peppermint & ginger

retired & unactive TS2 content creator | adult aged

[peppermint-ginger]

Spring cleaning time!

Hello! Long time no see.

For folks who don't know (or remember) me, I used to be quite active TS2 creator a couple of years ago. I lost interest in playing and modding for this game about 2 years ago, and I abandoned this account around the same time.

I decided to make a bit of a purge on my tumblr. Which means I gonna delete my non-ts2cc related posts. I'm no longer comfortable with having all of this online in an era of AI scraping and shrinking rights for web privacy. Other reason behind this decision is that I want to make my site easier to navigate for people who are here for my old cc.

Speaking of the devil - my cc, creator resources and tutorials aren't going anywhere! I gonna try to visit them from time to time and make sure that all links are working. So if you noticed something is missing - please let me know in my askbox or chat.

In the meantime, I remind you that I bunk-uploaded most of my everything to my sfs & MEGA accounts and you can find them here.

I most likely won't be answering asks in my inbox. If you have issues with my cc (other than broken links), I recommend checking my FAQ page first and my 'technical' tag second.

Happy simming :)

[peppermint-ginger]

Hey! What eyeliner/makeup did you use on this Sim: post/681074223927721984/download-simfileshare-103-mb-mega-98 ?

I think it's from Nabila's Russian Roullete set.

[osab]

NVIDIA DDS Utilities Download

Recently, I have not been able to get the download for the DDS Utilities to work on NVIDIA’s website (the download button doesn’t work, it just loads for a second and does nothing. I tested this on multiple devices). All the alternate downloads just link back to the broken NVIDIA site.

This is a big problem for new CC creators who want to work with textures in SimPE.

I had the file on my laptop, so I uploaded a mirror to my site & SFS (assuming that it’s actually working.)

Download: SFS | Replit

Hopefully this is helpful! For more TS2 Resources, join TS2 Community!

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD all - simfileshare (22.7 MB) | MEGA (21,6 MB)

DOWNLOAD separates - simfileshare folder | MEGA folder

Wings ER0408 retexture: tf-ef, 16k poly, 512x512px 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Wings ER0326 retexture: tf-ef, 14k poly, 512x512px 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Alesso (aka Anto) Spring retexture: cf-ef, 10k poly,256x512px  512x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend. Mesh & alpha edit by @pforestsims​ (bless, I always loved this mesh, but polycount was icky).

S-Club LL-N118 retexture: cf-ef, 15k poly, 512x512px 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: @wingssims, @antosims, @sclub-privee, @xht-f, @platinumaspiration, @pforestsims​, Martini@MYB, @julietoon-ts2, @zeusar, @poppet-sims, @pooklet, pastry-box, @ikari-sims

[peppermint-ginger]

UPDATE // April 23 2023 // Mesh tweaks (transparency fixes,  repositioning & UV fixes) & new retextures, please re-download!

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (972 kB) | MEGA (972 kB)  

4t2 Cosimetic Eyebrows recolored: all ages, unisex, 512x512px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, files are compressed.

I’ve made two versions of them: v1 is binned & familied, v2 is not. You have to choose only one from the zip file!

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: @suratan-zir, cosimetic, @pooklet, pastry-box, @ikari-sims

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (38 kB) | MEGA (37 kB)

So, you really thought that I’m done with editing this set? Ha, jokes on you!

On a slightly more serious note, I noticed that 2nd version is a bit... not great, so I added some more opacity here and there, and removed some in other places, and voila.

Important note: if you have one of previous versions, you’ll need to delete it manually. I've only overwritten old files and renamed them, so they’ll conflict with each other!

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

BONUS SIM DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (126.2 kB) | MEGA (123 kB)

She’s roughly based on (and named after) a real person. No CC included. I used EAxis’ S4 skin and brown eyes.

Packed as .package file, to install, unzip and paste it to: \Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\SavedSims.

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare || MEGA

Credits: @antosims, @darkosims3, @leahlillith, @wingssims, @amidalasims, @julietoon-sims2​, Martini, @poppet-sims, @zeusar, @pooklet

My naturals, poly range 8k-15k for most of hairs, Anto Aphrodite is 25k tho! Aphrodite, Sabrina, Shy, Cube and Mia are for all ages, Fleur cu-eu & ONT1201 is for tf-ef.

LL Mia & Fleur are my mesh edits of Julie J’s conversions, volatile bases included.

[peppermint-ginger]

Leahlillith Mia mesh has been fixed by Theraven @ GOS.

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare || MEGA

Credits: raon, @leahlillith, @antosims, @darkosims3, simpliciaty, @wingssims, @adedarma, @victoriasims, @julietoon-sims2, @amidalasims, @furbyq, @serabiet, @zeusar, @poppet-sims​

My v2 natuals, poly range: 6k-18k, fem only, Anto Cara & Wings oe0408 are for cf-ef, the rest of hairs are all-ages.

Leahlillith Mia is my mesh edit of Julie’s conversion, I resized mesh to fit Sims 2 head a little bit better. I included volatile base file as well.

[peppermint-ginger]

Leahlillith Mia mesh has been fixed by Theraven @ GOS.

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (12.1 MB) | MEGA (11.5 MB)

Newsea Breakfast retexture: cu-eu, 11,6k poly, 1024x 1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Newsea Sleepy Hollow retexture: pu-eu, 17,8k poly, 1024x 1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: Newsea, @evannamari​, ara-fusilli/@microscotch, @digisims2, @zeusar, @poppet-sims, @pooklet, pastry-box, @ikari-sims

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (13.8 MB) | MEGA (13.2 MB)

Ginko G90 retexture: pu-eu, 20k poly, 1024x 1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Ginko G116 retexture: pf-ef, 14k poly, 1024x 1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Ginko G39 retexture: pu-eu, 15k poly, 1024x 1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: Ginko, @evannamari​, @yakumtsaki​, @zeusar, @poppet-sims, @pooklet, pastry-box, @ikari-sims

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD all - simfileshare (22.7 MB) | MEGA (21,6 MB)

DOWNLOAD separates - simfileshare folder | MEGA folder

Wings ER0408 retexture: tf-ef, 16k poly, 512x512px 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Wings ER0326 retexture: tf-ef, 14k poly, 512x512px 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Alesso (aka Anto) Spring retexture: cf-ef, 10k poly,256x512px  512x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend. Mesh & alpha edit by @pforestsims​ (bless, I always loved this mesh, but polycount was icky).

S-Club LL-N118 retexture: cf-ef, 15k poly, 512x512px 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: @wingssims, @antosims, @sclub-privee, @xht-f, @platinumaspiration, @pforestsims​, Martini@MYB, @julietoon-ts2, @zeusar, @poppet-sims, @pooklet, pastry-box, @ikari-sims

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD all - simfileshare (18.3 MB) | MEGA*

DOWNLOAD separates - simfileshare folder | MEGA folder*

I'm officially on vacation, baby! What means that I’m back with stuff (Newsea edition).

Newsea Sugarfree retexture: cf-ef, 14.5k poly, 512x512px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Newsea Litttle MooMoo retexture: cf-ef, 10.4k poly, 512x512px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Newsea Pageboy retexture: pu-eu, 10k poly, 512x512px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Newsea Clockwork Bear retexture: cf-ef, 16k poly, 512x512px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Newsea Peaky Angels retexture: cf-ef, 11.5k poly, 512x512px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Newsea Chun Li retexture: pf-ef, 18.3k poly, 512x512px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend.

Note: I edited out hairlines from 2 hair (Sugarfree & Clockwork Bear, I think?), so I don’t recommend using my files as retexture bases!

*So, I’m in my family’s house and I have no access to my go-to PC, and I don’t remember my password to my MEGA account, so no mirrors for now... gonna add them later!

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: Newsea, @evannamari, @zeusar​, @poppet-sims​, @pooklet​, pastry-box, @ikari-sims​

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (5.4 MB) | MEGA (5.2 MB)

DOWNLOAD mesh only - simfileshare (1.7 MB) | MEGA (1.6 MB)

I wanted to break my hiatus with some less complicated project. This retexture comes with some mesh tweaks, such like: new bone assigments, transparency fixes and bit of resizing/repositioning the mesh on the head.

If you want to grab just edited mesh, let my file overwrite original one. It’ll work with older texture files.

Wings OE0618 retexture & mesh edit: cf-ef, 10.3k poly, 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend. Original conversion by @lola-curious.

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: @wingssims, @lola-curious, @zeusar​, @poppet-sims​, @pooklet​, pastry-box, @ikari-sims​

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DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (10.3 MB) | MEGA (9.8 MB)

DOWNLOAD mesh & base only - simfileshare (2.6 MB) | MEGA (2.5 MB)

Remember that one? Well, after ~2 months of a break, caused by this mesh throwing transparency issues at me at the very end of the conversion process and my rage-quit, I finally opened blender and finished these re-layering shenanigans. The outcome is still not perfect, however making this mesh perfect would take me another 2 months of hiatus, so here we are.

Leahlillith Ines 4t2 conversion: cf-ef, 11.6k poly, 1024x1024px textures. My v4 naturals in 2 families, binned/familied/compressed, my Poppet + Zeusar texture blend. 4 dual-tone recolors in custom bin for tf-ef.

Known issues: some transparecy issues around knot.

Friendly reminder: I create for The Sims 2 only!

Credits: @leahlillith​, @zeusar​, @poppet-sims​, @pooklet​, pastry-box, @ikari-sims​

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (22 kB) | MEGA (22 kB)

Birb Eyeliner: this one supposed to be a part of a set, but this eyeliner is the only piece that I actually liked from it, so, singular CC thing, yay? You can find it in liners section, tu-eu.

(TS2 only)

[peppermint-ginger]

DOWNLOAD - simfileshare (5.5 MB) | MEGA (5.2 MB)

[original download post]

Before you download! I’s actually more of creator resource. If you only want to have a nice hairstyle in your game, actual download is in post linked above.

@themeasureofasim asked me whether I’m willing to make a version of this mesh with hair and hat groups separated for their hair defaulting purposes, and it seemed like an easy enough job, so here you go.

If you’re confused what that means - with a separate hat group, you can manipulate some resource files with SimPE, so you can link one hat color to multiple hair color files and vice versa. It usually cuts a lot of file size and works for both custom and DFR hair!

All ages and sexes, 10.3k poly, 1024x1024px textures, smooth bones & animated. Mesh + recolor base only. PU & CU files are tied to only fem base file and enabled for both sexes. Animations for TF and AF are very, VERY subtle, as they kinda messed up mesh shape originally and I have to edit them for that reason.

(TS2 only)

Credits: @maryjanesims3​, Nightcrawler, Zauma (?), Simpliciaty (???),@zeusar, @poppet-sims​, @pooklet​

[pixeldolly]

Life hack: if you suffer from pink flashing and/or lag and use lots of Criquette’s linden trees  in your ‘hoods - extract the textures in SimPE and resize them to half their original size. 

Those trunk textures really don’t need to be 1024px wide and even with half the resolution, I can’t see a difference in quality. On the other hand, my game performance has improved noticeably - even if I didn’t get pink flashing, it was laggier than it is now for sure.

[plumbtales]

I use @peppermint-ginger’s version with smaller texture sizes 😊

[peppermint-ginger]

@pixeldolly pointed it already in the comment section, but I’m rebloging it for visibility - criquette made a redux of those trees with much smaller textures. IIRC they’re like 512x1024px max now.