Latmos (@latmosims)

He/They, 28. Torturing fake people since 2008. Currently on indefinite hiatus.

[teaaddictyt]

To my dear Sims 2 Community

I need everybody to stop, pause, make some really tight fists with their hands, now shake them out.

Now breathe in, all the way. Hold it - 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - now breathe out. Now do that twice more.

There are still efforts going on behind the scenes to get GOS back online (and Sims 2 Artists).

New hosting has been secured. The website php needs upgrading and this has not been working, but people are still working on it.

I know its hard when things happen and you don't know what's going on. But please, everyone, just calm down. Instead of panicking, jumping to conclusions, making angry posts, just chill, wait, breathe. Be kind, ask what's happening without getting mad.

And please, remember kindness and empathy. Lunie has been trying to update GOS for months, and she is exhausted. It's down right now, but not dead (yet).

[latmosims]

Why is it that anytime some well known member of this community does anything questionable, and people rightfully critique their behavior because they expected better from them (because you know, you are older, more experienced, yada, yada, GOS isn't the first website that has gone missing over the years), we get some PSA by some other well known member about what people should think? 🙃

I'm breathing normally, and can count down from 5, thank you! Still doesn't change the fact HL went from "there is no war in ba sing se" to "gos is dead and no one wanted to save it" while going radio silent on all the places people could reach her out (except MTS ig), and people where rightfully pissed off by it.

It's not "getting mad" it's acknowledging someone is responding to some valid questions (over GOS' situation) with sarcasm, and it's not really an appropriate response. Why can't HL just take the blame on this one, understand people are rightfully calling her bluff, and do a PSA herself since -you know- it all went sour after her response.

It's OK to make mistakes, and miscommunication happens. But what isn't OK, is making it somehow seem like people are "overreacting" when they clearly, aren't, overreacting. Also admitting you didn't handled things well does show me you care.

[latmosims]

I made a gift for Lunacress (aka @actually-eevee on tumblr) this year and them decided to share! It is a 4t2 flower crown, some shoe swap for pantless bottoms and hair retextures on them texture blend (straight+twists)! :)

You’ll find all the gifts here!

[latmosims]

I guess this is as good as a time as any to reblog this post!

The link goes to GOS, but the actual gifts I made for Lunacress can be found right here:

DOWNLOAD from SFS / Dropbox

And a few previews down below:

This is the only GOS event I toke part in. Been wanting to participate again, but I get so stressed out during Xmas. *not jingle bell rocks*

[brandinotbroke]

yes yes GOS is down i get it

but i think this is an appropriate time to tell all of you that internet archive/wayback machine is *also* not safe for making backups

they have repeatedly been the target of legal battles, some of which they have already lost (see here and here) and which have nearly bankrupted them

so putting everything on the internet archive and calling it a day is a majorly stupid idea. Ideally, we'd need SEVERAL backups of everything, in different places.

[sims3fiend]

S3SS 1.6.0 - I forgot

The patch previously known as 1.5.1

Apologies for this taking forever and me disappearing off the face of the Earth, sorry if you've tried to DM me w/ issues, etc etc blablabla. I would like to say I'll be more active now but who knows, life is kind of sucky atm

New patches:

Mirror Reflection Settings - Tunes how far away mirror reflections stay visible. Push reflections out further (or rein them in if you've got a wall full of mirrors and want your frames back, mirrors are each their own little camera). Patch idea from Boring Bones

Animation Blend Tuning - Clamps animation blend (transition) durations to a min/max, so transitions that snap can be smoothed out and slow blends can be made snappier. Also includes a forceBlendOut option that lets through blend-out times the engine would otherwise discard. Big thanks to @thepancake1 for the patch!

Split-Level Lighting Fix - Makes lighting not stop at a single level - lot-bound lights now pass the engine's 'world light' filter in outdoor rooms and terrain lightmaps. May cause a bit of light bleed near walls/floors. All credits to Arro-Now!

Brady Bunch BEGONE - The engine fills unlit/dim rooms at night with a fake blue ambient (the "Brady Bunch Blue" apparently). This allows you to change them or to (ideally) zero the values so unlit rooms render without the gross blue glow. Patch idea from Arro ,thanks!

All four are experimental for now, they'll graduate one day...

Updates/Changes:

CPU Thread Optimization - Fixes Alder Lake+ CPU issues correctly now (hopefully).

Lighting Quality - Improved blur math precision to prevent color banding, plus an additional fix for rooms gradually darkening over repeated passes. Blur is now energy-preserving so it stops drifting the average brightness down.

Startup Warning Dialog Fix - New Hide Dialogue setting that prevents the dialog from being created at all, rather than making it visible.

As always, download can be found here readme can be found here

[thecardinalsims]

NRaas Needs Your Assistance!

Do you use the NRaas mods? Has the information on the NRaas website and forum ever been useful to you? If so, a moment of your time please!

I’d like to share the current situation with Simblr – which you can also read about directly from the site owner here: https://www.nraas.net/community/topic15428

While it seemed like we were entering an era of old-internet revival and indie websites in the fight against the dead-internet, a significant road block has emerged. Prices have inflated drastically for server parts, memory, storage, and server-hosting itself. This puts all non-profit online communities in peril.

As a result, the site owner has opened a Patreon so that the community can help cover the costs of keeping us online.

Important clarification:

The NRaas mods are NEVER going to be paywalled. The project will remain open-source and free for everyone. Donations are optional.

These mods are still in active development! The site and mods have been maintained by Chain_Reaction since Twallan's retirement, providing countless updates and support. Lots of cool stuff over there if you haven't updated in a hot minute.

There is no pressure to donate if your situation does not allow for it. Thank you for the consideration!

Long post ahead with information on the situation and some incentives for reaching membership goals.

If you've had some trouble accessing the site over the past week or so:

The situation is directly caused by the greed and encroachment of something we’re all uncomfortably familiar with: AI companies and the companies investing in them (of simmer relevance, that includes EA and Krafton (InZoi)).

NRaas is not the first nor will it be the last to be affected. Website servers already suffer from bots trawling and scraping their content – including your content that you write and share just about anywhere. Now they’re being bought off entirely. Archives and file-hosting are at high risk. Myrient is a recent example of an archive that went offline for this very reason.

It can feel a bit grim, but I want to assure you that the burden isn't yours to bear as an individual. As a community, it's actually quite easy to become hostile - and more important, unprofitable - to these invasive species as it were.

The past 26 years of modding and storytelling was OVERWHELMINGLY built upon free software, non-profit websites, and shared resources. A few unscrupulous paywallers and corporate greed isn't going to rewrite that history. Greed is the minority - but it does try to eat everything in its path.

That's all I ask - if you enjoy the fruits of The Sims community or enjoy being a part of it, make it just a little more inconvenient to swallow us.

Do not tolerate GenAI in our community spaces.

Do not support EA or Krafton. Let obscurity and irrelevancy devour them.

Do participate in the community wherever you think you'd find a little piece of purpose - make a blog for your stories, come chat with us in the Chatterbox forum at NRaas, make your first mod.

Lastly:

In a separate post, I'll be posting some CC incentives that will be released as milestones are reached. This content will not be paywalled - it will be posted for free as thanks to the community.

This is being offered on my own accord and is not the official reward for any particular tier. None of the proceeds are going to me!

Please look out for that over the weekend, I still need to take all of the preview screenshots which is perhaps the least exciting part of making CC.

And thank you, on behalf of the volunteers at NRaas.

[purplerocker-thesims]

Paralives - HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM WORLD

I did post earlier, but thought I should share how. In a step by step manner. So bare with me.

Step 1:

New game, so you to this pop up:

Then: Simple Empty Terrian

This would lead you to empty plain, where you can freely build.

Step 2: cheats (IMPORTANT)

Open the cheat command by pressing Ctrl+Shift+C, I don’t know what it would by for macOS users. But I know it would be the same the sims cheat box.

So it looks like this:

Now: I TOGGLEEDITTOWN, you don’t need to caps it, I just do it (then press enter.) Now. This will allow you to have an extra things.

Step 3:

Enter build mode - (press the button in the corner)

And got to terrain tools: this is where the lot perimeters are.

You can now edit the lot and use sledge hammer to remove any you placed.

If you don’t do step 2, then you can’t get the lot perimeter tool.

Warning: i have mistake somewhere, where I can’t see the map popups anymore, but I solved thought adding a para. Is kinda hot. But this is an early access game, and you can’t change lot types, but there is probably a way to do so.

I’ll keep you all posted about my world building!

[latmosims]

I'M SORRY?? why is this post not getting more notes people!! I thought the lot perimeters were still not in the game 👁️👄👁️ I sort of figured you could make a custom world, somehow, given how much stuff there is in the "control panel", but I wasn't excepting this to work like this!

BaCC in Paralives when???

[biconickyoshi]

I got Paralives on Steam… you guys know what that means lmao

I had to unironically give Zuko literal 2008 emo hair because it was the best hairstyle available that suited him IMO 😅 I also figured out how to make his scar by putting a birthmark and a tattoo on the left side of his face (I made the tattoo really big and faded)

The game is still a bit glitchy (makes sense for early access), but you can see the bones of a really cool product here. I’m honestly kind of baffled at how well they’ve done some of the facial animations/expressions, I was fujoing out so much lmao. Unfortunately the kiss animations were one of the glitches for me, their heads kept clipping into each other 😭

[latmosims]

This is bringing back memories of my personal ATLA household I made in TS2 way back when, I'm about to cry 🥹 been a while since I saw someone use that tag over here!!

Also the "no mods" scar is so well done?? I swear the paramaker has so much potential for things like this!

[bisexualgoth]

"when will they add cars to paralives" NEVER i hope. there's a train and a bus free yrself from the americanized prison of car centrism!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S A WALKABLE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[procrasimnation]

Every interaction on The Sims official twitter

TheSims twitter: Sulsul Simmers! We hope you have a very Merry SIMS-mas!

17 year old with a Sims 3 avatar: When will you be executed for your crimes?

[procrasimnation]

[blueheavensims]

Hey, folks! Another excellent workshop presented by @latmosims, this one digs into using Blender to build meshes for TS2. Highly recommended!

If you haven't yet, please sub to our channel:

The SimForge- TS2

The SimForge- TS2 is a Discord server focused on content creation and modding. We present workshops with a focus on learning how to make con

[latmosims]

If people want to check out Part 2 of my "Learning Blender for TS2 custom content creation" (aka. Cutting Edges) workshop, here's the playback recording fully edited for your viewing pleasure 🤗

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions. I am most active on Discord, and ofc on The SimForge server 😉 And I like to help folks figuring stuff out (sometimes I learn from it myself!) 🤓

[teaaddictyt]

Trying to make some noise

If anyone else would like to join me in petitioning EA to at least try to fix the object limit in Legacy Edition (maybe I'd bother using that version of the game instead, lol), please jump on this thread I've started in their forums and comment.

Hello,An amazing coder named Will Nixon has been digging into a bug in The Sims 2 called the "Object Limit" and has figured out how it could

🙏🏻

(yes, Will, I know you're still poking at the UC code being like "could I fix this...??" but it shouldn't be all on you, lovely)

(yes, I know Legacy Edition sucks but if they were to remove this cap, I'd "use" it... if you know what I mean 😏)

[teaaddictyt]

Just an update that there's been no response from EA (yet).

I also sent a DM to EA_Cade on the forums who was the person who wrote the last patch notes when Legacy was last updated (February last year, LOL) asking if support was still available for Sims 2 and if they had seen the post I made about this.

*Crickets*

But thank you to everyone who has gone in and liked and commented, please keep pushing it, we all know that it's gonna take a massive repetitive bashing over their heads to even get an acknowledgement from them lol.

Love you all x

[latmosims]

A small reminder that I made a thread about Pink Soup a few weeks after the Legacy edition released, which didn't get much traction (because idk, people were still mad about the DMCA and preferred to complain instead of demand a fix?).

I know other threads have already been started for this issue, but I'd like to use this one as a means to summarize the experience many play

Not that I want them to do another SimNopke shadow fix type of ripoff, but if the fix was found, let them include it in a patch so future players can benefit from it. 🤷

Also, this other thread (not by me) about the Randomization Sequencer fix (aka the First-Born syndrome fix) that for some reason got locked. I think this should also be mentioned if we are talking "QoL" bug fixes.

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

reminder that you can make your lutris thumbnails be whatever you want! i spent a great deal of my afternoon reworking my own so they have a lil theme 🤌🏼

the text on the simpe thumbnail are lyrics to daft punks technologic and ofc, the lyrics that make the most sense for working in simpe (for me that is):

Write it, cut it, paste it, save it Load it, check it, quick – rewrite it

anyway, this was a fun lil creative outlet! highly recommended 🖤

[picknmixsims]

DBPF Scripter - Updated

DBPF Scripter V1.7

A major update to support the required scripting enhancements for modifying CAS accessories and creating the associated accessory box from a spreadsheet.

Full details to follow in a separate post.

Prefer to answer questions about this new version on The SimForge discord.

[latmosims]

[lolabythebaysims]

Deco Dress 3t2

The culmination of years of fiddling: the Deco Gown from the TS3 Store Ragtime in the Big Easy set! My ideal would be a little less busty, but they're there and I wasn't going to try to contain them. (This also means elders are almost comically saggy.)

Above are MissScarletJet and EmeraldGold. Below: SapphireSilver (EFfit), MissPeach (AFfit), BlackJet (TFfat), CoralGold (TFfit), PeacockBlue (EFfat) and IvoryPlatinum (AFfat). Colors are mostly from the Cluedo palette.

These are enhanced with @crispsandkerosene's extended SimStandardMaterial like the Newcomb dress. (Go get it, if you don't have it.) With it, you get a shimmery effect applied to the sequined trims. Without it, the textures still work just fine! Shader textures are in the meshes. Shoes are Uberfam t-straps, some of them with sandal texture. Most are bare-legged; white, black and scarlet have hose. Occasionally the leg clips the fringe, but... it's fringe. Recolor PSD here, but recoloring is kind of A Process if you want to use the extended shader, so holler if you want help!

DOWNLOAD textures in the AF files

DOWNLOAD standalone

[latmosims]

Thanks a lot to those who were part of last week's Workshop over at the SimForge! 🤗

It's time for Part 2! This time it's going to be all about TS2. We will be doing the most classic of mesh edits: a shoe swap 👠🔃 And we'll be doing all of the editing bits inside Blender. No exporting in-and-out of utilities, no nothing! Hopefully I can show every step, but this one might get long as well, so come prepared. 🫵

When is this taking place?

This Saturday (May 16th) at 10:00 (GMT-6) / 18:00 (UTC+1)!

Where can I (re)watch Part 1?

The recording is available right here! Make sure you watch it (and sorry in advance for the 2-hour mark 😅) before the next part. I'll go over some of the things again, mainly the ones near the end of that, but it's important we don't get caught up in repeating everything 😉

If you already have a good understanding of the basic principles of the program, feel free to drop by without watching!

Join the SimForge!

More details on this workshop will be over there! Invite code below:

A Sims 2 server focused on content creators | 179 members

Once, you are there, the workshop post is available under the "workshop-resource-posts" forum.

Hope you can make it!!

[latmosims]

Blender, The Sims 2 and you!

Hi! A momentary return to announce that I will be presenting a workshop live over @ TheSimForge, @blueheavensims' server dedicated to modding/creating for TS2.

It's going to be called "Cutting Edges" (hehe) and will be a two-part workshop, the first of which will take place next Saturday (May 9th) at 10:00 (GMT-6) / 18:00 (UTC+1).

What is it about?

Blender! For Part 1, it's going to be a pretty straightforward rundown of everything a beginner, or person coming from Milkshape 3D, needs to know about Blender and some of its key features and quirks.

Is it going to be Sims-related stuff?

That's what Part 2 will be about, I'll showoff how you can essentially go from start to finish with Blender ONLY, and import that into TS2 and nothing else. Just make sure you follow Part 1 if you don't know the first thing about Blender, because stuff will not be repeated. 😄

What's a workshop?

Essentially, one person presents a "class" surrounding a topic on a TS2 related creative process: poses, boxes, fences, GUIDs, you name it! This is done live, on Discord, where you can ask questions via voice chat, or text chat, and the presenter will answer. But don't worry, a replay is always available after the fact on the SimForge's YT channel!

Join the Discord server here to attend: https://discord.gg/Jyjb67eBX5

Once, you are there, the workshop post is available under the "workshop-resource-posts" forum.

Hope you can make it!!

[latmosims]

The day has come! 🛎️ The workshop will be in 4-hours time over at the SimForge's Discord server. A reminder that Pt. 1 will be a pretty basic rundown of the program, so no TS2-related stuff yet, that will be Pt. 2 (which takes place next Saturday).

[latmosims]

Blender, The Sims 2 and you!

Hi! A momentary return to announce that I will be presenting a workshop live over @ TheSimForge, @blueheavensims' server dedicated to modding/creating for TS2.

It's going to be called "Cutting Edges" (hehe) and will be a two-part workshop, the first of which will take place next Saturday (May 9th) at 10:00 (GMT-6) / 18:00 (UTC+1).

What is it about?

Blender! For Part 1, it's going to be a pretty straightforward rundown of everything a beginner, or person coming from Milkshape 3D, needs to know about Blender and some of its key features and quirks.

Is it going to be Sims-related stuff?

That's what Part 2 will be about, I'll showoff how you can essentially go from start to finish with Blender ONLY, and import that into TS2 and nothing else. Just make sure you follow Part 1 if you don't know the first thing about Blender, because stuff will not be repeated. 😄

What's a workshop?

Essentially, one person presents a "class" surrounding a topic on a TS2 related creative process: poses, boxes, fences, GUIDs, you name it! This is done live, on Discord, where you can ask questions via voice chat, or text chat, and the presenter will answer. But don't worry, a replay is always available after the fact on the SimForge's YT channel!

Join the Discord server here to attend: https://discord.gg/Jyjb67eBX5

Once, you are there, the workshop post is available under the "workshop-resource-posts" forum.

Hope you can make it!!