betrayal…in truth, it was i who was betrayed.

[claudiasharon]

Lovestruck Sims 4 Giveaway!

❤️Who wants a giveaway? Feeling the L-O-V-E? ❤️

💜For those of us that HAVE to buy the game because of evol OCD (gotta catch them all or WE WILL DIE) or whatever our reasons are, I am doing a giveaway in honor of the money sitting in my Patreon right now.

💜So who wants to get the Lovestruck pack? This is open to EVERYONE WORLDWIDE. YES. I will send you either a gift code to redeem via the EA app if you're in the USA!

❤️OR❤️

💜I will send you the amount you need to purchase the pack with money in your currency via Paypal, Venmo, or CashApp depending on what your country allows.

💜If you cannot use any of those payment processors, we will figure something out.

💜All you need to do now is like AND reblog this post!

❤️That is it.❤️

💜Then I will use a random number generator online to see who wins!

💜Make sure your DMs are open on your Tumblr so I can contact you, or I will have to reroll and move on to the next person!

-When the poll below this text ends, the giveaway will end too!-

Do you want the Lovestruck Sims 4 Expansion Pack?

Yes I want it now! Gimmie! *grabby hands* 💋

🏴‍☠️ Arrr matey 🏴‍☠️

Nah I use WW or other mods instead. 😉😉😉

Voting ended onJul 24, 2024

Good luck!

[simlishwitch]

Trying to play again but I have soooo much cc to organize & merge 😭 I don't know how my current folder has almost 20 gb & I still have like 3k files to go through 😩

[belladovah]

Permanent Quarter-Tile Placement On!

Just wanted to share a tip I know about how to make the Quarter Tile Placement Cheat on all the time so you just have to press Ctrl + F when you want to use it without having to type in a cheat each time.

Many of you may know that adding “setquartertileplacement on” to your userStartup.cheat doesn’t work, so I’m going to tell you where you can put it that does work, in case you didn’t already know!

So, head to Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config and open up the file called “globalProps.xml” with a text editor, I recommend Notepad++. You should probably make a backup of this file first before making any changes, just in case.

In this file, scroll to the bottom and you should see a line that says:

<AnyBoolean key=“quarterTilePlacementEnabled” type=“0xcba908e1”>false</AnyBoolean>

Simply change the false to true and save the file and that’s it! The Quarter Tile Placement cheat will always be on without you having to type it in ever again! Simply toggle it on and off with Ctrl + F!

Hope that helps at least someone! I was telling my friend @morepopcorn​ about this trick and I couldn’t find the website where I initially read about how to do this anymore so she suggested I should make this post as it might not be common knowledge.

[motherof70]

I knew this was possible, now I know how

[simmingelitist]

eight's Aspiration Calculator + Personality Coder For the Sims 1 and the Sims 2

I'm reposting because I made some updates! But the link will stay the same for as long as I can help it.

Here is a version for when you're referencing The Sims Wiki. The displayed order of interests is changed, but it functions the exact same and the personality codes are interchangeable with the original version.

Feel free to use/copy/edit/share/etc. To use, simply make a copy of the spreadsheet where you are the owner. More info under the cut.

The Aspiration Calculator: It includes calculations HB's Traits Project, and is designed for the calculations to be customizable because maybe you don't think a non-committal Libra with high outgoing points should be a Romance sim. It's also designed to be used as-is, so you can get right down to it. Its initial settings may be derivative of other calculators but these are the settings I use it on.

The Personality Coder: This one is a little different. It's basically meant to put all of the numbers that make up a Sim's personality into a simple code so you don't have to look them up and then type them by hand every time. I find myself always having to do this and I got tired of it so this is my solution. In my hood tracker there's a field for personality codes, and I'm going to catalogue them for every premade in the future. There isn't any accounting for traits at the moment and I won't promise it'll be added in the future but I do want to, it just might be super difficult with the fact that you can add/remove/change traits in the settings.

Anyway here's the changes I mentioned:

Added the personality coder/decoder

Added a guide in the first tab

Tokens are less weighted

Traits are less weighted

Zodiac signs are included now, with settings

It's prettier! Lookie!

[lazyduchess]

Pink Flashing Research Part 2

I've done a bit more research and testing on the subject of pink flashing (Thanks to everyone from my Discord who contributed!)

I came up with a "duct tape", temporary solution for Mansion & Garden players, in the form of an ASI mod, available with instructions under the cut.

Let me know how it goes! This won't fix crashes and won't work in every case, but people have seen improvements. Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this at some point. I might make it a part of RPC eventually.

Download

SimFileShare / Dropbox

Usage and drawbacks:

All this mod does is ignore when the game tells materials to start flashing, which can result in them working fine as the game tends to misjudge the amount of available memory and make stuff pink flash when it's not really necessary.

This can result in pink flashing being gone and everything looking normal or stuff that would normally pink flash simply turning invisible.

If you see things start turning invisible in-game, type in the cheat "boolprop reparseshaders true" (without the quotes of course)

Installation Instructions:

If you use Sims2RPC, copy the "NoErrorVisualization.asi" file into your "(Mansion & Garden Install folder)/TSBin/mods" folder. (e.g "C:/Origin Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Fun with Pets/SP9/TSBin/mods")

If you don't use Sims2RPC you will need a cracked Sims2EP9.exe, then copy the "NoErrorVisualization.asi" file into your M&G TSBin folder, and download an ASI Loader: (SFS/Dropbox). Copy this dsound.dll file in TSBin alongside the .asi file.

[kayleigh-83]

Hi guys! Since this Sims 2 community is so wonderful about sharing information and resources, I wanted to make some small contribution of my own with something I hadn't seen around before.

Mirrors have definitely tripped me up in the past and I know that's the case with others too, but once @thimblesims kindly gave me a couple pointers I actually realized they're really easy if you already know basic converting, just a little fiddly!

So this tutorial will walk you through the mirror-specific steps of converting from TS4, in the way that seemed most efficient to me. It's likely transferable to other mirror related applications besides just 4t2 but that's what I am doing so that's how it's geared. It's sort of part "understanding how mirror packages work" and part step-by-step instructions.

Feeling a little silly posting a tutorial since I'm such a beginner myself, but hopefully being able to write it out in detail while I'm still in a beginners mindset myself will be helpful to some! I find step by step tutorials that really spoon-feed me the information SO important for how I learn new things.

Tutorial is in PDF format so you can save a copy for yourself (my own tutorials folder is getting bigger and bigger).

Download

( @sims2tutorials )

[pforestsims]

Here’s a mini-tutorial on

how to use SimPe to check CC inside Downloads (or any other folder) for GUID conflicts,

and tips on how to find GUID duplicates inside merged files

It’s best to make backup copy before changing the conflicting GUID or removing any resources from merged file. And also..

Check CC for conflicts BEFORE you go and merge everything into one giant fireball 🔥

Note: Scanning can take a long time if you have old HDD / tons of CC. SimPe will not start scanning until it loads the content, so it might seem like it froze completely. And sometimes it does.. hard to tell, so it’s best to wait. If you suspect particular merged file contains something that conflicts with TS2 object, drop it in an empty folder and point the Folder Scanner to it. Then it will only get screened for conflicts with TS2 object files (and stuff inside that file ofc).

Common symptoms of GUID conflicts: strange recolours, TS2 objects visible on lots but missing from the catalogue, CC not showing in catalogue.

FYI Broken Bookcase doesn’t conflict with TS2 stuff, it was just used as an example  ;)

[veronavillequiltingbee]

ts2 edited graphicsrules.sgr + patched executables

since @vidcunds deactivated their simblr, which had a great tutorial on how to edit the graphicsrules.sgr file by hand to make it (hopefully) work with modern PCs,  I uploaded my personal graphicsrules files (for both the game and body shop).

this contains the following changes:

disableTexMemEstimateAdjustment set to true

enableDriverMemoryManager set to true

dirtyrect dynamicRenderStrategy set to 0 (to make reshade depth functions work in case you want to use them)

also included are executables for both ts2 and body shop that have been 4gb-patched.

download and more important info under the cut.

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[amythestfenix]

re-blogging to keep this easy to find

[littlelittlesimmies]

It took me the entire day to reinstall the game on my new computer, to make all the adjustements for it to work on Windows 11, find the right settings with the Graphic Rules Maker, and… my game loads twice faster from Windows to neighborhood view, then it loads at least TEN TIMES faster to enter a lot, everything runs so smoothly, even in very heavy CC lots and neighborhoods, with all settings at high, Origin downloading the Sims 4 at the same time, talking to my best friend on Discord, recording a video… like… IS THIS HEAVEN ?! I’m about to cry. Tears of joy of course. But still !

I think the next week (or maybe even the next month) will be about enjoying my game and nothing else. I’m so, so, so happy, you can’t even imagine !

[lilsisterg]

Perhaps you would be willing to share how you made Sims 2 work on Windows 11. There was someone asking for help with getting their game to work with Windows 11. Thanking you in advance 💞

[littlelittlesimmies]

Oh ! I followed a few tutorials actually.

First I did this as usual :https://gardenofshadows.org.uk/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=21931.0

Then the last part of @anibats​​ tutorial (the part about the dxvk file) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac1PyUxKoNU except that I wrote 16384 instead of 8192 in the file she talks about and in the Graphic Rules Maker as I now have 32Gb of RAM.

And I learned something important here to complete Anibats tutorial : https://docs.google.com/document/d/19JMr-FQSU3AlF7Kyvcrr7awTiHBDQSUNLG6qfaI6rOs/edit

Grant “Everyone” full control to the TSBin Folder before copying. Otherwise, Windows may lie (🤥) about copying the  d3d9.dll file to the folder. You’ll know you haven’t done this if the d3d9.dll file looks like it is there but no log file or cache files are generated.

If “Everyone” doesn’t appear, press “Edit” and then “Add” then type in “Everyone”, press OK, and “Everyone” should appear as an option you can edit the permissions on.

If you did not grant “Everyone” access, DXVK really might not work and/or crash.

⚠️If you had launched the game before granting “Everyone” access and after copying the DLL, you will be in a ditch. Get out of the ditch by deleting the “%localappdata%\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES” folder. You can get there by putting that path into Windows File Explorer’s address bar.

That was the only part that was useful to me, but it worth reading it all just in case.

My Graphic Rules settings are exactly these if it helps :

[ilovethesims2cc]

TS2 ULTIMATE MOD - HOSPITAL MOD (Working, Cleaned & SFW) !!! 2021

Made By: Chris Hatch (LEGEND!!)

Edited and Cleaned By: nyamisims and Meduza (HEROES!!)

Your Sims can now give birth to a real hospital and If they are sick they can get well there, With Doctors, Nurses,  Patients  and Visitors !

I Decided to release a complete version of this mod that will WORK and it will have ALL the required files AND WILL BE “SafeForWork” !!! With complete instructions and guide !!!

I finally got it to work ! AND I LOVE IT. it’s the “Sims 2: Hospital Expansion Pack” we never got ! 

DOWNLOAD LINK. 

Instructions and Guide:

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[suratan-zir]

yess thank you!! but theres also the glass roof in the 2nd photo sorry i wasnt clear haha

Oh, sorry... It's not really a roof. It is a fence and columns from this set (TSR) and some transparent floor tiles like these ones.

[sushigal007]

How to clean out your downloads

I see a lot of people are sorting out their downloads folders and I thought I’d offer up my advice because I like to think someone might find it useful.

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[lesyasun]

Hi... Do you know how to place criquette's farm fields so that they don't look super awkward? I'm trying to place some in Riverblossom Hills and I struggle so much :/

Hi! Do you mean these seasonal fields by Grilledcheesepersona? There's an instructional picture how to use them in that post. If those fields look really awkward, you might want to try these ones. Also, if none of these two fields work, you can try modifyNeighborhoodTerrain [on/off] It can low/raise/flatten the neighbourhood terrain. You must enter the cheat in a neighbourhood screen, click over the area you would like to change. Press [ or ] to raise or lower the terrain by one click, press \ to level the terrain, and press P to flatten terrain. And don't forget to turn the cheat off after you're finished. Also, be careful with the cheat as you won't be able to cancel the changes you've done. Hope, this helps.

[littlelittlesimmies]

How to make the invisible Espresso machine work with counter islands

If you use the invisible recolor of the Espresso-o-Matic machine, you can’t place it on counter islands because the game won’t spawn any barista.

However, there is a trick ! See :

Explanations under the cut :

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[criquette-was-here]

Hi Criquette, you mods are amazing and your hoods are so beautiful. I know you did a tutorial on making roofs look better in hood view, so I was wondering if you had any other basic tips (for example, I know that putting windows about a roof makes the wall invisible in hood view)?

Hello Tentaclia, It’s funny, but I totally suck at all those in-game tricks (well, I love to use mixed level floors and all that, but I always need to look it up somewhere). As for the game appearance tricks, I have one that I wanted to post so why not doing it right away. Here it is:I always hated those stairs LODs in neighborhood mode. They look like if they are floating in the air instead of landing their last step on the ground. So It can be improved (sort of):

On this mighty picture you can see that the stairs LOD is actually reaching the ground. And trash can LOD is lowered too. To do that, you need to open Neighborhood.ini file in your TSData/Sys/ folder of your current EP (if you have UC then it should be M&G SP), find [ImposterDisplayTunables] and change the value in ImposterZOffset line to something like:ImposterZOffset=0.1That will lower all lot imposters in your game. Now if I just could find the way to lower this damn ‘hood road.

[lesyasun]

@lenarosic88​ How you can have this kind od roof?

The roof is made of Greenhouse Roof Pieces by Lethe_s (they locate in columns section). You must put invisible floor tile on top/on the ceiling if you don’t want the rain to flood your house :D I’ve stolen this idea from Vimpse :)

[sushigal007]

How to clean out your downloads

I see a lot of people are sorting out their downloads folders and I thought I’d offer up my advice because I like to think someone might find it useful.

Keep reading