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[catherinetcjd]

Tutorial: Grid-Adjuster for Basic 2-Click Foundations and/or Flat Roofs

YOU WILL NEED... Mootilda's Grid-Adjuster Tool …obviously!

Read more on my BLOG»

Also posted to MTS and Simblr.

Enjoy! 🦚

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Useful tutorial from @catherinetcjd

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John Lewis Patterns and Plaster Walls

This is my entry for the SimPearls Wallpaper Makes the Room contest for February 2023 - ages ago.

I have been meaning to post this set for nearly 18 months since I made it but I stopped making stuff for TS2 and didn't finish it.  Well, now I have so here is the set.  It includes the two walls I put in for the contest (above) plus three more pairs (patterned wall with toning plaster).  They are all taken from patterns offered by John Lewis.  For those of you who don't know, this is a large British retailer that specialises in homewares and is thought to be good quality and tasteful without being over posh.  I like the shop anyway.  

The patterns can be found under wallpapers and cost $8, while the plasters can be found under paint and cost $7.  They are Cow Parsley, Pomegranate (the one used in the contest), Pom Pom Pink and Harlequin.  The textures are taken from the John Lewis site though all of them are rather older now.  

As is usual with walls I make for TS2, the top of the wall and fittings (crown) are made to work with the ceilings in game and therefore will have a blank strip at the top of the texture.  You can see this if you play with ceilings turned off or if the ceiling is not visible.

Found HERE

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Thought I'd post this as a bit of a tribute - almost no-one seems to be talking about it. At least in the sims places I frequent.

RIP Tim LeTourneau

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Tim LeTourneau, TS2 developer, passed away over the weekend.

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Well, that's sad news.

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📦 Tuesday CC Dump:

Decorative Roof Add-Ons & recolors

+ Large Rounded Corner + Bohemian Mini Roof Set

Diagonal Roof Corners and edgers match bohemian roof [AL], quarter-height roof set by Maxon @jennamaxon and half-height roof set by WhiteWaterWood (MTS) << these are much more useful than original tall roof decor and I recommend you get both sets.

Download: SFS | BOX

*This is for The Sims 2

My diagonal roof bit is quite different from existing diagonal bit included in this large set of add-ons by Julsfels (MTS). It has slightly rounded corners - these look good when put together as little turrets.

My mini roof bits are a new thing - these are meant as wall edge hiders. Large rounded piece matches my Large Rounded Corner Wall.

The corner bits are a bit problematic (wall shading), but most issues can be fixed by placing the object with grid-snapping turned off.

All objects included in the archive are visible in hood view.

Large Round Corner fits two-tile wide diagonal wall. It blends (almost) seamlessly with the walls when placed as shown above. I recommend putting some dark wall recolor on the diagonal wall side to get rid of any flickering of the seam.

Recolor pack makes use of base game and AL textures, so Apartment Life is required.

Three textures included with the mesh are based on Pixelhate's Time Factor walls:

Masonry-02, Poured-02, Siding-10

ModTheSims - The Time Factor : Walls

It is safe to say that nothing in this world remains untouched by Time or Weather.

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New NASA Poster - Hubble

About a million years ago (9, actually), I made a series of posters based on a set from JPL of imaginary travel posters for the solar system. I loved those.

A little while later, NASA released another one which I squirreled away in my files and forgot about ... until today

It's the first recolour I've made in more than a year I think. I simlished it.

It's just a random whim - please don't expect any more just now. I'm kind of busy. Still, great image. I love Hubble.

Here

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Hi! I just found Polgannon on MTS, but saw that you have a 4th edition of it in SFS. Would you be willing to upload the updated files on MTS? SFS is remarkably slow :( (currently downloading at 4kb/s)

Hi, yes, SFS is often slow at this time of year. The files are also available on my Patreon page:

Polgannon Sims Neighbourhood | Weisse Weide

Get more from Weisse Weide on Patreon

Please let me know if you have trouble getting hold of it

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Stroke Paintings

These are some recolours of the A, B and C Stroke paintings.  

The yachts was the first picture I thought of doing something with - it's an image from one of those phone picture games I was idly playing to pass some time a little while ago while waiting for an appointment.  I thought when I finished the puzzle: 'you know, that's a pretty nice image.  Looks like a nice watercolour.'  So I used that image and then decided to make a small set of it - the pictures are unrelated but are ones I have collected in recent months that I liked.  

There are six paintings in all; two for each painting ('cos I'm a bit tired of having recolours for just the blue one).  They are, from r-l, top-bottom: Sweet Peas; Sea Yachts; Sun on Landscape then Wild Women; Lily Pads and Lake Eyre Coastline.

Download HERE

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Shaker Autumn Panelling

This is my entry for the SimPearls' Wallpaper Makes the Room November 2022

The prompt was "warm and cozy" and having fiddled around a lot with various graphic bits and pieces I decided on entering the gold full panel and half panel wall as seen in the picture.  But the set was popular with the people I showed it to when it was in progress and so I decided to make a full set using the shaker panelling as the base.  

There are now six base colours: black; green; blue; red; cream and gold.  For each colour there is a full panelled wall, a half panelled wall (both of these are found in Panels in game) and a full wallpapered wall using the same crown and skirting (found in Wallpaper).  All cost $8 per panel.

As is usual with my walls, they are designed to work with the ceilings in game so the crown will appear to be a little large at the top if viewed from above or without a ceiling showing.

Download HERE

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Sims 2 CC Making, Schedules and Creativity – a retirement story

I’ve been meaning to post this second message about changes with me and progress with Polgannon since December but have been finding it difficult to work out what exactly I want to say.

There are a couple of things here: I want to post about what’s happening with Polgannon, which I’m excited about, and to announce my ‘retirement’ from making stuff for Sims 2.

(junk shop)

Let’s take the latter first.  I’ve been involved with the Sims community since the first game and have been making stuff for Sims 2 from the beginning.  The first version of Polgannon was for Sims 2.  However, I have not really played at all in the last two or three years.  I can’t anymore, I no longer find playing interesting.  I’ve been making simple CC for the last few years but that’s been about it.  I decided finally that I should stop – mainly because I want to concentrate on what’s going on with Polgannon and other stuff in my life (piano is being neglected). 

This does not mean though that I won’t be around because I’ve made a number of friends in the Sims community over the years and I don’t want to lose touch.  It’s also a fact, since deciding to stop that I’ve been making some new walls and pictures (posts to come). 

This is a bit of a conundrum.  I think what I’m trying to say – or perhaps more importantly tell myself – is that I want to stop ‘officially’ making stuff for the Sims so I’m not always telling myself I need to do something.  I think there’s a good chance I will, in fact, make more stuff for the game but as something I just want to do that day.  The reason I like making walls for the game so much is that I just love messing around with colours and patterns.  It’s a go-to activity when I get stressed or just when I want to do something creative without being serious about it.  So I think I still might be doing more of that but won’t be doing much else – and not on any kind of schedule.

I’m going to post about Polgannon in another post to follow.

Isn't that picture hideous? It's a quick glimpse of stuff I've done over the years.

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Thank you sooo very much for uploading those files! I'm not able to figure out how to reply to you in the original ask... I'm delighted that you still had them available and were willing to share. That is so very kind of you. Happy New Year!

You're welcome and Happy New Year to you too (and everyone else)

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Hi Maxon, I'm following a link from MTS regarding Maryata's Citizens. Is there any chance you still have that file available to share? The Kativip link is dead, and there are only her lots at Sims Graveyard. I've exhausted all my leads and sure hope you can help. Thanks and Happy New Year.

I might have - I'll check.

Update: OK that took a bit of a search. I finally found them in an archive folder where I had been taking pictures several years ago!

I do not have the original zip - I don't tend to keep them. So I zipped up what I have and put it on SFS:

[stardust-devi]

an absolutely insane way to end this year 

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Well this made me LOL at least

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Polgannon Update - 1

I have a couple of things to report about Polgannon and, to some extent, something to say about what I’m doing at the moment and will be doing in the future.  I’m going to put the update into two posts to break it all down a bit.  I’m also cross-posting this to my main Tumblr blog so if you’re subscribed to both, you might see the message twice – sorry about that.

Polgannon, Hall of Fame and the True Solution!

Ruan Finally Breaks Through

Polgannon Stream

Earlier this year, Tea Addict – a much loved member of the simming community and Sims 2 streamer – played through Polgannon live on her Twitch stream channel (linky above).  I attended most of the streams providing background encouragement and the occasional bit of help.  I really, really enjoyed it.  I’m not kidding.  For me, it was a lovely experience seeing people having fun with something I’d made.

TeaAddict and her cabal of watchers looked at the murder scene, deplored Blaise, collected information from all the residents of Polgannon, went through all the evidence and motives and discussed the many shady and dreadful characters – suspecting many along the way.  However, they worked very, very hard, TeaAddict did her homework(!), they sorted through the evidence and, collectively, they (streamer and watchers) came to a successful conclusion.  Hurrah!  The streams are a lot of fun: lots of laughing, tea drinking and pointing collective fingers at sus characters.

So following on from that..

Hall Of Fame

Following on from that, the true solution to Polgannon has now been in the public domain for some time.  For this reason, I am now closing the Hall Of Fame with TeaAddict and her stream community members the last on the list of successful solvers. 

This is the final list of successful solvers of Polgannon's mystery (or the ones who contacted me with a proposed solution that was correct).  Congrats to them:

Jojoa777

koololdster

bloodstained_black_lace

Amairani

vllygrl

Lord St.Croix

lorinsv60 & Little Nemo

vaayvaay

Sims2 4ever

Medollga

notreallifeliving

letmereadinpeace4

Paolopollo

TeaAddict and all members of her stream community (especially Jo)

This does not mean you cannot contact me, if you want to have a shot at the solution by yourself.  I will still respond with a breakdown of why you are wrong (or possibly right) but I will not now add your name to the list of glory.  Sorry.

The True Solution

Tea Addict has now uploaded all of the streams to her You Tube Channel and you can go and watch them if you’d like to.  If you really just want to know whodunnit, you may want to skip to the final broadcast in the series with the solution:

The point where they actually got to the solution is from about 1hr:20mins.  They’re searching for the murder weapon and find it!  They knew it was there somewhere because it’s in the CC collection for the neighbourhood!  This lead them, bearing in mind the evidence they had uncovered, to the correct conclusion about who it was who murdered Blaise Penhaligan on All Hallows Eve!

TeaAddict’s UTube Channel where you can watch the whole series (along with other things she’s done and is doing) is here.

And her Twitch channel is here.  She broadcasts 2-3 times per week.

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Reposting to tflc

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Vets Clinic Walls

This is my entry for Sim Pearls Wallpaper Makes the Room for June 2022.  The prompt was to create two walls for a Vets Clinic - I made some nice blue tiles as a full wall and a half tiled wall with a pets hospital-themed paper at the top.  Plain skirting and crown for easy cleaning because vets need to be hygienic.  There's also an extra wall in there not entered in the contest with a plain plaster top to complete the set.  As is usual with my walls, the crown is set to a height to show properly under a ceiling - this makes the crown appear a bit high when viewed from above.

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British Road Signs

This is my entry for the Garden of Shadows Daisy Chain event 2022 - this is what I posted over there: So my prompt was My Way or the Highway – a tricky one and I finally gave up on trying an imaginative metaphorical interpretation and went for a literal one instead.  I decided to add something to my attempt to ‘British-ise my game’, in this case: British Road Signs.  I have only made six here but made a new CC mesh for the sign itself.  It’s alpha-channel controlled head means you can make different shaped signs for it.  So we have British road signs for: Give Way (Yield, I think, for American drivers.  This is probably the most common sign on British roads), Stop, Crossing, School, Traffic Lights and No Entry.  There are more to come.  They can be found in Misc>Misc and cost $70. 286 polys.  They are visible from space (or the neighbourhood and other lots).

The new mesh was the ‘My Way’ part of the project as it's available on lots, the ‘Highway’ bit was that I also made a version of the mesh for a neighbourhood version of the signs but have not mapped this mesh yet.  There was also supposed to be a new set of road tiles too but, as I said, this is going to have to be a work in progress.  If you are interested in the set, keep an eye on the thread at tflc (my site) as I will update once I get stuff done.

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Thanks should go to pforest for a really helpful tutorial,  also lunie and frac. Thanks guys.

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Macaron Bakery Wallpapers

This is my entry for SimPearls Wallpaper Makes the Room January 2022.  The prompt was to design two new walls for a bakery called Sweetie Pies.  Well, what do you think of when you think of bakeries and sweets - I think of macarons.

I didn't quite like the first version I made of these walls so I reworked them - just in case you saw the originals at SimPearls.   These are in wallpapers and cost $8.

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