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I am Lamare 👩 and here are my mods and stuff for the Sims 2 I do not take requests 🚀

[lamare-sims]

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[lamare-sims]

hi lamare, I was gone for a while but remember you working on an inaccessible dining booth mod. was this released at some point or is it still a WIP?

Hi! Funny, no one gave any feedback, which is either very good (no issues), or very bad (so unplayable no one wants to be the bearer of bad news) 😁

So it's still marinating as a WIP. There's a little issue with sims complaining when they dive under the table to eat a plate of food that was already on the table, but then eating it anyway. It won't be the worst thing if I leave it like that, but I'd like to find a solution. Otherwise it seemed pretty solid when I tested it

[lamare-sims]

Hi! Your idea for the Nail Box is awesome! Maybe, if you’re still looking for new ideas... I have a really old manicure table by Katy_76 in my game. It doesn’t actually change the manicure like the Nail Box does, but it adds a proper manicure animation, just like at a salon. Maybe it would be possible to combine these two ideas, especially since your mod focuses on the business side of things? That would be really cool.

Thanks for your mods, they’re awesome!

Hi! Thank you for the idea, I looked at it in game and, well, it's very 2000s :) I don't think I can improve the anims to modern standards, at this point in time

[lamare-sims]

Brought back the original Ava nail designs and added maxis-continued ones from both nail boxes by platasp

Also made nicer icons for the picker 💅

We're looking into adding more recolors of these shadylady’s nail meshes for variety :)

[lamare-sims]

Testing: Nail Box With Icons & Business Actions

Hi! Who wants a test drive of the updated Ava Nails Box?

Originally made by @platinumaspiration using Ava's nails, updated by Puhlinnos and now getting two major features from me

(EDIT: turns out Puhlinnos replaced most of the nails in this set, I may have to redo it with the originals 😅)

Features:

pick nails by icons in selection dialog window

open a nail salon! (sort of)

as a bonus, smoothed out mesh

If you set the nail box for sale in an owned business, customers will browse and buy manicures. You decide if you want to actually choose and apply nail designs. If not - customers will pay money and move on, don't worry, they won't put on random overlays autonomously! Also, there's a menu setting to disable sales pop-ups if you get tired of doing everyone's nails, but still want the money flowing. When you don't play the owner, customers just look busy, but nothing happens

At home, it costs §10 to do nails, §50 at businesses, §0 to remove. The nailbox itself costs §5 I think and is found in Misc./Dressers

Dialog with icons allows for multiple selection, but in this case, all the nails are mutually exclusive, sims won't wear more than one design

Try it (same GUID as the original, only use one at a time)

Let me know what you think! 😊

Note to creators: please don't clone this object!

I made handy template files and a tutorial on how to use them to create your own overlay/tattoo/accessory/nail box with icons and OFB functionality. I will release them as soon as we ironed out this baby. There may be things I didn't think of

Shamelessly borrowed trait mesh from @hexagonal-bipyramid, it was perfect for the icons, if you're reading this, thank you! And thank you to all my friends who contributed ideas, I mostly captured what was already in the air, typed the code and made some files 💙

[gummilutt]

Fatfinger discoveries Part 2

Has this ever happened to you? Suddenly your object footprint is just a big green square.

Or perhaps you are chugging along, having fun, and suddenly you notice a flickering shadow at the corner of your eye. Perhaps a bed, perhaps a door. Weird black lines move across the object as the camera moves.

Perhaps you have a glass item on the lot, and it decided it wanted to make an attempt at some geometric art.

Or you may have noticed that sinks suddenly look real weird.

If any of these are familiar to you, then I accidentally stumbled upon the fix! A mix of brain fog and fat fingering and sometimes you strike upon something useful 🤭

Turns out if you press Shift-W this happens. And more importantly, if you press it again, it fixes itself. Handy, right? No more having to restart the game to fix it. I thought I'd share in case someone else gets this occasionally and wonders WTF happened.

[lamare-sims]

Shift-W hot key tip

[lamare-sims]

Here's one way of using bigger selection dialog

[lamare-sims]

Bigger Selection Dialog Window

This is a UI mod that makes selection dialog wider and higher and fit more items. You see this window when you buy magazines or video games on unowned community lots, or set up bed decorations with my Unmade Bed mod, or use other modded objects that may have been released or are going to be released soon 😏

Download

Special thanks to @lordcrumps for making maxis and clean ui pics and counting pixels with me. It was his and @simnopke's idea to make this thing bigger

Some behind the scenes under the cut

Stage 1, breaking out of the tiny window

Stage 2, figuring out how to mod UI again

Stage 3, going big! But not quite there yet

Stage 4, "should I move it 1 more pixel to the left"

🤓

Secret bonus version for behind the scenes viewers who think that smaller is better, available exclusively and only in starship colors (you can only have one version)

Download 4x4

[lamare-sims]

⚡ Update: bigger selection dialog image doesn't affect grocery dialog anymore

🙊 Sorry! My bad, did not expect the dialogs to share the same image. Will make sure to check for that next time I mod the UI 🙈

Updated all files including the secret 4x4 version. Please redownload 🙏

[lamare-sims]

Allow Anything With Food - Global Centerpiece Enabler

Hi! Here's a global centerpiece enabler, 2 versions and an optional tutorial at the end!

Info and Download

[dimond3d]

Hello, The Sims lovers! Recently, you probably caught @morepopcorn update about the FAME PACK mod, which is going to bring back some cool features from the Sims Superstar EP (and not only!) 🤩

I can't express how excited I am to bring brand-new animations to these iconic objects and finally see them in action inside the game. I wanted to share a sneak peek of the WIP process with you! These clips come from the Recording Studio and showcase both the successful and failed versions of doing jingles and handling rejection.

Hope you'll enjoy them! ⭐⭐⭐

[lamare-sims]

[gummilutt]

Stop the mooching - Split restaurant bill

We've all been there. Our sim is out having a lovely time with some friends, perhaps family, or a whole frat worth of loose acquaintances. They are hungry, they want to eat.

And somehow by the end your Sim has to foot the bill for the whole affair. Hardly seems fair, does it? I mean how often do you go around paying for everyone when you eat out? Nah. I am tired of my poor newcomers in town trying to make friends only to end up with a 8 people restaurant bill to cover on their meager salary. Clearly it is not my fault for making food more expensive resulting in 800+ bills (😇) but the lack of manners in sim-restaurants not providing a means to split the cost 😤 No more!

With this mod, the restaurant podium (*) will now give you the option of splitting the bill. Can be used on dates as well as outings, though it only shows up if there are non-household members taking part in the meal. If there are any such, the podium will give you the option to only pay a fair share of the total bill, corresponding to the % your sims make up out of the total. In the example above, only one sim out of 4 was part of the household, so the sim is given the option to pay 25% of the bill. If two sims had been household members, it would have been 50%, and so on. (**)

(*) Will not apply to custom podiums without a tweak, more info under the cut. (**) Only active household pays, the remainder of the bill is negated entirely. If you play a strictly regulated economy, your restaurant will earn less when you use this option. To track exactly what you ate, or force payment from multiple source is both overly complicated and more conflict-prone, and I do not personally think it is worth the effort here. If you run OFB restaurants, just don't use the option in those.

Download from SFS

Conflicts: None that I know of. Does not conflict with Lamare's reservable tables 😊 Edits TTABs of the maxis podiums, action strings and pay bill action/guardian interactions in the semi-global, and adds one custom bhav to the semi-global.

Credits: @episims who when I was frustrated about this in my game pointed out it probably wouldn't be too hard to fix, and what do you know it wasn't. Thank you for being my second opinion and pointing out I can do more than I myself think I can :P Love ya buddy 🥰 @grilledcheese-aspiration who was kind enough to do some tests for me, much appreciated! @kashmiresims who kindly agreed to take previews for me since my game is in Swedish and the text would not have made a lot of sense to most of you :3 Her sims are lucky they don't get my kind of bills! 😁

Editing custom podiums

Due to how Maxis set up the menus of podiums, it was necessary to tweak the TTAB to alter which interaction is used which means custom podiums are not impacted. It is however a super easy fix that anyone can do, so if you have a custom podium you would like to fix this is how you do it. Locate your package and follow the steps.

I think most everyone with a custom podium are likely to be using Sunni's partly invisible version, and since I know some people do not like touching SimPE however easy it seems to me, I figured I'd include an edited version.

It comes with a bonus fix that shifts the podium ever so slightly forward, to prevent the routing stomping protests the host gives if you place it on grid over a counter. If you have previously placed podiums you want to apply this routing fix to, please note it is a CRES edit which means the item has to be cleared from lot and re-purchased in order to actually update.

Download edited podium on SFS

If you have edited yours to add custom foods to the menu, or even just missing maxis foods, and you want the routing fix, I recommend extracting and importing your edited bcons :)

Credits: Sunni for the great idea of a partly invisible podium, it is indeed far more versatile just as she intended

[lamare-sims]

Enter restaurant era! 😁

[teaaddictyt]

Cafe Mod: New Comp Patches!

I was downloading some of @lamare-sims's shiny new mods tonight and found a conflict between Cafe Mod and her wonderful "use inaccessible dining booths" mod, so I've made some extra compatibility versions!

There's now a version for if you use only Cafe Mod & Lamare's mod, and a version for if you have Cafe Mod, Lamare's Mod, and Simler90's Cleaning mod, ALL of which conflict lol yay.

And of course my original comp patch for ONLY cafe mod and cleaning mod is still in here as well:

Only choose one to load last :)

Main archive has been updated, if you need this compatibility patch then re-download and check the "CompPatches" folder!

Get it here

[grilledcheese-ccstash]

dude, lamare at it again!!!!!! KICK ASS MOD!!!

dining reservations & toddlers @ MTS

[lamare-sims]

Check this out! 😊 You can choose a table at a restaurant and bring toddlers with you

[lamare-sims]

⚡ Made a compatibility patch for conflict between Dining with Toddlers and Simler90's RestaurantFoodBarDrinkFix

Get zzPatch_DiningToddlers_RestaurantFoodBarDrinkFix and make it load after both mods

@tvickiesims 🌺

[lamare-sims]

Thank you so much for your "Dining Table Chooser & Toddlers In Restaurants" mod!! This is incredible!

Seriously, thank you ever so much!

Thank you for the kind words! I had a great time putting these together, and I'm happy to hear you're loving them

[grilledcheese-ccstash]

dude, lamare at it again!!!!!! KICK ASS MOD!!!

dining reservations & toddlers @ MTS

[lamare-sims]

Check this out! 😊 You can choose a table at a restaurant and bring toddlers with you

[lamare-sims]

Hi! Love your mods - tysm! <3 Having a problem with skyline/horizon visibility after removing Lot Skirt Shader. It disappeared and nothing helps (can’t see seasonal skyline from lot view). And, just like you mentioned, terrain paints disappear from lot view with the shader installed.

Hi, I think you want to report it to christaskyy, not me 🙃

[freezerbunny-sims2]

Could you post a video of globo in action ? 🥹 we need more of her !

[lamare-sims]

LOOOOL 😆 Great stuff!