#ts2 default

Darker Black Swatch Recolors for @platinumaspiration's Ultimate 4t2 Hair Default Replacement Collection

The amount of work platinumaspiration put into converting this, wow! With animations, so many hats, age & gender conversions, all NPC hairs, repo'd, etc., etc. All my thanks for making a cohesive clay hair-ified TS2 a breeze to set up, and for allowing recolors.

I was glad to see she used the TS4 swatches that are also my faves, though Maxis's black swatches aren't as consistent as I like. There's some that are jet black, some that are gray (like the previews), contrast varies widely, etc. I prefer jet black, which loses some details in the texture but looks the best with all skintones IMO. I used dbasiasimbr's PS action to batch recolor, her Black-Dark Brown Override is one of my TS4 must-haves. Thanks also to all her work! And thanks to @lordcrumps for hosting the previews with sortable filters, made keeping track much easier.

I also recolored some of the pale blond swatches for toddlers to match the dirty blond swatch the other hairs use. All in all, I edited 333 files, so I uploaded each folder separately on SFS (file size limit) or you can download the single .zip from Patreon, for free. Please let me know if I missed a hair or forgot the texture for any accessories/hats!

Default replacements, see LordCrumps' site for previews

Recompressed

Kept the folder structure and file names the same

Installation Instructions:

Download platinumaspiration's full collection first, if you don't have it already. I only included the files I recolored, if you don't have the full collection, there may be missing meshes or textures!

Download my files and allow them to overwrite the original files.

Download: SimFileShare Folder (3 .zips) or Patreon (free, combined .zip)

Credit: Maxis, platinumaspiration, @dbasiasimbr

Maxis Eyelash Remover for TS2

Removes the default maxis eyelashes from sims' faces!

Eyelash Remover

There are 2 versions/folders for this mod!  PICK ONLY ONE FOLDER!  • One, containing a single package file, removing the default eyelashes from sims, from toddlers to elders. • Second, containing multiple package files, where you can pick & choose which sims you want the maxis eyelashes removed from.

MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE THE PREMADE SIMS' FACES VIA "CHANGE APPEARANCE" FOR THE MOD TO WORK!!! Disclaimer: If you use this mod and upload/share a sim. That sim's eyelashes will remain UNTOUCHED for those who DO NOT have this mod. (ex. the maxis lashes will float for others!)

☆ Informations ☆ • Available for all ages, toddlers to elders. • Replaces the BASE sim heads. • Compatible with custom sliders (exception being the eyelash sliders) and face templates!

Maxis Eyelash Accessory

☆ Informations ☆ • Available for all ages, toddlers to elders. • Compatible with facial animations, custom and default sliders (exception being the eyelash sliders). • Can be worn along with other accessories/glasses.

☆ Downloads ☆ Simblr.cc

Ages ago I came across Xander's first date shrugs (T$R), and I really liked the shrugs themselves, but not the tops they're over. Then I had the thought to layer it over Nilou's Bella textures and make it a default for AFTopNaked ◝(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) ◜♡

I think this is like the first default I've made in almost a year, oops.

Modbangs replaced with @platinumaspiration's conversion of clumsyalien's Caleb.

@deedee-sims 4t2 SP32 Dress Silk Long edit as afbodydresslonghug DR

in my opinion, this edit by @deedee-sims is the perfect balance between simple to match the original dress, but regal enough to fit a queen of fairies. as a bonus, it also has a matching palette with the original.

i did take the liberty to use the light purple swatch for titania, rather than the red it is designated as in game. first because it's the color most people use for her to match her makeup, and second of all... ea doesn't have the same definition of red as me.

download link under the cut

it's finally done all apartment life hairs defaulted in afterglow ecxept the witch hats and a hidden hat called hat hot dog that i didn't know was in the game till now it's an npc hat and my plan is to work on the npc hairs later on. all info under the cut because it's long

I made a new CAS screen for myself and was quite pleased with how it turned out! I figured I might as well share it in case anybody else wants a creepy, dark forest looming in the background while you decide whether to wear your favorite red headscarf on your visit to Grandma's. Just remember: Don't stray from the path and never, ever talk to wolves!

This CAS screen is cc-free, but for it to work and look as intended you require the following:

Keep CAS Clean! by Blueybre (To stop sims from freezing and random strays from appearing.) Empty CAS Screen Objects by windkeeper (Invisible recolors of the Maxis CAS objects) wind_CASinvisibleroundpodium.package, wind_CASinvisibleobjects.package, wind_CASinvisibleobjects_familypart.package, wind_CASmirrorrecolor_wood.package (or black if you prefer the mirror to be black ofc)

Installation Instructions: Place the "CAS!" file and the required mods/objects in your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads folder after making sure to remove/delete the files for any previous custom CAS screens you may have downloaded. Do NOT rename the CAS! file.

It's finally time to deliver the long-promised default reading materials for historical Japanese games!

The first portion of this is a book retexture. I can't do anything about the fact that sims read from left to right, and I can't (at least for now) alter the way the book spines are meshed; traditional Japanese books look like this, and while I definitely had their look in mind, I could only do so much.

What I could do was new page textures with vertically-oriented text, and new book covers. I used the listing of Traditional Colors of Japan, picked some I liked and layered them over a linen texture.

The swatch is also included with the download if you want it for novel-writing reference. And you may not care which traditional colors I used, but... there it is all the same.

Unfortunately kimono sleeves tend to glitch through the book model, but they'd do that with any book default you used.

Part two is a Freetime novel-writing default, in the same style as my speech default and using some of the same icons.

I tried, as always, to cover a wide variety: The seasons, food, animals, locations, birth and death, money, conflict. Also ninjas.

Book plots are also redone. Mystery novels are now about yokai, sci-fi is the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Princess Kaguya) children get a selection of stories (Momotaro, Red Oni and Blue Oni, Urashima Taro, Crane Wife) and romance is a bunch of natural elements because that's what traditional Japanese love poetry is about.

This is also why there's no clear "romance" category in the novel plot icons but plenty of sources for nature metaphors. Obviously there were books, and illustrations, about sex, because humans gonna human, but I wasn't sure how to work that in -- an octopus, a la Hokusai? Kissy-lips pulled from some other icon set?

Moving on to the next part of this project, though, there's another kind of reading material: magazines!

This time I went with very image-heavy designs; some magazines don't have any text, or only have text that was already on the image. I was reluctant to edit out text I can't read, and sometimes it would have severely messed up the image. This does mean there's non-Simlish text included in some of the magazines.

I've also included, along with defaults for the interest and hobby magazines, recolors of Mother of 70's magazine rack default, again.

Not quite sure why the lighting did that, but I don't really want to reload my game to get a better shot.

The "books" download has one package that contains the new book textures, another package that contains the plot icons for sim-written FT novels and the new plots for the bookcase genre novels, and the swatch for reference purposes. I don't know if any of this will work for you if you don't have FT.

Books: SFS or Box

The "magazines" download contains the Basegame/OFB interest magazines in one package, the FT hobby magazines in another, and the two recolors of the magazine rack in two more packages. I did not include the default replacement, but you'll want it if you want the recolors.