does anyone know why on earth the sims 2 was trending on here today? i thought it was just me but i asked my brother (non-sims player) and he confirmed that it was on the list. did something happen?
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Iâll never fall for âI want sims 2 gameplay with sims 4 graphics!!â propaganda but there are some things I miss about the sims 4.
⢠body diversity
⢠shoes
⢠tattoos and body hair/markings
⢠no object limit
⢠not having to go through the trouble of converting something i like if I want to use it. what do you mean I could just download it and use it right away?!
Four random clay hairs I've had sitting around in my WIP folder: one 80s style, one 60s (70s? idk, that's not my era) style, an emo hair and⌠um⌠something else! Also, meet my two new model sims, Jade and Barbara Model!
All hairs besides Sun are in almightyhat's pooklet families and animated.
information and downloads under the cut:
GoAmazons Lauren (TSR): 9.7k YF-EF - SFS
Bloodmoon Enoby: 7.3k TF-EF - SFS
Simduction Cher: 7k YF-EF - SFS
this hair is absolutely MASSIVE from the side! this is a feature not a bug
MMSIMS Sun: 10.8k YF-AF - SFS
*in EA naturals. this was before i started using pooklet's colors and is also the first hair conversion i finished (and then forgot about lol) so there might be more errors in this one
as much as i dislike the sims 4 as a game i have an immense amount of respect for people who actually play it (as opposed to just using it for pictures and storytelling). i tried a few weeks ago and trying to get your sims to do anything is like psychological torture. they donât listen. to anything.
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a simple hat recolor conversion while i procrastinate on making hair previews. sixteen swatches, i didn't convert the rest because the textures didn't look good. mesh by @mdpthatsme required and included. as with most hats it clips with many hairs so be aware of that.
I know last time I posted about this I got some comments pushing back on my use of AI for this app. I understand the concerns that people have, so i'm trying to be more thoughtful going forward. I have never used AI like this in the past, it was simply because I got given "Free Access" with the purchase of my new computer and I thought I would utilize the fact it was free to finally create something that I wanted. That free era is almost over but I won't be using it again.
I also got way more comments / messages saying how much they enjoyed the app. Thank you for both kinds of messages, good or bad.
After talking and discussing with people on both sides of the fence I have come the decision to hire a HUMAN developer to look into the app, look at its code, check for any "nastiness" that some people were worried out, and genuinely review and audit / fix any coding errors.
Going forward I will acknowledge that yes, the initial set up for this app was built with the help of AI, but future updates / current changes and anything else will be done by a hired human developer.
This developer gave me a comprehensive review of the app and confirmed there was no nastiness or weird stuff going on with the code - which I knew anyway but it's nice to have that confirmed.
They had some recommendations for some changes, such as as only allowing the app to read .package files / its own files. When "uninstalling" it should make sure it is only removing files it created - it should be doing that anyway but they recommended some more checks in the back end.
So they have edited some of the code already. But I hired them again to address the tightening of the code regarding the file reading and other recommendations they have suggested. Which again, has now been implemented.
So that being said... here is the Sims CODEX - again!
Note - The Sims CODEX is currently unsigned, so Windows / Some antivirus programs may show a warning. This is because code signing requires paid identity verification which displays my personal details. The app is offline, reads local Sims 2 .package files, and has had its source reviewed for unsafe behavior.
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DONâT become even a casual nerd about historical fashion because youâll start looking at pseudo-medieval fantasy and going âthat jacket and those breeches are 200 years apart and reflect extremely different social movementsâ and âoh no they were NOT making shirts like that prior to industrializationâ and âa fly front? in MY ~1500s???â
sooo... i convert a lot of recolors for sims 4 items. like a crap ton. here is a small sampling of random non-historical buy mode recolors i've converted. more details under the cut!! go look!!
download (SFS folder)
butterflytrait's base game art recolors: five sims four base game artworks recolored, converted meshes by lordcrumps included, twenty-three swatches total.
butterflytrait's outdoor seat recolors: patterned recolors of the ts4 base game outdoor lounger, converted mesh by jinxxsims included. sixteen swatches.
butterflytrait's cats and dogs calendar recolors: calendar recolors with cute prints and also some ATLA prints. converted mesh by... nuttydazesublime? i think? included. seventeen swatches.
nekochansimmer's hsy deep reflections mirror pride recolors: converted mesh by morepopcorn included. comes in nineteen pride flag inspired swatches. happy pride month :)!
norden's forgotten book recolors: realistic recolors of the paused book from the ts4 comfy gamer kit. converted mesh by lordcrumps included. nineteen swatches.
the reactions and conversations i've been seeing on simblr lately have been disgusting and disturbing. i'm coming to the realization that a lot of you guys are wolves in sheep's clothing. the response to black and brown simmers expressing their disappointment in the community they're a part of should never be "you are acting so entitled!"
entitled to what? a realistic experience in a community built upon a game that has always been about personalization and representation? is it seriously too much to ask to have hair cc that represents your own hairstyle in a sandbox life simulator? i'm sorry, but some of you have gotten extremely comfortable letting your racism show.
"i only make the content i want! if you want this kind of content, make it yourself!" you need to ask yourself why you only want to make cc based on eurocentric standards of beauty. why are you so afraid of having the slightest bit of melanin in your game?
i am a white person before i am gay, before i am trans, before i am autistic. some of you guys need to realize this as well. racism is a bonding experience between races and what i've been seeing is blatant and unapologetic racism. my friends have been getting dogpiled and dragged every which way by some very loud and very bold people who i think need to educate themselves. some of yall need to confront your own internalized racism. do not settle for a sub-par experience in a community that needs to do better just because you think it's what you deserve.
rounding this post out, i want you all to know that my page is made for people of any race, gender, sexuality, etc. i do not care what you look like, if you love this game the same way i do i want you to be a part of my page. that being said, racism, transphobia, homophobia, basically any kind of discrimination will not be tolerated. i use my own education, my own discretion, and my own block button to determine who i want on this page. do the same if you have an issue with anything i've said. i do not want you on my fucking page if you think referring to people of color as "you people" is acceptable or adult behavior. you look stupid as fuck.
houseofabsurdities' kokona haruka hair for the sims two
twelve TS4 EA swatches (+ one based on the original character), sixteen pooklet naturals, nineteen pooklet unnaturals. AF only because i messed up YF, sorry! 8k poly. download is big because there's a crap ton of swatches but it has been compressorized.
download (SFS)
more talking under the cut...
okay, so i don't support yandere simulator, but there are so many cute hairs for the sims four based on the game and my anime-esque sims always need more hairstyles. usually i wouldn't add unnaturals like this but because this is anime style i thought it would be appropriate.
also, this is my first public hair conversion, so if there are any errors i am truly truly sorry!
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Well it wasnât just me, to be fair. I would have never been able to without @fireflowersims help and HugeLunatics trust in both of us. Thank you to both of them for their work and thank you @teaaddictyt for reaching out and doing the more public communication.
Iâm super happy I got the chance to work to fix it. It wasnât an easy undertaking. It seemed like every little thing would cause more errors, I fixed one and another thing broke. But now it seems stable, finally.
A lot of technical stuff below the cut, beware.
Fixing such an old forum is not easy. Documentation is rather sparse because the framework it runs on is old. There is however a more modern version, but updating is difficult. Here was the issue for the forum - upgrading failed.Â
A website (usually) consists of two different parts: 1 - The files. They contain the code, scripts, designs, images, attachment, profile pictures etc. 2 - The database. The database connects all the different parts and tells the website where to find something. Everything gets stored in tables, assigned IDs and given values. Everything written, each post and topic is also stored in the database. So without the database the whole page would be useless.
It was clear from the beginning that the database was the culprit for the failed upgrades. I got an earlier backup from HL and started working.
I set up a local environment with two versions of XAMPP. One running on php 7.4 (the last version having compatibility for the forum framework version and the upgrade script to the recent version) and the other on a modern 8.3, which was the same as the version the server @fireflowersims set up for GOS.
I ran the upgrade script (which consists of 4 separate parts) on the old backup and ran into errors right away. The script would just outright crash on me, most often without a log or message. The (local) server would just stop responding. My original plan had been to upgrade to version 2.0 first, then 2.1, since it was the recommended order. However the database backup had already been partly upgraded to 2.1. That was the reason my upgrade script failed. Reversing those changes could have been a possibility but extremely time intensive.
(This is the frontpage of the upgrader. I stared at it so much. Like you can see it has a ton of steps)
Instead I asked for the current database and HL provided it to me. This one was already further along on the upgrade and I could see the error HL had run into before handing over. I had to look at the upgrade scripts and source php files to diagnose what the framework was expecting - and failing - to find in the database.
Thatâs where I found the main culprit for *most* of the errors: Time tables. The framework saves every action that a user does in a log, a long table with the action, an id and a date. This was where everything had gotten wrong. The upgrader expected to see one column for the date, named *day*, while the current table had a different column for day, month and year. I tried fixing the table at first but that didnât seem to work, so I completely deleted the table and created a new empty one myself. (By now I think the issue stems from forgetting to uninstall certain packages before upgrading, more on that later)
That was possible because the log actually doesnât hold relevant information for the forum to work. It just records each step, probably for moderation purposes. Once I had done that step the upgrade script was finally able to proceed.
There were a few more errors where I had to look at what the script was doing, find the corresponding code in the sources and edit the database myself. Thankfully the code is relatively well commented and named, so I was able to find what I needed.
Finally I got the upgrade script to run to the end and I was actually able to open the forums (local) page. I hadnât been able to for now so it was a first. But a lot of stuff was still missing, like all the topics. I could see that the posts were back, but not sorted correctly.
The fix was simple but annoying. The forum framework comes with a repair_setting.php file which I had run several times to fix all the paths, but apparently it didnât fix *all* of them. So back to the database I went, ran some queries and fixed them myself.
Then the forum finally worked again!
(This is what the forum looked like when I first opened it. It ONLY had recent posts)
(The working local forum, no files yet with the default theme. Seems wrong to look at GOS without the dark theme, right?)
There were still a few things I needed to fix but the database seemed to work fine now. I had never done so many queries in my life. I know SQL, and had to fix databases before but not this intensely. So I guessed I learned something new haha.
Next was the exciting step to upload my clean install to the server. @fireflowersims and I had some directory issues, but I was able to fix them manually once again.
Then I had to take a look at the files which mostly consist of avatars and attachments. They didnât work at all once moved to the clean install. Once again I took a look at the code and realized that the upgrade script would have changed those files as well, but because I ran it on a clean install it didnât actually do this step.
I didnât want to run the upgrade script again, worried that it would mess up a now working database. Instead I wrote a script myself that sorted through all the attachments, looked for the IDs of the avatars from the database so it could move and rename them.
Last were the attachments. This was an easier fix. They just had to be given the ending .dat. @fireflowersims ran a command through the console and then the attachments worked too!
We were getting closer!
Next was the theme. The old theme didnât work on the modern framework anymore so @fireflowersims looked for a new one which I customized with CSS, trying to get it closer to the way the forum looked before. I think it turned out quite alright, hope you guys think so too!
(Trying to find out what CSS class addresses what? Make everything red and green!)
(All the spider webs)
Next was packages, or mods, to the framework. Fire and I encountered some hiccups here too, since there were some leftovers in the database. The packages hadnât been properly deinstalled before running the upgrade script, which was another source of the errors. I tried fixing them manually but one of the packages would continue to just break the site no matter what I tried, so we settled for an alternative.
Some more work was put into SSL and making the forum secure. Once again some settings seemed to just break the page and each time I had to go back in the database and manually fix what had gone wrong. It was tedious but by now I knew my way around quite well.
@fireflowersims handled a lot of the server administrative work and DNS settings. I know very little about that part so having @fireflowersims there was great and they made sure the page is reachable at the correct address.
So yeah, I hope the site stays online for a long time now. Itâs such a big part of our community and communities history. I used to download so much from there when I was younger. I wanted to give back to the community I love so much. That was the reason I spent many many hours digging through code and old forum threads.
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