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Some random functional objects from GOS:

I promised this tutorial a while ago and just started making my harbour for my current hood. I figured I may as well kill two birds with one stone, so here it is! This technique is completely modular, allowing you to create harbours of any length. As you can see, I've already done one of the lots, just to show you how they fit together. You will find yourself saving and exiting quite a lot with this method!

Requirements

LotAdjuster

A neighbourhood with accessible shoreline

Possibly some understanding of the 'boolprop constrainfloorelevation false' cheat

Important: I do not use beach lots for this method. I find this method gives me more control.

Step 1: Place Your Lot

Start with a lot that is 20 tiles deep. This gives enough room to create a stone harbour wall and dock area. This is preference, but I find any bigger looks dumb.

The lot should be 10 tiles wider than the harbour segment you ultimately want. For example, if you want a final harbour segment that is 40 tiles wide, start with a 50 tile wide lot. That is what I've done here.

Bring the water as close to the lot edge as possible. If necessary, use the cheat 'modifyNeighborhoodTerrain on'

The terrain should slope down naturally towards the water.

Step 2: Mark the Tiles to Remove

Measure 5 tiles in from each end of the lot.

These tiles will be removed later with LotAdjuster.

For a centre segment, mark 5 tiles on both ends.

For a left-end segment, mark 6 tiles on the left side.

For a right-end segment, mark 6 tiles on the right side.

Step 3: Build the Stone Harbour

Create a foundation within the remaining space. This can be as big as you want.

The foundation walls should extend flush (but not connect along the length) to any edge that will connect seamlessly to another lot.

I use Numenor's custom foundation walls, but you can achieve the same effect using standard walls with the cheat 'constrainFloorElevation false'. Just flatten the walls after placing them.

Cover the foundation with floor tiles of your choice, filling in that gap.

Important: Do not place walls along any edge that will connect to another harbour segment.

Step 4: Add the End Cap

At the opposite end of the harbour wall, add a small "cap" section. It will not stretch out as far as you want, but that's okay. Again, make it as big as you want.

This creates a natural transition point where stairs can lead down to the wooden docks.

Step 5: Build the Dock

Lay out the wooden dock below the stone harbour. Mine was a full story (16 steps) lower than the stone.

As before, don't place foundations flush against the lot edge. Use floor tiles to create the seamless connection instead. You will know it's correct if there's no stilt on the 6th tile from the edge.

Again, at this stage, don't worry if the dock isn't the exact width you want.

Save and exit the game.

Step 6: Extend the Lot

Open LotAdjuster and add 20 tiles to the back of the lot.

Do not change any other settings.

Step 7: Finish the Waterfront

Load the game, and then the lot again.

You now have what is effectively a custom beach lot. I usually add terrain paint to match my shoreline, otherwise the extended area remains grassy.

You can now adjust the dock to its final width. In my example, I created a dock that was 5 tiles wide.

Step 8: Plan the Dock and Bay Pattern

Decide how many docks and bays you want. Bays should be big enough to fit ships.

The harbour should always end on half a bay, so that adjoining lots complete the bay when placed together.

Do this before shrinking the lot. Once the lot has been reduced, you won't be able to place floor tiles on the very edge.

For my example:

Dock width: 5 tiles

Bay width: 10 tiles

This creates the pattern: 5 (half bay) - 5 (dock) - 10 (bay) - 5 (dock) - 5 (half bay)

I also made them 15 tiles long. You can do literally whatever size you want.

Save and exit once the layout is complete.

Step 9: Trim the Lot

Open LotAdjuster again and remove 5 tiles from both the left and right sides.

This is the step where you're most likely to run into problems. I certainly did while creating this tutorial!

If LotAdjuster throws an error, reload the lot and make sure there are no walls, fences, or foundations crossing the line where the new lot boundary will be.

When you reload the lot:

End pieces should have one side flush with the lot edge.

Centre pieces should be flush on both sides.

These flush edges allow the harbour sections to connect seamlessly.

Step 10: Repeat

Repeat the process for as many harbour segments as you need. If they don't line up, you can't just pick up the lot and move it. You have to use LotAdjuster to either move it left or right. I had to do so in this very tutorial.

The good thing is, you can use the original dock as a visual guide for widths! Also, make sure the wooden dock is on the same elevation across both lots.

For this example, I created a left and right segment and mirrored them, but you can continue adding centre sections indefinitely. I tend to add stairs in the very middle if I do that. You need a flight of stairs to get down to the harbour.

Finishing Touches

Once your harbour is assembled, decorate it however you like.

I usually place lots like warehouses, taverns, fishmongers, market stalls, or more on the stone harbour, and use neighbourhood deco ships (or this refurbished version of the Bon Voyage ship) in the bays. I also decorate the docks with crates, barrels, dead fish, etc. For some extra fun, add invisible fishing spots to the end of the docks!

The result is a fully modular harbour that can be expanded to fit any waterfront.

This is the only thing I uploaded to GoS that can be considered in any way recent (and probably the only thing anyone might want tbh), so in light of recent events, here it is:

Bioshock Infinite Seasonal Plants: SFS | Mediafire

5 transformer cribs made from cribs by Simaddict99.

These are 2-in-1 crib/toddler beds. Just one click on the bed to convert it from one model to another. The crib can be used for babies and toddlers, the toddler bed is for toddlers only. They can use the toddler bed by themselves.

Here's my collab with wonderful @gummilutt - now we can have suitcase variety in the game! :D

🎨 Color Traits Mod:

BV Suitcase Default

Maxis Match OR Modern

Download: SFS Modern suitcase polycount: 1272

⚠️This mod requires Color Traits created by Epi @episims AND Trait Globals by @picknmixsims to work!

As all color trait mods, it makes the suitcase appear in Sim's favourite color (one of 12), if color trait is present in Sim's inventory. Grey is the default shade. You can choose between original suitcase or hardshell suitcase.

🔺Conflicts:

Pets and toddlers on Vacation by @lamare-sims - Suitcase mod needs to load AFTER Lamare's mod (add "zzz" suffix prefix to the filename to make it load last).

BV suitcase texture replacements are not compatible with this. Also, modern default will clash with objects that use original Eaxis suitcase texture.

You may also be interested in decorative mini-sets based on suitcase mesh and textures:

Decorative Suitcases

Hardshell Suitcase & Maxis Match Suitcase

Download: SFS | BOX

Both meshes found in Buymode/General/Dressers, recolors are merged.

I play a subsaharan African island called Labadi as my main hood in sims 2! I wanted to share with you some of Labadi’s cultural lore.

Sugar Mama is well known in Labadi for her sweet sweet cooking. Plus, she always has candy to give to the kids around town. That’s how she snagged the nickname Sugar Mama. She has had to cook to survive, raising two boys and taking care of an elderly mama on her own. Through it all, she has successfully operated a “chop bar” - a Ghanaian term for a casual eatery of local cuisine (usually fufu and a variety of soups) for many years. Her chop bar is called Sugar Mama’s of course! Though the spot has some wear and tear…the food is bussin! Period 🤭

Inspired by these photos:

Happy Africa Day and I am excited to continue to celebrate my culture and traditions in game! 🫶🏾

Thank you @sailorjojogames for including me in the line up of simmers celebrating Africa Day together!

I've successfully scraped all of the available Custom Content that was linked on GOS from Mediafire, Box, and SimFileShare. (Mirrors on 4shared not included)

Of course, I can't go back in time to retrieve things that are already long gone but here's a .zip of 49 GBs of content. This is everything from the beginning of GOS to September 2023.

Wings OE1120 (Swatch)

Hair Colours: 16 Pooklet Naturals, 2 Custom Greys, 5 Custom Unnaturals Hair Textures: Pooklet V2 Ages: Child-Elder Mesh: Converted 4t2 evannamari, Original by Wingssims Polycount: 13k Elders go grey Binned, Familied, Tooltipped, Compressed

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Three of these men's outfits use a mesh by JulieJ. One uses a mesh by Nextor, but despite my best efforts, I couldn't find a link to the original mesh. If anyone knows where the original can be found, please let me know and I'll add the link.

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IMPORTANT: If you already have the mesh MESH_slim_Jedi_w_Coat_by_nextor, please REPLACE it with my version. The original mesh had a clipping issue, which I have fixed.

Makeover of bin lot Visionary Villa - now expanded to be an actual villa!

60k Simoleons

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms

Unfurnished

Download [mediafire] (59mb)

Important: The staircases won’t work properly unless you follow installation of the script for these open Victorian stairs by Marina (converted by Shasta). :)

More pictures and floorplan under the cut.

My hair palette here

All files are compressed.

Naturals are binned. Elder turn grey.

All hairs are both Naturals, Unnaturals and Pastels.

All meshes is included. Bodyshop previews is included in RAR archives.

Converted by @entropy-sims

Ages: TF-EF

Retexture by @blackswan-sims ✨

Texture: Evannamari+io

Download: SimFileShare

Converted by @entropy-sims

Ages: CF-EF

Texture: io wavy

Download: SimFileShare

Converted by @entropy-sims

Ages: TF-EF

Texture: Evannamari+io

Download: SimFileShare

Converted by @entropy-sims

Ages: CF-EF

Retexture by @blackswan-sims ✨

Texture: Evannamari+io

Download: SimFileShare

Converted by @entropy-sims

Ages: TF-EF

Retexture by @blackswan-sims ✨

Texture: Evannamari+io

Download: SimFileShare

Converted by @entropy-sims

Ages: TF-EF

Retexture by @blackswan-sims ✨

Texture: Evannamari+io

Download: SimFileShare

Hi! You may've seen this post where @/sims2-electricboogaloo shared all of the gamestar CDs for download. I'm from Poland, and there we've had something pretty similar. My friend (Yarny on YT; cool PL Sims videos) worked hard - she found and bought ALL of the old "gryEXTRA" CDs with old sims 2 custom content - that now is hard to find, because most of the sites don't exist anymore eg. SimsWeb; Sims2Design and more. There are a lot of sh1tty stuff but also a lot of cool stuff. Using Clean installer on lots and other things is really recommended!

UPDATE (04.03.25 ~9 P.M. CET): - deleted duplicates with a software to save some space - there were 52k duplicates out of 82k files !!! Now it's about 8GB lighter

Podium Default & Lecture Podium Recolor

I have a tiny (413 KB) default for the Law career reward "I Object" Litigator Podium and a replacement recolor for the podium in beestew's Active Uni Classes mod to share.

I removed the seal and retextured the area that had shadows on the front. I used textures from the original podium so it's maxis-match. I think it's more versatile without the seal!

I used @episims defaulting method, so there should be no conflicts with mods, etc. This podium and the Law career came with Seasons, so Seasons is required.

Golden Lady Statues

For @yakumtsaki and anon who asked about them! The leaning lady is an edit of Where The Green Fern Grows statue from the S4 Romantic Garden SP, and the lady in the middle is an edit of That's My Dame table sculpture from the S3 Jazz Age store set.

These edits are new standalone meshes. The left leaning lady's textures are repo'd to the right one.

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As seen in my post a couple of days ago I couldn't find any nice recolors of the BG Exploding Dragon Dining Table that I really liked, so I made my own!

I also made a mesh edit to remove the flower thingies of the legs and moved the legs a bit closer. The edit is completely optional, the recolors work fine without the mesh edit. You can see the comparison below.

There are 10 recolors: 5 plain and 5 decorated. The painted parts are from various museum and antique shop websites. Some of them are Chinese, some Japanese.

ACNH Flower Series Edits + Recolors

Thank you so much @rudhira for this wonderful conversion from Animal Crossing New Horizons! I made some recolors of the wreaths and the mum cushion to allow for a wider variety of decorating options (the multi-colored wreaths were just a bit too busy for me).

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I also made an edit to the wreaths to lower them, allowing them to shifted up/down without weird lighting issues. If you use them, just delete the original version.

My friend asked if I could build something for her birthday present, and I came up with this old school market hall.