Sims 2 Traits - Self Interactions! I found a disabled animation!
Since I'm obsessed with socials now (and I watch @teaaddictyt streams and VODS where she gives me ideas...) here are some mods that affect Neurotic, Dramatic and Insane Sims! These are fun little self-interactions for storytelling or other purposes... I originally inserted these into the PersonGlobals TTAB. But as some of you may know, this causes a great deal of issues because it conflicts with other important mods.
So, I split them up into three separate controllers, so they don't conflict with anything! they all have unique GUIDS. These are non-autonomous and require Easy Inventory Check and the base traits mod by Hexagonal Bipyramid.
Interactions
Neurotic Sims can now "Freak Out" if their Comfort is low. They will cry, worry, or throw a tantrum and their comfort will increase. Paired great with my "Motive Decay" for traits, because Neurotics have greater Comfort decay!
Dramatic Sims can now "Fake Pass Out" like the Sims 3. Sims will react to your Sim, and their reactions depend on personality and traits (Evil Sims may enjoy it...). They can only do it if their Social is fairly low and it gives them Fun and Social.
Insane Sims (and this is my favorite) can now scream psychotically and everyone around them will react. I found a disabled/cut interaction called "Primal Scream" in the code so I just HAD to enable it for Insane Sims. There's an animation for this and everything!
Ok it doesn't show you the Anim, but trust me, it's great! And they actually scream! Like audibly!
Enjoy! Looking at this mod will also help you understand self-interactions if you're into modding!
I also have one for the Clumsy trait where they do the roller-skate fall animation randomly, but I can't get it to work autonomously in a controller. It stays in my PersonGlobals unfortunately.
Credits: JellyMeduza for their "Insane can Summon Social Bunny" Mod!
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Edit: The Osab got a DMCA takedown order. The hosted All-In-One is no longer being hosted, because it's not safe to do so anymore. Games 4 the World and Old Games are no longer hosting Sims 2 game downloads. If you must pirate The Sims 2, like if the Legacy game is too broken for you to play, your only option is to download it from Pirate Bay. I am providing a link to the known SAFE download that I talk about later in this (old) post. https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=6781386
Edit again: I believe the Osab version has been taken down due to a DMCA takedown order. No longer abandonware, so go buy it while you can!
Edit: The new Osab version of The Sims 2 is far superior to the All in One. I genuinely recommend it over the AIO. While it is not located in EAGames, but directly in The Sims 2 Starter Pack, it has the same internal filepaths as the Ultimate Collection. It works with SimPE. CEP works, Scriptorium works.
Instructions and link to download are here.
Easily setup The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection on modern 2023 systems.
I have hesitated to make this post, lest I lose my Tumblr account. But, darn it, this post is NEEDED.
Since you can't buy the Origin version of Sims 2Ultimate Collection anymore, and the discs are nigh-impossible to install, people want and need good abandonware downloads. Old Games Download and Games 4 The World are not that good download. Old Games is missing the objects in the Ikea Stuff pack, which is fixable, it installs into a weird location, and you can’t get SimPE to work with it. 4 the World is as hard to install as the discs, requiring knowledge of how to mount a disc image - not exactly common Windows knowledge.
Other people just want to avoid the Securom on the discs, or the phoning home Origin does before it will launch the game.
I give you a better version. It is the Sims 2 All-in-One uploaded to Pirate Bay by MartinBLCK back in 2011 or so. It includes all expansions and stuff packs, and all languages. It is fully patched, has no Securom, and requires no key. It installs as if it were the entire Sims 2 collection from disc, in the same location with the same filepaths. I have been playing this version, even though I own all the discs and have the Origin version available.
It works with SimPE, but there may be a lot of providing the correct folder paths first.
Sul sul! Here are three separate default replacements for ufhairhalo. You can only have one in your game, so please choose wisely! They are all Base Game Compatible, and have been tested on both The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection & The Sims 2: Legacy Collection.
Please look under the "read more" to see the backsides of the hairs!
VERSION 1
Replaced with @miniculesim's 4t2 Conversion of aharris00britney's Lillia V1. The polycount is the same as the original (4.8k). I desaturated the black swatch to match my other defaults. This version is available for Children, Teens, Adults, and Elders. As such, it replaces the hidden "cfhairbarrette" hair as well.
If you would like Lillia V4, you should check out AfroSimm's version!
VERSION 2
Replaced with @rascalcurious' 4t2 Conversion of simstrouble's Camila V2. The polycount is the same as the original (12.1k). This version is available for Children, Teens, Adults, and Elders. As such, it replaces the hidden "cfhairbarrette" hair as well. This was requested by the original conversion creator! :D
VERSION 3
Replaced with @hazelpuff's 4t2 Conversion of thatonegreenleef's Jane Hair. The polycount is the same as the original (24k). This version is available for Teens, Adults, and Elders ONLY.
This one is pretty high poly, so if you are looking for a similar styled default with less polys, I would recommend these two!
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graphics design is my ~passion~, clearly
doing something different? well, honestly, I saw this lovely eyeshadow randomly and was like, oh, that's really cute! I'd love that for Elsie!
unfortunately it is in fact called Carnival CRAZE and I am an idiot. OH WELL. :')
so I poked at it in the Tattooer (thank youuu paluding) and made my first custom makeup and ... I think it looks cute? (particularly on darker skin, which was what I wanted to begin with :P)
This was a TM outfit on a mesh by Cocoma. I put it on the Basegame AM openshirtpants mesh and made that the main file then repo'd the TM outfit to AM. TM mesh is included, no mesh needed for AM. Set as Everyday
Aka: the clarity and communication that you deserve
Hi everyone. As some may have caught already, GoS is not dead (anymore)! During the period that it was, however, so much drama started and if you ask me; it all comes down to people not knowing what's going on and making assumptions that further sparked panic. So, let's clear some stuff up for those who got caught in the rumor mill.
Oh and if you haven't, it's worth reading @julessims excellent writeup on how she got GoS working again.
This is gonna be focused a bit more on communications stuff. Like, a bit more general I guess?
Q: what did you do?
A: I helped get GoS back online. @julessims did the actual hard work of upgrading the forum. @teaaddictyt played a role by facilitating communication and doing some PR (even if that wasn't received well by many a simmer) and ofc hugelunatic provided files, databases and the occasional bit of relevant information. I approached lunie and provided help with hosting, DNS and ensuring the files were safe and handling some communication. It was teamwork (and jules did most of it if you ask me).
Q: why didn't lunie communicate that it would be rehosted?
A: I'm not sure what lunie's exact motivation behind cancelling the hosting was and if I knew it wouldn't be mine to share, but I do know that @julessims and I upgrading and rehosting wasn't planned. It was a spontaneous action on our ends and so lunie couldn't have told you beforehand. I'm really glad that lunie decided to trust us with this and hope GoS will have many more years!
Q: why didn't you communicate any of this?
A: I thought my time would be better spent actually doing the work instead of playing communications department, fielding questions and countering people's wild speculations. I did think about making a post clarifying matters when it became clear people were making some pretty wildly incorrect statements, but I had other things to do. Better to focus on what matters than to get caught up in more miscommunications.
Q: GoS looks different now. Why?
A: the new look of GoS is a direct consequence of the upgrade. The old theme was not made to fit the new software and the conversion process does not convert themes. Seeing GoS in the default (white) theme felt so wrong, so we picked a good-looking dark theme and @julessims modified it to look more like classic GoS, with great success, I think. Still, it is and never will be truly identical. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Q: is the site in archive mode or can I comment?
The site is not in archive mode. It is a live forum. Posting works, registration works, if anything doesn't work, you should find a mod to message so either they or @julessims or I can try to troubleshoot and fix the issue.
In fact, you should comment! Forums are best when people leave comments and engage. Go express how much you like a piece of CC, contribute to the current theme (fittingly about renovating old things) or talk about something!
Q: why did it have to be upgraded? Couldn't it have just stayed now it was?
A: no. It really couldn't. GoS was running SMF 1.1.21 on PHP no higher than 5.3. The newest version is 8.5. PHP 5.3 had been obsolete since 2014. It would've been difficult to find a host that would be willing and able to host GoS and even if that could be found, it'd still leave it vulnerable to bugs and vulnerabilities resolved in newer versions of SMF and PHP. Credit to lunie's host for having continues to support it for this long, many wouldn't. Now that the forum has been upgraded and is running nicely on 8.3, it should be all good to go for many years to come.
Q: just a forum upgrade? So why did it go down?
A: make no mistake: going from something running on PHP 5.x to 8.x is no small leap and had to be done in steps. There were a lot of issues converting the database to the new format which resulted in all sorts of errors that needed manual database conversions. Upgrading a forum, particularly an old one with more than 600.000 posts is in fact not a piece of cake. There were also traces of a prior attempts to upgrade that complicated matters even more. @julessims made an excellent write-up of the technical bits if you're interested.
Q: who is running GoS now?
A: lunie is still forum admin and it will be up to her to decide what to do about the day to day running of the forum. Whether she'll be running it herself, with the help of others or elect someone else will be her choice in the end. As for hosting: that would be me.
Q: so does that mean we can stop archiving?
You could, but I would honestly suggest at least backing up your own favourite CC, regardless of where it's shared or hosted. Also, you can consider looking up an "auto archiving" extension for your browser that will automatically save pages to the wayback machine. The web archive has a page with resources
Q: *insult angry comment about hugelunatic*
A: you are 100% entitled to your anger and frustration. GoS is an important part of the Sims community and losing it, even for a little bit was a huge blow. It's understandable to be angry. Angry comments, however, were never gonna resolve the issue. Angry comments would not get GoS back nor would comments defending hugelunatic for that matter. What did help was working with hugelunatic. No files+database = no forum. Squabbling was not gonna get either back. Saying that, it's important to acknowledge that I was in a good position to do what needed to be done in regards to skills and connections which is not a privilege most people have. I get why people were angry and given that most were not privy to what was going on behind the scenes, it's no wonder everyone got as upset as they did. I also wouldn't have reacted well if I wasn't in direct communication with lunie and working on getting the site back.
Q: what's the plan now?
A: well, sims2artists still needs an update. I hope we can do that sometime soon. I'll also be keeping an eye out for any errors and aim to implement some extra security headers for the site. We also still need to fix some matters in regards to the domain and DNS. I also hope to have some more contact with the GoS mods so we can discuss hosting and what my responsibility and theirs is. Like, write down who is responsible for what and who can be contacted by my host should I pass away unexpectedly, for example. These things happen, so it's good to have backup plans and emergency contacts.
Q: did you have any freakouts tho?
A: certainly. First, when GoS and S2A went down. I was afraid the files and the S2A DB could be gone for good. I was also afraid that lunie wouldn't be willing to work with us and truthfully I also had the fear that if she got more agitated, we could risk losing the files and database. Fortunately this didn't happen, in fact: lunie gave us the resources and helped us out where necessary so we could get GoS back online. I'm very thankful for that.
I also got dragged by my emotions a bit when an unhelpful reddit post suggested that Delphy of MTS infamy might have something to do with hosting and when lunie mentioned something about an offer of hosting as is, no upgrade required. I may have freaked out and freaked out some other folks in the process (my apologies for that. You know who you are). There were many freakouts and I think it was good I didn't make any tumblr posts about this before we got GoS back. I stand by my decision it wouldn't have helped. Freaking out in private was bad enough.
Q: can you tell us what you actually did technically?
A: certainly! First, I set up hosting and new empty databases for GoS (and eventually: sims2artists). I made sure all the required aliases were in place so that when the DNS records for gardenofshadows.org.uk were switched over, it'd find the correct place on the webserver to go to. I also provided a subdomain on a domain of mine to test the forum live before it'd be moved back to the correct domain.
I also got access to the FTP for the original GoS hosting and was able to grab all the files and reupload what was necessary to the new server. While jules was in PHP hell I also cleaned up some stuff on Sims2artists. It's not gonna be anything you notice, but it's something.
I also did a number of things on the webserver, including changing directories. At some point I accidentally moved the forum to example.tld/gardenofshadows/gardenofshadows/gardenofshadows/index.php if you'd believe it. Finally I helped set the DNS records for the move. An SPF record went missing, but was quickly fixed. I also added some HTTP Headers to be served when visiting GoS and a lil something to hopefully keep AI bots from scraping and spamming HTTP requests. If you notice link previews not working: sorry, that'd be the X-Frame header.
Tldr: webserver and domain and DNS stuff; hosting infrastructure
Q: what about hosting costs?
A: right now they're so low we could call them non-existent. Should that change, I don't expect it to be above €100,- per calendar year. Probably closer to €50,-. Aka: it's not an issue. No need for ads. Should fundraising ever be needed, I will discuss it with the mods first.
Now go leave some comments on GoS!
Anyways, if you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask. There's a lot more to say about this. But hopefully this does clarify some matters.
Today class, we're going to study the phenomenon called extra
Meet Ezra. He's new in town, and he might be looking to clown. A coat wearing lady orders caffeine, and Ezra thinks she looks like a dream. Before exchanging so much as a word, a date invite want occurred.
Now Ezra, I know you think you just gotta know more. But honey that's a maxis eyesore!
But worry not, there is a fix. I'll pull out my bag of tricks.
Party girlie deserves a new outfit. To the aesthetic we must fully commit.
Now you can go on ahead, give her a shout. I give you my permission to ask Fanny out.
Credits for parts I frankenmeshed/textured: @katsurinssims, @themeasureofasim, @fakebloood, Trapping, Io
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before i post the ds set i wanna put this stuff here cuz i havent uploaded for a bit. sorry if my categorisations are silly, i just can't stand how big my clutter category is getting and i want the categories to make sense
1 - rrtt sake bottles 4t2 - applicances/misc category - 600 polys, but i also made a file with two bottles where one is tipped over, that repo mesh is 1300 polys - 512px texture - 8 swatches - DOWNLOAD
2 - windows 7 boxes - meshed by meee - electronics/misc category - single box is 74 polys, the grouped stack for retail is 666 polys - 512px texture - 4 swatches - DOWNLOAD
4 - swagsimsfairy vintage paintings - recolours of veranka's stacked painting mesh 4t2 - i have recategorised veranka's meshes so they show up in the easel category - 84 polys - 1024x512px texture - 5 swatches - DOWNLOAD
by the way, if you'd like to grab some extra sets i've not yet had the energy to share, click here for the folder of two sets (a laundromat and the ds set). pictures are included in the folder of the sets, clearly named corresponding to the rar file name.
Requested hair conversions part 1! So sorry that this took such a long time to share since I've made the wip post - I had to tweak a lot of stuff and learn again some stuff about converting that I've already forgotten ^^'... and I also started doing a clothing conversion and I hate bones assignments very much </3, especially when you figure out that maybe that's not bones assignments fault that something it's out of place, and maybe it's just the way you placed the mesh itself on the body but still you're like 65% sure that's the reason. ANYWAY! HERE ARE THE DOWNLOAD LIKS FOR THE HAIRS AND LIL BIT OF INFO FOR THEM:
'Jane' (male/female, tf-ef, 24k poly) MALE DL | FEMALE DL
'Lady in waiting' (female, cf-ef, 12k poly) DOWNLOAD
'Muse' (female, tf-ef, 19k tiara ver, 17k no tiara ver) TIARA | NO TIARA
'Clarice Bun v3' (female, cf-ef, 12k poly) DOWNLOAD
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GoS reupload time #6: Now here's something I had to download from my own uploads folder to work out what it actually was. This was an easter event gift of some sort? I think it might've been a scavenger hunt type deal, but it was from 2014 and is a 3t2 conversion of a sims 3 store top for AM in seven (not 6!) colours.
NOTE: THIS IS OLD CC. The file names are full of unnecessary punctuation such as brackets, dashes and spaces (which was the style at the time). You're probably going to want to remove all of that for optimal file loading times (would recommend a bulk file rename tool). One day I'll get around to replacing the uploaded files but today is not that day.
Here’s another small thing - I almost exclusively use @whysim skin blends, and those that aren’t have these teeth added to them by me anyway. I also really liked some of the custom teeth masks I’ve seen around, like here, here and here. However, those don’t match the teeth I use, soo… I made my own teeth masks! The download is split in 2, since I wanted to include the PU overlays in the Baby, Baby, Baby theme at GOS:
Gap Teeth - CU-EU
Child Teeth - CU only
DOWNLOAD
No Teeth - PU only
Toddler Teeth - PU only
DOWNLOAD AT GOS
Wearable with other items in the blush category, tooltipped, thumbnails, compressed, previews included.
Credits: Whysim, the original creators of the textures in Whysim’s teeth blend (not sure who)
