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TS2 and TS3 mainly. WCIF at the best of my ability! My gameplay stuff #pleasantmilk Reshade preset: Dove 2.0 by kindlespice

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On The Snow

So here it is finally, my very first cc collection!

About this pack:

15 Items (+ 4 accessory recolour overlays)

BGC

For male sims T-E (hats and goggles are enabled for female frames as well)

More details and photos in the downloads post!

Download: Patreon (Free)

[yooniesim]

I'm in love with this! 💜

[jacky93sims]

Chop Chop! Kitchen Set - for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from Plumberry, full set, low poly, all recolors. A collection file is also included.

There are two versions of the fridge, one is for Free Time, the other for base game (choose only one).

DOWNLOAD HERE

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Explaining the Pink Soup (In Layman's Terms)

Hi everyone!

First off, I just wanted to say thank you for all of the positive feedback I've received over the past few days — I'm really pleased to see that my mod seems to have been effective for so many of you!

I am aware that my dissertation/thesis is really rather technical, filled with lots of academic/flowery language, and probably quite overwhelming to try and understand if you're lucky enough to have not studied computer science, so I wanted to attempt to break the key parts of it down into the simplest terms possible, to hopefully help answer some of the questions I've seen people have.

What is the pink soup?

The pink/purple strobe lighting we all know and love is 1 of 4 uniquely coloured shaders the game uses to indicate a specific type of error has occurred when trying to display something on-screen. The 3 other colours it uses (you've likely seen at least one of them) are red, blue, and yellow.

These shaders serve two main purposes:

To let you know something has gone wrong in an obvious (albeit obnoxious) manner.

To allow the game to keep running in spite of whatever error has happened (otherwise it would just crash).

Internally, the error that the pink soup represents is known as a "material parsing failure", i.e. the game has failed to understand some piece of material data (textures, rendering properties etc.) about an object it is trying to render.

Part of the process the game goes through before rendering an object to the screen is checking that its data only contains specific characters (numbers, letters, and certain symbols) — an example of when this would fail and trigger the pink soup would be if the game came across a random emoji during these checks.

What does 32-bit/64-bit mean?

A 'bit' is just a single digit of a binary number. All you really need to know is that a 32-bit number is a binary number that is 32 digits (bits) long, with the largest binary number possible being 32 consecutive 1s (1111111…).

I'm not going to bore you to death and show you how to convert binary numbers to decimal, so you'll just have to believe me when I say that 32 consecutive 1s in binary is equivalent to 4,294,967,295 in decimal.

4.2 billion might seem like a pretty high value to be able to represent, but if I said this is roughly equal to 4GB, you might be able to start to see how 32-bit computers/software could be a bit (no pun intended) limited memory-wise. For comparison, the largest decimal value a 64-bit binary number can represent is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615, or just under 18.5 exabytes (EB)!

But what if I wanted to represent the number 5 billion in 32-bit binary? Here's the fun thing — you can't. If you tried, the binary number would 'wrap around'. As in, it would max out at 32 consecutive 1s before resetting back to 0 and continuing to count up until it reached the binary value of 705,032,705 (5,000,000,000 - 4,294,967,295 = 705,032,705).

This is what is meant when we say that The Sims 2 can only use up to 4GB of your computer's memory (RAM) — it is physically unable to access/store data in more than 4,294,967,296 different memory addresses (it's 4,294,967,296 because the range of possible addresses would be 0 to 4,294,967,295).

If you're not sure what I mean when I talk about 'memory addresses', you can think of the concept as being like your home address (your house number, street name, and postal/zip code). It's just the location a piece of data lives at in memory so the game knows where to find it if it needs to use it for something.

Once the game has run out of memory addresses to use to store things, it will crash. The only way this could be fixed would be if EA magically decided to rewrite the game's engine to be 64-bit, thus allowing it to use an exponentially larger number of addresses.

Why does the pink soup happen?

This is where things get interesting. While the game is loading, the material data for the objects in your neighbourhood/lot is stored at individual addresses in your computer's memory so it can be processed.

Part of this processing involves the game taking all of the shader code found in the Materials.package file and linking the relevant shaders to the relevant pieces of material data of an object (e.g. a reflection shader would be linked to the glass part of a mirror object), creating shader 'packages' for the whole object. Again, both these packages and the information that links them to the object are also stored in memory.

As you can probably imagine, if you have a large number of different objects in your hood/lot (particularly more complex/detailed objects with many rendering properties), the amount of free memory the game has to use to keep storing things starts to decrease FAST.

Back in ye olden days of 2004 when The Sims 2 was released, 32-bit was the most commonly used architecture for consumer-grade hardware and software. Despite its known drawbacks, the 4GB memory restriction was not really a huge issue, as the technical limitations of the time meant your parents' PC would likely catch fire and explode long before this level of memory usage could be reached in-game.

Windows XP (the operating system the game was primarily developed for) was also a 32-bit operating system. The way XP handled the 4GB memory limit was simple:

2GB was given to the kernel (the core of the operating system).

2GB was given to applications (i.e. The Sims 2).

This is why it is commonly recommended to apply what is known as a '4GB patch' to the game, as by default, it still thinks it's living in 2004 and is only allowed to use 2GB of memory — the 4GB patch therefore permits the game to use the full 4GB of memory it is able to support.

So, where does the pink soup come in to this?

Basically, there is a piece of logic within the game's code that is used during the process of linking shaders to material data described above. All this logic does is check whether the material data it is being given is stored at a memory address above or below the 2GB mark, presumably some kind of relic of the Windows XP days.

For whatever reason (either due to a bug or intentional design), for data stored above 2GB, the game performs additional checks which will ALWAYS FAIL, and the game will treat this data as being malformed/invalid, refusing to link any shaders to it.

Hopefully, the chain of causality should now be clear:

The capabilities of our hardware has increased dramatically in the past 20+ years.

We've all been applying a 4GB patch to the game to allow it to make use of more of our RAM.

We've also all been installing a load of cool custom content and creating highly decorated hoods/lots because our fancy graphics cards can handle them easily.

All of these objects are causing memory usage to quickly surpass the originally intended 2GB range.

The game is considering any data for the objects stored above this range to be invalid and refusing to do anything with it.

The pink/purple error shader is instead being applied to these objects because the game thinks there is something wrong with their material data.

In conclusion, The Sims 2 is confused and elderly, frequently soiling itself when presented with high-tech information from the far off future of the 2020s that its puny 2004 mind can't possibly comprehend.

What are the differences between v1/v2 of the mod?

Both versions of the mod patch the same piece of logic in the game's code, but with differing approaches.

With v1, the additional (and always failing) checks the game performs on material data stored above the 2GB mark are essentially patched out, meaning they are not executed and shaders will always be correctly linked to them, regardless of their location in memory. This is great, as you should never see any pink soup that would usually be triggered by these failed checks. Consequently however, the game will give you no indication that it is running out of memory, except for when it inevitably crashes once all free memory has been used up.

On the other hand, v2 makes use of these faulty checks. Instead of removing them completely, they are repurposed to warn you of high memory usage, with the game not performing these checks until material data starts being stored above the 3.5GB mark. This means you will still see pink soup, but only once memory usage exceeds 3.5GB. This is intentional, and is meant to be a trade-off between allowing the game to correctly process more data in memory, but also still letting you know that a crash may be imminent some time after the pink soup appears, giving you enough breathing room to save and restart the game before this happens.

To illustrate these differences better, here is roughly what the code is doing in the vanilla game, v1, and v2 of the mod:

Vanilla:

if memory address <= 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 2GB pink soup time!

V1:

if memory address <= 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual

V2:

if memory address <= 3.5GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 3.5GB pink soup time!

Which version should I choose?

There's no correct option, but if you play with a lot of CC or with highly decorated hoods/lots, I would probably recommend starting with v2, only for the so-called 'safety' reasons I outlined above.

I personally use v1 because I play very vanilla, so I know memory usage should never really get that high. If you're like me, or you just don't care about potential crashes and want to be rid of the pink soup, then v1 of the mod is the one for you :)

I know people likely still have many questions, so I've enabled the 'Ask me anything' option on this blog - feel free to use it!

Thanks again,

Will

[unpleasant-milk]

Sunlit Tides part 1

Alyssa and Amos enjoying their honeymoon new life at Sunlit Tides and ended up deciding to stay there long-term as they loved the island life.

Trouble anyway was around the corner as some time later Alyssa anded up hooking up with her BROTHER-IN-LAW Gilberto who had just gotten married to Maddison (soap opera ah drama) and accidentally ended up pregnant. She managed to somehow keep it a secret that she had an affair with another man from her husband.

So meet Nalani! I chose a Hawaiian name for her as Alyssa for me is the token white girl and I felt she would name her daughter with something Polynesian inspired as Sunlit Tides is Polynesian inspired.

Anyway I think Amos has a hunch that her daughter isn't actually his daughter cuz.. SHE PALE AS FUCK LOL

TS3 Store World Legacy — Nova

challenge by florydaaxhttps://www.tumblr.com/florydaax/701017236676149248/the-sims-3-store-world-legacy

[unpleasant-milk]

Lucky Palms part 4

Funny how this gen has gotten the most posts thus far. I wonder will that continue more as I progress along this challenge lmao.

Alyssa's teen years went quite well. She learned to drive (unlike any of her siblings...) and spent alot of her time painting and swimming.

Tho.. She isn't a perfect girl and fell in love with her own sister's high school sweetheart Amos. (Darren Dreamer's son hehe) Alyssa had higher attraction score to Amos than Eveline, so I let her be a fucking brick and steal her sister's boyfriend.

Obiviously that ended up wrecking the sisters relationship pretty bad. The triplets were all very close to eachothers before Alyssa started flirting with Amos.

As it's time to move on to gen 6. I had to get Alyssa and Amos married on Alyssa's first week of being a young adult.

Got everyone invited as it was also time to say goodbye to lot of the fairy members of the family before they moved to Sunlit Tides, as fairies live just soooo long and I didn't wanna bring too many sims with me. Yea and Cassidy is still kicking... She isn't even an elder yet x_x

TS3 Store World Legacy — Nova

challenge by florydaaxhttps://www.tumblr.com/florydaax/701017236676149248/the-sims-3-store-world-legacy

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Lucky Palms part 3

Alyssa the next gen heir, with a murderous gaze, and her with her father

I took Basil and Sahan on a date and got them engaged. With so many children to rise togehter I just felt they should commit to eachothers for life. AND OKAY THEYRE SO FUCKING CUTE TOGETHER TOO

Alyssa aged up to a child!

Boys had their wedding too, but the joy was short lived...

I really became fond of him, but due to dangerous jobs mod and Sahan being in the law enforcement he got unfortunate.

Yea I tried to have a funeral, but it was underwhelming experience.

Right before Sahan's untimely passage their last child was born. He got the name Cyrus.

TS3 Store World Legacy — Nova

challenge by florydaaxhttps://www.tumblr.com/florydaax/701017236676149248/the-sims-3-store-world-legacy

[unpleasant-milk]

Lucky Palms part 2

GUESS WHO GOT BACK TOGETHER??? YEP THESE TWO

Idk man ig Basil just still saw something in Sahan.

Shortly before Basil and Sahan got back together they also had a child together, Maddison. I have no toddler pictures of her so I can't even remember exactly how old Madelynn was when she was born x_x

Well, Madelynn and Maddison weren't enough cuz I still needed an heir for the next gen! SO I ACCIDENTALLY IMPREGNATED SAHAN

Yea uh Basil was the one supposed to be getting pregnant oops, but oh well Sahan took it like a chad and pushed out FUCKING TRIPLETS

YEA SO THEN MY LIVING HELL STARTED

Meet Alyssa, Eveline and Vivian. I hope I don't have to deal with triplets ever again. (Tho, according to the store world legacy, in Aurora Skies I will have to try for quads. I meann it's just a dare, buttt... I like suffering)

Yea and someone aged up with pigtails and crosseyed

TS3 Store World Legacy — Nova

challenge by florydaaxhttps://www.tumblr.com/florydaax/701017236676149248/the-sims-3-store-world-legacy

[unpleasant-milk]

Lucky Palms part 1

It was time for my twink boy to leave the planet of Lunar Lakes and return to SimEarth. He was still in highschool at that point and started dating Sahan wooooo

Too bad Basil is non-commitmental and cheated + got pregnant by Ezekiel

Sahan broke up with Basil and twinkie boi went to kiss a froggg

The first of (wayy too many) children, Madelynn!

TS3 Store World Legacy — Nova

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HOW I MAKE THE SIMS 3 LOOK PRETTY!

I decided to bring the mods I use together after a few inquiries on how I make my game look nice! I don't think it looks perfect BUT I am very happy with the screenshots I take. I actually don't have many in my game, but here's the ones I use:

For environment mods, Sims 3 Project Renaissance (small textures) Snow but Better Improved EA Lighting HD Texture pack (1k) Dive into Sky Lighting Mod (PAYWALLED if u want it I can try and dm you it) Stars I don't have it in my game right now since reinstalling but I also used to use Shadow Extender

The reshade I use is Clarity, it's truly life changing! I use it in reshade 6.4.1 after following this tutorial. I also edit my pictures with this psd. If anyone has anymore questions just ask!

Here are some random pics of my game without/with reshade:

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How to install the Sims 3 and make it run smooth

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).

Step 5: Install DXVK

Make sure you follow this guide by Nornities 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 (the 32 bit one) 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

[unpleasant-milk]

Part 2 of Lunar Lakes yahooo

Cassidy got to meet her grandchildren, and man.. It was so heartbreaking seeing Kai so old, and he died around the time I was done with Lunar Lakes ;; He is one of the rare male sims I've gotten fond of so him passing away was so sad, especially cuz Cass has 5 times his lifespan WAAA

Ivy and Laurel aged up, and my goddd Laurel is so prettyyy (tho like she is exact copy of Phoebe so it's expected)

ALSO WHY DID MISTER GRIM REAPER HIMSELF COME ON ONE OF THE BIRTHDAYS??? (i don't remember whose it was?? Maybe Basil's??)

Ivy being a gorgeous diva!! She really took after her aunt more than her mom.

The siblings

[unpleasant-milk]

Oh god.. Lunar Lakes took everything out of me and almost made me get a burn out x_x Anyway here is the 1st half of the stuff what happened

Before Lunar Lakes I did take a small uni detour, so happy nraas can shorten the semesters because I CANT WITH SIMS UNI ITS SO RAAAAAAUIFHKJSGFKJDSF

Anyway took Luna with me too even Phoebe is gen 4 heir, because I just looove her. She is just such a evil diva and QUEEEEEN so I had to have her with me so I can watch her shenanigans.

Both of them graduated w honors but I only took photo of Phoebe cuz I forgor

Off to Lunar Lakes where we got a plant bäbi and got married to Shea

Just mom things, setting the cake on fire on your daughter's birthday!

Luna and Shea were the MVPs taking care of the children while Phoebe was constantly obsessed with work.

Laurel is our plant baby and first born and Ivy was the second child who was a science baby. As part of the challenge was to have a clone and science baby (but occults can't redeem it so I made a plant baby instead)

AND THEN THE STAR OF THE SHOW WAS BORN!! AND I LOVE HIMM!! Say hi to Basil, the next heir and he was so cuteeee

Sadly, it was time to break of the relationship between these two, as Phoebe was drifting away from her husband.

[unpleasant-milk]

My sims 3 takes around 10mins to load and I refuse to get cc magic cuz last time I broke my game with it

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🌆 TS1t2 Project : The Downtown Map 🚕

long post, read carefully

🌃 After a lot of work and a few mishaps, here's a complete, multi-purpose map. It is indeed a re-creation of Downtown from The Sims 1 but also of the Sims 2 one. That way, there are no limitations on possibilities. No need to add two Downtowns to your neighborhood !

🏢 I've also added Maxis apartments for an urban feel and/or to allow for the creation of a BelladonnaCove-style neighborhood.

🏙️ If you download the map without the lots, you'll have a great starting point for creating the SimCity of your dreams 🗺️

⛰️ I used the horizon to connect the landscape to that of The Sims 1: the vampire district will lead to the village of Creepy Hollow, on my MagicTown map, behind the misty mountains.

🏝️ I also used a cruise ship to fill the horizon of the shoreline. It's more aesthetically pleasing and helps create a link with the future Vacation Island. Since this part of the landscape represents a small town, I thought it could be OldTown, where I wanted to create a small area for the cruise ship's port 🛳️

🏢 It's a very decorated map, suitable for experienced users. I've created a lot of details and hidden corners for all sorts of scenarios you can create by adding an empty area beneath the decorations. Think vacant lots, dark alleys, stories of cops and robbers, superheroes... Personally, I'll use them to create gang war stories between werewolves and vampires 🐺

🏗️ CONTENT NEEDED :

If you don't have and/or don't want a content from that list, the concerned content simply won't show off in your neighborhood. The game will simply delete it from the file. The problem with this game feature is that if you forget something and want it, you'll have to download it and then reinstall the entire neighborhood. Otherwise, your game will retain a map from which it has removed elements.

Windenberg Skyline by @tony-veis Great Sky of Totalitarism by @lowedeus (Tower) Redbud Tree CUSTOM version by @suratan-zir Dead Trees by @mustluvcatz-reloaded 4t2 Simslabs Bonehilda Statue by @nonsensical-pixels Placeable Cliffs by @greatcheesecakepersona Kharkiv Church & Chimneys by @lowedeus Nessie the Plesiosaur by Psychosims TS3 Hello City Buildings by @curiousb Neighborhood Fog by @jodeliejodelie Neighborhood Ghosts by @jodeliejodelie Small Embankments by @jodeliejodelie Parking Slots Spaces by @vorpalcowplant Duarns Building by @criquette-was-here Vervainwort Buildings by Criquette Soccer Field by Criquette Busy Road Vehicle Set by Criquette Cobblestones Footpath Pieces by Criquette Street Tables and Benches by Criquette The Bus stop and Post by Criquette Rural Road Charm’s Asphalt Tarmac Pieces by Criquette Telegraph Poles by Criquette The Fence & Hedge set by Criquette Even more fences set by Criquette Smuggled Deco by Criquette (Giant FS13 Harvester) Smuggled Deco part 2 by Criquette (Gran Mill Storage) Street Lights Set by Criquette Cruise Terminal by Criquette (ship) 4t2 Street Lights by @beautifulnerdkitty Building by @ethanmcgregor (artbuilding, fashion distritcs, warehouses) Smallest Maxis Watertank by Psychosims Trash Piles by @lordcrumps Anno 2070 Tech Residence by @cityof2morrow (battery) Industrial Cylinder by @leoz94 (i think it's ts4tupik) TS1 Watertower (remade from Nutti 4t2 watertower) by me ⚠️ Some of those CC needs the Better Nightlife Mod (or any mod that contains it) by @criquette-was-here to appear !

🍃 DEFAULT REPLACEMENT TREES

You can chose to keep the Maxis ones or use one of those : 🌲 Neighborhood Pine Forest Defaults by @teaaddictyt, @lowedeus & @shastakiss 🌲 OR my Darker Recolor of the previous set : SFS - Mediafire (it’s the version used on my pictures, obviously) 🌳 & Linden Redux Replacement Trees by @criquette-was-here & @lowedeus (also exists as custom trees)

🌉 You will NEED @criquette-was-here's "7tiles humpbacked bridge" for the neighborhood, but the choice of the bridges depend on which roads you are using. 🔹IF you are using MAXIS roads, you need these bridges (and you will have to place them yourself on the completely remade neighborhood) 🔸IF you are using @criquette-was-here’s Rural Charms Roads, you will need her Unified Brigdes 🔹IF you are using, like I do on those previews @lordcrumps's Grungy Road, you will need THIS brige I recolored.

🏘️ LOTS

I used several lots for this Downtown, some of them aren't mine : 🔴 Of course, for the TS1 Downtown part you'll need to INSTALL : 🔸my "Downtown Community Lots" for the CC involved 🔸the related items from my TS1t2 Lots Mastermeshes post 🚕

🔵 The TS2 Downtown Lots are from @thedudewiththedragontattoos' Downtown Revamp, because they are soooo much better than Maxis ones and I didn't wanted to remake Maxis or custom lots. It's already a lot of CC for you to handle with this map, but for those, you will simply need very good and multi-purpose CC : 🔹The Bespoke Set by @honeywell-mts (everyone should have it anyway 😉) 🔹 4t2 Vampire Graves by @tony-veis 🔹 4T2 City Living Murals by @moocha-muses​ 🔹 Public Bathroom Deco by @nekosayuri​ 🔹 Simlish Neon Signs by @polllinationtech​ 🏬 More infos on the original Downtown Revamp Post. There is a no-CC version of these lots, but the amount of CC of those is very low, (the Bespoke Set is needed for my TS1 lots anyway) and very useful for my past or future creations, so why not put the better lots in the Downtown anyway ? I invite you to check the @thedudewiththedragontattoos' work no matter what.

🟣 The 🪾House of Fallen Trees by @plumbtales in the vampire district, because it's an iconic TS2 Downtown lot, but I invite you to check their Dark Villa, quite suited for the Downtown Vampire vibe 🦇

☑️ CHECK LIST

💾 Did you make a backup of your Sims2 folder ? 🌁 What neighborhood do you want and how to install it ? 🚕 Did you INSTALL the TS1t2 Downtown Lots if needed ? ⚒️ Did you check the master meshes post for the Downtown lots ? installed everything ? 🌲 Did you install the neighborhood decorations from this post ? 🙏 Did you send a prayer to the Gamer's Gardian Angel ? 🦑 Did you exorcised the Pink Soup out of your PC ? ✅ Then you're ready to GO !

Every file have been checked, but If something is wrong, contact me ASAP

💾 DOWNLOAD Downtown Neighborhood

🟥 Downtown MAIN + Lots : SFS - Mediafire 🟨 Downtown MAIN Empty Hood : SFS - Mediafire 🟩 Downtown as a Downtown + Lots : SFS - Mediafire 🟦 Downtown as a Downtown Empty Hood : SFS - Mediafire

To install the MAIN HOODS, you have to put the neighborhood folder in your TS2 document folder : …/My Documents/(Your Sims 2 folder)/Neighborhoods/ To Install the DOWNTOWNS, you have to put the neighborhood folder in your TS2 “Nightlife” installation folder : (Your TS2 Installation repertory)…/EP2/TSData/Res/Neighborhood Templates/

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she's beauty she's grace she's got a geometrically impossible face meet Betty!

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Odyssey Arcade

First community lot and the first sims 3 lot Im sharing here. I tried to avoid store content as much as possible, but the pinball machines and basketball thrower + one of the arcade machines are from the store, but feel free to replace them. They're not really necessary for the functionality. The ball throwing machines from Showtime for example are a perfect replacement.

EPs required: Supernatural, Late Night, Into The Future, University, Ambitions, Generations, Showtime

SPs required: 70's, 80's and 90's, High End Loft, Fast Lane

Store content required: Buzzer Beater Free Throw Machine, Atomic Jack Planet Attack Pinball Machine, Decades Pinball Machine, Hi-Yo Candy Mountain Rangers, Away! Arcade Machine

Always let me know in case there are any issues!

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Back with my store world legacy shenanigans. Kai and Cass became quite busy w family life but at least I have bunch of cute pictures

Phoebe's two younger siblings Luna and Neptune were quite mischievous in their teen years. Tho, I suppose they're also fairies so it checks out. Luna tho was constantly finding herself in trouble and even sneaking out and.. well.. passing out in the snow

And well three children somehow wasn't enough so later on the youngest, Juno also was born. (Also I gave all the children unique wings that's why the wing change)

Anyway, I sent Phoebe and Luna to the university as I somehow had motivation to play some uni and it's officially time to move to gen 4! (and lunar lakes)

TS3 Store World Legacy — Nova

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