Hi Sunrader! If it isn't any trouble, I was wondering if you could share where you found the car hood deco that you use in your Pleasantview terrain. It appears to be extracted models from the game, but google only wants to return results for Criquette's car hood deco.
I don’t remember which hood deco is there. I know I did the school bus. Can you be more specific? Meanwhile my stuff is archived here: https://sunradersims.wordpress.com/
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Hey, I downloaded your decorated Pleasantview that you uploaded a long time ago and I noticed that you placed buses, taxi's and cars that are not CC or show up as hood deco. Do you remember how you were able to unlock them?
I don't remember specifically. I know that I made a hood deco schoolbus. What I do recall is that if you decorate with a buyable version of something in the game, you would not need the buyable version in the user's CC. We see this with Numenor's waterfall. It's a Maxis item that he just made buyable, so if I decorate with his, downloaders don't need his version in their downloads to see the it since it's already in the game. Criquette has a lot of hood deco vehicles. I probably used those.
Hey, I downloaded your decorated Pleasantview that you uploaded a long time ago and I noticed that you placed buses, taxi's and cars that are not CC or show up as hood deco. Do you remember how you were able to unlock them?
I don't remember specifically. I know that I made a hood deco schoolbus. What I do recall is that if you decorate with a buyable version of something in the game, you would not need the buyable version in the user's CC. We see this with Numenor's waterfall. It's a Maxis item that he just made buyable, so if I decorate with his, downloaders don't need his version in their downloads to see the it since it's already in the game. Criquette has a lot of hood deco vehicles. I probably used those.
Hello, did your site go down? I saw that WordPress is still working, but the link for the New Hobbies Stealth Hood with Sims doesn't appear on it. It shows "[download id=”2066″]". How can I get it?
My stuff is archived here:
https://sunradersims.wordpress.com/2021/08/25/new-hobbies-stealth-hood-no-cc/
Decrease the strength of terrain paint application (in TS2)
If you are like me, you almost certainly never play around with terrain paint. It's not that I don't like to, but the application always felt too strong for me to do anything that doesn't look extreme with it.
So, the other day I was going around looking at the game's directory, and stumbled across these two values in the "Terrain.ini" file:
This file is located in: LATEST EP/TSData/Sys
*The exact location depends on where you installed the game, which edition you are currently using and which is the latest EP you got installed.
This might just be common knowledge, but I personally never saw anything related to it, so I'm sharing in case it interests others.
It's fairly self-explanatory: if you change the "PaintBrushStrength" value to something between 0 and 1 (I imagine higher values are accepted but probably useless), the strength of the paint application decreases accordingly.
I've personally put the value at 0.1 – but you might find that too slow of an application. I also feel like this increases how much money is spent to paint the terrain, since weaker application = holding the mouse button longer = more money spent.
I tried to play around with the "PaintBrushApplicationInterval", increasing it to like 6000 (= 1min), but noticed no difference, so I left the default value as is.
Important note: Remember to backup the file! Alternatively, you can add a comment to any change you've made that reminds you what the default value was (I haven't changed anything else).
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Hello! While searching for a townie pool for Veronaville, I found your simblr. Thank you so much for your excellent work!
If possible, I will ask you: is there a chance that you will publish the Veronaville's townies and NPC's as a townie pool (an empty subhood, which is needed in order to place NPCs and townies in the mainhood)? Thank you in advance for your reply and wish you a good day.
IIrc, the problem with that is that the names would be randomized. However, since there’s already a subhood version here: https://sunradersims.wordpress.com/2020/07/16/meetme-verona-with-townies/ you can just attach and delete it and all the sims will end up in a main hood. Or did you not want the playables?
Hi Sunrader! If it isn't any trouble, I was wondering if you could share where you found the car hood deco that you use in your Pleasantview terrain. It appears to be extracted models from the game, but google only wants to return results for Criquette's car hood deco.
I don’t remember which hood deco is there. I know I did the school bus. Can you be more specific? Meanwhile my stuff is archived here: https://sunradersims.wordpress.com/
Hey, I saw that you cleaned up the Sims 2 magic town custom neighborhood. I was wondering -- You said the downtown is cleaner. Does this mean it is clean? I ask because you offered the subhood and main versions but I don't think you offer the downtown, which is the one I want to use, but I don't want it to cause corruption. Thanks for your work!
It’s been a while, but I think that I used the Downtown as a base, since it was cleaner (I don’t remember to what extent). You could take the subhood or main version and change it into a Downtown. See instructions for subhood types on modthesims if you need help.
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heya!! i just found your no hobby decay mod and it's exactly what i've been looking for!! :DD however it appears the link to your website for downloading is broken (domain expired?), just giving you a heads up! <3 keep doing ur good work
Archive is here https://sunradersims.wordpress.com/
So, your site vanished from existence, and I was rly looking for your hobbies hood to download, so, any other way I can download it? rly loved it in my last play before I lost everything on my computer
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SimPe tutorial: How to fix the height setting of CC chandeliers (The Sims 2)
A few years ago, @hugelunatic released a fix for the chandelier added to the game with M&G. Originally, the light cast by the chandelier illuminated the floor level above the lamps, not below them. That mod, however, does not affect custom 2-story lights, which need to be adjusted individually. This is a quick, easy tutorial to do just that.
1. Open the mesh .package file in SimPe;
2. Select "Resource Node (CRES)" in the Resource Tree menu and open the item shown under Resource List;
3. Make sure "Plugin View" is enabled (bottom menu of SimPe);
4. In the "Content" tab, open the "Blocklist" drop-down menu and select the line "cLightRefNode";
5. Select the tab "cTransformNode";
6. In the panel displayed, on the first column (named "Translation"), change the value of "Z" to a number that matches the height of the lamp mesh you're editing.
NOTE: For 2-story lights that sit on the same height as Maxis' chandelier, the value that I used was 1,521330 (taken from HugeLunatic's mod). For CC lights of a different height, you might want to try different values, according to your personal preference.
7. Click "Commit" and save.
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For my own game, I edited two custom lights using the same height value ("Z") that HugeLunatic did for the M&G chandelier (1,521330) . I'm not sharing them here because both creators are still active, but I'm tagging them in case they wish to update their files. They are:
@lordcrumps' "Slightly Off Track Lighting", from his 4t2 Industrial Loft Kit; and
@limonaire's conversion of Industrisim's 2-story industrial chandelier.
Not needed, but RECOMMENDED: HugeLunatic's fix of Maxis' chandelier.
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I'm not sure if it was already reported, but your cleaned Kalisa’s Old Town (main hood, lots version) creates a KTSL_SUB folder in neighborhood folder upon enetering the hood the first time and then immediately crashes the game.
Looks like it's a subhood version, because I tried putting the subhood version in nh folder (I know you are not supposed to) and it did the same (folder generating and crashing).
Is it something that you could fix please?
Thank you in advance!
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