They used to try to kill each other. Now Damian would rather kill anyone who tried to do it for him. And he'll never tell you why.
KAYAN
Contract Artisan. Golden eyes - legacy of the Ancient Serpent.
"I have struck deals with kings and beggars. All of them wanted the same things. Power. Wealth. Revenge. Love. After a hundred years, you stop telling their faces apart. Hell has grown bland — not fire and screams, but an endless queue of identical desires. If your world holds something I have yet to see... what are we waiting for?"
DAMIAN
Lord of Flame, collects souls like fine wine.
"You didn't sell your soul. You just haven't realized it's already mine."
Cold, calculating, brazen. His goals are above all else, and his greatest intrigue is not yet played out...
Screenshots from the game, minimal Photoshop
The collection includes:
Characters Kayan and Damian (in demon and human forms) with their own unique skins. Hair, corresponding clothing (1 top, 2 bottoms, 4 sets), horns (3 types), wings (2 types), demonic nails, and pose boxes (2 pcs + smartphone).
Unique skin design for Damian:
😈🔥 ALL in ONE PACK "DEMONIC COLLECTION" KAYAN and DAMIAN 🔥😈
@ohsokiyo This is, perhaps, the most exquisite compliment to me 😍 and the most tempting offer for Damian 🖤. Just be careful: the Lord of Flame is cunning, capricious, and absolutely hates sharing what he already considers his own. He takes only the best into his collection. It seems you've just stepped right into it. 🔥🖤🍷
Well, technically more hides and skins for your floors, but furs rolled off the tongue better!
Continuing on with my current rug obsession, I bring you two more sets of hides and skins for my edited version of Kativip's SK Rug mesh.
I had originally put these textures on my edits of the Simtomatics Rug meshes, but they just didn't look right. Who needs a hide the size of a mammoth? Well, now that you think about it, I do play a Skyrim-inspired game. Hmmm...!
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Important: Files are compressorised and you can choose to download the recolours either merged or unmerged. The mesh is included in each folder for convenience, as is a folder of clearly named swatches so you can pick and choose if you like.
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Set 1- Nervo's Animal Skin Rugs
@nervosims released a great set of Animal Skin Rugs on the Isotopia mesh. I have slightly adjusted and edited the textures to fit better on the new mesh. This set includes 15 recolours of predominantly cattle hides.
Download Nervo's Animal Skin Rugs- Merged
Download Nervo's Animal Skin Rugs- Unmerged
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Set 2- simaddict99's Medieval Natural Hide Rugs
A very old set of 5 hide rugs uploaded to TSR and originally on Echo's Rug Mesh. I have slightly adjusted and edited the textures to fit better on the new mesh.
If you run into any issues with these textures or files, please let me know!
And that'll be all from me for now. I do have plans for one more Skyrim rug set, plus I have a few things to upload that I've been sitting, but they require preview pics. Hopefully will have a few more things released next week!
They used to try to kill each other. Now Damian would rather kill anyone who tried to do it for him. And he'll never tell you why.
KAYAN
Contract Artisan. Golden eyes - legacy of the Ancient Serpent.
"I have struck deals with kings and beggars. All of them wanted the same things. Power. Wealth. Revenge. Love. After a hundred years, you stop telling their faces apart. Hell has grown bland — not fire and screams, but an endless queue of identical desires. If your world holds something I have yet to see... what are we waiting for?"
DAMIAN
Lord of Flame, collects souls like fine wine.
"You didn't sell your soul. You just haven't realized it's already mine."
Cold, calculating, brazen. His goals are above all else, and his greatest intrigue is not yet played out...
Screenshots from the game, minimal Photoshop
The collection includes:
Characters Kayan and Damian (in demon and human forms) with their own unique skins. Hair, corresponding clothing (1 top, 2 bottoms, 4 sets), horns (3 types), wings (2 types), demonic nails, and pose boxes (2 pcs + smartphone).
Unique skin design for Damian:
😈🔥 ALL in ONE PACK "DEMONIC COLLECTION" KAYAN and DAMIAN 🔥😈
Medieval Save for The Sims 4 | Renaissance & Medieval Era
Hello everyone! ✨
I’m excited to share my first medieval/renaissance save file. Three worlds have been reworked to capture the atmosphere of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Almost all lots in these worlds are empty — a clean canvas for your own medieval builds.
What has been reworked:
Tartosa — Renaissance Coastal City
Porto Luminoso has been completely rebuilt with an Italian/Spanish Renaissance vibe.
Terra Amoreosa has been cleared — only beautiful vegetation remains.
Gibby Point — Medieval Village & Surroundings
Jellyfish Jive and Crystal Cove have been transformed into medieval style.
Wanderwood Wilds has been left with only vegetation.
Hanford-on-Bagley (Finchwick) A full medieval version of Finchwick by @rivercutelegacy. This is not my work — I barely changed anything because the district already looked absolutely stunning.
Important Information:
In the three main worlds all lots are empty.
In the other worlds, some original developer lots and families remain. I’ve cleared some lots, but a few of my old experiments are still there.
Bug: In Tartosa, vendors sometimes don’t properly claim the market stalls. If you know how to fix this, please let me know!
Main packs used: Royalty & Legacy, Horse Ranch, Life and Death, Cottage Living and a few others.
Special Thanks:
Huge thanks to @simverses for the legendary Blowtorch! This kind sorceress has brought back the ability to edit worlds in The Sims 4 — the feature that was taken away by the developers. It’s absolutely magnificent.
And of course, a massive thank you to @rivercutelegacy for the beautiful “Ye Olde Finchwick” save. I included it in my save and it was the main inspiration for this whole project.
Content Used:
Blowtorch Mod by Simverses - Read install instructions carefully!!
Mods: All K-Mods by K-Hippie (vegetation, textures, and graphics overhaul). I have every K-Mod available at the time of posting. You can play with or without them, but I’m personally obsessed — the game looks significantly more beautiful in every aspect with these mods.
TSM Peteran Monastery & TSM Jacoban Cathedral as Hood Deco
TSM Hood Deco Outskirts Buildings
TSM Burdley Houses Set Hood Deco
Windleport Kogge
TSM Wind Mill - Deco Houses and Blades
CK3 Abandoned Mine
TSM Old Rustic Well - Updated & Improved
TSM Medieval Market Stalls Default Replacements
Medieval Seasons seasonal stalls - Non Default version only
Medieval Sales Tables
→ **[DOWNLOAD FREE ON PATREON]**
About the Save:
This save was created primarily as a decoration / building canvas. There are currently not many playable objects. Since this is my first big project of this kind, there may be some imperfections.
Background areas (where Sims can’t walk) were made mostly for visuals. If you fly over them in free camera, you might notice some messy spots — that’s expected.
In the future I might make a second version with more playable objects and decorations. For now, this is an atmospheric clean slate perfect for beautiful builds and screenshots.
If you find any bugs or weird things, please tell me! I’ve mostly built in these worlds and barely played them.
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).
A slimmer, fantasy inspired version of the OFB armor. These are repo'd to OFB and pinned to that section of CAS but not townified. Set as Everyday, Formal, Gym, & Outerwear. Mesh is included, it doesn't have any morphs
With DXVK and S3SS living their high days, older Sims 3 installment guides are rapidly starting to become outdated. So here's a brand new and up-to-date step-by-step guide to go through when you do a fresh install of your game that will help you get the best performance you could possibly imagine for this old and laggy gem of a game.
Have Sims 3 installed, but is it performing abhorrently? I highly recommend a fresh install. You don't have to delete your saves or mods. Just get yourself a fresh bin to work with by uninstalling, going into your program files The Sims 3 folder and deleting any remnant files still in there. Then follow my guide!
All of the steps to follow are below the line ->
Step 1: install your game through your respected platform.
Just follow the regular steps and install the game without adding any other stuff yet whatsoever.
(I personally have a legit copy of the Sims 3 on Steam. If you use another app and have any questions, I'll probably not be able to help you.)
Step 2: run the game once through the official launcher. Once you get to the main menu, you can quit again.
It is very important you run your game through the original launcher at least once after installing it. Not doing so can cause problems with programs like CC magic. You only need to do it the first time. After that, we'll be skipping the launcher entirely.
Step 3: Create a short cut of TS3W.exe on your desktop.
You'll be skipping the launcher from now on. This helps with performance and it starts up your game much faster. It is also important to do this because of DXVK.
You can find TS3W.exe in your bin folder. For me (Steam version) it's in this location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin
Right click TS3W.exe, click 'show more options' and choose 'create a shortcut'. Place this shortcut on your desktop and Run Sims 3 from there from now on.
Step 4: Run the GPU Add-on Support patcher
You can find this patcher here. It is essential to run this because Sims will otherwise not recognize your graphics card unless it's over 10 years old. This patcher helps to get your GPU recognized.
The patcher will create a new Graphicsrules.sgr and new Graphicscards.sgr for you in your bin folder. After installing this, you can move the ones that have _old behind them somewhere else (or delete them).
P.S.: if you pirate your game you'll have to do this manually, there's guides online for it but since I have a legit copy I can't help you here.
Step 5: Install DXVK
Make sure you follow this guide by Nornite and do every single step. Don't skip anything!
I'd say DXVK is pretty essential nowadays, especially if you have a modern graphics card with 6GB of VRAM or higher. It'll greatly help to keep your game stable and can prevent a lot of crashes. The way Dxvk works, is that it loads textures through your VRAM instead of your RAM. Especially when you use a lot of CC or HD textures, this will make a huge difference for your RAM usage. Sims 3 can only use 4GB of RAM at once and will start crashing once you hit the 3GB mark in your task manager. With DXVK, you will use a lot less RAM and it'll take much longer for your game to reach this hard cap.
When not to install DXVK: if you have a shitty GPU (like an integrated graphics card on a laptop, or one with 4GB of VRAM or less).
Step 5: Start up the game
Use your new desktop shortcut that also has 'run as administrator' permissions now if you followed the DXVK guide properly.
Step 6: set up all your settings through the ingame options menu
The best graphics settings for you will highly depend on what computer you're using. But there are some things you should always turn off because they negatively affect performance. I will share my (relevant) settings with you (I use a custom UI so your screen style will look a little different from mine). Click on the images to enlarge them so you can read them:
Things of note about these settings:
I recommend you play in windowed mode, especially if you plan to use ReShade. Playing fullscreen is possible, but it does make Reshade presets behave differently in your game. I will include a step in this guide that you can follow to play windowed borderless. So, when you plan to do this: make sure you set the resolution to your display resolution.
Enable object hiding helps with performance. Advanced rendering is essential because otherwise your game looks like absolute shit.
Set your High Detail Lots to any value between 2 and 4. Don't go lower or higher, because you'll get rendering issues that lag out your game.
All other graphics settings can be set to your heart's desire. I'd say start with the highest settings and only go down if you notice your frames per second are bad.
Disable shop mode and lessons and fully disable memories or use this mod to severly limit them. Disable interactive loading screens as well. These are all performance eaters. Interactive loading screen also causes crashes. Memories also don't do anything for your sim, it's just a scrap book with no in-game effects.
Disable any online mode feature. This also lags out your game. Unless you really want to use these features it's best to just play fully offline.
Save your settings, close the game again.
Step 7: Install Sims 3 Settings Setter
This is the most recent magic genie that Sims 3 was blessed with. Especially combined with DXVK it is a life changer. Installing it is simple. You download the most recent version here and drop the .asi file in your bin. Also grab 'wininet.dll' from here and drop that one in your bin too.
Start up your game and load up a save. Once you're inside your save, you press 'insert' to open up the menu for Sims 3 Settings Setter. Go to the 'patches' tab and enable what you like. These are my enabled patches and they all work really well for me, but feel free to experiment with them to find your own performance sweet spot:
Only enable uncompressed textures if you have a GPU with at least 8gb of VRAM. My game will use over 6gb of VRAM easily with this enabled, so you've been warned.
Once you have everything you desire enabled, press 'file' in the top left corner and click 'save settings'.
Step 7.5: if you're playing windowed mode: go into the Other/QoL tab and enable 'Borderless Window'. Set it to 'Full Screen'.
Save your settings and close your game again. No need to save the game you entered for this unless you want to.
Step 8: Install Nraas Errortrap, MasterController and Overwatch
These 3 mods by Nraas are pretty much essential to keep your game from breaking down in the long run. You can download the mods here. Have you never installed a mod for Sims 3 before? Here's a guide (skip the part about Sims3pack and go straight to the part where it explains how to install .package mods).
That's it! You can now play The Sims 3 and it'll be as smooth and stable as it'll ever be. From here on, you can stock your game with more mods and CC (check out my mods masterlist!), or you can install Reshade (here's a guide).
Some important things to keep in mind while playing:
Clean up your game regularly. You can easily do this by using Regul Save Cleaner.
When you install a new mod or update/change Sims 3 Settings Setter, always restart and clear your caches.
Use CC Magic for installing CC, because it merges your files and this really helps with performance. Here's a handy guide on how to use it. Don't put your script mods in here, just your CC.
If you plan to travel to vacation destinations in the EP World Adventures, Nraas Traveler is a must to prevent most of the bugs and crashes that happen in this expansion.
Always keep in mind: mods and corrupt CC can still break your game, make it laggy or unplayable. Always be mindful of the mods you add, so you can always trace any issues you're having back to the mod causing it. I highly recommend not downloading a ton of mods in one session, but adding them step by step and see what they do to your games performance.
Use 'Reset the entire town' from Nraas MasterController at least every other sim week. It'll help clear up any lag that happens because of NPC sims getting themselves stuck routing or annoying stuff like that.
Got a slow CAS? Use Nraas MasterController Compact mode! (Make sure you have the Nraas MasterController Integration module installed).
Navigate to NRaas > MasterController > Settings > CAS.
Set the following to True:
Show in Compact Form: Accessories
Show in Compact Form: Clothing
Show in Compact Form: Hats
Finally finished this up after checks notes several months... sorry I've been inconsistent with conversions, there's just a lot going on.
Anyway, the Mother Earth dress converted from Enchanted by Nature, and since EA included a male specific mesh I converted it for men too. A child mesh is included in the mesh file but I didn't do recolors for it because I was a bit burnt out, so if anyone wants to take a stab at it the files are there.
TU-EU, categorized as everyday, formal, gym, outerwear, all morphs, comes in the 11 EA colors. Download Simblr.CC
Along the bending river through Henford with its great green plains and woodlands, lies Finchwick - a bustling merchant town ready for you to start your legacy.
The year is 1381. Peasants are revolting. Will the noble class hold on to their power?
With the release of the Royalty and Legacy pack I’ve had an itch to start a new decades challenge beginning in the middle ages. However this is always such a daunting task - starting with nothing in a world that doesn’t quite fit. So I decided to learn the TOOL mod and decorated the landscape of this starter medieval save file to match my wild medieval fantasies. Using very limited cc and 3 packs (cottage living, horse ranch and life & death) - This is an empty but decorated save file of a medieval Henford on Bagley and it is ready for you to make your own. Made for simmers starting The Ultimate Decades Challenge or if you like me just want to live a quiet medieval life in immersive surroundings.
All pre-made lots have been deleted, a blank canvas surrounded by idyllic medieval townhouses. The save file uses the Blowtorch mod and a few CC deco items by @simverses - all links to downloads are in my patreon linked below.
I’ll will forever be grateful for Simverses making all my medieval dreams come true in the Sims. If you are new to the Ultimate Decades Challenge I highly recommend you check out their cc and overrides. And for more accessible rules for first time decades players I can recommend @kosmichippie version of the challenge explained on their notion page here.
Hi! dont mind me asking from an old dead blog I usually dont send asks but WCIF the head you used for El Gamer? I can only find TV heads for ts4 when I try to search it up and I did try to look through your blog for it since it seems you make most of your cryptids yourself, but I couldn't find it. Wishing you a good day :)
Hi! His head is a recolor of Digi's Biohole computer head for all ages (at Simblr.cc). You can download my Portal recolor here.
A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s an attack on the Internet Archive itself.
This lawsuit is an existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything we preserve—including the Wayback Machine, a cornerstone of memory and preservation on the internet.
At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled.
This isn’t just about music. It’s about whether future generations will have access to knowledge, history, and culture.
Sign our open letter and tell the record labels to drop their lawsuit.
Don't get me wrong - this isn't a default replacement for the cab itself. This is a replacement for the stupid little thumbnail of the cab that appears on every comm lot entry in hood view...
...and for the larger thumbnail of the cab that appears when you go to the lot by taxi. I rarely do, but not everyone has the option to walk to lots, so.
Yes, it may look a little weird because the image is flat but the loading screen is angled - some images it's worse than others - but I don't feel like trying to warp the images.
Most of these started out on a light-colored background and will probably look weird on dark UI replacements. Wherever possible I've used artwork from the period, or reproductions of that artwork. Of course, some of these periods covered many years, but this is just a start.
I've included many options. There are a couple of prehistoric choices, an Egyptian boat, a Greek chariot, a Roman sedan chair and three Roman carriages, half a dozen medieval choices - carts, carriages, and people on horseback - a couple of 17th-century choices, and a handful for the Regency era, one late-18th century and a couple early -19th. Gaps include more Renaissance styles, Baroque/Rococo, and anything post-Regency-England, but I plan to address those in later versions; I was trying to cover eras that seemed popular first.
I fully intend to do additional versions of this, and carry on through additional eras - I have plenty saved for the rest of the 19th century, and a lot of medieval equestrians waiting to be converted.
I've tested most of these but not all, so if any of them don't behave as expected, or have weird marks/artifacts that don't seem intentional, let me know!
Download: SFS or Box.
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