Ivy | 30 | She/Her I play mostly TS2 these days. Don't be shy, I like meeting new simblrs! WCIF friendly! This is a sideblog; follows, likes, & replies will come from KHIROPTERA.
working on a custom ui system, so modders can bring up dialogues with custom ui scripts without replacing the originals. here is a modded resurrection dialogue - the original one still works as its own thing!
Part 1: Chairs Converted From The Sims 2 Console for The Sims 2
Happy anniversary to The Sims! To celebrate, I've got a set of chairs from The Sims 2 console for The Sims 2. Some of these I've added recolors for, but feel free to delete any of them if you just want the originals. The Spielbunnst Lawn Seatery is used in nearly all the Sims 2 console locations, so I'm excited to have this one out! The Xbox version uses the same texture as the Contempto Adirondack Chair, just more saturated in color. I added the other recolors from it, so we can have a matching dining chair for the Adirondack set. All recolors are merged and renamed within their respective files. If you make any recolors please let me know, I'd love to use them!
The Sims 2 Console collection file - Sims 2
Downloads:
For The Sims 2 - SFS
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Boggs Saloon Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
Price - §400
Category - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 264
Texture Size - 128x128
Elementary Memories Dining Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Has 11 swatches. 1 original and 10 created by me.
Price - §80
Category - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 554
Texture Size - 128x128
'Mod Man' Office Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Has 3 swatches. 1 original and 2 created by me.
Price - §200
Category - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 328
Texture Size - 512x256
Office Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Price - §80
Category - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 334
Texture Size - 256x256
Spielbunnst Lawn Seatery Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me. This was reconstructed using pieces of the xbox model and the Sims 2 PC Contempto Outdoor Living Lounge.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Has 5 swatches. 1 original and 4 repo'd to the Contempto Adirondack Chair
Price - §320
Category - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 672
Texture Size - 512x512
"Up" Dining Chair Information:
Extracted by mix. Mesh and textures were edited and converted by me.
This is also from The Sims 2: Pets console!
Price - §1,100
Category - Comfort > Dining Chairs
Polycount - 286
Texture Size - 64x256
Brushstrokes - Default Easel Paintings (Advent Day Fifteen)
Happy day fifteen! You get some painting defaults, INCLUDING Grilled Cheese Aspiration defaults!
For the longest time, I struggled to find defaults that both incorporated the skill levels of sims, and somewhat resembled the things they were replacing. I didn't want the art my sims had already painted to wildly change! So, I decided, I'll just do it myself. That... may have been two years ago, but whatever. It's done now.
FT is required for Grilled Cheese, but the package is separate.
These are a mix of ones I made myself (trying to imitate various skill levels), free-to-use art I found with the help of friends, and one Noah Verrier painting (the high-skill-level grilled cheese). These were all made with NO AI.
A sharp turn from my recent kids' outfits, here are some beards to match 4t2 clay hair and enabled for all genders!
First up, I extracted the property sets for all facial hair without meshes* and made them unisex. You can use these with any default replacement textures you want (or none at all).
Download Facial Hair for Everyone
Next up, the default replacement textures themselves. I recolored @withlovefromsimtown's Beardly defaults since I had them on hand.
Download Defaults
And finally, for some extras (and more Beardly), I took @kaluxsims' EveryBeardly set - the inspiration for this whole pan-gender beard endeavor! - and edited the blonds. (I thought the Poppet colors looked good otherwise.)
Download Extras
Now go forth and give all your Sims facial hair the holidays. Don't they deserve it?
*The meshed beards would require new meshes to enable for female Sims, but there is still a good selection available, especially with all those Beardly beards!
Bit of a different one! This is more of a testing phase, but I think it's all good!
Sul Sul!
Recently, there has been this fantastic tutorial by @jodeliejodelie about custom terrains other than the "Concrete, Lush, Dirt etc". If you have paid attention to my previews you may notice that I have a lot of hoods that have a lot of custom roads and terrains. So this post is basically an extension on this!
I didn't want to share with you until;
I have made every custom terrain type that I wanted
Had a tutorial on how to change and edit until it was all done so all you needed to do was plonk files in, and edit a few things!
I had streamlined and worked out the textures /road overlays etc.
So I think I am basically ready...
So what I ask, since I have had a lot of people asking about my terrains, here they are, if you notice anything broken or what not let me know! We are in testing phase!
Tutorial on how to make the changes below the cut!
DOWNLOAD
Tutorial time! Don't worry, it is simple!
The files in the folder "Program Files";
They do edit existing files so please have backups!
Downloads;
Just simply place the files into your downloads, obviously will conflict with any road or hood defaults you may have. You can swap the maxis ones out ie; Lush, Desert, Concrete and Dirt and still have the custom ones here. Just delete the retrospective files.
IN GAME
Create your hood as a lush terrain for now. If you already have a hood but have given it something different, see notes at the bottom.
In game, in the cheat bar, "TerrainType XXX", in the XXX part put "Temperat1" or "Temperat2" etc, for whatever terrain you want.
Changes will take affect when you reload the hood.
In SimPE
Load up the hood, go to "Neighbourhood Memory" and then once the green bar has loaded, click on the "Hex" tab on the bottom bar.
In the first column, third line down it usually says the number "65" if you created the hood first on a lush, if not see notes below. Then you edit the number;
In the byte box; change the 65 to
31 for 1,
32 for 2,
33 for 3,
34 for 4,
35 for 5,
36 for 6.
These numbers represent Temperat1, Temperat2, Temperat3 etc.
Press tab or click on another box like short: etc then the changes will be made.
NOTES;
If you have create the hood with another terrain, youll have to edit all the numbers in columns 08-0f to say "Temperat", use the images below.
So I did a thing. You know the old sims 2 database app? Sims2DB?
You know, the super powerful program Pegasys made back in 2006 to track your sims' genetics, businesses, family trees and a ton more? The one that could download the info of all your sims via SimPE, but that part of it and some other parts don't work anymore?
I became obsessed with it a few days ago and decided to see if I could crack it open. And after two (2) full days of staring at filemaker pro..
I present to you: Open Sims2DB
Before you get too excited, a huge disclaimer: I am not the original creator of the program, I just opened it so we could make it work again. All credit for this tool goes to Pegasys. I just did some digital thingamajig and broke the digital lock they put on it. This is a community preservation project, not my original work.
The good news: The files are completely unlocked. All the layouts, scripts, and everything are accessible.
The... Other news: I am, to put it mildly, in way over my head. I got the door open but I don't know how to fix the furniture inside. I can't actually make it run properly myself.
So I'm throwing this out to you all. If you know how to mess around on Filemaker Pro and have big "let's fix this" energy, PLEASE feel free to take a look.
As you know, the default the Sims 2 neighborhood camera is very limited. There are many different mods that expands its capabilities. I searched for the most convenient mod for a long time, but all of them had unpleasant bugs - for example, they got stuck on maps like Downtown, and none of them allowed changing the vertical angle of the camera as in lot view.
Finally, I found a camera from The Jessa Channel. It is a really convenient mod which allow to rotate the camera in any direction, has a large zoom and comfortable movement around the NH map without “bouncing” at the borders.
Moreover, there were several minor flaws I have fixed. Thus, in my edition of the Jessa NH camera mod, the zoom works smoothly with the + and - keys, and also the “clipping issues” (also known as z-fighting) are solved
I've already shared a link to mesh-only version of this replacement in my posh club stuff post, but that one didn't hide effects so here's an updated version.
It requires University EP - I replaced effect names in Str resource with invisible effect from Uni. /Previous version is also included.
My thinking: sims don't have to use soap when they wash their hands, or shampoo, or anything to clean dirty counters and tubs. So why use a detergent and make one game feature disproportionally more detailed than other similar features?
So, how about this idea..
Sims use cleaning and toiletry supplies for everything related to washing, cleaning, and personal hygiene!
Hear me out, this is how it's gonna work
You buy special items like soap and place them around the house like you would place bathroom clutter. Every time sims clean something or bathe, they subtract points from a nearby product if there are any. Once a bottle/box is used up, it disappears and notifies you if it was the last one.
While most interactions are still available even without supplies, having and not having them has advantages and penalties.
House cleaning takes longer without supplies and goes faster with them.
Same goes for bathing, with a difference: there's limit to how clean sims and pets can get with water alone.
(Yes, I have been writing the description, crazy stuff!)
Affected Interactions
So, there are two major groups of products: for house cleaning and for body care. They are mostly separate, but some things like regular soap can be used in both cases.
Personal Hygiene: (soap, shampoo, body wash, bath bottles, toiletries)
Take Shower
Take Bath
Take Bubble Bath
Bathe Toddler
Wash Pet
Wash Hands
Sponge Bathe
Bathe Baby
Change Diaper
Wash Face
Brush Teeth
Apply Zit Cream
Pictured objects are included as separate files (+ one more paper towel). Can be found in Plumbing - Misc. One product has around 16-45 uses (half the initial price)
Testing time!
Hit me with conflicts, bugs and cute clutter
I'm especially interested in a storage-like object that's like a whole container/shelf of various supplies. I would make that object a source of refilling all the little ones, if that makes sense
A hand-painted reinterpretation of maxis's eyes from 20 years ago. This is an eye for those of you who love playing a pure maxis-match game but can't help yourselves from glancing over at the new-fangled textures and wondering, "What if?"
Also comes with custom hazel and dark brown colours. The genetic value of the dark brown is 0.8 (making it the most dominant eye) and hazel is 1.3, though feel free to alter as you need :)
These are default replacements, except for the two additional colours.
For comparisons with the default maxis eyes, click here.
sims 2 is just pixel dolls but why are people saying brandi broke is a bad mother again? i'm not saying she's a good mom but everyone points to her furniture being expensive. buddy lilith pleasant's furniture is more expensive than angela's and no one uses that as evidence that she is treated better.
i honestly think maxis made brandi's room to fit an aesthetic (sex worker cough cough) and didn't pay too much attention to the prices. but hey not trying to knock someone's interpretation.
Well, this might already exists, but I couldn't find it so 🤷♀️ For teens, adults, and elders, they have the appropriate morphs. They're repo'd and pinned to ingame textures so the Apartment Life EP is required! :)
As requested by @jellymeduza I'm sharing my tweak of @dreadpirate's fabulous Maxis Match lighting mod. This makes the unlit rooms during dawn and dusk a bit brighter (closer to how they appear at nighttime) and tweaks the colour-cast a bit too. The photos above are all four time of day states including with my tweaks - but nothing about day or night was actually changed from the original MM lighting mod.
Below are all the before and after pictures for dawn/dusk next to each other - before is the MM lighting mod "out of the box" and after is with my tweaks.
How to install:
Download the Maxis Match lighting mod exactly as per dreadpirates instructions. (don't worry about the part on enabling or disabling dawn and dusk states, that will be included in my edit)
Replace your lighting.txt file with mine included in this download - this will be in your base game install folders, for the UC the file path is "Double Deluxe/Base/TSData/Res/Lights" and you'll be overwriting the lighting.txt file in there with mine.
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