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A custom sci-fi alien neighborhood with scripted events! ^^

Aileen LaFontaine's discovery of this moon has raised hope for people from all over the world. Sims from Pleasantview, Strangetown or Veronaville have left their homes for a better future on this moon!

But the environment seems rather intimidating than welcoming! Bizarre gravity. Swirly gas giant hovering over the ominous misty sky. Two pulsating suns?

Is the "New, Better" world really a better world?

You will find out as you play in the neighborhood! ;)

Neighborhood Information:

* Fully BG Compatible and No CC/EPs Required to play in this neighborhood! However, you may want to check out the optional sky mod I made specifically for this neighborhood.

* No camera mod needed to view the whole neighborhood.

* 59 lots (14 community / 45 residential) … with a few “ready-to-upgrade” lots for EPs, such as Nightlife, Open For Business, Apartment Life, etc.

* 15 families with scripted events/scenarios like in the TS2 base game neighborhoods (see attached screenshots below!)

* Includes customized alien townies/NPCs to reflect the neighborhood's overall theme! Most of the sims are named after actual celestial bodies... i.e. there is a sim named after the star Pollux!

* Speaking of which, there are lots of other astronomical references/easter eggs in the neighborhood (well I guess, that's what happens if you let a physics student design a neighborhood, lol!)

Main Download:

*Aileen Landing Main Hood (with Sims) - BG Compatible

*Aileen Landing Main Hood (with Sims) - OFB Required

*Aileen Landing Subhood (with Sims) - OFB Required

- to install, put the folder AL01 into your Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 (Ultimate Collection)/Neighborhoods folder and you’re good to go. If you can’t see the neighborhood, try deleting the NeighborhoodManager.package file.

- for the subhood version, put the folder BAL1 into your C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Open For Business\TSData\Res\NeighborhoodTemplate folder -- OR -- C:\Program Files\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Best of Business\EP3\TSData\Res\NeighborhoodTemplate folder if you have TS2 UC.

Optional Downloads:

*Alien Skybox NEW! (Recolor of lowedeus’s skyboxes) - doesn’t affect other neighborhoods unlike the default replacement sky mod, plus a few more details in the sky! See screenshots here! To install, just place it into your Downloads as usual.

*Alternative Alien Sky Mod (DEFAULT REPLACEMENT) - default sky mod as seen in early screens of Aileen Landing, suitable for those with EPs lower than Pets and/or cannot use the skyboxes! To install, just place it into your Downloads as usual.

*Mannequin Babies Can Be Born - mod to fix crashing that may occur when sims with the mannequin skintone have babies. You’ll need it since there are a few sims with the mannequin skintone in this neighborhood. Thank you @crumplebot for reminding me of this mod. :)

Custom Scripted Events!

I really don't want to spoil too much on this already and just let you guys explore the neighborhood first, lol! But I've included an optional mod that introduces you the sims and their storylines a litte.

Simply remove it from the neighorhood folder once you've finished your first round (I recommend playing each family for one day to complete the scripted events). If you don't want to use this mod, you can also remove it from the neighborhood folder.

The recommended play order is exactly the way the families are presented in the neighborhood story. But you can play as you like, the scripted events are independent from each other and won't break if you choose a different play order.

I guess, that's it for now. Phew! Thanks for reading! ^^

Let me know what you think! Any feedback/comment/critism is greatly appreciated!

Have fun and let me know what you did in Aileen Landing! <3

Credits:

Big credit goes to Chris Hatch for the custom scripting mod and @simstate, @lazyduchess, cutupuss at MTS for further information and for the blueprint I’ve used for this mod. Thank you guys for making this possible! <3

Alright, this is most likely the final version of Aileen Landing! Small renovations were made to some of the lots to help improve gameplay (i.e. fix sims possibly getting caught up, etc.).

They're all mostly based on @bobobrains and t0xictia's livestreams, thanks a lot for the helpful suggestions and also for playing in Aileen Landing while it was still in beta. <3

Anyway, here's a quick changelog:

*Various new relationships and memories were added to backup the lore... with a few extras! XD

*1 new community lot, which is supposed to represent a stargate (so, you can justify sims wandering in Aileen Landing from other subhoods) - thanks again @bobobrains for the brilliant idea! :)

*A few new custom NPCs were added as well! ^^

*All families have Storytelling pictures in their family album now, not only to backup the lore, but also give insights to their (shady) past!

*Updated neighborhood picture that actually uses the new season-friendly skybox!

Anyway, here are some screenshots to show some of the changes:

Thanks for those who have playtested the first version and helped me fix the bugs we've encountered! I greatly appreciate that! <3

Credit goes to my lovely playtesters: @saralynnx, @tsimblr, @andrisims, @lauramsims, @lordneytan , @sillysoraya, yolkema on Discord, @bobobrains, t0xictia, PelicasPC, KerryKent on Twitch, and to anyone who I missed.

If anyone else would like to join me in petitioning EA to at least try to fix the object limit in Legacy Edition (maybe I'd bother using that version of the game instead, lol), please jump on this thread I've started in their forums and comment.

🙏🏻

(yes, Will, I know you're still poking at the UC code being like "could I fix this...??" but it shouldn't be all on you, lovely)

Here is a short summary of my notes and findings on the Object Limit after struggling with this beast for years.

See @spockthewok's post for the explanation on what this is and what the limit is (32,767 Objects).

By the count on @picknmixsims's Maxis GUIDs spreadsheet, the game has just shy of 14,000 objects in it. I do not believe that all of these contribute to the limit (cos the maths doesn't check out) but just keep that in mind as you're calculating how much room you've got in your folder.

Sims count. If you've got a hood with a tonne of character files (you can find these in Documents / EA Games / The Sims 2 / Neighborhoods / [HOOD] / Characters) you're gonna have less room for CC

Reducing GUIDs can create way more space in your folder. Tutorial I use to do this is here by HugeLunatic - I reduce all CC rugs to 1 GUID, for example.

CAS Content doesn't count

Fences and hood deco don't count

Custom foods count. This can be an unexpected one

Same goes for custom careers, and Uni majors.

To easily check how many OBJDs you've got in your Downloads folder, use HCDU+ by PickNMix. Scan the entire folder for the "OBJD" resource only, go to the info tab, and the program will tell you how many files it scanned.

I don't have all the answers on how some people seem to have more OBJDs in their folders and not hit the limit while others with less do hit it, but that's what I can tell you from much testing and experience.

I also don't know if default replacing Maxis GUIDs still only counts as 1 object, but I'd assume it would.

UPDATE: The information in this post is outdated. Please see this post.

Soooo... I didn't intend for two highly requested fixes for The Sims 2 to drop within the space of a week and a half, buuuut...

Here's where you can download an experimental patch to fix the so-called 'object limit'!

https://github.com/spockthewok/TS2ObjectLimitFix

(Ultimate Collection only at the moment, I'm afraid).

The good news is:

Both @lordcrumps and @teaaddictyt have tested it with stupidly large CC folders and report that it works.

There isn't a dissertation the length of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' you need to read through to understand wtf is going on.

The crashing wasn't caused by some hardcoded object limit at all! (That I know of).

An explanation of the issue for programmers:

And for everyone else:

The code for the Build/Buy menu was missing basic checks to confirm that the data it was trying to do things with was actually valid. No, I'm not joking.

Basically, it appears that all of the objects you can buy in the game are stored in something you can think of as being like a big, long list, which grows in size with the more custom objects you have.

The only purpose of the code that this plugin patches is to sort the items in the list into some kind of order. This is done by assessing if the value of the previous item in the list is larger than that of the item currently being looked at, and swapping their position if this is true (also known as an insertion sort).

In short, the game wasn't asserting that the data it was about to compare for sorting was valid before accessing it, and then promptly blowing up when it tried to do so and discovered it wasn't.

I imagine that the odds of the game making an oopsie and dumping some funky data into the list increases with the number of objects it is having to process - this might be why this issue only presents itself to those using multiple GB of Build/Buy CC. It was much easier to patch the code encountering the bad data within the list than to try and hunt down the mysterious culprit putting the data in there to begin with, so this is all the information I have at the moment unfortunately.

Either way, one of the first things you're taught when learning to code is to ALWAYS check that the data you're operating on has been initialised (i.e. it holds some kind of value). I guess someone at Maxis must have skipped that lecture :D

Is the 255 objects per subcategory limit theory true?

The Downloads folder I was using for testing had ~672 objects in the Deco/Misc subcategory (Maxis objects included). With the patch, I can freely navigate throughout the entire subcategory with zero crashes, so I guess not?

What about the whole OBJD limit thing?

People have varying beliefs of what the limit on OBJDs might be, but HCDU reports my Downloads folder had an OBJD count of 20,787. Again, without the patch the game would crash when switching categories in the Build/Buy catalogue, with the patch, no crashing.

If you want to hear my opinion on whether such a limit exists, watch this video.

Do I even need this patch if I don't use much CC?

As it adds some fairly important crash-prevention checks to part of the Build/Buy menu's functionality, I'd probably recommend using it anyway, just to be safe - we all know how much this game loves to crash!

Aaaah! I'm still getting crashes with the patch!

I'm aware that a few of you CC addicts out there have Downloads folders larger than the total size of everything ever uploaded to the internet, so if you still experience crashing in Build/Buy mode with this patch, please take a look at the mod's GitHub page and send me over the information requested there. Fingers crossed that shouldn't happen, but if it does, I'll try my best to investigate :)

Anyway...

Will

🛸 Here is the long-awaited release of a near-complete recolor of Sixam's animated plants by @jawusa !

🏳️‍🌈 I supplemented this collection with additional neighborhood decorations such as the Sixam's grass, tendrils, and mycellium. I also took the liberty of adding some resized versions of neighborhood decorations, for a more natural environment. The only item I didn't recolor from @jawusa's is the Red Maple Tree, because any recolor I made looked quite ugly.

🛸 The new decorations are bright, but not as bright as my previous ones, because I realized it looked too strange and resulted in very bad photos. If the background is too bright, the Sim appears very dark.

🌴Also made some recolors of Havelock's conversions of the Castaway Jungle to contrast with the glowing flora 🌿

🗂️ I made two versions of the archive : one with merged associated meshes and recolors, and also All-in-One Neighborhood decos ; the other version with Unmerged files allows you to pick and choose for every recolor.s you want. You wanna make a pink world and want only purple and pink ? you can.

🪴 The files are CLONED from @jawusa's, so they don't need hers to work. I wanted you to be able to have both in game. In the future, I'll make a real recolor of her lot files, allowing you to have a glowing and an unglowing fora 🍃

💡 All light animations are also recolored ✅ All files have been tested, if something is wrong, contact me ASAP 📦 All files have been compressed ⚠️ Decos need the Better Nightlife Mod by @criquette-was-here to appear.

💾 DOWNLOAD Unmerged files : SFS - Mediafire 💾 DOWNLOAD Merged Recolors : SFS - Mediafire

⚠️ Important : Be carreful when installing the CC, some items have two versions to choose from ! More infos on @jawusa's Original Post. I reused her informations text files in the archive.

🏆 Credits :

@jawusa for her amazing creations, her permission to recolor, help when needed, advices and mostly her PATIENCE during our night-time conversations.

a BIG thank you to @teaaddictyt for her help with my multiple problems : from simPE bugs to... more simPE bugs !

☕ All the content on this simblr is FREE but you can also support me on KO-FI

Hi everyone!

First off, I just wanted to say thank you for all of the positive feedback I've received over the past few days — I'm really pleased to see that my mod seems to have been effective for so many of you!

I am aware that my dissertation/thesis is really rather technical, filled with lots of academic/flowery language, and probably quite overwhelming to try and understand if you're lucky enough to have not studied computer science, so I wanted to attempt to break the key parts of it down into the simplest terms possible, to hopefully help answer some of the questions I've seen people have.

What is the pink soup?

The pink/purple strobe lighting we all know and love is 1 of 4 uniquely coloured shaders the game uses to indicate a specific type of error has occurred when trying to display something on-screen. The 3 other colours it uses (you've likely seen at least one of them) are red, blue, and yellow.

These shaders serve two main purposes:

To let you know something has gone wrong in an obvious (albeit obnoxious) manner.

To allow the game to keep running in spite of whatever error has happened (otherwise it would just crash).

Internally, the error that the pink soup represents is known as a "material parsing failure", i.e. the game has failed to understand some piece of material data (textures, rendering properties etc.) about an object it is trying to render.

Part of the process the game goes through before rendering an object to the screen is checking that its data only contains specific characters (numbers, letters, and certain symbols) — an example of when this would fail and trigger the pink soup would be if the game came across a random emoji during these checks.

What does 32-bit/64-bit mean?

A 'bit' is just a single digit of a binary number. All you really need to know is that a 32-bit number is a binary number that is 32 digits (bits) long, with the largest binary number possible being 32 consecutive 1s (1111111…).

I'm not going to bore you to death and show you how to convert binary numbers to decimal, so you'll just have to believe me when I say that 32 consecutive 1s in binary is equivalent to 4,294,967,295 in decimal.

4.2 billion might seem like a pretty high value to be able to represent, but if I said this is roughly equal to 4GB, you might be able to start to see how 32-bit computers/software could be a bit (no pun intended) limited memory-wise. For comparison, the largest decimal value a 64-bit binary number can represent is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615, or just under 18.5 exabytes (EB)!

But what if I wanted to represent the number 5 billion in 32-bit binary? Here's the fun thing — you can't. If you tried, the binary number would 'wrap around'. As in, it would max out at 32 consecutive 1s before resetting back to 0 and continuing to count up until it reached the binary value of 705,032,705 (5,000,000,000 - 4,294,967,295 = 705,032,705).

This is what is meant when we say that The Sims 2 can only use up to 4GB of your computer's memory (RAM) — it is physically unable to access/store data in more than 4,294,967,296 different memory addresses (it's 4,294,967,296 because the range of possible addresses would be 0 to 4,294,967,295).

If you're not sure what I mean when I talk about 'memory addresses', you can think of the concept as being like your home address (your house number, street name, and postal/zip code). It's just the location a piece of data lives at in memory so the game knows where to find it if it needs to use it for something.

Once the game has run out of memory addresses to use to store things, it will crash. The only way this could be fixed would be if EA magically decided to rewrite the game's engine to be 64-bit, thus allowing it to use an exponentially larger number of addresses.

Why does the pink soup happen?

This is where things get interesting. While the game is loading, the material data for the objects in your neighbourhood/lot is stored at individual addresses in your computer's memory so it can be processed.

Part of this processing involves the game taking all of the shader code found in the Materials.package file and linking the relevant shaders to the relevant pieces of material data of an object (e.g. a reflection shader would be linked to the glass part of a mirror object), creating shader 'packages' for the whole object. Again, both these packages and the information that links them to the object are also stored in memory.

As you can probably imagine, if you have a large number of different objects in your hood/lot (particularly more complex/detailed objects with many rendering properties), the amount of free memory the game has to use to keep storing things starts to decrease FAST.

Back in ye olden days of 2004 when The Sims 2 was released, 32-bit was the most commonly used architecture for consumer-grade hardware and software. Despite its known drawbacks, the 4GB memory restriction was not really a huge issue, as the technical limitations of the time meant your parents' PC would likely catch fire and explode long before this level of memory usage could be reached in-game.

Windows XP (the operating system the game was primarily developed for) was also a 32-bit operating system. The way XP handled the 4GB memory limit was simple:

2GB was given to the kernel (the core of the operating system).

2GB was given to applications (i.e. The Sims 2).

This is why it is commonly recommended to apply what is known as a '4GB patch' to the game, as by default, it still thinks it's living in 2004 and is only allowed to use 2GB of memory — the 4GB patch therefore permits the game to use the full 4GB of memory it is able to support.

So, where does the pink soup come in to this?

Basically, there is a piece of logic within the game's code that is used during the process of linking shaders to material data described above. All this logic does is check whether the material data it is being given is stored at a memory address above or below the 2GB mark, presumably some kind of relic of the Windows XP days.

For whatever reason (either due to a bug or intentional design), for data stored above 2GB, the game performs additional checks which will ALWAYS FAIL, and the game will treat this data as being malformed/invalid, refusing to link any shaders to it.

Hopefully, the chain of causality should now be clear:

The capabilities of our hardware has increased dramatically in the past 20+ years.

We've all been applying a 4GB patch to the game to allow it to make use of more of our RAM.

We've also all been installing a load of cool custom content and creating highly decorated hoods/lots because our fancy graphics cards can handle them easily.

All of these objects are causing memory usage to quickly surpass the originally intended 2GB range.

The game is considering any data for the objects stored above this range to be invalid and refusing to do anything with it.

The pink/purple error shader is instead being applied to these objects because the game thinks there is something wrong with their material data.

In conclusion, The Sims 2 is confused and elderly, frequently soiling itself when presented with high-tech information from the far off future of the 2020s that its puny 2004 mind can't possibly comprehend.

What are the differences between v1/v2 of the mod?

Both versions of the mod patch the same piece of logic in the game's code, but with differing approaches.

With v1, the additional (and always failing) checks the game performs on material data stored above the 2GB mark are essentially patched out, meaning they are not executed and shaders will always be correctly linked to them, regardless of their location in memory. This is great, as you should never see any pink soup that would usually be triggered by these failed checks. Consequently however, the game will give you no indication that it is running out of memory, except for when it inevitably crashes once all free memory has been used up.

On the other hand, v2 makes use of these faulty checks. Instead of removing them completely, they are repurposed to warn you of high memory usage, with the game not performing these checks until material data starts being stored above the 3.5GB mark. This means you will still see pink soup, but only once memory usage exceeds 3.5GB. This is intentional, and is meant to be a trade-off between allowing the game to correctly process more data in memory, but also still letting you know that a crash may be imminent some time after the pink soup appears, giving you enough breathing room to save and restart the game before this happens.

To illustrate these differences better, here is roughly what the code is doing in the vanilla game, v1, and v2 of the mod:

Vanilla:

if memory address <= 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 2GB pink soup time!

V1:

if memory address <= 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual

V2:

if memory address <= 3.5GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 3.5GB pink soup time!

Which version should I choose?

There's no correct option, but if you play with a lot of CC or with highly decorated hoods/lots, I would probably recommend starting with v2, only for the so-called 'safety' reasons I outlined above.

I personally use v1 because I play very vanilla, so I know memory usage should never really get that high. If you're like me, or you just don't care about potential crashes and want to be rid of the pink soup, then v1 of the mod is the one for you :)

I know people likely still have many questions, so I've enabled the 'Ask me anything' option on this blog - feel free to use it!

Thanks again,

Hey, I got it pretty close! (screenshot of a convo from early 2025)

TAKEMIZU VILLAGE | CC-FREE ✅

Requires: All EPs and SPs Type: Vacation Subhood

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💾 SFS | MEDIAFIRE

Ko-fi☕

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Information ℹ️

This is a full hood makeover of Takemizu Village, the far east vacation hood that came with Bon Voyage. All lots have been made over and I’ve also added 2 made over lots from the lot bin. The hood comes in 2 versions; with the 12 local townies or without them. All townies have genetic infant faces.

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Recommended Mods ☑️

🔹 Rug Fix

🔹 Ceiling Light Fix

🔹 Centerpiece Enabler

🔹 Less Square Water Lilies

🔹 CEP

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Defaults & CC Shown in Pictures 📷

🔹 Wendigo's Light Green Lush Terrain Default

🔹 Maxis Oaks Defaults

🔹 The Great Sky Project (Wispies)

🔹 Seasoned Skylines (Green Hills)

🔹 Beautified Birches

🔹Redbud Default

🔹 No Overlay Roads V2

🔹Pond & Sea Water Overhaul

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Installation under the cut

If you've enjoyed the previous and amazing 4t2 Sixam plant conversions by @simsinsania with their respective nhood versions by @grilledcheese-aspiration, you're in for an upgrade! After diving deeper into TS4 Sixam, I noticed the plants have animated lights.. and I wanted to bring that magic to TS2.

After months of experimenting around, I managed to give these Sixam plants a bit more life and added more features to bring them closer to their TS4 counterparts, including animated lights. I also made them into real plants in Build Mode (previously they were only deco plants in Buy Mode), making them thus visible in neighborhood view. And with the help of the brilliant @tvickiesims, the plants were made seasonal as well, like in TS4! (More info on that later). ^^

On top of that, I noticed there were alien plants from TS4 that hadn’t been converted before, like the UFO fruit plant and the dancing red maple tree from Sixam. So, I converted them as well and made them animated and seasonal.

Note: The animations are all seamless but I could not create a gif longer than 5s without sacrificing the quality (+ only 1 video per post is allowed on Tumblr).

I also updated @grilledcheese-aspiration's Sixam Ground Crack to make it glow like in TS4 as well.

Last but not least, I also decided to share my animated ocean floor and skybox as a separate upload from my 4t2 Sixam neighborhood to go with this set.

Additional Credits:

@simsinsania for the original 4t2 conversion - lot version

@grilledcheese-aspiration for the nhood version of these plants

@tvickiesims and @lordcrumps for helping me with fixing the UFO fruit shrub and shedding some light on how seasonal plants work in TS2.

@lordcrumps again for helping me with animating the ocean floor ^^

@criquette-was-here for the Better Nightlife mod (required for these updated nhood deco to work!)

Download link (+ more info under the cut)

If you downloaded these files before December 26th, please re-download as I've updated these files to fix various oversights. Sorry about that! Download links are still all the same. Alternatively, you can also download them from my 4t2 Sixam folder on SFS.

Also, something that always bugged me was that the Sixam grass was creating those weird shadows when zooming out too much, which is why, I originally disabled them from being visible in nhood view. But after finally coming up with a fix, I've re-enabled them now. Yayy! ^^

They look wayyy better up from close as well!

Plus, all the plants were updated to be recolorable now! So... stay tuned for more to come very soon! Especially over at @alienara-simblr page! ;)

Tip for recolors!

Unfortunately, SimPE won't pull the seasonal textures if you use the "Recolor" option in SimPE Workshop. So, in order to recolor the plants, I recommend saving the main package file under a new name, delete everything except TXMT, TXTR and MMAT files and then fix the names, replace the textures and the family ID in MMAT, etc. and do that recolor that way.

The animated plants have slave subsets, so make sure the TXMT files of your recolors do absolutely follow the strict naming convention: [CRES name]_[subset name]_[recolor name]_txmt or else the recolors won't work and will cause blue flashing.

🎄TS2 ADVENT DAY 23 ! 🎁

🛸 This year, I'm offering you an Intergalactic Christmas ! A dive into the heart of a new Sixam, a land of dark bioluminescence and flying saucers. Featuring a new neighborhood terrain replacement (concrete) with integrated roads (+road overlays), a multitude of new neighborhood decorations, and even samples of glowing flora to place in your Sims' gardens.

🎉 All the items have been compressed and tested

I had fun with @jawusa's Sixam Neighborhood map.

🛣️ The Terrain Replacement 🎉

🌕 It's a mix of @furbyq's Painted Concrete Replacement and a grey-blue recoloring of @lordcrumps' Twikii (Temperat5) terrain. It has custom roads based on @lordcrumps Suburban Roads but also snow states enabled for the roads, no more clean skirts on a heavy snowy land. It's not perfect and I don't know how to include shaders, but it's quite ok. Aliens can have a snowy Christmas too ! I used it for all my preview images.

🌘 Be careful, it's a CONCRETE terrain replacement, it may conflict with other files also replacing the concrete terrain ! The file includes a road overlay available in Deco/Misc for 0§

🎁 DOWNLOAD Concrete Terrain Replacement SFS - Mediafire

🍄 The Neighborhood Decos🍁

A few recolors of Sixam Flora extracted by @simsinsania and made neighborhood deco by @grilledcheese-aspiration for some.

🎊 The bioluminescent Spores (cloned from @pixeldolly Farm Fields) are made to be placed underneath the Plants for a more natural effect. Of course, all the Decos are placeable evrywhere (lot, road, water).

🎁 DOWNLOAD NHdeco Sixam's Flora SFS - Mediafire 🎁 DOWNLOAD NHdeco Sixam Spore's SFS - Mediafire

🏭 I discovered the Anno-2070 Eco-production Buildings from @cityof2morrow a while ago and immediately loved them, especially with their nighttime lighting! But their colors bothered me. They were too earthy, too greenish, and didn't match the bright, blue atmosphere of Sixam. So I recolored them with blue and pink tones, more appropriate for an alien city. I also recolored the crops and made them bioluminescent.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried changing the crop thumbnails images, they only appear with the same image of field in the catalog. The recolored building have a different GUID than the original ones, so you can have both in your game.

🏢 I know that @cityof2morrow has also converted other buildings from the same game (and they look fabulous) and maybe I'll recolor them one day to match my current buildings, but my recent setbacks have caused me to lose my Photoshop scripts, so it won't be for a while.

🎁 DOWNLOAD Anno-2070 Eco-buildings SFS - Mediafire

🍃 The Sixam Flora LOT Version

🌈 For recolor purposes, I had to convert the items from scratch and make a few changes on the meshes itself. There are more color options for the LOT versions than for the neighborhood decos, because of technical issues, and because Neighborhood Decos are standalone objects and I didn't wanted to make to much of them. But feel absolutely free to use my files to make recolors for your own projects (just check my TOU on the way).

You can all find them in Buy Mode > Deco > Plants for 35§

The tentacle tree has an invisible flower option !

🌈 I made them in so many colors because I wanted them to be adaptable for creating fairy-tale (Enchanted by Nature style) or underwater decors. Of course, all the lot items are made Quater-tile placement enabled, they also are on one-tile to make placeable on OMSPs

🎁 DOWNLOAD Sixam LOT Flora SFS - Mediafire

PS : Yes, @jawusa released A-MA-ZING animated and seasoned sixam plants just yesterday, and maybe they will be recolored some day, but for now, just enjoy the colors and the possibilities they offer you : an underwater decor with mermaids, a weird planet, an amazing pride day party/festival or an enchanted forest with fairies...

✨ A very Merry Christmas for all of you ! and a special thanks to

And don’t worry, we can find a way to make the animated lights also work on your new lovely recolors too!! After all, it’s just an additional layer of textures on top of EA’s original texture. XD

ts2 advent collab - day 21!

And it's the 21st of December already! Time flies!

Today it's my turn, and since I found myself with some unexpected time off earlier in the month but not much energy to go with it, I decided to focus on building. Which turned into a whole village, whoops!

Anyways, meet Hedgecombe!

Remember my 4t2 Sixam project I started 2 years ago? Which I almost scrapped but revisited sometime last year? ... well, I've got good news for you then. It's finally out now! ^^

Welcome to Sixam!

Sixam Academy is a prestigious intergalactic university on the planet of Sixam that provides special training for aspiring students to become Birth Queens, Colony Drones, or even the latest innovation in alien technology: Pollination Technicians. The academy offers hands-on experiences, collaborative research, and cultural exploration, alongside interstellar expeditions, nurturing a community focused on curiosity, inclusivity, and innovation.

Yes, I recreated the secret alien world from TS4 for TS2 as a custom university subhood! Why as a university subhood you may ask? Well, I tried to keep the original vibes of Sixam of it being an "unlockable"/visitable place your sims can explore rather than a regular neighborhood your sims can live in!

Well, even after graduation, your sims can actually stay and live in the university subhood using Lamare's YAs can enjoy maternity (and all that) mod, as well as Lamare's Pets at University mod!

While technically it's a university, it could easily also be just a downtown or a main hood, as it includes quite a few urban city-style residential & community lots that a main hood/downtown would also otherwise have… just all in sci-fi/alien theme, of course! ;)

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More info under the cut...

Something that always bothered me is that the Sixam ocean floor I've made wasn't fully transparent... but rather opaque at night. I attempted to fix it before but whatever I did either made it lose its glow or it wasn't just transparent at all.

But good news!! I've finally found a way to fix this and make it all transparent while still maintaining its glow at night! Yayy!

See how the big planet in the background is now reflected in the water? ^^

The updated ocean floor is included in the zip file of the main download now. The neighborhood itself is unaffected though. So, no need to restart your saves. :) Just replace the old Sixam CC folder with the new one.