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It’s been well over a year since NoBlu v1 came out and I figured it was time for an update!

With v2, the intensity of the in-game lights don’t change like it did with v1. I only focused on getting rid of the blue tint in dark lighting conditions. 

Maxis has “fixed” the arch lighting bug (wherein the light spill was ridiculously high and made rooms brighter than they’re supposed to) within their lighting files, so NoBlu v2 includes this fix. 

There are three variations to pick from: 

Gameplay (Basically the default Maxis lighting without the blue tint)

Dark

Darkest

Pick ONE only. You’ll need to delete the old NoBlu if you have it in your mods folder. I recommend checking out @lotharihoe‘s OOTD lighting mod if you prefer something more Sims 2-esque.

You will also need to download NoGlo v2 with this mod. If you don’t have NoGlo, your Sims will glow in the dark. (Unless you want that)

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⬇️ NoGlo v2

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I DOWNLOADED MY FIRST MOD AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

So, I was getting really tired of how un-vibrant Sims 4 is. I didn’t really notice it/care at first, but once Sage was born I found myself constantly fighting the lighting in the game and setting up temporary lamps everywhere when I took screenshots just because of how un-flattering the Sims 4 lighting is for sims of color. (I mean I’ve had mixed race couples since gen 1 but the focus was always on the founder/heir so if their partner wasn’t as well lit up as they were I didn’t pay much attention to it, but Sage is the first heir to actually have darker skin genetics passed down to him ‘cuz apparently in sims world recessive and dominant genetic traits are reversed... or at least in this family they are rip) 

But anyways, I don’t want to spend time editing my screenshots so I just got a lighting mod for the game. OwO;; 

I just want to make a post now and tag it with wcif because I really don’t download much and if I ever do get cc in addition to this I’ll just post and wcif tag that too so anyone that’s curious can easily see what I’ve got quickly~ 

I also want to add that I’m going to go very in-depth about the installing process because I am not tech-savvy at all and it took me a whole evening to figure all of this out, so if anyone else is in the same boat as me I hope this helps! XD 

Also before I start explaining things I just want to add that before you start changing things, ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR GAME!! Make a copy of The Sims 4 folder that’s in your documents, AND the one that’s in your Origin Games folder that’s on your C drive (or wherever you installed Sims 4). 

First I downloaded NoBlu and NoGlo 

The links to the page their downloads are located along with information from the creator are right there in that title~ 

Those two mods work together, so I suggest getting them both! The NoBlu removes the blue tint that shows up at night time and indoors too I think, and if I understand things correctly the NoGlo removes that blue tint from your sims themselves so they don’t look blue-ish in contrast to the rest of the world that’s now been stripped of that blue tint. 

Like, the point of the blue tint that’s in the game is to make it so you can see things better in the dark, but from what I can tell it also makes day time seem darker too at certain times of the day. So getting rid of this will make night time darker if no lights are around, but I think it makes day time brighter and the lights at night time is brighter too and your sims just react more naturally to lighting~ 

When downloading NoBlu, just pick one of those three files that are there. I picked NoBluLightingReplacement.package 

For NoGlo, there’s two files there, and I downloaded both of them. They’re the NoGloRemover and the EyeSpecularRemover 

NoGlo and EyeSpecularRemover are applied to each sim in cas just like cc, so I’m not sure if I’ll bother using them. But I haven’t had this NoBlu lighting mod for very long so if I end up noticing my sims glowing in the dark with a blueish light then I’ll probably bother to put that on everyone. Maybe. 

These two mods are really easy to download! It’s just like downloading CC, just get the file and put it in Documents -> Electronic Arts -> The Sims 4 -> Mods 

Then I got ReShade 

This mod took me quite a while to figure out... (I’m just sort of challenged when it comes to things like this which is why I don’t use much mods/cc in the first place)  😓 

So this is a program that you can install into a lot of different games, it’s not made just for sims 4, but it works really well on sims 4! The website to download this is https://reshade.me/ 

Additionally, THIS VIDEO is the most helpful tutorial for installing it that I could find (imo). I also want to add to always read the README text files that come with mods when you download them... I’m sure you probably already do that but I’m an impatient derp that couldn’t figure out some things until I read the readme...  >.>;; 

Also, I had an issue when installing ReShade, and I’m just gonna explain everything I went through in case anyone else is having a hard time too, ‘cuz it took me quite a while to find the info. I needed. I also want to add that I use windows 8.1 (unfortunately that’s the only operating system that’s compatible with my laptop, so no windows 10 or 7 for me, I already tried, rip) so the issue I had could of been caused by 8.1′s wonkyness. But I don’t know for sure. 

After it asked me if I want to download a collection of standard effects, and I clicked yes, it said it failed. The program was properly installed into Sims 4, but I had no effects or textures (which is the whole point of getting this...) 

But! This can be fixed by downloading the effects manually and putting them into your bin folder yourself. THIS FORUM on ReShade’s website has this answer and a link to the download for the effects and textures. The very first answer under the OP’s question is the one with the download~ I’m very thankful to that helpful person. Also, I’m just linking the forum instead of the responder’s link itself b/c once you click on their link it downloads the file. It’s not a link to a file share or anything, it’s just the direct download. The ReShade website probably has these up for download on their website somewhere too... But I’m trash at navigating websites that I’m not used to so I have no idea where... But I would assume it’s there somewhere... 

After you have that file, slap it into your sims 4′s bin folder (tutorial I linked before shows where that is). Now, this alone is not all that you need to do. Now that it’s in the file, you need to go into the game and open the ReShade interface. Then you go over to settings and you need to copy paste the path for the program to find the effects and textures. There’s two separate boxes, one for effects and one for textures. 

To do this, go into the shaders folder that’s in your reshade shaders’ folder in your sims 4′s bin folder. Then in the bar at the top of your file’s window that shows all the files you’ve gone into, click on it and copy it. Then tab back to your sims 4 game and paste that info into ReShade’s effects box. Then go into your textures file and do the same things for the textures box in ReShade. 

When you paste them into the ReShade interface they should look something like this: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin\reshade-shaders\Shaders 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin\reshade-shaders\Textures 

Of course, if you didn’t install this on your C drive it might be a bit different, but you need to find that from wherever you installed Sims 4. 

Once you’ve done all that the issue should be fixed and it’ll now load up all 60 effects and textures that you’ve downloaded every time you start up Sims 4 or tab back into your game after alt tabbing out!!!!! ................. 

So, hooray for it working properly now, BUT GOODNESS DOES THIS ANNOY ME. So like. If you’re going to download a preset from someone else (youtube tutorial I linked already shows how to do that) then I suggest keeping all the files you’ve downloaded. Especially if you’re switching between multiple presets for different occasions. There’s lots of ReShade presets all over tumblr, btw. So have fun looking them up if that’s what you want to do! 

But I’m not doing that. I don’t need all of this. It’s giving me a lag for no reason. SO I DELETED A WHOLE BUNCH OF EFFECTS ‘CUZ FUQ THIS LOADING TIME. 

Be careful not to delete anything important, though. In the shaders folder is the only folder I deleted anything inside of. Anything that was installed in the reshade-shaders folder I left alone. But inside the shaders or textures folder that’s inside of that reshade-shaders folder should be fine to delete things. BUT DON’T DELETE FILES THAT IT NEEDS TO RUN~ 

Anything that is a .fhx file you need to keep. Anything that is a .fx file is simply the effect itself and is safe to delete. I didn’t delete anything in my textures folder because when I downloaded the whole thing from the forum the textures folder didn’t have much in it. This might be different if you were able to install correctly in the first place. 

Anyways! The files I ended up keeping were all the .fhx files and the following effects: Colorfulness.fx, Vibrance.fx, and DPX.fx 

Colorfulness and Vibrance increase the saturation and vibrancy of your game and DPX is one that overall birghtens everything (I think). There’s lots of other effects that do the same things as these but those three are my favorites. Well, I don’t use DPX, it makes it a bit too bright for my eyes, but I decided to keep that one because whenever I’m able to get Seasons, if rainy/snowy days make the game seem way too dark I might want to enable DPX just for those days. 

But for normal sunny days, just checking Colorfulness and Vibrance is enough for me~ I didn’t even mess with the sliders on how much you want it to effect the game because I don’t want to deal with those kind of advanced settings. I just pushed the check mark box on those two and done! 

Now that I only have 3 effects and then the few textures that I never use but aren’t hurting anything by being there, it doesn’t even have a loading time to get ReShade to run properly when starting up my Sims 4 or tabbing back into it. ReShade is just ready to go right away! 

So if you’re wanting to brighten up your game, but have a slower computer and most lighting mods and/or ReShade being the way it normally is lags your game too much, you could consider doing what I did!  :D 

Also, with ReShade, you need to change the way you take screenshots now. Doing it with the C button just takes a picture of your naked game, not the ReShade effects. 

So, ReShade’s default hotkey for taking screenshots is Prt Scrn, so you can use that button now or you can change which button you want to take screenshots in the settings tab of ReShade’s interface. But the point is just pushing C doesn’t capture the ReShade effects so you’ll need a different button! 

Also! In ReShade’s settings tab, you need to change the screenshot format if you want to upload your ReShade screenies to tumblr! Its default is set to Bitmap, which tumblr doesn’t support, so change it so it saves as a PNG file instead!!! 

You can also change the path for where it’s going to drop your screenshots off at. The default is set to Sims 4′s bin folder, so if you want it to drop off screenshots in a different folder that’s dedicated to just screenshots and doesn’t have your game’s other important things in it, you’ll need to change the path for that (it’s the same as when you changed the path for it to find the effects and textures, just copy paste where you want it to go). 

Keep in mind that if you move the folder you told ReShade to dump its screenshots at then you’ll need to update the path in ReShade’s interface or it won’t be able to find the folder and you won’t get your screenies~ 

So yea! That’s all the info. I have!! I hope this helps someone that wants to use ReShade but has been confused about it like I was!! 😂 

Also sorry if my explaining things is long and confusing. This is just how thoughts flow in my brain so.. um... yea.  >.>; 

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Lei e i suoi occhi!

Lui: Hey ma che bei occhi Blu che hai!

Lei: Blu!? Guarda che sono Verdi!

Lui: Aspetta, io li vedo blu...

Lei: No, tu li devi vedere con questa inclinazione, perché il punto luce li rende blu, ma in realtà sono verdi, poi quando c'è poca luce noti un verde giallino, durante l'estate un verde più acceso....

Lui: anche un bel culo o anche quello ha una storia!?

[girlsonboard]

MINEIRA AO MAR

As remadas saíram das praias para conhecerem águas mais doces e calmas. Além das barbas e dos bigodes, o esporte vem reunindo muita mulherada, meditação e paixão pelo esporte.

Nos mares, represas e rios o Stand Up Paddle conquista os brasileiros cada de vez mais. A prática consiste em remar sob uma prancha com o suporte de um remo em mãos.

Um grande destaque feminino nas competições da modalidade é a mineirinha Bianca Guimarães, conhecida como Bibi, começou a remar na Lagoa dos Ingleses, em 2011.

Em apenas um ano de prática, conquistou o primeiro lugar na prova da Australian Gold Sup Cup em 2012.

Além de estar se destacando nas remadas, é percussora na modalidade inovadora que reúne a alta performance da Yoga com o equilíbrio do Stand Up, o SupYoga.

Existem muitos praticantes de Sup em Belo Horizonte?

Sim, o número de pranchas para alugar para aulas de SUP tem crescido a cada mês. O número de adeptos aumenta a cada dia. Temos um grupo de amigos de SUP, sócios dos três clubes da Lagoa: Minas Tênis Clube Náutico, Iate Clube lagoa dos Ingleses e Serra da Moeda. Sempre tem os curiosos também! Aqueles que conhecem o esporte, a “vibe” do SUP e acabam voltando para um passeio na lagoa! 

Existem mais meninas praticam o esporte com você?

Claro. Existe um grupo de amigas que rema comigo.

Na Lagoa, são em torno de 10 meninas. Todas nós, temos nossa prancha de SUP e praticamos toda a semana na lagoa dos ingleses. Sem contar com as meninas que alugam as pranchas para fazer aulas de SUP.

Após ganhar no Australian Gold Stand Up Paddle Cup, você pretende competir no futuro? Quais são os próximos desafios?

Claro, foi o primeiro campeonato, comemorando um ano que comecei a praticar SUP em Belo Horizonte. O meu ouro foi o maior incentivo. Não esperava ganhar, mesmo porque o mar estava agitado e como pratico SUP em lagoa, tudo foi um desafio enorme para mim. Agora que fui campeã, quero participar de mundiais e muitos outros campeonatos pela frente. Meu próximo passo é conseguir patrocínios para poder competir sempre e motivar o SupYoga no Brasil.

Quantas vezes por semana você rema?

Stand Up Paddle é meu esporte preferido, Pratico até quatro vezes por semana. Nas férias, faço treinos ainda mais intensos.

O que Stand Up Paddle representa na sua vida? O que mudou desde que começou a remar?

Mudou não apenas meu corpo, mas a minha mente também.

Motivação, inspiração e dedicação. São estes fatores que a prática do Stand Up Paddle me proporcionou. Nada melhor do que andar sobre a água. Trabalhar o abdômen, as pernas e os braços, poder alongar-se e refrescar-se ao mesmo tempo!

A arte do Sup Yoga me proporciona boa saúde, consciência corporal, bem estar e autoestima! “GOOD VIBES! SUP VIBE!” 

Quais são os atletas você admira?

Kelly Slater, Maria Sharapova e Nicole Pacelli. Adoro também Karol Knopf do programa Secrets Spots, do Canal OFF.

Quais outros esportes que você pratica?

Pratico Sup Yoga, Yoga, Boxe e corro com meus cachorros durante a semana.

Como iniciou a prática da Yoga no Stand Up? Você conhece mais alguém que pratica?

Há dois anos, fui para Califórnia e conheci o Yoga Swing, mais conhecido aqui no Brasil como Fly Yoga! Comprei o Yoga Swing, tecido produzido em Bali e o coloquei em casa para praticar yoga.

Levei-o para Rio de Janeiro para fazer na praia. Os curiosos não paravam de perguntar e queriam ver que tipo de tecido era esse que proporcionava tantos alongamentos e trabalhava tão intensamente a arte corporal. É um show mesmo a cada movimento.

Meu interesse cresceu a cada dia pela Yoga, mais especificamente o Swasthya Yoga, que trabalha mais a força. 

Ao começar o Stand up, eu adaptei os exercícios, os movimentos e hoje pratico o Sup Yoga!

O interessante é refresca-se na lagoa depois de uma aula intensa de alongamentos e muito equilíbrio! Ambos yoga e Stand Up Paddle boarding são perfeitos para a construção de um melhor equilíbrio, coordenação, resistência e força do corpo.

Tenho ensinado as minhas amigas a sempre alongar e praticar o Sup Yoga.

Qual é a sua sugestão para as novas praticantes? Uma frase ou um pensamento para incentivar:

Para quem curte esporte ao ar livre, nada melhor do que exercitar-se em contato com a natureza, ao brilho do sol e no espelho d'água.

- Mente Sã corpo são! Consciência corporal para toda a vida! SUP FOREVER! SUP LOVE!

[girlsonboard]

Contagem Regressiva para a Copa Sebastianense de Slackline

Neste fim de semana acontece a primeira Copa Oficial de Slackline do Litoral Norte de São Paulo.

A cidade de São Sebastião, recebe durante dois dias de evento, mais de 60 atletas competindo sob fitas e executando manobras radicais. O evento está marcado para os dias 16 e 17 de Março. Para quem tiver interesse em participar, as inscrições são gratuitas e podem ser preenchidas no início do evento, previsto para as 09h00 da manhã. A Copa estará localizada na frente da pista de Skate, na Praça de Eventos de São Sebastião. Os atletas poderão competir na categoria Pro – Amador e Feminino, com premiação em dinheiro para as melhores performances da categoria mista.

Carolina Rangel é atleta profissional de Slackline e terá a missão de avaliar os competidores da Prova.

De acordo com Rangel, serão utilizadas as regras fundamentais do esporte, seguindo a regulamentação da federação mundial de slackline;

Porém o campeonato não acumulará pontos para o competidores presentes. Dos critérios avaliados, constarão: Dificuldade, técnica, diversidade, amplitude e apresentação.

A importância do evento é concretizar o esporte regionalmente e  futuramente com amplitude nacional.

O evento é patrocinado pela SKL slacklines, Universo Slackline e Prefeitura De São Sebastião.

Informações sobre o Evento:Noblu Sports – Marketing Esportivo Patrícia Campos - Mtb: 0067430 – 19 3295.8981 mí[email protected]