sigmund sims

This simblr will mostly focus on TS2, with some TS4.

[teaaddictyt]

The Sims 2 Purple Flashing Patch

(yes, PURPLE, because I always saw it as purple and the shader name is literally called the purple error shader. Sue me!!)

Just in case anyone missed it, "pink flashing" in The Sims 2 has finally been busted wide open by a lovely chap named Will Nixon, see here.

I thoroughly recommend reading through the entire dissertation pdf, it's a good read! Even if your eyes glaze over and you skim past the super technical computer engineering jargon, you'll pick up some interesting tidbits from it. Just wanted to share that

1) the patch is fully compatible with Linux and works to improve Linux performance even further, as testing by myself and my dear friend @niamh-sims

2) Some screenshots from testing my medieval hood on Windows 11:

No patch:

With patch:

I also stress-tested the hood by loading into the main Castle lot and having a sim travel between 4-5 different lots with my settings on max. (This is how I play on Linux now so I've gotten used to it, no more turning neighbours and hood deco off for me!!)

Without the patch in, the game crashed and wouldn't load the castle lot for me at ALL, so that was a great start.

Ooft, lol.

With the patch in, I could load into the castle and travel freely around the hood. I noted that that game also generally felt smoother.

This is an absolute breakthrough, people. Linux is no longer absolutely required if you want to play TS2 without pink flashing! Get excited!!

I will personally continue to play on Linux because I honestly enjoy the OS and prefer it over Windows, and my game still loads faster and runs smoother on Linux, but I recommend every simmer download Will's patch (V1 or V2, but V2 is likely safer) and keep it in your essential mods list forever.

[lorzo-sims2]

How to Fully Overhaul The Sims 2 Bodyshop (Mods List)

Here are all the mods you can use to make your BodyShop look like this:

or even something like this:

This is how the default BodyShop looks. Is small, dark, and kinda ugly:

Brightness

The Brightening up BodyShop mod by WesHowe on MTS will make BodyShop look like this:

There are 3 levels of brightness to choose from. I use the XB version.

Widescreen + Clean/Starship UI

Using BodyShop Clean UI & Widescreen by SmugTomato on MTS with the previous mod, will make BodyShop look like this:

Or if you prefer a darker interface, you can use the Starship UI Bodyshop by redandvidya on MTS:

Backgrounds

There are two kinds of backgrounds on BodyShop; a 3D scene and a 2D image. The 3D scene is the one you see in the pictures above, and the 2D is a flat image that appears when you press F5. There are default replacements for both of these, and you can have one of each type at the same type without problems.

2D Backgrounds

If you want to change the background that shows when you press F5, you can use one of these plain color backgrounds by @kat-simss. Here's how one of these looks:

Or you can use one of these matching Clean UI backgrounds by 다블리. Here's how one of these looks:

3D Backgrounds

If you want to change the background that shows when you open BodyShop without you having to press F5, you can use one of these replacements by @socialbunny. Here's how one of these looks:

Or you can use one of these by windkeeper on MTS, that seem flat but are actually a 3D scene (so you can have 'flat' backgrounds without having to press F5 each time you open Bodyshop). Here's how one of these looks:

I think that's all!

[gummilutt]

Custom food commitment is a thing of the past!

I want to highlight a creation by someone else today, because I think it's super cool and very useful to the community! Have you ever wanted to use custom food, but were put off by the fact that once in, you shouldn't technically remove it because it creates broken memories and tokens and whatnots? Do you have food in that you wish you could remove but don't want to because of those aspects?

Well fret no more, because jonasn has posted an updated version of his Memory Commander, that now has an invalid food removal option under Mass Deletion.../Remove EVERYONE'S Invalid Food. It cycles through the entire hood, removing memories where the food subject no longer exists, leftover plates that are empty (does not include apartment lots, or secret society lot) and fave foods referring to non-existing dishes. It could already sort of do it for one Sim at a time, but now it can do the entire hood all at once! How amazing is that?!

Check out this great mod object here

I was a tester for this function and it's been working perfectly in my testing. That said, please know that I am in no means an expert on corruption or anything such. To me this seems like a great tool that is super useful, but use is at your own risk. I've run a number of tests for jonasn on the functionality, and he's done what he could to verify the outcomes to see it's all good, but as with anything complicated there's always a slight possibility that there is something you overlooked. The object pops up a dialog that informs you how many things were removed, and if you exit lot without saving then the actions aren't saved, so I recommend just testing it if you are interested :)

Aside from this one function, the Memory Commander is also basically a one stop shop for anything memory-related you could possibly want. It can assign any game memory, it can modify existing memories to change subject etc. You can even assign other custom memories with it, as long as at least one Sim has gotten it in the hood. It's such a handy tool for anyone that likes memories, and as you know, I am memory obsessed so I am a big fan!

[kayleigh-83]

Hobbies and sub-hobbies

I've been working on implementing a sub-hobby system in my game recently and really enjoying it! I took a look at the different activities available for different hobbies and came up with my list, which I thought I'd share here.

I do have some mods that change the hobby enthusiasm of some objects, or add new ones - I'll link where applicable.

I don't assign these based on any system, just vibes. I usually stick with whatever hobby the game assigns, but I do sometimes change them if it really feels like it doesn't fit to me. The sub-hobbies are intended to be a main focus, but Sims can and will still try other aspects of their overall hobby, and other hobbies altogether sometimes too!

The list is a work in progress but I'm basically happy with it now.

Cuisine

Cooking

Baking

Wine & Cocktails

Foodie (restaurants, delivery)

Films & Literature

Reading

Writing (helpful but not necessary to also have this mod)

Movies

Tinkering

Restoring & Repairing (restorable car, general repairs, plus drafting blueprints thanks to a mod)

Woodworking (here and here)

Tinker Toys (RC cars, model trains, toy workbench)

Sports

Soccer

Basketball

Sports Fan (watching sports)

Golf (Execuputter reward object made buyable)

Boxing

Music & Dance

Dancing

Ballet

Piano/Keyboard

Synthesizer

Violin

Singing

Guitar

Bass

Drums

Fitness

Swimming

Lifting & Cardio

Yoga

Arts & Crafts

Painting

Pottery

Sewing

Photography (hugely aided by the buyable antique camera and Epi and PF's camera overhaul mod)

Knitting (Eisbaer's edit of TonyVeis' 4t2 mod)

Science

Stargazing/Aliens

Biotech (buyable Biotech station and microscopes with science enthusiasm added)

Robotics (this mod makes robotics science related which makes far more sense to me)

Games

Video Games (console, handheld, computer, arcade games)

Board Games (chess, Don't Wake the Llama, mahjong)

Bar Games (darts, poker, pool)

Bowling

Nature

Entomology (hunting bugs, catching fireflies and butterflies)

Animals (small pets like womrats, birds, koi fish, bird watching)

Gardening (harvestable crops, orchard trees - I play with perfect plants mod so they don't have to maintain flowers and shrubs)

Outdoorsy (fishing, hiking, camping, cloud watching)

Flower Arranging (this mod changes the enthusiasm on the flower bench to nature)

[oceansmotion]

Lamare 50 LTW edit

Awhile ago I edited Lamare's 50 New LTWs and figured I'd share them.

This is for the M&G/UC version.

Changes made below

Sew projects - 100 Sculpt Pottery - 100 Make Robots - 100 Flower arrangements - 150 Restore cars - 20 Paid Salon Makeovers - 50 Win Fights with Different Sims - 10 Successful Parties - 15 Hours Teaching - 50 Repair Objects - 50 Street Performer tips - 2000 Personal Trainer - 7000 Max Influence and use it - 50 Simultaneous Furious Enemies - 10 Earn in Poker - 1000 Job Hopper - 5 Earn in Billiards and Earn as DJ - 2500 Harvest Best Crops - 200 Turn Sims into vampires and resurrect zombies - 5 Alien Abductions - 20 Witch Cast Spells - 50 Witch make items - 150 Win Cooking Contests and Prepare meals, Dance contests, and game contests - 10 Restaurant guides - 10

These numbers are based for lifespan that aren't significantly longer than the default Maxis lifespan, and if you don't work your sims to death to accomplish them. Some of the crafting ones are easy to achieve if you make your sim spam potholders for 3 days straight, but the numbers were all designed for sims with average lives with kids and a job.

The vampire/zombie ones were my personal preference, so you dont have 20 zombies running around :)

Note: sometimes the new numbers will update right away, sometimes it takes a day or so in game for them to update.

Download

[spell-bloom]

How to Create an Invisible Pool

I use Cinema Secrets which can integrate Voeille's water mod. Of course, when you load up a lot that has water, it turns black and you need to place down a pool. However, it looks pretty tacky to have a random 1x1 pool, even if you try to cover it up with bushes and flowers.

I found a fix written out by MTS user damondamore that explains a very simple process on how to make an extra pool option in Build Mode that is invisible !

Add the below to .\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Apartment Life\TSData\Res\Catalog\Scripts\deckfoundations.txt (or whichever deckfoundations.txt goes with your latest EP-- I have the Ultimate Collection and use the file up there) manually even if you have the Scriptorium-- there's some quirk with pools/decks in it.

pool 900 wallStyle 29 floorPattern "floor_poolRoundedLipBlue" catalogTextIndex 6 notRendered

You will have an extra pool that will appear in pools with the OFB deck icon... but really it's an invisible pool. And, yes, sims can swim in it with ladders and diving boards too.

And now, you can see at the top that there is indeed an invisible 1x1 pool with a ladder attached to it, and you can also see that the water shader and reflections are properly loaded in !

[laurademelza]

[kayleigh-83]

gameplay rules ramblings

Made yet more changes to my aspiration assigning method, and some related things too!

I used to assign the primary based on zodiac sign, but then use Sophie the puffin's calculator with the A and B versions of each aspiration (ie: Family can be either "strict parent" or "huge family") to decide which flavour, and to assign the secondary aspiration later in life.

I did this because I like knowing very early on what their aspiration will be one day, and I was worried about using a calculator that factors in interest points if they will change later in life (which they can). But I did a little more research on it, downloaded a mod that changes a bit of how the interest points work, and just realized who cares if the interests will change if I used to assign it without taking that into account at all?

SO - now I'm just using Sophie's calculator for all of it. Anyone who already has their aspiration assigned is keeping it the same, but I'm going through and calculating future aspirations for all the toddlers and children and I'm already seeing a more diverse spread of aspirations vs. the only personality based zodiac system! Which makes me excited!

The other change I'm making - I was letting a lot of family Sims (primary and secondary) max out their aspiration reward tree and get the super fertility benefit. I hadn't realized that actually increases the chances of twins to apparently 50%?? Which seems insanely high to me. I feel like there are way more twins in Brightmaple than make sense for such a small population now.

So now, only Sims with the Family B primary aspiration (huge family archetype) will be able to have that benefit! Which should make twins a little more rare like I think they should be.

[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!

[osab]

[Guide] Using Magpie to upscale TS2/3: no more tiny UI!

Unlike TS4, the UI sizing in older Sims games is static and doesn’t scale to fit the screen, since they were designed around lower resolutions. This can be a shock for players who have high-res screens, which makes the game’s UI appear super tiny. If you try to use Windows DPI scaling to fix it, it can become blurry.

Magpie is an open-source window scaling app for programs and games, which lets you upscale games from a lower resolution without losing too much quality. It comes with plenty of well renowned scalers, such as Lanczos and FSR. Running the games at a lower resolution can help with performance, and also solves the small UI issue since the game is rendering closer to its original intended resolution.

Here’s how to use it:

Set the game to run in windowed mode. For Sims 2, you can do that through Sims2RPCSettings, or by adding “-w” to your shortcut target if you don’t have RPC. For Sims 3, you can use the in-game options.

Once running in windowed mode, set the game to run in a resolution lower than your native screen resolution, such as 1080p if you have a 1440p or 4k screen, or 720p if you have a 1080p screen.

Install and open Magpie. Once it's running, press Windows+Shift+A while clicked inside of the game window. If everything worked, it should upscale to borderless and fill the screen!

You can configure your scaling settings through the sidebar in the Magpie app if you want to try out the different filter options.

Download Magpie here: Github

[simnostalgia]

An Infinite Short Story about Sunset Valley

Erin's standing outside of her house. It's 8 AM on Sunday. 

It was never not 8 AM on Sunday.

It always starts on a day somewhere close to June. It's never June but it's always close to June when it starts. In fact, it never used to not be June. Now there are other things that it isn't though, sometimes it's almost but not quite December or April or October. But it never used to be anything that wasn't almost but-not-quite June.

Other things that it could be started a long time ago. At least, Erin thinks it has been a long time. It could have been thousands of years of time. It's hard to tell because she's living so many lives all at once. Sometimes she's not living them. She's always frozen in time and existing somewhere else while she's alive here. Sometimes she's been dead for generations. Sometimes she's married with children, she's been so many things. She is so many things. 

Time here is weird that way. It's happening all at once, but it never gets so far away that it's not 8 AM on Sunday in almost-June somewhere. She's always standing outside of a house that she doesn't remember moving into. It's always pleasantly clean. Sometimes she gets new neighbors since all the other homes on her street are empty. Every single one of them, isn't that peculiar?

The people who move in are never the same. They're always different. She's always the same and so are the people who live here. They're always the same, too. The houses are the same, the town is the same. There was a time where the beginnings changed. It's as if she's a copy of a copy of an original but somewhere along the way the original changed. 

It would cause small things to change. Not in the way that the neighbors changed, or she'd see something she'd never seen before like a new house, or hat, or blouse, or chair. No, sometimes things changed fundamentally. Sometimes there was a fire station or thing that suddenly just existed there. It was like it had always existed, but it hadn't. Sometimes it still didn't exist. When it didn't though, she could hardly tell the difference. 

Erin had kids sometimes, sometimes she lived alone her entire life, she'd fallen in love with so many people. If she thought about it for even a moment, she could remember a life she'd lived with any person she met in town. If she thought about it for a minute she could remember when new things used to happen. Sometimes they do. Sometimes she'll see something new, but nothing ever sticks fully. 

She could stand here and think about all the things that it could be, but she tried not to think about those sorts of things too much. She wasn't unhappy or suffering, was she? She didn't have time to worry. The new neighbors will be here in a moment. 

Erin's standing outside of her house. It's 8 AM on Sunday. 

[simsinlowspace]

Freetime Posters - 12 Fitness Hobby Posters

Happy Saturday everyone! It's the weekend again, so that means it's time for another set of hobby posters! This week's hobby is fitness, which was way more fun than I was expecting. XD Swatch, detail and download below the cut!

These are on @linacheries’ fabulous 4t2 conversion of Simsza’s National Park Prints (mesh is included), and they feature another 12 designs made with Flaticon elements + lots of Simlish fonts. They’re all inspired by locations, items and Sims from the game.

Translations:

Top: Wise Old Man Tai Chi & Tea Bottom: Pagoda in the Shadows Takemizu Village I've been avoiding BV references since I already have the travel posters, but this was really the only thing that made sense for tai chi...plus I fell in love with that icon of the old man with the fan; it's got some great Studio Ghibli vibes!

Vyn Shibata Yoga Studio Named for Vyn Shibata, fitness hobby instructor. I might have gotten a little carried away doing three of these, but I really loved the way they were turning out, and I want to build a yoga studio someday. This one is the bow pulling pose.

Vyn Shibata Yoga Studio Tree pose.

Vyn Shibata Yoga Studio Lotus pose.

Platinum Gym Bodies Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings For the fitness secret lot (plus a rather ominous Watchmen reference XP)

Top: Richard Beckett's Bottom: High Quality Protein Shakes Named for Richard Beckett, another fitness hobby instructor.

Top: Rapid Racers Bottom: Roller Rink No location on this since it's a bin lot, but this is for the roller rink that came with Seasons.

Top: The Hills Community Center Bottom: Ice Skating Winters Monday - Friday For the Riverblossom Hills community lot.

Strangetown Spa 94 Road to Nowhere, Strangetown For the Strangetown community lot. Obviously I had to put an alien in that pool. :P

Central Park Belladonna Cove For one of Belladonna Cove's several parks. This is meant to be a running/jogging reference, but it ended up more of a location poster...I hope it's fitness-y enough.

Jocque Running Shoes Named for Sophie Jocque, Desiderata Valley fitness enthusiast.

Top: Super Exercise Bike Bottom: Exerto Advertisement for the in-game item. I'd planned to do a few of these since there are so many Exerto machines, but honestly, exercise equipment is ugly and not terribly exciting. :P

Okay, that's it for this week! A numbered swatch is included, and you can find all the previous sets here:

Tinkering Nature Arts & Crafts

Icons are by Freepik, max.icons, Amethyst prime, monkik, Icon Pond, IconsNova, justicon, dDara, Smashicons and photo3idea_studio. Thanks as always to the designers for their amazing resources!

DOWNLOAD (SFS) Recolors are ~350KB

Lots of love, Spacey

[eulaliasims]

Seeing @episims’s tattoo parlor in Foxfire Forest made me realize I never shared pics of the one I built in Greenwich, though it’s popped up once or twice in gameplay posts.

[moyokeansimblr]

200 Followers Gift - MtF pjs!

200+ already thank you!!! To show my thanks I bring you two sets of pjs/undies both for TF-EF. These are @rented-space's 3t2 conversions of Boxer Shorts and Lacey Bow Balconette as a fullbody outfit, and then just the shorts which were separated by @deedee-sims. But for the ladies! ✨

I recolored the bra as best I could to match the shorts, but the elder colors may be slightly different because it didn't occur to have each psd open at the same time. I doubt you'll notice much. The shorts also could probably be a bit better fit to the waist on all 3 ages, but the more I finagled with them the worse I was making them so I hope they're okay! All morphs, compressorized, and repo'd. You also need @lazyduchess separates patch for the shorts as they're only categorized as pj/und, so go get that!!

AF 3t2BoxerShortsLaceyBowBalconette | Download

AF 3t2BoxerShorts separated | Download

EF 3t2BoxerShortsLaceyBowBalconette | Standalone | Repo

EF 3t2BoxerShorts separated | Standalone | Repo

TF 3t2BoxerShortsLaceyBowBalconette | Standalone | Repo

TF 3t2BoxerShorts separated | Standalone | Repo

Enjoy, and please let me know if anything is wrong!

[simspirations2]

THE SIMS 2 - I still can’t believe this lot by Zarathustra. SimCity Arena - Sports Stadium and Concert Venue. NO CC!!!

[simgigglegirl]

Hi, I just want to say that I’m in love with your genetically correct premades project, I’m deeply considering replacing them on my neighborhoods as soon as I can because of it. My biggest concern is that the only method that I know to “replace” them is through placing the clone to the family bin in the neighborhood where the Subject Sim (the one who needs the new genetics) lives and SimSurgery from there. Ask 1/2

My question is, is it possible to replace the new genetics without dealing with clones in the bin? Sorry this is a mess, Google has so far given me the one method I mentioned previously. Ask 2/2

Hello, complicatedmerary! There is indeed a way to simsurgery the premades without having the clone clutter up your neighbourhood’s family bin. I tried to look for the tutorial that taught me how to do it but I just couldn’t find it, so I made my own. Hope you and others can still understand it. 

Edited 4th July 2019: I forgot to give a heads up that the plugin will override a sims genes with what the clone sim has on. So if you would like a sim to carry both parents genes and not just what they have now, here’s a tutorial that shows you how to edit a sims DNA (link)

1) Your gonna need to download this SimPE plugin by Theo, that allows you to use a Sims package file (The file that bodyshop stores in SavedSims Folder, whenever you save a sim/projects) to replace another sims feature. Make sure you then place the plugin inside SimPE’s plugin folder, as shown below.

2) Because I shared the GC sims in Sim2Pack files. Your gonna need to “install” them in order to get their sims package file. Place their sims package in a folder you’ll remember and rename each sim package. If your gonna replace a bunch of sims your gonna need to know which sim package is who’s. The plugin doesn’t show a preview of the sims in the replace tab.

3) Now you can open up SimPE and after opening the neighbourhood that has the sim/s you wish to replace with open Tools –> Neighbourhood –> Alt Sims Surgery

4) Once it finishes loading your then gonna search for the sim you want to replace in the sims pool (on the right) and select their profile pic and then click use on the Patient Sim tab. Then on the Archetype Sim tab, you click on load instead of use, you then go to the folder you placed the sim package file (of the sim you wish to replace with). While the picture won’t show up, you’ll know you loaded up the sim when you see the package filename being shown under name.

From there you can choose if you want only certain features to be replaced (like clicking the face only tab so that only a sims face feature is replaced while the rest stay the same) if your happy with the Archetype Sim replacing everything (Everyday outfit, Makeup, DNA and Face Feature) of the patient sim then don’t click on anything else and just click surgery, on the bottom right corner.

And now when you load up the neighbourhood, you’ll see your sim replaced with the look you wanted and not have to worry about clones walking about.

[deedee-sims]

Steffor’s Jewelry Display made functional (+edit) (+recolors)

Okay, so, this started as @episims making some recolors for this object, and then I wanted to make it functional, and if I was there, I separated the frames from the displays, so now… it’s this! XD So now it works as a jewelry display, so you need the Bon Voyage EP for it to work! And also it has 5 rack recolors and 5 frame recolors courtesy to Epi ❤ (images are from Freepik)

That’s it 😁

Download - Alternate