanks to npc_crow!) to really get the magazine experience, but you can also download the free pdf here!
But I want to actually hold it in my hands! Can I get a physical copy?
Same, dear reader, same!
We are still trying to find an optimal solution uniting quality and affordability, and that requires looooots of testing.
Our plan is to sell physical copies at non-profit aka production & shipment price, and per request to avoid out-of-pocket expenses by printing stock without knowing if it would sell entirely. We hope to be able to fulfill printing requests soon and will be sure to update you about that.
Until then, we hope you enjoy the digital version!
I have been working on a thiiiiiing, my second ever mod, and another one that ended up way bigger than I initially thought it would lol. #ScopeCreepβ¦.
Introducing "Pay to Play":
All info under the cut!
So the way this mod works is it adds a custom interaction to a BUNCH of objects in the game wherein you can charge sims on a community lot or business lot to use them. Some objects have been set to "on" be default where I thought it made sense, but most are set to "off" and you can toggle them on if you want to.
The cost of playing / using is set to a value I felt made sense, but is all BCON tuneable in SimPE. For example, I've set Pool Tables to $5, but this could easily be changed by this handy dandy BCON right here:
Most objects can be set individually, although those which share a semi-global group have a semi-global BCON - for example, all hottubs, all pool tables, all dartboards, all arcade machines, etc.
Why did I make this mod? Because entertainment venue businesses are SO HARD to make money on, that's why! Originally I was just thinking about pubs where you might have to pay at the bar to play Pool or Darts, but then things got a bit out of hand lol as I had more and more ideas.
This mod is not intended to replace the OFB Ticket Machine, but can be used alongside it (or without it!). Also, my mod can also force your sims to pay for things on regular community lots too (no more free bowling, sorry!) It was inspired by an older mod by Simwardrobe called "Pay Owner To Play" which made it so Arcade Machines credited the business owner the money it cost to play them⦠just takes it one or two steps further, lol.
For a brief list of objects I have updated with this feature...
Pool Tables, Dart Boards, Arcade Machines, Computers, Hot Tubs, the Sauna, Gym Machines, Axe Throwing, Log Rolling, Karaoke, Roller Skating and Ice Skating Rinks, the Tea Time Table, Don't Wake the Llama, the Maxis Jukebox, the Bubble Blower, Bowling Alleys, The Electrono Dance Sphere, Basketball and Soccer⦠oh my!
And of course because I'm a CC addict, I haven't stopped there.
I've also updated a tonne of Jacky93's amazing custom "Carnival" conversions like her 3t2 freethrow machine and 3t2 skeeball, along with custom Arcade Machines, Dartboards, Ferris Wheels, Bouncy Castles, Punching Bags, Yoga Mats, Foosball Tables, Meduza's Half Pipe snowboard, a Carousel by Crisps and Kerosene, OH MY!
Oh, and I've also done a bunch of Monique Computers, but there are just so many of these I have also included resources and instructions for how to update more of them if you want to, I promise it is really easy.
This mod uses a new "money global" that RELIES on @picknmixsims's Money Globals. Nothing will work without it, so I have included William's Money Globals just in case you don't already have them. A HUGE shout-out to William for these immensely useful Globals, because my goodness are the Maxis money BHAVs a hot mess lol.
My mods are a mixture of private and semi-global overrides. I have been on the lookout for conflicts, and have included a folder of "compatibility patches" for conflicts I have come across:
For "More computer options", replace the original mod with mine.
For iCad's exercise autonomy tweaks, load my mod after theirs or delete their autonomy overrides for everything APART FROM the ballet barre, as I haven't included that yet.
For Pool Tables, I've included a version with @gummilutt's autonomy control built in (great mod that you should all use), and as always thank you to Gummi for being a help, support and sounding board while I made this mod!
For Simler90's Toys and Skills mod, replace his original mod with mine and load it after the rest of "Pay to Play".
My mod also supersedes SW's original "Pay Owner To Play" mod - if you have that, delete it and just use mine instead.
However, as always I am well aware that there are probably a tonne more conflicts out there to find and solve, hence why this mod is still in BETA. If you would like to try it out, please put it into your downloads folder and run a HCDU+ to check for conflicts.
My CC updates are meant to replace the original meshes of everything I have included, so that's probably the most tedious part of using my mod if you want to - replacing your existing CC with these versions instead, ooft.
I want to give a huge shout-out to:
@jacky93sims, @shastakiss, @veranka-downloads, @withlovefromsimtown, @jinxxsims and all of the amazing and wonderful Sims 2 CC creators whose objects I have updated to work in with this new mod. I take no credit for the original conversions and encourage you to check out their Tumblr's for more amazing downloads.
In the ZIP you will see this:
The main mod files are inside "TA_PaytoPlay", and you can absolutely pick and choose which items you want to have this features and which you don't.
Don't forget that Money Globals is REQUIRED for this to work!
"MoniquesComputers_UpdateTheseFiles" is where you will find resources and instructions for updating any of Monique's Computers to function with this new mod (idea being you can run a little internet cafe and charge sims $5 to use a computer if you want to!)
Please note that most of the updated CC require my original mod files to work. For example, Jacky's awesome Ducks Carnival Game is cloned from a dartboard, so my TA_PayToPlay_Darts file is required for that to work.
Let me know of bugs, conflicts, things not working as intended, etc, and I will try my best to sort things out ASAP!
And of course if you have ideas for more objects that could be updated, let me know, I'm happy to include more things!
I think that's all for now, so if you're keen to try it out,
In my quest to ever make Sims 2 retail stores more realistic, I have been wanting some stock boxes to decorate my shops with when I stumbled upon these the other day and though, 'oh, cool, I want those'. So I made a quick and dirty 4t2 conversion in a couple of different sizes!
Small, medium and large for now, and they stack, yay! Medium sized box is the master and the other 2 are repo'd for easy recolouring.
For now I've just converted and included all of the original Sims 4 swatches:
But I'd definitely love to add some designs for all of the default Sims 2 appliances, pet items and more. Or if anyone else wants to make a few recolours, please do!
Thanks to Brainstrip for the original Sims 4 meshes and recolours, they are super nice!!
Thought others might enjoy these so here's a linky to
This community is the best.
Firstly, thank you everyone for being so excited about the Go Out mod I posted yesterday! I've honestly wanted this for a long time and I'm really glad so many of you like the idea too.
Secondly, thank you for being patient with me while I faffed about with the University related code. I made a few changes yesterday, messed things up, fixed things, it was a bit ridiculous lol. I am sorry.
Thirdly, I just want to re-iterate that I had the most wonderful teachers helping me learn to do this. Gummilutt, MorePopcorn, and PicknMixSims were SO patient with me and answered my 1 million questions with a lot of grace and understanding. This mod would not be here now without them!
And finally today, I bring updates and re-downloads for all the things! Because my modding sensei William @picknmixsims took a look at my mod and made some lovely little improvements. Details, updates and redownload links are all below the cut!
So! Firstly, William has fixed up the ability to cancel any "Go Out" interaction. You can now cancel the interaction and your sim will come home immediately. Nice!
Secondly, William has helped make some improvements to the notification pop-up informing you of when your sim will be back. You can now go into TA_GoOut_Controller and find a shiny new tuning BCON where you can select to display the pop-up in either 24-hr time as original, or 12 hour time!
I have set all iterations of the mod to be 12 hour by default but if you prefer military time you can come into here and set the value back to zero.
William also made a few small improvements to the logic of the code loops and just tidied a couple of things up. So thank you again, William.
I am still working on resolving the conflict between my ij_UniversityBreakPatch file and TwoJeff's "No Finals at Night" mod. So far I am running into a "too many iterations" error that I can't quite crack. If I can figure out how to resolve this I will update again, but for now that remains as a known conflict.
If you have "No Finals At Night" and you sim is "gone out", they will still get a notification that it is time for class and a push to go. If you cancel this interaction, the sim will not be penalised in any way for skipping class so it's fairly harmless, just a bit annoying. Otherwise the mod will still function as intended.
At this point I'd recommend just re-downloading whatever version of my mod you wanted to use, as there have been quite a few little changes! So just a refresher:
Main Mod Download - use this version by default. Yes you need all files. π«
Playable Nannies Compatible version Download - use this only if you have LD's Playable Nannies mod. π
Pause Pregnancy version Download - grab this if you use any kind of mod that would let a pregnant sim visit another residential lot, such as Visit Sims, and replace the TA_GoOut_Controller file. π
Who Needs a Nanny version Download - grab this if you dont want any penalties for leaving kids at home alone and replace the TA_GoOut_Controller file β
If you have Pescado's AptHack, get this version instead, otherwise they will conflict. Kindly provided by Gummilutt π
Fixed the conflict with TwoJeff's No College Finals at night π
If you'd like to use both mods, please download this compatible version and replace TA_ijunibreakpatch, then make sure my mod loads after the original by TwoJeffs.
After years of SimPE dabbling I finally became brave (and desperate) enough to learn how to read and edit Sims 2 BHAVs.
"Go Out (for Tea)" is a mod to help handle the Vanilla Sims 2 "quirk" wherein a sim will return home from a community lot at the same time they left. It is designed as an alternative to Community Lot Time, but you can absolutely use both together as there are no conflicts.
All information below this cut π And warning... there's a lot. Sorry. My "simple" mod turned out to be quite complicated but hey ho!
I made this mod because I wasn't happy with CLT's limitation wherein if one sim (or group of sims) is waiting to come home, no other sims can leave the lot. As I play a lot of Open For Business, this was becoming increasingly limiting.
Teenager: "I want to go out with my friends after school!!" - Too bad son, Mum's still trying to come home from work so you're stuck here mate!
It was also irritating me that CLT would occasionally just randomly fail to initiate, and there was nothing I could do about it.
My mod adds a custom menu to the sim when you click on them. You can tell them to "Go Out" for [x] amount of hours, and they will disappear from the lot and idle off world with needs frozen until it is time for them to come back.
In a household with multiple sims and/or pets, a pop-up window will also appear asking you if you'd like to send sims out as a group.
The options for hours are set to 1-12 by default, but in the TA_GoOut_Action file, there is a configurable BCON where if you want to, you can enable larger amounts of time to appear in the menu, for example up to 24 hours.
Thank you to @picknmixsims for this nice feature π
There is also a "Go Out.../ Indefinitely" option where the sim will be gone until you cancel their interaction. Other set amounts of time are not cancellable, so if you make a mistake with how long you send your sim out for, you will need to use the batbox or similar to "force error" on the sim to get them back now also cancellable π
This mod is based off the Maxis Jogging interaction, with many tweaks. The interaction is available for toddlers+, and toddlers+ are able to go off lot. Dogs and cats may too, but unfortunately I couldn't work out how to enable this for kittens and puppies. I will try to revisit this in the future if I learn something that might help!
When a sim leaves the lot, you will get a notification pop-up telling you what time to expect them home, which will remain on screen unless you close it. This is displayed in 24-hour format because the Sims 2 stores time in 24-hour format, and when I tried to tweak it to appear in 12-hour format, the game would get confused about when the sim should return, sometimes returning at 3am instead of 3pm.
There is a tuning BCON inside the TA_GoOut_Controller file where you can choose if you'd like this to display in 24 hour time or 12 hour format. Major credit to PickNMix Sims for this!
When they return home, another notification will appear letting you know they are back. This one will self-close after a few seconds.
It is less automatic than CLT, and requires you to keep a rough track on how long your sim was gone for so that you can send them out for roughly the same amount of time.
However, they payoff is that it is much more flexible than CLT, as you can use your own discretion, and of course, send multiple sims or groups of sims out at once! If your sim was Downtown for 10 hours but really you feel like it would have been more like 2 hours IRL, that's fine, just send them out for 2 hours. Your call!
Groups & Dates:
When a sim is on a Date or Group Outing, the amount of hours you select for the sims to Go Out will be added back onto their event timer so it is voided once they return home. For example, 1 hour in game = 1 minute on their event timer, so if you go out for 3 hours, 3 minutes will be added to their event timer.
Young Adults:
When a sim is a Young Adult / University student, you are prompted to choose if you would like to freeze their college clock or not when they "Go Out".
This is because if a Young Adult visits a community lot in a University subhood, their college clock continues to progress (unless you have a mod). They may go to class from a community lot, take exams, etc. Therefore when they return home after say 5 hours, you would want to freeze their clock while they "Go Out" for 5 hours, instead of repeating that time again and potentially missing class.
However, if a Young Adult visits a community lot in a main neighbourhood or Downtown, their college clock automatically freezes. Therefore when they return home after say 5 hours and you send them to "go out", you would want their college clock to continue ticking down.
The code for freezing University time was borrowed from Inge Jones's University Break Object mod. I did have to tweak this code slightly, so I have re-uploaded my edit of this mod, and have re-meshed it from a bust to an alarm clock converted by @jacky93sims which a University sim may keep in their dorm room.
This is optional, you do not need the clock for my "Go Out" mod to work.
The University Break mod (if you download it) now affects sims individually, rather than all sims on the lot. A sim must claim a clock as theirs, and may take a break from University independently of everyone else in the dorm. If you'd like ALL sims in the dorm to take a Uni break, you'll need lots of clocks! - Or just send everyone to a lot in a Downtown or Main hood for Spring Break π
When a Young Adult is "gone out" (or on break) with their semester clock "paused", they should not get any notifications to go to class, or a push from the game to go to class.
Important: there is a KNOWN ISSUE from testing where some players have reported still getting these pop-ups, so there seems to be some nore hidden mod conflicts somewhere! If you have this issue, please run a HCDU+ on your mods folders and let me know if anything is reported, or if you can figure out which mod is conflicting, let me know and I'll see if I can sort it!
From testing, this feature appears to be fully compatible with Squinge's College Mega Pack to have YA's attend University in your main hood, bearing in mind that rule with Community Lots.
Pregnancies:
From my testing, pregnancy always freezes when a sim visits a community lot of any kind. Therefore, pregnancy will continue to tick down in time while a sim is "Gone Out".
However, if you play with Chris Hatch's "Visit Sims" mod which enables sims to visit other residential lots, a pregnant sim's pregnancy timer WILL continue to progress while they are visiting. When they return home and you send them to "Go Out", you may want to pause their Pregnancy. I have therefore made an alternative version of the mod which gives you a pop-up similar to the Young Adult's popup, asking if you'd like to pause the pregnancy or not.
Kids:
If children or younger are going to be left home alone, the Go Out mod will not allow your chosen sims to leave the lot unless a Nanny is present. If a child comes home from school and your adults are off-lot for too long, a social worker will come to collect them after a number of hours as in vanilla gameplay. If you would like this not to happen, I suggest playing with a no social worker mod.
I have also made a version that is compatible with the "Playable Nannies" mod by LazyDuchess, so my code will recognise when a custom Nanny is on the lot. Please only use this version if you have Playable Nannies in your game.
By request from @anibats I have also made a version of the mod which doesn't care at all about whether there is a Nanny or not, so if you'd like to abandon your younglings, you can use that version instead! π This one pairs nicely with the no social worker mod.
Aging:
Aging does not currently freeze when a sim is "Gone Out", so if they are gone at 6pm when age transition triggers, they will age up a day as normal as I believe sims do not age up on Community Lots without a mod. If you would like to freeze your Sim's aging while they are out, I recommend using a separate mod such as Monique's individual aging controller or similar π
Bon Voyage:
Bon Voyage / Holidays / Vacation time is currently not addressed by my mod. If your sims visit a community lot while on Vacation, you would want to use the "setHour" cheat when they return to their hotel to have their travel time make sense. This is because Bon Voyage code is very different, and to "freeze" holiday time would be a difficult and potentially game-breaking task. I may revisit this in the future when I know more about modding.
Time Speed Mods:
My mod is compatible with Chris Hatch's Time Controller mod, and with Merola's Time Control Clock. Sims should "Go Out" and idle until their expected return time.
I did notice an issue with Merola's Time Control Clock while I was exploring compatibility. I looked into the code and found an error with the way Merola's clock slowed down time, so I have re-uploaded a fixed version of this mod with a new mesh converted from TS4 and 50 recolours (because why not!!)
The only other main time speed mod that I am aware of is the Lazy Duchess Relativity mod, which is reported by LD to be broken and is unsupported, so I have not checked compatibility with that mod.
Can I break it?
The mod has been tested fairly rigorously (thank you to @anibats, @ch4rmsing @doubledash7, @joplayingthesims, @katieraecreates) and should be fairly sturdy, but I'm sure things will come up that don't work as expected π Please let me know if you find bugs, and send an error log if possible, and let me know which version of the mod you're using.
If you use the "setHour" cheat while your sim is gone out, they will still return at the time the pop-up told you they'd be back. So if they're supposed to be back at 8pm and you set hour til after 8pm, they won't be back til 8pm the next day. That's on you, sorry ππ
I am a baby modder, I have been doing this for approximately 3.5 weeks, please be patient with me as I'm sure I've messed something up somewhere, despite trying to catch and fix all of my mistakes π
Conflicts:
Pescado's AptHack will conflict with the University Sims going out. Here is an edited version of AptHack to work with my mod: Download and then you can delete my file called "TA_ijUniversityBreakPatch"
"No Finals at Night" by TwoJeffs will conflict with the University Break Patch. I will look to make a compatible version during the next few days. I have now also patched this. If you would like to use both mods together, download the alternate version of the "TA_ijUniBreakPatch" below and replace the original from the mod, then make sure my mod loads AFTER the TwoJeffs mod π I have not yet explored if it would be possible to resolve the conflicts between aptHack and NoFinalsAtNight, as that's out of my jurisdiction haha, but note that you wouldn't be able to use both!
None else are currently known other than something else potentially hiding and messing with young adults, as previously mentioned. Please do let me know if you find any conflicts in your games and I will try to resolve them.
DOWNLOADS:
Okay, this is more complicated than I would have liked. But bear with me:
Go Out For Tea - Main Mod Download. Use this version by default. Yes you need all files.
Go Out For Tea - Playable Nannies Compatible. Use this version if you have LD's Playable Nannies Mod. Yes you need all files.
If you want to be able to pause your sims' pregnancies, e.g. if you play with Visit Sims or another mod that lets you travel to residential lots, get the base mod and then download this ZIP and use one of the files inside to replace the TA_GoOut_Controller file, either the base version or the playable nannies compatible version.
If you don't want the mod to care at all about nannies, get the base mod and then download this ZIP and use one of the files inside to replace the TA_GoOut_Controller file.
Simlogical's University Break object tweaked and re-meshed as a clock - Download
Merola's Time Control Clock with simplified code, re-meshed as a cute clock and with 50 recolours because I have no chill - Download
Pescado's AptHack made compatible with Go Out, courtesy of Gummilutt π - Download
TwoJeffs No Finals At Night compatibility patch - make sure my mod loads AFTER his! - Download
Credits and Thank-You's:
@picknmixsims William my Sensei, you are a wonderful human being. Thank you for your "suggestion" to start again after a week of messy coding to make a better mod and for all of the help along the way ππ
@gummilutt my teacher and friend, thank you so much, you know this mod would never have happened without your help!
@morepopcorn my soul-twin, can't wait to do more modding with you π Thank you for sitting down with me for 3 hours and teaching me how to really read code line-by-line, helping troubleshooting, making so many changes and tweaks and all the things!
And as already mentioned, thank you to my wonderful Beta testers!
Some of you might have seen my TS1 inspired UI floating around twitter, tumblr, discord etc. I've been having people test it in the Lazy Duchess discord but i've decided to upload it here for others to test and so no one else can claim they made it themselves lol. Sorry for the lazy photos but basically it's a recoloured version of the original UI. Pretty much all the elements are done. I'll keep updating until it is done basically. It's made to suit my resolution which is 1920x1080 but I will add the options for wider screens at a later date. Also not sure how well it works with Legacy editon so just be aware that it might display weird
Things to be added:
-Animated loading screens (yes I worked out how to do it ;) )
-Updating some of the existing recolours to make them cleaner
-Fixing any bits I missed lol
Install instructions
Place the TS1 UI folder into your downloads.
These are the main files needed
Download
Then place this file into your base game UI folder which should be in a directory similar to this "Program Files x86\EA Games\Sims 2\TSData\Res\UI"
This file replaces the background on the main loading menu as it looks weird without it. It is a placeholder.
Download
Do not delete any of the files in your UI folder. (Please)
If you are already using Clean UI or any other UI replacement, Please uninstall them first. They cannot be used together
Special thanks to @greatcheesecakepersona for their templates as they were insanely helpful
I'm back with more recolors! Here is a set of 17 recolors on Maxis items I made specifically for an electronics store I built. I've separated the downloads into a few different options below. Please enjoy!
SimFileShare: All 17 Signs | Handhelds/Phone Only | Kitchen Only | Audio/Music Only | PC Only | Robots Only
MediaFire: All 17 Signs | Handhelds/Phone Only | Kitchen Only | Audio/Music Only | PC Only | Robots Only
CREDITS & THANKS
@ajaysims for the amazing SIMLISH sans font
@teaaddictyt for her amazing comprehensive tutorial on recolors
(cleaning my desktop up and want to post this, sorry for the lame preview but i cba lol)
so this is an optimisation of those hood skies by lowedeus. if you encounter pink flashing, then these are for you! these skies are often listed in sims 2 starter packs and not many people realise how much of a toll it has on your game, being at 4k texture sizes. they are a staple for the game tho so thats why i optimised it
a general disclaimer is that if you use custom skies and horizon mods, they are one of the biggest offenders of pink flashing as those use HUGE texture sizes!!
all i did here was shrink the textures to some better sizes, like 1024x512 and 512x512 (the texture sizes here were different so thats why they're not the same)
it will overwrite the original files (these wont work with the others)
eta: these are not for simnopke's skies, but the originals are tagged above
another not eta: the original maxis sky is 512px only, that's what inspired me to do this as there's no reason why other textures can't be that size too
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