lost my plumbob

Added a way to check how tables will look in different situations

Since there are more of those now, breakfast and party meal

If we want to really go nuts decorating, we can have tons of different stuff on a table with only some of it being visible at any given time

Meal type (breakfast, lunch) is based on fridge menu

If it's lunch time, but someone has started eating when it was breakfast, the controller will consider it to be still breakfast and maintain appropriate decorations

Anon asked me to repo'd @joycsim pet water bowls to the actual maxis food bowls textures. Now if you have custom recolors for the bowls, they can actually be used for these water bowls too. I added the cheap bowl too and the base game water bottle, so sims will use it instead of the food box to fill them (however I was not able to change pet food effect and sound, sorry). Hope you like them. Original post HERE.

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@episims was so kind, he managed to remove the food effects and sound from the water bowls and help me fixed an error that caused the first default color to look flash blue (my fault, sorry :P). Link is now updated so please remove the previous files and add the new ones to your download folder. Thank you so much Episims *_*

“So as I was just trying to get Angie off my back, what do I see a few inches away?”

“I don’t really know what to think anymore. Maxxx is a great guy but he’s so possessive that I just had to make a point, you know?”

“He kinda doesn’t really want to get the message, though…”

-“How about a little exxxtra spice 🔥🔥🔥??”

- “AND TRUST ME, I FRICKIN’ CRUSHED IT THIS MORNING, RIGHT IN FRONT OF MAXXX’S EYES! I’D BE SURPRISED IF SHE’S STILL ABLE TO WA-.”

- “Dude, I SO don’t want to hear about your d-game.” 

“I don’t trust either of them. One day Roz acts all morally superior just ‘cause I was close to crashing my UFO into this hoard of degenerates, and now he brags TO ME about stealing another guy’s girl. Or maybe going for April’s implant ass is his way of dealing with me turning down his hatefuck offer? Whatever complex this qualifies as.”

-”WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING??”

-”Keeping my eyes on your fake ass, literally and figuratively.”

-”Excuse me??? First, there’s nothing fake about daily pilates with Misty Waters. Second, not into girls and third, DON’T STALK ME WHILE YOU’RE TAKING A DUMP.”

“Actually, I just wanted to piss her off.”

-“Drop that hairy piece of filth and be with me, April! We look so much hotter together, plus you can be the no name bimbo breaking my heart in all my music videos once my career really takes off!”

-”Oooo when you put it that way…”

“Maxxx really does know how to charm a girl. Who knows, maybe we truly are meant to be together after all. I mean, if he didn’t care about me, he’d just be looking for another girl as we speak.”

-“Damn April, I gotta give it to you, you really are outdoing everyone in this house!”

-”Embarrassingly low bar, let’s all be honest - I mean, Watcher, I just wasn’t sure about what I wanted. :( ”

-”Pfft, not hard when she’s living with both douchebags.”

-”Jealous much, desert queen Isabella?”

-”I just have class and don’t take every available opportunity because I’m cheap. All that talk about me having dated over 25 football players are just cruel lies!”

-”I haven’t heard anyone talk about it on here besides you-”

-“ALL. THAT. TALK.”

- Um, well, speaking of looking cheap, where’s Angie?”

“Look, the last day really SUCKED for me and I’m just trying to distract myself from the fact the guy of my dreams chose some bimbo who immediately cheated on him over me.”

“Angie is coming into the living room and all of the sudden starts tickling me. Just like the girls during my bartending days, you haven’t spoken a word to me before, neither when I pulled out a BuzzFeed article from 2017 featuring SimNation’s top 50 worst pick-up lines, or when I asked her for a mint to get the taste of vomit out of my mouth yesterday. Just now when you’re lonely and desperate - I suddenly exist!”

-”Get your claws away from me you freak!”

-”Did YOU OUT OF EVERYONE just call me a freak??? And who put that horrid music on, sounds like 8th graders during band rehearsal after discovering MySpace.”

-”You mean my mixtape I’m aggressively dancing to??”

-”WHAT? NO MAXXX, NEVER!!!! YOUR MUSIC CANNOT BE DESCRIBED IN WORDS!!”

-”Cabs are here!”

“I’m meeting up with this girl I ran into at the club yesterday. I just knew the moment I saw her she was something special… reminds me, should ask for her name again.”

“So everyone is having a good time, we’re dancing, it’s great. And suddenly, out of nowhere…she kisses me.”

-“Oh baby, I couldn’t be more turned on by you than right now, in your sweat stained maxis tracksuit.”

-”Let’s take this somewhere more private, shall we? ;)”

“Maxxx and I need to figure out where we’re at. If we really are ready for a relationship together.”

-“April, I love you, but honestly I think only I deserve you, so I’m ready for this relationship thing if that means I won’t be seeing you near these out of your league morons ever again. It’s unbearably insulting to my looks and charm seeing what the guys you decided are my actual competition look like.”

-“Your face looks just like the Sector 6 aliens I would sometimes see on vacation at Sector 8, so grotesquely deformed I always used to wonder how their organs were even remotely working… say, what do you do for a living?”

“Maybe it was the amount of bubbles clouding her judgment or something, but as much as I can’t stand the girl, this was honestly sad to watch.”

-”Performing human experimentation. But my wife and I are certainly not opposed to extending our selection of interesting subjects.”

-”I mean, yeah, it doesn’t have to be a two-men show but that’s one weird metaphor.”

-“It’s official, these clownshows are dating now. But they’re gonna break up so fucking fast, trust me.”

-“I hate them so much.”

“Angie is my only friend in this house, so obviously I had to let her know about everything I just saw. So pathetic.”

-“Maxxx, can I maybe talk to you for a sec?”

-”Angie, look, you’re a nice girl and will surely find someone, but Maxxx doesn’t want anything from you.”

-”NOT THE THIRD PERSON THING AGAIN, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME??”

“It was going great, the girl and I relocated to the hot tub and then… suddenly I see everything flashing white! I just thought “Wow, must be the best woohoo I ever had.” ‘til I realize…”

“I almost died, would you think this chick even moved a muscle? She just sat there grinning, like she was enjoying it. So no idea if we’re dealing with an actual succubus or if she’s just got some crazy fetish.”

“And that’s not even the worst thing that happened.”

-“CRAP!”

“So while all that crap with Roz was going on, nobody noticed how Lyam was throwing up all over the floor, ruining that walking corpse’s shoes, and from there we just knew, okay, this night is over.”

“I’m pretty pissed that it’s my first night at this house and now I’m leaving without a girl ‘cause either Angie was cockblocking me…”

“Or…”

“Not cool.”

“I told Isabella to call a cab cause Lyam was a wreck, and with everything else going on we decided it’d be better to call it a night, and she was just being a complete bitch about it.”

-”Like first of all, it’s really cold outside. And I just don’t wanna go like, if Lyam wants to go that’s fine you call a cab for him then if you insist.”

-”What’s the problem with just calling a cab??”

- “Cause why would I go through the effort when I’m not the one who wants to go??”

“Like aren’t there seven other people with us? I’m sure someone else can call a cab, why am I the asshole all of the sudden for not wanting to freeze my ass off because some imbecile can’t keep his food down? Thankfully she gave up eventually and called the cab herself - see? That hard?”

“So I decided to be a good housemate and prepare breakfast for everyone and who comes up to me? Angie. You already cockblocked me last night. I’m not interested in you, get over it.”

- “Hey Maxxx, what are you doing?”

- “Was just preparing breakfast…”

- “…Angie.”

- ”Yeah, knew it started with an A.”

“I think Maxxx is really cute. There’s just something about him, that look all those morbidly pale freaks in Bridgeport have. After chatting with him in the hot tub I’d just really like to get to know him better.”

-”Ugh, first day of work today, I’m really not -”

- “Oh yeah totally, Roz! I genuinely believe this group was like, destined to be together, don’t you agree, MAXXX???”

-”Nobody but Maxxx himself is the master of his fate!”

-”Watcher, it’s so hot when you talk about yourself in third person…”

-”What??”

-”Um, nothing! :)”

“I wish Angie would just knock it off ‘cause the girl is just gonna get her feelings hurt, you know? I’m the player type, I’m not here to look for a girlfriend or fall in love with some crazy -”

“I’m coming in about to tell everyone the carpool is here and just see April making out with Maxxx. That girl surely was determined to shut her old guy reputation down as soon as possible.”

“Also, I think Toni should’ve specified that we’re ONLY delivering hot dog chew toys from some weird ass company. I don’t like that, people who buy this shit are WILD, we all know what happened to Craig Feldspar”

—————————————————————————————————–

*Insert getting ready sequence here*

“We literally just arrived at Crypt O’ Night, and what do I see?”

“I don’t know if someone is just wearing the skin of the very same guy who had to witness this psycho’s toilet scene yesterday but either way WHAT THE FUCK MAXXX?”

-”Maxxx is all over April right now, it’s so gross.”

- “No way!! Are you sure it was Maxxx?”

-”Who the fuck else would it be, you recognize that disgusting hair from a mile away!”

“So the club wasn’t really doing it for me and I was already about to call the cab to get us somewhere else, and then I see her, the hottest woman in all of SimCity, probably even SimNation:”

-“Oh no no no no, don’t go all attraction animation on me, I’m taken!”

- “>:(”

-”I can’t believe this, never will I find another woman so fascinating to look at - oh hello there, 2004 nightmare!”

-”Oh my! So many years and people still recognize me! I’m so happy to be serving as nightmare fuel even after all those-”

-”Can you repeat that? I can’t hear you with Angie’s relentless sobbing in the background.”

“I am heartbroken, I am devastated, I just… I don’t have any words right now! How could Maxxx do this to me? How could April do this to me after all those insincere compliments I’ve given her?”

—–”Aww, don’t be upset, April! Your ass is far too detox tea ad material for you to be this sad!”—–

-”How can you just lounge in that corner like this when you can clearly see how I’m suffering!!”

-”Yeah and I’m having a hard time not living up to my nickname while witnessing your pathetic whining, come back when you’re at the vengeful part of your whole grief thing - ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT ANGIE, MAYBE TURN AROUND FOR A FEW SECONDS.”

-“GET YOUR DEFORMED NOSE AWAY FROM MY GIRL!!”

“ROZ IS A DEAD MAN.”

-”DUDE CALM DOWN! YOU GUYS AREN’T IN A RELATIONSHIP!”

-”DIDN’T YOU SEE THE TOTAL OF TWO ROMANTIC INTERACTIONS WE’VE HAD?? MY FUTURE SELF DOING HER ON TOP OF EVERY BRIDGEPORT BUILDING WAS PRACTICALLY ALREADY WRITTEN IN STONE!”

-”I’M NOT YOUR POSSESSION, MAXXX! I CAN MAKE OUT WITH WHOEVER I WANT!!”

-”SEE?”

-”LYAM?? OH, NOW YOU’RE JUST INSULTING ME!”

-”THEN I WILL INSULT YOU EVEN HARDER!”

so look, i wasn’t quite in the mood to boot up another uberhood, but i really want to share some gameplay, and thought i could make it a little more interactive along the way.

obviously, i chose a concept just as thought-provoking as it is intellectually challenging:

🎶

Hello Belladonna Shore team, this is April Lynn. She is recently broken up with due to a misunderstanding about exclusivity of the relationship on her side and now that it's like almost-two days later she is ready to explore what kinds of fun life -and in this case, this casting opportunity- has to offer. She does small modelling jobs for brands on simstagram for a living and dreams of acquiring worldwide fame one day. For her personality, April Lynn loves to act like a high self-esteem diva but she has plenty of insecurities that she has no plan to solve yet. She is an overly emotional person and likes to exhibit this part of her personality in the most dramatic ways. She says she isn't exactly an unfaithful person, she is just "full of love" and promises to herself that she will decide on one person to be her true soulmate one day. Despite what she might tell you, her hair isn't naturally blonde.

Personality: 4/9/5/4/3 Sign: Leo Aspiration: Romance Chemistry: Fitness, Glasses / Zombies (they are scary)

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So, after uh, whew, months(!) of experimenting with attempting to change the default face mesh in Sims 2, I’m here to basically share what I’ve found to be possible, what I still am struggling to get working, and what parts of my findings are still useful for a LOT of modding and custom content purposes, even if I couldn’t achieve my initial goal. I’m really tired of this project and I’d rather move on to doing stuff that are more doable (and more quickly doable) for my gameplay goals, rather than trying to do what seems to be a gargantuan task for my level of skills. 

In this post I’ll mostly focus on what is doable *in principle*. There’s lots of subtleties and tricks in getting things to look decent (well, at least I think I got it to look decent) which I won’t go into. Or try not to. I go into tangents a lot.

I’ll also not go into step-by-step details. Mostly because I suck at it but also because this post will be super long anyway. If you wanna know, ask!

For those who just want a brief summary: What I could get to work: a default replacement face mesh, with working templates and sliders, for adult sims. Though the procedures are the same for the rest of the ages.

What I still have trouble with: Basically, getting the game to recognize different parts of the face. This means applying the templates to different parts of the mesh, and, of course, genetics, don’t work yet. I have ideas about what could get it to work, but I’ve failed to do it so far.

Awesome things you could still do: My major finding here is that face animations can be applied to *any* CAS object. Clothing, accessories, and of course, nude skins (see below, this was an outfit with a bit that changes with eyes, proof of concept). This means that you can have specific sims with additional face parts and/or accessories and clothing that respond to face animations, or alternatively, you can have skin tones/body morphs that have face pieces which will not mix together between the parents, but are still heritable (with some limitations)

Oh, and full disclosure, the tools I used were simPE and blender 2.9. Nothing else. Don’t know how to do other stuff.

Thank you @simnopke , @rudhira , @withlovefromsimtown​  and many others for your help and encouragement in all this! I think there’s potential for some really good modding here.

Wanna test something?

I was thinking, how cool it would be if we could move ANY object up and down and decorate without OMSPs, like in the Sims 4?

Try it. [Test] Shiftable Everything

⚠ Requires Apartment Life

Adjust height with [ and ] keys, add to it some moveObjects on and snapObjectsToGrid false -- and go crazy.

The caveat is that it applies to newly bought objects. Objects that were placed before this mod was installed will remain the way they were.

Walden Sims - Larkin Meade (Download)

Requested by @joycsim, the seductive, amoral fairy queen herself! 

Romance/Knowledge Neat: 3 Outgoing: 9 Active: 4 Playful: 7 Nice: 2

There is a CC and no CC version, the CC file includes a custom, lighter version of my Remaxified skins which I use (but you can of course replace it with a pale skin of your own) and the no-CC file just uses your lightest Maxis default. Both versions come with default green eyes. 

DOWNLOAD:

Larkin Meade - CC  Simfileshare | Mediafire

Larkin Meade - No CC  Smfileshare | Mediafire

@joycsim , Female model, NO CC

Put it in the “Documents \ Electronic Arts \ The Sims Medieval \ Saved Sims” folder