TeaAddictYT

I play a lot of Sims 2: YouTube & Twitch. I take ideas but not requests :)

[teaaddictyt]

Hi again! At the risk of sounding greedy, if you ever feel like remapping the tops of your value cabinet pantries, I would greatly appreciate it. They look beautiful with plain recolors, but wood grain and some more elaborate recolors look a little wonky. Either way, thank you so much for all the content you make and share!

Hey,

Mm I'm not super surprised. I'll have a look at those next time I'm in a blender mood - can you direct me to some recolours that look particularly wonky?

Cheers, Tea :)

[teaaddictyt]

Hi! It seems like the discord invite link on your website has expired, are you still open and would there maybe be another way to join? 🙏

sorry, I have really got to get around to updating all of my Discord links lol.

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[teaaddictyt]

Has anyone found the point where too much CC make non-Maxis items unselectable?

Hey Anon,

Well it's probably the same point as your game would otherwise start object limit crashing without the patch in.

So, that still remains a bit of a mystery unfortunately!

[siknoy336]

Vehicle Maintenance 2.1

Forgot to mention in 2.0:

Sims with the absent minded trait have a 50% chance of forgetting to turn on/off their vehicles headlights

New feature - Headlights. This feature can be toggled on/off through toggling the battery feature. (on by default)

-My apologies XD

2.1 Fixes:

Fixed the engine hoist (Tea)

Fixed Interaction "change tire" to work on ALL vehicles (Tea)

Fixed Fuel Simulations, ALL vehicles now work for simulations! (Me)

Fixed Fuel Simulation Animations. Animations now depend on whatever car you're using, so no more funky looking animations, it looks just like maxis! (Me)

Fixed redundant tire pie menu (Tea)

Fixed issue with invisible walking transitions trying to use maintenance features (Me)

Replace all files with the ones in the update!

2.1 Additions:

Compatibility Patch for Vehicle Maintenance & Drive To Work Traits by fway

(Replace Original Tuning File With Z_Z_VehicleMaintenance_CompPatch_TA_fway_DrivetoWorkTraits_Tuning_DressTransport OR Load Z_Z_VehicleMaintenance_CompPatch_TA_fway_DrivetoWorkTraits_Tuning_DressTransport After The Original Tuning File)

Download - SFS

[teaaddictyt]

Hey all,

Exciting update this morning is that the wizards working on GOS have overcome all the update issues and have the site running on a lovely, modern PHP version and have managed to get many functions of the website working again 😊 I'm unsure how much longer they'll need to keep working out bugs and such, but they are continuing to do so.

Hopefully, the site will be back pretty soon! (good thing too cos I have CC I wanna download 👀👀🤣)

[teaaddictyt]

Sorry, I was talking about the fence-arch. It's the last fence, I believe. It can be built over other fences. https://modthesims.info/d/308839/fence-arches-and-fences-maxis-matching-quot-pinegultcher-quot-set.html

OH I see, gotcha. Sorry!

In that case, nope I have no idea. At a guess I'd say it's because the mesh extends out past the edge of the tile:

But that's a wild guess.

Sorry I can't be more help!

[teaaddictyt]

I was building with the fence arch but it looks like it cannot be built next/perpendicular to walls? I looked at Numenor's version but even with moveobjects on, it can only be placed a square away from a wall. Any idea why? Thanks

Hey Anon,

By "fence arches" are you talking about these?

If so, these things are difficult to say the least.

You can place them on a quarter tile by using the "SetQuarterTilePlacement on" cheat, but you get a tonne of errors if they're not placed in the exact right spot.

You can do this kind of thing, but otherwise I'm not super sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish sorry, I can try and offer more help if you can let me know more about what you're trying to do.

Cheers,

Tea xo

[teaaddictyt]

Hi Tea! I'm having trouble getting the new update to go out with cars to work, the one included in vehicle maintenance. When I have them "Go Out" on the car it errors out! Here's a link to the log: pastebin(.)com/zs9TRBES

Hey Anon, thanks so much for the log link!

Just to confirm this is the one from Siknoy's Vehicle Maintenance 2.0 right?

What is your mod setup and comp patches have you put in? :) Are you playing with William's Driver's Licence mod?

Cheers,

Tea

[teaaddictyt]

Hi Tea, how many Build/Buy *.package files do you count with HCDU+? (I'm working on merging parts of my CC files)

Depends which folder you're asking about love.

Here's my modern "mega folder of doom" stats for build, buy, recolours, Maxis addons, etc:

Here's my medieval folder stats:

In terms of OBJDs, I've answered that before in previous asks but I have around 20,000 in my largest downloads folder.

I do play with multiple different folders though.

Hope that answers your question :)

[teaaddictyt]

Good morning (from Australia), just an update for everyone that Sims2Artists is now rehosted and accessible once again. The site is being cleaned up and will likely go down again for a major update later down the track, but first priority it GOS.

As to GOS itself, all files have been secured and are in good hands. Still "running into many interesting and varied errors" while trying to update 😱🙈 but the main news is that things are moving.

Just a reminder I have pretty much nothing to do with any of this, I'm just the messenger but I'll certainly post as many updates as I can to keep everyone in the loop 😊

Cheers, Tea xo

[teaaddictyt]

For anyone wondering

Latest update I have on GOS and S2A is that the old hosting has been resumed (i.e. paid for again) so that HugeLunatic can hopefully access all required files to pass over to the people who have volunteered to assist in upgrading and re-hosting the site, but their c-panel access hasn't yet been restored so it's a waiting game at this stage. I'd also like to offer a formal apology to anyone who was offended by my post yesterday as it did garner negative feedback in comments and reblogs. I have taken the feedback on board. I did not mean to offend anyone with my tone or my words, and feel that most of the negative responses came from people who don't know me very well. I meant to offer reassurance, not condescension. Be that as it may, as I've said I accept my tone did not sit well with some people and I accept why. If you called me out, I have read and accept your point of view. I will not be engaging in further feedback on this post.

Thanks, Tea xo

[teaaddictyt]

Just wondering why don't fences add to the object limit? I always thought it was odd this particular type doesn't count.

Hey Anon, it is odd I agree!

I don't have much understanding of the inner workings of fence code, but what I can tell you is that fences use a different resource called a "Fence XML" of XFNC to get their object information, rather than an OBJD resource like most other objects:

Hood deco contains a similar resource. This is where these objects get their GUIDs:

and I think? that these don't actually have to be unique, and are probably stored somewhere else in the game's memory to where OBJD addresses are stored.

That's my basic understanding anyway, I've yet to really dive in and experiment with fences and hood deco, but when I was testing out the object limit I was testing with my hood deco & fence folders in versus out, and it made no difference 🤷‍♀️

[teaaddictyt]

Hi! This may be a silly question, but do floors and walls (like wallpapers) have OBJD IDs?

Nope :)

Can have as many of those as we like, yay!!

[teaaddictyt]

To my dear Sims 2 Community

**I am editing this post based on feedback in the comments.**

I would still like everybody to stop, pause, make some really tight fists with their hands, now shake them out, and do some deep breathing.

I would still like to ask people to sloooow down. The internet moves fast but sometimes, life moves more slowly.

There are still efforts going on behind the scenes to get GOS back online (and Sims 2 Artists).

New hosting has been secured. The website php needs upgrading and this has not been working, but people are working on it.

I know its hard when things happen and you don't know what's going on.

Instead of panicking, jumping to conclusions, making angry posts, it's time to offer support, be patient, wait, ask what's happening without getting mad.

And please, remember kindness and empathy. Lunie has been trying to update GOS for months, and she is exhausted. It's down right now, but not dead (yet).

I do not deny this situation has been handled badly. I do not condone hateful or aggressive language FROM anyone directed TO anyone.

The latest update I have is that the site PHP is ancient, and it will be extremely difficult to update it so that the site can be rehosted, but people are trying.

I'm even probably roping in my IT dude husband who does web hosting and deals with this sort of thing, but who is not a simmer and has no idea what GOS really is.

I will try to actively post more updates as I receive them so that communication can be clear and we can all know what's going on.

Cheers,

Tea xo

[teaaddictyt]

I have amended my post a little to hopefully better express my stance on everything. There is a lot more discussion in the comments if you care to read more closely, and you are welcome to join, but keep it civil.

[teaaddictyt]

This is the anon on making the object thing to zero. I was taking in the bullet points on this: tumblr(.)com/spockthewok/816320926857740288/object-limit-2-electric-boogaloo?source=share the pathfinding and interaction was second. I thought setting them zero would just make it not intractable so decorations could work like fences and hood decorations without taking up objs space. But I guess that's not possible.

Ohh I see what you're talking about, but yeah, no, it's not possible.

Will was listing some of the various game systems that are looking for OBJD addresses stored within the signed 16-bit integer cap of 32,767. We have zero way of controlling which object address gets stored where, so it's not just a matter of setting a value to zero here and there.

In any case, every object MUST have at least one OBJD to be sorted in the catalogue and placeable in the game, to be recognised as an object that can run code, etc. So no, it's not possible :)

Thanks for explaining what you were asking about a little more, hopefully this helps explain why it's sadly not an option.

Heavy sigh.

Boooo Object Limit you suck 👎🏻🙈😆

[teaaddictyt]

I was just looking over the object limit again and I was wondering about the interactive thing. Is it possible to set decorations to zero? The only interactions that decorations have are view and catching on fire. Could just making them not intractable and making them be zero possible?

Hey Anon, I'm not sure I follow you here sorry! The Object Limit refers to the number of OBJD's in your game. An OBJD is one part of an object's "package" file. Interactions are given to an object by what's called a "tree table" or a TTAB, which is a different part of the package file. The OBJD has a line in it telling the object where to find it's TTAB via an instance number, but the OBJD itself does not control an object's interactions. In answer to "can an object be set to have 0 OBJDs" (which I think is what you're asking) - no, it cannot. It must have at least 1.

Hope that helps and answers your question!

[teaaddictyt]

I love your Better Bath Shower Curtains, but it looks like a couple of them are missing the rings to attach to the rod. Would be lovely if you could fix this. Thanks, either way!

Hey StinkyUnicorn,

So I got your ask a few days ago and made a mental note to look into it when I had time (have been dealing with a very sick toddler) - loaded up today to be like "what are they on about? I put in rings didn't I??" -

Immediately saw this 😂😂🙈

DUHHHH. Whoops.

Sorry about that, missing rings have been added 😂

Please redownload

Here!