pheeb's closet

this is @phoebe-twiddle's side blog for ts2 content she likes! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[pheebs-closet]

hi, this is @phoebe-twiddle's sideblog for Sims 2 content by other simmers :)

TAGS:

hair / clothes / accessories / makeup / skins / default cas / pets

buy mode / build mode / default buy / default build / sims / face templates

simspiration / mods / collections / reshade presets / nhood deco

custom hoods / residential lots / community lots / dormitory lots

creator's resource / tutorial / cool ideas / psa /ts2 fanart / resource

[solelymods]

No Lightning Fires Mod

Completely prevents things (trees, etc.) from catching on fire when struck by lightning.

My first upload! I'm surprised I've not seen someone make and upload something like this yet (please let me know if you have!). I've tested it for a month and it's worked perfectly, but please let me know if you do encounter one.

Doesn't technically conflict with Cyjon's less lightning fires, but don't forget to remove it if you use it. I don't know of any mods this conflicts with, but if you find one let me know and I'll tell you how to fix it if you'd like!

[jellymeduza]

Witches can practise magic

I made an action to let witches (and warlocks) practise casting spells. They have 50% chance of using TS2 animations and 50% chance of using TS3 animations.

They gain 2 points per each successful casting, but they won’t get any if they fail. Chances of failure depend on their magic skill level: level 0 - 45%, level 1 - 40%, level 2 - 35%, level 3 - 30%, level 4 - 25%, level 5 - 20%, level 6 - 15%, level 7 - 10%, level 8 - 5%, level 9 - 1%, level 10 - 0%. Those valuues are stored in BCON, so you can easily alter them if you want to. (Side note: 1 skill level = 100 points)

This action raises fun need. If your witch or warlock reaches max skill level, they still can practise casting spells, but won’t gain any points.

Known issues: sometimes wands are placed in Sims’ hands incorrectly, it should be fixed after cancelling action and starting it anew. When your Sim reaches next level, there will be a message they had learnt new spell. However, spellbook won’t list those new spells and objects until your Sim casts a spell, learns from the spellbook or creates new magic object. After your Sim does something magic-related, you’ll get the message again and spellbook will be updated. You don’t need to update spellbook in order to make your Sims spell newly learnt spells. 

Download at SFS | at SFS (currently not working) | alt

Update 26th of January 2020: fixed bug which caused errors with plantsim-witches. Please redownload.

Update 2nd of November 2023: now menu is gender-sensitive: the action is called Witch…/Practise magic for women and Wizard…/Practise magic for men

Update 31st of May 2026: now if you have in your downloads a file called “Meduza_AccObjectBending” (included with download), there’s a chance that successful spellcasting will produce a jet of flying light. I also improved the length of TS3 animations.

Earrings

3 new sets of earrings. They come in two versions: glasses-binned and BV-binned. BV-binned are set as left earring. Choose one per each set. Mesh included.

Credits: Liana

Download at SFS | alt

[evenfall-sims]

Tutorial: Multi-Lot Harbours

I promised this tutorial a while ago and just started making my harbour for my current hood. I figured I may as well kill two birds with one stone, so here it is! This technique is completely modular, allowing you to create harbours of any length. As you can see, I've already done one of the lots, just to show you how they fit together. You will find yourself saving and exiting quite a lot with this method!

Requirements

LotAdjuster

A neighbourhood with accessible shoreline

Possibly some understanding of the 'boolprop constrainfloorelevation false' cheat

Important: I do not use beach lots for this method. I find this method gives me more control.

Step 1: Place Your Lot

Start with a lot that is 20 tiles deep. This gives enough room to create a stone harbour wall and dock area. This is preference, but I find any bigger looks dumb.

The lot should be 10 tiles wider than the harbour segment you ultimately want. For example, if you want a final harbour segment that is 40 tiles wide, start with a 50 tile wide lot. That is what I've done here.

Bring the water as close to the lot edge as possible. If necessary, use the cheat 'modifyNeighborhoodTerrain on'

The terrain should slope down naturally towards the water.

Step 2: Mark the Tiles to Remove

Measure 5 tiles in from each end of the lot.

These tiles will be removed later with LotAdjuster.

For a centre segment, mark 5 tiles on both ends.

For a left-end segment, mark 6 tiles on the left side.

For a right-end segment, mark 6 tiles on the right side.

Step 3: Build the Stone Harbour

Create a foundation within the remaining space. This can be as big as you want.

The foundation walls should extend flush (but not connect along the length) to any edge that will connect seamlessly to another lot.

I use Numenor's custom foundation walls, but you can achieve the same effect using standard walls with the cheat 'constrainFloorElevation false'. Just flatten the walls after placing them.

Cover the foundation with floor tiles of your choice, filling in that gap.

Important: Do not place walls along any edge that will connect to another harbour segment.

Step 4: Add the End Cap

At the opposite end of the harbour wall, add a small "cap" section. It will not stretch out as far as you want, but that's okay. Again, make it as big as you want.

This creates a natural transition point where stairs can lead down to the wooden docks.

Step 5: Build the Dock

Lay out the wooden dock below the stone harbour. Mine was a full story (16 steps) lower than the stone.

As before, don't place foundations flush against the lot edge. Use floor tiles to create the seamless connection instead. You will know it's correct if there's no stilt on the 6th tile from the edge.

Again, at this stage, don't worry if the dock isn't the exact width you want.

Save and exit the game.

Step 6: Extend the Lot

Open LotAdjuster and add 20 tiles to the back of the lot.

Do not change any other settings.

Step 7: Finish the Waterfront

Load the game, and then the lot again.

You now have what is effectively a custom beach lot. I usually add terrain paint to match my shoreline, otherwise the extended area remains grassy.

You can now adjust the dock to its final width. In my example, I created a dock that was 5 tiles wide.

Step 8: Plan the Dock and Bay Pattern

Decide how many docks and bays you want. Bays should be big enough to fit ships.

The harbour should always end on half a bay, so that adjoining lots complete the bay when placed together.

Do this before shrinking the lot. Once the lot has been reduced, you won't be able to place floor tiles on the very edge.

For my example:

Dock width: 5 tiles

Bay width: 10 tiles

This creates the pattern: 5 (half bay) - 5 (dock) - 10 (bay) - 5 (dock) - 5 (half bay)

I also made them 15 tiles long. You can do literally whatever size you want.

Save and exit once the layout is complete.

Step 9: Trim the Lot

Open LotAdjuster again and remove 5 tiles from both the left and right sides.

This is the step where you're most likely to run into problems. I certainly did while creating this tutorial!

If LotAdjuster throws an error, reload the lot and make sure there are no walls, fences, or foundations crossing the line where the new lot boundary will be.

When you reload the lot:

End pieces should have one side flush with the lot edge.

Centre pieces should be flush on both sides.

These flush edges allow the harbour sections to connect seamlessly.

Step 10: Repeat

Repeat the process for as many harbour segments as you need. If they don't line up, you can't just pick up the lot and move it. You have to use LotAdjuster to either move it left or right. I had to do so in this very tutorial.

The good thing is, you can use the original dock as a visual guide for widths! Also, make sure the wooden dock is on the same elevation across both lots.

For this example, I created a left and right segment and mirrored them, but you can continue adding centre sections indefinitely. I tend to add stairs in the very middle if I do that. You need a flight of stairs to get down to the harbour.

Finishing Touches

Once your harbour is assembled, decorate it however you like.

I usually place lots like warehouses, taverns, fishmongers, market stalls, or more on the stone harbour, and use neighbourhood deco ships (or this refurbished version of the Bon Voyage ship) in the bays. I also decorate the docks with crates, barrels, dead fish, etc. For some extra fun, add invisible fishing spots to the end of the docks!

The result is a fully modular harbour that can be expanded to fit any waterfront.

I hope this tutorial helps! If anything is unclear, feel free to ask.

[sgthebee]

Country Set Recolors + Texture Replacements

This was an epic project, let me tell you! I recolored nearly all items in the TS2 country set in @morepopcorn's wood tones (knotty wood texture) and my Sugar Rush palette (solid texture).

You can get the standalone recolors...

Download Recolors

...or default replacements (in wood) plus the extras as recolors. Enjoy!

Download Default + Recolors

[lamare-sims]

Sinks Don't Disappear from Counters

You may know how sinks get wiped from counters if you put some clutter in their corner slots (usually with moveobjects) and went to Live mode. I fixed that!

Download

[lalo318-sims]

Watch Clouds / Stars Gives Logic!

What's a paleolithic Sim to do to gain logic? After all, chess, newspapers, and telescopes haven't been invented yet.

Well, long before telescopes existed, people used to watch the stars with their own two eyes. They named the constellations, observed the movement of the moon and stars, and noticed the patterns the sun followed around the year which hinted at the changing seasons.

Therefore, the activity called "Watch Clouds" during the day or "Stargaze" at night now gives logic.

Also since this is an immersive mod for ancient, prehistoric times, the "die by satellite" chance was disabled.

Download ( sfs / mediafire )

Info for modders under the cut

README

The CT - Skill Gain Dialog BHAV uses group ID 0x7F1F956A and instance 0x1916 so it may override a mod if it also uses that same group ID and instance.

The rate of skill gain is 70.

A Spanish translation is included.

The "watch clouds - die by satellite?" check was changed to always point to node 8 (the original "false" result), so you can re-enable it easily by changing the "true" result back to 16.

[latmosims]

Decrease the strength of terrain paint application (in TS2)

If you are like me, you almost certainly never play around with terrain paint. It's not that I don't like to, but the application always felt too strong for me to do anything that doesn't look extreme with it.

So, the other day I was going around looking at the game's directory, and stumbled across these two values in the "Terrain.ini" file:

This file is located in: LATEST EP/TSData/Sys *The exact location depends on where you installed the game, which edition you are currently using and which is the latest EP you got installed.

This might just be common knowledge, but I personally never saw anything related to it, so I'm sharing in case it interests others.

It's fairly self-explanatory: if you change the "PaintBrushStrength" value to something between 0 and 1 (I imagine higher values are accepted but probably useless), the strength of the paint application decreases accordingly.

I've personally put the value at 0.1 – but you might find that too slow of an application. I also feel like this increases how much money is spent to paint the terrain, since weaker application = holding the mouse button longer = more money spent.

I tried to play around with the "PaintBrushApplicationInterval", increasing it to like 6000 (= 1min), but noticed no difference, so I left the default value as is.

Important note: Remember to backup the file! Alternatively, you can add a comment to any change you've made that reminds you what the default value was (I haven't changed anything else).

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

'nother WCIF bc

i need skilling to chill out. do we have *any* mods that slow skill gain DOWN? im only finding mods that speed it up, which is def not what i want.

i know theres a mod to sell skills to grim but thats also not exactly what im looking for.

c'mon c'mon

[minty-plumbob]

here's a bundle of pixels for you 🌷

no cc. feel free to make changes

download: simfileshare

my defaults in the previews: luz v1 eyes, moonfruit skin

[solarsimblr]

Hello. I was wondering if you have a list somewhere of the cc and mods you use for your medieval hood? Because your medieval hood looks very good 😊

Thank you! 💗 I don't have my own list, but when I was setting things up, I relied pretty heavily on katatty and sterina's resource lists, which are both really comprehensive and well-put together! All of the build and most of the buy CC and mods I use are probably there.

I also have a historical finds blog, though I've been neglecting it because I kind of regret making it separate from my normal finds blog hahaha 🫠 Everything I've reblogged is in my game, though!

If there's anything specific you're looking for, feel free to ask!

[sgthebee]

Bedding Default Replacements

& New Bedding Template

I got sidetracked from whatever else I was doing to make a new bedding template and a full set of replacement beddings (all 40 of 'em) for TS2.

All thanks and credit to CuriousB's Complete Bedding Replacement Kit and @platinumaspiration's 4t2 Beddings for the base textures. Patterns are from Peacemaker's TS4 Roarsome Bedding and Mid-Century Abode Bedding, and Syboubou's TS4 Dreamy Toddler Bed (T$R link).

No need to credit me if you use the template to make your own bedding. But if *do* you want to tag me... I'd love to see what you make! And please credit pm/syb if you use one of their patterns.

Download Maxis Bedding Defaults

Download Bedding Template (XCF file for the GIMP 3.0)

[sanie-sims]

I started building my new bacc with a campsite where all my founders are going to start their lives.

[themeasureofasim]

Reordering Maxis outfits in CAS/BS

Elsimer asked me about this and I said I’d make this tutorial in English as well. Here it is!

1. Open the game → Create a Sim (CAS) in debug mode and hover the cursor over: (1) the outfit(s) you want to move and (2) a reference outfit (the one you want the first one(s) to appear next to). From the Frag Key, write down the third block of numbers for each outfit.

2. In SimPE, open the file globalcatbin.bundle.package for the expansion that contains your outfit(s). This file is located in Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 [EP/SP]/TSData/Res/Catalog/Bins.

3. Open Window/Filter Resources (if you don’t have it enabled by default) and filter by instance for each number you wrote down. For each outfit, there will be two resources: binary index (BINX) and 3D ID Rereferencing File (3IDR).

4. Select both resources (BINX and 3IDR) for each outfit and right-click extract. Save each pair of resources into its own folder named for that outfit and close globalcatbin.bundle.

5. Restart SimPE (optional but recommended after opening large files, depending on your version) and create a new package file and right-click import the BINX + 3IDR pairs for the outfit(s) you want to move.

6. Add the BINX + 3IDR of your reference outfit to the same package. If you do this after saving, you’ll be able to distinguish the outfits you want to move from the reference one, because the outfit added after saving will appear in italics.

7. Copy the sortindex and collection from the reference outfit:

7.1. Open the reference BINX and copy its sortindex. Open the target BINX and set its sortindex to the same value.

7.2. In the reference 3IDR, select the collection entry. Then open the target 3IDR, right-click in an empty area and select Add (this adds the last selected item). Move the newly added collection entry into the position of the old one and delete the old collection entry.

8. Delete the reference outfit’s BINX and 3IDR and save. Place your package in the same folder as globalcatbin.bundle and name it so it loads after it (e.g. start filename with z).

9. Enjoy! And share so others don’t have to go through your pain themselves 🥲

[creesims]

5 Repo'd DecraChill Recolors Using Pets Woods

I found these wood textures in the Pets files and they're the perfect size for the DecraChill wood subset. The Ash and Medium Maple are similar in color to 2 of the original Decra Chill woods but they have a different wood grain and the colors are a bit richer. These have tiny file sizes because they pull textures from the Pets files

Download - Alternate

[missirissims]

3 to 2 Traits Project - Cowplant Survival

Hello again, lovely Simmers! I have an interesting (albeit niche) set of mods for you today.

Within this post, you'll find mods for the following:

A chance for your Sims to survive the Cowplant, based on their traits and energy motive!

Cowplant autonomy adjusted for traits, including an option to allow household members to autonomously grab the cake!

A mod to re-enable a hidden interaction where you can try and save a potential Cowplant victim from being eaten! (See caveats below the cut)

A simple mod that will pan your camera if a Sim is being eaten by the Cowplant!

Details and more below the cut!

Cowplant Survival is a series of mods based around enhancing the Cowplant experience for the Simmers who dare to have one. These mods are also tunable to your preferences, with BCONs provided in Cowplant Survival and Cowplant Autonomy to tweak survival and autonomy chances. Make sure to read the included Readme to find details about tuning.

Cowplant Survival

The main mod in this pack revolves around your Sim managing to fend off the Cowplant, sort of like how they can survive it in the Sims 3 with the right traits. However! it is not a guarantee.

Sims with the Lucky, Brave, Daredevil, Good and Unlucky traits will all get bonuses (or malus, if you're Unlucky) to their chance to survive.

Sims with a high energy motive will also get a bonus to their chance to survive. Conversely, Sims with low energy will actually suffer a malus to their chances.

As a bonus, Sims with the Daredevil trait will also get a nice Fun boost if they manage to beat the Cowplant at their own game!

After a failed attempt to eat a Sim, the Cowplant will cut its losses and pull the cake away for a short bit, allowing you to address the near miss so it won't happen again in the future. Unless it's your intention to actually let Sims get eaten, of course.

Cowplant Autonomy - With Traits!

Traits and motive levels will now factor into whether a Sim will autonomously try to Grab the Cake.

Sims with the Coward or Genius trait will no longer autonomously try to Grab the Cake, regardless of their motives.

Sims will also only try to grab the cake if their hunger motive is very low (-50 by default).

Daredevils, however, don't care about hunger, and will instead try to autonomously Grab the Cake if their fun motive is very low (-50 by default).

WARNING - There are two variants of this mod, Townies Only and EXTREME!

EXTREME enables the option for household members to autonomously Grab the Cake, so use this variant at your own risk. As far as I have tested, it will not eat inactive household members but if you have any problems, please report it to me!

Cowplant - Save Victim

Whilst researching for this mod, I found a hidden interaction that was disabled by default. This interaction allows a second sim to throw a tantrum at the Cowplant if it is in the process of trying to eat a Sim. This mod simply re-enables it. However, I have not changed the interaction itself at all.

The interaction has a short window in which it can work and may not work every time. When I have time and energy later I may tweak this interaction to see if I can get it to function better, but as it is, use this at your own risk. It shouldn't break your game but I cannot guarantee that it works 100%. It likely works best when the Cowplant sniffs a Sim before eating. Sometimes the Cowplant will go straight to eating instead, and this likely doesn't work if that happens.

Cowplant - Camera Control

This mod is a simple change that simply pans the camera to the offending Cowplant if it successfully manages to eat a Sim, so you're at least aware if it eats a random townie and you're not left wondering why your Sim rolled a want to turn someone into a Zombie when they were just there a second ago... (this actually happened).

Conflicts and Requirements

All of these mods were created with Sims 2 Ultimate Collection. It is likely (but not guaranteed) that these mods will conflict with any that change the Cowplant functions. These mods all require University to work. Here are the individual mod requirements:

traitmod_cowplantsurvival.package will conflict with mods that change the following resources:

0x7F9FDDF5:0x1029 Grab Cake - Just Sniff?

0x7F9FDDF5:0x012D Dialog prim string set

0x7F9FDDF5:0x1004 Interaction - Grab Cake

coward-genius-daredevil_cowplantautonomy.package will conflict with mods that change the following resources:

0x7F9FDDF5:0x1042 Grab Cake - Allow Autonomy?

0x7F9FDDF5:0x1002 Tuning - Grab Cake Ads for Non-Family

0x7F9FDDF5:0x1005 Interaction - Grab Cake TEST

0x7F9FDDF5:0x0001 Interactions

cowplant_savevictim.package will conflict with mods that change the following resources:

0x7F9FDDF5:0x1046 Interaction - Save Victim TEST

cowplant_cameracontrol.package will conflict with mods that change the following resources:

0x7F9FDDF5:0x1010 Sub - Save Disable

Cowplant Survival and Cowplant Autonomy require Easy Inventory Check by Hexagonal-Bipyramid, who is also the lovely author of the traits project! These mods (obviously) also requires their traits mod, found here.

Please remember to let me know if you have any problems with this mod, as I have only tested it in my own game!

Hope you enjoy, and happy Simming!

Download Here! - Cowplant Survival and Autonomy

Download Here! - Save Victim Interaction

Download Here! - Cowplant Camera Control

[squeezleprime]

Does anything need these?! They are both very basic Body Shop PDF guides. I just found them on my hard drive. I don't remember where I found them, but here they are.

DOWNLOAD: BodyShop Tutorial BodyShop Prima Hint Book