#ts2

[zevrans]

THE SIMS 2 (2004, dev. by Maxis) 🍂🍁

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Doechii "Denial Is A River" posters inspired by The Sims 2 Advertisements

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Hey! Spin this Wheel of Sims Career Tracks!

Whatever result you got, is now your new job

How do you feel about this?

YESSSS! This job is PERFECT for me!!

Yeah, this is great!!

Well, it’s pretty good!

This isn’t great, but I feel like I could’ve done way worse!

Eh, it’s fine

The job is GREAT but I feel like I’m gonna fail hard at it....

… this has very strong downsides and strong upsides, I feel conflicted…..

The job is BAD but I’m afraid I might be Good at it….

This isn’t the worst, but I still feel very disappointed….

Eh, this REALLY sucks…

Oh no, this is BAD!!!

OH NO THIS IS THE WORST!!!!

Voting ended onMar 9

[faremises]

🏡Neighborhoods in The Sims 2 (2004) dev. Maxis

[spockthewok]

Sims 2 Object Limit Fix

UPDATE: The information in this post is outdated. Please see this post.

Soooo... I didn't intend for two highly requested fixes for The Sims 2 to drop within the space of a week and a half, buuuut...

Here's where you can download an experimental patch to fix the so-called 'object limit'!

https://github.com/spockthewok/TS2ObjectLimitFix

(Ultimate Collection only at the moment, I'm afraid).

The good news is:

Both @lordcrumps and @teaaddictyt have tested it with stupidly large CC folders and report that it works.

There isn't a dissertation the length of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' you need to read through to understand wtf is going on.

The crashing wasn't caused by some hardcoded object limit at all! (That I know of).

An explanation of the issue for programmers:

And for everyone else:

The code for the Build/Buy menu was missing basic checks to confirm that the data it was trying to do things with was actually valid. No, I'm not joking.

Basically, it appears that all of the objects you can buy in the game are stored in something you can think of as being like a big, long list, which grows in size with the more custom objects you have.

The only purpose of the code that this plugin patches is to sort the items in the list into some kind of order. This is done by assessing if the value of the previous item in the list is larger than that of the item currently being looked at, and swapping their position if this is true (also known as an insertion sort).

In short, the game wasn't asserting that the data it was about to compare for sorting was valid before accessing it, and then promptly blowing up when it tried to do so and discovered it wasn't.

I imagine that the odds of the game making an oopsie and dumping some funky data into the list increases with the number of objects it is having to process - this might be why this issue only presents itself to those using multiple GB of Build/Buy CC. It was much easier to patch the code encountering the bad data within the list than to try and hunt down the mysterious culprit putting the data in there to begin with, so this is all the information I have at the moment unfortunately.

Either way, one of the first things you're taught when learning to code is to ALWAYS check that the data you're operating on has been initialised (i.e. it holds some kind of value). I guess someone at Maxis must have skipped that lecture :D

Is the 255 objects per subcategory limit theory true?

The Downloads folder I was using for testing had ~672 objects in the Deco/Misc subcategory (Maxis objects included). With the patch, I can freely navigate throughout the entire subcategory with zero crashes, so I guess not?

What about the whole OBJD limit thing?

People have varying beliefs of what the limit on OBJDs might be, but HCDU reports my Downloads folder had an OBJD count of 20,787. Again, without the patch the game would crash when switching categories in the Build/Buy catalogue, with the patch, no crashing.

If you want to hear my opinion on whether such a limit exists, watch this video.

Do I even need this patch if I don't use much CC?

As it adds some fairly important crash-prevention checks to part of the Build/Buy menu's functionality, I'd probably recommend using it anyway, just to be safe - we all know how much this game loves to crash!

Aaaah! I'm still getting crashes with the patch!

I'm aware that a few of you CC addicts out there have Downloads folders larger than the total size of everything ever uploaded to the internet, so if you still experience crashing in Build/Buy mode with this patch, please take a look at the mod's GitHub page and send me over the information requested there. Fingers crossed that shouldn't happen, but if it does, I'll try my best to investigate :)

Anyway...

Will

(I wish I had looked at this for my dissertation, as it was literally only a day's work).

[virtualpeople]

hello everyone, on the twentieth day of this advent collab I am bringing you the most boring preview picture you will see this December! eleven new custom face sliders!

Here, you will find the following sliders, available in both bodyshop and CAS:

cheekbone width

cheekbone length

jawline squareness

upper lip area width

nose fold rotation (V1 and V2)

nose vertical length

nose tip length

nose bridge shape (V1 and V2)

broken nose

GET 'EM HERE!

Massive thank you to @angelapleasant for getting this whole event together (you've done a fantastic job!) and to all the other creators who have both been and whose days are yet to come :D

preview pictures explaining as to which slider does what under the cut

Slider #1: cheekbone width

Self explanatory really, makes the cheekbones wider (but not deeper, nor taller). A bit like that one maxis slider but without any brow adjustment

Slider #2: cheekbone height

Makes the cheekbones longer or shorter on the y axis

Slider #3: jawline squareness

Affects the back of the jaw, changes the width without changing the chin or cheek width (unlike the maxis equivalents)

Slider #4: Upper lip width

The name's a bit confusing, it doesn't affect the upper lip but the area immediately above the upper lip, below the nose (I did look to see if it had an official name but that search sadly didn't turn up much). It's a little hard to see in the screenshot, but it makes this area wider or narrower.

Slider #5: nose fold rotation V1

This changes the angle of the nasal folds, rotating them up and down (as I've poorly tried to demonstrate in the screenshot). V1 affects a smaller area than V2, not really affecting any polygons around the mouth

Slider #6: nose fold rotation V2

Does the same thing as V1 nose fold rotation, but affects a larger area - this one moves more polys, including some near the mouth (despite the screenshots I swear they're different!). I only intended to make one slider for this, but couldn't decide which to keep so you get both :D

Slider #7: nose length

This slider makes the nose longer and shorter on the face, but in a different way to maxis' slider for the same thing in that the whole nose is stretched, centered in the middle of the nose, not just the nose tip moving up and down. (please ignore the clipping on the brow! the furthest point on the slider was too much for this guy's face but works fine on others)

Slider #8: nose tip length

like the maxis nose length slider, but only affects the tip of the nose

Slider #9: nose bridge shape V1

Makes the top of the nose bridge narrow and the nose tip wide, or the top of the bridge wide and the tip narrow, forming a triangular shape

Slider #10: nose bridge shape V2

Like slider #9, but affects only the nose bridge and not the nose tip, making it taper inwards our outwards from the top.

Slider #11: broken nose

forms a curve on the nose bridge off to the left, or off to the right, a bit like what you might get if your sim broke their nose

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phew, that's all of them! hopefully these are ones that haven't been done before (I didn't previously have any of these, anyway), and that you might find at least some of these useful :D

As always, if you spot any issues, please let me know and I'll try and fix it asap.

I should've made a nice even number to make the first preview a bit nicer haha

have an excellent end of year, everyone!

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