There are so many awesome book defaults out there, but there are a few Maxis textures I love dearly and don't want to replace, so here is my spin on a default!
It's a mix of textures by episims, isimchi and me + my edited maxis textures. Episims' and isimchi's textures are awesome, but they were a bit too "clean" for my taste if that make sense? So I edited them slightly, I also fixed some small mistakes on Maxis' designs. My textures are 256x256. I also included a novel icon default.
Epi_MoreBookCovers_Mod.package is not included but required, otherwise you won't see all of the books in-game. If you have any other book/novel icon defaults, you need to remove them before using mine. As usual, compressed and no mipmaps. Let me know if I messed up anywhere :-)
DOWNLOAD: SFS
Credits: @episims, @isimchi (and everyone they credited!), @decat2 for their extracted ts3 book textures, fantasyrogue, JJ Harrison for the adventure time art, uberdomme for their ailen sim, treeag for the book texture, freepik/unknown artist(?), Cynthia Williams, Rio Sabda and lasty Maxis.
Questionable clear swatch + Maxis original + some more ramblings by yours truly under the cut:
Cooking: what can I say, I was speechless. I don't remember it being THAT bad wtf.
Drama: I fixed some small mistakes on Maxis texture, in-game it would cut off on the left and the text on the ridge (is it called that??) wasn't centered. I didn't touch the UV-mapping, I fixed everything in the texture.
Fantasy: not quite sure I'm 100% happy with them, but eh. I love Howl's moving castle (both the movie and the book), he was my first crush when I was a child (omg I was obsessed with him) the original poster didn't make a nice cover unfortunately, but Rio Sabda's and Cynthia William's made a very pretty combo I think!
Kids: YES I add Sunny whenever I can haha. I think his pink/heart outfit kind of fit good here. He's not a monster though<3 and adventure time!!!! I loved that cartoon when I was a child/teenager but I never watched all of the seasons. Some months ago I decided to watch it again, in order. I'm currently on S6 and obsessed!!! I love it so so much. I want that vinyl set so bad...
Mystery: I decided to keep Maxis pages on them (1 + 3), since they are a bit "older-looking". It didn't feel right using new, fresh pages for them. I'm also not sure if I'm 100% happy with the mystery books, it feels a bit repetetive (1+2) and then the third.. has flowers lol?? But I thought it could be, a more.. neutral? Mystery? Idk. I might edit them in the future.
Romance: it was very fun to edit Maxis' original texture. I had some kind of teenage-romance book when I was young who looked nearly identical to my second texture hahaha (I don't think that book was gay though, but mine is!!!). I got kind of obsessed with those sims, I made them just for this but I might actually play with them later on. The last texture is actually from a ts3 book texture, but I edited it (quite a lot). One thing I've learned from this is that I shouldn't take up a career in book design.
here's a bunch of default face templates. all the extra info + dl link is down there ⬇
i tried avoiding same faced-ness as much as i could while putting these together, but to be double sure i also included some sims by other creators i asked permission 500 years ago (it took me A BIT longer than expected)
the male base sim for 16/pat and female base sim for 25/maggie & 26/bree are by tvickiesims, 20/rhiannon is by platinumaspiration, 21/witches is by serabiet, 18/maxxx is by yakumtsaki and 23/lyta is by esotheria!
here's a folder with all the images you're seeing up there so you can properly zoom in! the defaults they are depicted with are my woohoo on the beach redux skin, mostly pupa eyes, and platasps brow pack!
here you can see them without cc:
🚨 BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD make sure you have archfixes to unbork the chronically borked templates! additionally, you can unhide the elf template with this mod. 🚨
that should be all i think? let's get to the actual download
MERGED / UNMERGED
for the database:
(and making non-defaults as per my and every involved creator's tou is ofc permitted! 🌸)
I made several default replacements for EF. I also made AFtoEF meshes. You can download them as CC. More information is under the cut. I hope you won't be overwhelmed by all this info :)))))) if you have questions feel free to ask
DOWNLOAD SFS
1. efbodysweatervest & efbodynanny
efbodysweatervest & efbodynanny are replaced with 4t2 Sweater Skirt Half-Tuck by @applewatersugar
you can choose: download both as one package or download only one
I made a new mesh for EF. I changed mostly breast area, but didn't change hips and stomach area a lot bacause it's already ok for elders
You can download mesh and repo recolors (you need adult recolors)
I left nanny hidden in CAS but you can easily make it unhidden in YaPE. Also you can use YaPE to make this outfit be categorized as outerwear
2. efbodydresslong
efbodydresslong is replaced with dressmosaic recolors by @pforestsims
@goatskickin has already made EF mesh but I made a lot of edits so my mesh is new
I used pforest's edited shoes + I did handswap to return bangle
I edited main morph and used maxis dress long mesh as reference so my mesh is thinner
I created new fat morph
you can download mesh + repo recolors (pforest) + 3 standalone recolors from goatskickin's post (original maxis recolor is included)
pay attention that pforest's adult recolors also available for elders so you need to edit property sets to avoid duplicates
3. efbodysilkjacket
efbodysilkjacket is replaced with layerjeans by @platinumaspiration + shirt recolors by @kaluxsims
I created new EF mesh. I mostly edited the breast area, but made fewer changes to the stomach and hips because I didn't like how the shirt looked with maxis match elder morph
3/4 recolors are by me. I just combined shirt recolors by kaluxsims with jeans recolors by platinumaspiration
you can download mesh and these 4 recolors as standalone
4. efbodytracksuit
efbodytracksuit is replaced with athletic tracksuit by @rented-space
I used the same default by ello-sims for a long time. But her replacement is merged with sweats so I created new one
I made new salmon recolor
My default also replaces suits hidden in CAS
I made tiny texture edits: yellow suit's zip was red, blue suit's zip was blue but I wanted zip to be zip (silver?) color + I removed blue color from pinkblue recolor
5. efbodysweats
efbodysweats is replaced with powerjogger by @platinumaspiration + EF mesh by @sgthebee + one recolor by @moglikes
categorized as everyday and athletic
P.S. I included only repo recolors of sweater skirt by applewatersugar half tuck and dress mosaic by pforest-sims but you can make it standalone by Repository Wizard
HOORAH! 🥳Finally I can share with you guys! There's a lot to get through here so some notes beforehand.
There are way, way too many hairs to list and people to credit. See everything that's included and who all deserves credit in the spreadsheet I made for this project!
Not every hair is replaced! I don't know much about hidden clone hairs, for example. Some of them are replaced if the default I used as a base included them but most probably are not.
I chose to hide a bunch of the OFB hats and whatnot when I was starting to get burnt out of this project. See what hairs I've hidden on the hiders tab of the spreadsheet. Hiders are not included, but there's a link to them.
There's a few defaults I'm using from loosiap, rudhira and seabens. They are not included, see those in the defaults by others tab of the spreadsheet.
I use a bunch of no/random npc hair mods so not all npc hairs are replaced. See those in the no/random npc tab of the spreadsheet.
I use custom turn ons that change the one for hats so a lot of the hat hairs are replaced with non-hat hairs. I think most of the flags in simpe are changed to non-hat too but not positive - some might still be hat flagged.
Defaults where all I did was change the texture that didn't contain extra ages include them in a separate file because I didn't want to add them to the main file and mess anything up. Defaults done by me have them included in the main file.
Nearly every default has extra ages, but a few do not.
The Notes column of the spreadsheet mostly contains notes I wrote for myself regarding the custom versions of hairs I retextured (which will all be uploaded) but some of them do apply to the default too. I'm so brain fried though so I'm leaving it in the sheet. You can generally ignore - or read them if you want!
Defaults are in their own folders, and include a pic of the hair they're replacing and a pic of what they're replaced with...if the kind people on the default database are bored.
I'd never made a default replacement for hair before this so if any of these are not made in the best, most optimal way, apologies. I was learning as I went!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reach out if you notice any wonkiness. This was worked on over 3 of the most stressful months of my life so I'd not be surprised if I screwed anything up. Also if I forgot to mention anything in this post that you'd like to know, don't hesitate to ask that too!
👒Moyo's Afterglow Default Project download on SimFileShare
Hi everyone, I have a couple of random medieval-themed gifts to share tonight ❤️
Firstly, my custom loading screen that I made for my Medieval Install from a picture of the Village Green area in my MCC, Midiville. Since playing on Linux makes it super duper easy to have multiple installs of the same game, I now have one devoted to Medieval, and made this my loading screen. So if anyone else would like this, it needs to go into (vary this per your game install on your system) Program Files (x86) / The Sims 2 / Double Deluxe / Base / TS Data / Res / UI - essentially, just your base game UI folder!
Download here!
Next, per a request I had from @elenwewy and with permission from @lordcrumps, I am uploading to share the dirt road defaults and lush terrain that the ever wonderful Alex made for me and my hood quite a while back, which never got uploaded anywhere officially. When I made my dark rural lanes set, they were made with the texture of these roads.
Because they're made by Alex they are of course super high quality and look awesome in game,
come with a road overlay rug with multiple variations of road texture,
and of course come with a matching terrain paint. There is also a matching terrain paint for the lush terrain, and also a lighter dirt texture that matches very well with the roads -
I've been using these for years, completely love them!
In terms of winter textures, Alex and I fiddled around quite a LOT trying to make sure that they have proper textures on lot view when there is snow accumulation. What we discovered is that certain mods that impact this have to be loaded together in a particular order for the roads to appear correctly, like so -
And not revert back to the default maxis road.
Included in my download is the Road Transparency Fix, which should be loaded first. If you have any kind of shader fixes, they must also load before the roads, and then if you have SimNopke's SkyFix, that must load AFTER the road defaults, for these winter textures to appear correctly. Here's a picture of the load order in my folder which works:
I have NOT included any shader fixes or SimNopke's SkyFix in my download, but if you have those mods, I would suggest loading them as so. (Hint, this works for any road default replacements I have tried so far!)
So if you'd like these roads & terrain paints, you can
@deedee-sims 4t2 SP32 Dress Silk Long edit as afbodydresslonghug DR
in my opinion, this edit by @deedee-sims is the perfect balance between simple to match the original dress, but regal enough to fit a queen of fairies. as a bonus, it also has a matching palette with the original.
i did take the liberty to use the light purple swatch for titania, rather than the red it is designated as in game. first because it's the color most people use for her to match her makeup, and second of all... ea doesn't have the same definition of red as me.
download link under the cut
✧˖° credits : minicule for the original conversion, deedee-sims for the edit
✦ full-body outfit for af
✦ everyday and formal
✦ includes seven swatches out of the original fifteen (titania's is disabled for random)
umbodysloppysuit (TM-EM) replaced with @pforestsims Brad M suit and age conversions by @deedee-sims. Suits are everyday and formal, jeans are everyday only. Mesh is 7K polys.
