So, this was just uploaded an hour ago for the EA Investor Day. It does not fill me with a lot of confidence in the future of the franchise, especially since they are really going into the social media aspect.
it’s my birthday today and it’s made me realize that I had been playing the Sims series for two decades now. It’s wild. It doesn’t feel that long ago and yet there have been so many games/expansion packs released since then.
It makes me want to start up the Sims and play again. All my old hoods, custom content and (terrible) stories are long gone but it will be fun anyways.
Martine's Community Lots
These lots are seriously amazing, but finding the objects needed for them has consumed my entire free time for the last couple of weeks!
Hoping I can save some time for other people with this list, though, I'm not including individual links to ATS or the Store because there are objetcts from pretty much every set.
AroundTheSims (Including some patterns)
Store (Incluing sets under Holidays and Festivals)
Awesims Cornices
Hasting Build Set
Cyclonesue
London Arches
Antique Venetian Build Set (Library)
Ticket and Traffic Barriers
Changing Room (Gym)
Pipemania (Strip Club)
Washroom Wall Deco Set
Washroom Floor Deco Set
Washroom Doors
Garden Junk
Junkyard Fire and Trash (Strip Club)
Factory Doors
Fluorescent Lights
Chickenwire Fence and Gate (Ranch)
Children's Drawings (Library)
Eoraptor Skeleton (Art Gallery)
Ticket Window (Art Gallery)
Picture Light (Art Gallery)
Magna Modern Paintings (Art Gallery)
The Forgery Elite Painting (Art Gallery)
Mummified Cat (Art Gallery)
Specimen Plaque (Art Gallery)
Sebastian Tapestry (Art Gallery)
Hanging Bench (Ranch)
Exotic Pole (Strip Club)
Garbage Deco (Strip Club)
Tokyo Windows Part 1 and Part 2 (Karaoke Bar)
Wire Lantern Lamp Set (Karaoke Bar - Blue Anchor Cafe)
Comic Shop Set (Nerd Shop)
Iced Latte Glass (Diner)
Bioshock Bistro Food (Diner)
Laundry Posters (Laundromat)
Waiting Room
Hospital Set (Hospital)
Wheelchair (Hospital)
Vital Signs Posters (Hospital)
Glass Free Windows (Hospital - Library)
Mediaval Doll (Library)
Mad Gear Simlish Set (Library)
Oriental Rug (Library)
Antique Rug (Library)
Framed Book Covers (Library)
Ikea Set Cabinet (Library - Gym)
Insomnia Kitchen Cabinet (Gym)
CASTable Public Signs
Public Sign Door
New Gender Doors
Cafe Beverages
Lamba Cocktail 5
Wire Basket Endtable (Tattoo Studio)
Armchair (Salon)
Classic Collection Dressform 01 (Bridal Shop)
Classic Collection Beauty Pack (Bridal Shop)
ShoeBox and Hatboxes (Bridal Shop)
Ring with Box (Bridal Shop)
Empty Bookshelf (Bridal Shop)
Angel Fountain (Chapel)
Have in mind that many objects used are from different EPs and SPs, if you don't have all of them, they will be replaced with base game objects.
[TUTORIAL] Retexturing - Make your own Adjust Shine
Someone asked me how to change the Control Map. Now, most people use Awt's AS Photoshop Action, but currently the link is not working. So I'll explain here how the Control Map works and how to make your own Adjust Shine Control in 2 (or 3?) easy steps.
This won't teach you how to change the Diffuse, nor how to export and import images. You can google that.
WHAT YOU NEED:
Photoshop with DDS plugins.
Diffuse Map (aka the retexture)
So you're proud of yourself because somehow you managed to make the Diffuse, and all you have left now is the Control.
You export the Control Map to edit it and once you open it with Photoshop, you get this:
And you just wonder, how the hell do I edit this???
You're currently looking at the Layers, but you should be looking at the Channels tab. If you can't see it, go to Window > Channels.
The Control Map has 3 main channels, red, green, and blue (if you see the Alpha 1, leave it completely white).
The red channel is the roots of your hair, the green is the highlights/adjust shine, and the blue channel is the tips. In game we have a 4th channel which is the diffuse/base color, that would be the black color in your control.
We don't want to change the red and the blue channel because the original hair already has them. If you don't like them, though, you can change them, that's up to you. What you do need to change is the green channel because you have new textures with new shiny parts.
Now that you understand how the Control works, you need to open your Diffuse in Photoshop to create the highlights. Make sure this one is completely black and white. Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.
The next step is to emphasize the light zones. Image > Adjustments > Levels.
Change the 0 from the box (marked in blue) to around 180, and press Ok.
Brightness now is a little bit too much so we're going to tone it down. Image > Adjustments > Match Color. Change the Luminance to 20, and press Ok.
Now press Control + A to select the whole layer, and Control + C to copy the layer. This is your green channel. Pretty easy, right?
Go back to your Control Map and to the Channels tab. Select the green channel and press Control + V to paste the new highlights.
And it's done! Make sure all the channels are visible before you save the control as .DDS (DXT5) and import it back to your project.
A quick guide to nit-picky editing using Dust & Scratches.  I use this method along with several touched on in Shock and Shame's fantastic Easy Breezy Beautiful Photoshop tutorial.  I think I may have chosen a poor example picture for this because it's quite subtle in this image, but if you end up with a wonky joint from a pose, this can come in super handy.  I highly suggest combining several methods to get the best results, and definitely make use of layer masks!
Hope it helps! (And please ignore typos in the tutorial images...)
