fireflies.

The wait is finally over! After almost two and a half years in development with more than 2.800 images and 180 script files edited, you can now experience the first ever, modern and completely overhauled user interface for Sims 2 across all expansion packs! Please note that because of this, you need every expansion pack and possible also Mansion & Garden stuff.

You can find many more images in the flickr gallery.

Features: - completely overhauled user interface - various fixes and removed flaws - removed deprecated buttons or ones that corrupt the game (delete family…) - popular CC included to avoid incompatibility (Chris Hatch widescreen mods…) - three new startup loading screens - optional (new) Sims (and pets) in the menus - cursors (inspired) from Sims 4

Right, even if I fix this blue cross that was made for testing purposes, the sand texture still gonna be there since the lot is too close to water or more of 50% of lot space is part of the beach. The easiest thing to do is to change lotskirt texture manually and forget about this forever.

This can be done, by these simple steps:

You must determine which neighborhood this lot is part of

Backup the neighborhood folder

Open N***_neighborhood.package (where *** is the neighborhood number assigned by the game) with SimPE and find Lot Description (LTXL) in the resource tree

Choose the lot that has the issue

Change whatever is inside the ‘Texture’ line to ‘lottexture-test-01’. I know this texture name might sound dodgy but it’s just the name of the lush terrain lot skirt texture maxis came up with, so yeah. ‘lottexture-test-01′ it is.

Oh, there’s definitely still a lot of semi-realistic players out there. :) Since I’m  assuming you’re asking for recs I’m going to compile a list.

(Note: the community doesn’t necessarily agree on what exactly constitutes a ‘semi-realistic’ style, but for the sake of my list I’m going to assume it’s players who play cc-heavy, with pooklet’s textures/colors for hair and skinblends that are shiny/detailed). I’m concentrating more on active bloggers though there are going to be some inactive ones too, in case you’d like to check them out.

ON TO THE LIST! (under the cut because it got really long)