The Science Of Living

This is a UI mod that makes selection dialog wider and higher and fit more items. You see this window when you buy magazines or video games on unowned community lots, or set up bed decorations with my Unmade Bed mod, or use other modded objects that may have been released or are going to be released soon 😏

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Special thanks to @lordcrumps for making maxis and clean ui pics and counting pixels with me. It was his and @simnopke's idea to make this thing bigger

Some behind the scenes under the cut

🙊 Sorry! My bad, did not expect the dialogs to share the same image. Will make sure to check for that next time I mod the UI 🙈

Strangetown Conspiracy Art I drawn

Welcome to Binwood: Unleashed!

Hello baby boys! A while ago I thought it would be a fun idea to create a whole custom hood for the Bin families of Sims 2 and that's how Binwood was created. 🌵

The original version of Binwood is featuring apartment lots simulating an "open-world" moment which is fun but not for everybody!

Binwood: Unleashed is the original hood but with residential lots instead, plus a bunch of community lots and a new family! 🌇

DOWNLOAD: http://simfil.es/6133384/

In all fairness, Mortimer was on a date with Olive Specter. She might have done him a solid there.

I love when she just stands there knitting angrily.

Cyd and Leod woohooed in the photo booth before their meal and she was PISSED. I canceled out the "get slapped by the old hag's purse" action so she just stalked their asses all through Bernard's Botanical Dining.

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!

Are you sick of me yet?

Yes? Well, tough - here's a collection of small plugins that don't deserve any major fanfare, but that you may still find useful. There's only two of them at the moment, but I'll likely be releasing additional ones once in a blue moon (whenever I find something minor that's bothering me, basically).

TS2CineDrawDistance

This one improves the absolutely disgusting terrain draw distance during cinematics. No idea why they don't just use the draw distance settings you already have applied, but whatever.

Vomit-Inducing Vanilla:

Pleasure-Inducing Patch:

TS2MovieSkipper

I may have shamelessly stolen this idea from TS2 Extender, but I made this for myself to help my sanity while debugging, and to reduce the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome from repeatedly mashing the ESC key. It simply patches out those abrasive intro movies, so you'll never again have to have your ear drums blown out by "SUL SUL!".

I decided to draw a concoction of ways people draw Jill on tumblr… I think I did better at drawing her than I thought I would.

it’s ok. Give them three minutes and they’ll get over hating each other.

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