I needed more armor for my guards and loved how these look in-game. The AM/TM_Punk outfit has been replaced with @gryningand@simborg’s 4t2 GOT Tournament of Honour conversion. It is 6.5K polys, 1024x1024 texture and enabled for elders and young adults. It has been regcategorized as everyday, formal, outerwear and athletic.
Due to the polycount, I chose to disable this for townies. I also repositoried the teen textures to the adult to reduce the file size so the two ages have been combined into one download.
Maxis folks were a bit lazy with seasons, weren’t they? Instead of making all the plants seasonal (at least to a reasonable extent), they made flowers covered by snow. Not sure how they though it’s a good idea, but well, time to fix it. Maybe someone has done it before, but I haven’t seen it, and well, if it does exist, an alternative version doesn’t hurt anyone.
Changes:
I edited the textures so plants don’t have flowers when they’re covered by snow. Meshes aren’t changed, behaviour isn’t changed either, so the look doesn’t depend on the season itself, but on the snow level, just like Maxis shrubs have always been. I also altered the colour so leaves look dry instead of fresh and green.
I also removed shine from two MG plants as they looked weird, kind of like they were plastic.
Seasons are required. Edits for base game, BV, and MG plants are in separate files, so you can pick the ones you have required EPs for (if you have all of them, grab the file with all in the name).
If you want to edit this to your liking (for example keep the hedges green) you can do it very easily. A bit more detail about how to do it here.
Conflicts
Anything that replaces swx05andswx06 textures for shrubs, and also material files for MG plants.
@yandereplumsim was asking about a default replacement for the cheap base game sink without the toothbrush and soap, and since nobody seemed to know of one (and also because I keep not using this sink in public bathrooms because of the toothbrush) I went ahead and made one.
Default replacement textures for Cottage Living animals: rabbits, cows, llamas, hens, roosters, chicks, and foxes. I retouched the body textures, too; made them more vibrant and smoother, removed some seams, made specular maps blank etc. I made the textures bigger to make the eyes sharp. This makes the file quite big!
Unedited preview pictures of all animals under the cut!
TOU:See this page + if you want to use these as a base (add different eye textures for example), you are free to. But don’t put your edits behind paywalls or any kind of ad links. And contact me if you share edits. Thank you :)
It’s finally here! Completely remastered set of linden trees.
There are 2 (two) download links. Choose only one!
Features:
Better mesh. Trees look less lowpoly and more fluffy keeping polycount at low.
Appearance/texture size. This is the main feature of the redux. In the original set, every tree had a 2048x1024 texture making the whole set weight about 23Mb, compressorized. Obviously, it was filling up the game memory quite hard. In this redux, the size of the whole set of six trees is 4,5Mb! And that is uncompressorized. Does it still looks good on closeups or near lots? Yes. The quality is the same. I’ve just used completely different technique making over all the trees, to achieve this result.
Sub.. substitutat.. substitutability! Yes, the new trees override the old ones, so you don’t have to replace all the trees manually. Just delete the old files from your ‘Downloads’ folder and put the new ones there.
Default replacements
As you may know, @lowedeus did an amazing job providing a set of DRs for maxis Oak trees, trees row and clumps of trees, replacing them with lindens. This redux comes with all these default replacements option already and it works the same as the old one replacing Maxis’ oaks, row of trees and two clumps of trees.
How to use
First, backup your neighborhoods. Just in case you accidentally load your game right after removing old trees from ‘Downloads’ folder without putting the new ones in. Because once it happens, all the trees in your neighborhood will be gone forever once the hood is loaded.
Please scroll further down for alternative ‘Default Replacement only’ Install Option.
Remove these old files from your ‘Downloads’ folder:
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_01a.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_02a.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_03a.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_04a.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_05a.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_06a.package
Put these new files in:
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_01a_RDX.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_02a_RDX.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_03a_RDX.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_04a_RDX.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_05a_RDX.package
crqtt_basic_linden_tree_06a_RDX.package
There. You’re done!
If you’re using @lowedeus defaults, you have to remove these files from your ‘Downloads’ folder:
DEFAULT_lowedeus-CriquetteForest.package
DEFAULT_lowedeus-CriquetteRow.package
DEFAULT_lowedeus-CriquetteTrees.package
And then put these files in:
DEFAULT_MaxisOaks2CrqttLinden.package
DEFAULT_MaxisOaks2CrqttLindenForest.package
DEFAULT_MaxisOaks2CrqttLindenRow.package
Important:
the shadow fix you had to have in your ‘downloads’ folder in order to use Linden Trees DR must be also removed from your ‘Downloads’ folder, you don’t need it now.
Please note, that the only difference between this option from the previous one is that it only saves you from having maxis AND custom trees in your ‘Flora hood deco menu at the same time (i.e. same 6 trees twice) in case of using the default replacements. There will be only Maxis’ Oaks replaced by lindens.
First, remove these files from your ‘Downloads’ folder:
Signal boost! Look for a new shiny redux version of linden trees from Criquette - stand-alone, and default! So, my default replacement for maxis oaks has kinda outdated
As you know, the default the Sims 2 neighborhood camera is very limited. There are many different mods that expands its capabilities. I searched for the most convenient mod for a long time, but all of them had unpleasant bugs - for example, they got stuck on maps like Downtown, and none of them allowed changing the vertical angle of the camera as in lot view. Finally, I found a camera from The Jessa Channel. It is a really convenient mod which allow to rotate the camera in any direction, has a large zoom and comfortable movement around the NH map without “bouncing” at the borders. Moreover, there were several minor flaws I have fixed. Thus, in my edition of the Jessa NH camera mod, the zoom works smoothly with the + and - keys, and also the “clipping issues” (also known as z-fighting) are solved
Features: (default - fixed)
Distance:
Rotation:
Clipping:
Zoom (scroll)
Zoom (keys)
According to the text, the camera is based on a CTNutmegger’s file. Many thanks to Jessa for editing and publishing this camera. Since the original file is no longer available for download, I asked Jessa for permission to publish the edited mod in my blog, and she kindly allowed me to do this!
Also, due to the fact this mod allows to change the angle of rotation of the camera both horizontally and vertically, I made a small default replacement of the horizontal neighborhood rotation cursor, replacing it with the lot rotation cursor. It accordingly displays the rotation in any direction. You can download it here
If you are using the amazing Clean UI, you have to know optional horizontal & vertical cursor for the neighborhood camera is included. The file is called neighborhood-camera-cursor-horizontal-and-vertical.package and is located in the choose-one-clean-ui-neighborhood-camera-cursor folder. Thank you @greatcheesecakepersona for your attention to the idea!
A Syriza rally in Rethymno, Crete (1/7/15) encouraging Greeks to vote NO (ΟΧΙ) to the bailout conditions proposed by the Troika (EU/ECB/IMF). Alex Tsipras’ decision on Saturday 27th June to call a referendum on the (now expired) bailout offered by Greece’s creditors threw the country into turmoil. ATMs were emptied over the weekend by people desperate to get access to their savings, and banks were shuttered as capital controls were imposed the following Monday. The Greek government’s refusal of the bailout offers proposed lead to the country defaulting on an IMF debt repayment at Midnight on Tuesday 30th June, plunging Greece further into crisis. The referendum will take place on Sunday 5th June, with some analysts predicting a ‘No’ vote (as encouraged by the Syriza government) would see Greece exiting the Euro and thus the EU and Eurozone. The Greek government deny this, with Prime Minister Tsipras asserting that he remains committed to keeping Greece in the European Union.
So I’ve prodded and poked this alpha and texture a lot over the last couple of days, and I think it’s about as good as it’s going to get. Now sims can have this hairstyle without also making themselves blind in one eye!
This default seems to work just fine if you want to use mesh replacements/hiders for all but one of the headband colours, or at least, it certainly appears to in my game, where it only has to replace the purple band
The textures are the original Maxis ones, just warped to fit my new alpha, which does mean that they can look a little pixely in places.
The colours are @pooklet‘s (Dynamite, Depth Charge, Incendiary, Pyrotechnic, and Mail Bomb) and intended to match @mikexx2‘s hair system.
I’ve included @jawusa‘s amazing age conversion, because seriously, what were Maxis thinking when they didn’t enable this mesh for all ages?
Special mention goes to Treeag@MTS, who made a shorter alpha edit for this hair that I’ve been using for donkey’s years, and whose edit was what inspired me to attempt my own hack job.
I like Maxis faces, but I use Phobia’s eyes defaults on Maxis sclera, so I wasn’t happy with the vanilla supernatural faces and defaults I’ve found didn’t quite meet my needs, so here are my own defaults!
All I’ve changed are eyes, faces stay vanilla, except for werewolves - I used nose texture from @lilith-sims‘honey skinblends, because vanilla werewolf noses are just ugly blobs of blurry textures. The color of werewolf’s nose depends on the skincolor.
All faces use Maxis sclera and by that I mean I’ve tried to be as faithful to the originals as possible, so alien werewolves have got black sclera and plantsims have greenish sclera.
Genies use ‘Padraic My Prince‘ eyecolor and werewolves use ‘Hit The Switch’ eyecolor from Phobia’s set. The rest of eyecolors are recolors of Phobia’s recolors of Sarhra’s eyes (what a long queue).
Defaults that use golden or brown eyes for bigfeet and purple eyes for genies are cool, but for me they are too different from the original eyecolors, which I’ve tried to reproduce, so genies get green-brown mixture and bigfeet get dark blue/teal eyecolor.
As you can see on the werewolf picture, that’s not all. I also recolored @pixeldolly and @hypersaline‘sWerewolf Ears Overlay(meshby@gryning) to make them Maxis Match. I’ve changed it to be skincolor-related instead of being haircolor-related.
DON’T use my version with correlated werewolf furs or with other edits of werewolf ear overlay.
These eyes are a by-product of my edits of supernatural faces. When I saw it, I decided it looked so nice I had to turn them into actual genetics.
There are three versions: non-geneticized and non-townified, geneticized but not townified and geneticized and townified. Geneticized versions are recessive.
I swapped textures of afbodyravelegwarmer outfit. I removed number on the sleeve and belt from the top and added sheer neon crop top underneath. The bottom part of the outfit remains unchanged.
All tubs are updated to Pets and FT. If you want to use my edit of HL’s backless shower/tub combo, you have to have @picknmixsims‘ mod in your downloads folder. Otherwise the game will throw errors.
The new lunar year free TS4 update gave us some nice clothing. Some of them I wanted to see in TS2, so here they are. First of all, I converted this piece of outfit for teens, adults and elders. It works as everyday, formal and maternity. Meshes have got both morphs (except for elders, they get only fat morph). It comes in 3 colors: black, blue and maroon. Teens and elders repositoried to adults. Polycount: 4232
Next, hanbok for women and men. Both genders are included in the same zip file.
Hanboks are set as everyday, formal and maternity. They works for teens, adults and elders. Elders use adult shape, because I was too lazy (and too devoid of patience after dealing with kurti’s bone assignments) to do it. Besides, I think in this case, adult body shape works pretty well for elders.
Female hanbok comes in 5 colors: beige, blue, green red, orange purple and teal red. Male hanbok comes in 4 colors: blue, lilac beige, lilac blue and purple. Teens repositoried to adults.
afBodyDressKorean and amBodyDressKorean default replacements
I defaulted afbodydresskoreanandambodydresskorean with my TS4 conversions. Afbodydresskorean is replaced with green red, orange purple and teal red recolors, while ambodydresskorean is replaced with blue and lilac beige, lilac blue recolors.
Moreover, I enabled the outfit for young adults and elders as well, and set it as everyday and formal.
Recategorizers for afBodyDressKorean and amBodyDressKorean
If you don’t want to replace original Korean outfits, but you want them enabled for young adults and elders, and set as everyday and formal, I have two recategorizers for you. DO NOT use them if you decide to use my default replacements.
All outfits have wonky bone assignments in the legs area. Kurti clips as hell when Sims use BV tea set. Also, I’d like to apologise if I named colors incorrectly. I’m not colorblind, but I often fail to name colors properly.
