Simbook Air and SimBook Pro | 4t3 conversions, with functionality
Modern laptops for your sims to tackle work and fun without breaking their backs! These are 4t3 conversions, originally from Pierisim here. I have added some details to mine, more info + download below!
As a techie, I have been absolutely in need of a more modernized laptop for my sims. Since TS3 was released in 2009, laptops in-game were modeled after the laptops of that era, which were about as thick as a flipping dictionary and just in general very out of date for the type of laptops many of us carry around these days. I found myself exclusively only ever using the PeachySoft laptop from TS3 University Life, which is still one of my favorites, but I wanted something different. I see this adorable little laptop in so many TS4 posts as deco, and I took on the painful totally fun challenge of bringing it to TS3 as a new laptop for our sims.
List of Changes/Notes
The original I converted from Pierisim was the decorative version of the object (there was also a TV variant, but the deco one worked better for this project). Unfortunately, TS4 does not have functional, portable laptops like TS3 (as far as I know). This meant it was an extremely annoying process to get this to work and it's a miracle it did! It just took...millions of hours. I essentially had to split the model into multiple parts, scale them into size a million times until I got it just right, then "glue" them back together, and then assign bones (which was interesting, when I accidentally assigned the screen to the mouse bone early in testing).
These are fully foldable, functional, portable working laptops just like any other laptop in TS3 that your sims can carry around, open and close, and use on tables, desks, islands, and the ground.
For now, these are not recolorable. My priority was to get them functional and to add details to them to make them look cute, so that was not something I added, though they come in several different colors. In the future, I hope to make them CAST-able and add even more fun details.
I took immense care to clean up the textures these do have. The originals, like many TS4 textures in general for some reason, just had severe color banding and DDS artifacts in-game. So I carefully re-handpainted the gradient textures and added noise to reduce this as much as possible. The speaker grill textures are not perfect, but I tried my best.
The original texture didn't include keys (many EA laptops don't either), so I have added a fully Simlish keyboard! :D Complete with icons and little details. There's also little symbols on the underside of the laptop now like in real life, that tell you not to throw it away etc. I have always loved these little details and when I tell you this was the absolute most fun part of this project, I mean it.
There are two versions. The SimBook Air and the SimBook Pro.
The SimBook Air...
is a smaller, more compact laptop than the default TS3 laptop size, more in line with most laptop sizes these days. It is also much, much thinner than the default EA laptop, as I was trying to make it as thin as possible. This is accomplished by a tiny gap between the screen and body, which is visible only from certain angles when the laptop is open. This cannot be fixed/mitigated - the thinner you get the laptop, the worse it is. This is due to EA's bone placement for the animation of the laptop, which was designed for a much thicker model. This really is as good as I could get it without it looking too bad. - It costs less than the SimBook Pro. - It provides +7 Fun and +2 Environment score.
The Simbook Pro...
is roughly the same size as EA's default laptop size. It's wider and a little bit thicker, so there is no gap between the body and screen on this one. - It costs more than the SimBook Air - It provides +9 Fun and +3 Environment score.
Product Boxes 📦
I have also had Simgo's Apple Store set for TS2 on my mind for years. It was one of the very first ever conversions I did for myself back in 2020. I decided to recolor the boxes to match these in case you want to make a store display or if you just want your sims to also hoard their aesthetic tech product boxes for no good reason lmao. There are multiple variants for both the Air and Pro models, such as different specs and colors. All in Simlish.
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