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IMPORTANT: BLOG MOVING/BROKEN LINKS

aka why does tumblr make things more complicated than it has to be

@rio-sims is now a new, primary account! go there for new content! though at the pace i’m going who knows if I’ll ever have new content lololol

I decided that I wanted separate accounts for my fandom tumblr and my simblr, so it’d be easier for me to keep up with simblr without everything all mixed together on one dash, plus be able to send asks/reply with the correct username. 

Except we still can’t turn side blogs into primary blogs, so I have to dig out an old, mostly unused account and swaps it’s name to @rio-sims. But to do that I had to change this blogs name which means broken links X.X

I thought about just staying as a side blog to avoid the inconvenience this will cause but... the side blog thing really annoys me so I might as well fix things now while I still have (relatively) few downloads. 

So, so sorry for any trouble this will cause! I will leave this blog up as a backup and just reblog my existing downloads to the new @rio-sims account.

Once again, I am very sorry!!

PS. 

I will be unfollowing simblrs from my personal account @rioa and re-following from the new @rio-sims blog. So if you see any strange activity, that is why! Hopefully I’ll be able to follow even more simblrs now that my dash will be easier to manage :D

PSS. 

Please let me know if I’ve forgotten to fix any links within my own posts D:

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Me, when I have an abundance of free time and actually feel somewhat healthy: Ehhhh... Not gonna sim, just not feeling it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'mma go play 5 more hours of forknife and then stare at the ceiling.

Me, as soon as I leave town for a few days: WHAT IS THIS SIM-LESS TORTURE?!?!?!?!!?!?

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Mod: Random Stereo Station (A.K.A. I’m Sick of Salsa Music)

A mod that makes newly bought stereos choose a random station when being turned on for the first time instead of always choosing salsa.

Should also work with custom stereos.

Required mod: Smarter EP Check

Required EPs: None, though the more expansion packs you have, the more radio stations it can choose. Unfortunately, radio stations from Bon Voyage and Freetime are excluded since they work differently for some reason? You can always choose these stations manually if you want. The list of stations with their expansion pack can be found in the zip file.

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Aaaaaaand all my plans continue to fall apart. 

After getting home from the outing, Michael scared Dina TWICE while she was trying to cook. He was probably mad about her and Mortimer woohooing next to his urn earlier that day...

To top it all off, Nina couldn’t save her because she was furious with her for some reason I didn’t see ?__? 

Dina is one of my favourites and I didn’t even get to play her a full day before she died TT^TT And she was pregnant with Mortimer’s baby... I literally started playing this hood today and it’s already a disasterpiece.

drewinthesky replied to your post

“DON LOTHARIO, YOU ABSOLUTE IMBECILE”

LOL believe it or not, he did the same in my game... And time after, his son did it too!

Oh my O_O I guess it must be Lothario Logic ™

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DON LOTHARIO, YOU ABSOLUTE IMBECILE

Don thought it was a good idea to ask ALL HIS LOVE INTERESTS on an outing, including his pregnant wife.

For some reason he was smart enough to reject Ivy in front of Cassandra, but I guess Kaylynn was just too ~tempting~

Seriously, I can’t even leave your household alone for ONE SIM DAY before you go and implode everything SMH

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Death By Childbirth

Sims have a 10% chance of dying in childbirth, which increases if they’re less than 14 days away from becoming an elder by 1% per day. These odds are BCON tunable.

It’s likely incompatible with big mods like inteen that alter pregnancy, and I suspect it’s incompatible with mods like triplets & quads and CJH’s alternate pregnancy controller, but it should be easily patched into most mods by deleting the “Interaction - Labor Pains” BHAV from my mod, adding a node calling BHAV 0x1200 to “Interaction - Labor Pains” in the conflicting mod (somewhere after the BHAV calls Interaction - Home Birth), and, in the case of CJH’s alternate pregnancy controller, merging the packages together and giving the resources in my package group 0xFFFFFFFF. You can request a specific compatible version/further help if you’re confused.

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F/M Only

Made a small tweak that makes NPCs, townies, etc. always spawn as your chosen sex.

This includes NPCs that are only supposed to spawn as a certain ex (eg. cheerleaders, mascots, butlers, nannies, charlatan, etc.); in most cases this means they have no uniform and spawn in regular clothes, so you’ll have to dress them appropriately yourself with your preferred clothing mod (or DR the uniforms with something binned & meshed for the appropriate sex… might need to do an extra step of opening up objects.package, finding the uniform’s OBJD, and extracting and modifying some of those resources as well). Unfortunately, mascots/cheerleaders seem to share a uniform, so that one would be more complicated to DR away.

Another flaw is that it still doesn’t work on babies your sims give birth to :(

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Just wanted to add, there’s a way to set up uniform templates for genders that are missing them (I’ve done this in my own game that I’ve modded to have unisex nannies, headmasters, etc).

So if anyone wants help making templates/has any requests let me know and I can try to help :)

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I bring to you some goodies designed to go with my mermaid and fairy lifestates! (But made in such a way that they don’t require the lifestates and in fact can be used for any sim you want).

The fairy overlay was made by just making the necessary tweaks to @rio-sims​’s correlated plantsim wings and I didn’t put the effort into making sure both sets can coexist together since I figured people would only want one or the other, but as I said these overlays can really be used for any sim so you could always manually apply them to plantsims. Elders keep their wing color upon aging up, but if you give wings to an elder they’ll get white wings, which is also what sims with custom hair will get. Available for toddlers and up.

Credits: - LordDragonstone and SemiCharmedQuark for the meshes - Lucia Carlota for the recolors - @rio-sims​ for the correlated plantsim wings and helping figuring out how to get elders to work as they do

The mermaid overlay is also correlated, but because of the nature of skin overlays the same trick used to let elders keep their wing color if they age up but otherwise default to white wouldn’t have quite worked out the same (elders would instead have defaulted to all the overlays stacked on top of each other with white on top, which likely would’ve looked weird at the edges). Thus, they work more like correlated werewolf skins: elders get their own silver color, and sims with hair from the custom bin will get the color scales corresponding to the last natural hair color they’ve had (so you can dye their hair to a natural color and back to give them the scale color of your choice). PSDs are included if you want different colors than the ones I picked. Available for kids up, since at a quick glance the adult textures seem to look decent enough on children - you can enable the overlay interactions for toddlers too if you really want, but there is a wide seam, and my mermaid mod only affects children and up anyway so that’s all I care about.

Credits: - @berrynooboos​ for the original scale textures - @vegan-kaktus​ for turning them into something useable for an overlay and making PSDs for me

So how do you use these new overlays? Through the handy-dandy new supernatural transformer! It’s a clone of the lone daisy painting moved to Gen/Misc and priced at 0 simoleons. It has options to turn sims into mermaids/fairies/genies (which gives them the trait/statue/lamp if you have that and, in the case of mermaids/fairies, applies the overlay if you have it), cure them (removes the trait/statue/lamp and, if the sim has it, the overlay) and take the new overlays on and off.

Mediafire / SFS

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It’s here!!!!!!!!! <3

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brokendoll-simblr replied to your post

“Best way to search for sims for download on tumblr? (ts2)”

Hey! I had the same idea �� I don't know of any method, I try to follow the people who create sims I like and I try to keep my eyes open of what the people I follow like, so I can follow other too. It's tedious, but you could try making a list of simblrs and sim sites. @deedee-sims, @lesyasun, @whysim and others I can't remember at the moment create beautiful sims. Also you could check the sims at garden of shadows, mod the sims, sims urbania, etc... I hope I've helped☺️

gryning replied to your post “Best way to search for sims for download on tumblr? (ts2)”

I personally just follow Sims themed pinterest boards, it's pretty much impossible to find stuff through tumblr

Thanks for the replies!! I will try out your advice ^^

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Best way to search for sims for download on tumblr? (ts2)

I want to download a ton of sims to make into townies/service npcs, but I’m having a lot of trouble with it because:

1) it’s hard to search a combo of words that don’t bring too broad of a result 

and

2) even if the above wasn’t a problem, tumblr’s search engine is absolutely terrible

Is there a special tag people use? A community blog?

Back in the livejournal days, I used to download from pixel_trade, but I want to download from tumblr users so it’s easier for me to keep track/credit them if their sims show up in screenshots/as models.

If anyone has any advice, I’d be very grateful! ^__^

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brokendoll-simblr replied to your post “TESTING- Correlated Fairy Wings for Plantsims”

This is awesome ☺️ It would be nice to have this for the fairy lifespan made by @midgethetree too ��

That’s what I originally wanted, but I have no clue how ;__;

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You could always just edit the hairtone of a bunch of accessory wings so they only show up for sims of one hairtone and apply them yourself, but that’s no fun… instead, maybe try changing their collection to some custom one (using a hash generator to get an instance number - ala tattoo overlays) and then treat them like a tattoo overlay, using a new overlay box to apply them. Such a box could also automatically give the fairy trait/statue out if the sim doesn’t have it, so that it functions like a sim transformer for custom supernaturals, and I would be happy to update hereditary supernaturalism to apply it automatically to sims who inherit fairyism if the wing overlay is in the game…

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Ohhh I see! Like a tattoo box but for accessories? I could probably figure out the first part, but the giving out the trait/sim transformer part is where I’d probably get lost XD (When it comes to mods, unless it’s just editing pre-existing values I have zero clue what I’m doing .__.U)

I really hope someone can help you with the mermaid scales, because the possibility of custom supernatural overlays/accessories sounds absolutely amazing! *__*

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Since @vegan-kaktus generously offered to help with the mermaid scales I decided to whip up a prototype for the sim transformer myself and sure enough the custom wing overlay works!

Interestingly, it gave my elder fairies pink wings, and when I swapped them back for your original plantsim versions my elder plantsims got blue wings - no one got the white wings I was expecting for elders until I went back into CAS and made a sim with a hair from the custom bin, but the wing color elders got was always consistent from elder to elder. I kinda get why it’s happening but not how to better control which wing color elders default to, and it looks like this affects your plantsim wings as well. IMO it’s not a dealbreaker though.

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I thought it was determined by load order, but I guess it’s inconsistent from game to game .__. In my game, whichever recolour had the highest mesh overlay name was used for elders. I had renamed all of the wings (insertage)plantsimaccessory(1-5), with 5 being custom hair.

But loading up my game now, it seems to give all the elders I generate have green (brown hair) wings??? The only reason I could see green being prioritized is because it has the lowest family number. 

However, I think changing the binary index might be a more consistent way of determining load order. I had all the natural colours set to the same binary index number, but I did a quick test and it seems if I change the elder stage of the desired colour to have the lowest index number, it starts defaulting to that instead. (I also changed the hairtone value to grey but I'm not sure if that part is necessary) So far it seems to be working without interfering with the "elders age up with their colour" (as long as you keep the recolours in separate families) Of course, it might not work the same in your game, (or suddenly decide to stop working again >.>) but it might be worth a shot!

On a side note, while making the plantsim wings, I also had to make sure the custom hair wings had the highest binary index or else they would override other colours. But that part seems to be working okay on your end, right? (hopefully!!) So if you decide to use the custom colour for elder wings, make sure only to touch the elder stage or things might start getting wonky.

Anyways, I’m really ecstatic to hear about the prototype!!! :D I hope the rest of the project is going better and sorry I couldn’t be of more help!

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Hi! Did you know where I can find maid hair replacements?

Hello!

The Sims 2 Default Database lists a bunch of them over here! :D

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I wanted to test out supernatural accessories on werewolves, as well as if multiple accessories are possible (they are) and this poor redheaded dude kept standing in the most unfortunate place...

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brokendoll-simblr replied to your post “TESTING- Correlated Fairy Wings for Plantsims”

This is awesome ☺️ It would be nice to have this for the fairy lifespan made by @midgethetree too ��

That’s what I originally wanted, but I have no clue how ;__;

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You could always just edit the hairtone of a bunch of accessory wings so they only show up for sims of one hairtone and apply them yourself, but that’s no fun… instead, maybe try changing their collection to some custom one (using a hash generator to get an instance number - ala tattoo overlays) and then treat them like a tattoo overlay, using a new overlay box to apply them. Such a box could also automatically give the fairy trait/statue out if the sim doesn’t have it, so that it functions like a sim transformer for custom supernaturals, and I would be happy to update hereditary supernaturalism to apply it automatically to sims who inherit fairyism if the wing overlay is in the game…

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Ohhh I see! Like a tattoo box but for accessories? I could probably figure out the first part, but the giving out the trait/sim transformer part is where I'd probably get lost XD (When it comes to mods, unless it's just editing pre-existing values I have zero clue what I'm doing .__.U)

I really hope someone can help you with the mermaid scales, because the possibility of custom supernatural overlays/accessories sounds absolutely amazing! *__*

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brokendoll-simblr replied to your post “TESTING- Correlated Fairy Wings for Plantsims”

This is awesome ☺️ It would be nice to have this for the fairy lifespan made by @midgethetree too ��

That’s what I originally wanted, but I have no clue how ;__;

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TESTING- Correlated Fairy Wings for Plantsims

I finished the project! :D Sorta. I still couldn’t make up my mind about colours so I just picked whatever ^^U But I can easily change them in the future with a quick texture swap :) 

I’ve done testing and everything seems okay at this point, but I’m not confident enough to make it “official” yet. I’ve included a download link in case anyone wants to try it out- if you do please let me know if you find any problems!!

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Explanation/important info below!

This mod automatically gives plantsims Lucia Carlota’s cute fairy wings! The colour depends on the sim’s hair colour, so it’s almost as if they’re hereditary!

Right now the set up is:

Black hair- Blue

Brown hair- Green

Blonde hair- Pink

Red hair- Red/Orange

Custom hair- White

Elders will retain their wing colour if aged up as a plantsim, but if they become a plantsim while an elder, they will get the custom hair’s wings.

While in the ‘Wilted’ state, the wings will turn this colour.

Important Notes

Existing Plantsims will NOT gain wings unless they have their overlay re-applied. You can do this via mods, curing and re-transforming them, or by letting them wilt.

This works even if your Plantsims have their leafy hair, it’s just easier for me to show the concept without it :)

If you already have these wings as an accessory, feel free to delete the mesh included in the folder

This mod is compatible with Child/Teen Plantsim mods, so all ages can enjoy having wings!

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Plantsim/Fairy suggestions?

I’ve decided to turn my plantsims into fairies instead of using the trait after all. I like making use of the in-game wants plus Plantsims are my least used supernatural anyways :P

So I’m going to go forward with my correlated wings project, as well as throw in some correlated leafy outfits. My problem is I’m terribly indecisive when it comes to choosing colours... 

For wings there’s a ton of recolours out there so pretty much any colour is an option, and I’m planning on using these outfits by @whattheskell . I thought I’d ask your opinions on which colours I should choose and also which hairtone I should assign to each!

Basically I need:

Black hair-

Brown hair-

Blonde hair-

Red hair-

Custom hair?-

So 5 different colours! Unlike the werewolves I decided to let elders keep their original colours. I’m also going to try to do custom hair this time but I don’t know if I’ll run into the same aging up problem I did before :<

EDIT: So far not looking so good on the elder or custom front, but I’ll keep trying!!

Any feedback would be highly appreciated! ^__^

also yay i found something to get me out of my sim slump!