Dial B for Bridgeport

misty-fluff, popping in and out of the Simworld without any kind of pattern, leaving mostly 3t2 conversions in her wake

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3t2 - Pedestals & Stands

“Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.” ~~~ Hector Berlioz *

Pedestals and stands for your cultural buildings, each one with two subsets and a good amount of recolors.

Corresponding WordPress post.

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*In English: "One must collect the stones that are thrown at them. That is the beginning of a pedestal."

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3t2 - Dining With Variety, Part 4

“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” ~~~ Erica Jong

At last, the last part of 'Dining With Variety'. It was fun while it lasted!

Find a list of the converted objects in this WordPress post.

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Credits: rug (first pic) by Simply Styling

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3t2 - Base Game City Hall

“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.” --- Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

@alexbgd: Here's your desired 'City Hall' rabbit hole - huge, hollow, high-poly, and highly helpful for screenshots. It can be found under General/Various and needs the biggest lot size to be set up.

Enjoy!

SFS // MEDIAFIRE

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Short Note

“I laugh because I dare not to cry. This is a crazy world and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke.”. ~~ Isaac Asimov

Hello everybody,

as I've just seen that I gained some followers over the last months, I thought I should tell you that I'm not dead (yet). I was ill for quite some time and had to recover, which I did without touching my computer. I'm looking forward to get into converting again, but first have to re-familiarize myself with some of its proceedings. It's really astonishing how fast you can forget things that you were certain you had already internalized. Must be my mushy brain. 🤷

Have a nice weekend and hope to see you soon !

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3t2 - Dining With Variety, Part 3

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” ~~~ C. G. Jung

The third part of 'Dining With Variety' is spiced up with crime and mystery.

More details in my corresponding WordPress post.

SFS/MediaFire

Credits: evidence markers by Kativip, blood stains and chalk outline by Droopsi, mop lover and Crumplebottom’s purse by MsBarrows

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9 People I Want to Get to Know Better

I was tagged by @nosferatusim, thank you! 🌹 I've never done any of these question thingies and my answers will certainly not knock anybody's socks off, but anyway ...

Last song: Reinhard Mey & Freunde - Nein, meine Söhne geb' ich nicht (an anti-war ballad, in English: No, I won't give (you) my sons).

Favorite color: rust ..... just kidding, I don't have a favorite color. Every color has its reason for existence.

Currently watching: a YouTube playthrough of The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess because I'm too lazy to play through it again, plus I can do other things on the side.

Last movie: Fritz Lang - M (for the umpteenth time)

Currently reading: Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth

Sweet, spicy or savory: Sweet!

Current obsession: making conversions (I tried to quit, but truth is I don't want to).

Last googled: Dwarf Cavendish, because I bought a banana plant for my home and wanted to read up on how to take care of it.

Currently working on: the third part of 'Dining With Variety', though I'm itching to start working on a new theme.

I tag everyyone who likes to do this tag game and hasn't been tagged yet. Just say that I tagged you. Cheers! 🙋🏻

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3t2 - Dining With Variety - Part 2

“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.” --- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

So here I utter: there's so much clutter. (⊙ _ ⊙)

Find a list of all the conversions and some informative details in this WordPress post.

SFS/MediaFire

Credits: stucco wallpaper by Holy Simoloy

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3t2 - Dining With Variety - Part 1

"We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign." --- Benjamin Constant

The Posturight Spine Helpers and Very Symmetrical Table from 'Seasons' meet the Insulator Window from 'Ultra Lounge' and the Northern Lights from the 'Collectionne Stäncké'.

As the post title suggests variety, I will happily propose some dining room ideas for you ...

Corresponding WordPress post with more info.

SFS/MediaFire

Credits: exotic wall paneling by SerenitySims, stucco wallpaper by Holy Simoloy, brick wallpaper by ayyuff

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3t2 Color Palooza: For Tall & Small

“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.” ~~~ Mark Twain

On offer today: A colorful set of 10 objects and 79 recolors.

(Shoot, I should have made one more recolor so that you have a whole number when calculating the average number of recolors per object.)

Corresponding WordPress post is here.

SFS/MediaFire

Credits: exotic wallpaper by SerenitySims, free patterns from the Internet

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Cleaning Up the Mess, Vol. 2

“…you could never clean a thing so infinitesimally that it didn’t need to be cleaned again the instant you were done.” --- Don DeLillo, Underworld

The pit is filled up, my heart is filled with relief, peace, joy, and happiness. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. 🥳

A list with all of today's conversions can be found at my WordPress.

SFS // MediaFire

Credits: Sevenskellington for the vintage prom dress, Coolsims for the hair, Donnha for the wood paneling

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Cleaning Up the Mess, Vol 1.75

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” ~~~ Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

The bottom is close at hand now, which is uplifting and calming at the same time. 😌

More pictures and details at my WordPress.

SFS/MediaFire

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Unwanted Interference

When you're arduously taking pictures for your next post and the repo man takes away the very object you've just painstakingly placed. 😤

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80 recolors of 3t2 The Royales Window, done in collaboration with @funphumph. Yes, too many recolors, but they are of 3 different types, as I explain in detail below. Download link, notes and swatch are under the cut.

DOWNLOAD: SFS

Recommended: Make sure to get the complete Hacienda Luxury build set by misty-fluff: [windows] // [door and arch]

Context:

Originally converted in 2013, this window was reworked and re-released by @funphumph/misty-fluff in 2022, with the other windows from the Hacienda Luxury set. In 2024, she also re-released the matching door and arch, but while the recolors made for the door had a stone frame, the ones made for the window only used wooden textures. Wanting matching stone recolors for the frame of the window, I managed to get the texture image originally made by EA for TS3. And finally, when I asked misty-fluff if she wanted to collaborate by making more stone-textured recolors of the window to match her door, she kindly accepted.

Here's what you get:

7 STONE-TEXTURE recolors of the FRAME SUBSET (1st picture above), matching 7 of the 14 recolors made for the door. In addition to the original stone texture made by EA for TS3, we chose 6 more that we thought most players were most likely to use, all provided by @funphumph.

3 WOODEN-TEXTURE recolors (3rd picture) of BOTH SUBSETS of the mesh, frame and muntins (the bars of the inner part of the window). Because misty-fluff reworked the window and the door for different projects, over a year and a half apart from each other, not all of the recolors she made for them match. These 3 new recolors match the "blackwood", "dark" and "whitewood" recolors of the Pedro Estate door.

70 HALF-STONE, HALF-WOOD recolors of the FRAME SUBSET (2nd picture), combining each of the 7 types of stone with each of the 10 types of wood (the 3 shared now + the 7 that misty-fluff originally made for the window). While working on that first stone-texture recolor of the frame, I found out that only the left side of the full texture image is applied to the outside of the window. That means that in addition to having separate subsets for the frame and the muntins, we get an "extra" subset for the frame, allowing to have the exterior match the frame of the front door, without losing options for the interior decoration your buildings.

With so many recolors, won't it be hard to navigate the Design Tool menu in Buy Mode?

Personally, I don't think so — or not as much as I thought it'd be. Only the frame subset is getting all of these recolors, while the other subset has merely 10, very manageable options. And even then, it's not too hard to see what color of stone you're picking while browsing for the recolor you want for the frame.

"That's still too many recolors, and I don't want to keep them all"

I agree, and I'm not keeping them all either. That's why each file follows a naming convention to show which textures were used and what type of recoloring it is: [Creators]_[Object]_REC_[TypeOfRecolor]_[Texture]

So the recolor of the frame that only uses the texture of rough grey stone is named: "[...]_REC_FullFrame_StoneRoughGrey.package".

Similarly, the file for a half-stone, half-wood recolor contains the name of both textures used, like this: "[...]_REC_HalfFrame_RoughGrey_WoodWhite.package"

If you don't want a certain type of stone or wood, simply delete the files that contain the name of that texture.

Swatches

To make things easier, below you can see a swatch of each of the textures used. However, you might still want to check them in-game before deciding what to delete, if only to have a better impression of what they look like on the window, especially the ones that might look too similar in the swatches. Click the pictures to enlarge them.

And why would anyone reasonably think to make 80 recolors of a single window for a 20-year-old game?

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👍🏻Thank you for doing such an extensive recoloring work and in addition giving such a precise description of what you did and how to proceed with so many files! I guess this window doesn't need any more recolors anytime soon. :)

By the way, every window in the Sims 3 game that has bars or grids has four override options (north frame, south frame, north bars, south bars). If only the Sims 2 with its only two options wouldn't force us to decide which parts of the window we want to group together. (>ᴗ•) !

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3t2 - Happy Easter

"Hope your Easter’s happy, hope your springtime’s bright. Hope your skies are sunny, and hope your heart is light.” ~~~ Helen Steiner Rice

Vitasims' 'Happy Easter Dining', a Sims 3 base game window and some overhauled conversions of mine are supposed to sweeten your Sims' Easter feast. Or any other event or non-event.

Find more details in this WordPress post.

SFS/MediaFire

Credits: wallpaper by SIP and Gothic wallpaper by Donnha, brick wall by ayyuff, baggio floor recolors by Malle (no link), rug recolor by kjkjljkjkjkjljkj

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Cleaning Up the Mess, Vol 1.5

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ~~~ Mahatma Gandhi

The pit has a bottom now, but it is still pretty deep. It will take a while to get it clean. ⊹ ࣪ ˖🫧🧴✧° ˖

Find a list of what's in the download folder in this WordPress post.

SFS/MediaFire

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Cleaning Up the Mess, Vol 1

“My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?” ~~~ Erma Bombeck

I finally took care of my work in progress folder that turned out to be a bottomless pit. It is still written in the stars when there will be the second part as for right now I'm messed-up. 🛌🏻

Find a list with all of the conversions in this WordPress post.

SFS // MediaFire

Edit: Sorry, folks, I forgot to compress the files and had to re-upload the folder. If you downloaded it before 15 pm CET on the day of the publication of the post, please download the folder again. Thank you!

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Just wanted to say thank you for your Antique Adornments series! I’m in the process of creating a vintage/thrift shop and I was really getting stuck on items to stock it, but your creations are perfect and have re-inspired me. My laptop is going to struggle, however… but I’m happy! 🥰

Hey speakinginsimlish, I'm delighted at having inspired you to get back to lot building. It was for this very reason that I started the series: to build myself an antique store. Which has now advanced to the point that it is bursting at the seams and makes playing the (4x4) lot almost impossible, up to freezing the game whenever a witch is showing up at the phone booth. Anyhow, I would recommend to use the more higher poly objects of the series sparingly and perhaps only set highlights with one object or the other. Less is sometimes more. (pointing fingers at myself here). 😉

Thanks very much for your message and good luck with your shop!