Another oneeee! It's my personal take on what the "wild west" looks like in TS2 without any CC. Which to me, that is:
• Natural woods/materials, since I imagine they either built the stuff themselves or personally know who did
• Victorian & Art Nouveau design styles, since part of the "wild west" era happened simultaneously with those eras - Except I excluded impressionist/abstract art because idk it didn't seem to mesh with the saloon style
• Simple/basic household stuff like candles & claw-foot tubs, cause it's the olden days, or at least your sims are pretending it is
Again, the collection items are ordered the same way as the catalog, and there's items included that are only useable with the buyable craftables & buyable reward object mods.
Where to install: My Documents > EA Games > The Sims 2 > Collections
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Aka: the clarity and communication that you deserve
Hi everyone. As some may have caught already, GoS is not dead (anymore)! During the period that it was, however, so much drama started and if you ask me; it all comes down to people not knowing what's going on and making assumptions that further sparked panic. So, let's clear some stuff up for those who got caught in the rumor mill.
Oh and if you haven't, it's worth reading @julessims excellent writeup on how she got GoS working again.
This is gonna be focused a bit more on communications stuff. Like, a bit more general I guess?
Q: what did you do?
A: I helped get GoS back online. @julessims did the actual hard work of upgrading the forum. @teaaddictyt played a role by facilitating communication and doing some PR (even if that wasn't received well by many a simmer) and ofc hugelunatic provided files, databases and the occasional bit of relevant information. I approached lunie and provided help with hosting, DNS and ensuring the files were safe and handling some communication. It was teamwork (and jules did most of it if you ask me).
Q: why didn't lunie communicate that it would be rehosted?
A: I'm not sure what lunie's exact motivation behind cancelling the hosting was and if I knew it wouldn't be mine to share, but I do know that @julessims and I upgrading and rehosting wasn't planned. It was a spontaneous action on our ends and so lunie couldn't have told you beforehand. I'm really glad that lunie decided to trust us with this and hope GoS will have many more years!
Q: why didn't you communicate any of this?
A: I thought my time would be better spent actually doing the work instead of playing communications department, fielding questions and countering people's wild speculations. I did think about making a post clarifying matters when it became clear people were making some pretty wildly incorrect statements, but I had other things to do. Better to focus on what matters than to get caught up in more miscommunications.
Q: GoS looks different now. Why?
A: the new look of GoS is a direct consequence of the upgrade. The old theme was not made to fit the new software and the conversion process does not convert themes. Seeing GoS in the default (white) theme felt so wrong, so we picked a good-looking dark theme and @julessims modified it to look more like classic GoS, with great success, I think. Still, it is and never will be truly identical. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Q: is the site in archive mode or can I comment?
The site is not in archive mode. It is a live forum. Posting works, registration works, if anything doesn't work, you should find a mod to message so either they or @julessims or I can try to troubleshoot and fix the issue.
In fact, you should comment! Forums are best when people leave comments and engage. Go express how much you like a piece of CC, contribute to the current theme (fittingly about renovating old things) or talk about something!
Q: why did it have to be upgraded? Couldn't it have just stayed now it was?
A: no. It really couldn't. GoS was running SMF 1.1.21 on PHP no higher than 5.3. The newest version is 8.5. PHP 5.3 had been obsolete since 2014. It would've been difficult to find a host that would be willing and able to host GoS and even if that could be found, it'd still leave it vulnerable to bugs and vulnerabilities resolved in newer versions of SMF and PHP. Credit to lunie's host for having continues to support it for this long, many wouldn't. Now that the forum has been upgraded and is running nicely on 8.3, it should be all good to go for many years to come.
Q: just a forum upgrade? So why did it go down?
A: make no mistake: going from something running on PHP 5.x to 8.x is no small leap and had to be done in steps. There were a lot of issues converting the database to the new format which resulted in all sorts of errors that needed manual database conversions. Upgrading a forum, particularly an old one with more than 600.000 posts is in fact not a piece of cake. There were also traces of a prior attempts to upgrade that complicated matters even more. @julessims made an excellent write-up of the technical bits if you're interested.
Q: who is running GoS now?
A: lunie is still forum admin and it will be up to her to decide what to do about the day to day running of the forum. Whether she'll be running it herself, with the help of others or elect someone else will be her choice in the end. As for hosting: that would be me.
Q: so does that mean we can stop archiving?
You could, but I would honestly suggest at least backing up your own favourite CC, regardless of where it's shared or hosted. Also, you can consider looking up an "auto archiving" extension for your browser that will automatically save pages to the wayback machine. The web archive has a page with resources
Q: *insult angry comment about hugelunatic*
A: you are 100% entitled to your anger and frustration. GoS is an important part of the Sims community and losing it, even for a little bit was a huge blow. It's understandable to be angry. Angry comments, however, were never gonna resolve the issue. Angry comments would not get GoS back nor would comments defending hugelunatic for that matter. What did help was working with hugelunatic. No files+database = no forum. Squabbling was not gonna get either back. Saying that, it's important to acknowledge that I was in a good position to do what needed to be done in regards to skills and connections which is not a privilege most people have. I get why people were angry and given that most were not privy to what was going on behind the scenes, it's no wonder everyone got as upset as they did. I also wouldn't have reacted well if I wasn't in direct communication with lunie and working on getting the site back.
Q: what's the plan now?
A: well, sims2artists still needs an update. I hope we can do that sometime soon. I'll also be keeping an eye out for any errors and aim to implement some extra security headers for the site. We also still need to fix some matters in regards to the domain and DNS. I also hope to have some more contact with the GoS mods so we can discuss hosting and what my responsibility and theirs is. Like, write down who is responsible for what and who can be contacted by my host should I pass away unexpectedly, for example. These things happen, so it's good to have backup plans and emergency contacts.
Q: did you have any freakouts tho?
A: certainly. First, when GoS and S2A went down. I was afraid the files and the S2A DB could be gone for good. I was also afraid that lunie wouldn't be willing to work with us and truthfully I also had the fear that if she got more agitated, we could risk losing the files and database. Fortunately this didn't happen, in fact: lunie gave us the resources and helped us out where necessary so we could get GoS back online. I'm very thankful for that.
I also got dragged by my emotions a bit when an unhelpful reddit post suggested that Delphy of MTS infamy might have something to do with hosting and when lunie mentioned something about an offer of hosting as is, no upgrade required. I may have freaked out and freaked out some other folks in the process (my apologies for that. You know who you are). There were many freakouts and I think it was good I didn't make any tumblr posts about this before we got GoS back. I stand by my decision it wouldn't have helped. Freaking out in private was bad enough.
Q: can you tell us what you actually did technically?
A: certainly! First, I set up hosting and new empty databases for GoS (and eventually: sims2artists). I made sure all the required aliases were in place so that when the DNS records for gardenofshadows.org.uk were switched over, it'd find the correct place on the webserver to go to. I also provided a subdomain on a domain of mine to test the forum live before it'd be moved back to the correct domain.
I also got access to the FTP for the original GoS hosting and was able to grab all the files and reupload what was necessary to the new server. While jules was in PHP hell I also cleaned up some stuff on Sims2artists. It's not gonna be anything you notice, but it's something.
I also did a number of things on the webserver, including changing directories. At some point I accidentally moved the forum to example.tld/gardenofshadows/gardenofshadows/gardenofshadows/index.php if you'd believe it. Finally I helped set the DNS records for the move. An SPF record went missing, but was quickly fixed. I also added some HTTP Headers to be served when visiting GoS and a lil something to hopefully keep AI bots from scraping and spamming HTTP requests. If you notice link previews not working: sorry, that'd be the X-Frame header.
Tldr: webserver and domain and DNS stuff; hosting infrastructure
Q: what about hosting costs?
A: right now they're so low we could call them non-existent. Should that change, I don't expect it to be above €100,- per calendar year. Probably closer to €50,-. Aka: it's not an issue. No need for ads. Should fundraising ever be needed, I will discuss it with the mods first.
Now go leave some comments on GoS!
Anyways, if you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask. There's a lot more to say about this. But hopefully this does clarify some matters.
This was a store outfit, but I made it into a top, because that's what I do! For AM, TM, EM, and CU, they have the appropriate morphs. I made 6 recolors, but here's the PSD for recoloring. You can choose if you want the other ages repo'd to the AM files, or not :)
Download 3t2 Market Square Top Repo'd - Alternate
Download 3t2 Market Square Top Standalone - Alternate
Hi! It's a request I did for @alienara-simblr! It's been a quite challenging one, it's not perfect but it's the best I can do atm and still I'm quite happy how it turned out :D. It's an outfit for AM only. There are 4 recolors of the mesh, 2 are by EA and I also added 2 more that are more based on the TS1 outfit. No gloves though :<.
Please let me know if I messed something up, it's been a while since I converted clothes (especially since I didn't do much of that even before) so I'm quite nervous if everything is fine ;'D.
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Minimalist + Modern + Pop; Although the most accurate name probably would've just been "Mirror's Edge," but I wanted to at least try to describe the design elements I was emulating lol
By "Mirror's Edge" I mean white/neutral walls & floors, with everything else in a matching accent color (mostly red). Sleek, simple forms, geometric and/or abstract shapes.
A lot of it is just the IKEA stuff, or just the Kitchen & Bath Stuff, or whatever, but I make these CC-free collections not for finding things as if they're hard to find, I make them as it helps me get in a "mood" to imagine decorating within a specific theme I may not have considered attempting otherwise.
Same as all my other CC-free collections, items are ordered the same way as the catalog, and there’s items included that are only usable with the buyable craftables & buyable reward object mods.
Where to install: My Documents > EA Games > The Sims 2 > Collections
I liked these walls from Crystal Creations, but I wasn't a fan of the original molding, so I (re)converted them and added dark moldings and panels by Shasta. Comes in the original 14 colors, and categorized as wallpaper / paneling accordingly :)
Working on a mod that adds age info to sims' names (and cause of death to their gravestones, as a bonus)
Looking for help translating it in different languages 🙏
Reach out if you like what you see and if you have Apartment Life, I'll send you the files with text strings to translate (and the mod itself to look at it in action)
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These are 13 shaders and 2 spheres that were used as test objects in the game.
Numenor already unlocked them but only for residential lots. I unlocked them for community lots as well.
Place the package in the Bins folder. Example: C:\MagiPacks\The Sims 2\ Fun with Pets\ SP9\TSData\Res\Catalog\Bins
Information ℹ️
🔹Found in General > Misc
🔹Available in both the Residential and Community lot catalog
🔹Already placed objects will not disappear from a lot if the file is deleted from the Bins folder as these objects exist in the objects.package
⚠️ Clicking on the shaders and choosing "animate" will throw an error for the selected sim ⚠️
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Thank you @peanuttysims for showing me how to unlock objects <3
Back in 2024, I created an accessory box for my own game using an amazing tutorial by Ocelotekatl ( @blueheavensims ) . It contained some measly 20 acc. The arduous task increased my respect a 1000x for those creators out there that have provided us with amazing accessory boxes.
Mid May 2026, @picknmixsims posted a template that automates the whole process 😍.
Oh my, I had a wild weekend 😁, with a long download hunt and an ever increasing list of new accessories to add. 😂
The box includes 134 accessories from various creators now.
I added the option to “change model”. Featuring 6 Maxis objects.
And the box is now placeable on all surfaces.
📦📦 DOWNLOAD HERE 📦📦 all files included.
If you don’t like the maxis models, you can easily customize the box. More details in this Tutorial. Open in SimPe, navigate to STR#0x85. Change names of models.
Want more models? Add them to the list in STR#0x85 and open BHAV 0x10C8. Change the literal value to the last number in your list.
e.g. I use various models from Syringe Vials by Crocobaura, First Aid kit, Paramedic Bag by Ocelotekatl and Clutter from this set by TheRaven.
Credits
The genius team Whoward69 @picknmixsims and Ocelotekatl @blueheavensims for the Video and PDF Tutorial on acc boxes and especially the new Template that automates everything with DPBFSripter. 💖
If you are like me and have an old system with old software and can’t get the template to run, try any LibreOffice (free) version 25.2.X and higher with this Template. I adjusted the equations and the macro.
TheRaven (also know as Simmer22 ) for their valuable input on how to group all their medical accessories.👍
Meshes and Original Files
Boblishman == Casts and Wrist ID. @2fingerswhiskey for WristID Rec.
CASSIS @0201-sims & Mahuyu == Stethoscope
Cemaly ==Masks and Gloves, GOS SecretSanta2018. I couldn't find a TOU but if you see this and have any issues with it, let me know and I will respect your terms.
Chiklia == Labcoat
@ilikefishfood ==Gloves, mesh by @julietoon-ts2
@episims & @deedee-sims == Hearing Aids
@whattheskell == Nurse Caps.
Ocelotekatl == Mask . Original Download(& even more futuristic medical accessories!)
Theraven == More than 2/3 of the accessories are form this creator! Registering is free. Go HERE and raid the download section to get the hospital objects.
GoS reupload time #6: Now here's something I had to download from my own uploads folder to work out what it actually was. This was an easter event gift of some sort? I think it might've been a scavenger hunt type deal, but it was from 2014 and is a 3t2 conversion of a sims 3 store top for AM in seven (not 6!) colours.
NOTE: THIS IS OLD CC. The file names are full of unnecessary punctuation such as brackets, dashes and spaces (which was the style at the time). You're probably going to want to remove all of that for optimal file loading times (would recommend a bulk file rename tool). One day I'll get around to replacing the uploaded files but today is not that day.
This is a 4to2 conversion from Sims 4 Game, low poly. It's a wall lamp but you will find it in the Paintings section of Buy Mode (I thought it was a better placement).
DOWNLOAD HERE
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This is a 4to2 conversion from DanSimsFantasy, low poly. For males and females, all ages, 20 colors.
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