gameplay rules ramblings

Made yet more changes to my aspiration assigning method, and some related things too!

I used to assign the primary based on zodiac sign, but then use Sophie the puffin's calculator with the A and B versions of each aspiration (ie: Family can be either "strict parent" or "huge family") to decide which flavour, and to assign the secondary aspiration later in life.

I did this because I like knowing very early on what their aspiration will be one day, and I was worried about using a calculator that factors in interest points if they will change later in life (which they can). But I did a little more research on it, downloaded a mod that changes a bit of how the interest points work, and just realized who cares if the interests will change if I used to assign it without taking that into account at all?

SO - now I'm just using Sophie's calculator for all of it. Anyone who already has their aspiration assigned is keeping it the same, but I'm going through and calculating future aspirations for all the toddlers and children and I'm already seeing a more diverse spread of aspirations vs. the only personality based zodiac system! Which makes me excited!

The other change I'm making - I was letting a lot of family Sims (primary and secondary) max out their aspiration reward tree and get the super fertility benefit. I hadn't realized that actually increases the chances of twins to apparently 50%?? Which seems insanely high to me. I feel like there are way more twins in Brightmaple than make sense for such a small population now.

So now, only Sims with the Family B primary aspiration (huge family archetype) will be able to have that benefit! Which should make twins a little more rare like I think they should be.

NVIDIA DDS Utilities Download

Recently, I have not been able to get the download for the DDS Utilities to work on NVIDIA’s website (the download button doesn’t work, it just loads for a second and does nothing. I tested this on multiple devices). All the alternate downloads just link back to the broken NVIDIA site.

This is a big problem for new CC creators who want to work with textures in SimPE.

I had the file on my laptop, so I uploaded a mirror to my site & SFS (assuming that it’s actually working.)

Download: SFS | Replit

Hopefully this is helpful! For more TS2 Resources, join TS2 Community!

[Guide] Using Magpie to upscale TS2/3: no more tiny UI!

Unlike TS4, the UI sizing in older Sims games is static and doesn’t scale to fit the screen, since they were designed around lower resolutions. This can be a shock for players who have high-res screens, which makes the game’s UI appear super tiny. If you try to use Windows DPI scaling to fix it, it can become blurry.

Magpie is an open-source window scaling app for programs and games, which lets you upscale games from a lower resolution without losing too much quality. It comes with plenty of well renowned scalers, such as Lanczos and FSR. Running the games at a lower resolution can help with performance, and also solves the small UI issue since the game is rendering closer to its original intended resolution.

Here’s how to use it:

An Infinite Short Story about Sunset Valley

Erin's standing outside of her house. It's 8 AM on Sunday. 

It was never not 8 AM on Sunday.

It always starts on a day somewhere close to June. It's never June but it's always close to June when it starts. In fact, it never used to not be June. Now there are other things that it isn't though, sometimes it's almost but not quite December or April or October. But it never used to be anything that wasn't almost but-not-quite June.

Freetime Posters - 12 Fitness Hobby Posters

Happy Saturday everyone! It's the weekend again, so that means it's time for another set of hobby posters! This week's hobby is fitness, which was way more fun than I was expecting. XD Swatch, detail and download below the cut!

Seeing @episims’s tattoo parlor in Foxfire Forest made me realize I never shared pics of the one I built in Greenwich, though it’s popped up once or twice in gameplay posts.

200 Followers Gift - MtF pjs!

200+ already thank you!!! To show my thanks I bring you two sets of pjs/undies both for TF-EF. These are @rented-space's 3t2 conversions of Boxer Shorts and Lacey Bow Balconette as a fullbody outfit, and then just the shorts which were separated by @deedee-sims. But for the ladies! ✨

I recolored the bra as best I could to match the shorts, but the elder colors may be slightly different because it didn't occur to have each psd open at the same time. I doubt you'll notice much. The shorts also could probably be a bit better fit to the waist on all 3 ages, but the more I finagled with them the worse I was making them so I hope they're okay! All morphs, compressorized, and repo'd. You also need @lazyduchess separates patch for the shorts as they're only categorized as pj/und, so go get that!!

AF 3t2BoxerShortsLaceyBowBalconette | Download

AF 3t2BoxerShorts separated | Download

EF 3t2BoxerShortsLaceyBowBalconette | Standalone | Repo

EF 3t2BoxerShorts separated | Standalone | Repo

TF 3t2BoxerShortsLaceyBowBalconette | Standalone | Repo

TF 3t2BoxerShorts separated | Standalone | Repo

Enjoy, and please let me know if anything is wrong!

THE SIMS 2 - I still can’t believe this lot by Zarathustra. SimCity Arena - Sports Stadium and Concert Venue. NO CC!!!

Steffor’s Jewelry Display made functional (+edit) (+recolors)

Okay, so, this started as @episims making some recolors for this object, and then I wanted to make it functional, and if I was there, I separated the frames from the displays, so now… it’s this! XD So now it works as a jewelry display, so you need the Bon Voyage EP for it to work! And also it has 5 rack recolors and 5 frame recolors courtesy to Epi ❤ (images are from Freepik)

That’s it 😁

Download - Alternate

🌺 Have fun and please let me know if you have any issues with them.

🌺 Aaron by aharris00britney - original - cf-ef - 4 binned + 2 custom colors - 3,4k polys (both) - animated DOWNLOAD: long SFS - short SFS

🌺 Karley by aharris00britney - original - tf-ef - 4 binned + 1 custom colors - 6,9k polys - animated DOWNLOAD: SFS 🌺 Delancey by okruee - original - tf-ef - 4 binned + 1 custom colors - V2: 9,2k poly V3: 5,6k polys - animated DOWNLOAD V2: SFS - V3: SFS

credits: aharris00britney , okruee, EA

TS2 & TS4 - Male & Female Silk Robes Retextured by Julie J

For The Sims 2 and The Sims 4 - New Animal Print Textures

Meshes included for Sims 2 - Have fat & preg morphs

Sims 2 meshes from my conversion shared 30/04/2022 Male Female

Sims 4 Versions have their own thumbnail

DOWNLOAD - TS2

DOWNLOAD - TS4

Keyless Display Case

I got a wcif about a whole lot of stuff, and figured I could make a separate post of things that I uploaded for it. First, a display case edited out of 3t2 Key to the City, converted by @crispsandkerosene​. It’s a new standalone mesh so it won’t conflict with the key one and has the same set of recolors as the original. It doesn’t have slots so use OMSPs to place things on it.

Download (SFS) (alternate) - files are compressed and a swatch is included. Found under sculptures for §180. 72 polys, 512x512 textures.

ATS Watch Simlishfied and Recolored

The mapping of these is a bit wonky and the textures could use further improving too, but I ran out of energy to do more about them. The watch is originally from here but I used one of my recolors to replace the default one, and while I was at it I also recategorized and repriced it (it’s cheaper now). I also edited out the orange reflections the original comes with. I made 5 recolors in total, I was too lazy to make a swatch but I included the textures for viewing.

Download (SFS) (alternate) - files are compressed. If you already have the original mesh and want my changes, let this one overwrite it. Found under dressers for §500. 1128 polys, 256x256 textures.

The simlish font I used is by @chere-indolente​ and the other graphics are from Vecteezy and RawPixel.

Anon Requests + 1 for @daydreamingdrawerette and @criminalmiik

I hope you all like them!

Dogsill's AJ Buns - SFS / MF

EA's BG Pigtails - SFS / MF

Birksche's Full Side Part Straight - SFS / MF

Natalia-Auditore's Mika Asano - SFS / MF

credits: @dogsill @birksche @natalia-auditorets4

(@4t2clay)

More Functional Easels with Hobby Enthusiasm Gain

I’ve always loved the more functional easels, the initial idea came from AnoeskaB on The Sims Resource who made the Maxis Easel more functional. Then, @fracturedmoonlight made several new easels with this added functionality, many of which being 3t2 conversions. After that, @drewinthesky then combined AnoeskaB’s More Functional Maxis Easel and Fractured Moonlight’s More Functional Custom Easels with gdayars’ Diagonal Easel Mod from Mod The Sims, so this awesome set contained the maxis easel and a gorgeous bunch of custom easels with both added functionality and the diagonal placement fix. Drew In The Sky then made another set, which took easel meshes converted from the Sims 4 by a handful of creators including Veranka and added both the additional functionality and the diagonal placement to these easels too.

However, the problem I’ve always had with these awesome more functional easels is that they did not have any enthusiasm gain, meaning sims who used them would not gain enthusiasm in the Arts & Crafts Hobby. I’ve taken this community effort one step further and added hobby enthusiasm to the more functional, diagonal usable, maxis, 3t2 and 4t2 easels!

Download: SFS

Huge thanks to @crispsandkerosene​ for this amazing tutorial which made this possible and to @deedee-sims​ for pointing me in that direction!

It took me quite a long time to get my head around this community project, and before I understood that it was actually Drew In The Sky responsible for the most and most up-to-date versions of these easels, I asked the lovely Fractured Moonlight for permission to add hobby enthusiasm to their custom more functional easels and they kindly granted it. However, since it was actually Drew In The Sky’s edits that I built upon, I can only hope they would grant permission too but sadly seem inactive.

I’ve made a couple more edits to these easels too; I’ve compressed them, merged in any recolours with the mesh file, changed the filenames to the format most friendly for loading times (reduced length, removed spaces, etc.) and also updated the in-game catalog descriptions to better reflect and give credit to all of the creators involved with this project.

I hope you enjoy building Arts & Crafts Enthusiasm with these awesome easels!

I love how these easels are constantly being improved upon haha :D

beautifulnerdkitty’s storefronts recoloured to match each other

Hey all! 👋

I really love these storefront façades converted from TS4 by beautifulnerdkitty, but I got a little irritated that the two matching objects…well, they don’t ACTUALLY match. One is white, and one is black, which makes it hard to use them. So, to make them work together, I’ve recoloured them to match! The façade with a doorframe now has a white recolour, and the window-only now has a black recolour. They’re not PERFECT, exactly, but they’re close enough that I’m 100% content with them. Plus, with the white recolour, that makes it easier to make all other different colours! Yay! (hm…should I release some recolours?)

You DO NEED the original set, which is linked above. As an added bonus, I’ve included a file from fireflowersims in which she kindly nuked the polycount as the polys on the conversion were a little high for my tastes. Thanks, Fire! Just delete the original mesh and keep Fire’s version.

[d o w n l o a d]

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