Joanna Squared

So… I made something. It’s for @greatcheesecakepersona‘s stunning Clean UI mod, just a different background for the menu screen. Use only if you’re using the gckp-clean-ui-menu-background-only file, and use only one. It goes in the same folder. It does not replace the loading screen! I didn’t make a loading screen version because I don’t know how. Also the original loading screen is iconic.

Concept arts of objects.

Source: http://www.osimbr.net/home.php/www.thesims.com/?p=536

Okay, so long story long, this is how vanilla gameplay works: if a sim interacts romantically with another sim, their gender preference will increase with 2 towards the gender of the other sim, and it decreases with 1 towards the other gender. Which means if you have a sim who has positive gender preference towards both genders, but they keep interacting with only one gender (because they get into a relationship or something, it happens, right?), they eventually end up with negative gender preference for the other gender.

It was bugging me for ~years~ (because surprise, that’s not how bisexuality works), but I haven’t found any mod that fixes this? (or maybe I’m just blind that’s always a possibility, but I ended up taking the matter into my own hand, and came up with this lil mod)

So it does nothing else, but checks if a sim has positive gender preference for both genders, and in this case, their gender preference doesn’t decrease. Like ever. Which sounds good to me. It probably works the best if you pre-set your sims’ gender preference (with ACR or whatever).

Known conflicts: it does conflict with Pescado’s romancemod, so if you use it make sure this mod loads after the romancemod. Or you can open it and delete the Gender and Fitness Preference - Inc. line. I tried to understand what this part does in the romancemod, but it only affects the fitness preference part of it somehow? Is this even a thing? Is this used somewhere? I honestly have no idea, I’ve never heard of fitness preference in my life lol. Also, if you find other conflicting mods, please tell me, so I can add it to the list!

Anyway! After a thousand words, we finally get to the download part, have fun :)

NEIGHBORHOOD CAMERA + DR cursor 

As you know, the default the Sims 2 neighborhood camera is very limited. There are many different mods that expands its capabilities. I searched for the most convenient mod for a long time, but all of them had unpleasant bugs - for example, they got stuck on maps like Downtown, and none of them allowed changing the vertical angle of the camera as in lot view. Finally, I found a camera from The Jessa Channel. It is a really convenient mod which allow to rotate the camera in any direction, has a large zoom and comfortable movement around the NH map without “bouncing” at the borders. Moreover, there were several minor flaws I have fixed. Thus, in my edition of the Jessa NH camera mod, the zoom works smoothly with the + and - keys, and also the “clipping issues” (also known as z-fighting) are solved

Better Bubbles - Headline Texture Replacement

- Replaces the default blurry low-resolution Chat, Thought and Yell Headline Bubbles with brand new high-definition textures! ~  (Note: Doesn’t replace any icons, that will be a separate mod which will be released as soon as it’s finished!)

I made a custom title/loading screen for TS2 to match @greatcheesecakepersona‘s wonderful Clean UI mod. It was very much copied from @simhaus whose mod I really fell in love with but couldn’t find the file (404 error and they haven’t posted in 8 months) so I just made my own. 

There’s no animated squares or loading bar, it’s a pretty simple aesthetic mod. 

To download, you want to drop both files in The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Double Deluxe\Base\TSData\Res\UI. 

Finished this lot. i imagine it’s only accesible through the cave, so the pedestrian portals are inside it.  Outside there’s a lake with mysterious stones. I kind of messed up with Lot Adjuster so I had to surround the lot with neighborhood boulders. This is what it looks like without them:

I said I would do this back when @criquette-was-here posted these, so here they are: 20 shop signs by Criquette on Shakeshaft’s Victorian shop front signs. Meshes for the signs are included; for the rest of the set and recolors of it, check here: (http://decatsims2.blogspot.com/2014/09/diagon-alley-shop-fronts.html)