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Funny Placement Flags
We I need more objects with *nodding*
Ok for bat to fly over.
[prim 0x0002] Expression (My 0x0028 (flag field 2) Set Flag flag# Literal 0x000D (Ok for bat to fly over))
Place On Lava.
or [prim 0x0002] Expression (My 0x0052 (Placement Flags 2) Set Flag flag# Literal 0x0007 (Place On Lava))
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OMG. 🤯 I just discovered "copy as path" under windows.
Where have you been all my live?!?!?! I think I gonna need a minute.
Select all files in a folder
Shift-click (right) and select "copy as path".
Paste into text editor: BOOM All filenames as text strings .🤩
I was working on an accessory box with (current count 115 135) files to be copy pasted into the template sheet. This just got so much easier.
Edit of EarlyPleasantview's magic duel
This is an edit of @earlypleasantview's Magic Duel.
To my knowledge EPV's mod has never left testing stage, but I've been using it for years with only some minor issues. Thus, I decided to polish it's rough edges a bit. :) I also changed filenames to make them more distinguishable.
From EPV's description of the mod:
Dueling – how it works – Available for Witches/Warlocks. Non-autonomous. Needs at least one selectable witch/warlock. Builds Magic Skill, but does not affect alignment. Non fatal. Scoring is based on Magic skill level, Plus number of successful hits. The Sim with the highest magic skill and the most successful hits win and a random magic reagent is placed in their inventory. Successful Hits – Every Body point gives a Sim a 7% chance of dodging out of spell’s way. Every Logic point gives a Sim a 7% chance of predicting that the other Sim is going to dodge and hitting them anyway. Round ends when one Sim casts five spells or when both Sims cast three spells each.
I made changes to the dodging mechanic. Now Sims will jump forth and back, instead of only jumping back, which looked like teleporting. Moreover, I added a chance of parrying an attack instead of jumping away - chance of dodging/parrying still depends on the body skill, but now witches/wizards with high magic skill have a chance of parrying. I converted two parry animations from TS3 magic duel. :)
Additionally, I added projectiles - if a Sim dodges or parries an attack, you'll be able to see a jet of light flying in their direction. For this mechanic you need my file called "Meduza_AccObjectBending", included in the upload. However, there are no projectiles if a hit is successful, because I also like an idea of spells working remotely and it felt like a good compromise.
The duel will work without the projectiles object, but you won't get cool effects.
Credits: @earlypleasantview
Download at SFS | alt
Wandless magic
This is an edit of @midgethetree's Pick Your Wand.
I edited @gryning's version, so it includes their TS4 wands.
Replace original files with my edit.
With this edit, your witches and wizards can cast spells without a wand. You need to buy "Magic Hands" trait, found in General/Misc for $0. This trait is different from other traits - placing it in Sim's inventory won't do anything.
You NEED to click on it as select "Set As Wand" option. After that you can place the trait in Sim's inventory, but that's not necessary.
Alternatively, buy one of wand stands and choose "Change Wand…/Magic Hands".
Credits: @midgethetree, @gryning
Download at SFS | alt
As I edited "Meduza_AccObjectBending", I also had to update part 1 of bending mod, bending duel and witches can practise magic. Unfortunately, in the process SFS links to part 1 of bending mod and witches can practise magic were broken, so I had to replace them with new SFS links, fyi. :(
The Sims 2 Purple Flashing Patch
(yes, PURPLE, because I always saw it as purple and the shader name is literally called the purple error shader. Sue me!!)
Just in case anyone missed it, "pink flashing" in The Sims 2 has finally been busted wide open by a lovely chap named Will Nixon, see here.
I thoroughly recommend reading through the entire dissertation pdf, it's a good read! Even if your eyes glaze over and you skim past the super technical computer engineering jargon, you'll pick up some interesting tidbits from it. Just wanted to share that
1) the patch is fully compatible with Linux and works to improve Linux performance even further, as testing by myself and my dear friend @niamh-sims
2) Some screenshots from testing my medieval hood on Windows 11:
No patch:
With patch:
I also stress-tested the hood by loading into the main Castle lot and having a sim travel between 4-5 different lots with my settings on max. (This is how I play on Linux now so I've gotten used to it, no more turning neighbours and hood deco off for me!!)
Without the patch in, the game crashed and wouldn't load the castle lot for me at ALL, so that was a great start.
Ooft, lol.
With the patch in, I could load into the castle and travel freely around the hood. I noted that that game also generally felt smoother.
This is an absolute breakthrough, people. Linux is no longer absolutely required if you want to play TS2 without pink flashing! Get excited!!
I will personally continue to play on Linux because I honestly enjoy the OS and prefer it over Windows, and my game still loads faster and runs smoother on Linux, but I recommend every simmer download Will's patch (V1 or V2, but V2 is likely safer) and keep it in your essential mods list forever.
Recommend reading the thesis, too. The introduction is a gem.
Questioning how TTAB's really work...
I've started doubting something that everyone assumed was correct so far, and I will update my "More Intelligent Bathrooms" mod on MTS shortly to test if I am correct in my doubts, because I've had multiple people complain to me that my mod is not working as intended, despite me exactly following the instructions from this tutorial back in early '23 when I created the mod. Back then, I wasn't as experienced in modding yet, and did not really question tutorials on the Internet either.
To the matter at hand. There is a non-zero chance that the explanation provided by @dramallamadingdang regarding TTAB's... is wrong, because of an oopsie in SimPE.
iCad's exemplic study, the FreeTime exercise bike, according to SimPE, displays following advertisement values: Base 0003, Delta 000A, Type 0023. iCad checked the TTAB entry on the MTS Wiki against it, and did not find type 0023 in there, but for the tutorial did not follow this oddity further, instead asking people to just set the value to 0000 to apply to all Sims equally.
Now, while the exercise bike was not present in early EP's, we can look at other objects and look at its own TTAB advertisement values as they are displayed now, and as they were displayed in, say, Open for Business. Because, in fact, Pets introduced new TTAB formats that allow you to set separate advertisements for different motives for Sims and pets. And quite notably, many interactable objects in the game were subsequently updated. Sometimes, values were just switched around, while sometimes, they were completely overhauled.
It's the switcheroo cases that made me open my eyes and come up with this hypothesis.
What if all the columns are actually shifted by one in later TTAB formats, causing the labels and columns to mismatch?
If we look at the exercise bike again, suddenly the advertisement values make perfect sense. Instead of type "23" weirdness, we have a very clear bias towards Active Sims (type 3) using the exercise bike, which is also observable in-game.
But also, for the medicine cabinets where I saw a type "32" I couldn't make sense of, suddenly this is just a huge Delta for Neat Sims (type B), and I finally have an explanation for why Sims almost never wash their faces (because only Neat Sims are enabled to do so at all, and even then brushing their teeth advertises to them so much more).
Again, as mentioned in the beginning, I will update my Bathroom Intelligence mod shortly to reflect these new findings - let's see if I'm right.
You're so right with your analysis! 👍😍
I am poking around in @gummilutt mod that changes autonomy of the crafting stations. I noticed the pottery and sewing stations weren't being used on community lots, despite being enabled in the BHAV. Apparently, they use TTABs format 0x55, while the three other use 0x51. Once I switched the motive values as you suggested, the pottery and sewing stations finally were selected by my sims on community lots.
I was playing on the lot that was provided with the mod, that contains 3 copies of all 5 stations. Not once in my many runs of staying on the lot for days were pottery and sewing selected by townies. even when all other station were clogged. Its not that the mod doesn't work, just the advertisment that was intendet to make all stations advertise equaly as a minimum was not working.
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🤒 Plugin for Maxis "MakeMeSick" Tester
In debug mode, you can shift-click a Sim to spawn the MakeMeSick- Tester and infect them with Maxis diseases. It’s incredibly useful for ROS (Random Occurrence Scenario) gameplay and other shenanigans.
However, the vanilla tester is missing the Mysterious Disease, and it doesn't support any of the available custom diseases.
This plugin fixes that! And is part 1 of a bigger health related gameplay mod I am working on ;)
✨ The Updates:
New Infections: Adds the Mysterious Disease, which was missing from the original tool.
2. Now supports custom diseases from the community:
STD (by Chris Hatch) or its replacement The Great Pox by @hodgekiss
Adult Weakness & Elder’s Cough within @lamare-sims Random Death & Sickness mod.
Carbon Simoxide Poisoning from @lamare-sims gas generator.
3. Age Groups: STD option will not show up for Children. Lamare’s "Adult Weakness" can be given to Children and Teens, too (called "Weakness").
4. New Visuals: Changed the object model to the ingame Chemistry Sculpture.
5. Placement: Adjusted the Init BHAV so it is now placeable on all surfaces.
6. Localization Fix: Corrected the text string from "the Flue" to "the Flu" for non-english games.
⚠️ Important Requirements
The tester only triggers the initial infection! You must have the original mods by Chris Hatch (or @hodgekiss) or @lamare-sims installed for the costum diseases to progress in your game. That includes spreading around the STD via Woohoo. Mysterious diseases do work without an additional mod.
✨ Credits
@blueybre for allowing me to use the code of the guarding BHAV that will prevent users to give the diseases to critical NPCs. The original BCON tunability is still there.
@lamare-sims for allowing me to use parts of your coding. I kept a part of the original BCON tunability.
@episims, @midgethetree and @jellymeduza for their beautiful coding of their health and disease mods I used to poke around in and finaly allowed me to decipher the maxis disease coding.
Installation & Compatibility
Choose Only One Version! All 4 diseases: MakeMeSick-plugin-all4 Mysterious & Lamare's only: MakeMeSick-plugin-noSTD Compatibility: Should not conflict with other health or sickness mods. You may need all packs. Please report issues.
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SceneGraph Plus V2 - Clothing Recolours
SceneGraph Plus V2.5
Adds support for creating clothing recolours
Watch the video
Other changes
Hood deco objects (XNGB resources) are now supported
Added an "Auto realign to grid after applying filters" option
Added a validity check to OBJD resources that checks for version 0x008C and both EP Flags 1 & 2 being set to 0x0000
A Study of Sims 2 Diseases
Expanded and updated (30.03.26). Numbers used within are as they apear in SimPe.
I am a collector of all mods related to sickness/health in my Sims 2 gameplay. For a current WIP, I needed an overview of the available diseases. It's quite technical. But maybe someone else enjoys this overview.
So far, I am aware of:
STD by Chris Hatch or its medieval replacement of the Great Pox by @hodgekiss. The unique disease ID is 96.
@lamare-sims Elder Cough and Adult Weakness (inside of the RandomDeathSickness mod). The unique IDs are 34 and 314, respectively.
MidgetheTree’s Guinea Pig Disease. Uses the IDs of maxis mysterious disease from 99-199.
Lamare’s Carbon Simoxide poisoning. The unique ID is 604. Run the fuel generator inside, or near windows, doors or stairs that lead inside, will cause carbon simoxide poisoning (CSOP).
Nyami's Chronic Illness mod uses a unique token instead of the "disease token" of the game, therefore representing a whole new class of disease. More details below.
Are there more mods out there, that assign a unique disease ID? Or create a new disease?
Recently, I noticed a shift in terminology regarding disease token properties—e.g. in code and mods by @episims, @lamare-sims or @blueybre (formerly know as LimeYoshi). My guess is that Maxis updated the disease properties BCON with labels in a later expansion pack. Because, if you open the latest object.package, you will find:
BCON x1001 (group ID 0x7F8A70B6)
The disease ID is still labeled as "SH: sympton hash" in maxis plague dialog string and in the early disease studies by Chris Hatch, Cyjon and J. M. Pescado. (Did I forget someone? let me know in the comments.)
If you use the FFS Lot Debugger (which uses maxis coding and labels) you might be familiar with the earlier terminology.
Terminology in modern mods are labeled green.
SH: Symptom Hash became disease ID LD: Lethal Dose == deadliness. (Lamare called it the "Death Threshold"—my personal favorite). CS: Current Severity (if CS >= LD, sim dies) == severity CT: Contagiousness (if -1, no disease tiles are droped and other sims can't catch it.) RP: Recovery Points == avarage care (positive means your sim is recovering, negative means it will get worse) RHC: Recovery Hour Count == loops since update (recovery points are subtracted from severity at fixed intervals. Popular mods let you adjust those intervals, making diseases more deadly.) UNK: Pescado wrote "Your guess is as good as mine. ChrisHatch wrote that it is the 8th value and might be the diseasID." Which turned out to be incorrect, as we now know it is called initial severity.
From a coding perspective, I needed to learn which values I have to give the disease token to make a Sim sick with a specific disease. Below is an overview of the values that define and characterize the available diseases the disease token will be given when it is created upon infection. Meaning, that these are initial values that are set by the code and from where the disease controller will progress the sickness.
A wonderful feature of @lamare-sims mod is that some of the disease properties for Adult Weakness and Elders' Cough are BCON-tunable. The table above should help you to put these values into perspective.
The CS and IS values of Maxis Mysterious Diseases calculated based on skill, mood and personality when the virus is generated via the Biotech Station. The end result is a rough d90 with a skewed distribution towards lower numbers. If you want to know how, read BlueyBre's reblock comment of this post.
After staring at the original maxis mystrious disease code for far toooo long without beeing able to decipher it, I decided to used Epi's Biotech Station to infect a large number of Sims (hehehe) to eyeball empirically determine the values leading to easier code for a recent mod I am working on. My tests showed a rough I wanted somthing more dangerous then pneumonia in the onset and setteled on d40+50. This gives the same maximum severity as food poisoning and pneumonia (90), but the average level of severity is higher upon initial infection. Making it the more dangerous disease. And, the Mysterious Disease has the highest contagiousness of all. @blueybre explaines how the maxis calculations work in his reblock. Turns out, I was at least in the same ball park. And that SimPe displays and handles the random number primitive a little odd for my taste. See below.
MidgetheTree, like Epi, used the same value for CS and IS in the Guinea Pig disease. The code sets the values as a d50. Making the Guinea pig disease a little less dangerous than the maxis MD.
For my project, I decided to use d40+50 for CS but an IS of d50. I am currently revisiting my mod based on BlueyBre's comment.
The STD has code, that assigns different values to playables and townies. Clever, since the disease of townies does not progress. Its severity starts of quite close to the death threshold and if you have mods that make diseases more severe, this diasease is deadly very fast.
Nyamis Chronical Illness does not use the ingame "disease token". It codes a unique new token. That means, ingame features and mods alike that search for the GUID of the disease token (comfort soup, immunity, spells, ginie wishes, the lot debugger, the simmanipulator, Simlers90 disease mod etc.) can't report or affect this disease. It is indeed a very unique illness.
@lamare-sims reblock added one more disease to the list. Yay! Its carbon simoxide poisoning if you run a power generator indoor. It will take longer to die, the death threshold is the highest so far and the onset severity is low. Similar to food poisoning, it is not contagiousness.
One question for me remains after all this:
What does initial severity do?
My in-game tests did not reveal what this value does. It never changes when a disease progresses. It isn't really 'initial' in the sense that the sickness starts with it, because that is the value of CS. CS then changes as a disease progresses.
Is it more like a minimum value for severity that CS can't drop below? That doesn't make sense, though, because if CS becomes ≤0, a Sim is 'healed.' My tests confirm Sims are healed through sleep for an STD.
Having a different value on the disease onset in CS and IS aslo has no effect.
Is someone out there that can explain it? Point me into a direction?
yay, Blueybre and Lamare had more insights into Sims diseases. Go and read their reblocks!
Thank you so much for sharing your notes and explaining aspecs that I havent't covered yet.
They shed some light on the initial severity property, on how the value of the disease ID is used later on to calculate the symptons. And how mad your scientist has to be to create the perfect virus on the unmodded Biotech Station.
Thanks to BlueyBre, I learned that SimPe displays and handles primitive 0x08 differently. It displays "zero to 50" but you actually get 0-49. After debating back and forth with myself, I decided to leave my numbers in the table. But highlighted it as the SimPe numbers.
I guess its why there is a coinflip global. Because in theory, you could use primitiv 0x08 from "0 to 1" for a coinflip calculation, or so I thought. With the new inside, that would only give me zeros? I think I will test that in game. Just out of curiosity.
SceneGraph Plus V2.0
SceneGraph Plus V2.0
SceneGraph Plus V1 was all about displaying and fixing scene graph chains.
SceneGraph Plus V2 is wandering off into the realm of extending and adding parts of scene graph chains.
V2.0 (beta) is focused on object recolours
making a non-recolourable object recolourable (messing around with the GMND resource's tsDesignModeEnabled block)
adding a default recolour to an object (linking a new MMAT to the object's CRES and TXMT for the selected recolourable subset)
adding additional recolours to an object (adding and linking new MMAT/TXMT/TXTR resource triples)
Best illustrated with a video, which is handy as we recorded the presentation I did recently for The SimForge discord channel.
Join The SimForge discord : Watch the video
For the time being, I recommend that you keep a copy of SceneGraph Plus V1.10 as V2.0 is still beta. I've not updated the file that tells SceneGraph Plus V1.10 that there is a newer version available, so you won't get the "updated" popups if you need to revert to using 1.10
Prefer to answer questions about this new version on discord.
This is brilliant! OMG, recoloring just got so much easier. Cleaning out packages with remnants of 'cloned' data is now a breeze. I’m currently working on some old files from the early eras of Sims 2 modding, and boy, some creators left tons of unused bits in their files!
It unnecessarily complicates the effort of trying to reverse-engineer and understand their code. It’s so tedious to clean them out before improving the logic, but SG provides a fast visual overview. Plus, it’s much friendlier to my old PC's resources than SimPE. LOVE IT!
I highly recommend watching the referenced video for SG. If you’re in a hurry, fast-forward to the part where recolors are generated, and then again to the discussion afterward.
Thank you @picknmixsims for this new tool!
My loved "Little Space Ranger Chair"
This is a special matter of the heart for me. I still remember how elated I was, when I found out that Michelle (MTS) made a clone with two subsets in LACK. And how I never got it to work in-game :(.
With the help of SceneGraph Plus, a new tool by @picknmixsims, it was beyond easy to fix the mesh. Clicked the "fix it" button" and done!
Seats and wheels are separately choosable. In addition, I restored the original white leg texture. Because thats what I wanted for my game :P
Get repaired MESH and recolours SFS here. needs Pets
My files will conflict with the these originals, please remove them first.
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LACK Baby stuff
Ok, ok, there are numerous recolours of the Baby Bounce, Kinder Koddler and Baby Dangle. But just not exactly what I needed for my own game. And they look way better in game, promise.
And I throw in 10 Smoke Alarm recolours and 2 partially invisible recolours of the Smoke and Burglar alarm, respectively. I was replacing these full clones by pfish.
Get them here SFS.
Invisible Burglar alarm is here.
The Kinder Koddler needs a CEP by shasta that seperates the frame and seat. The white texture of the frame is from a recolour of @poppet-sims.
3 counters in LACK colours
Still working my way through missing LACK recolours. Today I bring 3 counters. Maxis already slaved the textures to the matching Islands.
10 LACK recolour colours.
Epikourous counter, "Counter Culture" are BG. Surfaco counter from Kitchen&Bath.
Get them here SFS.
Credit to Spacedoll and DremeMynd at MTS for the "dirty" state psd mask.
Sims 2 Tools - SceneGraph Plus
SceneGraph Plus
SceneGraph Plus is an application to display and manipulate scene graph (mesh and material) resources.
While it is similar to SimPe's scenegrapher, it has major differences:
it is a standalone application;
it can open and write multiple .package files simultaneously;
it displays all connections between resources, and not just those in the chain starting at the "top-most" resources;
it understands recolours (MMAT/GZPS/XMOL/XTOL), wall/floor coverings (XOBJ), fence (XFNC) and roof (XROF) scenegraph chains;
it understands links from STR# resources (0x0085 Model Names to CRES and 0x0088 Material Names to TXMT);
it supports renaming resources - maintaining the integrity of the chain (both names and TGIR values);
it supports relinking resources - enabling broken chains to be repaired.
A scenegraph chain with multiple issues
The same scenegraph chain after fixing directly within the app
A complex scenegraph chain across multiple files (one for the mesh, one for the recolours and one for the materials.)
TXMT, TXTR and LIFO resources can be viewed.
Lots more details, and an introductory video, on the web page.
Wow! this is sooo usefull. I am still learning how all these resources within a package file work together and that nifty program of yours just did it.
Maybe I am a little predisposed working with and thinking in flowcharts because.....
A picture is worth a thousand words!
Recently I was venturing into recoloring and I ran into bumbs. All those new terms: subsets, substates, parts that are not recolorable etc.
Just some visualization of projects I am working on.
Did I use the term "subset" correctely. Let me know if not! Thanks.
More LACK recolours: Ikea Hatten table
Still working on organizing my game folder and unifying my caotic collection of different color schemes. Found this one not beeing done so far in LACK colors. (At least I hope).
These recolours appear as solid plastic, the original maxis one is translucent.
Download (SFS)
*Fixed* Navy Recolours of Studio Bakonmi Set by Ta593
Currently cleaning out my recolour folder and found these lovely navy and white recolours of the Studio Bakonmi Set by Ta593 hidding in there.
They show up blue flashing in my game and I went ahead to fix them (recloned and transplanted the original textures). Thought I share.
Get them HERE (SFS)
Credits: Ta593 over at MTS did the recolours, I just fixed them to show up in a game with all expansions and what not.
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FreeTime Kitchen Appliances in LACK colours!
Happy colours :)
Microwave, Toasteroven, Trashcompactor, Dishwasher, Hot Chocolate Maker, Coffee Maker, Stove (including dirty state), Fridge, Food Processor.
Get them here SFS. Have Fun. Need Sims 2 FreeTime and CEP (?)
Credit: Colour actions for PSP by Hafiseazale Texture used in some files as a starting point by freesimmy21
Custom food commitment is a thing of the past!
I want to highlight a creation by someone else today, because I think it's super cool and very useful to the community! Have you ever wanted to use custom food, but were put off by the fact that once in, you shouldn't technically remove it because it creates broken memories and tokens and whatnots? Do you have food in that you wish you could remove but don't want to because of those aspects?
Well fret no more, because jonasn has posted an updated version of his Memory Commander, that now has an invalid food removal option under Mass Deletion.../Remove EVERYONE'S Invalid Food. It cycles through the entire hood, removing memories where the food subject no longer exists, leftover plates that are empty (does not include apartment lots, or secret society lot) and fave foods referring to non-existing dishes. It could already sort of do it for one Sim at a time, but now it can do the entire hood all at once! How amazing is that?!
Check out this great mod object here
I was a tester for this function and it's been working perfectly in my testing. That said, please know that I am in no means an expert on corruption or anything such. To me this seems like a great tool that is super useful, but use is at your own risk. I've run a number of tests for jonasn on the functionality, and he's done what he could to verify the outcomes to see it's all good, but as with anything complicated there's always a slight possibility that there is something you overlooked. The object pops up a dialog that informs you how many things were removed, and if you exit lot without saving then the actions aren't saved, so I recommend just testing it if you are interested :)
Aside from this one function, the Memory Commander is also basically a one stop shop for anything memory-related you could possibly want. It can assign any game memory, it can modify existing memories to change subject etc. You can even assign other custom memories with it, as long as at least one Sim has gotten it in the hood. It's such a handy tool for anyone that likes memories, and as you know, I am memory obsessed so I am a big fan!
