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LCA | Lights, Camera, Action | A Reshade Shader

Introducing LCA | Lights, Camera, Action ✨🎬

Custom screen-space dynamic lighting custom FX shader for The Sims 4, for that cozy, flattering, cinematic look. Inspired by Marty McFly's iMMERSE!

What is it?

LCA is a ReShade shader (LCA.fx) that lets you place up to 4 dynamic lights anywhere in your scene. Point lights, spot lights, in any color, at any intensity.

Features

🕯️ Up to 4 simultaneous lights — each with full toggles so you can flip them on and off independently

🔦 Point AND spot lights — point for ambient room glow, spots for window shafts and dramatic angles

🎨 Full color control — RGB picker per light

✨ Soft, flattering falloff — smooth radius rolloff with no harsh cutoffs.

💡 Light wrap diffuse — gives surfaces a soft, skin-like quality.

🎯 Smoothed normal reconstruction — multi-tap sampling kills the polygonal faceting common to other ReShade lighting shaders

🌑 Optional screen-space shadows — for realistic, live, contact-shadowed light

⚙️ Tuned specifically for The Sims 4 — depth handling baked in, sensible defaults, just works

Sliders you'll actually use

Position (X, Y, Depth) — drag your light anywhere in 3D space

Intensity / Radius — how bright, how far it reaches

Light Wrap — the cozy/dreamy dial. Higher = softer

Normal Smoothness — kills faceting on Sims and curved objects

Falloff Softness — controls how lights fade at their edges

Spot direction & cone — for spot lights, point them like a flashlight

DOWNLOAD | LINK

🍒 Cherry Cache: a mod manager for The Sims 4

A fast, pretty desktop app that makes managing your mods and CC actually pleasant. Built for huge collections (tested on thousands of files). Here is everything it does:

Managing your mods

Turn any mod on or off with one click. Nothing is ever deleted; disabled mods are safely moved aside and restored when you turn them back on.

Search your whole Mods folder instantly.

Filter by enabled or disabled, by file type (package vs script), and by category.

Select multiple mods and enable, disable, or move them all at once.

Browse your mods grouped by folder in the sidebar.

Custom content organizer

Auto sorts your CC by reading the actual file contents: CAS, Build/Buy, and Gameplay mods, not just folder names.

Finds duplicate downloads, even when the filenames are different.

Shows thumbnail previews of your CC, with a click to enlarge.

List view and a grid gallery view.

Live stats: total mods, how many are enabled or disabled, total size, and counts by type.

Importing and tidying

Import CC with a button, or just drag and drop files onto the window.

Move mods into folders (Hair, Clothing, Build/Buy, and so on) right inside the app.

Star your favorites and filter to just those.

Sort by name or by most recently added.

The Sims tab

Browse the households you have saved in your Tray.

See real Sim portraits pulled from your game, including a combined family photo for multi Sim households.

See exactly which CC each Sim uses, matched against your library, with enabled or disabled status.

Export a Sim's CC list as text, as a nicely styled web page with the portrait included, or as a ZIP of the actual files to share or back up.

Copy a CC list straight to your clipboard.

Find the broken mod (the patch day savior)

Reads your game's crash log and often names the likely culprit instantly, with one click to disable it.

If there is no clear clue, it runs the 50/50 method automatically: it disables half your mods while you test, then narrows down by half each round until it pinpoints the exact bad mod.

Completely non destructive. Everything is restored when you are done, and you can cancel at any step.

Make it yours

Six color themes: Cherry, Blueberry, Grape, Lemon, Lime, and Midnight (a sleek all black night mode). Your choice is saved.

Clean, modern, rounded interface.

Under the hood

Auto detects your Sims 4 folder, with manual overrides if your setup is custom.

Handles thousands of mods smoothly.

One time purchase, yours forever, with free updates.

AURORA | A Reshade Sky Tinting Shader

Introducing AURORA — Sky Tinting for Sims 4 🌌🌅

One shader, infinite atmospheres.

Some scenes need a sunset. Some need a storm. Some need the green-violet shimmer of an alien sky. AURORA gives you them all!

What is it?

AURORA is a depth-masked sky overlay shader for The Sims 4. It paints atmospheric color onto the sky and distant horizon while leaving your Sims, furniture, and foreground untouched so it reads like a real sky, not a filter slapped on top.

8 hand-tuned presets. Custom mode for your own colors. Subtle animation that makes the sky shimmer and shift like real auroras and atmospheres do.

✨ 8 Built-In Presets

🌌 Northern Lights — green/teal/violet aurora shimmer 🌅 Sunset — deep blue fading to fiery orange ✨ Magic Hour — soft warm golden gradient 👽 Alien — toxic green and purple, eerie and otherworldly ⛈️ Storm — moody grays and stormy blues 💜 Vapor — pink and cyan vaporwave dreamscape 🩸 Blood Moon — deep crimson horror atmosphere 🍭 Cotton Candy — pastel pink and blue softness

Plus full Custom mode — pick your own three colors and build any sky you can imagine.

🎬 What it's for

📸 Screenshot photography — instant atmospheric drama 📖 Storytelling & legacies — set the mood of every scene 🌙 Dramatic moments — Blood Moon for vampire arcs, Storm for tension ☀️ Romantic shots — Sunset and Magic Hour are made for weddings and first kisses 👽 Sci-fi / supernatural — Alien preset for Strangerville style stories 🎥 Machinima — change atmospheres scene-to-scene with a single dropdown

🛠️ Features

Depth-masked — only affects sky and distant areas, foreground stays natural

3-color gradient — top, mid, and horizon colors for realistic sky transitions

Animated shimmer — subtle noise-based movement makes skies feel alive (toggleable)

Atmospheric glow — sky color bleeds gently onto distant objects for fake atmospheric scattering

Adjustable horizon line — match different camera angles

Debug views — see exactly what's being affected

Tuned for Sims 4 — depth handling baked in, no setup hassle

DOWNLOAD | LINK

Sims 4 Custom Plumbob Tutorial

Few people have asked me to make a tutorial after I made my plumbob so I'll try my best to explain(´｡• ◡ •｡`)

You'll Need:

-Blender

-Sims 4 Studio

Step 1: You'll need to have some kind of mesh. Whether you made it or imported it from somewhere doesn't matter. If you're using blender 3-4 make sure to export your mesh as an obj.

Next Step is to open Sims 4 Studio and under object select override and then click object.

After everything is loaded, click the check box for debug then search plumbob. Select the first plumbob you see. When you hover over it, it should say something like "pc plumbob me". After you select it click next and name your package file.

Next, navigate to meshes and export the lod 0.

Open the plumbob in Blender 2.79 then import your mesh.

After that, select your mesh and press tab. On the UV map side, scroll till you see a square. Click it. If everything is not selected, press "A" so everything is selected.

Navigate to the bottom and select mesh (while still in edit mode) and press "normals" and "reticulate outside". That way it won't be see through.

Press Tab to go back into object mode and size your plumbob accordingly.

Next click the "studio_mesh_0" and using the arrows, move it to the side(or hit "g" then "x") Make sure its a nice distance away from your mesh.

While still selecting the studio mesh, hold shift and click on your mesh. Then, press ctrl j to merge them together. If your mesh changes color, you did it right. Next press tab and to deselect everything press "A". Next press the square with little dots on it.

After that, press "B" and select the other plumbob. Hit delete or x and select delete faces.

After that press that square again and hit "A" to select everything. After everything is selected, go to the uv side and press new. For regular texture "1024 x 1024" for HQ "2048 x 2048".

Make sure this is set to 0.

Press tab to get out of edit mode and click the the little spear next to that triangle. Press the minus to get rid of the other plumbobs texture and press the + to add your own.

Play around with these settings if you want to. If you plan on texturing outside of Blender, I'd just recommend to have a white base to work with.

After that click on the camera icon and change the margin size to like 5 and I like to hit normalized. Make sure ambient occlusion is selected (or you can play around with that too) then hit bake.

Once the image is done baking🍪click image then click save as image.

Once the image is saved, save your plumbob. (I recommend hitting save as instead of save so you won't override the ea plumbob in case you wanna use it again :))

Next import your mesh into that package file we created. Import it into both LOD and Shadow. Head over to the Texture tab and import that baked texture into the diffuse section.

Now for the other two, I have blanks you can download and use. click me The blue one goes into the cube one and the yellow one goes into the refraction one.

You can test your plumbob in game and adjust the size and stuff in blender if needed.

Last thing to do is texture it and put the package file into your game and boom! You just made yourself a custom plumbob!ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧ Do lmk if you have any questions(..◜ᴗ◝..)

Ever wanted to rotate or move your sims after they were already in a pose? Or maybe have an easier time aligning multiple sims or sim(s) to an object?

This is basically (almost) a replacement for the "Teleport Any Sim" mod, as I found it to be quite unintuitive to have to use buy mode when wanting to pose multiple sims or a sim to an object. There may be some very niche edge cases were you may still need "Teleport Any Sim" for a pose, but otherwise you can just use this, which I find to be a lot more convenient to use.

The mod comes with 5 interactions that only show up when posing. For more info on the interactions and edge cases view the mod's description on Curseforge or ModTheSims. It works with both WW's (either version) and Andrew's pose players.

Downloads

Curseforge

ModTheSims

SimFileShare (Please read the description on one of the other sites)

Poses used in the GIFs

Ballerina Posepack (Adult) by ashlegacies

Chair Poses #2 by yanisim

Pack pose: the tango by Lana Byakko

Showcase/Guide

—⋆˚࿔ CUTIE BISCUIT MINI SET (๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑)✦

hi everyone ꩜ .ᐟ (download at bottom)

after a day of deliberation and YOUR feedback... (drumroll please!) i have decided to drop a little mini furniture set while i work on a mega 20+ piece super set (and boy oh boy it will be super!)

i was inspired by this super cute biscuit aesthetic i stumbled upon on pinterest and wanted to recreate some things in game !!

[ quick note: lately i have been lowering the quality of my meshes to make sure that they arent too highpoly for your games, if this bothers you let me know bc i am already in the process of trying to figure out a way to keep the mesh integrity without sacrificing quality ]

this 8 piece set includes:

── .✦ a biscuit seat (more of a stool really) (5 swatches)

── .✦ a biscuit bench (5 swatches

── .✦ some biscuit pillows (two versions, one swatch each)

── .✦ some biscuit rugs (4 swatches)

── .✦ some biscuit wall decals (10 swatches)

── .✦ biscuit themed wallpaper overrides (18 swatches, these will not work if you already have a wallpaper override in your game)

── .✦ biscuit themed phone ui overrides (these will override the apps on your sims phone, & these will not work if you already have a phone ui override in your game)

everything is, of course, base-game compatible, you may be missing some of the overrided apps if you are missing some packs! custom thumbnails included + unedited screenshots above! let me know if there are any issues!

ꕤ this is 100% my own custom mesh, so please no converting to other games (please reach out to me for more info) ꕤ

everything i create will always be free, so please don't worry about my work going behind a paywall :))

search "[bfs]" in game to find quickly! please don't claim as your own & if you use them PLEASE tag me @/babyfacesim so i can see!

Sims 1

Sims 2

Sims 3

Sims 4

Sims Medieval

Here is also all non-PC sims games. As well as links to a variety of emulators:

PS2

PS3

XBOX

XBOX 360

PSP

DS

Wii

GameCube

Game Boy Advance/Other emulator

—⋆˚࿔ LAZY CHERRY CLUB MENU OVERRIDES ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆.

hi everyone ꩜ .ᐟ (download at bottom)

[ this is kind of an apology post, I have something big in the works and its taking me longer than originally anticipated but it should be done soon!! ]

i am super excited to share some more main menu overrides with you all: lazy cherry club themed main menu overrides !!

there are 3 total versions of main menus, all credit to lazy cherry club's creator: ashley huntington, PLEASE ONLY CHOOSE ONE

they are, of course, base-game compatible! shoutout to Amethyst-Lilac, their guide was so helpful in making these!

i recommend using these other mods to clean up your main menu displays:

ꕤ lunarbritney—2025 Main Menu Readjusted

ꕤ vyxatted—no clutter mods

please don't claim as your own & if you use them PLEASE tag me @/babyfacesim so i can see!

—⋆˚࿔ MIFFY MAIN MENU OVERRIDES ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ ಇ.

hi everyone ꩜ .ᐟ (download at bottom)

i am very excited to share another first piece of cc with you all: miffy themed main menu overrides !!

there are 3 total versions of main menus, all credit to pinterest, PLEASE ONLY CHOOSE ONE

they are, of course, base-game compatible! shoutout to Amethyst-Lilac, their guide was so helpful in making these!

i recommend using these other mods to clean up your main menu displays:

ꕤ lunarbritney—2025 Main Menu Readjusted

ꕤ vyxatted—no clutter mods

please don't claim as your own & if you use them PLEASE tag me @/babyfacesim so i can see!

LMC - TaiChi YinYang Rug Updated

Inspired by Chinese Ancient 8-Diagram Astrology Artifact. Hope you like it ^ ^

Download files here👇 TaiChi YinYang Rug (Metal/Stone/Wooden) TaiChi YinYang Rug (Spin)

Update Content: More swatches added. Specular map modified. Bug fixed.

☠️ REMINDER: Double-check the OP for updates!

⚔️ Requires - TS4: BASE GAME

☄️ Updated - NIL

🚀 Initial Release - 4/22/2025

🎁 Download and Discussions: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126616540

🗺️ Modding Announcements: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109291501

⚙️ EUREKA! I figured it out! I can now create custom filters in CAS for just about anything. This is going to ruin my life… but maybe it'll make The Sims 4 a little more tolerable for you.

🦄 Re-blog this post. Share it around. @ your favorite creators. Tell your friends and your anemones. This is happening even if I have to do it myself.

💬 I know a Search Bar would be awesome, but it would require Scale Form GFX modifications that are beyond my current capabilities. At one point in time, TwistedMexi was working on something similar to Better BuildBuy but for CAS. I have no idea if it was ever finished. For now, this is the best that I can give you.

📸 I will take better screenshots when I get the chance. I literally figured out how to do this in the middle of doing my BASE GAME CAS Overrides, CAS Add-Ons, and CAS De-Bloating™. In other words, this completely derailed my week.

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🌸 WE CAN DO THIS. YOU AND ME, TOGETHER:

For all intents and purposes, this is a "community project". I am willing and able to create and maintain the required override, the hundreds upon hundreds of unique 9-digit "IDs" for the "TagValueNumber", and the unique Strings, etc., but I can't possibly override every custom CAS item in existence.

Help me make this a reality, and also, keep your fingers crossed that the override doesn't break under the weight of the hundreds unpon hundreds of entries I'm adding to it.

Oh hai, @sims4studioofficial. Can you add a BATCH FIX that <LOOKS THROUGH MY WISH LIST> allows us to add a "SpecialContent" TAG with a custom "TagValueNumber" to a whole folder of CAS mods? Even if you can't get the "CategoryNumber" to copy properly, a BATCH FIX will at least eliminate half the busywork.

🎓 HOW IT DO, PIKACHU:

If you're well-versed in creating or modifying CAS content, all you need to do is add a new TAG to your swatches - you can do just the first swatch, but you should do all swatches - and change the "CategoryNumber" to "127" (without the quotes), and change the "TagValueNumber" to the desired 9-digit "ID".

For everyone else who is new to this, there are detailed instructions on the Patreon OP that I will refine and expand SOON™.

🌸 A UNIQUE 9-DIGIT "ID" FOR EVERYONE:

I wanted to @ everyone in this post, but Tumblr appears to have @ limits, so I'm doing multiple posts instead.

TagValueNumbers - Part 1: https://../781101093269749760

TagValueNumbers - Part 2: https://../781133788117942272

TagValueNumbers - Part 3: https://../781165285574131712

TagValueNumbers - Part 4: https://../781274185632727040

TagValueNumbers - Part 5: https://../781314537665298432

TagValueNumbers - Part 6: https://../781413445403820032

TagValueNumbers - Lucky 7: https://../781427101175808000

TagValueNumbers - Part 8: AFTER INITIAL RELEASE™

⚠️ BE ADVISED - I CHANGED A FEW "IDS":

My pinky promises that I will not make this a regular thing. The "IDs" in red have been replaced by those in white. In the spreadsheet, the changed "IDs" are highlighted in GREEN.

@cazhan -- 203294262 ⚠️ 203294260

CCBriekel (Patreon) -- 203274353 ⚠️ 203227435

@j3lly-fish -- 510355934 ⚠️ 510055934

@oito-cc -- 615486220 ⚠️ 615486000

@sims3melancholic -- 719467363 ⚠️ 719467863

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Cheers! I can't believe a week has passed since I started this project.

The Tumblr OP might get overhauled.

The Patreon OP is currently getting overhauled.

Additionally, I have created JSON files for every filter.

These JSON files go into your "Documents\Sims 4 Studio\Custom Tags" folder and they add the custom TAGS to the drop-down lists in STUDIO and WAREHOUSE. If you know, you know, but if you don't know, I will explain in the Patreon OP.

The "127" in the JSON filename and TAG name is to remind you to configure your "CategoryNumber" with "127" because S4S is wonky right now. I have/will explain this in the Patreon OP.

Yamachan replacements ♡

I made Sanrio replacements that override the Yamachan statue in Mt. Komorebi! Your sim can also take pictures with them!

♡ This is an override so you can only have one version in game ♡ You can choose from My Melody, Hello Kitty, Kuromi and My Sweet Piano ♡ The expansion pack Snowy Escape is required for this! Please let me know if you have any issues with them in game!

 Alt downloads: sfs ♡, google drive ♡

Please only choose one version

Download | free ♡

The HQ converter was developed in 2018 by the legendary Cmar. It uses a pretty standard scaling algorithm for resizing. There are many ways to accomplish this, but I believe it's bilinear.

We can use today's more complicated models to accomplish a much better result.

One last note is about compression. I don't know a ton about how TS4 compresses things, but something happens somewhere after what I see in photoshop, and what I see in game. The TS4k Upscale won't fix the artifacts you see because of compression. This is best demonstrated on dark clothing. There's no way to fix this (as far as I'm aware, at least).

DEFAULT REPLACEMENT soda can for TS4

Includes all LODs, relatively low poly (LOD0 168 poly).

This replaces the soda your sim can take from the fridge. You can only use 1 default replacement of the same thing at a time in your Mods folder. I may make more soda options in the future.

There is an alpha cc version (Chupa Chups soda) and a Maxis Match version which uses the original texture but remapped on my mesh.

Horror Games Override౨ৎ ⋆｡˚

I've been wanting to make more game overrides and I stopped being lazy and did them. There are merged and unmerged versions so you can pick and choose. Just make sure you gave no two game overriding the same EA game. The list is as follows

Alien Isolation > BLICBLOCK

Haunting Ground > The R.E.F.U.G.E.

Fatal Frame 5 > Sims Forever

Dead by Daylight > Hillock II

Outlast > Road Rival Alpha

Resident Evil 7 > MySims Go!

Silent Hill 2 > Incredible Sports

As always if you have issues or suggestions for games in the future lmk!