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Community Time makes The Sims 2 feel more alive: time keeps passing on your home lot while your Sims are out at a community lot, so when you return they aren't magically back home yet - they arrive after the time they spent away.

While looking at how I could add the Community Time Project Mod to my Sims 2 Essentials Setup tool in the future, I wanted to avoid multiple files if said files were able to be combined.

This file combines Chris Hatch's standalone version of the mod with @blueybre's critical fix, baked into a single package for easier installation.

Every original resource is preserved; the fix's two corrected BHAVs and its global constant are applied on top.

None of this is mine - it's a long-standing, community-maintained mod. All credit goes to the people below.

⬇️ Download: SFS

Credits and more info below the cut 👇

One installer. Every essential fix, mod, and tool for The Sims 2, set up for you in a few clicks.

I got tired of hunting down the same "must-have" fixes every time I reinstalled The Sims 2 (to the point where it has kept me from playing), so I made a tool that does it for you! 🥳 You choose the fixes, mods, and tools you want, click through, and it installs them all — with automatic backups and a built-in undo, so nothing is permanent and nothing gets lost.

It works with both the 2025 Legacy Collection (Steam and EA App) and the older Ultimate Collection.

⚠️ One heads-up: I only own Legacy (on Steam) and the Ultimate Collection, so I haven't been able to test the EA App or Epic versions of the Legacy Collection myself. They should work, but if you run into any issues on those, please let me know and I'll push out a fix!

Most importantly, none of this content is mine. Every fix, mod, and tool belongs to the creators who made them — I only automate installing them. Full credits and links are in the guide that comes with it. Please go support these people 💜

⬇️ Download: SFS | GitHub

📋 Want to see exactly what's included first? Here's the full list of every mod, fix, and tool, with credits: https://github.com/familyfunds/sims2-essentials-setup-tool/blob/main/GUIDE.md

More details under the cut 👇

silly video i made with some very talented people :D

what it says on the tin. i’m sticking everything under the cut to avoid clogging everyone’s dash because, hoo boy, this is a looong post

I really like these TS4 pajamas, so I was super excited when they were converted by @lucilla-sims well, long story short, I lost my mind and there are 52 recolours of these pajamas here.

Hi everyone, I think everybody knows the Clean UI mod made by greatcheesecakepersona . The mod comes with a colourful hair color category, so I modified this category and added another hair category. With this mod you have 2 new hair colors, Bright Red and Light Brown. It supposed to work with the Clean UI cas by replacing some files of the mod.

Some observations:

it`s not exactly two new colors, but replace the streaked and custom hair bins with bright red and light brown swatches

work for toddlers, kids, teens, ya adults and adults

the colors are Bright Red and Light Brown

it doesn't work in sims bodyshop

to bin any hair use:

00000005-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 for L-Brown

00000021-4000-0000-0000-000000000000 for B-Red

I didn't made any recolours of the default hairs made by maxis, but I will share some recolours of the hairs shared by me in the past

after you make a sim in the cas, it could be necessary to fix their brows in the mirror

like the hair, you could make these recolours for beard and brows, but the bright red button could be complicated to select in the mirror

Download the UI files here

Download the hairs here

Download the actions here

The frame from Cashcraft's 'Little Princess' set (link warning: T$R) edited and repo'd! The original frame is actually two frames stacked on top of each other, but this edit is only one frame (you can place multiple on the wall anyhow). The frame is remapped and repo'd to the BV 'Collectible Travel Poster by Travelkeeper', and the picture is repo'd to BG 'Bella Squared'. I tested it with quite a few recolours of the Travelkeeper frame, and although they weren't all perfect fits, most of them, even the more elaborate ones, seemed to look nice!

I also made Cashcraft's original pictures into recolours for Bella Squared, there's a swatch in the folder and the recolour packages are named according to the hair colour of the girl in the picture (they're all the same picture, just different hair/skin colours).

Download Little Princess frame & recolours

ALT: Download on Simblr

Mediafire | SFS (Hopefully coming soon)

MogHughson's Watch TV from all chairs is pretty much required by everyone at this point, but I always disliked how, if there's no seating available, my sims seemed to always route to stand in front of the tv and block people. There's also Squinge's Sit on floor to watch TV, but it conflicted with MogHughson's mod, and it also makes people sit on the floor on community lots, which didn't make much sense to me. This edit fixes all of that.

dude, lamare at it again!!!!!! KICK ASS MOD!!!

Know this mod by Phaenoh? So I remade it from scratch. The original one had issues; some careers didn't have numbers, and some levels were swapped (according to people). Now instead of "Lvl X" numbers are in brackets, which is more aesthetically pleasing to me. English only, incorporates this.

While I was at it, I renamed some of the careers to make things more consistent. This is a separate mod with its own package file of course. So now sims don't work in Journalism and "Gamer".

Adventurer > Adventure

Artist > Art

Athletic > Sport

Gamer > Gaming

Natural Scientist > Natural Science

Security > Pet Security

Service > Pet Service

Show biz > Pet Show Business

Slacker > Slackerism (better suggestions are welcome)

DOWNLOAD

TS2 Basic Career Editing For Unexperienced

4t2 Mailbox Default Replacement + Recolors

I love @alienpod's 4t2 Mailbox Default, and I wanted to give it a makeover in my color palettes (Lunamoth metals for the box, @morepopcorn's woods for the post, and Sugar Rush colors for both). As usual you can get just the recolors if you use another version of this mailbox...

Download Recolors

- OR -

... you can get an edit of with the textures swapped out for a mix of options (see first screenshot) with the rest included as recolors. Also I think I got the hood view and lot imposters working? Let me know if you run into issues!

Download Default + Recolors

After much hair-pulling, I finally feel satisfied enough to release my mod to restore those glorious shiny floors from The Sims 2 beta! (Forever in our hearts...)

You can download it here :)

Prerelease (2003):

Doesn't the beta lighting look so nice? :(

Mod (not 2003):

Why yes, I did painstakingly try to recreate the room from the prerelease image and make elder versions of the Sims - it was absolutely a productive use of my time.

I've made sure to make a number of vanilla TS2 floors reflective out of the box. These are mostly marble floors, but there's a few stone/tile/wood floors in there too. If you want to add reflections to custom floors (or other vanilla floors not included by default), I've left some basic instructions on the GitHub page on how to do this :)

Because this is a cut beta feature, there are a few minor issues with it - I have detailed these in the README. Please take the time to read through them!

I also had to include an edit to the mirror reflection shader to fix a bug where mirrors visible in the floor reflections would be flashing red (Castaway Stories has the same issue with mirrors reflected in the ocean, funnily enough). I'm not aware of any other mods that touch the mirror shaders, but if there are, let me know and I'll whip up a compatibility patch.

Oh, and in case you missed it, I released a small update to the reflective water mod, as per the request of @lordcrumps. I didn't realise houses didn't reflect in the hood water, but now they do!

Enjoy!

Not to be a bother, I just think this is interesting!

Hey! Actually, there has been an update, and it's time for it to not be sitting on my computer only :)

⚡ Music Preferences Update and How To Update CC Stereos

I’ve expanded it a little bit since then. Along with ownership that restricts who can turn on a stereo, there’s now an option that says no one can turn it on unless there’s a party or date.

Also allowed custom stereos to break and be tinkered with (by default, only a couple of Maxis GUIDs are allowed), though it requires updating their packages. Basically, my mod looks for a BHAV named "CT - Is Done?" in custom stereo's local resources, so if you wanted to make your CC stereo breakable and repairable, you'd create/import such a BHAV into its package. It has to be a dummy that returns true, has unique instance ID and the same group ID as other BHAVs in its package. I'll upload my store/preorder stereo edits as examples. Don't recommend doing it for smaller objects that go on shelves, as animations are meant for floor ones.

On that note, there may be some CC stereos that don't have music preferences' interactions in their menus at all, that's because they don't use semi-global resources that my mod modifies, but use custom local resources instead. (I thought I wrote a tut on how to "semiglobalize" a stereo, but I can't find it!) In short, you edit it's OBJD field "Interaction Table ID" to be 132 (in decimal), then delete local Pie Menu Functions and Pie Menu Strings from the package. But first, you make a backup and ask yourself: is this particular stereo special? does it have unique custom interactions that you don't want to lose? If yes, you may not want to go through with it.

I was thinking of rewriting the mod to have separate trait objects like color traits, but now that the object limit is very real, it might be best to not make about 20 new objects for each music station :) And I also vaguely remember someone else wanting to do it, so it may be already available anyway.

Files: music folder

(Still sort of "in testing", but you know me, some of my mods are eternal WIPs)