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All it takes is opening the LiveCamera.txt file in your Documents>Cameras folder with a text editor and changing these two parameters near the bottom to a higher value. Doesn’t matter if you're using a custom camera mod or not. Those parameters should be there. I have set mine like this (remember to save a backup just in case you don't like these changes).

It might seem a bit extreme, but I still think it’s fine.

-The top parameter, floorheightsamplerange, handles how much the floors “extend out”, so the camera object can stand on it mid-air. The higher it is, the further the floor will extend. This will make it so your camera will be able to stick to the floor you’re on, even if you pan away from the building. No more annoying jumps up and down!

-The parameter below that, floorheightsampleinnerrange, handles the transition between sticking to the current floor and dropping to the ground level once it goes past the edge. The higher it is, the smoothest the fall will be.

I’ll note though that the behaviour of these parameters might not be 100% accurate with how the game actually works, but from what I tested I think it’s pretty close as an explanation. If someone knows better how this Live Camera works, please let me know and I’ll try my best to correct any inaccuracies.

Save the .txt file and check how it works in game. It might feel weird at first, but personally I find it so much smoother and easier to handle. If you’re not happy with these values, close the game and edit those parameters until you find your sweet spot. Unfortunately, you will have to close and open the game every time you change it to check how it works.

There’s so many cool Custom Camera mods out there that I thought it’s probably better to just show how to edit those 2 parameters than editing and reuploading all of them.

1. New 4t2 Sixam Dancing Red Maple Tree

Variants: Large tree, small tree, roots (as a shrub), maple leaves (as a flower). They all also come as neighborhood tree deco. 

Features: The tree’s bark is animated, and the tree will drop leaves in Fall, until it loses its leaves completely in Winter (check the screenshots below). The shrub grows over time, and the flower requires watering. Overwatering or dehydration will cause them to turn brown (like default TS2 flowers)

Performance: The original TS4 mesh was high poly (9k), so I've included a reduced poly version (approx. -50%) for smoother gameplay. Choose that one version instead if you don’t want high poly objects in your game.

Download link! (New 4t2 Sixam Trees)

2. Updated 4t2 Sixam Plants – Lot Version (SimsInsania)

Seasonal Alien Plants: These plants (now shrubs!) were initially decorative items but are now fully functional (still using same GUID)! They can be trimmed and will transition through multiple states depending on the season and their care. There are 2 versions you can choose from:

--- Wilted Winter / Fruits as Overgrown: The shrubs will only show their corresponding fruits in their overgrown state and in winter, they transition into a wilted texture/mesh. If any shrub ever goes into the “overgrown” state during winter, it will still show its fruits… but while still in the wilted texture/mesh.

--- Seasonal Fruits / Wilted as Overgrown: This version mimics TS4 behavior, where the fruits appear only during their corresponding seasons. The plants will show fruits in both the "trimmed" and "overgrown" states. However, in the overgrown state, they wilt instead.

Other Alien Plants: The alien mushrooms are now animated with lights, replicating their TS4 animation and are now found in the Tree section. The alien fern has been converted into a functional tree now. Both won’t leave any leaves behind in Fall but might be struck by lightning.

Sixam Grass and Flowerbeds: These flowers glow at night in their “healthy” state and need watering. Overwatering or dehydration will cause them to change them into the “unhealthy” state though, which in this case will make the flowers lose their glow at night and will need to be "disposed of" (just like the other flowers in TS2). Unlike the original deco plants version, the sims can walk on these flowers just fine.

Download link! (Updated 4t2 Lot Plants - SimsInsania)

3. Updated 4t2 Sixam Plants – Neighborhood Deco Version (GrilledCheese-Aspiration)

Seasonal Alien Plants: Since neighborhood deco objects aren’t generally multi-state objects by default. I came up with something different. Similarly, the neighborhood versions of the 4t2 Sixam plants also come with 2 different versions to choose from:

--- Wilted Winter / Fruits Only at Night: The plants will only show fruit at night and will wilt in winter. This is also the only version where the wilted texture/mesh can appear in neighborhood view. This version uses criquette's NeighborhoodGlowMaterial shader to make the fruits glow and will hence require the Better Nightlife mod.

--- Seasonal Fruits / No Wilted Stage: This version mimics the TS4 seasonal system, where fruits appear in their respective seasons only. Unlike the version above, the fruits remain visible both during day and night. However, this version doesn’t show the wilted texture/mesh of the plants in the neighborhood view.

Other Alien Plants: The alien mushrooms now come with animated lights, much like in lot version. The neighborhood version of the Sixam Fern was missing in GCA’s original set, so I converted it myself and resized it to make it a bit bigger (both in lot and neighborhood version).

Sixam Ground Crack: Now includes glowing effects at night. I’ve also recategorized it into the “Stones” category since I thought it was better suited there.

Download link! (Updated 4t2 Nhood Deco - GCA)

4. Updated 4t2 Sixam Skybox & Ocean Floor

I thought I’d also share these as separate downloads since there might be people who’d wish to use these on other space themed neighborhoods as well. To place, just put it into a corner of your neighborhood and it should cover up the sky. ^^

4t2 Sixam Skybox (recolor of Lowedeus's nhood skybox)

The skybox will make the water look dark though, so I recommend using the ocean floor to give it some color again.

Animated Sixam Ocean Floor (recolor of Gwenke's nhood deco)

Finally, an updated skybox and ocean floor where the transparency issues of the original version have been fixed. As an additional bonus, I’ve also animated the ocean floor to make it slightly rotate. I

Download link! (Updated 4t2 Sixam Skybox & Ocean)

Now, your sims can take their mini humans to the park (with mods, lol) and have them snooze in a comfy stroller! yay!

Toddlers will fall asleep autonomously if their energy is less than -25 (3/8s lol, you're welcome) and snooze until their energy is at 75.

(Random modder note for anyone confused: needs work on a -100 to 100 scale with 0 being 50% or half the bar!)

You can cancel their interaction to wake them up, but you cannot click on them to say "wake up".

If a toddler is asleep, an adult / caregiver will not be able to interact with them or with the stroller.

The "cushy" expensive stroller has them gain energy faster than the cheaper one.

If a toddler's energy is literally empty (-100), they will tantrum incessantly instead of falling asleep. I couldn't figure out why sorry - so if this is the case, use cheats to bump the toddler's energy up a little so they stop screaming and fall asleep. Poor baby just really wants to go to bed I guess 🤷‍♀️😂

The animation I've used is from toddlers going into energy failure while on the floor, and not having enough room to fall onto their back to pass out. Thus it doesn't QUITE look right for stroller napping... but it was an existing "toddler asleep sitting up" animation so thought I'd use it anyway! (I have also definitely seen my kids fall asleep like this lol so there you go.)

There is a small snapping "jump" when they fall asleep because they have to move to a different slot to account for the way the animation works. Tech speak aside, it's fine and not a bug, and I was okay with it 😂

Another random "fix" was with Poppy's help the stroller position has been adjusted on the tile so it no longer clips into a wall if placed right next to one👍

As always, let me know of bugs, conflicts, issues, etc 😊

Enjoy!

Love Tea xo

Now this is my first conversion, so I might be off with what is low Poly, so I have listed them up for your convenience. The chandelier comes in two different height and I didn't repo'd the texture, so you can pick only one if you like. The tables and vases are repo'd and the master is clearly identifies. Note: you'll need a copy of Lord Crumps' Shadow File in your download folder, which I included in the zip.

Items & Polycounts:

Dining Table (2x1) -------- 2296 poly

Long Dining Table (3x1)-- 1148 poly

Dining Chair (2 styles)---- 1984 poly

Sofa------------------------ 1040 poly

Pillows (decorative)------- 1152 poly

Sideboard (with 5 slots)-- 2192 poly

Wall Mirror---------------- 612 poly

Wall Plate Decor---------- 1404 poly

Table Lamp--------------- 736 poly

Chandelier (two heights) 3932 poly

Vase (large & small)------ 564 poly

Painting------------------- 36 Poly

Download : sfs ; mediafire

All items found under “Buy Mode → Collections → Kalla Dining” (included .collection file)

A few little notes before you dive in! This will not be my only art deco conversion (at least, I hope not;;;), because it is a big mood in my life right now 🥂

The dresser/shelf has three usable slots per tier, and the two similar end tables are repo’d together. Same goes for the bed and headboard. I split them up so you can mix and match them freely; the headboard is in Comfort:Misc.

There's two different height for the chandeliers and they are not repo'd so you can choose the one you like best.

As always, you need Lord Crump’s shadow file somewhere in your download folder (one is included in the zip). The dresser/shelf requires FreeTime, and there are four beddings included. They are kind of minimalist, only the pillows colour changes (pink, green, gold and beige).

First time converting most of those items, so I hope they are up to standards. I worked hard on this set 💛

Items & Polycounts:

Bed --------------------- 1244 poly

Bed Headboard -------- 769 poly

Pillows ------------------ 848 poly

End Table 1 ------------- 212 poly

End Table 2 ------------- 212 poly

End Table 3 ------------- 1321 poly

Dresser/Shelf ---------- 1156 poly

Rug --------------------- 330 poly

Table Lamp ------------- 870 poly

Chandelier (2 size) ----- 1554 poly

Loveseat --------------- 1497 poly

Mirror ------------------- 640 poly

Download : sfs ; mediafire

All items found under “Buy Mode → Collections → Clouzot Bedroom set” (included .collection file)

Arx Mural 2 :

Download : sfs ; mediafire

Introducing my "Cafe Mod".

This is similar to the idea of "Pay To Play", but instead, its "Pay to Eat". Sims will take a plate of food from a display, pay a certain amount of money either to the business owner or to the ether, bypassing the cash register, sit down and eat it.

That's it, that's the mod 😂 Well, plus a little bit more.

Food does not need to be set "for sale" - if you do that, sims will buy it as normal. Thus it also cannot be "restocked", you need to manually do that (sorry).

The cost of the food has been tuned by me to make a nice little profit over what it costs for the sim to make the food, especially if you make group servings, however this can all be tuned inside the 'Maxis Foods update' in the mod.

To mark a lot as a 'cafe' (or any other venue where you want sims to pay to eat a plate of food) you must place my Cafe Lot Marker:

Which will trigger the mod to activate. Without this, sims will eat free on a community lot as normal. This is found in Misc/Misc for $100.

The lot controller has a few extra functions which can be enabled with the pie menu -

"Toggle Object Model" will toggle through some different models for the object. I converted this item from The Sims 4 cos I liked it (and added deco slots!!), but I've also included a bunch of vanilla Sims 2 meshes -

Cos Teapot!!!

There's also the ability to ban pets from coming to the cafe, unless you want a pet friendly cafe of course -

and you can also toggle a feature called "Eat or Go Home", which will force sims to leave the lot if they're not hungry.

In addition to this, I'm uploading separately some Food Business Improvement mods, which will tie into another upcoming project.

Should you download this mod, it will do a few things: 1. More customers will appear on your lot at every business rank 2. More customers will appear on a non-owned food venue that has the cafe lot marker 3. You'll be able to get away with under-paying your employees a little bit easier 😏 lol

I also highly, HIGHLY recommend to use THIS MOD in tandem with my cafe mods, or barista machines are crazy.

To use this mod, you cannot use the default Sims 2 Decra Chill, as sims cannot interact with food inside of that unless it's "for sale". I have created a custom Decra Chill, Repo'd to the original:

This will keep the food fresh, stop it from spoiling, and sims can pick up the plates to eat. It will also automatically set food to the "served" state if you bulk-make meals with the "make food" option on the fridge, as usually this food still has to be "served" by a sim in order to interact with it (lame).

I added a bunch of slots; 8 on each shelf. The 3 at the front and back are designed for small plates, whereas 2 in the middle row are designed for larger plates to go side-by-side.

There are 3 decorative slots on top; be aware if you place food up there, it will not be kept fresh!

I also took @veranka-downloads's 3t2 Deliciously Indulgent Bakery displays and tweaked them:

I added more slots to the shelves, removed the glass on the front and added fake sliding glass doors to the back instead to simulate how an employee would place food inside, and it won't look weird when a sim walks up and grabs food to eat.

Similarly, I took @jinxxsims's 4t2 Get To Work Baker's Cousin Display and did the same thing -

With cleaner more modern look handles on the back.

I've re-used the GUIDs from the original conversions cos my mod makes them more functional anyway, but yeah you can only have one version sorry.

All displays are found in Surfaces / Shelves.

As I said I have updated nearly all Maxis Foods to have a cost, and included a spreadsheet detailing the cost to make versus cost to eat.

I have also included resources and instructions for how to update custom foods to work with the mod. If a food hasn't been updated, it will simply cost $0 to eat at a cafe.

VERY IMPORTANT: If you have default replacements for the Maxis foods, they MAY not work.

This is because in testing it came to our attention that some defaults have not been created as true default replacements which only override the Mesh and Textures, but rather are a custom food that simply overrides the GUID of the Maxis food.

This will break the Cafe Mod.

If you'd like to use your defaults, you must update them the same way you'd update a custom food.

For my own game, I have updated some of Jacky93's food defaults to actually be true defaults which only override the required resources and will therefore work by default with my mod, which you can download if you want them.

I think that's all I have to say for now, lol.

As always, please report any bugs / problems / conflicts and I will try to solve them!

Downloads:

Cafe Mod - Main files

Some of Jacky's Food Defaults as actual defaults

Better Food Businesses

Items in the mod REQUIRE:

@lordcrumps's Sims 4 Shadow File (will not link cos most of you will already have it, google it if you don't)

Money Globals by @picknmixsims

Enjoy!

In game, everything's in Plumbing/Miscellaneous, by the way

Note

For those creators who made new hampers, what to update. So, there's one new BHAV and a bunch of edited resources, as follows: