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[motherof70]

Does anyone know where I might find the means to employ npcs, maid, gardener etc., without using the phone? The Book of Invitation and Moniques computer cover most other functions I use but I'm at a loss when it comes to employing npcs. Thanks

[motherof70]

Lots of shiny new things but broke the game's phone globals in the process. Ugh, one good thing about the object limit is never having to do the 50/50 dance

[motherof70]

With wild abandon I threw over 4 gigs of objects and associated recolors into the game yesterday and it was beautiful, oh the joy

[motherof70]

Just added all the Sun and Moon factory stuffs I was missing and 2 massive window sets from Fairy Forest to check out the object limit fix. Practically shaking at the prospect of it working

[teaaddictyt]

Today I bring gifts of many medieval counter recolours, and some altogether new ones, because if there's one thing I love, it's matching woods, and kitchen counters.

So, pour yourself a drink and enjoy this scroll 🔻🔻

So to start with, a brand new counter. I recently found THIS bar by Eva on the Plumbob Keep and absolutely loved it. Only problem was, I had no counters that matched it. So I made some!

Featuring all of iCad's woods on 2 recolourable subsets, and working corner meshes for the main counter and the island, these counters were made by pulling apart Eva's mesh and stitching it back together again in various ways. I tried my best to match the style and vibe and am very happy with how these turned out.

While I was doing this, I also made some changes to Eva's bar.

I repo'd it to the counters, because Repo is life. They all used the same textures and we love only having to recolour one object for a whole set to match together.

I re-applied RDN's existing Pooklet recolours to the repo'd edition. I was not able to find any other RC's for this bar, but if you have any others they will be broken.

I fixed the placement of the bar on it's footprint so it no longer sits to one side, overlapping any counter placed next to it. I also resized and shifted it just slightly so that it lines up better with counters placed next to it, and narrowed the bartop overhang at the sides a bit so again, it doesn't clip with counters placed right next to it.

The bar still has the same GUID as Eva's original so please replace with this file.

Download my counters and bar changes iCad RCs | Pooklet RCs

Next, I recoloured the wonderful Solfal Medieval Counter in iCad's woods because I couldn't very well do a counterpalooza without finally recolouring these lovely meshes. While doing so, I realised that despite using the exact same texture, the right and left sides were not Repo'd to each other. So, once again, because Repo is life, I changed this. The left counter is now the MASTER, and the right is repo'd to it. I was tempted to also make a working corner mesh but decided not to in the end.... yet 😉😅

All existing recolours will still work, you just don't need separate files for the right side anymore.

Download Repo'd Meshes and RCs here

Next, I recoloured this awesome counter by MotherOf70, which I stole from @niamh-sims the other day. Once again, in all of iCad's woods because we loooooove matchy matchy!!

Download here | Meshes here for your convenience

Here's a handy swatch of iCad's colours so you know what you're getting with these recolours.

Now, BONUS ROUND!

A little while ago, @lordcrumps was on a medieval content spree and made these lovely counters to match one of the tables from TSM:

And with these counters he also converted a sink and did something kind of cool with the sink "cutout" transform node, where the counter shrinks to a mini one when the sink is placed on it:

I thought this was super cool so I did the same thing with my counters to match Eva's bar:

And because there weren't any recolours for this cute little pot sink, I made a few quick and dirty ones:

So with Alex's gracious permission, I am also uploading his fabulous Counter Du Jour!

Counters

and Pot Sink

Note that this sink will only work as intended with Alex and I's counters. Other sinks will look funny if they cause the counter to transform into "cutout" mode, but as most medieval sinks simply sit on the benchtop, I've found I can use these everywhere without too much trouble!

That's all for today folks, hope you enjoy these lovely counters and recolours as much as I have been! **Edit - forgot to say you need LordCrumps's Sims 4 Shadow file for his counter and mine :) Sorry!

[guessimate]

Edit of DR Flower Crafting Station & Blacksmith’s Anvil to work with Pick'N'Mix Sims — Crafting Skills and Tweaks

All credits to @gummilutt on Tumblr for walking me through on how to do this because I had to idea. And to the original creators of course! The flower arrangement station is by motherof70, and the anvil is by NixNivis. The crafting mod is by Pick'N'Mix.

Download

You need to replace the original mesh files with these two. You also need the original Pick'N'Mix's mod.

What does it do? It makes it so the florist's default replacement gives Nature enthusiasm and Creativity, while NixNivis's Anvil gives Science enthusiasm and Logic.

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

@teaaddictyt 👀 are these of any use for your medieval hood at all?!

[motherof70]

Fixed Food Bins

Although I spend most of my time building, whenever I do play I love to run a wee shop. An unfortunate feature of many custom food bins is their propensity to revert back to the original maxis colour when you buy something from them, or the texture is in some other way not right. It's bugged me for years. I recently had an idea as to what might be wrong and managed to fix these Rustic Food Bins made by Raynuss.

I've included his original colours. You'll notice the meshes cut into the wall there but I'm not quite proficient enough again with meshing to attempt moving them, and it doesn't bother me too much. They're in large appliances, residential and community. Find them here

[motherof70]

Fixed SKS Quoining & Recolours

71robert13's Quoining set 1 - BG

Set of 16 meshes & 6 textures to add quoining to any masonry or stucco wall. 90degree outside corner mesh is master and all other files draw

I tried to recolour this set, only to discover that it wasn't properly slaved. With thanks to @felidae-sims and the Repo Wizard I managed to fix the set and made another set of recolours just to check all was good. Strangely, when you try to recolour it, simPE gives all the textures to replace. So, there's 2 extra recolor files in the folder but 12 in total. I imagine you can't delete them individually in game. In the below picture, original colours are on the left.

I haven't changed their file names so these will overwrite the originals. There's no collection file as they all show together in build>architecture. Find them here

[motherof70]

I'm wondering if it's worthwhile offering my lots for download. Before I go any further, I've lost that lovely medieval market place I posted a while back, as well as my wee project lots, so those aren't available. However, I have rebuilt my wee town and they're better, I think. I love to build, hate decorating and only play to check my builds operating. So far, I've tested 2 out of 13. It's bleak. I'm not going to upload them for the sake of it, but if people dislike building, but don't mind interior decorating, thus have a need for my kind of buildings I'll gladly do so. So, do people want to use my lots?

[liri-sims]

Followers gift part 2: Medieval magazines!

So, magazines didn't really exist until the 18th century. But before that, there were cheap, widely available publications - broadsides, chapbooks, pamphlets - that covered a wide range of subjects like news, true crime, political commentary, entertainment (some ballads were literally just existing poems set to music) and news-of-the-weird subjects like witchcraft and prophecies and that woman in England who claimed she kept giving birth to rabbits, and so on. A lot of the same subjects covered by Sims 2 magazines, in other words. They weren't done in periodical form, but neither are Sims 2 magazines, which are the same week after week.

So that was my initial model. I started out with monochrome woodcut prints from 15th- and 16th-century books and broadsheets, but my early attempt at defaulting the magazines made me think that color might be advisable to make the images easier to recognize at tiny sizes. That led me down a rabbit hole of medieval manuscript art, with the end result that some of the magazines are using art that is far, far too lavish for a mass publication. But it's aesthetically pleasing!

All the magazines have unique interiors, unlike the originals. Most of the text is just Lorem Ipsum (I did include a bit of Chicken Little/Henny Penny in the children's magazine, because one of the illustrations cried out for it) so you're not missing anything by not being able to read it. I used Simlish TrueBadoor for all the text, titles and articles alike.

Man, that floor is pixelated. Hestia and Osanyin need to remodel their foyer. Above you see the entertainment/fashion/sports magazine, with a focus on music. That cover, like many of the others, dates to just a bit before 1500; that was my target zone, though I wasn't super-strict about it. I may well do another default later, with earlier artwork - the Codex Manesse has a lot of good candidates - but I'm a little burnt out right now, which is why I haven't followed through with the hobby magazines.

I replaced the catalog descriptions and titles in the UI, too. Mostly not very period-accurate, except for the judgmental tone towards frivolity and avarice, though I did sometimes use period titles complete with the spelling of the time.

You can see one cover for "All That Glittereth" up above, but it will display a different one when you bring the magazine home; this is normal, if annoying. Maxis for some reason included two money-themed publications and then mixed them up. The UI in use shows a sim buying the magazine in an OFB owned business, but it should look a lot the same in an unowned, NPC-run lot.

And as you can see from the image at the top of the post, I also did a recolor - two recolors, in fact - of this default replacement magazine rack by Motherof70, with my magazine covers. The rack has nine magazines on display and there are only six hobby magazines, so I included the alternate cover for Rat Race and two of the hobby magazine covers (or at least early versions of them. I change my mind a lot.)

All the textures are 512 x 512, except for the magazine rack itself, which is 1024 x 1024.

Acknowledgements: These were all built on the template of Lolabythebay's 1920s magazine defaults, and some parts - the page edges and spines - are used barely altered. I adjusted the colors on the spines but kept recycling the underlying graphic. I would never have made sense of the Maxis mapping, let alone been able to increase the resolution of the texture file, without her hard work.

If not for Xia's hobby magazine defaults, I'd have had no idea where to start on looking for the catalog descriptions to replace them.

And I probably wouldn't have thought of doing the magazines at all if not for the default rack.

As for art credit: I've been painstakingly bookmarking all the images used and would be delighted to do a link post, but I don't know how many people would be interested, and this is already getting long.

Magazine replacements: SFS or Box.

Magazine rack recolors: SFS or Box.

Everything is compressorized and seems to work fine for me. Let me know if there are any problems!

[motherof70]

This is great

[motherof70]

Terrain glitch

Loaded up this lot to continue building and the terrain had this pattern

I’ve added the brown terrain paint to show it more clearly but also, it shows through the new paint. What’s going on here then? The whole lot is like this

Edit It seems this is a problem caused by big textures used in terrain paints

[motherof70]

Hello,

A quick WCIF. Relatively recently someone converted a loincloth, maybe from Skyrim, but I'm struggling to find it. I think it came in all male ages, it certainly had a child one. Ringing any bells?

[motherof70]

Just Right

Building from your head is hard. Sometimes building involves putting a few rooms together, deciding it isn’t working and exiting without saving.  I can be doing that for hours.  Other times it just comes together and this is one lot that I plodded away at hours and it was just right

[motherof70]

Terrain glitch

Loaded up this lot to continue building and the terrain had this pattern

I’ve added the brown terrain paint to show it more clearly but also, it shows through the new paint. What’s going on here then? The whole lot is like this

Edit It seems this is a problem caused by big textures used in terrain paints

[motherof70]

A wee project pt3

and again

[motherof70]

A wee project pt2

There’s more

[motherof70]

A wee project

Inspired by old photos, drawings and paintings I’ve been working on reconstructing part of my home town.  They’re mostly going to be used as deco but one or two of them are going to be handy for dorms and apartments.  I’ve also been experimenting with the post-processing mod and Reshade so these pics look like a mix of different filters