Ramblings of a Victorian Simmer

Congratulations on your masters and getting accepted for your PhD programme.  I’m sure you’ll smash it.

Di.

It has not been a pleasant time for any of us and her least of all, and I’ve just not felt like simming.  Instead I’ve been playing a lot of games where I don’t have to think. I still don’t feel like simming, but I’m hoping that I will.

Unfortunately my family had some sudden bad news at the start of the year, and I’ve really not felt like playing, so I have no idea if it is working properly or not.  I like to think it is, so I can get on and play/finish sorting my cc when I feel like it, but I just don’t know.

So, I woke up to an email from Photobucket stating that after a change to their terms and conditions, they no longer allow you to use their free account for third party hosting (which, really?  What did they think people on the internet used image hosting sites for?), and wanting me to upgrade to a paid account.  This paid account costs $399.99 a year, or roughly £310.  Yeah.  No. Not only do I not have a spare £310, I wouldn't spend it on a hobby I've all but given up anyway.  I probably have backups of some of my newer pictures and my download previews, but I also have some horrible shit happening in my life at the moment, and therefore have neither the time nor the inclination to find them, get a new image hosting account, upload them and redo all of the links, so I'm afraid that for the foreseeable future, all pictures will remain broken. I think that most of my uploads have previews included in the downloads, so there's that. Sorry for any inconvenience caused, but like I say, thanks to Photobucket and their exorbitant pricing for the foreseeable future, the pictures will remain broken.  

I did have to change the instructions slightly: they said to install everything in WinXP compatibility mode, but that caused the game to crash on trying to load the neighbourhood.  Uninstalling and installing with no compatibility worked perfectly though.  I’ve not done a huge deal of testing, but it all seems to be going well.  The only thing was I couldn’t get my lighting mod to work, and I was so fed up with everything, I had to take a break.  I tried it again this morning, and everything looks to be working.  I’ve still not added all of my cc, nor have I added Regalton to the game, but things are looking up.  :D

First draft of these guys in the game.  Stuart, Bertie and Eddie I’m really pleased with, even if they need to be happier.  I mean come on guys, you never stopped smiling in TS2.  I think the only thing which stops them looking truly like themselves, apart from the lack of smiles, is the different hair.  Sophia’s also pretty good (including her resting bitch face), and I got a good approximation of Sam and Ada when I played with the genetics.  I know I’m never going to get the exact faces the twins had this way, but it’s far easier to do that than try to recreate their parents features and how they meshed together from scratch.  I’m least happiest with Carmen.  Partly because I couldn’t find a good picture of her and partly because she looks too happy.  She can’t be too off though, since playing with genetics gave me this Emmi, and she looks pretty damn near to the TS2 Emmi.  I only had to tweak her a little bit.

Also, yes I’m making Stuart first because he’s my favourite and always will be.

I hate to say it, but if I can’t get this fixed and my desktop does go the way I think it’s headed, this may be the end of me playing TS2. :(

I’m still setting up my laptop for TS2, so today I was installing my lighting mod, getting my spreadsheets on here and finding and downloading all of my fonts.  I was installing one of the fonts, when I looked at it and thought “if I haven’t already assigned Lauren a font for her handwriting, I should make it this one.”  Guess what her font is when I checked on my stat spreadsheet?  The one I was installing.  So I guess, that even though I haven’t thought about my sims as characters for several years now, I do still know them.

I actually ended up having to alter the global settings on the Nvidia control panel to point to the Nvidia GPU, because altering them on just the application settings did not work.  So far, so good, and it doesn’t seem to have affected the non graphics heavy applications such as Firefox either.

Katri: Thank you. :D  One of the reasons I wanted to try to make the dorm doors as a standalone object was so that those who play a modern game, could have a choice.  However, they just didn’t work: the game didn’t see them as dorm doors when it came to dormies, even though it did with player characters, so I ended up with empty dorms when I was testing. 

It’s been a long, long time since I shared any CC, but I’ve just posted quite a large dump of mainly default objects, but with a couple of neighbourhood deco objects in there too.  Click the header above to head over there and check them out, see if there’s anything you can use.