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Waverly, oh Waverly - Founded by high-flying, sea-soaring witches looking for a place to call Home.

⇢ { Waverly from the beginning } 🕷️ { Waverly Currently • 🍂❄🍂🌷 SY2} ⇢ 📍 Now playing : ⌛ Queued : 📰 Posting :⚡ Lightning rotation(s)

📰🦇Batz Odell+Mark (Prior to Mark) ⌛👽The Kzian Family 📍🧟The Burton Family 🧀Natasha Una 🩸️️Gvau Tricou ⚡ Frico Tricou 🌸The Webb Family 👓Chester Gieke 🎓College Rotation(s) ➕ More info in the “Waverly” section on my blog 🔎 Expanded info here + if you are on mobile, here is a FAQ page for you

⚠️ this blog is open-minded to all except terfs, racists & generally shitty people. I block & move the hell on. I strongly suggest everyone do the same! 💯

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new home goofin'

welcome to the chaos lil Hemlock!

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NOOOOOOOOO right after adopting the new puppy Oolong aged into a senior cat

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sgthebee

Keep in mind that the Sims Mod Manager that's floating around is made with Claude AI. Do with that info what you will. I certainly wouldn't use it to mess with my game files, and I'm definitely not going to be publishing anything on their creator platform.

sgthebee

The creator explains here how he uses AI: github(.)com/rodrifelix99/TheSimsModManager#where-ai-fits-in. It's not used for the basic file parsing logic and conflict detection, but is used for generating text and documentation. He doesn't mention the UX/UI so it's possible that's also AI-assisted.

So it may be relatively safe for your files, but AI is still involved in the process. Just because something isn't generated entirely by AI doesn't alleviate all the issues myself and others take with AI usage. The environmental and societal impacts still apply even if the code itself is trustworthy.

Why not write documentation and comments in your native language? Work with others to proof-read and translate? I just don't think it's worth the externalized costs to gain a bit more polish.

#the sims 2 #an update to this post #as always: say NO to AI!

kem13m

Lilith Vatore 🦇

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teaaddictyt

My Super Pro Modding Class pt 2

Hey all, part 2 of the Super Pro modding class is now live on my VODs channel.

This one is actually in 1080p but that made it super laggy and I apologise. Apparently my laptop was not built for screensharing to Discord at 1080p while also trying to run SimPE, but we did our best and I edited out as much of the lag as I could 🙈 Next lessons will be run on a better computer to avoid this.

This lesson covers BHAV basics - Simantics, Nodes, Primitives, and reading BHAVs.

Watch here, lesson notes are linked in the video description 😊 And thank you to those who made it to the live class!

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

#the sims 2 #tea's teachings

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justmiha97

You are not ready for this

So I've been getting myself even more familiar with sims 2 sim shaders, and I noticed that my additions did not reflect the lights in the room, but were inconsistent and buggy, and still completely bright in dark rooms. What I failed to notice is that this whole portion of the code was an old deprecated code that maxis was using years prior (in beta) and that the parameters (constants) they were using were from an older version of the game. Instead of current C12, C13 and C14 parameters/constants for wall 1 bounce, wall 2 bounce and floor bounce colors, maxis was using C10, C11 and C12 for this old portion of the code, and C10 and C11 are utilizing completely different. Changing these allowed me to fix the edge lighting and specular highlights behaviour, and now sims reflect the room bounce colors correctly, just like objects in my upcoming lighting mod does. This also fixed specular being too bright in dark rooms, and now it looks ok. Firstly, this is a dream I had ever since 2009. Second, I also repurposed @crispsandkerosene's additive mask to use within this new shader context, so now there's ability to add specular maps to items. And since this is a color mask, I might be able to separate it into 4 maps for roughness, intensity, metalness (yes, I have introduced metalness to the materials as well) and something else? We'll see. This is all very exciting. Anyways, without further ado, here's the demonstration on how that looks.

EXCITING. Anyways, this is just the beginning. I plan to repurpose some of the extended shaders, so next up is organizing the shaders in a way were I will be able to use existing EnvCube and Addition masks to actually introduce: specular falloff mask (roughness) - in R channel specular intensity mask - in G channel metalness mask - in B channel emission? - in Alpha channel (will yet see about this one, at this point I could even implement subsurface scattering)

And there is a lot of redundancy with how maxis set up light direction and color, so I will need to find a way to optimize that, and reuse new parts of code instead of rewriting them in the old one. Stay tuned!

#simmmblr #holy shite

and at home, Mark is breaking everything ever; Endo is having a slight crashout about it wanting to one: be struck by lightning (girl lmao, its not that serious!) and two: hire not only a butler BUT A MAID TOO

pffffft its like she doesnt realize SHE can, by default, easily do the jobs OF BOTH OF THOSE but outright refuses lmfaoooooo

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welcome to Lively Spirits! Restuarant and Retail for bread, wine and mead!

first test run went OK...Ophelia (Nigmos) is their part-timer and is ONLY cashier/hostess since she's underage currently. Natasha is our cook, she shares server responsibilities with Batz who also does the restocking and sales-y stuff!

Routing is good - need to figure out how to get folks to sit down for the restaurant part instead of being focused on the retail.

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