so a number of poses have just been sitting in my WIP since january, completed, but i was lacking motivation/creativity to make any sort of previews. however, i think my vacation helped me a LOT...burnout is so real. but enough about my personal problems; here is another amazing pose pack by the lovely hiyut (i will forever be obsessed with their work). I have at least three more sets of theirs that i need to upload soon (so stay tuned).
download information
non-pose list compatible | 12 poses | codes are included along with pictures | requires: pose player (optional: Lyraleiâs Pose Addon)
âšÂ A little discovery in The Sims Medieval (and The Sims 3!) âš
Transferring items from your inventory to another sim:
1ïžâŁÂ Single item: just grab it and drag it right onto the sim's portrait on the left (in the sim list) â the item will go straight into their inventory.
2ïžâŁÂ The whole stack at once: grab the little number corner (the quantity counter) in the slot instead of the item itself, and drag it onto the portrait. All 15 (or however many) will transfer in one go.
3ïžâŁÂ Part of a stack (the real hidden magic): while holding that number corner, press and hold Shift â a tiny window will pop up where you can type the exact number. Want to give only 7 out of 15? Type 7 â and done! đ€Ż
This works in both The Sims Medieval and The Sims 3. Did you know about this? đ¶
A continuation to my previous 2024 set, finally đ Somehow, they all ended up being wall shelves this time. This set contains 20 shelves stripped of any decor objects and given slots. They can be found in Living/Dining/Study and Displays/Misc Surfaces for various prices. Most have only one preset, but the ones with stencils have plain presets as well.
In the archive you can find a readme with the polycounts (highest is 512) and sources, because there were waaay too many links to include here, as well as previews showing off the recolorable channels and slots better.
âčïž Depending on the footprint of the objects you place on slots (small, medium, large), adjacent slots may be disabled. In shorter/narrower parts, slots may only allow small or medium objects.
The Perfect Place shelf matches the smaller Ode to Distraction Desk.
The Wall Mount Towel Stackomatic shelf now has a second flat surface on it instead of the original towel bar.
âȘ Original post here by @sentate
âȘ For teen, young adult and adult males
âȘ Four recolorable channels (jacket, fluffy edges, buckles and shirt)
âȘ Seven presets; one fully recolorable and six designs with only the jacket itself being recolorable
âȘ Enabled for everyday and outerwear
âȘ Polycount ~4.6K
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â Original here by @arethabee
â Polycount: ~4.3k
â For adult, young adult and teen females
â 6 presets, 1 recolorable, 5 non-recolorable
â 2 recolorable channels
Notes!!
â Weird split shadow on the lower part of the dress in CAS, but looks fine in game
â I changed the straps from mesh to texture because they kept clipping
â I originally wanted to make part of the mesh transparent like in the original but it didn't look good so I decided to make it fully opaque
â You can slightly see where I joined the meshes, but you have to look very closely to notice that
Simblreen Gift #4: Store Voodoo Outfit for child-elder
Aaand we're ending on a productive run, with a project I started...two? Simblreens ago and finally finished for this one. At first I was planning to make a regular teen-elder set, then I thought about trying to remove all the extra stuff from the original outfit to make it more plain, then I thought it would look kinda nice on female sims, and finally I tacked on a child conversion too.
This edited version is a bit slimmer, less shiny, and doesn't have all the decorations.
For child-elder, unisex (separate files).
Everyday, Formal, Career (all) + Maternity (teen-elder only, both male and female).
Store Vest, Shirt and Tie / Late Night Shirt with Skinny Tie - for teens
Two tops I was asked to convert for teens. Sorry for the long wait!
Late Night Shirt with Skinny Tie
Everyday, Formal, Career. Not enabled for random.
3 presets, unchanged from the adult version. 2 channels.
âčïž There are two versions: the "reqLN" one references the textures of the adult top (except the specular, which is new) and requires the Late Night EP, the other is basegame compatible and has a new specular and normal map.
Polycount: 3056
đž Download: Mediafire | Mega
Store Vest, Shirt and Tie
Everyday, Formal, Career. Not enabled for random.
Original Store item (amtopvestshirttie) not required.
3 presets, 4 channels.
Polycount: 3186
đž Download: Mediafire | Mega
âš Related: Short Sleeves and Tie, Spiffy Sweater Vest.
Here's this lighting mod I cobbled together, up for public consumption for anyone who might want to give it a try. It's a "default" lighting mod, which means it will affect all worlds in all saves that are in the same game folder as the lighting mod, except for the dystopian/utopian futures in Oasis Landing. So, if you use a custom or EA world that includes special lighting that you like, you don't want to use this in that game folder because it will replace that lighting.
Before I start babbling, here's the download link upfront.
There are two versions included in the download. One file includes default replacements for the clouds, sun, sun halo, moon halo, and stars. Then there's a folder that contains two separate files, the lighting mod by itself and the default sky objects by itself, in case you don't want the clouds, stars, etc that you see in the pics and just want the lighting mod. (Or if you don't want the lighting mod but do want the sky objects, I guess!) The pics all use the "combined" version, but you can install only what you want, if that's more your cuppa.
This mod's "base" is Burntwaffles's Dream Dimension lighting mod, specifically version 2.5 with Lucky Palms water and no auroras, except that I changed the sunrise/sunset times back to the standard 6AM/6PM because I use NRaas Retuner to create appropriate seasonal sunrise/sunset offsets instead. It still has Lucky Palms's water, both because it's my favorite and because I don't know how to change it, but pretty much everything else has been altered at least slightly, from slightly brightening and color-adjusting the color ramps to mucking around with light angles and distance fog settings. So, not too much is left of Dream Dimension except the basic colors, but it's still at its core. I also looked at lighting mods made by @boringbones and @gruesim and compared the values they contain to Dream Dimension's values. None of the values I ultimately used are from any of those mods but they were all guidance that helped me to pinpoint values to change to get the look I wanted, so credit to those creators.
My goals for the mod, all of which I more or less accomplished, were:
1) Less-intense shadows, mostly in order to reduce harsh shadows on sims, especially in outdoor lighting, as well as too-dark bits of building exteriors, like covered porches and recessed entryways.
2) Desaturated but bright colors with less contrast, because my old eyes don't tolerate saturated colors and high contrast for long. Somehow, EA's lighting manages to be both very color-saturated and dark and often dismal at the same time. Meanwhile, most lighting mods are too bright and/or too saturated for my likings. I wanted less saturated but brighter, which seems to be a rare combination. Dream Dimension is already desaturated, which is why I like it, but I increased the brightness and warmth a bit on the color ramps because it could also be a bit too dark and "cold," in my opinion.
3) Improved natural-daylight indoor lighting. I somewhat accomplished this one, though there are still issues like too-dark ceilings and some too-bright walls, which I don't think are fixable with just a lighting mod. However, lowering the light angles seems to make the EA windows with fixed lighting (that mod is linked behind the cut) work better and gives pretty good results, which you can especially see in the WIP pics I've posted, since I didn't include a lot of interior pics on this post. I can make no promises about this issue on lots with custom windows, however.
4) Dark but not unrealistically black nights, including darker ground level lighting at night. Dream Dimension already had this, but I lowered the contrast so it's not so hard on the eyes and also made it a little bit brighter so that if you've got your sims in an unlit area far from from any artificial light sources, you can still see what they're doing. It also doesn't have the obnoxious blue tint that EA night lighting has.
Like the WIP pics I posted here, here , here, and here, the above pics have no Reshade or Photoshop editing applied to them at all, other than cropping/resizing in Photoshop. They are all taken in various EA worlds instead of all in my rebuild of Meadow Glen, as all the WIP pics I've posted have been. They are best viewed at full size, and I think they give a good representation of what the thing looks like, including flaws, assuming that you use the same appearance-improving stuff that I use on a decent-enough machine to run all this crap and still be able to play the game. I have tried to be thorough and transparent about my machine's specs and the other mods and stuff that I use that contribute to what my "naked" game looks like. That's all behind the cut.
The WIP pics I've posted have a larger sun and moon than you will get from the mod as uploaded. You can see the "included" sun/moon sizes in the above pics. I like those things to be larger, so my personal copy of the mod has larger sun/moon sizes, but I figured other people mostly wouldn't like that. The mod as uploaded has I believe slightly larger-than-EA values for those things, but not ridiculously-large like I like. As uploaded, there is also no sun halo, which to me results in a sun that looks like a ping-pong ball floating in the sky, but whatever.
I was going to write up and include instructions on how to mess with sun/moon sizes and other things in this post, including how to "reactivate" Burntwaffles's "auroras" if you want them. (Those are really just colored clouds, though; I prefer to use this mod for auroras, and it is shown in one of the pics above.) But I've decided to do all that in a separate post or two at a later time because probably no one will read this massive wall of text as it is. :)
For the sky objects replacement: They began life as parts of @wasset-asekara's "Enchanted Environment" mod, but I have edited them over the years. I don't remember all that I have done, but I do know that I edited @nilxis's clouds a bit and put that in there, and that the stars are an edit of ShojoAngel's starfield because I like its gazillions of tiny stars better than EA's sparse field of large globs that are apparently supposed to be stars. (One day I will make my own starfield from scratch that's more of a "happy medium" between those two, but that day hasn't arrived yet. LOL ) I'm pretty sure I didn't edit Wasset's sun halo, though, and it's included. You can see it in this pic, but as I said the uploaded mod has the sun halo size set to zero, so it will not appear unless you go in and fiddle with the sun and sun halo sizes yourself. As I said, I'll make a separate post about how to do that, if you don't already know.
And now for the section where I'll list my computer's relevant specs, mods that I use, and other stuff I have installed that affect how my game looks, for transparency's sake and so that you can get some of this stuff if you don't already have itâŠ
My computer's relevant specs:
Core i9 "Rocket Lake" processor (The one before the Alder Lake one that requires a patch for TS3 to work right). It runs at 3.5GHz
64GB of RAM
The game and all CC is installed on an M.2 SSD
16GB RTX 4060Ti GPU
So, it's pretty high-spec. If your machine is lower-spec, I can't guarantee that this lighting mod plus all the other crap that most serious TS3 players use will result in a good gameplay experience. On the other hand, lighting mods aren't resource-intensive by themselves. They are literally just numbers and a handful of tiny images. It's just that people, myself included, tend to couple them with resource hogs like Reshade as well as appearance-improving mods and graphics rules and things, plus a mass of gameplay mods, and the cumulative result is one big resource drain. So, bear that in mind.
Mods:
More light through windows
This fixes EA windows so that they work better and create more natural lighting. However, if you use a lot of custom windows that clone the unfixed LITE resource from EA windows, it will not help you at all.
Improved EA Lights
Similar to the above, this fixes EA lamps and wall/ceiling lights and stuff so that they cast artificial light more realistically. It will also not help you if you use a lot of custom lights that clone the LITE resource of unfixed EA lights.
Fixed tileable item shaders
This makes it so that lighting isn't weird on tiled bookshelves and sectional couches and stuff. Alas, it does not seem to fix uneven lighting on tiled windows. :( And, again, it fixes EA stuff, not custom stuff.
LazyDuchess's Sky Banding Fix
It used to be that I used Reshade mostly to fix the gradient banding in the sky. With this fix plus this lighting mod, I can completely ditch Reshade, yay! (Of course you don't have to ditch Reshade; I just didn't personally use it much other than to deband and desaturate.)
Default replacement moon shown in the pics
I use the Quartz color. You can use any replacement you want, of course. Or you can stick with the ugly EA moon.
NVIDIA Settings
Used for better antialiasing, the addition of ambient occlusion (which affects shadows), and a few other things. I listed the settings I use on this post. I imagine you can alter these settings if you use an AMD card, too, but I'm an NVIDIA girlie, so I don't know how you'd go about doing that. I'm sure there is info out there on the Intertubes, though! Bear in mind that many Reshade presets, if you use them, include better antialiasing and activating ambient occlusion, etc. via the various shaders used in the preset. Generally, you want either/or here, and I personally feel that NVIDIA settings give better results. However, with Reshade presets, you can disable individual shaders used for ambient occlusion and antialiasing and such to make them more compatible with NVIDIA settings.
A so-called "HQ mod."
Which isn't actually a mod at all but just edited graphics rules that change a few numbers so that the game uses higher-resolution images for stuff by default. This is necessary because, generally speaking, the game doesn't "know" that newer graphics cards that it doesn't natively recognize are capable of using larger textures, so it defaults to lower-resolution ones. If you haven't already done so, it's best to edit this yourself because graphics rules are rather machine-specific. General instructions on how to fart around with the graphics rules are here, and if you google around you'll find other tweaks that you can apply or not, as you choose. I personally edited mine for higher-resolution shadows and textures, both of which contribute to the pics of this lighting mod.
In-Game Graphics settings
All of mine are at maximum except for the game's native antialiasing (AKA "Edge Smoothing"), which is turned off since the NVIDIA settings handle that.
Various default-replacements.
The most obvious in the pics of this mod being @asabinsims "Project Renaissance" which default-replaces the textures for many of the game's trees, shrubs, and flowers. The "large" version is used in the pictures, but I use the "small" version for gameplay. Also, the sims in the pictures are using the default skin, eye, hair textures, and brow/facial hair replacements I use, but before the game "updated" them, they were briefly "wearing" the hideous Maxis stuff, and there were still no weird shadows and stuff on them.
Stuff that I don't have/use but that could possibly make this look even better:
LazyDuchess's Shader Framework and Tweaks
LazyDuchess's Split-Level Lighting Fix
(I don't use these only because, last time I tried to use them, I couldn't get the game to load with the shader framework installed, and the split-level fix just didn't work. But maybe it's time to try getting them to work againâŠ)
And also: @katsujiiccfinds (But feel free NOT to reblog this, because it is a ridiculously massive post because of my thoroughness kink, and I would totally understand not wanting to pass that around. :) )
A conversion of the bathrobe from the Kitchen & Bath pack.
Polycount:
Adult:
LOD1: 3180 F / 2266 V
LOD2: 1811 F / 1385 V
LOD3: 1171 F / 991 V
Teen:
LOD1: 3369 F / 2331 V
LOD2: 1961 F / 1516 V
LOD3: 1241 F / 1030 V
Download Links:
[SFS] | [MTS]
Mesh Info:
Base game compatible.
Got all 3 LODs.
3 recolorable channels.
Added a teen version.
Got a maternity morph (both teen & adult).
Not valid for random, can be found in the Sleepwear category.
Standard 1024x1024 texture.
The package files are compressed.
Credits: EA/Maxis, Blender, S3PE, Blender GEOM Tools by SmugTomato, Meshing Toolkit by CmarNYC (Updated by @thornowl), CAS Designer Toolkit by Destrospean.
@pis3update @kpccfinds @xto3conversionsfinds
CASTable channels and morphs previews under the cut.
This took a bit! I'm happy I was able to finally finish what I've had in mind for ages: learning how to add container slots to objects! Here you have 14 plants and 15 vases that you can mix & match among themselves and with other separated plants, provided they can be placed on slots đ
The vases can be found under Decor \ Misc for various prices, and the plants can be found under Decor \ Plants for $10. The Feather Arrangement can be found under Decor \ Misc.
They can be moved around in Live Mode on their own and, in the case of the vases, when objects have been placed in them!
Everything is recolorable with several channels and 3 presets, with the exception of the Regency Plant (which has two presets with two mask variations) and the leaves and stems of the plants.
The vases have 2-3 slots each, at different heights to account for shorter or taller plants/objects. For better control, you can use the M key when placing to switch between the different slots.
Yes, you can also stack vases on top of each other đ
đ· Download:
Plants (8 MB): Mediafire | Mega | Simblr
Vases (7 MB): Mediafire | Mega | Simblr
đ Thanks: @pitheinfinite for the container slot tutorial, @zoeoe-sims for telling me about the HandToolSkipRecursivePickupTests flag which allows these objects to be picked up and moved in Live Mode.
âš Recommendations: ATS3 & Frankie's sets 01 and 02 (make sure to manually enable the FullRotation flag on them in S3PE, otherwise you won't be able to rotate them once placed on slots!), MadRayne's conversions of plants, my other set of separated plants, omedapixel's Sims 3 Decorator Tools (amazing utility; can be used on items placed on the slots of the vases to finetune placement and avoid clipping).
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