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Lifa. 38/USA. She/They. The Sims 2.

@withlovefromsimtown / withlovefromsimtown.tumblr.com

The official & very important practitioner of Bitchcraft.
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A Post To Be Pinned

aka. Lifa gathers all the links/tags so you can actually find things in my fantastic Sims 2 dumpster. This is a Work In Progress.

Adding my TOU here, which boils down to: As long as you don’t put it behind a paywall or malicious ad redirectors, anything goes. Convert, remesh, recolor, rebuild, redistribute, tear it apart to see how it works. Tag me or send me a link if you want, I like to see things, but it’s not required.

Creations - Most of if not all of everything I’ve ever done, thrown around randomly as I did it or as I felt like reblogging it.

Fixing Things - Do you already have a thing I made & want to know if there have been updates/changes? See this tag.

Birthday Suit - Skintones, eye/nose masks, default skins, etc.

  • Dear Wolf - default hairtone-correlated semi-transparent werewolf skin with hair.
  • Six Feet Down - default semi-transparent zombie skin with rotting details.
  • Dead Silence - default semi-transparent vampire skin with vein details.
  • Held By The Roots - default semi-transparent plantsim skin with FantasyRogue’s Canvas plantsim vines.
  • Nameless But Awake - edit of MidgeTheTree’s custom Mermaid supernatural state; semi-transparent, scaly.
  • It’s All Sorcery -  edit of MidgeTheTree’s custom Fairy supernatural state; just the wings accessory.
  • Sugar Servo Edit - Simple Servos with nice eyes, no lipstick, no supernatural logos on the supernatural servo state. Very old.

Less-Gendered Faces (Original)  Less-Gendered Faces (CURRENT) - With my EF face fix. Babyface (2023) - Addon/standalone Less-Gendered Faces update to make all babies have unique faces. Less-Gendered Faces (Ixals) - With Ixals’s EF face fix.

Face Sliders - Mine.

Tatted Up - 10-option tattoo overlay applicator that is shaped like a 3t2 tattoo gun instead of being a crate.

Beardly - I made the beards look like hair, in all of Pooklet’s colors & defaulted them. Other people added on & recolored them. This is that.

Hairp Derp - Hair dumps but I think I’m funny. Some meshfixes & gender/age conversions, mostly just recoloring things in Pooklet colors.

Clothing - Exactly what it says on the label.

  • Clothing Defaults - Again, exactly what it says on the label. I don’t think all my defaults are tagged as such, but it should be most of them.
  • LGBTQIA - Clothing, resources, & misc (mine & reblogs) for Trans/Androgyny Bodyshape meshes.

Buy Mode - Should be most of everything that you can buy from the in-game Buy Mode catalog.

Build Mode - Should be most of everything you can get in the in-game Build Mode catalog.

Repository - All of the buy/build items that either were repo'd already & I recolored, or I repo’d because I’m too lazy to recolor things that many times. 

SC4 Rebuild Project - Witness me making SC4 houses for Sims 2. Download houses. LifaLand - That one time I went crazy & remeshed an entire theme park for TS2, it’s a Lot (in both senses; it is Very Much & also it is a Community Lot). I'd like to rebuild this with edits/mesh-swaps of the updated rollercoaster objects from PickNMixSims but I went through the whole process ONCE & am reluctant to start over again.

Makeup - Exactly what it says on the label.

Emotive Eyes - Default animation-friendly eyes & addons.

Farm - Animated rideable animal objects; remeshed, retextured, reworked. I have some updates to make them more functional, I just haven’t finished doing the thing to the point I can release it yet.

Creator Resources

  • Color Actions - Suitable for use in Photoshop; use on a gray base with hex value between #a0a0a0 & #c9c9c9 for best results.
  • WSO Actions - Links directly to the SFS folder they all live in. Most of them are in large packs; just delete what you don’t want. Folder also includes a PSD template for the freckles & moles I used on my Birthday Suit skins, for some reason.
  • Trans Shapes WSOs  - I have no idea which folder I put this in, in SFS, or maybe I’m just blind, so here’s the direct link.
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madebycoffee

ok reblog this with how big your mods folder is. I want to see who on simblr has the biggest mods folder.

i'll start, mine is 21.7 GB i am aware that's somewhat small for simblr :D

175ish GB for TS4. 105GB for TS2.

(Both run just fine btw! It's mostly CAS stuff.)

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kalux-sims

23gb for TS2. It runs well enough. Takes two hours to load though. Ugh.

How are your games still running? Mine is 4GB for TS2 and my game refuses work with me if I go above 5GB.

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teaite

12.3gb for TS2 and still running well enough but occasional pink soup and crashing are still around. takes 15-20 min to load.

Ts2: 29.3gb (Split up by hoods which are themed, so the game usually runs with around 6-8gb of cc at a time. I just switch out cc folders when I switch hoods) Ts3: 10gb Ts4: 5gb

currently....

ts2 - 8.75gb. and a good chunk of it is the same cc I've had for 10 years lmaoooo..... so it keeps slowly growing instead. But now I don't mind so much cause my new computer loads the game a lot faster.

ts4 - 5.74gb (but I have literally 0 build/buy. so I'm not that surprised at how low it is)

My entire life I have never actually kept track, I just keep downloading without checking anything and accept if my laptop breaks it's over

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tamtam-go92

8,25 GB running great and loading within minutes!

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frauhupfner

11,7 GB (TS2). My old PC never could handle this and would have taken a very long time to load (around 30 minutes or more), my new Laptop only needs a few minutes. 😃

3.62 GB - TS2

1.60 GB - TS3

Believe me, I use to have a lot of ccs for both versions.

I currently have a testing folder in TS2 because I'm in a creating phase so it's lower than normal but I'd guess somewhere in the 20-25 GB range for the full package of things I actually use. A lot of it is my own content, like an honestly surprising amount of that. I'd say load time is less than 15 minutes but that would require me to sit at the computer & actually watch it load, which I don't, I get up & get a new drink & maybe microwave a snack & wipe off a counter or water a plant or something. By the time I'm done I can click through to the neighborhood select screen.

For TS4, I have MCCC & that's it, that's my entire downloads folder.

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Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?

Modern movies and shows tend to have very unbalanced mixing. Also, a common trend in modern movies is more realistic dialogue (mumbling) that is not as crisp as it was in previous eras of film making.

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khanuckle

I’m eating corn chips and they be crunchy and loud as hell and also I’m half deaf I think

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penig

Our TV has crap sound. Subtitles are a big help.

They'd be a bigger help if they were ever, y'know, accurate. Or done well at all. An actual deaf person must be continually tearing their hair out; but those of us who can hear the sound track and see the subtitle have a pretty good idea of what's going on.

Auditory Processing Disorder

is fairly common in people with other neurodivergencies, & kind of especially ADHD.

Sometimes I can read faster than I can hear.

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New Action Palette, who's this?

The first item is SnarkyShark's Substance sofa, with repo'd barstool addon by le me, in my all-new Art Deco colors. You are only getting what's shown in the picture: the main sofa, the barstool, & the colors. Download Substance Seating (includes main mesh, recolors, & barstool only) Get additional repo'd seating meshes Here (not mine)

The second item is the color actions. Should be compatible with Photoshop 5.1 & up. Download Lifa's Art Deco Color Actions for Photoshop

If you liked it, maybe Buy Me A Coffee.

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  • 15 IKEA paint colors for the normal SSN columns.
  • Everything else is repository & requires no recolor files.

Why did I do this?

If you liked it, maybe Buy Me A Coffee.

Please update the column mesh with this one, linked right here. It no longer overwrites another 2-tile column. SFS links continue to be hateful, so the copypasta version: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/4623323/

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Why did I do this?

  • I have no idea, my actions are incomprehensible.

If you liked it, maybe Buy Me A Coffee.

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Why did I do this?

  • I have no idea, my actions are incomprehensible.

If you liked it, maybe Buy Me A Coffee.

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Anonymous asked:

hi Lifa, thanks for your awesome cc! i like your 2 story seasons country column you created in your "seasons addons" from 2020, but hdcu shows an objd conflict with "column multistory 2 story classical top (0x41a9)" and "column multistory 2 story base (0x41a8). I find that in game, with your 2 story seasons country add on, when clicking the 2 story "high society pillar plus" no object appears. I was wondering if you might know how this could be fixed!

It's on my to-do list & has been since I noticed the issue (sigh) it's a pretty easy fix but I just need to summon the energy one day to fix it.

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plumbogs

The Sims 2 Lezzing It Up Stuff

Well I have been playing with the idea of doing a fanmade Stuff Pack & have some stuff in development for maybe one later (but it's a lot of work, I figured out I have no idea how to bin objects, etc. & I'm taking a long break from it for that & other reasons)... & I do love a good/bad joke... so... Maybe if I can finish the one I've already started, & don't absolutely hate my life when it's done, then the next one can be that? I'm open to suggestions if anyone can think of what would go in the stuff pack but be aware that this is super hypothetical right now & might not be something I am ever capable of getting around to.

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sandinmybed

No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus

IRL there's no way to tell what particular thing my ADHD brain is going off about unless I start talking about it (which I might but not always) so sometimes people will be in the exact places & times that they never know I'm actually a gigantic fucking nerd. Versus online where you can just like... scroll to the last thing I said...

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this was requested by... me! who was struggling with manual bone assignments close to midnight and finally said 'fuck it' 😅 after remembering that a maxis mesh with a somewhat similar shape to this warlock outfit existed, i just had to write a tutorial on how to use such meshes as clothing references for others 😌

this tutorial covers both bone assignments as well as morphs, just bear in mind the latter may not always turn out as well as the former. i'm working on a database of extracted maxis clothing meshes as wso's for future reference, but for now, do enjoy @withlovefromsimtown's wso templates masterlist and this tutorial as guidance.

TUTORIAL: GOOGLE DOCS | PDF 👔

if there are any tutorials that you need and feel i can provide, lmk! i'm still learning myself, so there's probably a lot of easier ways to do the things i do than my ways 🥰
from that, to this... a big improvement!!
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Help a Fellow Simmer

Howdy, folks!

I was working on an updated version of this mod for my game, but with fizzy drinks from TS4 Eco Living.

I ran into an issue where the recolors are not "linked" wherein if they pull from the green recolored 6 pack, they'll always get the main file's blue texture.

Is there a tutorial or a knowledgeable modder that can help me out? I'll pay you in gratitude :D

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think? you're running into the reason why all the unmodded UC birthday cake recolors (which are clearly the same mesh) are each their own item in the catalog. Unfortunately I personally would recommend separating them into their own objects per color, especially since it's possible that someone might want to add different needs/mood buffs to different drink types later on.

If you're really set on getting the recolors to stick, there have been modders who have been able to get cake recolors to stick to slices & you can try reverse-engineering what @gayars did here: https://gdayars.home.blog/2021/08/14/peacock-wedding-cake/ to apply to your drink bottles. Difficulty level unknown lol, I'm not as smart about these type of things as she is.

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