Shani Daniels

Tutorial - Alpha Hair Compatibility with GShade/ReShade Shaders (DOF, qMXAO, Etc.)

Are you sick of your alpha hairs being blurred out by DOF shaders or having weird shadows from ambient occluders? do i have the tutorial for you! the photo on the right above is completely unedited from my game! alpha hairs have been freed from their life of GShade shame :)

ANYHOO:

Requirements You will need: Sims 4 Studio Photoshop (however you choose to acquire it), or an alternative DDS Plugin (unless you choose to save files as PNGs) Blender (any version between 2.76 and 4.3 - I use 3.3) The Basics

Recolours and Textures

The easiest thing to start with is a recolour. If you have some knowledge of photo editing software, this should be fairly straightforward, but if you’re new to it, the following tutorial covers it well: Recolouring Tutorial - Softpine

If you’re feeling confident with your recolours, but want to add a little extra to your textures, it’s worth checking out specular and normal files.

Speculars are my favourite thing for elevating CC (by that I mean covering it in glitter and sequins). This tutorial covers the basics:

Speculars - Teanmoon

Normal maps (bumpmaps) are a little different. They can give a 3d texture to an item without altering the mesh (within reason). Teanmoon also has a tutorial on that:

The Bump Map - Teanmoon

If you’re feeling extra (I know I often do), you can use emission maps to make your item glow and/or flash/twinkle.

Get to know emission the map - S4S

Meshing

Meshing is a little more complicated (or perhaps not, depending on what your strengths are. I recommend starting with the Blender Donut Tutorial (pick the one that matches your Blender version) to familiarise yourself with Blender. I didn’t do this. I went in raw from using Milkshape for over a decade (don’t start me on Milkshape lol) I would have learned faster if I did…

Once you’ve navigated the majestic plate of donuts, you might be ready for a touch of frankenmeshing! This tutorial covers the basics really well, as well as a touch of texturing:

How to Make CC Clothing for The Sims 4 - Powluna

@joliebean also has some great tutorials covering some of the more technical details.

Going forward:

So you’re feeling confident and want to mesh from scratch! There are 3980193890381 CC creators and a limited pool of meshes to frankenmesh, so you may want to create something new. Trust me, start with earrings and work your way down from there.

For the alpha girlies:

Start to Finish Marvelous Designer Tutorial by owlplumbob

CAS and BB custom content gets a second chance here. Submit your problem file and I'll take a look at it.

Why am I doing this? Because I'm tired of creators not caring. The community deserves better and I have the skills to help out.

Fixed files can be found HERE🔗 in my Google Drive.

Feel free to @ me when you see broken CC in the wild too.

Yeah, except this person charges minimum $10.. None of their stuff is available for free ever. it never becomes free even after a month or six months. this is. not the kind of person you want to download CC from because they are stealing from the community. Of course, you can make money here in this community, but never are you allowed to charge people. You're supposed to make your items be available for free. And I have already reported this person. allowing your items to be free? That's against EA's policy. I am so damn pissed that I found this person because I it really enjoyed their quality of custom content. Nobody's denying that you can make money creating content. and I'm not trying to stop anybody, but it's against E A's policies to charge people and never make the content available for free. I just checked out this person's Patreon and every single person in their comments is asking for the "link please" to download. That means that they never, ever offer their custom content for free. which is against terms of service for EA. You're damn right I reported them. Maybe nothing's going to happen. I'm just a simple little custom content creator. I'm sure EA has better things to do, but this is disgusting. This person charges 10 to $100 for their custom content. And I'm not saying they don't deserve to get paid. Just like Hey Harrie with that whole debacle she had during Christmas time, charging people and not allowing people to get their stuff for free either. But this person that I found never ever allows their stuff to be free, which is against terms of service. At least. Hey Harrie allows their things to be free eventually. It still doesn't make the nasty taste in my mouth go away though.

Am I tripping about it? am I the one being crazy? I need to know.

(Rly how rdr2 should have ended)

Left: Sweet Allure kit. Right: base game.

The shirt also looks an awful lot like this existing shirt from Perfect Patio Stuff, down to the exact same wrinkles, just with slightly edited sleeves.

I've been using Fogity's Hidden Highlight mod because the hover outline has been obnoxious since the Dream Home Decorator patch (and the hover effects cheat just...refuses to work for me for some reason), but it stopped working during one of the later patches so here's an updated version of the mod.

I hate that the game now make the same thing in the

Bracelet and Ring Category , like in Nail Category

i cannot see all the Jackets and Bags anymore

i have been super inactive on most of my socials lately, i have been busy with irl stuff and setting up my new computer

Townies & Outfits

A selection of mods designed to give you greater control over your Sims' outfits and the Townies in your save file

Next Project: I'm currently working on modifying a lot of the game filter to delete townies generation, with a little configuration beforehand!

🍵 If you’ve been enjoying my content, your support would mean so much! A small donation here could go a long way, especially as I navigate my career change. Thank you!

👔 No Outfit Change When Promoted

Currently in testing phase

If you are like me and you like to manually set-up the work outfits of your sims, nothing is more frustrating than having to re-create the outfit after your sims get promoted.

This mod prevents work outfits to be modified when a Sim is promoted or demoted. Additionally, it provides some options to adjust the work outfit, available when clicking on a Sim under the Outfits > Work Outfit sub category:

Regenerate Work Outfit: recreate the work outfit(s) using the current level of the sims career(s)

Copy Accessories from Everyday: copies all the accessories (glasses, hats, jewelry, nails, rings, socks, bracelets...) from the 1st everyday outfit to the career outfit(s)

Modify in CAS: quick access to the sims.modify_career_outfit_in_cas cheat

Thanks to Scumbumbo for their work on the Outfit Tools that really helped me set this up, and Scripthoge for the injector that allow to replace existing scripts!

Required: the XML Injector

Status: ✅ No update needed for the 01/14/25 patch (Blast From the Past) - Last updated: 12/04/24

Download: SimFileShare

🎭 Removed Situation Jobs Outfits

Many creators already tackled this subject: many situations in the game spawn Sims and for Sims in those Situation Jobs, a random outfit is generated (with some tags used). But in most cases, the result is a disaster, and sometimes, it would be better to use their regular outfits.

I took a different approach, and instead of overriding all those Situation Jobs, I created a simple injector that allow me just to replace that part. It makes the mod way less likely to break stuff at updates (as Situation Jobs are regularly changed, last time it was for the L&D patch).

Some examples of outfits replaced:

Active Careers from Get To Work will use your Sims Work Outfit instead of generating a new one

Entertainers and DJs will use their Party Outfit

Students in High School and Teachers will use their regular outfit (even for those part of a club)

Sims spawned for many festivals or events (City Living festivals, Cottage Living fair, Island Living festivals…) will use their regular outfit

Other situations like paparazzis, loungers in parks, weirdos from City living will also use their regular outfit.

I plan to play more and identify even more outfits to replace, but I think that's already a good start 🤗

Status: 🔄️ Added some new situation outfits to the list - Last updated: 01/19/25

Download: SimFileShare

🤹 Less Club Gatherings

Currently in testing phase

This mod reduces the number of club gatherings happening at the same time on a given lot (outside player ordered gatherings), better randomizes the clubs used (if you had more than three clubs having the same lot type as a hangout) and provides a schedule for gatherings:

Bar, Lounge, Karaoke Bar, Club: 5PM-9PM, 9PM-1AM, 1AM-5AM (weekends only)

Other lot types: 9AM-1PM, 1PM-5PM, 5PM-9PM

At each schedule change, the current club gathering leaves the lot and an other clubs comes (if you only have one club that has this lot type as a hangout, it's not replaced)

Status: ✅ First Upload: 01/19/25

Download: SimFileShare

💘 Less Randos on Cupid Corner

This mod limits the number of random Sims appearing on Cupid's Corner to focus mainly on the ones from your own save. You should have 5 Sims from your save (with a stronger chance of using played Sims) and 1 random sims (this sims should be from the Gallery if enabled).

As it's a little bit less than the initial number of potential matches, I reduced the cooldown to 8 hours.

I added an alternate version that removes the ridiculous fish and trophy poses, as they don't make sense in most cases.

Required: Lovestruck

Status: ✅ No update needed for the 01/14/25 patch (Blast From the Past) - Last updated: 11/08/24

Download: SimFileShare / SimFileShare (no Fish & Trophy poses)

❤️‍🩹 Less Couples on Community Lots

Lovestruck features couples visiting a community lot, doing nothing but cuddling or romantic interactions, with two couples at a time, taking up space for more useful visitors using the lot's facilities.

With this mod, only one couple will visit at a time, and while they will still perform romantic interactions, they might do other stuff on the lot (ordering from the bar, playing games, doing spa activities, sing karaoke, etc.)

Required: Lovestruck

Status: ✅ No update needed for the 01/14/25 patch (Blast From the Past) - Last updated: 11/08/24

Sims Story Board - Notion Template

If you guys are anything like me... your mind is a mess! Full of ideas but in full chaos. I've been working on getting more organized in my thoughts and in planning for my sims stories! I was recommended to use Notion to help. Notion has a tonnn of templates that are free to use but I couldn't find one that fit just right for what I wanted to use it for and also... not be so hard to use. SO ... here we are I created one lol

This template features:

Main Hub: Take a brief overlook of your sims story or save file and create the vibe for it.

Characters Bios: Go into full detail about your sim. Creating a full profile and personality for them including: bucketlist, playlist, pinterest board, and all of their traits. Create full lore with their family members, love interest, and even their enemies.

Memories: A place to capture and write about key moments in this story/save file.

Challenge Tracker: If you are playing a challenge (ex. Legacy challenge, Rags to Riches, etc) You can list out all the goals and milestones here and check them off as you go as a way to track your progress.

(All images, playlist, links, and categories can be changed and swapped out to whatever you would like to fill the space. This is just a simple SUGGESTION/template to get you started! Any categories you do not want to use can be deleted.)

I suggest duplicating this template before editing it so you can use for multiple save files or stories. 🤍 I really hope you guys enjoy and get plenty of use out of this template! I'd loveeeee to see how you use it and fill it out with your sims! Send me picssss or tag me! (yall know I'm nosey lol)

Notion is free to use.

Hey y'all I made some google docs with as many links to updated lashes I could find

Just the Links!

Gallery View

They will get checked on/updated on a monthly basis :)

UNCOVER POSEPACK (Patreon Early Access)

Info:

5 couple poses

You’ll need:

Teleport mod

Poseplayer

Cup

REMEMBER THE TOU:

Don’t reupload my content as your own or on other sharing sites.

Don’t convert to other games without authorization!

After testing myself. I think the fix for the broken glasses eyelashes is this:

Export Mesh and texture from original file

Start a new package from eyelashes

Import mesh and texture

Set geomatry to simglass.

Save and test

This should fix it for glasses eyelashes, and they will be in the eyelash category.

❤️Who wants a giveaway? Feeling the L-O-V-E? ❤️

💜For those of us that HAVE to buy the game because of evol OCD (gotta catch them all or WE WILL DIE) or whatever our reasons are, I am doing a giveaway in honor of the money sitting in my Patreon right now.

💜So who wants to get the Lovestruck pack? This is open to EVERYONE WORLDWIDE. YES. I will send you either a gift code to redeem via the EA app if you're in the USA!

❤️OR❤️

💜I will send you the amount you need to purchase the pack with money in your currency via Paypal, Venmo, or CashApp depending on what your country allows.

💜If you cannot use any of those payment processors, we will figure something out.

💜All you need to do now is like AND reblog this post!

❤️That is it.❤️

💜Then I will use a random number generator online to see who wins!

💜Make sure your DMs are open on your Tumblr so I can contact you, or I will have to reroll and move on to the next person!

LOVE IS IN THE AIR... WIN A FREE COPY OF THE LOVESTRUCK/AMOUR FOU EXPANSION PACK!

You have until July 31st to participate (Midnight CET time). To be considered in this lottery, you have to follow these easy steps : 

1. FOLLOW MY BLOG (@redhotchilisimblr) - I check every time ;)

2. REBLOG THIS POST

Like previous giveaways, I’ll reblog this post on August 1st with the winner tagged in and join you through private message. If you don’t claim your reward by August 7th, another player will be drafted.