[resometownie]

i mostly use tumblr on mobile - one reason i have this sideblog is to reblog cool cc so i can find it again once i'm at my computer. i rarely check download links when i reblog, so if you notice me reblogging paywalled or adlinked content, please let me know at my main @sometownie and i'll delete the reblog. i don't get notifications from this sideblog so i might not notice your message.

[monilisasims]

4t2 - The Trinity Collection Sentate credit : sentate SFS / MF

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

[prismatic-bell]

Friend, I have news you're gonna love. Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.

Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Go forth. Be free.

[ophilosoraptoro]

Reblog to save a life... and someone's sanity

[familyfunds]

The Sims 2 Essentials Setup Tool — v.1

One installer. Every essential fix, mod, and tool for The Sims 2, set up for you in a few clicks.

I got tired of hunting down the same "must-have" fixes every time I reinstalled The Sims 2 (to the point where it has kept me from playing), so I made a tool that does it for you! 🥳 You choose the fixes, mods, and tools you want, click through, and it installs them all — with automatic backups and a built-in undo, so nothing is permanent and nothing gets lost.

It works with both the 2025 Legacy Collection (Steam and EA App) and the older Ultimate Collection.

⚠️ One heads-up: I only own Legacy (on Steam) and the Ultimate Collection, so I haven't been able to test the EA App or Epic versions of the Legacy Collection myself. They should work, but if you run into any issues on those, please let me know and I'll push out a fix!

Most importantly, none of this content is mine. Every fix, mod, and tool belongs to the creators who made them — I only automate installing them. Full credits and links are in the guide that comes with it. Please go support these people 💜

⬇️ Download: SFS | GitHub

📋 Want to see exactly what's included first? Here's the full list of every mod, fix, and tool, with credits: https://github.com/familyfunds/sims2-essentials-setup-tool/blob/main/GUIDE.md

More details under the cut 👇

What is it?

The Sims 2 Essentials Setup Tool is a single Windows installer (.exe file). Instead of downloading, unzipping, and hand-placing dozens of separate fixes, you run one program, choose what you want from a checklist, and it puts everything in the right place for you.

There are three quick presets so you don't have to think too hard:

Recommended — the sensible default set.

Complete — everything.

Custom — start from a blank slate and pick only what you want.

What's included

Everything here is curated to work together and this isn't a random pile of downloads. I checked every package against the others for conflicts (comparing the actual game resources each one touches), dropped or swapped anything that clashed, and set the load order in the few cases where two mods needed to coexist. So you can tick things freely without worrying that two fixes will quietly fight each other.

Over 140 hand-picked fixes and mods, grouped into:

Anti-corruption & core — the safety-critical stuff that keeps your neighborhoods healthy.

Bug fixes — dozens of fixes for Maxis bugs, from memory issues to gameplay glitches.

Helpful gameplay mods — quality-of-life tweaks that just make the game nicer to play.

Essential tools & systems:

CEP (Color Enable Package) — downloaded straight from MTS at install, see the note below

The Scriptorium

Radiance Lighting System 2.5

GunMod's Camera Mod 3.1

Rugs off-grid

TS2 Extender 0.8.1 (fixes only, optional extras off by default)

Objects.package corruption protection

Missing content restore (you supply your own Ultimate Collection or disc files — EA content is NOT bundled):

Restore IKEA Home Stuff (works on both Steam and EA/Epic — it sets up whichever your game needs)

Restore Missing Music

Missing Holiday Items

Neighborhood setup: clean/empty stealth 'hoods, or fully disable them, plus the MATY no-townie-regen mods.

Startup cheats: 45° object rotation and quarter-tile placement.

Third-party tools: SimPE, Mootilda's HoodChecker / LotAdjuster / Sims2Pack Clean Installer, and Body Shop for the Legacy Collection.

Backups & undo

This is the part I care about most: before the tool changes or replaces any file, it backs up your original first (to C:\ProgramData\The Sims 2 Essentials Setup Tool\backups). To undo anything, just run the tool again and choose Undo — you get a checklist and can roll back everything or only certain pieces. It does not add itself to "Add or remove programs"; it stays fully self-contained.

Requirements

Windows (I tested and created this on Windows 11)

The Sims 2 Legacy Collection (2025) or Ultimate Collection

For the "Missing" content (IKEA / Music / Holiday), your own UC or disc files

How to use it

First, a friendly nudge: back up your Sims 2 "Documents" folder. The tool shouldn't touch your saves, neighborhoods, or downloads — and it automatically backs up anything it does change — but it's always better safe than sorry. Just copy your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2… folder somewhere safe before you start. (Besides… when was the last time you backed up your saves? 😉)

Download the .exe. It's unsigned (normal for community tools), so if Windows SmartScreen pops up, click More info → Run anyway.

Right-click the .exe and choose "Run as administrator" — it needs admin rights because it writes into your game folder.

Pick your edition, confirm your Documents folder, tick what you want, and click through.

That's it. To undo later, run it again and choose Undo.

A note on CEP

CEP isn't bundled in the installer — Numenor asks that it only be hosted on Mod The Sims. So if you tick it, the tool downloads it directly from MTS at install time. None of Numenor's files are redistributed here. That does mean CEP is the one thing you can't install while offline — but everything else in the tool works completely fine with no internet connection.

Credits & terms

Genuinely, all of the credit goes to the creators — Numenor, LazyDuchess, GunMod & the Radiance team, HugeLunatic, Mootilda, cyjon, Pescado & MATY, TwoJeffs, Nopke, simler90, LordDarcy, MidgeTheTree, hiloyt, CroconawSims, and so many more. The full list with links is in the included guide.

While I've reviewed everyone's terms of use in detail to make sure I wasn't breaking any rules, I'm only human and I could have missed (or misinterpreted) something. If one of your mods or tools is included in this installer and you'd like me to remove it, please shoot me a message and I'm happy to do so.

The tool itself is free and open-source — you're more than welcome to review every file and exactly what it does on GitHub. It's not affiliated with EA or with any of the creators above.

Missing something? Suggestions welcome

Think I've left out a crucial bug fix or a genuinely helpful mod? Send it my way. If the creator's terms of use allow it, I'm happy to look into adding it.

A quick heads-up on my philosophy, though: I originally built this for myself, and I like my game as close to vanilla as possible. So mods that change gameplay in a big way, or add features that were never in the base game to begin with, generally aren't ones I'll bundle. This isn't meant to be an "everything" list, but I'm always glad to consider suggestions, so don't be shy about sharing what you'd love to see!

If you run into anything weird, drop me an ask! 💜

[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.

[applewatersugar]

-Sims 2- Death & Taxes inspired Grim Reaper Default Replacement

Played the game's demo a while ago and THIS particular outfit caught me eye and made wonder, what if I put this on grim reaper in The Sims 2. And, here we are me uploading my random ahh idea! Hope you enjoy! In-game pics under the cut!

☆ Informations ☆ Grim Reaper: Compressed | 15,8k poly | Has Facial expressions Phone: Compressed | 1k poly

☆ Downloads ☆ SimFileShare MediaFire ☆ Credits ☆ Skeleton - Diego Luján García Domenico Suit - Madlen Norae Loafers - MMSIMS Phone - AppleWS

If you have any problems or anything else that you want to discuss with me, feel free to message/ask me about it! :)

[applewatersugar]

Update/Fix: Replaced broken SFS link.

[moglikes]

bunch of Newsea hairs in Poppet V2 mostly for your long haired GNC male frame needs(?). Poppet V2 textures/colours, merged naturals, grey linked to black

F2M mesh by furbyQ 11.5k polys download (CM-EM)

F2M mesh by Valonnia 12.1k polys download (PM-EM)

mesh by RentedSpace 9.4k polys download (PM-EM)

mesh by Umi 11.9k polys download (PU-EM)

this is actually Melt Away I'm just an idiot who doesn't make backups of pictures before writing on them :|

mesh by Umi 10.4k polys download (PM-EM)

meshes by Martini and RentedSpace 11k polys download (PU-EU)

I wanted to put the (convenient hole hiding) bow on it again.. at least I made it pretty? mesh by Newsea 10k polys download (PF-EF)

I only did this for the gals because I thought it looked too weird for my tastes on dudes. (YES DESPITE DOING MOMOKO UP THERE SHUSH) mesh by Newsea 7.3k polys download (PF-EF)

[jacky93sims]

Hello Ilenia, I would like to request lilis palace INTARSIA | Biedermeier Set: chair, dining table and secretiare. Thank you in advance!

INTARSIA Biedermeier Desk, Dining Table and Chair - for The Sims 2

These are 4to2 conversions from Lili's Palace, low poly, all recolors.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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If you want to support my creations, you can send me a donation with Paypal or Ko-fi ☕ If you want to ask for a Paid Commission, HERE you can find more details. Thank you ❤️

[frankscrank2]

Lama's Turner Medieval Dresser and Armoir in Icad's colors as requested.

Meshes are included.

Download Dresser and Armoir

[freezerbunny-sims2]

Download: Castaway Stories UI maps on Butterfly Crawler (recolors)

Includes marked and blank versions from Story Mode and Freeplay Mode.

Download (Google Drive)

[christaskyy]

[TS2] Improved Shaders

Overview

Heya!

These days I spent lots of time fixing lot skirt shader - and it turned into something more. I was to rewrite many game shaders to get consistent look of terrain and snow, and now, it's ready to be published! Attempted to fix inconsistent lighting, implemented transparent lot skirt roads - so that they match the rest of lot skirt terrain, more and more!

Improvements

Consistent lighting - lot skirt, lot terrain and roads now match.

All lighting states compatible - dusk, dawn, seasonal changes work well.

Every lighting mod compatible - works even with maxis lighting.

New snow shaders (lot skirt, lot terrain and roofs) - fixed ugly shading, proper reaction to every lighting state.

Fixed lot imposters - now their terrain is rendered as well as possible.

Transparent lot skirt roads - now it's possible to use road textures with transparent cuts so that it matches lot skirt terrain.

Now reflective pond water doesn't require pools - its reflections work by reflective plane placed in lot corner.

Neighborhood roads have light snow pass.

Included

Lot skirt shaders

Lot imposter shaders

Lot terrain shaders

Lot lighting fixes (requires RPC)

Roof shaders

Bright CAS fix

Extended Standard and SimStandard shaders

Neighborhood road shader

Pond Water Overhaul

NOT Included BUT Compatible

Better Nightlife

Sea Water Overhaul

Accurate Neighborhood Lighting

Soft Shadows

WIP

Multi-road neighborhoods (I will add it later, sorry!)

Installation

Put the contents into your downloads folder (contains default replacement of maxis roads making them transparent, you may delete these files if you use road default replacements). Remember, my shaders must be loaded last to prevent conflicts!

Snow Lighting

Light snow:

Heavy snow:

Neighborhood roads

Vanilla:

Mod:

Fixed lot imposters

Before:

After:

Lot skirt roads

Default texture:

Transparent texture:

Consistent lighting

Radiance (maxis shaders):

Radiance (my shaders):

Reflective Pond Water

First step - choose respective to lot size reflective plane:

Second step - place it in the lot corner so that the plane covers every lot tile:

Third step - enjoy reflective ponds; there's no need to keep pools or something like that in the scene, reflections work independently:

Seasonal lighting

Summer:

Fall:

Winter:

Spring:

Download links

Mediafire

Boosty

[solelymods]

No Photobooth Flash Mod

Mediafire | SFS

Just a small mod that removes the 4 repeated flashes when sims take a photo in the photobooth. Instead, none will occur, but everything else is as normal.

I use Numenor's No Lightning Flashing mod to suppress the flashing during storms without removing the effects of lightning. However, there are other times in TS2 where there is repeated flashing. I'm not photo-sensitive, but I do hate flashing!

I needed to make this after a bunch of townies were autonomously taking pictures back to back on a community lot and it was just too much! Hopefully someone else will also find this helpful, whether it's for epilepsy, migraines, sensitive eyes (like me), etc. If you have any suggestions for other instances of flashing lights, I'll look into them. No promises though, as much as I'd love to disable them all...

[creesims]

My contribution to the GOS July/August themes - Animal Kingdom & How Low Can You Go

Trayless Orb Cat Toy - repositoried to the OFB Tray O' Orbs sculpture because if you leave orbs sitting around the cat is going to steal one to play with. It's cloned from ATS' cat ball and works like the catnip mouse. It should pick up any recolors you have for the orb subset, poly count is 224

tdyannd's Pampered Pets Litter Box repositoried to the BG Cinderbooks bookshelf, it should pick up any recolors you have for the shelf subset. This is a clone with a new guid, it wont conflict with the original. Poly count is 138

6 Recolors for the FT Formidable Formicarium - I always forget the ant farm exists, maybe having more color options will remind me to use it. Here's some fun 2-tone colors

Download - Alternate

[cityof2morrow]

Stoop Stair Extras

Published: 07-04-2026 | Updated: N/A SUMMARY “…Stoop Kid’s afraid to leave his stoop!” I’ve edited a couple of Buggy’s (2012) stair pieces down to “true 1-tile” sizes – these have less overlap and are easier to use when making curved/corner stair designs (see the bottom of this post for comparison pics). These are add-ons for the Deco Stairs – Various Edits (Simmons, 2025) set but won’t overwrite anything. I’ve also added some other stair deco objects to complete the new set. Find niche-related repos on this site under the #co2repo and #ts2repo tags. These objects can be placed over functional stairs to change their appearance. There are several pieces here you can mix and match – you’ll need cheats to place them just right.

PRO-TIP: For 2-step and 4-step foundations (not full-sized stairs), I recommend putting functional stairs in the middle and deco on the edges where these deco pieces are placed.

DETAILS Requires all EPs/SPs. §300 | Build > Architecture

On the left is the short stair wall and, on the right, are two short stair wall pieces – one on the ground level and another on the foundation level.

On the left is the tall stair wall and, on the right, two have been placed together.

The set includes several stair wall styles and sizes.

ITEMS Deco Stairs – (True 1-Tile Versions) (159-638 poly) Ceiling Ornaments (63-294 poly) Stair Walls (32-88 poly) DOWNLOAD (choose one) STAIR EXTRAS from SFS | from MEGA COLLECTION FILE from SFS | from MEGA This is the same collection file from the previous stair edits set (contains the new pieces). COMPARE THE PICS BELOW: At the front-left of each image, is the new "true 1-tile" cover, in the middle is BuggyBooz's (2012) original cover, and on the back-right are maxis stairs. The latter two stick out a bit because they are slightly larger than 1-tile.

CREDITS Thanks: @teaaddictyt for the Trade-Off. Sims2/Simming communities. Sources: Any Color You Like (CuriousB, 2010), Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), EA/Maxis, Offuturistic Infographic (Freepik), Chemic (2013), Spaik (via HugeLunatic, 2014; 2013), BuggyBooz (2012).

[lemonontour]

Decorative postcard stand recs

Here are some destination recolours I made for my vacation hoods of @jacky93sims’ postcard stand converted from ATS4

Get the mesh here.

💾 Download my recolours (sfs) alt: mediafire

Found under deco>misc

Postcard swatches:

Resources and ingame-previews under the cut

Resources / hoods / lots used for the postcards:

Bon Voyage Expansion promo pics by EA (from here)

Screenshots taken by me in Plumbtales' Takemizu, Maxis Three Lakes and Twikki (CC decorated and edited in photoshop), my own tropical hood, and Tony Veis' Majestic Ruins of Jumbok IV.

Takemizu postcards additionally feauture three japanese art prints (from here, here and here)

Three Lakes additionally uses a TS4 Snowy Escape promo picture (from here)

At the moment they aren't functional, only decorative. Perhaps you guys have an idea what could be done with them. 🤍

[teaaddictyt]

Gimme a home among the Gum Trees...

Hello fellow Aussie simmers (and others too of course!)

Ever wished for some really Australian looking trees for the Sims 2? Me too.

I have finally overcome my fear of trees, with much support from amazing friends like @tvickiesims, and would like to share some gifts with you all.

Read on below

Firstly, a while ago, @jacky93sims fulfilled a request to convert some Yeronga Trees. I've taken those, recoloured them a little (cos they were a bit too "green" lol) and made hood deco versions too.

Hood deco:

Lot versions:

These are super pretty, I quite love them.

Next, I found a free model online for a Ghost Gum tree and went "ohhhh, pretty!!!!" and made that into a hood & lot tree.

Lot version is on the left:

Hood version is the 2nd from the left:

Then, I got my fingers into the amazing, wonderful work of Tvickiesims, and I messed around with a buuuuuuunch of trees, mostly just re-sizing and retexturing things. I would like to give a HUGE shoutout to Vickie for ALL of her amazing trees and her support during my project.

I messed with 2 previously done Eucalyptus tree conversions -

Lot view:

Hood view:

I messed around with a cute little "Mimosa tree" and made it into a Golden Wattle tree that flowers in winter (no snow) and spring -

Hood view:

And Lot view in 2 sizes:

Non-flowering state:

I messed around with a conversion from Adventure Awaits that kind of looked like a bottlebrush tree and made it look a bit more like a bottle brush tree, this one is for lots only:

I messed around with the "Mighty Hawthorn Tree" and made it into a "Mighty Gum Tree" instead - on the right

I messed around with Vickie's 4t2 Batuu tree conversion and made it into another gum tree:

Aaaaand I messed with a "rainbow gum" conversion of hers too and retextured and re-sized it - 2nd on the right:

I also took a tree she'd done called the Salix tree and made a slightly larger hood deco version cos I thought it looked a bit like a peppercorn tree, which is technically a South American tree but these are alll over NSW:

I, erm, may have gotten a little carried away.

The fun thing about Australian gums is that there's

a) a million different varieties, and

b) they're all super unique, so I felt like I needed many different tree models😂

Here are some IRL pics of some beautiful gums that I took for inspo while I was working on this project:

Just in case you've never really seen a great big old Australian Gum Tree before 😊 They can be quite huge and rather spectacular!

All trees are "seasonal" as in they have snowy states and should not flash blue in any season (hopefully), and some have flowering states in select seasons. However, Eucalyptus / Gum trees are evergreen so don't change colour or lose their leaves in autumn and tend to stay about the same year-round, so the season variability is fairly low 😊

So, if you'd like to download my trees: here are some links.

Edited Yeronga Trees + Hood Deco

Lot Trees

Other Hood Deco trees

I hope that you enjoy these as much as I will 😊

As always, let me know of any issues!

Love Tea xo

[gummilutt]

Poly reduced - Nightcrawler Meliorn

From 20,683 poly to 9243

Some strands were yeeted because barely noticeable, I don't think miniscule bitty pieces are worth an additional 2k poly :3 As you can see in the picture, recolors may look a tiny bit different on the sides due to one of these strands being yeeted. New alpha included for recolorists.

Download from simfileshare

Credits: @latmosims who taught me poly reducing. @goatskickin for the recolor used in the preview. @evannamari for the original conversion.