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Yep, I'm still playing with terrain paints.

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I've put a lot of work into this moss terrain paint to make it blend naturally with the Maxis textures in the game. I was inspired by memories of going mushroom hunting with my family in our forests...

The last time I went mushroom hunting there was in 2021.

After that, when the war started, ruzzian orcs came through those woods and mined everything. If only I had known, I'd never go back...

There used to be so much moss, mushrooms, and tall trees that all looked the same. There were these magical clearings covered in different types of moss — I’ve never seen anything like it in any other forest.

I still can’t understand how they had the heart to do that to nature. How could they turn something so beautiful into an Ashlands? Now, I can only recreate those clearings in my memories and in the game.

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Useful plugin for programmers

I’ve created a command-line console mono patcher plugin that makes debugging mods less of a SimpleMessageDialog.Show and Sims3.UI.StyledNotification.Show, and more of a Console.WriteLine

https://github.com/Paprotk/Sims3ConsolePlugin

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Sooner or later, you'll probably ask yourself: why does this person hate them so much? (I think you understand which country's residents I'm talking about)

You all know about the situation in Ukraine. Many of you are probably tired of this news and living your best life. But Ukrainians' lives have stopped.

My story is that I had a friend. We'd known each other since 2016.

He died, like thousands of others. It hurts when someone you don't know dies. But when your friend dies, you start looking at it from a different perspective. It's so painful that you can't hold back tears and have a lump in your throat. You sleep and dream where he says he's alive and everything is fine with him.

This is the new reality.

This isn't a game: there are no cheat codes, saves, mods, cloning, or God here. There's only one life, and if it ends, that's it. You can't go back to the past to hug someone or at least say goodbye. No one is ready to say goodbye while there's time, because everyone believes that life can't end so quickly and easily. Eventually, this person dies in your arms again and again, lives in your head and you start going insane.

Your feelings and emotions become dulled. Your hatred grows. You're ready to go seek revenge with bare hands. They sit there and laugh, indifferent or glad that they're sowing chaos.

Imagine the person closest to you or something most precious to you. Imagine someone holding you and destroying everything you love before your eyes: home, family, loved ones. And you watch this shift+delete in your reality, completely powerless.

When your dog dies in your arms, terrified by explosions, and you look into his eyes filled with tears, and you can't explain what's happening and why the "fireworks" don't end.

What's next?

Everything crumbles to dust, ash and burns like a match, while this pain that you can't contain with anything destroys you from within. You go home and look at hundreds of ways that could end your suffering.

Besides destroying physically, they destroy Ukrainians morally. Shattered dreams, crippled lives.

They wrote: "we are against war" - but in reality nothing will change. Their friends and relatives will continue launching huge drones and missiles, and they'll continue living in a country that has drowned countless others in blood. Living peacefully, playing games, making mods, screenshots and not understanding what they're hated for?

If you consciously use mods, screenshots from russians and communicate with them as if nothing happened - you're supporting everything I described above.

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I like some of the clay hairstyles, but the textures from EA in a lot of them could definitely be better. So I decided to improve a few of them, and here’s what I came up with.

The author of these hairstyle conversions @ts3-rauh allowed me to share the new textures. Important:

russians and pro-russians DNI

the texture resolution is the same as the original

put the package files in your overrides folder

you need to have the original hairstyles

download and make sure to read the README file

<<Download>>

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Whyyyyy almost ALL male vampire cc's or stuff for feminine men are made eather by russians, or by their supporters, what da hell is this social phenomenon. I tried to find something for my boys and everywhere is fucking boosty (russian patreon if you don't know)

The most disgusting thing is seeing some rare ukrainians using boosty. And then platform's commission is being taxed by ruzzia and those money are thrown to buy more war drones (those human size with rocket attached) that fly at our cities every day :)))))))))

Makes me desperately want to learn how to create clothes myself, but THERE ARE ONLY 24 HOURS IN A DAY. I already have A TONNE to do's regarding hair concersions and some mods I've put on hold. *Sigh* maybe someday

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/Before and after/

Out of all the works I've seen, the face presets in s3 are the most specific and personalized content. With all the "armour" like reshade, masks, makeup, fake lashes, lenses, accessories, and everything else that can be taken off, you can't see the real genetics. And more often than not, it ends up being distorted. I don’t like when appearance doesn’t match the genetic reality. And S3 doesn’t like it when you use too many sliders. Often, a preset that looks amazing on a woman looks terrible on a man, and vice versa. Or the eyes look incredible... But change the shape of the head, and you end up with two tiny dots or UFO headlights instead of eyes. This makes the work much more complicated, because you need to check your preset not only for both genders, but also in combination with other presets. Why am I writing all this? I forgot.

Anyway, here’s a preset (pic2) of a head that I like.

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Ukrainian cities before and after the arrival of the russians.

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They aimed a drone to kill a child. Human safari in Kherson is nothing new - they have been doing it for months. That's how they train their drone operators, you see - by hunting civilians. Animals. They killed a pelican by specifically aiming for it midflight.

We made a movie about it because nobody wants to listen to us normally. Maybe a movie will make them hear.

I don't care how tired are you from hearing about my people being hunted and killed for sport. If you are looking away from ruzzia commiting genocide of ukrainian people, I don't want to know you.

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Hey everyone! I’m sharing a tree for download that I made textures and flowers for, and the awesome vesko_sims3 helped out by tweaking the colour scheme and fixing up a few other things I just didn’t want to deal with after spending so much time on the textures. This is the default replacement, so all your trees will look just as bright and amazing (just remember to clear your cache first)!

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TUTORIAL: Creating default replacements for hair colour presets

Since @sandra-vu asked <3

Here is a hair presets default replacement I did, and now I'll try to explain how you can do it yourselves. Unfortunately I don't know how to make eye presets replace default ones because apparently it must be done completely differently

Disclaimer: my way is probably not the fastest, smartest or the most convenient, but that's the only way I figured out

Preparations:

Have S3PE

Move your userpresets.package from documents/electronic arts/sims 3 somewhere outside game folders to not loose your presets. You can leave the copy there, but then you'll need to delete in cas every preset except 1 you need.

Get yourself a copy of fullbuild0.package somewhere not in game files (original located in main game folder where it's installed and then sims 3/gamedata/shared/packages

STEP 1: Create or choose new hair colour preset

If you think that you'll not be able to recreate desired preset without userpresets file you can keep a copy of userpresets, and delete every other preset while you're in cas (or write down rgb numbers and then create new preset by them). I just created new preset how I liked it

The important thing - you should have only ONE preset when you are leaving the game.

STEP 2: Leave the game properly after saving the preset

You don't have to save the game, you can just exit. But killing it with task manager to save time will not help.

STEP 3: Open your new userpresets.package

in the documents/electronic arts/sims 3. HINF is a hair preset

That's why I said about only 1 preset being here. I couldn't find a way to preview HINF files or differenciate them, so if you end up with several HINF's - you will not know which is which

STEP 4: export the HINF file

Don't change the file name

Now is the right time to organize your folders to know what color is your preset or for what colour you are getting a replacement. Hair colours have official names, I just named them how I saw them. Apparently what looks like a shade of blonde EA considers light brown. EA haircolours are:

STEP 5: Repeat

Delete userpresets file that is currently in documents folder, load the game, make a new preset, export to labeled folder, untill you have all your presets that you want to turn to default replacements. Yes, this is tedious

STEP 6: Create new package in S3PE and open fullbuild0.package

Now, in fullbuild0 you need to locate the original HINF files, which all are named by their colour (on the left row)

Let's move from the top. The first one is gray (let's think that you want to replace it, otherwise - skip to the next you need)

I imported my preset that was chilling in "gray" folder to my new clean package. Don't import anything else yet.

Select the original EA gray by double clicking and copy its instance

Double-click your replacement preset in new package and replace its instance with one you coppied. Hit OK. That's how most CAS replacements are made - replacing the instance number. Save your package

Now you have a default replacement for gray hair (or whatever you were replacing). If you want more hairs to be replaced - import to your package the next preset you've made and replace its instance with the instance of original EA preset, and that's it. If you got lost which one you already replaced and what's a new imported one - check instances. The one that is different from HINF's in fullbuild0 is the ine you didn't change instance for. When you finish just save the package and now you have your default replacement for hair colour presets

Happy modding<3

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Info-post

Okay, guys, i made this post because i'm honestly tired of the lack of information about Ukraine. The war isn't over and genocide of Ukrainians became normalized. Plus there are a lot of people who truly believe there's no more war because they rarely see any news! So here are a few sources you can share. Donations are optional LIVE MAPS: -Air Raid Alert Map (interactive map where you can see where air raid sirens are on, which cities are under attack, explosions etc) -DeepState map (also an interactive map with areas that were liberated or are currently occupied by russians; is updated every day) NEWS SOURCES: -GRUNT MEDIA (tweet in Ukrainian, but if you use twitter, you can always click a translation button) -United 24 Media (tweet in English!). Their official website is -> HERE -Bring Kids UA. They help locate and bring home children who were kidnapped by russians. Their official website -> HERE; their twitter -> HERE; useful links (including a petition) are HERE -Save Ukraine. Its a registered charitable organization established in 2014 that coordinates dozens of organizations, volunteers, individuals and legal entities to help those affected by war, with a special emphasis on children. Their websire -> HERE; their twitter -> HERE -TV Toronto -Kyiv Independent + their twitter -Ostap Yarysh. Covers US-Ukraine relations, tweets in ENG. His twitter -> HERE -Ukraine World. Multilingual media about Ukraine. Their website -> HERE. Their twitter -> HERE -Zarina Zabrisky. US journalist who reports from Ukraine. Tweets a lot about Kherson city, a city in the south of Ukraine that get shelled and attacked by russian drones DAILY. Recently released a film called "Human Safari" that shows you reality of the town. You can watch her film -> HERE. Her twitter is -> HERE Charities/volunteers who help AFU: -COME BACK ALIVE (a non-governmental organisation that helps strengthen Ukraine’s security and defence sector. Has been operational since 2014, when the war has started!) This organization is VERY TRANSPARENT! Their website is -> HERE. Their twitter -> HERE -Serhiy Prytula charity foundation. He also helps Armed Forces of Ukraine with trucks, drones etc. -Sternenko Foundation. Serhii Sternenko is a famous Ukrainian volunteer. He helps UA soldiers with FPV drones. Drones have been crucial weapons/helping tools in this war. They are useful not only for observing, repelling the attacks of the enemies, but also bringing food/water/medicine to wounded soldiers. His twitter -> HERE -Leleka Foundation. Medicine, tactical medicine! Lots of lives on the battlefiled are saved with the help of proper tourniquetes and equipment. This org provides it. Their twitter -> HERE -Wild Hornets. Drones-drones-drones. They make drones that are crucial for this war. Their twitter -> HERE -Project Konstantin. They deliver aid, vehicles, communications tools, and tactical equipment. Their twitter -> HERE -NAFO 69th Sniffling Brigade. They bring trucks for Ukrainian defenders. Those who read the news at least a little bit, are aware how important 4x4 trucks are. Especially for evacuation. Their twitter -> HERE -World Central Kitchen. International organization who provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. They work with locals and really there for those who are affected. A soon as territories in Ukraine were liberated, they were there to help. Unlike OSCE, the UN, Red Cross etc, WCK truly help people. They keep working in Ukraine despite the shelling. By the way, they work all over the world and helped people in Gaza too! Their twitter -> HERE THANK YOU to everyone who shares this! Please amplify Ukrainian voices, talk about Ukraine, support those who were affected by war... unfortunately it's closer than you think.

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Hey all, I'm still updating my blog. Since I was busy babysitting my adorable niece (whom I had an awesome time with, by the way), I didn't really do much. Anyway, I've kinda been having this on my mind lately, and I needed to see what your guys' opinion is on this. I'm sure if this happens to get any traction, I'm gonna receive hate, but I'll ask anyway...

What do you guys think about people converting ts4 player's content or any other sims/ea games content creator's work to other versions of the sims franchise, regardless of whether they state conversions are allowed or not? I looked into EA's TOS regarding player's who share content for their games, after seeing simblr folks calling out shameless creators (you know who/what I'm talking about🫢), and saw that according to part 5 of EA's TOS titled "Your User-Generated Content (UGC)", "...You also grant to all other users who can access and use your UGC on an EA Service the right to use, copy, modify, display, perform, create derivative works from, and otherwise communicate and distribute your UGC on or through the relevant EA Service without further notice, attribution or compensation to you". Therefore, sims/ea games content creator's terms of use are not legally binding, at least where I'm from (is that shady to point out).

Now, obviously, I do NOT condone people taking other's works, claiming them as their own, and putting them behind a paywall, however after reading about it and really thinking about it, I see no problem with people who give full credit to the original creators and linking to the original creator's page/socials whilst sharing their conversions free of charge. After all, was it not a big part of the sims community to share content amongst each other and through each of the sims games, or do I have it all wrong?

I guess what I am truly asking is if it is morally wrong to share conversions, ignoring the wishes of the original creators, despite it being legally acceptable?

Sorry to get all philosophical, especially since this is about some damn games, but I was curious after getting frustrated at the fact that so many, and I mean a majority of ts4 creators state "No Conversions Allowed". Seriously, I just want to share conversions of beautiful content to ts3 without worrying about getting public backlash and even more so, hate and guilt from my own psyche (curse my anxiety and depression). Once again, I apologize for this long ass essay and I appreciate those of you who decide to read this. I would love to hear your opinions, so long as you are tactful and kind with your response, whether you agree with my standing of it being okay for people to freely share or not.

P.S. Here is a link to EA's Terms of Service/User Agreement

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A small cc fix tutorial

Have you ever used some eyeshadows and thought "Oh cute this would look great with a chunky eyeliner on top" only to find that the eyeliner goes *under* the eyeshadow? Well, guess what you can now fix that!

Get yourself to s3pe and go into the casp tag of your eyeshadows and eyeliners. A normal overlay priority for eyeliner (based on my research) should be:

OverlayPriority: 0x00000082

Whereas the eyeshadow should be:

OverlayPriority: 0x00000064

HOWEVER! If you want to use eyeshadows with the basegame eyeliners you would want to set your eyeshadow priority to something like 0x00000030 which actually worked in my testing. (whoa the base game eyeliners are useful now).

Of course you could also get @potatobuttcheek 's default basegame eyeliner replacements but be aware you will have to change the overlay priority on them to (82).

If you go through your makeup cc and you see an overlay priority for eyeliners and eyeshadows with different values than the above, especially if your eyeshadow has an overlay priority of (82) then that eyeshadow will go on top of your eyeliner (no bueno). Here's how to fix it!

In this example the eyeliner has a value of 46 so it'll show up under the eyeshadow. Click on the Casp you want to change. Click Grid below which will bring up a window.

Simply change the values on the Overlay Priority then click Commit. That's it! Save your package (merged package in my case) and voilà!

Here's a picture of Ariana (by @cozygirlsimmer) with a Praline eyeshadow that was always overriding eyeliners and the after using a Gosik eyeliner on top that was always buried behind eyeshadows.

Here is an eyeshadow (by @sehmulated) which has an overlay priority of 0x0000005A (same as blush) that I manually changed to 0x00000030 for testing with a base game eyeliner.

Now I'm off to download more makeup! Toodles!

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