#originalmod

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Features

Generated Sims will no longer be pudding faced.

Sims won't age up into or generate with future clothing on non-future worlds anymore, and a lot of homeworld inappropriate or costume clothing has been blacklisted (No more elf hats!)

Male Sims now have tunable chances to grow facial hair and body hair, both on age up and on Sim generation.

Generated Sims will now actually have random voices and voice pitches, rather than all being 50% pitch Voice 1. Sims will also re-roll voice types on age up as more voice types become available to them.

Fitness, weight and breast size are now randomized as well, including muscle definition. Muscle definition depends on fitness and weight, with some variation.

Sims will no longer generate with green hair colors. Via tuning, you can also make it so that generated Sims randomly pick hair colors that you've saved as presets in CAS.

Installation

There are 2 flavors available, same mod, different tuning:

"ld_RandomSimFixes.zip" - Default flavor. Hair color for generated Sims is chosen from a preset list.

"ld_RandomSimFixes_CustomHair.zip" - Custom hair colors flavor. Hair color for generated Sims is chosen from your custom saved CAS hair color presets.

Just drop the package into your Documents/Sims 3/Mods/Packages folder.

You can modify the tuning with S3PE - inside of the package you can find a commented XML with all of the tuning values.

Compatibility

Won't take effect if you already have a core mod that fixes pudding faces - disable this feature in the core mod if possible to have this work.

Special thanks to Simler90, as I've found about some of these issues thanks to his GameplaySystems core mod.

Changelog

Update 2.0

Fixed Sim voices incorrectly randomizing on age up to young adult or older.

Store Future CAS Parts are now filtered out as future clothing.

Removed green hair colors for randomly generated Sims.

Added body hair generation.

Added clothing blacklist.

New features

CAS clothing now load way quicker, allowing you to switch between categories, scroll through clothes and switch clothes with ease.

CASt no longer disables buttons while it loads patterns, allowing you to utilize it and change categories quicker.

Buy and Build object previews now spin at a reasonable speed, regardless of your TPS setting.

CAS Audio fixes - Sim voices will no longer be sped up or paused in CAS, and music shouldn't stop at random anymore.

Semi-compatibility with MasterController CAS, most non-clothing related features should work, clothing related MC settings will mostly be ignored. Right clicking on CAS items to display a log does work, however. Working on improving compatibility.

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Installation

Like a normal script mod, just drop the package into your Documents/Sims 3/Mods/Packages folder.

Tuning and Troubleshooting

If you open the package with S3PE, you will see a "LazyDuchess.SmoothPatch.Tuning" XML resource.

You can edit it to disable the CAS music fix if it makes music behave erratically in CAS for you, or to disable its compatibility with MasterController (This will make it so that if you enter MC CAS the patch won't take effect, but it will take effect in normal vanilla CAS) in case the MC support is too buggy for you.

If you do disable MC compatibility I recommend you take out the MasterController Integration package from your Mods, so that you can access normal CAS.

Keep in mind that this mod is still in beta - I still have to sort out a ton of issues with MasterController compatibility among others.

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Installation

You NEED Smarter EP Check for this mod to work!

If you're a Sims2RPC user copy the TS2HeightMod.asi and Height.cfg files into your (Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Installation Folder)/TSBin/mods folder. For example, C:/Origin Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Fun with Pets/SP9/TSBin/mods.

Otherwise, copy the TS2HeightMod.asi, Height.cfg and dsound.dll files into your TSBin directory (not mods)

If not on Sims2RPC, you NEED a cracked version of the Mansion & Garden executable (Sims2EP9.exe) for the mod to work.

Copy the "Downloads" folder into your Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 folder.

The "ld_Height_AutoChildren.package" package makes children born in-game generate with a random height automatically. You can remove it if you don't want this behavior.

Usage

To begin, buy the Height Cheater object from the Misc. section and place it anywhere on the lot:

You now have a suite of height-related interactions:

Randomize Entire Neighborhood - Randomizes the height of all Sims in the neighborhood, including the active family.

Refresh Lot Heights - Resets all Sims in the current lot in order to visualize the new heights.

Refresh Me - Resets the current Sim in order to visualize their new height.

Randomize This Family - Randomizes the height of all Sims in the current family.

Randomize Everyone with No Height - Randomizes every Sim in the neighborhood who hasn't had their height randomized yet.

Randomize Me - Randomizes the height of the current Sim.

Set My Height - Manually set the height of the current Sim.

Get My Height - Get the height of the current Sim.

Caveats and bugs

Sims won't look different heights until you reload the lot or use one of the refresh interactions. I recommend reloading the lot if possible, as refreshing can re-roll wants and delete visitors.

In CAS, changing a Sim's gender won't properly update their height until you use the randomize button or change their age.

Configuration

In the Height.cfg file, you can configure a few things about the mod:

The first value, Multiplier, when increased will make individual Sim height differences more drastic. I found 0.0011 to be a good balance, but you might want to increase it if you don't mind awkward animations, or reduce it if you want less wild variety in heights.

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Cheats

You can disable the mod in-game by typing "autolights_disable" into the cheat console. This will bring back the vanilla behavior. You can then re-enable the mod by typing "autolights_enable". These cheats only stick for a single play session, as soon as you switch worlds or savegames the mod will re-enable itself.

Tuning

Inside the package, XML tuning options are available. These let you adjust the day time hours and set if windows should be taken into account during the day time.

Installation

Simply drop the "ld_AutoLightsOverhaul.package" and "ld_Common.package" files into your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Mods/Packages folder.

Acknowledgements

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Source Code: Github

Pre-Requisites and Installation

Extract the attached .zip file into your (Sims 3 Installation Folder)/Game/Bin

Included is a "Presets" folder with configuration files I've made for different shadow map resolutions, such as 2k (2048), 4k (4096) and 8k (8192) resolution shadows. Also an "Unmodded" version that looks like unmodded TS3, in order to provide a base for your own customization.

You can of course use a preset that is meant for lower resolution shadows than you have in your game if you want the shadows to look higher resolution.

You can replace the "ShadowExtender.cfg" file in Game/Bin with any of these, and configure it further on your own if you wish.

If you don't know how to change shadow resolutions, SimsCommunity has an article on it. It's necessary to get this mod to look good.

Drawbacks

It's been reported that reflections and objects might appear lower quality with this mod enabled. If this happens to you, try opening your GraphicsRules.sgr with notepad, scrolling down to "option TreeQuality" and adjust the LODDistances to bigger numbers. This won't fix reflections, but it should help with object quality.

Comparison Shots using the 8k Preset and 8k Shadows

Before:

After:

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Source Code

Installation

If you're a Sims2RPC user, copy the HugeLotsTS2.asi file into your (Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Installation Folder)/TSBin/mods folder. For example, C:/Origin Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Fun with Pets/SP9/TSBin/mods.

Otherwise, copy both the HugeLotsTS2.asi and dsound.dll files into your TSBin directory (not mods)

You NEED a cracked version of the Mansion & Garden executable (Sims2EP9.exe) for the mod to work.

If you're using RPC/Sims2RPC, stick to the classic lot imposter quality setting while using this mod.

Inside of the "Lot Templates" folder are premade empty Residential lots with the new sizes. You can install these with the package editor or Clean Installer.

Copy the "Downloads" folder into your Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 folder. The filename of the package has a bunch of z's at the end in order to load last, it might conflict with some shader mods.

Navigate to your (Basegame Install Folder)/TSData/Res/Lights and open the "Lighting.txt" file with Notepad.

(e.g. C:/Origin Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Double Deluxe/Base/TSData/Res/Lights)

Look for the "seti floorTextureSize 512" line (without the quotes) and replace it with "seti floorTextureSize 1024"

That's it! You're ready to place one of the lot templates in any of your hoods. Or, if you would like to have more control over the size, included in the "Mootilda's LotAdjuster" folder is a modified version of LotAdjuster without the 60x60 size limit.

I recommend going into Graphics Settings in-game and turning "Snow on Ground" Off, as with lots that are bigger than normal snow can get horribly glitchy and render the game pretty unplayable.

Known Issues

Lot imposter generation is not yet complete - floors for multi story lots get incorrectly mapped.