Hello fellow Aussie simmers (and others too of course!)

Ever wished for some really Australian looking trees for the Sims 2? Me too.

I have finally overcome my fear of trees, with much support from amazing friends like @tvickiesims, and would like to share some gifts with you all.

Read on below

From 20,683 poly to 9243

Some strands were yeeted because barely noticeable, I don't think miniscule bitty pieces are worth an additional 2k poly :3 As you can see in the picture, recolors may look a tiny bit different on the sides due to one of these strands being yeeted. New alpha included for recolorists.

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$3,250,000/2 br/2 ba

3,232 sq ft

San Francisco, CA

Now less gendered, more consistent between ages, and with baby faces! More info and a bunch of pictures below.

After much hair-pulling, I finally feel satisfied enough to release my mod to restore those glorious shiny floors from The Sims 2 beta! (Forever in our hearts...)

You can download it here :)

Prerelease (2003):

Doesn't the beta lighting look so nice? :(

Mod (not 2003):

Why yes, I did painstakingly try to recreate the room from the prerelease image and make elder versions of the Sims - it was absolutely a productive use of my time.

I've made sure to make a number of vanilla TS2 floors reflective out of the box. These are mostly marble floors, but there's a few stone/tile/wood floors in there too. If you want to add reflections to custom floors (or other vanilla floors not included by default), I've left some basic instructions on the GitHub page on how to do this :)

Because this is a cut beta feature, there are a few minor issues with it - I have detailed these in the README. Please take the time to read through them!

I also had to include an edit to the mirror reflection shader to fix a bug where mirrors visible in the floor reflections would be flashing red (Castaway Stories has the same issue with mirrors reflected in the ocean, funnily enough). I'm not aware of any other mods that touch the mirror shaders, but if there are, let me know and I'll whip up a compatibility patch.

Oh, and in case you missed it, I released a small update to the reflective water mod, as per the request of @lordcrumps. I didn't realise houses didn't reflect in the hood water, but now they do!

Enjoy!

I have released a handful of updates for the reflective floors recently that fix several issues people reported to me:

Fixed the white Build/Buy grid being applied to the terrain instead of the usual black one.

Fixed the thumbnails of reflective floors breaking if they were regenerated.

Added a version of the shaders that incorporate the changes from Build/Buy Grid Follows Cursor for compatibility (this is also an abandoned beta feature btw). If you previously downloaded this version, please redownload it from the latest update because my text editor decided to pull a funny prank and insert an invalid character into one of the floor material definitions, which caused it to flash pink.

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Let me know if you encounter any more bugs - we're having a heatwave in the UK and my home office is essentially a greenhouse, so I'm not operating at peak mental performance!

hard to go wrong with a nice loose wavy hair This is @kazewindkw's 4t2 conversion of Wingssims's TF0808!

Aged child to elder.

Polycount: 16k

Any detailists out there? Dunno if anyone besides me is gonna want this, but I needed it for my game. Since there’s so many sliders now and I’m very particular about my sims’ eyeshape, sometimes I end up deforming the pupil. So I made 8 sliders, 4 for each eye that move exactly one vertex horizontaly or verticaly. That’s right, I made 8 sliders and 16 preview images just so I could move part of my sims’ eyeball one milimeter to the left. Wtf is wrong with me.

This is a download for The Sims 2! I was digging in the Base Game files of The Sims 2 and found a square variant of the round Recalling Rugs. The rugOriental3x3 has a unique 3x3 square mesh that matches well with them. I have connected all the resources that I could and made it usable! I have made sure the rug only has 1 OBJD with the footprint extended, it's also priced at $1,100. This was made with HugeLunatic's Rug Fixes in mind, so without their download the rug will be dark indoors.

Also, if you'd like the CC star removed you can put the -ProgramFiles package in your Catalog folder, an example file path would be something like this: Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Double Deluxe\Base\TSData\Res\Catalog\. The other file can go in your Downloads folder as usual

If you don't want to add another rug to clutter up your catalog, I have made recolors of the Isotopia Rug (FreeTime EP) as a repository option with the found textures as well. If you have any issues let me know!

This is not to be confused with Sung-Gyu Sunburst Oriental Rug, which is called rugOriental internally. I have a comparison screenshot above showing the differences. You can have both versions if you'd like.

Downloads SFS - Patreon

Recolor of Maxis Butterfly Crawler decal by me

Produce display made up of: 3t2 Sunlit Tides Produce Display 3t2 Sunlit Tides Veggie Barrels (same as above) Awning Veggie Crates (placed on angled OMSPs)

Lighting platform made up of: Maxis K&B ceiling light Scaffolding column Floor edging

2 story lighting; fixed using the tutorial here

Candy displays

Shelves (I edited the slots so that it would accept the grocery objects that needed counter slots)

Objects on this shelf: Tea packages Tea boxes (green middle) Tea cubes (top)

Just about all multi-box items --this whole shelf is just recolors (from same post)

Top 2 are from previous link; bottom ramen boxes

Bottom 2 are also recolors from 8; pasta at top

Cheese case; cheese

Dairy case; milk

Chips

Water (and barely visible soda) pack

Seafood case

Cheese, but just a better shot

Bulk bins

Cake and grocery bag

Shorter DecraChill and Bread

Pastries (same as 1)

Pastries/Donuts (same as 2)

Pastries (same as 1)

Pastries/cookies (same as 2)

Maxis Butterfly Crawler decal recolor by me

Scale

Cookbook (used as a catalog) - by sunflowersims-89, which is now gone. Reuploaded by me.

Awning

This bi-monthly theme at GoS gave me some inspiraton, so here's a mod to celebrate GoS returning. :)

This mod gives university students a chance of bringing college project instead of standard written homework, using TS4 Discover University meshes and textures.

Project will look differently for each major. Undeclared Sims and custom majors get randomly one of 11 projects.

Chance of bringing a college project is by default 20%.

College projects take longer to finish, but are more rewarding, letting your Sims gain some skills and hobby enthusiasm. There's 50/50 chance of gaining either logic skill or charisma skill, because those are the skills that made sense to me in the college project context.

As for enthusiasm:

Art project makes your Sims gain Art and Craft enthusiasm,

Biology project makes your Sims gain Nature enthusiasm,

Drama, History, Philosophy and Literature projects make your Sims gain Film and Literature enthusiasm,

Economics, Maths/IT, Physics and Psychology projects make your Sims gain Science enthusiasm,

Political Science project makes your Sims gain Games enthusiasm.

I know some of subjects might not be the best match for certain hobbies, but I didn't want to turn everything into Science and there's history of everything, so this major could fit into many hobbies, like art, music etc.

Sims have a chance of making college project of one of three qualities: low, mid and high. The outcome depends on Sim's grade and getting help with the project (but it only counts if it happens during quality check). If you use Smonaff's Fall Asleep While Doing Homework, Sims who have fallen asleep while working on their project can't make projects of high quality.

This mod conflicts with some mods:

if you are using simler90's Homework Assignment Mod (Full Version - it doesn't conflict with Placement Version), choose plug-in "zz_Meduza_UniversityProject_AssignmentFull" and make it load after both my mod and simler90's mod,

if you are using smonaff's Fall Asleep While Doing Homework, choose plug-in called "zz_Meduza_Smonaff_UniversityProjectFallAsleep" and make it load after both my mod and smonaff's mod,

if you are using @episims' Pencils by Color Traits, choose plug-in called "zz_Meduza_UniversityProject_ColorPencil" - Epi's mod doesn't conflict with mine, but you need this plug-in to get colorful pencils,

if you are using Dave_Luv's Faster Homework, choose plug-in called "zz_Meduza_UniversityProject_FasterHomework" and make it load after both my mod and Dave_Luv's mod.

DO NOT use my plug-in for simler90's Homework Assignment Mod (Full version) and my plug-in for Dave_Luv's Faster Homework - these mods are incompatible.

There's an issue when a project board is facing wall - the project won't turn around and your Sim will be doing their project even though they are facing the board's back. Right now I don't have a good solution for that. The best I can offer you is that you can cancel the action and turn the board around in the Buy mode. :/

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This isn't like an official download post as not all of it is mine (but there will be downloads :D) but more like a list of light map and shader mods I personally use for my game to make it look just how I wanted it and I no longer use my old Shader Fixes due to the amount of new shader mods that has come in.

This will be long so under the cut it goes.

I do a lot of mini tweaks/fixes of CC for my own use, and sometimes I think they are possibly useful to someone else. Like today, when I fixed a couple of things on Veranka's lovely rack from her deliciously indulgent bakery set.

The slots are not quite aligned with the shelves, and as you may have heard, I cannot with floating. Unless it comes with a wizard practicing a levitating spell 24/7, it's not allowed 😁

The slots are also duplicated for each tile, so that objects want to go on them twice, which I find a little exhausting in using the object. I have tweaked the shelves a tiny bit to align with purple omsp heights, set the slot height to be correct for the mesh, and I split the slots so that those that are on the right are on that tile, and slots that are on the left are on that tile. No more duplicating, huzzah.

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It has recolors so definitely go grab those from the original upload if you did not have it already, not to mention all of the other cute items of the set :) Remember to remove the original rack file if you already had it. Note that slot adjustments cannot take effect until the item is removed from lot and then rebought, so if you had existing placements you want to update, you have to delete it first and buy a new one. Annoying, but such is CRES life unfortunately :3

@zerographic wanted these floors by @sjamboksim for sims 2. sjamboksim has been a doll in sharing her textures. <3 I’ve made them seamless, added marbles I had in my folder and crafted some home…;-)

Floors are on a 2x2 grid and can be found in concrete and stone for 0 S.

By rhiamom

A few days ago @dystopianam put a photo on our the sims group with a poster of Will Wright attached on a dartboard with a dart in the center of the head and it makes me laugh so much that I decide to create a dartboard where everyone can choose which enemy to target.

For Sims who hate their God we have Will Wright (creator of the game). For the betrayed lovers there is Don and so on.

The board has its own guid so it will not replace the game board, BUT YOU NEED TO HAVE THE WILL WRIGHT ONE IN YOUR GAME in order for the others to work.

Feel free to ask me which character would you like to have and I will create other recolors for you :)

Enjoy :D *Update* 21/07/22: Added Dina and Loki

Facecount=1158 VertexCount=1418

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The dartboard now uses the same recolors as the original in-game dartboard, so any custom recolors you already have will work with this version too.

Will Wright's picture is still included (of course) but all the other preset photos are gone because now you get to choose your own target!

It works just like the customizable picture frames: you can use an in-game snapshot or select any image from your Paintings folder. Will it be your sim's rival, an annoying neighbor, ex-lover or mortal enemy? The choice is yours. 🎯

I made 4 more recolours for anon to go with my recolour set of @vixsims 4t2 Catch of the Day functional food stall. ❤︎

Here are four japanese inspired recolours - two of which blend with the Maxis-Takemizu, and two that I designed more freely. Hope you like them, anon! ❤︎

See all the options and Download under the cut: