One installer. Every essential fix, mod, and tool for The Sims 2, set up for you in a few clicks.
I got tired of hunting down the same "must-have" fixes every time I reinstalled The Sims 2 (to the point where it has kept me from playing), so I made a tool that does it for you! 🥳 You choose the fixes, mods, and tools you want, click through, and it installs them all — with automatic backups and a built-in undo, so nothing is permanent and nothing gets lost.
It works with both the 2025 Legacy Collection (Steam and EA App) and the older Ultimate Collection.
⚠️ One heads-up: I only own Legacy (on Steam) and the Ultimate Collection, so I haven't been able to test the EA App or Epic versions of the Legacy Collection myself. They should work, but if you run into any issues on those, please let me know and I'll push out a fix!
Most importantly, none of this content is mine. Every fix, mod, and tool belongs to the creators who made them — I only automate installing them. Full credits and links are in the guide that comes with it. Please go support these people 💜
⬇️ Download: SFS | GitHub
📋 Want to see exactly what's included first? Here's the full list of every mod, fix, and tool, with credits: https://github.com/familyfunds/sims2-essentials-setup-tool/blob/main/GUIDE.md
More details under the cut 👇
What is it?
The Sims 2 Essentials Setup Tool is a single Windows installer (.exe file). Instead of downloading, unzipping, and hand-placing dozens of separate fixes, you run one program, choose what you want from a checklist, and it puts everything in the right place for you.
There are three quick presets so you don't have to think too hard:
Recommended — the sensible default set.
Complete — everything.
Custom — start from a blank slate and pick only what you want.
What's included
Everything here is curated to work together and this isn't a random pile of downloads. I checked every package against the others for conflicts (comparing the actual game resources each one touches), dropped or swapped anything that clashed, and set the load order in the few cases where two mods needed to coexist. So you can tick things freely without worrying that two fixes will quietly fight each other.
Over 140 hand-picked fixes and mods, grouped into:
Anti-corruption & core — the safety-critical stuff that keeps your neighborhoods healthy.
Bug fixes — dozens of fixes for Maxis bugs, from memory issues to gameplay glitches.
Helpful gameplay mods — quality-of-life tweaks that just make the game nicer to play.
Essential tools & systems:
CEP (Color Enable Package) — downloaded straight from MTS at install, see the note below
The Scriptorium
Radiance Lighting System 2.5
GunMod's Camera Mod 3.1
Rugs off-grid
TS2 Extender 0.8.1 (fixes only, optional extras off by default)
Objects.package corruption protection
Missing content restore (you supply your own Ultimate Collection or disc files — EA content is NOT bundled):
Restore IKEA Home Stuff (works on both Steam and EA/Epic — it sets up whichever your game needs)
Restore Missing Music
Missing Holiday Items
Neighborhood setup: clean/empty stealth 'hoods, or fully disable them, plus the MATY no-townie-regen mods.
Startup cheats: 45° object rotation and quarter-tile placement.
Third-party tools: SimPE, Mootilda's HoodChecker / LotAdjuster / Sims2Pack Clean Installer, and Body Shop for the Legacy Collection.
Backups & undo
This is the part I care about most: before the tool changes or replaces any file, it backs up your original first (to C:\ProgramData\The Sims 2 Essentials Setup Tool\backups). To undo anything, just run the tool again and choose Undo — you get a checklist and can roll back everything or only certain pieces. It does not add itself to "Add or remove programs"; it stays fully self-contained.
Requirements
Windows (I tested and created this on Windows 11)
The Sims 2 Legacy Collection (2025) or Ultimate Collection
For the "Missing" content (IKEA / Music / Holiday), your own UC or disc files
How to use it
First, a friendly nudge: back up your Sims 2 "Documents" folder. The tool shouldn't touch your saves, neighborhoods, or downloads — and it automatically backs up anything it does change — but it's always better safe than sorry. Just copy your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2… folder somewhere safe before you start. (Besides… when was the last time you backed up your saves? 😉)
Download the .exe. It's unsigned (normal for community tools), so if Windows SmartScreen pops up, click More info → Run anyway.
Right-click the .exe and choose "Run as administrator" — it needs admin rights because it writes into your game folder.
Pick your edition, confirm your Documents folder, tick what you want, and click through.
That's it. To undo later, run it again and choose Undo.
A note on CEP
CEP isn't bundled in the installer — Numenor asks that it only be hosted on Mod The Sims. So if you tick it, the tool downloads it directly from MTS at install time. None of Numenor's files are redistributed here. That does mean CEP is the one thing you can't install while offline — but everything else in the tool works completely fine with no internet connection.
Credits & terms
Genuinely, all of the credit goes to the creators — Numenor, LazyDuchess, GunMod & the Radiance team, HugeLunatic, Mootilda, cyjon, Pescado & MATY, TwoJeffs, Nopke, simler90, LordDarcy, MidgeTheTree, hiloyt, CroconawSims, and so many more. The full list with links is in the included guide.
While I've reviewed everyone's terms of use in detail to make sure I wasn't breaking any rules, I'm only human and I could have missed (or misinterpreted) something. If one of your mods or tools is included in this installer and you'd like me to remove it, please shoot me a message and I'm happy to do so.
The tool itself is free and open-source — you're more than welcome to review every file and exactly what it does on GitHub. It's not affiliated with EA or with any of the creators above.
Missing something? Suggestions welcome
Think I've left out a crucial bug fix or a genuinely helpful mod? Send it my way. If the creator's terms of use allow it, I'm happy to look into adding it.
A quick heads-up on my philosophy, though: I originally built this for myself, and I like my game as close to vanilla as possible. So mods that change gameplay in a big way, or add features that were never in the base game to begin with, generally aren't ones I'll bundle. This isn't meant to be an "everything" list, but I'm always glad to consider suggestions, so don't be shy about sharing what you'd love to see!
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Strut Your Stuff Shower Recolors + Texture Replacement
After all those complicated toilets and sinks, it's time for a simple, bare-bones shower. 8 Lunamoth metals, plus matte black and matte white. And a default replacement using the first color (silver). Best used with the Extended StandardMaterial Shader.
I've been getting a lot of asks about my Café Mod recently, things about mod compatibility mostly, which has been fun! Always great to revisit this mod. As a result I have made some important and helpful changes and updates to the mod 😊 Info under the cut!
Firstly, I think I figured out why foods would sometimes randomly go "off" and get spoiled while in the display cases when you load into a lot, even though they weren't supposed to! So I've updated the TA_CafeMod_Main file with some important updates there. Make sure you download the latest version and replace that file!
Secondly, I have some new compatibility patches for you all, mostly around this BHAV:
Interaction - Eat - Grab a Plate (0x201C)
Turns out there are great many mods that edit this BHAV 😆 Including but not limited to:
Simler90's Food Serve Eat Mod
Cyjon's Smarter Food Serving Mod
MidgeTheTree's Cake Stand
PlatinumAspirations 4t2 Cake Stand as part of their Businesses & Hobbies conversions (well, it was supposed to be editing that BHAV but it wasn't lol, never mind...)
So, in this confusing world, I have some important comp patches:
If you want to use either Midge's Cake Stand, PlatinumAspiration's Cake Stand, OR both, please make sure you have the file called Z_TA_CompPatch_CafeMod_CakeStands
You'll also want to have my TA_CafeMod_Main file loading AFTER the original cake stand files. This is important for that "Interaction - Eat - Grab a Plate" BHAV.
I know that load order can be really confusing, so make sure that you check with HCDU+ which mods are loading in which order!
It should be
1. Midge's Cake Stand and/or PlatAsp's Cake Stand
2. TA_CafeMod_Main
3. TA_CompPatch_CafeMod_CakeStands
Then
4. Z_Z_TA_CafeModMain_CJSmarterFoodServings if you want Simler90's / Cyjon's fixes to Interaction - Eat - Grab a Plate (I recommend!)
I hope that's clear! We love Cafe's so all this confusion and pain is totally worth it, right? Right 😂
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I made several default replacements for EF. I also made AFtoEF meshes. You can download them as CC. More information is under the cut. I hope you won't be overwhelmed by all this info :)))))) if you have questions feel free to ask
DOWNLOAD SFS
1. efbodysweatervest & efbodynanny
efbodysweatervest & efbodynanny are replaced with 4t2 Sweater Skirt Half-Tuck by @applewatersugar
you can choose: download both as one package or download only one
I made a new mesh for EF. I changed mostly breast area, but didn't change hips and stomach area a lot bacause it's already ok for elders
You can download mesh and repo recolors (you need adult recolors)
I left nanny hidden in CAS but you can easily make it unhidden in YaPE. Also you can use YaPE to make this outfit be categorized as outerwear
2. efbodydresslong
efbodydresslong is replaced with dressmosaic recolors by @pforestsims
@goatskickin has already made EF mesh but I made a lot of edits so my mesh is new
I used pforest's edited shoes + I did handswap to return bangle
I edited main morph and used maxis dress long mesh as reference so my mesh is thinner
I created new fat morph
you can download mesh + repo recolors (pforest) + 3 standalone recolors from goatskickin's post (original maxis recolor is included)
pay attention that pforest's adult recolors also available for elders so you need to edit property sets to avoid duplicates
3. efbodysilkjacket
efbodysilkjacket is replaced with layerjeans by @platinumaspiration + shirt recolors by @kaluxsims
I created new EF mesh. I mostly edited the breast area, but made fewer changes to the stomach and hips because I didn't like how the shirt looked with maxis match elder morph
3/4 recolors are by me. I just combined shirt recolors by kaluxsims with jeans recolors by platinumaspiration
you can download mesh and these 4 recolors as standalone
4. efbodytracksuit
efbodytracksuit is replaced with athletic tracksuit by @rented-space
I used the same default by ello-sims for a long time. But her replacement is merged with sweats so I created new one
I made new salmon recolor
My default also replaces suits hidden in CAS
I made tiny texture edits: yellow suit's zip was red, blue suit's zip was blue but I wanted zip to be zip (silver?) color + I removed blue color from pinkblue recolor
5. efbodysweats
efbodysweats is replaced with powerjogger by @platinumaspiration + EF mesh by @sgthebee + one recolor by @moglikes
categorized as everyday and athletic
P.S. I included only repo recolors of sweater skirt by applewatersugar half tuck and dress mosaic by pforest-sims but you can make it standalone by Repository Wizard
Part 2 is for the girls and women (and one little bonus)!
I felt that some of these meshes didn't have many recolors so I had to fix that :)
All meshes included (except for one, see below), younger ages are repoed to adult, adult files are enabled for elder as well.
The Sims 3 Store's "The Baker's Wife" converted by Rented-Space.
12 recolors
TF-EF (this uses a separate EF mesh)
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims 3 Store's "Tudor Queen's Robe Dress" converted by Rented-Space and me.
8 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims 3 Store's "The Archduchess" converted by DeeDee.
16 recolors
TF-EF (this uses a separate EF mesh)
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Alchemist Dress" converted by Jellymeduza and me.
8 recolors
CF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Aristocrat Night Gown" converted by Vampirekiss6661.
16 recolors
TF-AF
Meshes not included: Maxis feet or sexy feet
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Aristocrat Puffy Sleeves Dress" converted by Chere. I have included the tf-af mesh edits by Jellymeduza.
16 recolors
CF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Assassin" converted by Cynnix.
8 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Blacksmith Hood" converted by Davina Ojeda and me. I removed the tool on the side of the dress for CF. I've edited the tf-af meshes slightly and added morphs.
4 recolors
CF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Commoner Corset Gathered Dress" converted by Cynnix.
8 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Commoner Corset Layered" converted by Jellymeduza.
8 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Commoner Corset Layered" converted by Amelie/simborg. If you have my old meshes I recommend deleting them and use the meshes included here as I've edited them again (better bones, no more stretching of the texture at the bottom, nicer morphs).
36 recolors; 20 "plain" and 16 "fancy"
CF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Evil Queen" converted by Jellymeduza.
12 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Merchant Key Ring Dress" converted by Amelie Montmartre and me. I've edited the af mesh (removed the body inside, changed the chest area to this one by Meduza, added morphs).
12 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Off Duty Knight Tied Boots" converted by Davina Ojeda. I edited the shoulders so they look like the original TSM mesh.
8 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Queen Cape Patterned Dress" converted by Vampirekiss6661.
8 recolors
CF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Queen Silk Belt" converted by Jellymeduza.
16 recolors; 8 "normal" and 8 "plain"
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Wizard Gown" converted by Vampirekiss6661.
4 recolors
TF-AF
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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Now for the bonus because I forgot it in part 1:
The Sims Medieval's "Admiral" converted by Vampirekiss6661.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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That's it for now! I might do a part 3 with all the meshes I didn't recolor this time, but it will be waaay later if so. Now I want to convert all the TSM meshes, there are so many nice ones
Again, hope you like them and do tell me if I messed something up :)
Thank you so much to simverses (tack!) for the textures!!
I felt that some of these meshes didn't have many recolors so I had to fix that :)
All meshes included (except for one, see below), younger ages are repoed to adult, adult files are enabled for elder as well.
My conversion of The Sims 3 Store's "A Hero's Journey" with shoes by wiccandove (I think?). I know Cynnix converted this already but I wanted it with shoes.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims 3 Store's "Tudor King's Robe" by Rented-Space shoeswapped with TSM shoes by me.
8 recolors
TM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Aarbyville Pirate" converted by VampireKiss6661.
8 recolors
TM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Bard Cape" converted by VampireKiss6661.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Blacksmith Vest" converted by Davina Ojeda. I edited the shape of the meshes so they're more fitted to the tm/am body and added morphs.
4 recolors
TM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Commoner Collar Shirt Belt" converted by Cynnix. I edited the meshes (a lot) and converted to children.
25 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Commoner Long Tunic Leather" converted by Cynnix.
12 recolors
TM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Commoner Night Shirt" converted by Vampirekiss6661.
These are repoed to Eulalia's recolors of the shorter version so you need it HERE!
8 recolors
PU-AM
Meshes not included: Maxis feet or sexy feet
Textures by Eulalia
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The Sims Medieval's "Commoner Night Shirt" top converted by Vampirekiss6661.
These are repoed to Eulalia's recolors of the medium fullbody version so you need it HERE!
8 recolors
CU-AM
All morphs
Textures by Eulalia
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The Sims Medieval's "King Cape Sword" converted by VampireKiss6661 and Alix.
4 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "King Fur Coat" converted by Jelly Meduza.
4 recolors
TM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Monk Shirt" converted by simborg (that's me!).
16 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Noble Puffy Sleeves" converted by Chere.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Off Duty Knight" converted by Davina Ojeda and me.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Peasant Long Pants" converted by Cynnix and Chere.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Rat Catcher" converted by Cynnix. I edited the meshes so I recommend using my included meshes.
10 recolors
TM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Tredony Jacket Striped Pants" converted by VampireKiss6661 and me.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The Sims Medieval's "Tredony Jacket Sword" converted by VampireKiss6661.
12 recolors
CM-AM
All morphs
Textures by simverses
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The end for the boys. Hope you like them and do tell me if I messed something up :)
Thank you so much to simverses (tack!) and Eulalia for the textures!!
Something a little different this time: want disabling mods. I made these for my own game after getting unreasonable wants (for instance peasants wanting to hire their liege lords as their employees) that I found immersion breaking and figured some of you might be interested. Pictured above are my gentry family's servants for illustration purposes.
The following traits ( peasant, yeoman, servant and outcast) will not be rolling the following wants: hire butler, hire maid, hire business employee, hire nanny, do homework, learn to study. Special thanks to @heathensimmer for showing me how to disable wants. I did test these briefly, but if any issues arise do let me know, as I am fairly new to the modding scene.
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I want to share a (very) small 4t2 conversion I did. I converted mysunoshun's Haze Tiles for The Sims 2 because I thought they looked very pretty. All credits for the textures go to her. :)
Description
This conversion includes 18 floor tiles (4§ each)
and 10 wall tiles (4§ each)
Have fun! If you encounter any mistakes or notice anything weird, just send me a PM or leave a comment. :)
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P.S. If anybody knows how to change the order of the floors and walls in the catalog, I'd be very thankful! It really bugs me that they show up so randomly.
Credits: @myshunosun for the original textures, and @moglikes for always answering my questions. <3
Hello! For floors and walls ordering, if you change the "filename" in the XML from aaaaaaaaaaaaaa... to what ever you want (avoiding special characters like @ # ~ etc - -/_ are fine!) it will place them in that order. Note, two files cannot have the same name, also note that 10 will go before 1, so best practice would be to name things like;
LC_4T2_CustomWall_01
LC_4T2_CustomWall_02
LC_4T2_CustomWall_03
xxx
LC_4T2_CustomWall_10
(It's very tedious to do big sets but the result is soo worth it, i'm slowly updating all my walls to be in order!)
Next up is the tip jar, another object that hasn't had many medieval default replacement options over the years. This default uses a mesh from KCD2. It is 403 polygons and uses a single 512×512 texture.
I have so many edits to share and Idk where to start, so, why not start with the bare minimum a stove?
This is the halo stove from pet stories (from here), but with clear glass! Meant to be used alongside @stinkyunicorn's clear glass defaults and slig's clear windows. This is how it originally looked:
That's turquoise!
Other edits I know of are @shastakiss' cottage build + roof-thingies, @dramallamadingdang's manor house table and @tvickiesims holy smoke stairs.
Compressed and no mipmaps as usual!
DOWNLOAD: SFS
Credits: @stinkyunicorn for the clear glass txmt, Argon/Lord Darcy/Havelock for converting, and lastly, Maxis.
When I saw @shastakiss' edits to lmhjws' wall coat/hat, I finally got the motivation to do some edits I've been meaning to do for ages. What you get:
A default by me for the "wall coat hanger surfer". I replaced three of the clothes and all four board textures, using @pforestsims' plain wood recolors as a base (my default is using new textures so you can grab all of pf's recs without ending up with duplicates!). I made two recolors for the clothes as well (sorry for the lazy milkshape preview):
You can choose between separate and merged recs as usual.
I edited pf's "PF_AnthonyRocHanger[TSS]_clothes_board_RC02_woodWornWhite.package" file, the texture was a bit mushy (understandable, when you go from any color -> white). Not much of a difference, but included nevertheless. I edited the filename slightly.
yedda_2000's Anthony Roc Skate Rack edited. I resized the textures (1024x1024 -> 512x512) and edited the colors, I dislike neon colors so my textures are more muted. This board is repo'd to the Maxis one, I just thought I'd show it like this.
@episims' separated hanging sneakers are now repo'd to yedda_2000's Anthony Roc Skate Rack. Can be used with my edited version or yedda's original. I somehow completely missed that episims had also edited lmhjws' wall coat. If you're unsure of which to grab, Epi's and Shasta's are pretty much the same, but Shasta's version has shadows! And also includes remakes of lmjhws' original recs.
I recommend this mod to make the rack functional.
I have not made new files so you need to choose between my edits or their original ones. If you have any default for the wall coat hanger surfer you have to delete it before using my file. Teen Style Stuff Pack and CEP are required. Shasta's edits are not included, grab them here! Anything unclear? Wonky? Let me know<3
DOWNLOAD: SFS
Credits: lmhjws/clutter-a-holic, shastakiss, episims, pforestsims and lastly Maxis.
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9 Midcentury Posters on Crisps&Kerosene’s World of Wonder mesh.
If you are interested at all in graphic design, you have to check out the Letterform Archive, which has an amazing collection of stuff. These posters are all from different type specimens, posters and typewriter manuals they’ve posted (to which I edited).
They’re on C&K’s World of Wonder wall art mesh, which is so good. I’m including the mesh in the download, but you should really check out C&K’s so you can get all the recolors of the frame.
We've all been there. Our sim is out having a lovely time with some friends, perhaps family, or a whole frat worth of loose acquaintances. They are hungry, they want to eat.
And somehow by the end your Sim has to foot the bill for the whole affair. Hardly seems fair, does it? I mean how often do you go around paying for everyone when you eat out? Nah. I am tired of my poor newcomers in town trying to make friends only to end up with a 8 people restaurant bill to cover on their meager salary. Clearly it is not my fault for making food more expensive resulting in 800+ bills (😇) but the lack of manners in sim-restaurants not providing a means to split the cost 😤 No more!
With this mod, the restaurant podium (*) will now give you the option of splitting the bill. Can be used on dates as well as outings, though it only shows up if there are non-household members taking part in the meal. If there are any such, the podium will give you the option to only pay a fair share of the total bill, corresponding to the % your sims make up out of the total. In the example above, only one sim out of 4 was part of the household, so the sim is given the option to pay 25% of the bill. If two sims had been household members, it would have been 50%, and so on. (**)
(*) Will not apply to custom podiums without a tweak, more info under the cut.
(**) Only active household pays, the remainder of the bill is negated entirely. If you play a strictly regulated economy, your restaurant will earn less when you use this option. To track exactly what you ate, or force payment from multiple source is both overly complicated and more conflict-prone, and I do not personally think it is worth the effort here. If you run OFB restaurants, just don't use the option in those.
Download from SFS
Conflicts: None that I know of. Does not conflict with Lamare's reservable tables 😊 Edits TTABs of the maxis podiums, action strings and pay bill action/guardian interactions in the semi-global, and adds one custom bhav to the semi-global.
Credits: @episims who when I was frustrated about this in my game pointed out it probably wouldn't be too hard to fix, and what do you know it wasn't. Thank you for being my second opinion and pointing out I can do more than I myself think I can :P Love ya buddy 🥰 @grilledcheese-aspiration who was kind enough to do some tests for me, much appreciated! @kashmiresims who kindly agreed to take previews for me since my game is in Swedish and the text would not have made a lot of sense to most of you :3 Her sims are lucky they don't get my kind of bills! 😁
Editing custom podiums
Due to how Maxis set up the menus of podiums, it was necessary to tweak the TTAB to alter which interaction is used which means custom podiums are not impacted. It is however a super easy fix that anyone can do, so if you have a custom podium you would like to fix this is how you do it. Locate your package and follow the steps.
I think most everyone with a custom podium are likely to be using Sunni's partly invisible version, and since I know some people do not like touching SimPE however easy it seems to me, I figured I'd include an edited version.
It comes with a bonus fix that shifts the podium ever so slightly forward, to prevent the routing stomping protests the host gives if you place it on grid over a counter. If you have previously placed podiums you want to apply this routing fix to, please note it is a CRES edit which means the item has to be cleared from lot and re-purchased in order to actually update.
Download edited podium on SFS
If you have edited yours to add custom foods to the menu, or even just missing maxis foods, and you want the routing fix, I recommend extracting and importing your edited bcons :)
Credits: Sunni for the great idea of a partly invisible podium, it is indeed far more versatile just as she intended
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