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I bought an external SSD for Linux. External, because Windows updates have a nasty habit of overwriting the Linux booter. I downloaded a Debian iso, and installed Debian. I installed Wine, and Proton, and a whole bunch of other things, switching my desktop from Gnome to KDE along the way. I installed the Sims 2 from Steam. I installed VSCode and cloned my repository. Then I got to the actual work of making SimPE work correctly on Linux.

To recap what actually got fixed along the way:

Wayland → X11 (KDE Plasma switch) — fixed the game hanging on window-manager "not responding" false alarms nouveau/NVK → Intel iGPU via DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME — fixed the full-system freeze, which turned out to be the immature Vulkan driver for my RTX 4070, not a game or Wine bug at all wine-9.0 → wine-11.0 (Proton Experimental) — fixed SimPE's DPI-awareness crash on any menu click Application.ExecutablePath → AppContext.BaseDirectory in SimPE's own code — fixed plugin/panel loading when launched via the dotnet.exe muxer (needed because the .exe apphost's runtime detection is unreliable under Wine) linux/simpe-launch.sh + linux/install.sh — packages all of that into a one-click launcher, committed to the repo

So, a new release of SimPE for Linux is out now.

Download: SFS / Mega / Google Drive

Formally starting a Maxis AM clothing overhaul project. It will consist of mesh-only default replacements for AM outfits and separates, compatible with texture-only defaults.

Goals:

• giving AM clothes lovingly edited fat morphs • harmonizing AM clothes so that sims don't change shapes when changing outfits (this is mainly an issue with the fat morphs but not exclusively as you'll see below) • adding preg morphs to as many pieces as possible • making adjustements to the normal morphs when I see fit (or when I see a bad fit, hehe)

Limits:

• not all Maxis AM clothes will be covered (some I think are fine as they are, some I'd rather replace with something else entirely) • the only option for bare feet will be blockfeet

Today's batch covers 13 meshes + the naked AM meshes.

I've already made AM default replacements following these principles in the recent past, you can find them gathered here (all posts related to the project will be there, tagged #project:AM). I added an entry to my Downloads page at the bottom under the "special themes" heading.

More details and previews under the cut.

amtopshirtpolo replaced with T-Shirt “Man from Hjelmdall” created by @deedee-sims

24 Recolors of the OFB Trash Trapper 910i with TS3 Patterns

There's a variety of themes to fit different decors

夏パンツ！

Mesh by Yuxi

Mesh is included.

Download AM

OvershirtPantsSandals mesh defaults, lazy preview, a download.

Includes: Default mesh for AF EAxis size, addon for TF EAxis size.  A very long time ago made a separate T-shirt out of a Trapping/Fanseelamb genderswapped mesh, used that T-shirt on this mesh.  Jeans are from idk H&M EP or something & then recolored, shoes are the ones that came with the jeans.  Everything has all 3 morphs. Defaulted as shown.

Addons for 7 AF Bodyshapes & 7 TF Bodyshapes that each have all 3 morphs, Warlokk’s Faerie, Warlokk’s Fashion Model, Poppeboy’s Fitchick, Warlokk’s Rio, Warlokk’s Classic Pinup, Warlokk’s Voluptuous, & Warlokk’s Renaissance, also REPOSITORIED.

Binned as Everyday for TF-AF.  Available in EF bin using AF meshes.

Everything included in each clothing type requires the MASTER files, including the default replacement mesh, to work.  That’s what Repository is.

Why I did this:  BAGGY T-SHIRT.  SUCH NORMAL.  LESS SANDAL.  WOW.  Also, TINY (like 2Kb-3Kb so actually legit TINY) file sizes for the awful assloads of files I required when I was creating it. Dealbreaker: If you don’t want these outfits defaulted the exact way I just did, nothing else will work.  I’m not planning on making a standalone version (sorry) because I wouldn’t ever use it.

Download ComfyCasual EAxis Size

Download ComfyCasual Bodyshape Sizes

Bug fixes and more plugins! Theo's Color Binning tool, Theo's Alt Sim Surgery, and JFade's Collection Creator are all added and working. It is on my Github for all 3 platforms, Windows, Linux, and Mac. You can download all three from my Github. You can also download the Mac Mootilda's Clean Installer and Mac Delphy's Download Organizer. Still testing the Mac Mootilda's Hood Checker, but it coming very soon.

Edit 12/6/2021: I made a mistake in the No Sanity Check version that was causing a major bug. And in both versions there were two minor errors that carried over from Pescado's original. I've fixed and updated the files so please re-download! Sorry for the trouble!

I made this a while ago, but never ended up sharing it because I was too indecisive about the parameters. But I've decided to share it as is and just make modifications if anyone requests them.

This is an edit of Pescado's Greater LTW Variety & Sanity to make most career LTWs available to all aspirations (including Pleasure and Grilled Cheese!) Most career LTWs will now be decided by sims' interests (and sometimes personality).

Only tested with Ultimate Collection, but should work as long as you have Nightlife or higher.

Edit 12/2/2021: Version without Pescado's sanity checks/Elders can roll career LTWs

Edit 12/3/2021: Forgot to say that if you get this mod, I highly recommend you also download @equinoxts2's Interest Ages Mod! Otherwise, certain career ltws will rarely show up because of the way Maxis coded interests.

Download

Download No Sanity Check Version

I know, I know, I said I’d get my 500 followers’ gift out today but then I got almost done with the “Tell Fortune” social and I just wanted to push through and finish it. This is a brand new social enabled for teens-up towards either a matchmaker NPC, a sim in the paranormal career track, or the 3t2 fortune teller mystic career (no problem if you don’t have it downloaded, it’ll still work fine).

If you want to add an additional career/remove a career, there are BCON constants: just update “Num Careers” to reflect the new number of careers and then either delete both constants associated with the career you don’t want or add two new constants and set the first one equal to the first 4 digits of your preferred job’s object GUID and the second equal to the last 4 digits.

Now for how the social itself actually works: The sims undergo the animation sequences from getting a blind date from the matchmaker NPC, except the fee is a flat 5 simoleons (which automatically gets added to the recipient’s family, yay more variety in supplemental income!) and it ends with a popup containing one of the BV shrine’s fortunes. As you may remember some of these fortunes come with events attached, others don’t: the BV shrine has 4 strings associated with bad outcomes, 2 with good, 3 with nothing happening. I decided to move two of those strings from bad to nothing, which you can take as compensation for having to pay 5 times as much and not getting a vacation memory out of it.

UPDATE 12/12/18: Originally the interaction was autonomous but that got old quick IMO but maybe other people liked it, so now it comes in both autonomous and nonautonomous versions. The autonomous version also got a small tweak to make sure when it’s done autonomously it’s given the proper priority (which if I understand priority correctly means if a sim tries to ask for their fortune and you direct them to do something else in time “ask for fortune” will drop out of their queue).

UPDATE 12/13/18: Now there are also versions that enable sims with high paranormal interest to tell other sims’ fortunes! The default minimum interest level required is 8, but there’s another tunable constant “Min Paranormal Interest” if you want to change that. (EDIT: Version should now by properly tuned for the minimum interest required to be 8. If you want to retune it, remember to multiply the minimum interest you want by 100.)

UPDATE 12/14/18: The four old versions will remain up, but by request I turned the price into a BCON-tunable constant and upped the default value to 150. This version doesn’t include sims with high paranormal interest but it has the “Min Paranormal Interest”, just set to 0 which I made a value that’ll automatically stop the social from being given to sims just for their paranormal interest. Also, it’s non-autonomous. So essentially it’s just a more expensive version of “tellfortune-nonauto”, but if you’re interested in BCON tuning it’s more flexible.

UPDATE 12/18/18: Updated to fix an issue it sometimes caused with sims’ autonomy. Will no longer be supporting the old versions, so I took them down.

UPDATE 1/9/19: Fixed some typos re: randomness of outcome. Also now the default price really is 150.

UPDATE 1/16/19: Updated it so it’ll be available for matchmaker NPCs who are invited over to offer services, not those invited over for social hang-outs, instead of the other way around. If you want it to always be available for the matchmaker regardless of whether or not she’s “on the job”, there’s a new BCON constant “Allow for off-the-clock matchmaker?” which you can change to “1″. EDIT: Now changing “allow for off-the-clock matchmaker?” constant to “1″ will actually do what I said it did.

UPDATE 6/5/19: Fixed some issues that were causing money to not be transferred properly.

UPDATE 9/26/29: Now won’t be mistakenly identified as a fight social for purposes of “Influence…/Fight”.

Custom Potions Made Better

I kept this poor mod in beta for so long but I think it’s finally ready to be officially released! I have made:

A mod of the witch cauldron so your witches can make CC potions and the NL perfume

A tweak of Cyjon’s faster reagents so it won’t slow down the making of CC potions/NL perfume

And finally, the thing you actually requested, a custom “buy potions” social so the matchmaker NPC and witches can sell the new potions too. Playable witches need to have whatever they’re selling in their inventory but they’ll be properly credited the money. It’s not technically incompatible with my “witches are potionsellers” mod, but I included Maxis potions and reagents in this mod so “witches are potionsellers” will be redundant for those with this mod.

The perfume is actually labeled as “vampire sunblock” in the pie menus, because I and many others have some version of the vampire sunblock mod and that’s now the primary use of perfume in my game. This will make it a lot more convenient for my vampires to get a hold of, and it was one of the things sims 3 witches could make so why not sims 2 witches too. I also included the Parsimonious maker potions and Smonaff’s potions as you requested, plus pandorasims’s potions and @jellymeduza‘s zombie maker/cure potions.

The maker potions and zombie cure need skill level 1 to make just like Maxis’s cure potions. Everything else is available for all witches because I was too indecisive to decide what the requirementss should be. I’m about to go write up have written a short guide for adding/removing custom craftables and changing their skill & alignment reqs, since I got it to the point where all you have to change is BCON variables and text strings. But of course, as always, I’m open to making alternate versions myself if someone sees something that’s not BCON tunable they want changed/finds the guide overwhelming/can’t open SimPE for whatever reason.

ETA: “witchescancraft” must load after creaturefixes.

UPDATE 3/1/19: Now buy potions social skips the inventory checks for non-NPC witches from non-playable families (so, townies, downtownies, etc.) and doesn’t try to give them money for the transaction (your sim will still have to pay, it just goes to the void).

UPDATE 6/5/19: Fixed some issues that were causing money to not be transferred properly.

UPDATE 9/26/29: Now won’t be mistakenly identified as a fight social for purposes of “Influence…/Fight”.

Credits: @drewinthesky for the neutral recolor of the witch gift, which is now used by the matchmaker and neutral witches when you buy stuff from them.

I put out a lot of clothing CC for grannies, but one of my 2025 simming goals was to do more clothing for grandpas!

I think that embodyopenshirt is an adorable and under-loved mesh.

So I made a few recolors!

As you can see, some recolors have the high-waisted jeans and some don't.

I kinda like the high-waisted jeans! We need fits for our dorky elderly men who aren't very cool. And some recolors have a patch on knee of the jeans.

And there's a PSD in there too!

Mostly fabric for the texture sources, but some AAS and Lyran too.

🚨Note🚨: this is an OFB mesh! If you have a mesh replacement for embodyopenshirt this is going to show up funny. If there's enough demand I may separate this into a custom mesh. Or, anyone's free to put some new shoes on this too. But the nondescript tennis shoes seemed to work for the old man look.

Blackwork Animal Tattoos

And now I’m bringing you some more shirtless Graham tattoos! The 5 animal tattoos are all unisex, and if you’re unsure how to use them, click! :) Credits go to Freepik, and a free vector site I forgot the name of

Download - Alternate

A second bunch of tattoo overlays!

I kinda promised it earlier this week, so there you go! :D I had some contributions from last time that I really wanted to use, so! The first 3 tattoos are unisex, they looked okay on both sexes. Here’s the swatch! And if you’re not sure how to use them, here’s an explanation :)

Credits:

1 - Female and Male: Solar System tattoos, originally by @northernsiberiawinds, transferred to Sims 2 by @xwhitepolar, thank you for the amazing work guys!

2 - Female and Male: Flower arm tattoo by @acedcastle, thank you for the contribution!

3 - Female and Male: Snake arm tattoo also by Acedcastle, thank you!

4 - Female: Under B chest tattoo also by Acedcastle (I can’t thank you enough!)

4 - Male: A tribal arm tattoo that I made for one of my story sims (who actually hasn’t even born yet XD - it was in a set and I separated it) I have no idea where I got the texture, though, must’ve been some free brush site or smth

5 - Female: Gun and Rose tattoo submitted by a talented anon, thank you so much!

5 - Male: A tribal calf tattoo by me, with the same story as above

Feel free to tell me if I messed something up! I tested it, and it worked fine for me :)

Download - Alternate

(I promise the next one will be a themed one XD)

A bunch of random tattoo overlays!

Well, if I promise something… I make it sometimes :P So have my very first tattoo overlay box! It contains 5 male and 5 female tattoos (acutally one of them is unisex). You can see them here, but tumblr shrank it (thank you -.-) but it’s a lot bigger in the download, so you can actually see them XD

The credits:

1 - Female and Male are by me, they’re Chloe’s arm tattoo and Robert’s hand tattoo

2 - Female: Briko tattoos by @littlelittlesimmies (it’s progressive, as it’s on their skin version, so teens have less tattoos), thank you so much for the contribution!

2 - Male: Tribal tattoos by @chere-simblr thank you for sharing the png!

3 - Female: Tattoos by @andrevasims, thank you for the contribution!

3 - Male: Tristifer tattoos by Chere (again), thank you!

4 - Female and Male: Owl arm tattoos originally by @astraeanevermore, edited by @xwhitepolar, thank you so much, both of you!

5 - Female and Male: Heart and Spade couple forearm tattoos by @acedcastle, thank you for making and contributing the lovely tattoos!

I tested it, and they worked fine, stuck on the skin and everything. But since it’s my first, ever, feel free to tell me if I messed anything up!

Download - Alternate

And don’t worry if you sent me (more) tattoos and they didn’t get to the box, because I’m totally going to make another one as soon as I find some time to do the tedious copy-pasting work XD

Have fun! :D

s2 cc here

Default replacement for tfbottompantscowboyboots and afbottompantscowboyboots

Everyday | Fat morph | Compressed

I'm busy tomorrow so I'm going to post this today :)

This is Megamassikalove's shoeswap of Microscotch and Platinumaspiration's edit of Io's 4T2 GP10 Workpants. I really wanted to have red-colored pants since I already have quite a lot of just basic blue jeans. But then I thought that there are maybe some players who want their pants to be blue, so I did two versions ╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑ This is for teens and adults, but not for elders, sorry. I did enable the adult files for young adults, since why not? I also once again separated the files if you only want to replace one age. Or you want teens to have different colored jeans from adults.

Edit Feb 23: I made default replacement for elders and combined file for tf, af and ef. Check it out here.

Underneath is the dowload links and swatch MegaMassikaLove made:

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