xiasimla

Summer in Shang Simla

[xiasimla]

Welcome to my Tumblr!

Mostly TS2 & TS3, with occasional TSM, TS4 and other games. Open TOU, just check the original creator's TOU if it's a conversion or edit.

My Downloads

All Tags

Inbox

Answers

TS2 WCIF

TS3 WCIF

Resources (WIP)

[giftofgabby1]

Paledust: a Paler Skittlesims Skintone System Skin

Compare the my paler skine tone to Skittlesims palest

Comes in all freckled and moled variants too

Download Link:

Thank you to

xiasimla - the skin that the Skittlesims is based on

Skittlesims - the skin that I recolored

Trapping - skintone which the colorcurve is based Iakoa - the gimp color curve I used

[sgthebee]

Beetlewing Eyes

Does the world need another Beetle Eyes variant? Probably not, but you're getting one anyway!

These are squea's Beetle Eyes with pupils enlarged to match plumbhead's Delicate Eyes (minicule's 4t2 conversion), irises given some texture from kahlena's Hypnotic Eyes (inspired by simstationdance's Ladybug Eyes), all on xiasimla's 4t2 Beetle Eyes sclera.

It includes defaults, 39 natural(ish) colors, 7 alien colors, and 8 supernatural colors (inspired by the Beetle Eyes fairy swatches). You can choose custom, geneticized-only*, or geneticized* + townified.

I've also thrown in a template file (XCF/GIMP format) for making your own colors and PNGs for making your own vampire/werewolf/plantsim/zombie overlays.

Download

*Genetics are based on simnopke's More Realistic Genetics. All blues are recessive (2), all greens and hazels are in-between (1.5), and all browns are dominant (1). Purples, pinks, and bright red/oranges are recessive to all natural colors (3).

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

TeeHee cheeky preview looks a bit familiar, soon you'll know why bc it was absolutely on purpose!

Ok soooooo basically, this is an edit of @episims Correlated Werewolf defaults but with @xiasimla default Werewolf eyes because I could not choose one or the other - I needed both so I made them work! 💪😤 Since this is a default replacement, you can use this one or another one but not both at the same time. All I did was slap the eyes and teeth textures onto Epi's skins (removing the scrunch between the eyes since I'm not a huge fan of that - sorry!)

From here, plucked from Epi's original post because important:

I also HIGHLY recommend the "no more stupid werewolf hair" mod

I also HIGHLY recommend this workaround for the scalp thing in bodyshop

Download @ SimFileShare (8.7mb) or Patreon (always, ALWAYS free)

[xiasimla]

Hi, I was wondering if we need to keep the original file for your "Fix for Simple Life’s Default Replacement Brows" file?

No, it replaces the original entirely. I'll add that to the download post so it's clearer!

[xiasimla]

Hi! It's my first time running TS3 with so many wonderful mods, yours among them❤️ However, I'm struggling with a massive loading time and terrible lag. What do you use to avoid this? I know about LazyDuchess' Smooth Patch and Sims3SettingsSetter. Would you recommend me any of these? Have a great day!

Double-check to make sure you didn't accidentally install CC made for the wrong game. You can use Sims 3 Dashboard to check for this (and for any corrupt CC).

I also highly recommend merging CC, this made the biggest difference in load times for me! I use CC Magic, here's a tutorial by gruesim. If you have .sims3packs CC installed through the Launcher, I recommend reinstalling them through CC Magic as well. TS3 handles a few large merged files so much better than many smaller individual ones.

I have also used Smooth Patch since its release, though I recently switched over to Sims 3 Settings Setter, because S3SS also implements Smooth Patch. S3SS also has a number of other patches to help with performance. I'd recommend trying these out for yourself, I'm pretty new to using S3SS as well.

[xiasimla]

Fix for Simple Life's Default Replacement Brows

Made this simple fix a while ago but hadn't gotten around to uploading it until now. I love Simple Life's default brows and have been using them for ages, but I noticed a couple sims had these little crease lines on their faces. It's pretty subtle but I couldn't unsee it. I figured out there was a bit of leftover texture there on a few of the brows and erased them. All credit to Simple Life! Also, Happy Lunar New Year's!

Original Link

Default Replacements for all Eyebrows

All ages

Also recommended and compatible: carversims' unlocked unisex eyebrows

You may need to change appearance or delete cache files for this to take effect on existing sims

This replaces the original SLU_Sims3_DefaultBrowsAll.package entirely, you can remove it if you already have it

Download: SimFileShare (.package) or Patreon (free)

Credit: Simple Life

[xiasimla]

TS2 Sim Dump

As requested by Darriuns, I'm uploading the various sims I use as models in my CC previews. They've been pretty long-time residents of my test hood so I don't remember specifics about all of them, some of them may just be face templates blended together. Dedrick was my attempt at recreating one of my TS3 sims so he has the most CC included, the others mostly use default makeup. I updated my Resources page to add the default templates and makeup I use.

Hopefully I did everything right, this is actually my first time uploading TS2 sims. I cloned them in Body Shop, and exported them as Sims2Packs. So install them with Clean Installer. Screenshots were also taken in Body Shop. Do whatever you'd like with them! And a big thank you to all the CC creators ❤

Download: SimFileShare Folder (.Sims2Pack)

[xiasimla]

love your conversion of beetle eyes, everything about them is just so perfect 💘 would you be interested in ever adding some non-default colour versions to them? 👀

Thanks! I've thought about converting the other duotone swatches in particular, though it's been low-priority because I rarely use non-default eyes myself. There are some other conversions as well already, such as deatherella's (53 swatches! plus vampire and mermaid), greatfairie's (20 swatches on MSWN sclera), and more I'm sure. I also got an ask recently from another anon who requested the sclera textures to make non-defaults, so maybe they are planning to convert other Beetle Eyes swatches.

[xiasimla]

Omg xiasimla!! You’re making sims 2 cc now? I really love your sims 3 cc🥰 and i’m so glad that you’re also tapping into my (current) favorite sims game which is sims 2!🫶

Thank you! Yes, I make CC for both. TS3 was my first Sims game, I started playing TS2 later (in 2020) so less experience with it but I love them both.

[xiasimla]

Hey there! Wanted to say that your Sims style is been a huge inspiration for my own, I love everything you create! So, how do you make Sims? Pooket method? If that's the case, what face templates do you use? (They aren't listed in your resources)

Also wcif the ears you used for the werewolf Sim in the preview of that skin default?

Have a good day❤ — Darriuns

Aw, thank you! Honestly, most of my models were made by just blending templates together, picking a template then a few right-clicks on another, then tweaking them from there. I'd be happy to upload any of them if you'd like. For face templates, I use Spookymuffin's as defaults and Chasing Miss Pretty as non-defaults.

The cute werewolf ears were converted from FFXIV by Gryning.

[xiasimla]

Officer...if you love them, let them go.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Bonus: Angela woke up like "not another one of dad's affair partners 🙄"

[xiasimla]

Darker Black Swatch Recolors for @platinumaspiration's Ultimate 4t2 Hair Default Replacement Collection

The amount of work platinumaspiration put into converting this, wow! With animations, so many hats, age & gender conversions, all NPC hairs, repo'd, etc., etc. All my thanks for making a cohesive clay hair-ified TS2 a breeze to set up, and for allowing recolors.

I was glad to see she used the TS4 swatches that are also my faves, though Maxis's black swatches aren't as consistent as I like. There's some that are jet black, some that are gray (like the previews), contrast varies widely, etc. I prefer jet black, which loses some details in the texture but looks the best with all skintones IMO. I used dbasiasimbr's PS action to batch recolor, her Black-Dark Brown Override is one of my TS4 must-haves. Thanks also to all her work! And thanks to @lordcrumps for hosting the previews with sortable filters, made keeping track much easier.

I also recolored some of the pale blond swatches for toddlers to match the dirty blond swatch the other hairs use. All in all, I edited 333 files, so I uploaded each folder separately on SFS (file size limit) or you can download the single .zip from Patreon, for free. Please let me know if I missed a hair or forgot the texture for any accessories/hats!

Default replacements, see LordCrumps' site for previews

Recompressed

Kept the folder structure and file names the same

Installation Instructions:

Download platinumaspiration's full collection first, if you don't have it already. I only included the files I recolored, if you don't have the full collection, there may be missing meshes or textures!

Download my files and allow them to overwrite the original files.

Download: SimFileShare Folder (3 .zips) or Patreon (free, combined .zip)

Credit: Maxis, platinumaspiration, @dbasiasimbr

Thank you! 🖤

[xiasimla]

Hiya! Was dropping by to thank you for your contributions to the sims community and to also ask if you know where the male hair in the image for your Blue Sugar Nectar x Primer Skinblend v1 comes from?

Yep, it's simandy's Jericho converted by tychosims!

[xiasimla]

hii! thank you for the updated defaults, they're gorgeous! would you be willing to share the tweaked sclera so my non-default set matches? thank you!

I sure can! Just added the link at the bottom of the original post. It's a .zip with the .psd, plus .png versions of the sclera and shadow layer if you don't have Photoshop. The .psd also includes the alien sclera (also used for the vampire and werewolf defaults) that I tweaked slightly from Hazelpuff's conversion.

[xiasimla]

i rlly liked the skins you used in /post/655198829983023104 , what skins are you using for both sims? sims2

Hi! Both are using vidcunds' No Answer Skinblend. The sim on the left is also using their matching recolors of simtzu's Rehash Nosemask and the sim on the right is using the recolor of Lilith's Asian Style Eyeshadow (same link as previous) and Kahlenas' recolor of Mayberries' Dragon Tea & Tree Pots Nosemask.

[xiasimla]

Rockburn's Smaller Vampire Fangs Remapped to Fit CC Teeth Textures (+ Even Smaller Fangs Mesh Edit for Teens) for TS2

This gap in my vampires' fangs had been bothering me for a while, so I looked into what it was.

Most CC teeth textures have shorter teeth than the vanilla textures to add depth and give teeth a more rounded look. However, vampire fangs are mapped backwards so the top of the fangs use those parts too, not a problem for Maxis textures, but causes this effect with many CC teeth textures. So I remapped Rockburn's more reasonably-sized edit of the fangs to better fit CC teeth. Flipped the UV map and moved them to the lateral incisors to hopefully increase compatibility (sizing of the canines varied more widely). I can't guarantee this will fit every set of teeth, but at least now if a teeth texture is short, it will affect the tips of the fangs, which will just make them look more rounded.

Example CC teeth texture here is from @sixfootsims' Moonfruit skin (also used by my Cartoon Skinblend, microscotch's Woohoo on the Beach, veronavillequiltingbee's 2025 skin, multiple rascalcurious skins, and more):

Lastly, I also edited the size of fangs for teen sims, as they still looked pretty long to me. Here's what they look like now:

Original Post (MTS)

Same info applies as the original mod:

Mesh replacement for vampire fangs, no textures included

Changes may not apply immediately to existing vampires so use Change Appearance on them. You may also need to delete cache files.

For Teens - Elder vampires, unisex

Make sure this loads at the bottom of your load order, I appended "zzz_" to the file name to assist with that

Download: SimFileShare (.package) or Patreon (free)

Credit: Rockburn, Maxis

Thank you! 🧛‍♀️