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Vervainwort University

As requested, here is VWU uploaded (but in brown). I had been working on turning the 3t2 university rabbit holes into lit-up deco but I decided to scrap my project for now. (Honorable mention to @itsdiamondeyesuniverse for their help. Sorry, I couldn’t finish what we started).

More info below. 

native american lookbook with Chayton

look 1: sweater | jeans | poncho | earrings | necklace | braceletR | braceletL

look 2: overshirt | jeans | p&l necklace(A2) | wheat straw

look 3: jacket | jeans | necklace | earrings | trousers chain | ring(A6)

look 4: hair | vest | jeans | sandalsACC | pendant necklace | leather braided bracelet | wristband

Sims 2 Body Shop for Legacy Collection!

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❥ I reached 100 followers exactly a month after joining tumblr and wanted to create a sim dump to celebrate, but was very busy around that time and never got to it sadlyyy

❥ But here we are now at 155+ followers! Tysm for liking my sim content!! ♡

❥ Sims come with their cc skin, makeup, hair

❥ Outfits are not included, all fits are base game

❥ use them however you’d like, but ofc please don’t claim them as your own! Please credit me!

❥ Tag me in screenshots if you do use them, I’d love to see them in your game!

Alonzo: skin, hair, eyebrows, contacts, lips, eyemask, nose shadow, face highlight, face highlight 2, hairline, lashes

ALONZO ༄ SFS | ALT

Tessa: skin, hair, eyebrows, lipstick, eyemask, blush, highlight, freckles, lashes

TESSA ༄ SFS | ALT

Chantelle: skin, hair, eyebrows, eyemask, highlight, lipstick

CHANTELLE ༄ SFS | ALT

Fiona: skin, hair, eyebrows, eyemask, lipstick, highlight, nose shadow, freckles

FIONA ༄ SFS | ALT

(UPDATED) Sliders folder —> 💋

By popular demand, I am releasing this default. But be warned, the installation process requires SimPE!

You can download SimPE here if you don't have it.

Instructions

Download the files below and put them in your downloads. Use clean installer to install the Paris Hilton sim.

Go into your neighborhood and create Paris Hilton in CAS via the downloaded sim

Close the game

Open SimPE and click Ctrl + Shift + N

Choose your neighborhood, click Open, wait for it to load, then go to Tools > Neighborhood > Sim Surgery

Make sure the Service Sims box at the top of the window is checked and scroll down to find a sim named "Repo Man"

Click on the Repo Man sim and then click Use within the Patient Sim box on the right

Then, scroll up to find your Paris Hilton sim. Click on Paris Hilton and click Use within the Archetype Sim box on the right

Click Surgery

You will have to do steps 6-9 for each repo-man in your neighborhood if you don't have antiredundancy.

You will have to do steps 2-9 for each neighborhood you want a Paris Hilton repo-man in.

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FAQ and credits below the cut

This is down to my own research, and I'm not saying it is the one and only reason why the game is so broken these days, but I have some points worth mentioning.

So, you're bored one day. You remember this game you had so much fun playing a few years ago, or maybe as a child. It's The Sims 2!

The game has a few issues than from when you last remembered playing, so you search on google for some fixes for the tiny resolution, and among the countless posts you may find, you may find this:

Or this:

(to the creators and players mentioned here this isn't me making a dig at you, i'm just pointing out some cc that could affect the game from working properly. your stuff is all beautiful :D)

Lesya's game is gorgeous!!! Oh, how can I get it to look like that?

So you, with a clean, vanilla (ugly) game you decide to download a few mods she listed, such as:

Skylines by GCKP (you can get optimised ones by me here)

Skies by Lowedeus (you can get optimised ones by me here)

Trees by Criquette (you can get optimised ones here)

No More Blurriness by Voeille (you can get optimised snow only here)

Cool! And then you notice some cheats than can give the game that open-world, interactive feel. Even better!

And you shove them into your folder and you boot up the game. Everything's going great!

Until...

You search hundreds of posts looking for the fix. Some recommend 3rd-party tools, but they seem to make the problem worse. You reinstall, finding you only wasted your time. Something has to be causing this, but you'd never guess it'd be the mods everybody swore by.

Well, in fact, it is. Partly.

I've struggled with pink flashing since 2019, when I reinstalled Sims 2 after I got a decent computer for once. I did everything above, searched for fixes, found Lesya's blog which was my primary inspiration. It was through Lesya's guide that I was able to make my game look pretty!

These mods, which are a staple in the modding community, are beautiful indeed... but what if I told you that the reason they're so beautiful, is because they're high-quality. With textures soaring up to 4k, when, hang on--

In 2004, 4k resolution was... probably unheard of. With the leading monitor size being 1024x768, what would be the point of using such huge textures on an engine that was designed for monitors of at least this size? Would you be able to see the detail of 4k on a monitor of that size? Definitely not.

The max visiting sims, okay, a little hit or miss. If your sims are all wearing high poly alpha CC, then it's a problem. If not, good luck.

Then comes the cheats I mentioned. The lot skirt cheat expands the view distance a significant amount. With the mergenhoodflora cheat, that displays more trees. Combining the two, what do you get?

A massive view distance, blinded by trees.

With skies and skylines with large textures up to 4k, and trees with textures up to 2k, The Sims 2 will collapse. It's like forcing an old man with health conditions to do 20 situps, again and again.

It'll overexert him, by the very least. And you're overexerting the game by cramming custom content that is not optimised for the engine TS2 was built on.

So please, next time you encounter the pink soup, please check your CC folders, and research changes and cheats before you put them into your game. You will enjoy the game much more if you do this, and won't encounter this problem so often.

Don't use Graphics Rules Maker

Instead, opt for a maxis original Graphics Rules uploaded here by Veronavillequiltingbee. It's essentially a rewrite of an old tutorial I made a long time ago.

Once you download the file from VVQB, open DXDIAG by pressing WinKey+R and typing 'dxdiag'.

This value I've underlined is what you need to put after seti textureMemory. Open the sgr file and do CTRL-F and input seti textureMemory.

Add the value from DXDIAG and then save it.

You can use GRM for adding your GPU to the game, but I do not recommend it for anything but that.

Optimising the game... inside the game

*shoves GRM off the table*

We're going to go into TS2 in-game settings for this one.

These settings are optimal if you play CC-heavy households. It will ease the load on your game to make space for the heavy CC you have in your current household. You can tweak these when you want to take photos outside, but for playing I recommend them all to be off - especially at community lots as there are lots of sims there.

I never see anybody talking about Object Hiding.

Object Hiding hides objects from floors that aren't in view. If you're playing downstairs, objects upstairs won't be rendered, thus minimising the load on your game.

I have reflections and smooth edges off because I use ReShade.

Snow on Ground is optional. Sometimes snow can cause pink flashing, I believe it's due to texture replacements that are huge in size too, Voeille's is 2k. I've linked a resized one above.

I am not holding a gun to your head to delete all your CC, I am just giving players who struggle with pink flashing another OPTION. Please stop replying with the same “technology has moved” statement. The Sims 2 hasn’t moved since 2009, this is the last I’m speaking of this because I cannot be fucked with repeating myself over and over.

Updates Blog!

We did some updates on our blog and also announce that we will make a stop. We will be on hiatus but we’ll see soon. We hope! Love you guys! ♡

~Thank you so much for each creator these meshes. (The credits are described in each post)

RIP Prince

Sims 2 Bonus Items Master Post

I’ve uploaded every Sims 2 bonus item from various different places into compilations so you can download them all much, much easier. I’ve reorganized everything as well so you can find specific files more efficiently. All items have been updated and fixed as needed.

Store Items - DOWNLOAD

Pre-order Items - DOWNLOAD

Miscellaneous Items - DOWNLOAD

It’s 2 years to Sunny Simblr today!

I’ve prepared several anniversary gifts, hehe. I can’t believe that another year has passed! I had a lot of fun creating and sharing my pictures with you. Thank you so much everyone who supported me <3 And now giifts!

1) 60 wallpapers (30 patterns with 2 molding options)

Credits: deviantart, xvanillasky, andreeaarsene, designfathoms, camxso, harperfinch, poppet

2) 7 kitchen prints on Night Life Nature’s Perfection mesh.

Credits: etsy, bonmotprints

3) 10 kitchen prints on BV travel poster. I replaced all the English letters with Simlish.

Credits: etsy, bonmotprints, ajaysims

4) 3t2 Generations Hoodie recolours. Come in 22 prints with The Sims 4 icons and in 22 colours from Huning’s Pony Palette. Available for adults and teens.

Credits: uranium-z (mesh conversion), thesimkid (extracted ts4 icons)

5) Puffsleeve top with floral patterns and 22 colours from Huning’s Pony Palette. Adults only.

Credits: summerderam (mesh), colourlovers (patterns),  huning (colours)

6) Mary Gold Dress recolours. I made just tons of recolours as this dress is extremely pretty. So here we have 30 patterns (the same as wallpapers) and 22 plain recolours from Huning’s Pony Palette. I also made two versions (with black and white skirts). Available for adults and teens.

Credits: anubis (original mesh), deedee-sims (mesh conversion),

7) Yuichen’s Inside Our Own Machine dress. Come in 30 patterns and 22 colours from Huning’s pony palette. Available for teens and adults. Meshes are NOT included. Get them here.

Credits: yuichen

Hmmm, I thought I had answered something like this but I guess not? Anyway!

Eltanin

Fakepeeps

Kinu/Nyren

Rented-Space

Sanneke

Skell

Tombstoneoflifeanddeath

Trapping

Yandereplum

Amy

Hat by @alwayssims2

Choker by @mr-alex-sz

Fish bag by @lemonlion

Top & Bottom & Jacket acc by koti

Canda

Top & Bottom by @chin1gh

Hair , more recols  by @umi-sims2 , @bettssims

Acc by @alwayssims2

Rau

Top & Bottom by @alwayssims2

Sunglasses by @mrsimstwo

BSN

Hair by @umi-sims2

Bottom & Earrings by @chanelwwww

Liam by @00l0ng

Batman Tops & Bottom by @digitalangels

7-11 uniform Tops

Res

Hair by @rg-veda

Bottom by @misomoso-no

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Hair by trapping / @jedpie

Convenience Store Lot by @chanelwwww

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New Friends from my friends ~2~  :D yippee!!

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Hey, guys. It’s been awhile. I feel guilty about having kept these to myself since Nov ‘15, because this was my 1000 followers gift. I’m not sure how I feel about many of these objects now, but I may as well share what I finished. Save a few objects that I never completed, you’re getting every object from the site that I like. Several objects include custom recolors by me, though I do regret my choices now. Maybe one day I will redo them.

LINK:  Guide to Residential Styles

This is a difficult question to answer, largely because of the first piece of advice that springs to mind when I read this – it sorta depends why you’re asking… it almost becomes a little unspecific? But I’ll try to gather up some random points that might be relevant. :)

⇛ Do it for the “right” reasons. That might sound really weird, because I’m sure there could be several valid reasons to want a sims blog, but far too often you see people talking about how they never get any notes on their posts and people never message them, while other simblrs (some might even go as far as saying “worse simblrs”…? Which is of course a ridiculous thing to say) get millions of notes and it’s disheartening, blahblahblah. I don’t know if things are different in the TS3/TS4 simblr community, but in my experience from the TS2 one (or at least this is how I see it:), it’s about sharing things from a game you love, be it with one or two people who +like your posts, 500 people who +like your posts… or maybe nothing more than random people scrolling past your posts in the tags going “huh, neat” without liking it or saying anything to you. In my opinion, a blog about anything (not just The Sims) should be about things you want to share because you want to, not some sort of popularity contest to see who gets the most appreciation from random internet strangers. Don’t compare yourself to others. If it wasn’t for the TS2 Tumblr community, I’d probably basically never play my game anymore, because nothing inspires me to play like scrolling through my dashboard or browsing the tags - and I think a lot of people have this in common - so even if you get one or two or six hundred notes on your posts, you’ll probably be inspiring someone somewhere to want to play their game; either directly by doing something cool others want to try out too, or by decorating a nice little kitchen that makes people go “dang I’mma build all the kitchens, unffff”.

That bullet point became a little “political”, but I see it as really important so it just had to be said… :p onwards to more practical things, maybe?

⇛ Tag your stuff properly. Sooner rather than later. And I don’t just mean tagging it with the relevant game for the sake of all of Tumblr and people browsing the tags, but for yourself too - especially if, like me, you have a mild (severe) stroke of OCD and like keeping your blog organized by tagging neighborhoods, families, specific sims etc etc… I had to go through my blog recently and re-tag a bunch of old posts, because I never separated between the different premade hoods in my tags, and it became a proper hot mess. x) So to avoid headaches (if you’re OCD, at least) - tag early.

⇛ Don’t make your sims blog a sideblog. Though this is certainly debatable and there are probably shared opinions (as with anything), I’ve seen a whole host of people doing this because they already already had a personal Tumblr, and just created a sideblog through that because… well, I don’t really know why - but it seems to be something people end up regretting. Shared dashboards, strangely liking a bunch of posts as Honeycakemachinexoxoxo instead of simmergal123 (I hope nobody actually uses those, in which case I’m sorry!) kinda makes it hard for people to recognize who’s who, I guess… not that you have to have a “simmer name” (said vimpse with her unpronounceable, random TS2 community name), but it does save explaining “I follow you on my main blog”. Making a whole new account for your sims blog is also probably worth it because…:

⇛ Consider a “reblog blog” / inspiration blog. This, too, comes down to preference of course, but in fairness you did ask for my advice, so that’s what you’re getting: one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone posts a lot of really good original content from their own game on their simblr, but then also reblog 900 other posts from other simblrs a day. I know you can block reblogs to remedy this, but it’s not just a repeat-dashboard problem - sometimes I like visiting people’s blogs to look at their game, but then every 3-4th page has to be skipped because it’s reblogs of other people’s content… maybe I’m being finicky, but I honestly just prefer simblrs who keep their blog their own. Hence the “reblog blog” / inspiration sideblog – sometimes it’s also fun to have a place to go to see what people I get inspired by get inspired by in return!

⇛ Don’t be afraid to talk to / ask people things! This might be the pot calling the kettle a cake shape (or whatever), but you don’t have to just sit quietly in your corner and wonder why it feels like you’re not participating in the community because you’re afraid to talk to people, for whatever reason. We’re all people (some of us are cats), we all love The Sims; strike up a conversation with someone! About their game! Or their ‘hood! Or their sims! Or their OTPs! Or whatever! I don’t think I’ve ever seen that end badly, and for the very, very, very most part: everyone around these parts are super friendly. :)(it’s been a while since anyone’s called me “a bitch” around here, but that was a thing a while ago because I have a tendency to be really… straight up about what I think, sometimes perhaps not in the kindest way, but most of the time I’m nice! Sometimes I wonder if that’s why people apologize profusely sometimes when they send an ask with a question :/ I’m sorry if I give the impression that I’m mean or don’t want to be talked to because I answer abruptly if it’s something I’ve been asked a million times before!… and this isn’t at all relevant to the topic at hand but whatever :p)

⇛ Do exactly what you want to, and have fun. Which ties everything together, I guess! Feel free to completely ignore all the specific practical advice I’ve just given you, and do whatever you want - because in the end it’s your blog, and nobody can tell you how to run it (just like I bet some people would like it if I’d stop posting novel-length responses now and then :D I regret nothing!). You just kinda have to do what works for you, from posting style to content, so that you can be the one having fun with your blog, not every Tom, Dick and Harry you might want to please because you do X, Y and Z that they don’t like. ^_^ Be free, simmer-diamonds!

Hopefully some of that was semi-helpful, or at least some type of informative (though maybe not about the correct topic :p), and if you do decide to make your very first simblr, let me know so I can share the love and check it out. :) – unless you plan on blogging TS3 because I’m sorry I don’t think I can handle that, but that’s a different story for another time.