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Helpful links for Sims 2 and 3 since 2011, with a focus on game mods, tips and tricks and tutorials. You will also find on this blog a large database of game-related and technical questions that we have answered. Not affiliated with EA Games.

[asimtypical]

Default Replacement for afbody-Glitter and Addons

Revisited this one and changed the shoes again. I can't stop using them apparently! afbodyglitter replaced the shorts with afbottomchiqjeans and changed the shoes with serabiet's flats, but removed the bow on the back because you couldn't see it, like at all.

Textures for top and bottom are repo'd to game files, so open for business required, obviously and h&m. Comes with ALL morphs.

credits: ea and @serabiet

Download: SFS/MF/Simblr.cc

[asimtypical]

somebody liked this today and that reminded me I made this, reblogging because it’s pretty good imo 😅

[plumbug]

Summer at the Quarry 🏖️

I have for you today a sand default, pond bottom default, and a pond overlay. I made these for myself and figured I'd share. I wanted a beach sand that more closely matched the vibe of Michigan and Ohio beaches with all the shells and rocks. :-) I made the pond bottom rocky since I'm making a swim-able quarry in Haddock Bay, aaand needed an overlay to tie everything together. Happy summerrrr! 🐚✨

This is a default for the 'hood / lot sand.

I used two of @foxtronaute's terrain paints together.

You can use it with any default 'hood terrain you have, just remove the sand package that comes with your default first.

I used @criquette-was-here's guide for removing 'hood sand in my 'hoods, but keep in mind that the sand will still be present if you're in lot view by the water.

I defaulted on @simsantoinc's default.

I used a small stones terrain paint from @foxtronaute's terrain paints.

the pond overlay is jon119's mesh and @pforestsims pond tint. All I did was lower the tint's opacity a little bit and slap it on the mesh because it was bigger. I needed the overlay to cover a larger area for my quarry! :-)

There are two meshes, a small and a large, and you can find them both in plumbing > misc.

SFS ✨ MF everything is compressed :-)

@jon119 — pond overlay mesh @pforestsims — pond tint gradient

@foxtronaute — terrain paint textures @simsantoinc — original pond bottom default @criquette-was-here — guide for removing 'hood sand

[angelsimoleon]

TS3 DEFAULT HAIR REPLACEMENTS

🚨 Required Content: Fast Lane

all female hairs from fast lane! i finally got around to doing something with the helmet hairs, as they're kind of redundant.

as always, ensure that you clear your cache before opening the game. i recommend using regular save cleaner if you don't already.

view under the cut for more details + download links!

general notes:

all hairs have been flagged for random

CASPs have been fixed for all hairs to prevent pigtails upon age up / naked

♀️ Bp Long (T-E)

replaced with WingsSims ON1020

retextured by @ifcasims

fat and thin morph, and breast bones added by me

polycount: 12.3k

download

♀️ Gs Short (T-E)

replaced with Ade Riri

retextured by @ifcasims

changelog: fixed some minor imperfections and updated fat morph

polycount: 9.2k

download

♀️ Helmet (T-E)

replaced with Ade Elizabeth

moved out of hat category

all morphs added, uv map adjusted, and bones re-worked by me

polycount: 14k

download

[jacky93sims]

Pork Chops Default Replacement

This is my personal version of the pork chops dinner. I used the same mesh but I changed disposition and texture. I also add some other details but the chops and prep table are the same.

Hope you like it, it's very low poly (only 800 poligons)

Remember that if you already have a replacement for this food, it won't work.

DOWNLOAD HERE

[leeleerocks]

Pick and choose Pink Kitchen Utensils Override for a barbie girl, like me!

Four Flavours:

Spoon Only

Spatula Only (can be used with 1)

Cookpot and Pan

All of the above in one file

What you'll be downloading: A zip file (For easy access, not everyone has WinZip)

:) Enjoy your kitchen Utensils! <3

[pforestsims]

hi, i love your new suitcases. i really want to use the modern default, but i've noticed that in my game the suitcases appear as the original mesh with the new hardshell textures on top of it (i hope that makes sense). do you know what might be causing this issue? i don't use any other default suitcase.

I've checked it and the GMDCs are missing, I let Gummi know, cuz they're hosting the file but I'm not sure when they'll update it, meanwhile I fixed it and uploaded it on my SFS

fixed Modern Suitcase Mod

(added missing GMDCs)

DOWNLOAD

If you want to use the modern suitcase version, please re-download!

Gummi has updated original archive, latest version has "_Fixed" suffix.

[letomills]

Butterflysims 198, converted by @profesionalpartyguest, retextured with io's texture, as custom or default replacement for fhairpagepunk. For PF-EF, with mesh edits. Polycount: 9.5k.

Custom unnaturals / default mirror hairs:

Digi's Adara Raven, Adara RedWine & Rosa (actions here).

Downloads and details under the cut.

Edits

The TF mesh was clipping with a lot of my face templates so I fiddled with it a bit to alleviate that.

I also replaced the child & toddler scalps in an attempt to do something that didn't pan out (it won't make a difference unless you're looking to make a dramatic alpha edit, just saying for transparency).

The scalps were peaking through at certain angles so I added textures to them so the hair looks fuller.

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Custom

12 recolors in my usual palette + the 3 extra unnaturals shown above. Binned and familied except for Naberius and the extras, which are in the custom bin. I use Grenade both as a blond for toddlers-adults and as a grey for elders - if you don’t want Grenade for elders, delete the files that end with “_grenade_EFgrey”.

Download custom: SFS / Google Drive

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Default replacement

Replaces fhairpagepunk, with the added ages.

The optional add-ons are familied together and show up next to the regular defaults in the catalog, except for Naberius which is in the custom bin. Feel free to keep them all, pick and choose, or delete them.

Download default: SFS / Google Drive

The mesh, natural defaults and mirror default are on 3 separate files so you can opt to keep only the natural defaults or the mirror default (either way, you have to keep the mesh file).

[carversims]

EP0 BASE GAME MAKE-UP

DEFAULT REPLACEMENT || child+ || unisex || eyeshadow/liner/blush/lipstick

replaced with make-up by: @tudart​ @kurasoberina​ @smallsimmer​ @pralinesims​ @ephemera69​ @pixelore​ @wundersims @lavsm​

let me know if there are any issues ♡  

|| SIMFILESHARE || PATREON ||

[simnostalgia]

billie you'll never guess what happened to GoS

I JUST FUCKING SAW, BITCH.

Okay okay, wait let me collect myself.

First, let me say that I'm actually so sad to see it go. It's been a huge part of my time in the sims community. It's a shame that was so sudden. I really loved the community and I think it's a shame that it happened like it did.

With that out of the way.

BITCH, I TOLD YOU. I TOLD ALL OF YOU. I told ALL you motherfuckers exactly what would happen and everyone bitched like "Oh!! Well, WHY would you do this? Especially when it's not like GOS is closing down anytime soon???"

I got hate mail for months. Bitches poured out of the woodwork like "Mmmm I've always hated Billie, just another thing he's done to add him to my shit list" Then HL bitched at me and acted like the scrape cost him a huge amount of case in data usage when that shit was fucking cents on the dollar. I even offered to pay HL back the like 2 dollars that it *may* have costed him to scape.

Well GUESS who fucking took their ball and went home with very little warning?

Garden Of Shadows (CUSTOM CONTENT SCRAPE - SEPTEMBER 2023) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is the entire site's worth of custom content scraped. There are a few things that you need to know.- This is not checked to see if depe

Here's the fucking scrape. It's missing 2024-2026. I be that stuff can be scraped as well though, but since it'll have to be done through Wayback it's gonna take time.

[sims3fiend]

S3SS 1.6.0 - I forgot

The patch previously known as 1.5.1

Apologies for this taking forever and me disappearing off the face of the Earth, sorry if you've tried to DM me w/ issues, etc etc blablabla. I would like to say I'll be more active now but who knows, life is kind of sucky atm

New patches:

Mirror Reflection Settings - Tunes how far away mirror reflections stay visible. Push reflections out further (or rein them in if you've got a wall full of mirrors and want your frames back, mirrors are each their own little camera). Patch idea from Boring Bones

Animation Blend Tuning - Clamps animation blend (transition) durations to a min/max, so transitions that snap can be smoothed out and slow blends can be made snappier. Also includes a forceBlendOut option that lets through blend-out times the engine would otherwise discard. Big thanks to @thepancake1 for the patch!

Split-Level Lighting Fix - Makes lighting not stop at a single level - lot-bound lights now pass the engine's 'world light' filter in outdoor rooms and terrain lightmaps. May cause a bit of light bleed near walls/floors. All credits to Arro-Now!

Brady Bunch BEGONE - The engine fills unlit/dim rooms at night with a fake blue ambient (the "Brady Bunch Blue" apparently). This allows you to change them or to (ideally) zero the values so unlit rooms render without the gross blue glow. Patch idea from Arro ,thanks!

All four are experimental for now, they'll graduate one day...

Updates/Changes:

CPU Thread Optimization - Fixes Alder Lake+ CPU issues correctly now (hopefully).

Lighting Quality - Improved blur math precision to prevent color banding, plus an additional fix for rooms gradually darkening over repeated passes. Blur is now energy-preserving so it stops drifting the average brightness down.

Startup Warning Dialog Fix - New Hide Dialogue setting that prevents the dialog from being created at all, rather than making it visible.

As always, download can be found here readme can be found here

[pforestsims]

Here's my collab with wonderful @gummilutt - now we can have suitcase variety in the game! :D

🎨 Color Traits Mod:

BV Suitcase Default

Maxis Match OR Modern

Download: SFS Modern suitcase polycount: 1272

⚠️This mod requires Color Traits created by Epi @episims AND Trait Globals by @picknmixsims to work!

As all color trait mods, it makes the suitcase appear in Sim's favourite color (one of 12), if color trait is present in Sim's inventory. Grey is the default shade. You can choose between original suitcase or hardshell suitcase.

🔺Conflicts:

Pets and toddlers on Vacation by @lamare-sims - Suitcase mod needs to load AFTER Lamare's mod (add "zzz" suffix prefix to the filename to make it load last).

BV suitcase texture replacements are not compatible with this. Also, modern default will clash with objects that use original Eaxis suitcase texture.

You may also be interested in decorative mini-sets based on suitcase mesh and textures:

Decorative Suitcases

Hardshell Suitcase & Maxis Match Suitcase

Download: SFS | BOX

Both meshes found in Buymode/General/Dressers, recolors are merged.

*This is for The Sims 2

[leeleerocks]

Pink watering can Recolour . Goes in Mods/Overrides

[gummilutt]

Slot blocker

A gift I made for @lamare-sims 😊 There's a few options for this out there already, but we agreed there was room for improvement so here is my take on a slot blocker object.

Found in general/misc, it costs nothing, and it does what it says on the tin. It sits in slots, to take up that space in situations where you perhaps wanted to rotate the object (shameless self-plug) or you had to use an OMSP to avoid clipping so that a slot visually looks filled but functionally isn't.

What Lamare wanted specifically was for this slot blocker to not prevent you from clicking on objects underneath it. So that's what I did! 😁 In live mode the object goes invisible automatically, and shrinks to the size of a speck of dust so that you have full clicking access to whatever may be overlapping :3 When you return to buy mode, it'll return to regular size and texture so that you can remove it if you want to. You can also recolor it invisible manually, if you prefer, it'll then remain invisible whether in live or buy/build.

Download from simfileshare

May you clutter even more intensely, float free and clip free 😉

Credits: Lamare for the prompt, Epi for the base I used that doesn't get confused if you recolor the object manually

[virtual-hugs]

Unique Elder Body Skins for The Sims 3

♦︎ Did you know that EA was likely planning on adding unique body textures to elders? Separate beta textures exist for them within the game files. This mod restores this feature and allows elders to have age details on their bodies, without having to apply a non-default CC skin.

♦︎ Backstory: I felt disappointed that the elder skin from Kurasoberina's Primer was only available with the non-default version. It's pretty weird how elder Sims look just as buttery smooth as teens and adults when it comes to their body. So I was determined to give elders the wrinkly and sun-damaged skin that they deserve.

♦︎ The way I've achieved this is by editing the skintone resources of all the default skins. Elders will now use body textures different from the teen and adult ones. Youthful and flawless skin begone!

♦︎ The textures are easy to replace to match your DR skin. The ones included with this mod are taken from and meant to be used with the Primer DR skin by @kurasoberina. Additional information can be found on the download pages.

DOWNLOAD: MODTHESIMS | SIMBLR.CC

Don't forget to apply your sunscreen to avoid the fate of these geriatric twins! ☀️

[skyhighstarflower]

✩ EP Required: Apartment Life or Higher ✩

✩ This is a Default Replacement for Chris Hatch's Community Bus Mod (Chris Hatch's Community Buses). If you are using the original version of this mod, you could replace it with this version, as both would use the same GUID. ✩

✩ This mod contains Bus Stop and Bus Stop Sign that both work at the same time ✩

✩Next, the bus was replaced with Vovillia Corp. 2002 Renault Agora L and I recolor it ✩

✩ Instructions from Chris Hatch would be in the download (This is a preview of the mod) ✩

✩ All credits to Vovillia Corp, Ssiat, Natatanec for Meshes and textures and for Recolor Bus Ads Simsinvogue and Themintsimmer ✩

✩ I would like to credits @jacky93sims for (bus replacement) and @cityof2morrow (bus stop final edits), Thank you✩

✩ Original T4 ✩

Bus Stop: early)street set | Patreon

Bus Stop Sign: Corporation "SimsStroy": The Sims 4. Decor design stopping.

Recolor Bus Ads :SAN MYSHUNO BILLBOARD | OVERRIDES | Patreon & Del Sol Valley Billboard Override | themintsimmer | Patreon

✩ Original T2✩

Bus : VoVillia 2002 Renault Agora L

✩ Mods Compatible ✩

Dick Hurt's Taxi charges money - If you want sims to paid for the bus

✩ The items for the mod would be located in the vehicles tab ✩

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✩Issue✩

**You could still use the taxi, but I would recommend sticking to one transportation for your sims when traveling, since the bus use the same coding system as the taxi.***

Ex: You select taxi going to the community lot, leave on the bus and come back in a taxi if you select traveling with taxi first and vice versa ( if you like playing like that)

Next, The original bus is in the thumbnail when the bus arrives or going home

Ex:

✩ Trigger Warming ✩

Many of y'all know that unfortunately Chris Hatch could add very weird or uncomfortable features and recolors to his mods, as amazing as his work is, I have to call it out. Even though, this feature is not "weird" in itself, which is allowing sims to lounge on benches/couches, but the lounge feature is only available for teen-adult female sims when they're wearing a swimsuit

If you are a coder, you are welcome to edit this part of the mod ( lets me know and I will reupload it with your edit and give credit), even though this feature is not inherently problematic (I actually love the lounge features for lazy sims, I think this feature would be great for homeless sims or tried sims coming from work etc.…), but the intentions behind it is creepy and his note about it are creepy too, just warming people when downloading.

✩ Download: Simblr.cc ✩

[simtanico]

Is there any way you can make your Inquisition default eyes a little brighter? The whites of the sims eyes are very natural looking which in turn makes them look a little dull in game. Sorry if this is offensive, I don't mean for it to be. I love the eyes, they're perfect for me, aside from the dull look.

Don’t worry. I actually agree! Totally game to revisit them.

So hella erase all the stuff I put before because… they’re done!  I tweaked the files and here are you slightly brighter eye whites on the Inquisition defaults! (Also took the liberty of shading the eye whites just a little.)

If you’re one of the 1k downloaders of the previous version and wanna trade up, you’re in luck! You can download the new and improved defaults, and as with any DR, just replace them with these. :)

The eyes have the cute name ‘DAIdefault2.package’ so they can be told apart from their predecessors 

Download @ SFS | Mirror

If you use these eyes I’d love to see them on your sims! Use the tag #simtanico ;)

[siknoy336]

Vehicle Maintenance 2.0

@teaaddictyt and I are back again with another (HUGE) update that changes basically everything. It is recommended to delete vehicle maintenance 1.2 and start from scratch here since here have been lots of fixes, changes, and additions.

Fixes / Updates / Improvements:

Some files have been renamed for better organization (Me)

Fixed motor oil's category, the "Function - Init" wasn't setting it properly (Tea)

Fixed & Updated Code for Maintenance Checks and Decay. Added new checks and organized (Me)

Fixed animation strings for the fuel pump, bhavs were calling on the wrong animations (Me)

Fixed a coding mistake in the "add fuel from jerry can" interaction, this is working now (Me)

Updated all objects "keep buying" when holding shift in buy mode (Tea)

Updated the parking block object footprint and reduced to one OBJD (Tea)

Recategorized Dee's parking meter to driveway category to match with parking block (Tea)

Updated deviance interactions (Steal battery, Slash Tire, Siphon Fuel) available to any sim who meets criteria: Sims in criminal career or with evil trait, now uses "Easy Inventory Check", added availability for sims with <= 2 nice personality points, removed limitation on family members being deviant on family car and replaced with relationship checks (Tea & I)

Updated the quality of oil depend on sim's mechanical skill during an at home oil change (Tea)

Added motive changes for Deviant interactions, depending on niceness personality points and/or traits (Tea)

Added maintenance interactions edited to check 1) is it a community lot? 2) is it a business lot? 3) is it a service station? 4) am I staff / family / employee? (Tea)

Added motives gain & loss for vehicle maintenance will differ slightly if sim has "Vehicle Enthusiast" trait or not (Tea)

Merged Interactions into one and removed unnecessary/bugged code, saving space and instance numbers (Me)

New BCONS! Maintenance is now tunable, as well as all maintenance objects in their individual files (Me)

New motor oil mesh and texture (Me)

New animation for the "Add fuel from jerry can" interaction (Me)

New animation for the "Change Oil" Interaction (Me)

Updated Fuel Pumps, Each pump had been split in half to allow access on both sides (meaning a double-sided pump is now two tiled) (Me)

Updated Tires, you now have 4 separate tires to deal with (Me)

Updated CAPS to check if the driveway is empty before linking to it, fixing problems with new updates (Me)

Updated "Check Fuel Gauge" interaction. Sims no longer need to be sitting in the car to check the fuel level (Me)

Updated Tire meshes and textures (Extracted from DeeDee's Tire Pile) Two versions, one with a rim and one without, all three of these objects can exist in your downloads folder simultaneously (Me)

Updated Car Wash mesh, slightly moved over to accommodate additions (Me)

Maintenance interactions are now available if the object is on the lot or in sims inventory (Tea & I)

New custom semiglobal dialog strings. This will help avoid conflict with other mods, as well as having nicer, neater code (Tea & I)

The "Go To Casino" addon/interaction has been removed since I stumbled upon These

Additions:

Edited all driveways with a new routing slot, this should make working on engine look more realistic (Tea)

Storage Tire Rack. Store Tires @ Home / OFB Tire Rack. Sims can now buy/sell tires on business lots (Tea & I)

Added new code parking blocks and parking meters to spawn in and out cars every so often (random intervals) to simulate cars arriving and leaving the lot. This means all parking meters and parking blocks will now try to find an empty, unused driveway to "link to" Intervals are shorter on a "servo" lot, longer on any other lot (uses Mog's original code). These spawned in cars have a new limited tree table with maintenance & deviant options only, along with having a 50% chance of having an alarm installed (Tea)

Added & edited a new modded object: Engine Hoist by Oce / Blue Heaven Sims. This object can spawn in cars needing maintenance so a sim can work on the car and be paid for a service. They are paid $50 x their mechanical skill (Tea)

Added New Feature - Engine. Driving a vehicle with low oil and/or fuel will decrease the condition of the vehicles engine, which can lead to engine failure (Me)

Added new modded objects: Fuel Maintenance Hole, Fuel Maintenance System. The Maintenance Hole will restock nearby fuel pumps. When empty, owners and employees unlock the interaction "Order Fuel Delivery" on the Fuel Maintenance System. I did it this way, so each pump doesn't have to be restocked individually. It's also more realistic in my experience from working at a gas station. Fuel price is based on the BCON in the main vehicle maintenance file, the "set price" interaction will go off of that and do maths :) (Me)

New Compatibility Patches (Tea & I)

Vehicle Maintenance & Taxi's Charge Money

Burglars And Alarms & Visit Other Sims

Taxi's Charge Money & Visit Other Sims

Institution Sign & Visit Other Sims

Added Fuel/Car Wash Simulations (With Traits). Sims from the neighborhood who own a car and have a driver's license will now arrive under conditions (spawn in if their schedule is cleared, with weather checks and Traits: Hydrophobic, Loves The Rain, Loves The Cold, Night Owl) at gas stations to get a random amount of fuel or wash their vehicle, which is paid to the business, but not actually taken from the sim. Passengers can spawn in if their schedule is cleared and they meet various criteria: spouses, children, friends, along with weather checks and traits (Hydrophobic, loves the rain, loves the cold, night owl, loner, social butterfly, family oriented). Basically, we made actual functional gas stations/car washes. Yes, you read that correctly! :)))) (You can ban sims with visitor blocker) When recoloring a vehicle after a sim takes ownership, you can click the "Update Vehicle Token" which will update the token to be the correct color for when they spawn in (Tea & I)

Known Issues:

during fuel/car wash simulations, some vehicles will not let sims snap to slots. to combat this, they just disappear and leave until I can figure out a better solution (slots will be the death us)

Almost every vehicle has a different length, so animations for getting to the hood can be goofy, or spot on! like i said, the slots will take us out. some pics for comparison (i stole these from Tea lol):

The OFB tire rack gives back the business a small percentage of the tires price, instead of a larger amount and I don't know how to combat this (if anyone wants to help, OFB code is a nightmare lol)

Requirements:

The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection OR Disc Version, All Expansions & Stuff Packs (Either recommended)

HB_easyInventoryCheck

FireFlower_EasyLotCheck

MT_MaxisCategoriesBCONOverride

maxis-ownable-cars-Mog-20090327

Siknoy336_EasyObjChecksAndGrabs

Installation:

All wanted files go into This PC > Documents > The Sims 2 > Downloads This is designed to be as compatible as possible with all other car mods. You can choose which ones you want to have, just make sure to load them before any vehicle maintenance content. If you were playing with all car mods (that I know of) the setup would look something like this:

DOWNLOAD: SFS

Happy Simming :)