gca's cc finds

It is a mash up of Tanktop Cropped converted by @deedee-sims, recolours by ZeroDark and 4t2 Noah Cargo Pants with Bonnie Boots converted by @simpuke

Also, the default replacement file replaces tfbodybutterfliesskirt

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So I absolutely adore these stair meshes by Raynuss. They look awesome, have amazing recolours, and are super versatile. The only problem I had with them, was that these were made before the Sims 2 even had spiral stairs in the game, which meant they used custom scripting from the talented Marvine, who uploaded their first set of spiral stairs in 2007.

This meant they had some quirks, one of the most annoying for me personally being that multiple sims could not use the stairs at the same time, leading to many route failures (even with stair fix mods). When Apartment Life introduced official spiral stairs to the game, they made it so multiple sims could use them at the same time, and I wanted the same for Raynuss's stairs. So, TLDR, I have re-created these stairs so that multiple sims will be able to walk up and down them. They are all fully & correctly animated, using the talented AnoeskaB's mirrored stairs as a template. Most importantly, all existing recolours for these stairs still work 🥳

To use these, just replace Raynuss's original mesh files with mine.

Clean Night Sky

Envcube Txtr Default

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Crunchy skymap-generic-night-envcube replaced with plain color, four options to choose from. Previews under the cut.

*This is for The Sims 2

Neon Karaoke on Butterfly Crawler

Good news, I found the textures I used for the neon karaoke recolors, so I could put them on the Butterfly Crawler (they're from Freepik). All 4 recolors included, Free Time EP is required. That's it :)

NonsensicalPixels 4t2 Sheabuttyr Te'jay Twists

Recolors & AM mesh tweak

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This hair was converted to ts2 (TM & AM) by @nonsensical-pixels here. I've based my textures on these naturals by Lotte @lottes-little-place (with some modifications). Lotte's recolors feature afro texture by @goatskickin

S4 original by Sheabuttyr is here.

*This is for The Sims 2

more under the cut:

ambodypajamaslong replaced with 3t2 Mens Pajama converted by @rented-space, recolours by @moglikes

I needed a new preset for my new hood (if you're interested in it, I might share some screenshots as I play) and instead of looking for any out there that might not satisfy me, I decided to make my own!

I hereby present to you: Wet Woods, a reshade preset for that town lost in the middle of knowhere

afbodyknitdressstripes and tfbodyknitdressstripes replaced with 4t2 EP06 Vestskirt converted by @janika31, teen conversion here

yfbodyhipmicrominiskirt and tfbodyhipmicrominiskirt replaced with 4t2 Kumikya’s Clover Overalls converted by @t0fu-sims, teen conversion by @sgthebee

ok I have to document this because I spent way too long figuring it out 😭

If you’re using Linux Mint, Lutris, The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection and Sims2Pack Clean Installer, you might find that Clean Installer launches perfectly, but double-clicking a .Sims2Pack file either does nothing or crashes.

Turns out Clean Installer itself wasn’t the problem.

the problem

Linux passes the file to Clean Installer as a normal Linux path, for example:

$HOME/Downloads/120 Via Veronaville.Sims2Pack

But Clean Installer is a Windows program running through Wine, so it expects a Windows-style path.

Instead of understanding the Linux path, it may try to read it as something like:

C:\home\username\Downloads\120 Via Veronaville.Sims2Pack

That path does not exist inside the Wine prefix, so Clean Installer crashes with an error like:

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException Could not find a part of the path C:\home\username\Downloads\120 Via Veronaville.Sims2Pack

The fix is to convert the Linux path into a Wine-compatible Windows path before opening the file.

first, check your Sims 2 Wine prefix

This guide assumes your Sims 2 Wine prefix is located here:

$HOME/Games/the-sims-2

This is a common location for the osab Ultimate Collection installer, but your own installation may be somewhere else.

If your prefix is in a different location, replace:

$HOME/Games/the-sims-2

with the correct path for your own setup.

check where Clean Installer is installed

This guide assumes the Clean Installer executable is located here:

$HOME/Games/the-sims-2/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/CleanInstaller/Sims2Pack Clean Installer.exe

If yours is somewhere else, update that path in the commands below.

check the Wine path for a Sims2Pack file

Open Terminal and run:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Games/the-sims-2" winepath -w \ "$HOME/Downloads/120 Via Veronaville.Sims2Pack"

Replace the example filename with the name of a real Sims2Pack file in your Downloads folder.

On my setup, the command returned:

S:\Downloads\120 Via Veronaville.Sims2Pack

Your result may be different.

Some Wine prefixes may return something beginning with:

Z:\home\username\...

That is fine. The important thing is that winepath converts the Linux path into a path that Wine can understand.

test Clean Installer manually

Before creating the double-click launcher, test that Clean Installer can open a Sims2Pack file when it is given the correct Wine path.

Run:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Games/the-sims-2" wine \ "$HOME/Games/the-sims-2/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/CleanInstaller/Sims2Pack Clean Installer.exe" \ "S:\Downloads\120 Via Veronaville.Sims2Pack"

Replace the final path with the result you received from the winepath command.

If Clean Installer opens and displays the contents of the Sims2Pack file, the program itself is working correctly.

create a launcher script

The launcher script will automatically convert whichever Sims2Pack file you double-click into a Wine-compatible path.

Open Terminal and run:

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin nano ~/.local/bin/sims2pack-cleaninstaller

Paste this into the file:

#!/bin/bash export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Games/the-sims-2" PACKAGE="$(winepath -w "$1")" wine \ "$HOME/Games/the-sims-2/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/CleanInstaller/Sims2Pack Clean Installer.exe" \ "$PACKAGE"

Save the file by pressing:

Ctrl + O

Press Enter, then exit Nano by pressing:

Ctrl + X

Now make the script executable:

chmod +x ~/.local/bin/sims2pack-cleaninstaller

create the Linux application entry

Now create a desktop application entry so Linux Mint can display Clean Installer in the Open With menu.

Run:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications nano ~/.local/share/applications/sims2pack-cleaninstaller.desktop

Paste this:

[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Sims2Pack Clean Installer Comment=Install The Sims 2 Sims2Pack files Exec=/bin/bash -c '"$HOME/.local/bin/sims2pack-cleaninstaller" "$1"' dummy %f Terminal=false NoDisplay=false MimeType=application/x-sims2pack;application/octet-stream; Categories=Utility;

Save it with Ctrl + O, press Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

Refresh the desktop application database:

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

check how Linux identifies Sims2Pack files

Run:

xdg-mime query filetype \ "$HOME/Downloads/120 Via Veronaville.Sims2Pack"

Again, replace the example filename with a real Sims2Pack file.

If the command returns:

application/x-sims2pack

run:

xdg-mime default sims2pack-cleaninstaller.desktop application/x-sims2pack

If it returns:

application/octet-stream

run:

xdg-mime default sims2pack-cleaninstaller.desktop application/octet-stream

set it through the file manager

You can also set the default application manually:

Right-click a .Sims2Pack file.

Choose Open With.

Select Sims2Pack Clean Installer.

Set it as the default application.

Make sure you do not select Winetricks.

At one point my Sims2Pack files were associated with Winetricks, which caused a warning about the Wine prefix instead of opening Clean Installer.

the result

Double-click a Sims2Pack file.

Clean Installer opens automatically.

The lot or custom content appears immediately.

No need to paste a command into Terminal every time.

about the terminal warnings

You may still see Wine messages such as:

ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver winebth CoGetContextToken apartment not initialised LISTVIEW_WindowProc unknown msg 109d

These messages did not stop Clean Installer from working on my system.

The important error was the DirectoryNotFoundException. That disappeared as soon as the Linux path was converted into a Wine-compatible path.

important notes

The paths in this guide may not exactly match your own installation.

You may need to change:

the location of your Sims 2 Wine prefix

the location of the Clean Installer executable

the name and location of your Sims2Pack file

Using $HOME means you do not need to replace someone else’s Linux username with your own.

one last tip for Linux beginners

If you’re new to Linux and any part of this guide is confusing, paste this entire post into ChatGPT or another AI assistant and explain your own setup.

Tell it:

which Linux distribution you use

whether you use Lutris, Bottles or plain Wine

where your Sims 2 Wine prefix is located

where Clean Installer is installed

what error message you are receiving

Ask it to adapt the commands to your own paths rather than copying everything blindly.

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⋆˖⁺‧₊☆ we can be anything. // Pride Sweaters ☆₊‧⁺˖⋆

⋆ 4t2 conversion of Mikky18's and Pinkchilla's Pride Sweaters

⋆ TU-AU, top, everyday + outerwear + other categories, morphs are included

⋆ 24 swatches total

⋆ compressed, tooltipped, made with love

Link, swatch and more info under the cut ♡

ATS Shop Signs for The Sims 2

These are 4to2 conversions from AroundTheSims, low poly, all recolors. Found in deco-miscellaneous. They will be brighter at night time.

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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.

Thank you :3

Petit Trianon Sconce Short Candles for The Sims 2

These are 4to2 conversions from Zee, low poly, all recolors. You can find them in Wall Lamp section of Buy Mode.

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Curious lore twisted to the max and pure architectural madness

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afbodybowler & tfbodyjumpsuitboots are replaced with mashup made by me.

jeans: Chloe jeans by @lottes-little-place & @platinumaspiration

top: Tank Spaghetti Strap by @lucilla-sims

3\5 top recolors are by me

you can download it as CC

TF CC has repo and standalone versions

When I've seen these jeans I decided they are perfect to replace tfbodyjumpsuitboots ))

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