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@needlecreamsims
a friend asked me to recolour a dress shoeswap by needlecream with some pastel goth patterns from here and some coordinating pastels from here by nyren/natsuki/etc and I was like .. say less. :D I wanted to change the docs up a bit but I was having some trouble getting them to look nice enough for me ^^; ten colours with a fabric overlay~ for transparency there is some wonkiness with the patterns on the sleeves as seen above and here:
do with that what you will :) thanks all! download (AF)
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GOS is back for good!
Hello! I was the one who fixed it.
Well it wasnβt just me, to be fair. I would have never been able to without @fireflowersims help and HugeLunatics trust in both of us. Thank you to both of them for their work and thank you @teaaddictyt for reaching out and doing the more public communication.
Iβm super happy I got the chance to work to fix it. It wasnβt an easy undertaking. It seemed like every little thing would cause more errors, I fixed one and another thing broke. But now it seems stable, finally.
A lot of technical stuff below the cut, beware.
Jules, I cannot emphasize enough just how cool you are for having done all of this work to get GoS back online! I'm glad I was able to provide a good new space for GoS to live from now on and assist with all the DNS. It was a trip alright, and I'm glad we could work together on this!
You are a hero and I (and I bet so many others) am so grateful for your skill and dedication! β₯οΈ
GOS is back π
Rejoice.
In case people want to access the new domain through the old (digitalperversion.net) links, I made a redirection. π
DOWNLOAD: SimFileShare | Dropbox
Steps to install (very easy):
Download the "Redirector" browser extension (Firefox / Chrome) ;
Download the JSON file above ;
Open the extension's settings > Edit Redirects ;
At the top of the settings page, you'll see a few buttons, one being "Import", click it and select the JSON file I provided.
Hope this will make the transition a bit easier :)
And big thanks to @fireflowersims, @julessims and @teaaddictyt for dusting that Resurrect-O-Nomitron!! π«Ά
Yeah. This is fine.
Garden of Shadows: a preservation effort
Like many of us, I grew up with Garden of Shadows. To me, it was more than just a forum. It was a place I could ask for help, learn new skills and, best of all, find amazing content in any style I could possibly want. I loved the board names, the people, the themes; everything, really.
And I admit I was more than a little heartbroken to find it gone.
After mulling it over, I decided that I wanted to preserve what I possibly could. I spent a few hours yesterday running through strategies and ideas about how to best go about it, and the best I could come up with was, well, exactly the same.
So, here it is: the Garden of Shadows mirror forum.
I've only just started, but I hope to add a little bit to it every day. The primary focus will be on preserving all the knowledge and custom content. I'm tackling it myself, but if you feel so inclined, you're more than welcome to join in.
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PS. I am not here to offend, break Terms of Use, or to step on any toes. This is simply an effort to preserve content and knowledge for a game I have played and loved for over twenty years. Thank you β₯
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Garden Of Shadows - All Custom Content
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.
This is the entire site's worth of custom content scraped. There are a few things that you need to know.- This is not checked to see if depe
So, in the Sims basegame objects.package, there's a semi-functional DnD-style roleplaying game table which, from its limited options when other people poked at and play-tested it, seemed like it was going to have one player act as the game master and then other Sims would change into LARP-y costumes so they could play different classes (it's theorised that this was the purpose of the hidden basegame warrior AF outfit with the super-cleavage, but that connection isn't proven).
Given the Sims 2 modding community is on steroids atm, has anyone ever actually looked at finishing it as lost-and-found TS2 content? I don't know enough to know how broken it is or even how it would ideally function, but it's a neat concept.
I would happily contribute texture-making or copy-writing (and even basic meshing/frankenmeshing) if other people were interested in the code. I'm about to head to bed so I can't go digging myself but it got me thinking that it would be a fun thing for potential hobby and skill building with a social element π€
THANK YOUUU to @3snappingrectangles for hooking me up! I KNEW I wasn't imagining things (just wasn't in the basegame files, it was in Castaway Stories):
It seems like it's almost fully-functional as-is? I tested it and here are the current problems I would LOVE to collaborate with someone to fix:
The BIGGEST problem that stops this from being usable is how limited the animations are - a Sim "rolls", then Sims react either positively or negatively. But it seems like since that rolling animation doesn't exist, it defaults to all the Sims belching clouds all over each other lmao. Not sure what animations would be best to replace π€ Maybe a generic swipe/clear? One of the poker table animations? I'm sure someone who knows this stuff could add more player reactions to rolls, too.
The table just pulls the basegame card table as its mesh (which means it's non-recolourable). Would love to make a custom object to replace this - in an ideal world it would be an object you had to place on a separate table (so players could mix-and-match), but I'd make a full table-sized object if necessary (with an invisible recolour, players could still use different tables). Would just need some help getting the table to point to this new mesh π
The object is a Logic skilling object (YIPPEEEEE) and that all seems to function, except there's no notification that a Sim has gained a skill point. If someone can add that, I can write the flavour text (for other things too, like the catalogue description, etc.) Would be cool if the notification was different depending on which role the Sim was playing?
Object currently only functions for adults and elders (the catalogue flag says it's a University object, which is the EP I presume it was made for before it got scrapped [makes sense - def associate DnD with college geeks haha] - so I assume it works for young adults too, but haven't checked). Would love to enable it for teens too?
Sims change outfits to play the game - this functions, but the outfits are all placeholders, as you can see in the picture above. Would love to offer two versions - one which redirect these to other in-game outfits (obviously that legendary unused AF warrior outfit would finally have a purpose) and another which directs them to bespoke CC outfits I'd be happy to make! Not sure how to handle the gender split though (or possibility of added teen functionality)
If anyone wants to poke at the files I uploaded them here. It functions (annoyingly π€’) in the game if you change its catalogue flags in SimPE.
omg guys, stop using ai on your screenies. YOUR SIMS R COOL WITHOUT AI FR!!!
the millennial urge to name a download set after a song lyric with the most tenuous relationship to the content
The Apocalypse C.O.W. update
I should be able to post chapter 31 in the next few days! Told ya I was working on it.
It's certainly very weird to try and tell an apocalypse challenge story as my own country descends into technofascism. π makes some parts of it seem quaint in comparison and other parts all too prescient
going to also clean up the images in chapter 29 1+2 and chapter 30 because they look cruzty and low res i just need to reupload the better bigger versions
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Spockthewok (aka Will Nixon) wrote a master's thesis on pink flashing, figured out the cause and potentially found the first genuine fix.
The fix itself (along with the thesis for those interested) can be found here:
A patch to fix the 'pink soup' bug in The Sims 2. Contribute to spockthewok/TS2MemCapRemover development by creating an account on GitHub.
Author of the mod discovered that memory-usage-related pink soup is a result of an intentional safety check in the game's code, rather than a mistake in calculating texture memory.
So his experimental mod for TS2 RPC launcher basically tells the game to stop freaking out and turning stuff pink when shaders' memory usage goes over certain threshold. NOTE: it may get rid of the pink, but the game will still crash if you exceed 4GB limit.
There are two mod options to choose from:
Version 1 is more radical, it completely removes the safety check. You'll (probably) find out the shader's memory limit has been exceeded when your game crashes.
Version 2 is supposed to allow some pink soup at around 3.5 GB memory usage, near the danger zone, so you have time to act - so obviously, this one sounds more sensible.
And while I remain convinced that pink soup can occur because of other shader-related issues or f*cked-up memory settings, not just this "failsafe", if your game suffers from pink soup it's definitely worth a try!
I actually have been kind of getting the urge to make CC again. I'd have to re-install the game, but I would just be doing the basics to test and take previews.
However, I feel like if I tried to share the CC, I'm so out of the loop that I'd do it wrong somehow. I don't know what the etiquette is anymore. I don't want to be rude.
I'm still here...
Hello... it's been a while, I know! And I return with a question: would anyone have any idea what might have happened to a particular Sim that for every interaction I get a 'Hit Break Point Primitive' error with him. He was fine, until he wasn't. It's hard to say where things went wrong, but it might have been just after he had his first kiss. (If it's relevant, he's a teen.) And, is there any way to fix him? (Resetting him doesn't help.)
GoS issues
The server GoS was hosted on had a drive failure. It was moved pretty quickly to a new drive. The issue now is that GoS uses verion 1.1.21 of smf while s2a uses 2.0.17 (needs small update). Both of those use two different versions of php. I had some fixes in place from last year when the sites were migrated last time, but none are working right now. Host insists I need to upgrade even though both smf sites were working fine before the drive failure. I'm highly annoyed. Hosting renewal is due end of May and if the upgrade to 2.1.19 of GoS fails, then I will not be renewing the hosting. I will continue to see if I can figure out a band aid fix, but will attempt the upgrade probably in May.
This means GoS and Sims2Artists will both close end of May if the update fails. Hugelunatic will move to a free wordpress hosting. All content on GoS was hosted off site, images and files, so the content still exists.
a lot of ADHD behaviours and barriers feel like sims logic playing out in real time like i did my laundry but i had to pee and sleep so i stopped and i havenβt folded it yet except i canβt fold it yet because i need to eat but i canβt eat because the laundry basket is in front of the fridge. someone keeps queuing actions but theyβre getting cancelled
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β Setting Up Sims 2 β A TUTORIAL
β Ever wonder what to do once you've downloaded your game? These are the very first steps I take after installing the Sims 2 β UPDATE 2.2 β
somehow fucked up manually editing a sim's face but turns out the result actually looks kinda neat?
