*aspiring* mailroom technician

These recolors will change only the "metal" part of the mailboxes. The wood part recolors are taken from TabbyLou (not included).

Recolors from Leaf-Motif

Chalk kitchen - in hibiscus palette

Meshes by Kestrelteens required.

Credit: charlypancakes, kestrelteens, solistair.

DOWNLOAD - sfs

When you sell your nephew to the Dudes in Black to finance your experiments, but the division janitor betrays you to your brother shortly before returning home.

Default replaces the talent icons that appear upon gaining talent (this includes the not-pictured fishing, gardening, cosmetology, register and restocking badges as well)

Default replaces the icons that appear when customers have a negative/positive interaction at a business and the buy bar.

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You can see part 1 here

Howdy, Simmers! I'm thrilled to present the Ultimate 4T2 Clay Hair Default Replacement Collection, designed to give your Sims a fresh and fabulous new look effortlessly! 💇‍♀️💇‍♂️✨

It's time to redefine Sim style – one fabulous hairstyle at a time. Get ready for a hair revolution with The Ultimate 4T2 Clay Hair DR Collection! 💖🌟

🍡Download - LC | MF 🍡

Updates folder - SFS | MF updated 21 Jan 2024

The nitty gritty details and disclaimers:

This is an entire collection that is interwoven with each other. Hair is repositoried to different ages, genders, defaults, and even hidden toddler hair. It's highly recommended that the collection stay intact and that you have the Ultimate Collection or all EP/SP. Recategorizers do not work with this collection

Not all hair works with each sims' faces and not all sims' faces work with each hair. So keep in mind foreheads, cheeks and ears may poke out. Previews are available at LordCrumps.com

The collection includes add ons that may require the defaults and are flagged as "Store Edition" hair. TS4 hairs range from base game to the most recent Stuff Pack (Home Chef Hustle). More hair may be included as add ons in the future.

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I wouldn't convert some hair without their outfit counterparts. Please make sure to remove conflicts. The outfits include:

ubodymascotknight_EP7 mbodysuperninja pubodybadger_badger pubodybadger_brown ubodycommercialmascot_buns ubodysocialbunny servo ubodycowmascot (a brighter/whiter version courtesy of tvickiesims)

Most of these hairs exist already in the realm of the community as custom hairstyles. Any of my hair previously converted (shrink, servo, santa hat, etc) should be removed; they'll be included in this collection.

TOU: Please feel free to use these as a template for your defaults and recolor the hair as you'd prefer for download purposes. I only ask that you do not reupload these original files (breaking down to packs, gender, etc) as they are intertwined and may not work without their exclusive counterparts. Please do not make these hairs as customs for reupload.

There are a few hair/items that use cc: credit: nolansims, sforzinda, arethabee

This took about... 8 months to complete. I've (re)converted all of these myself to my current expectations of my conversion content. This was play tested thoroughly over the course of that time. If there are any issues, please don't hesitate to send an ask. The file size is massive even compressed, but to be honest it's pretty decent for 500+ hair.

Under the cut are some personal sappy thank you notes that I want to share publicly:

How to Build an Aquarium Pool for TS2- Tutorial

(all images right now- image description WIP; sorry!)

My very first TS4 build I released had an aquarium pool in the basement. I loved it and wanted to recreate it in TS2, but it’s a lot harder without a dedicated basement tool.

Still, I think I managed it pretty nicely. 

Making the charts and graphs to finally make it clear how ridiculous we all are is taking a bit more time than expected because there is a subset of users that both does and doesn't have pink flashing, and since all insights happen at the margins, I have to dig into this a bit more. Release now expected the first weekend in February.

But: as proof I'm moving along, here's a title card, and the simplest main takeaway from the survey:

IF YOU HAVE "uint LotSkirtIncrease" in your userstartup.cheat, you can safely delete it to help reduce pink flashing.

Explanation: "uint LotSkirtIncrease 36" is equivalent to the in-game "Lot View Distance Extra Large" setting. It was previously thought that it was needed to turn this up to 120 in order to see neighborhood horizons in lot view but is not true (or not true anymore). If your horizon is blinking in or out when your game camera moves, it is not from view distance, it is from graphical glitching - same as if you've ever noticed the reflections momentarily not lining up in Voeille's water when you change the angle.

Having a LotSkirtIncrease over 50 SUBSTANTIALLY burdens the game at a critical stress point: loading any lot. It also overrides your in-game setting so if you were under the impression your setting was Small, Medium, or Large (and some of you were), it was actually Extra-Extra-Extra-Large unless you manually changed it after entering the lot.

Corollary: THE BEST PRACTICE FOR LOT LOADING, i.e., the Lot View Settings Juggling Method (LVSJM)

If you are prone to pink flashing, you should always exit lots (including when you exit the game) with Lot View Distance set to "Small" and Neighbors turned "Off." You may want to save with the game camera zoomed in as far as possible.

When you load a lot and have ascertained it is stable (you can pan the camera without any hiccups/lag/crashing), after 30 seconds, you can turn neighbors back on. 30 seconds later, you can start incrementally turning up the Lot View Distance.

Credit for this tip goes to the users who gave a hot tip on the survey that they only turn Neighbors on for screenshots (they will be named in the final report). We are often prone to thinking of those settings as something static, that we set and forget, but if we treat them as dynamic we can definitely manipulate them to our advantage.

Remember, after playing the lot - OR WHEN YOUR SIMS TRAVEL FROM THE LOT - you should turn the Lot View settings back down and manually save BEFORE the game closes the lot.

V.1.2 UPDATE (09/06/2023): FIXES, SMALL CHANGES, NEW VIEWS FOR THE PERSONAL DEFAULTS TRACKER AND MORE! SEE BELOW!

GET THE TEMPLATE HERE

V.1.2 UPDATE (09/06/2023):

#Fixed some pages where I forgot to remove my stuff to test things.

#I changed the property "Do I have a default?" from checkbox to "Status". Now it looks like this:

Why did I do it? Because I noticed that sometimes I wasn't sure about the defaults I downloaded, so I wanted to have… more options to mark things. One check wasn't enough for me.

#I've added four new views, taking advantage of the new property, to help you to better group the defaults you have and don't have. See the screens here.

#I have added other list compilation for cc and mods which may come in handy.

#I added the "Camera Mod" section in the "Graphics" section.

V.1.1 UPDATE (09/04/2023): PERSONAL DEFAULTS REPLACEMENT TRACKER ADDED!

Small clarifications:

# I also added some optional proprierties to fill in in case you use some mods. I made sure they are hidden because not everybody use those mods. So to see them click on “more proprierties”.

These options will only remain visible if you fill their box.

These are:

1. Height (If you use Lazy Duchess’s Height Mod here)

2. TS3 Traits (If you use the Trait System here)

3. The favorite color and the disliked color (if you use the color mod here)

Also, In ”Life States” I took the liberty of also adding midgethetree’s custom occults, but if you don't use them you can delete them.

# Some properties are hidden because not all sims have info for those properties. So to see them click on “more proprierties”. These options will only remain visible if you fill their box.

These are:

1. Death Cause (Don’t all sims are dead)

2. Business (OFB Business, it can be a shop a bakery etch)

3. Role in Business

4. All school/university-related properties, if your sim doesn't attend it.

# Some properties are hidden and cannot be made visible even if you fill their boxes. These are for the template filters, so please don't touch them. This property is literally called "Filters”.

My tracker has many more proprieties than a classic tracker and I filled it with ready options so you don't have to write everything by hand yourself (that's why it took me a long time)

ALL the properties have ready options, you just have to choose without the trouble of writing anything (unless you want to insert custom options yourself)

The tracker has also a lot of different views and I'll let you discover them yourself!

I didn't want to add extra options for gender identities and sexual orientations because I don't want to forget anyone, so you can add whatever you want!

Thought this list I came up with a while ago could be useful o/ also I just love creative community lots and I hope it may inspire them.

Other peoples’ lists of ideas: 1, 2.

I got an anon a few weeks ago about this and my answer ended up way longer than i thought it’d be…so here’s a list of my favourite sims 2 hoods! (this is in no way a list of ALL hoods made for the sims 2, just a list of hoods i’ve played and loved!!) universities, shopping districts, downtowns and holiday destinations will not be included in this list.

**Most of these hoods are cc-free and require all expansion/stuff packs unless otherwise stated.**

INHABITED CUSTOM (Brand new hoods with sims, places and storylines to discover!!)

Maple Hollow and Doogler Valley by me :-)

Sedona and Rodeburg by @aondaneedles 

Opening Valley by @walabia 

Wakefield by @cozy-sims

Europa by @katatty

Nekojima by @katatty & @moocha-muses (requires cc)

Emerald Heights by Hood Building Group on MTS 

Euripides Bay, New Arlestown, Pitstop Valley and Asheville by cutupuss on MTS

Jeans Shaker Oasis by sokisims on MTS

Larksville by Neighborhood 99 (requires cc)

Aileen Landing by @jawusa

Rolands Town by @khal-ulti (requires cc)

EMPTY CUSTOM (brand new hoods, buildings included, no sims!)

Baskerville, Middleground and Elsewhere by plasticbox on MTS (requires cc)

Black Mesa by HugeLunatic on MTS (base game compatible)

Crowborough by Klaartje on MTS (requires cc)

Jackferry Point by Saturnfly on MTS (base game compatible)

Woodspell Springs by Monkaria on MTS 

MAXIS REDUX (full maxis hoods reimagined/recreated)

Pleasantly Thriving (Pleasantview makeover and expansion) by Phaenoh on MTS (requires cc)

The Sims Life Stories Hood recreations (Four Corners and Bitville) by Hood Building Group on MTS (Hoods from The Sims Pet Stories are also available on their page, I haven’t played them all though so can’t really rec yet! They’re all base game compatible though!)

Magic Town recreation by voleste (clean version available here)

Riverside by The Riverside Group on MTS (base game compatible)

…With a Twist Hoods (Pleasantview, Strangetown) by @meetmetotheriver and @strangetomato

Sunset Valley recreation by @danies-simsational-blog

Desiderata Valley makeover by @katatty

This is not an extensive list and I will be adding more as I play!! Please rec me any I’ve missed that you love so I can check them out, I’m always down to play new hoods :)

FURTHER READING

If you’re looking for more hood/lot makeovers try @ts2lotmakeoverdb!

This page has tons and tons of ts2 hoods listed!

I kept losing steam on this one so in the end it’s just for adult males!

Enjoy! :)

another simscord request from @shibarulata, woo! this time it's @charlypancakes's chalk iii: kitchen clutter set from the sims 4, for the sims 2! 13 new items to decorate your sims' kitchens 💓

the trash can is functional, but has no animations, so sims will dump trash in right through the lid. the larger shelf is repo'd to the smaller one, so don't delete it unless you want blue flashy madness! more info below the cut and in the readme. i also included a collection file, as per usual.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MF 🍳

credits go to @charlypancakes for the original ts4 meshes & textures! 🥞

Bearlybutts Restaurant Arcade: CC-Free Community

Family-friendly fun with completely normal animal band entertainment! Arcade, restaurant, "fresh" buffet, prize counter, bathrooms, everything for a fun-filled time courtesy of Mr. Bearlybutts!

1st/Ground Floor

Value: §164,546 | Size: 20x30 | Zone: Community