#ts2 help

i need this for sims 2 AF lol ;_; saruin's ankle monitor accessory for ts4

Tamper Proof Ankle Monitors | Patreon (free)

can anyone who has sims 4 studio etc and all that stuff extract the mesh and textures for me?? i can try to figure out actually converting it myself but don't wanna have to figure out sims 4 stuff and download a new program if i dont have to

Clutter, clutter, clutter... sure, but in gameplay, I use OMSPs so Sims actually have surfaces to place down bills, newspapers, food, coffee mugs, magazines, cigarettes if you have them, etc etc etc!!! Really adds to the immersion. Just remember where you stuck em!

Hi. Long time no see!

This post is a bit different. I've been trying body shop conversion lately, but I'm stuck on hair conversion, and apparently I will never get past this part on my own 😑. If someone with more knowledge could help me, I would really appreciate it :)

The hair I'm trying to convert is this hair by plantboat:

I think it's very cute. Perfect to plantsims.

I extracted the files, converted to obj. Then exported to milkshape and assign to the sims skeleton:

Everything ok here, uv map ok, joints assigned. So I export in unimesh, and made the package file:

Clone and delete the original files. Fix integrity and rename. Again, so good so far.

Then I extract the Body Shop files for recoloring and make the recolor. I followed more than one tutorial and redid these steps many times, so I know I'm not clicking anything I'm not supposed to. I replace the texture, link the stages, aaand:

Why is not wooorkinnnnnnggggggg

(BTW, the hair clone its by @platinumaspiration, find it here)

Ugh, I redone this 47982957 times already. Read posts on ts2 foruns. Delete the sims 2 folder cache, tried with others files, diferents versions of simpe. I'm kinda out of options now.

Again, if someone could take a look and figure out what's wrong, then explain it to me like I'm 5, I would really appreciate it. If you don't have time or willingness, that's totally okay too :)

ignoring the nightmarish lot, does anyone know how to fix the fact that my game is, on a graphics level, monumentally fucked up with smooth edges turned off?

this is a sequel to this post, I used the graphicrulesmaker and I didn't get any pink flashing so I thought the issue was sorted until I loaded into live mode and noticed how fucked up the situation really is lol.

"I cast, roseus coruscus" and the game crashed.

This was my first time experiencing pink flashing + a crash in the sims 2, and it was after 8 hours (albeit noncontinuous) playing (also don't judge me, I'm sick and had the day off yesterday).

I use windows 11 and spoke with my brother, who is a programmer for a living and builds computers as a hobby - I say this to point out that he's so much more tech savvy (and cooler, honestly?) than I am - since I have been flirting with the idea of dual booting my computer with Linux to see if the sims 2 performs better there. My brother, while he is amazing, has never played the sims 2 and he was a bit skeptical over the claims of "no pink flashing aka vram issues" in Linux. Although, he's not a hater of the idea and confirmed Linux will definitely be better than Windows 11.

Hi all! This might be a stupid question, but is there a fix for the problem when you visit a sim owned lot, and their employees are not assigned to their usual jobs, that you assigned them to?

This is especially annoying in restaurants, where it's basically impossible to properly dine out in a sim owned business, because the employee roles are all messed up and either nobody cooks or nobody brings the food T_T

Throwing this out there in case anyone knows a thing or two about lighting mods.

I'm using the Maxis Match lighting mod, and I'm mostly very happy with it! However there's a couple things about dawn and dusk I'm not totally happy with but I'm not sure how to tweak. I popped open the lighting.txt file from the base game install folders, and I compared it with another lighting mod to try and get a sense of what can differ, but I'm really unsure of what exactly to tweak. I tried tinkering with a couple things but it either did nothing noticeable or made it maybe even worse!

My main issues are the lighting contrast levels at dawn and dusk - the unlit rooms at those times are significantly darker than the unlit rooms at night. I'd like it to be a little closer to the nighttime levels, maybe still a bit higher contrast though.

Secondly the colour cast for dusk particularly is a bit too strong indoors - there's a strong sort of pink cast inside, on top of the too-intense lighting contrast. I don't mind that outside at all, but the intensity seems quite high inside and I'd like it a little subtler.

Does anyone have ANY clue what I could tinker with to adjust these things? I've been trying multiple lighting mods recently and this is the closest one so far to what I want, except for these little things. And having a dawn and dusk is one of the biggest reasons I even use a lighting mod!