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Genshin impact skies set

These clouds are inspired by Genshin Inpact and created by me. I really wanted to post this for #loscheday But I didn’t have time :(

In any case, you can consider this my small gift for the past holiday.

This is a set of 7 gradients and 6 clouds. Clouds are ANIMATED!!! (I'll make a non-animated version later, I promise)

Variations of clouds:

Variations of gradients:

No extra manipulation is needed, just select the clouds and gradient you want and place them the same way you install skyboxes in your neighborhood!

As always, a big thank you to @lowedeus for your amazing skyboxes and for helping create this set <3

All files are compressed

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10th LoscheDay is here!

Hello, my followers and inspired dawnloaders! I know it’s been a while. The real life kinda got in the way. Thanks for staying with me!

10 years ago I created this blog to share worldwide my projects. My purposes are to integrate elements of european culture into The Sims 2, to enchance the neighborhood decoraing with recognizable city environment, and to explore and improve the game itself. This hobby has now allowed me to start practicing as a 3D artist, and I believe I found my true passion in it.

So, today I want to tell you about life changes I’m going through, share the gifts with you, and also ask you for help - all about it under the cut:

The Life Changes

You know I’m not very active last years, and this simblr stays without any updated for a long time. There were reasons for this. In 2022 I had to leave my home and moved to another country. Don’t worry, I’m fine and well. I starts my new life, at least, in a quiet place.

Here is a photo of me and my friend @ivanautumnfield​​ in Astana, Kazakhstan:

And now it’s time to move forward! 

The Request for help

UPD: Thank you all for your assistance!

If you want to help me, you can support me at Patreon or Ko-fi ☕ 

The LoscheDay Gifts

I want to thank everyone for the help and attention to my work, it really spurs me on to keep going. As a gift, I want to share with you some content that are ready to be used in the game, but haven't been published yet for one reason or another. All of the links and info avalible in my new Patreon page.

Not all of my (un)published projects are described at that page at this moment, new posts will be publishing time to time in Patreon’s feed, also a brand new cc files will be appearing in SFS folder. Please, subscribe and stay tuned!

I emphasize that everything I create for The Sims 2 will still be available for free, I am not planning on hiding behind a paywall, this is just if you would like to support me through this challenging time.

Thank you!

Enjoy!

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This supposed to be my contribution to the Loscheday celebration.

I wanted to make something special yet useful. Yet unannounced. Some kind of surprise.

We are still in July so here it is! A set of various road signs. It’s very basic, and you’ll definitely miss some essential signs there, but you can always recolor/clone any of those to add the ones you actually need.

All signs are available under ‘Miscellaneous’ and can be placed everywhere. 

What’s inside:

Speed limit signs 30, 50, 70, 90

Stop sign

Give way sign

Priority sign

No entry sign

No overtaking sign

Llama crossing sign

End of special limit sign

Picnic area sign

Food ahead sign

Distances to cities sign

Town entrance sign

Town exit sign

Single town distance left direction sign

Single town distance right direction sign

Multiple towns distance left direction sign

Multiple towns distance right direction sign

To downtown left direction sign

To downtown right direction sign

Installation: Put all the folders from archive into your ‘Downloads’ folder. You are free to delete any piece you don’t need but it is important to always keep *TEXTURES.package file. There are no master files, all pieces are slaved to ‘textures’ package files.

If case of any conflicts, glitches or any other kind of problem with this set, feel free to PM me here on tumblr! DOWNLOAD (SFS) Enjoy! P.S. Also feel free to clone, recolour or make default replacements for this set! Share love, give credit, be happy. Piece! 

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“LoscheDay” Gifts

These days we are celebrating a very special date... you know! 

When I tried to build a very special shirine, I discovered a very annouysng bug of a base game table lamp, that I’d plan to use in the unusual way (as outdoor ground light). There was a weird shadow, squared and snapable. 

This is unacceptable!!! So, I made a fix:

Base Game Lamps shadow and bounding mesh fixes

There are not just a lamp, but three bg lamps that have such issues:

- Shoji Table Lantern 

- GentleGlow Table Lamp

- Lunatech Spare Fixture in "Grass"

The shadow issues are caused by the error in node settings (GMND - tsNoShadow block - Items in SimPE). The subsets for the shadow and the lightglow textures have the wrong values, that's why the lamps' outdoor shadows are shaped as squares. Perhaps these lamps are rarely used outdoors, but they could.

The grabability of objects is moderated by the boundig mesh tunings. In the game you can touch/snap the objects by the “hand”, and sensetive area for it is setted by 3d data in the bounding mesh control (GMDC -> Mesh section in SimPE). The bounding meshes of  these lamps include the redundant parts (the shadow subset). Well.. it’s annoyng. So in this part the fixes are the same as in @simnopke​ "Paper Moon" Lamp Glow Fix. If you appreciate the benefits of the nopke’s fix, you will also find my fixes useful.

Conflicts: None that I know of. The mod will conflict with default replacement meshes of Shoji Table Lantern, GentleGlow Table Lamp, or Lunatech Spare Fixture in "Grass", and GMND tuning mods for them (like CEP, but there is no need for it).

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“LoscheDay” Gifts - 4th of July

Today we are celebrating a very special date: the beginning of Lowede (Loschede, Лощеде) itself!

One day a fellow simmer sent a mysterious post saying (and I translate it in the best way possible): “Where can I dAwnload clothes, accessories and all that lowede?”. And the truth is - nobody knew what exactly “lowede” was. Not even the person who wrote it. We spent so much time trying to understand what it is… until we decided: whatever that is - it was born, and it has it’s right to live. Time flew by and Lowede kept growing in it’s meaning. Right now it has so much impact that it became a cult… of a sort. The Jacoban religion branch? The Peterans? Nonsense! My sims worship Lowede.

Lowede was born exactly 14 years ago. That’s why I share these gifts with all of you!

Mesopotamian Lamassu statue

Deco -> Sculpt. Cost: 5000§ Polycount: 2676 polys + lod90 (855); In 2 colors, LOD-model colors are linked properly to each recolour + custom indoor shadows, slot for table lamps and small deco; Normal map bump, not compressed.

Credits: previously converted to TS4 by jennisims

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Enjoy!

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10th Anniversary LoscheDay Gift - part 1

THE LIGHTS OF RUSSIA

LIT UP SOVIET HOOD DECO BUILDINGS (REDUX of “SHITSVILLE AESTHETIC” SET).

Every July we celebrate a very special date: the beginning of ЛОЩЕДЕ (Loschede, Lowede) itself!

Loschede was born on July 4, 2008 Exactly 10 years ago! That’s why we share these gifts!

This set named after a soviet film Свет над Россией (1947) about the electrification plan for Russia. The title refers to the book by H. G. Wells “Russia in the Shadows” ‘You see Russia in the shadows,’ Lenin replied, ‘and we see the lights of Russia’

Required Nightlife EP; uses default NL shader, so criquette’s Better Nightlife Mod is not necessary.

Conflicts: please, remove the old version of these buildings before, otherwise they will conflict

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BONUS: some lost&found hood deсo from “Man of Prey”

Credits: - Apeiron (Russian game development studio) for models and textures from Man Of Prey - @criquette-was-here​ for inspiration and awesome reference for night windows texture - Lowede

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Loscheday is coming and I want to celebrate it with this gift! This is an amphibian version of the small plane from my old Regional Airport Set on MTS. Something I really wanted to do for years, literally. 

The plane is called ‘Thessna Amphi’ and it comes in four variations:

Available under ‘Misc’ and can be placed only on water. Installation: Put all the files from archive into your ‘Downloads’ folder.  Or choose only those planes you really need. Each plane has it’s own texture so it’s easy to choose how to use it. It’s also easy to clone and recolor.

If case of any conflicts, glitches or any other kind of problem with this set, feel free to PM me here on tumblr!

DOWNLOAD (SFS)

Enjoy! P.S. Also feel free to clone, recolour or make default replacements for this set! Share love, give credit, be happy. Piece!