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TS4 UI Mockups 🌱

Along with my Whimsy Challenge Expanded challenge, I created several UI mockups to mimic TS4′s in-game moodlets, notifications, and more. Feel free to use these alongside your gameplay screenshots!

These are meant to be used with L'Univers Sims’ icon rips from the game, and utilize The Sims Sans fonts. All templates come as editable PSDs, and knowledge of Photoshop / other similar editing software is recommended.

Included Templates:

All-in-One PSD

Incoming Call / Text

Life States (Birth, Age Up, Death)

Moodlets (Custom colors as shape)

Other Info (Left, Right)

Sim Info (Simple, Detailed)

All hosted on SFS, no ad*fly. 

View the folder for downloads here.

Feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions about editing the PSDs. No credit necessary for use, but it’s definitely appreciated. ☕

More previews under the cut.

Smooth as Butter//An action

this is just something i made a while ago that i’ve been using recently and it’s changed my life so i thought why not share it :^) i use it over top of these topaz actions (smooth and smooth sharp) and it really makes your pics look good so ! also it doesn’t require topaz clean which is cool 

I've been getting a lot of asks lately about my editing so I thought I'd make this post with a little list of all the psds/tutorials/gshades I've been using lately on my posts! ₊˚⊹⋆

awkwardwhims psd collection

windslar psd collection + 2.0

buglaur editing tutorial

cupidjuice promotion template

kittrixsims camera overlay

lysiablr ui mockups

honeycombsims simstagram story template

cupidgnome university grades template

early-grape butter action

gshade

cas: lithium

YOU NEED: GShade or ReShade, a preset with a depth of focus shader, photo-editing software (I use GIMP, which is free and open source), familiarity with the rule of thirds.

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: use layer masks to edit together two screenshots to create a split-diopter effect.

WHAT IS A SPLIT DIOPTER / DUAL-FOCUS?

A split diopter is a special kind of lens that can be used to produce a dual-focus effect. A dual-focus effect means a shot with multiple planes of focus.

Like this. Both characters are in focus, despite being on opposite ends of the frame. The empty space between them is out of focus.

The human eye can only focus on one thing at a time. To demonstrate this, hold your hand up in front of your face. Focus first on your hand, and then on the wall behind it. While you’re focusing on your hand, the wall behind it is blurred. When you’re focused on the wall, your hand becomes blurred. In this example, your hand and the wall represent two different planes of focus: the near plan (your hand) and the far plane (the wall).

Like your eyes, a camera lens can usually only focus on one thing at a time. A split diopter shot allows you to keep both the near and far planes in focus simultaneously, with an out-of-focus band in between.

WHY USE A SPLIT DIOPTER/DUAL-FOCUS EFFECT?

Because your puny human eyes can only maintain one plane of focus at a time, a frame with two planes of focus produces an unsettling effect akin to the uncanny valley. You can tell something is wrong even if you can’t put your finger on why. A split diopter shot messes with the viewers’ ability to parse what’s going on in frame or where things are in relation to one another. For this reason, these kinds of shots show up most often in thrillers and horror movies, where the disorienting effect contributes to the overall mood and tone.

Split diopter shots essentially combine the strengths of the close-up and the long shot. It lets us see the emotions on an actor’s face and the chaos going down behind them. In a horror movie, we can see the injured protagonist frantically tending their injuries while their boyfriend is mauled by a werewolf in the background.

One of the most famous split diopter shots of all time is in Jaws (1975) where a conversation between our protagonists is interrupted when the swimmer in the background is attacked by the eponymous man-eating shark.

Pics taken moments before disaster.

Use a split diopter effect to create tension and unease. They’re useful for fitting a lot of visual information into a single frame or compressing the space between two distant characters.

A split diopter will undermine the mood of a happy or straight-forwardly romantic scene, but it can add drama and tension to an argument or betrayal. If you want to subtly signal to your readers that someone is lying or something is not quite as it seems, you can use a split diopter to contribute to that feeling of unease.

HOW TO CREATE A SPLIT DIOPTER EFFECT

You can create a split diopter effect by layering two screenshots with different planes of focus.

Step 1: Set up your shot. Our split diopter effect depends on being able to take two pictures of the same scene with different focal distances. Arrange your sims and objects, one in the foreground and one in the background. In my experience your foreground and background objects need to be at least 2 - 2.5 tiles apart. The further apart your near and far subjects, the easier it’ll be to compose your shot and create the effect.

I’ve decided that my near subject will be the sim and the canvas, and the still life will be the far subject. The canvas and the still life are approximately 2 tiles apart diagonally.

Step 2: Position your camera in tab mode. Enter tab mode. Zoom the camera around with the WASD keys and move it up and down with the Q and E keys. You want to find an angle where your near and far subjects are both positioned comfortably in frame with no overlap. Use the rule of thirds to help compose your shots: your near and far subjects should be centered in the first and third vertical thirds with an empty middle third. If you’re having trouble composing your shot, try zooming in and out with the Z and X keys. Zooming out a few clicks creates a fish-eye effect that will exaggerate the distance between your subjects and make it easier to get the screenshots you’ll need.

Step 3: Choose your preset. Open your GShade/ReShade control panel and choose a preset with a depth of field (DOF) shader. Make sure the shader has options for mouse-driven autofocus.

Step 4: Take 2 screenshots with different planes of focus. Once you’re satisfied with the position of your camera, click once so you can move your cursor without moving the game’s camera. Hover over the near subject, allow your DOF shader to bring the near field into focus, and take a screenshot. Then, without moving the camera, move your mouse to the far subject, wait for your DOF shader to focus, and take a second screenshot with the far plane in focus. Your two shots should be identical, except for the plane of focus.

Screenshot 1. The near plane is in focus. We can clearly see the canvas and brush, but the bottle is blurred.

Screenshot 2. The far plane is in focus. We can clearly see the bottle, but the canvas and brush are blurred.

Step 5: Open your screenshots in GIMP. Open your first screenshot GIMP, and then click ‘Open as Layer…’ and open the second image as a layer in the same file. I like to have my near subject on the top layer, but it doesn’t change the process or the end result.

Step 6: Add a layer mask to your top layer. In GIMP, I do this by right-clicking the top layer and selecting ‘Add Layer Mask…’ You want to select the second option, “Black (full transparency. Layer Masks allow us to make parts of our canvas transparent, and we’re going to use this function to create our split diopter effect.

Step 7: Add a gradient to your top layer. Find your software’s gradient tool. (In GIMP, you can bring it up by hitting the G key.) Use the color picker to set your main color to solid black (#000000). Then, with the layer mask selected, draw a broad gradient all the way across your screen, from the near subject to the far subject (make sure your main color is solid black). This will turn the layer partially transparent, fading from solid to see-through.

Move the cross-hairs around to see if you can create the effect.

Here's the end product of a fade-to-transparency gradient produced with a layer mask. You could also do this to recreate the nuclear annihilation montage from T2.

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Igloo for Sims 4

It’s cloned from one of the Outdoor Retreat tents so it works as one too. I tried to scale it so that sims, both adults and kids, would enter & exit smoothly. It’s non-default so it won’t replace the original tents. 

(The mesh is from Sims 3 which HafiseAzale first converted to Sims 2 and which I then used to make this)

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Related download: 6 snowmen and icicle wall decal

(TS4) BKNYSIMZ baby phat i833 motorola flip phone

100% meshed by me

all LODS

functionable

override's sims 4 default phone

this mod is an override, if you have an existing phone override mod, please delete it before installing!

also, i attempted to make this same flip phone 2 years ago, but it was TERRIBLE, i don't recommend but in case you do, click.

CAS Backgrounds & Loading Screens Set: Marshmallow 🤍🍨🐇

Vinyls Set - objects & accessories + poses

Hi! Today I'm sharing this vinyl set I've made. I hope you'll enjoy!

The set includes 3 different vinyl versions - each available as decor or pose accessory.

Every object has 16 swatches. Accessories are assigned to stigmata and can be found in hat category. The posepack includes 3 single poses and 1 couple pose.

all meshes are made by me.

Download patreon (free for everyone)

[BNTS] Random couple poses #9

- 6 Couple Poses

Model IG :

silu.ona

king_euigon

Blender scene by

oh_myscenes

Hair by

t.aostudio

Please do not re-upload ❌

DOWNLOAD (Early access) 🧡💛💚💙💜💗

Available for public on 15/07/24

Thank you for all CC creators 💕

Get you Passport pt. 2

For the sims who had to settle for the passport of the town next door, here are the passport for their own town 🫡

Now added: Occult worlds, Chestnut Ridge, New Crest, & the new Strangerville passport.

I hope you all enjoy these :] I didn’t have a lot of time between school and work, but I finally had the time to indulge myself last weekend.

Free to download (Patreon)

A couple of people have asked me if I would make a passport for the 'for rent' world, so decided to make one! I was very indecisive, so I ended up with two versions :)

(simified) Google and UBrite UI templates

The templates I made for this post.

Fonts used: Simlish Bristle by @ratboysims | this UI font

dl (sfs)

After releasing my first collection of UI-ish templates and widgets, I found myself making more during the process of editing my posts. I'd planned on keeping this one around the same size as the previous one, but the longer it took me to properly label and organize my layers, the more I added to the file. So now we're here at like 40-ish templates (and a few even have a hidden version).

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Like my previous collection, I designed this to be a "workspace" or "canvas" from which you can just pull whatever template you need. Each template is labeled and organized into folders so you'll know exactly which layers you need for your screenshot.

Tips on how to use these can be found in the original post as well as this google doc tutorial .

Font used is Helvetihand TS4 icons - L'Universims, TheSimKid, deathbypufferfish, w-sims, Tutorial on how to extract icons

TOU: Feel free to use and edit as you wish but please don't reupload and claim as your own. If someone asks where they're from, please link to this post.

DOWNLOAD FOLDER (SFS)

Family is Everything #2 Pose Pack

The second part to my family pose dumps! This is the last one I’ll be releasing for a little while, so I hope you enjoy!

If you have any issues, please let me know!

Includes: -8 family poses -College diploma accessory (Hat)

What you need: -Andrew’s Pose Player -Teleport Any Sim -Short Toddler Preset by @redheadsims-cc -Highschool Diploma Accessory by @soloriya

TOU: -If you use, please tag me on here or on my Instagram @bored.sims! Completely optional, but I’d love to see~

Quiara Hair

Hey there lovelies! Here's the new hairstyle I've been working on FOR AGES. I ran into a lot of issues with the hair in-game but got the help I needed which I'm so thankful for! It's a Goddess bob braids hairstyle, hopefully you guys like it! 🤍

Base Game Compatible

24 EA Swatches

All LOD’s

All Maps

Not Hat Compatible

Two Versions

High poly

PREVIEW

Quiara Hair V1 (left) and Quiara Hair V2 (right)

DOWNLOAD HERE - Public (CF) | ALT (SFS) 🤍

OR

SUPPORT ME - Direct Access to All (Patreon) 🤍

Thank you to everyone who likes and reblogs my content 🤍