Sealkitten Sims

A simblr for TS2

[sealkitten]

Fuck it. Going to be porting everything from here over to my backup @sealkittensims so I can shitpost like intended when I made this account back in 2009. It’s been over a year since any sims stuff & I doubt I’ll go back to playing again so time to unleash 13 years of backdated likes onto an actual blog.

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Some quick shots of the village - cottages, new builds, appartments and a school.

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I reblogged this years ago (nearly 6!) and had no luck - this was from shutupfrazey’s long deactivated blog. Does anyone have any idea where the roof windows (like the M&G/AL roof pieces) were from, or where the white windows on the dark blue house were from?

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Starting to build in the new 'hood! So far, a pub with a small cottage next to it, and a twice-extended house next door. It's fun tinkering around & trying to stay within themes - this is the heart of the 'hood, which I'm trying to keep fairly traditional village compared to other areas.

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I swear I've done other things today, but I'm on a roll with this 'hood. Fields are placeholders for the area that'll be farm/rural!

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Don't want to jinx things, but I think I might finally be satisfied with a road layout 👀

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Ok, so. For the first time in my TS2 history, I Fucked Up and I don't know what i've done. Game config: Win10, Ultimate Collection (Origin), ZenBook 14 with AMD Ryzen/Radeon graphics chipset. I tried to install @criquette-was-here's STUNNING Feverfew, and very carefully made sure to get everything required - loaded to red flashing terrain. Thought, right, ok, must be a shader issue - removed shaders & radiance lighting, still flashing. Took out all CC & used the Origin game repair feature to reset, used the graphics rule fix, loaded Belladonna Cove - red flashing. Oh, and now the graphics rule fix isn't working and I'm about ready to tear my hair out. If anyone has any ideas, please - I'm all ears as I don't want to have to uninstall/reinstall!

[sealkitten]

Hello! Busy weekend of work & family commitments, but I've finally got time to sit down and reply - thank you so much to everyone who replied to my plea. I've been playing TS2 since launch and have never had such a bad scare in terms of breaking things (including the time I used the first iteration of AGS and had to manually registry edit every time I used it as my old PC would freak out).

So, the good news is - not only have I fixed things, but all I lost was placement of a few embankments, which is easily fixed. I'm 99% sure there was a conflict between Criquette's Neighbourhood Lighting Remedy and Gunmod's Radiance Lighting System, both of which I've now removed from my setup.

To fix/diagnose things, I pulled everything from my download folder, then ran the Origin 'Repair Game' feature. This broke the graphic fixes as in the original post, and despite restarting my laptop, nothing stuck - so in classic 'definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result' mode, I repeated both steps - and amazingly, the third time, it worked. Maybe Origin just got annoyed of me resetting things? Idk. Each time I reopened the game, I used Belladonna Cove as my 'testing' 'hood so I didn't lose any deco I'd placed, but I forgot this the last time I reloaded to check - more on that later.

I then carried out the time-consuming process of checking I didn't have any other errant downloads causing issues, so I added a folder of CC at a time back to the download folder, opened the game to check for any flashing, repeat. I left my mods folder and Criquette folder until last (dunno how everyone else sorts their CC, but I'm a firm 'folder for each creator, then subfolder' person. Yes, I know it slows things a little but my OCD likes it.) For these two, I removed any shader mods as they seemed top cause the biggest conflicts, then reintroduced things. As I've removed Radiance Lighting, I've also left out the 'hood lighting fix I suspect caused the issues (as I'd downloaded the version meant to work with Radiance - going to try the vanilla EA version tomorrow, so fingers crossed).

Whilst this was a long process and has left me needing to reinstall Scriptorium & associated CC like custom stairs, I have a working game again and only lost the previously mentioned embankments when I loaded a custom 'hood without adding them back into the Download folder. Hopefully this will save another person having similar issues!

Thank you to @criquette-was-here, @captainnikki, @cozy-sims, @origami-penguin , @lilythiums, @hankofthesims, and @acornsandthimbles-simblr for replying and offering help, I greatly appreciate it. One of the biggest reasons I've never quite been able to leave the TS2 community is how helpful and welcoming everyone in the community is, and 17 years hasn't dimmed it at all!

[sealkitten]

Ok, so. For the first time in my TS2 history, I Fucked Up and I don't know what i've done. Game config: Win10, Ultimate Collection (Origin), ZenBook 14 with AMD Ryzen/Radeon graphics chipset. I tried to install @criquette-was-here's STUNNING Feverfew, and very carefully made sure to get everything required - loaded to red flashing terrain. Thought, right, ok, must be a shader issue - removed shaders & radiance lighting, still flashing. Took out all CC & used the Origin game repair feature to reset, used the graphics rule fix, loaded Belladonna Cove - red flashing. Oh, and now the graphics rule fix isn't working and I'm about ready to tear my hair out. If anyone has any ideas, please - I'm all ears as I don't want to have to uninstall/reinstall!

[sealkitten]

Guess who woke up and realised they can do all the non-island things for my ‘hood as a shopping district. BECAUSE I FORGOT THEY EXIST.

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Ironically, after taking this I decided I didn’t want an island, and have spent days editing the Moon Islands terrain to make it more of a landspit.

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So... It’s been a while. Long enough that I’ve spent the last month since getting a new laptop discovering all sorts of beautiful new defaults & mods. TS2 looks like a completely new game, and I’m very pleased to be building in it again.

[sealkitten]

Somehow, after months without inspiration, a single week of holiday has refilled my desire to build & create in-game again. In the last 6 days, I’ve edited a SC4 terrain to have a new road layout, decorated the resulting ‘hood (& tried out some of the shiny new water/sky mods which has made things feel like a new game again!), build so many new lots I’ve lost count, and generally enjoyed the game for the first time in at least a year. This is a church & vicarage on the edge of a rather nice housing estate with a very 90′s look.

[nyshabrokeit]

I made windows!

British people will know the type I’m trying to recreate. This set contains 6 styles, ranging from a tiny privacy window to the stonking great 4-tile wide style on the bottom floor of the preview house, all* with centred, counterheight and diagonal versions!

Also included is the default white colour, plus two wood effect retextures, and two flat retextures in the same colours!

You can download the entire set here: Download @ SFS

Or you can go to MTS to pick and mix regular and counterheights, and retextures, as well as to download the texture PSD and the grouped mesh: More Info @ MTS

*Since 4 tile windows can’t have diagonals, the 4 tile windows and the centred 3 tile windows don’t have diagonal versions.

[sealkitten]

Haven't had time to play in a month+ due to qualifying but these look AMAZING, @nyshabrokeit is ridiculously talented & you should all go say thank you.

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Tentatively back...kind of. Experimenting quietly with things, such as this lot which looks like 2 separate lots in the ‘hood view thanks to LotAdjuster & moving things over roads. It’s not exactly what I was aiming for (an L-shaped lot) but I’ll take it. The brick bungalow is giving me Erinsborough vibes, but that may just be me.

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A housing estate approaches...

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A few more shots from the 400 project - currently sat at 4 apartment lots and a small park.

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Err... Anyone know why this has suddenly happened? Both in-lot and in ‘hood view! ?