#dl: defaults

[plumbob-smooch]

Uhm... hello?

Last day of my vacation and I've spent it with revamping and redoing my defaults. I put together a little collection for the maternity outfits, and if anyone would like to have it - here you go! It's nothing special really. Please forgive the shitty preview.

It replaces every maternity outfit so you can not have this and some other maternity default for females.

Featuring pieces from @platinumaspiration, @vimpse, @moyokeansimblr, @rented-space, @kooli-sims, @vulrien-sims and @memento-sims

Download (SFS) Compressed

[platinumaspiration]

So, yes, it's been done before. But, I wanted to put my lil spin on it :)

I reconverted the Yeti from Sims 4 and made it into a default for bigfoot & bigfootvest. He is still plagued as just a bodysuit (so no hair default), but now he has a bowler hat and bow tie.

MDP made a really fun rendition here and elvisgrace has a corresponding default, if you'd prefer.

Bigfoot Default - SFS | MF AM body | no morphs | casual + formal | detownified | hidden | 5.274/6.182 poly

[vyxated]

headline & visual effects override

// edited textures

sleeping Zzz

bubbles for the bathtub, hot tub, and sink (they look less sad and more bubbly)

music notes (removed the musical lines)

woohoo hearts

forbidden words !⭐#@

📂 DOWNLOAD

simfileshare / patreon (separated zip file only on patreon)

[episims]

What We Need Is... More Books

After long last I realized that instead of battling with the constant urge to swap my book defaults, I could just give my sims more books to read.

This mod combines both of mine + iSimChi's book defaults and makes the game randomize between those for each genre. So instead of 7 books, there are 21 ✨

I made my older covers use the pages of my newer ones since they have more details.

The mod also fixes the following book behavior:

Books placed outside of bookshelves will no longer turn upwards when a lot is loaded

The 'read to sleep' interaction (that was added in Apartment Life and appears on minors who are in bed but haven't yet fallen asleep) will use children's books instead of the skilling one

This mod consists of two files. In addition to the mod file, there's a texture file that includes the needed book defaults.

If you want to use the mod with some other defaults, simply replace the textures from the texture file. You can also use that file as a base for making your own default set of 21 books.

📚 Download (SFS) (alternate)

Free Time is required. Conflicts with other book cover default replacements, remove those before using these. Also conflicts with ftminifixes by Pescado, if you want to use both make my mod load last (you'll lose the golden book that ftminifixes brings back to the reward bookcase since this mod randomizes textures for that bookcase too).

⚠️ A replacement for novel icons isn't included. You'll probably want to get the one from my newer defaults, as those covers will be used for the novels with the included texture file.

Many thanks to @isimchi for the permission to use their awesome textures 💜 for full credits, please see the original posts.

Update (11.11.2024): The covers are now also randomized for the bed/hammock reading interactions and for the film & literature reading while walking hobby idle. For all of these, sims can now also pick books other than skilling and will show an individual taste in books based on the sim's interests, hobbies, and aspirations, as well as on 3t2 traits* if those are used.

*Includes trait checks for bookworm, computer whiz, dramatic, hopeless romantic, natural cook, and perceptive.

All the books have 512x512 textures and use a 64x64 specular map. The mod file includes improved material definitions that also fix some lighting issues for the drama and the scifi books.

[ukgk]

4D Sakura (shell) by SteppenWolf (荒野のおおかみ) (2002) ★download★

[serawis]

[SERAWIS] Rocker - TS4 Hair Default Replacement + Standalone

I learned how to cc hair! It's not perfect since it's my first try but hopefully it's better than the original 🥲 So many basegame hairs have potential but most look like weird blocky helmets so I'll be remaking them as part of my aesthetic redux overhaul. I already have three more in the making.

override replaces f Rocker

bg compatible

colour slider compatible

retextured

no hat chops for now but it will come asap in a future update as soon as I figure it out 🫠 but they won't be bald, they just default to the original hair which doesn't look too out of place

dl (free, no ads) alt coming soon as I'm having login issues :')

tags ; @coffee-cc-finds @itsjessicaccfinds @simnoticfinds @kittiesccfinds @liliful @stargazer-sims-finds @persimmods @sunflowerpetalsfinds @moondustlilypad @plumbobpaparazzi-ccfinds @rottengurlzccfinds @goliath-simsfinds @eileenccfolder @beargardens @ival-finds @nebulynfinds @sweetbeafinds @arcchive @mmfinds (if you don't want me to tag you then please let me know c: alternatively if you're a cc finds blog and you'd like me to tag you for my future cc then please let me know too! ♥)

[vegan-kaktus]

Various Pet Defaults - Part 1

Pet Bed Basket Expensive

Replaced with chrissy6930's mesh edit of said pet bed (scroll down) and re-mapped by me to use 512x512 textures. Existing recolors will break unfortunately, but I couldn't even find many to begin with. I did include 8 recolors (some of them are remakes of windkeeper's (T$R) recolors). They all have a dirty state, it's not as dirty (/turquoise) as Maxis' but it's something at least. I will include my .psd for this in part 2.

Maxis: polycount: 2784, texture size: 1024x512

My default: polycount: 1294, texture size: 512x512

Pet Food

I dislike the original pet food texture, but I liked the one from this upload by @beautifulnerdkitty. I edited it slightly and turned it into a default replacement.

Note: custom pet bowls might not use my default, since I think they often have their own?

Bon Voyage Bone

The bone sims can dig up from bon voyage is identical to the chew bone from pets ep (but a separate object completely), so I replaced it with the bone from castaway. I re-mapped it to use 140x100px texture (yes!) and I also made it buyable (you can find it under misc - pets) but this edit is in a separate file. If you install the buyable file in your downloads folder, it will have a custom star and can be deleted in-game, and doing so will corrupt your game. If you decide to install the buyable file as well, be careful not to delete the bone in-game!

Maxis made a custom description for this bone, but only in English. I fixed this and now the description is available in all languages, courtesy of Google translate (the Swedish translation I'm confident in but please let me know if any translation needs fixing). They also broke the shadow, which I've successfully restored and edited to fit the new mesh.

Maxis: polycount: 672, texture size: 64x32

My default: polycount: 452, texture size: 140x100 (original was 512x512)

Edited CC

All of the edited custom downloads I mention below, I've re-used their files so you have to choose between my versions or their original!

I re-mapped @deedee-sims' pet pillows to match my new 512x512 textures.

I swapped mesh on hmiller61615's dog chew treat, repo'd it to Maxis' treat texture and also made a version using BV's animations to get rid of the squeaky sound. The file ending with _pets is using the animations from pets with the squeaky sound. The file with _bv at the end is using the animations from bon voyage, with a "boney" sound (and therefore requires bon voyage). Choose one of the files!

hmiller61615's original: polycount: 672, texture size: 64x32

My edit: polycount: 160, texture size: repo'd to Maixs' texture (64x32).

I edited one of the bones by @vampirekiss6661 from here (scroll down). I made it smaller and a tad thicker and gave it a shadow. I made a bv version of this as well, choose one file; either pets or bv!

Polycount: 402, texture size: 128x256

I also re-mapped, resized + edited the textures of ats2's pet bowl & recolor, converted by @beautifulnerdkitty's here. I removed the sheen, repo'd it to Maxis' resources when possible, and gave it a dirty state. My .psd is included if you'd like to make more recolors.

Polycount: 482, texture size: 256x256 (original was 1024x1024)

Recommend Mods

@episims' no rotating pet bowl fix (thank god for that) and Aaron's finicky pet fix (ad-free direct link, SFS mirror).

My pet bed default is required for my recolors to work, and the bv bone default requires bon voyage, otherwise nothing in this dowload is dependent on anything so you can pick and choose what you want. As usual, no mip-maps and everything has been compressed to reduce file size. You can choose between merged or separate recolors (which are clearly named).

Do let me know if anything is wonky or you stumble upon any problems. I am so sorry for the long post, this download wasn't supposed to be more than just two defaults (well, technically it is only 2 defaults included here but I kept getting sidetracked as you can see).. and I have so many more I'll have to make a part 2 (cats are not forgotten)!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MEGA

Edit 2025-03-25: So sorry!! The pet bowl from ats was incomplete, I apparently never finished that one? Hahah so sorry, the links above have been updated with the fixed mesh. It's only the mesh you need to replace (stroda3t2petbowl1MESH_vk.package) all other files are the same. Because MEGA doesn't allow one to update an uploaded file, I had to delete it and upload it again. Thank you so much @sweetbeagaming for letting me know about the broken shadow<3

No MTS you might ask, and yeah sadly. I'm done uploading to MTS, the upload-wizard completely hates me haha. I've lost all my text more times than I want to admit and keep in mind I have to write [b] and [url=] manually over there. From now on I'll only upload to my tumblr. No offense to MTS, it's a great site and I love it dearly.

Credits: chrissy6930 for the edited mesh, @deedee-sims for the pillows, SpaceDoll for their dirty overlay, hmiller61615 for the chew treat, @vampirekiss6661 for the bone, @cluedosims for the cluedo metal resource, architechture_th for the wood texture, chirokung for the paw texture, aroundthesims2/sandra and @beautifulnerdkitty for the pet bowl, someone(?) for the hyena bone converted from castaway, and lasty, Maxis.

[simtanico]

High-End Loft Stuff Stuff Pack Default Replacement Hair Edits

Finally releasing these... Thank you for all your patience! I think these were among the first I edited back when I started doing this, but I was never quite happy with how the hairs were, and I think they're where I like them now.

Matthew Hamming was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to model the three looks you can expect with before/afters, of course.

Details:

Default replacement for teen to elder males. You must have the expansion pack installed for these to work as they only replace what exists in your game! Place in your overrides folder to install. :)

Replaces meshes (all LODs) (I have @ifcasims’s default retextures installed and they’re neat!) Any default replacement retextures will still work.

Compressorized | Custom Thumbnails  (using the previews above – you can customize or delete these if you’d like with s3pe 🙃)

Notes:

Have the same/similar polycounts as the originals.

Any default replacements or default recategorization mods will not work with these mods! Anything that edits the CASP resources, basically. Please reach out if you have any questions.

Download:

Short Sleek (0.5 MB): https://simfileshare.net/download/5407887/ Short Formal (0.8 MB) : https://simfileshare.net/download/5407886/ Short Bangs (0.6 MB): https://simfileshare.net/download/5407885/

Non-default standalone versions are also available here: http://simfileshare.net/folder/217251/

(^requires respective expansion or stuff pack installed)

[plumbob-smooch]

Sunday default ~ The simming bug bit me hard this weekend. Saw this adorable piece by @keoni-chan and I just had to have it!

tfbodyknitdressstripes replaced with Keoni's EP12 Dress Dungaree, originally converted by skittlessims.

Download (SFS) Compressed Credits: Skittlessims, Keoni-chan

[handonthemouse]

Sims 2 Skin Adjuster Program V2 (Create your own custom skintone!)

Hello, this is version 2 of my skin adjuster program.

Firstly, what is the "why" of this program?: If you've ever made a custom skin in the Sims 2 you know how tedious it is to do because you have to manually edit each bmp file and there are 40 bmp files for just one skin. This program aims to help in that. With this program if you want to quickly blend skins or adjust the color, saturation, etc. you can do it quickly in an instant, and the program will apply your changes to all the bmp files, no need to do it manually anymore! It's like an automated Photoshop.

If you've seen my Tumblr post on the V1 of this program, here are the the main updates that i made since then: 1. UI for the program, not command line anymore yay! 2. Teeth and eye areas of the skins are now unaffected 3. Added a color overlay feature

Quick no sound, straight to the point video demo of the program:

Disclaimer: This program only works on Windows. Also, if you use Bodyshop instead of SimPe to import or export the bmp files of the skins, there will be a slight reduce in quality, to no fault of my program. This is due to the compression problem of Bodyshop (I talked about it in a previous Tumblr post).

Download the Program here (Mediafire)

All types of feedback are welcomed! Happy Simming! Note: not sure if i explained it well but, for the output folder, you can either make a new folder or use a folder that already exists. If there are already bmp files in the output folder, the program will replace those.

P.S. Took me a while to write this Tumblr post. I was already done but Tumblr didn't save it : /

[nosferatusim]

Texture-only default replacement of afBodyOvercoatPants, from Nightlife. Alternatively, a custom version of the 3 recolors shown above. Notes and download link are under the cut.

NOTES:

For the overcoat and turtleneck, I used @goatskickin's top-only version as a base. The green one was taken directly from one of her recolors, edited to add the bottom part of the outfit and the shadows under the sleeves, while the other 2 are my own.

Because this only replaces the textures, it's fully compatible with any mesh-only edits. I highly recommend this one by @pforestsims, also shown in the pictures above. He also enabled the outfit for outerwear, which makes more sense for the new textures.

DOWNLOAD: DEFAULT // CUSTOM

[vyxated]

terrain & pond brush override

3 color options: white, blue, pink

choose only one

can be used alongside my buildbuy gizmo overrides

📂 DOWNLOAD

simfileshare / patreon

[episims]

BV Spiritual Shrine of Odd Blessings (aka Lucky Shrine) Default Replacement

I needed it, maybe someone else does too. This default simply removes the fence and the coins from the mesh, to make the shrine look less like a tourist attraction.

Download (SFS) (alternate)

The file is compressed, Bon Voyage is obviously required.

[summersmemory]

TS2 Maid Hair Default Replacement

Welcome to my neighborhood! I'm so excited to share my first contribution to the sims community with you. Once I saw this hair, I just kept thinking how cute it would look with the maids uniform ☺️

fhairhatmaid replaced with @deedee-sims' retexture of Peggy Fh090727-2 (Simgarooped textures and colors).

Feel free to let me know if you run into any trouble with it! I've been playing TS2 for yearssss but still have so much to learn, especially as far as cc goes.

🌊 Download: [sfs] [db]

[asimtypical]

So, I kinda had this idea.. I really loved this default that Rudhira did with ufbodysundress with DeeDee-Sims World Collide dress, and when I saw Antoniko's default of the sundress with matching the swatches from the game dress, I knew what I HAD to do! I swapped out the shoes with pforest's sandal edit from longdresshug, because it's a sundress and I felt it needed sandals.. anyway lol so here we are. Also following Antoniko, I changed the navypiping dress to one with flowers instead of babies, because ew.

Because this might get kinda long, more info and downloads below the cut!

Ok, so where to start?

You can download this as custom and/or default.

tf-af

custom tf standalone OR tf files repo'd to af

if you download the standalone files, the shoes are all repo'd to the celadonvase recolor, so you can choose whatever recolors you want, but you MUST KEEP that one.

if you download the defaults, you can choose between tf only, yf/af only, or tf/yf/af merged.

all ages have appropriate morphs

all files have been clearly named, compressed, shoe sounds changed, and tool-tipped.

everyday/formal categories

Download:

Custom:

custom AF/Alt

custom TF Standalone/Alt

custom TF Repo'd/Alt

Default:

default YF/AF/Alt

default TF/Alt

default UF/Alt

I hope I've explained everything clearly, I'm not the best at that, so I hope it makes sense. These are working in my game, but if you run into any issues, please let me know!

credits: EA/Maxis, @deedee-sims, @antoninko, @pforestsims, @rudhira

[vegan-kaktus]

EA's leaves are kind of dull, and I personally think TNW's are too bright, so here's my spin on a leaf default + a new mod :-D

Leaf variety mod

There are 4 different leaf textures in the game files but only one is used. I talked with @shastakiss some years(?) ago and she mentioned an unfinished mod Neder started working on to make the leaf use different textures. Unfortunately, Neder couldn't get it to work. Shasta kindly sent me said mod and I handed it over to @lamare-sims last year who of course managed to fix it (thank you so much once again, you're a legend!!)

Note #1: worth mentioning, this mod will only affect leaves that spawn after you've installed the mod! the same goes for my mesh fix included in the default below. Note #2: if you already have this mod in you dl-folder, delete that file and use the one from this download if you're planning on using my default (otherwise my uv-map and texture edit will not work).

Defaults

Replaces all 4 leaf-textures with new, more colorful and less blocky textures. I also edited the "effect"-textures of single leaves (the ones falling from the trees). This default can be used without the mod mentioned above, but then only the "original" texture will be used - see second image.

The leaves that spawns under the tree (the one sims can't rake), it was impossible to make it look good with any of the four textures, so I re-mapped it and gave it it's own texture (256x256px). There's also an optional default for the rake included, I edited a tiny error in the mesh and gave it a texture makeover. I made a separate LOD90-default for the leafpile (meaning: the mesh in neighborhood view) and instead of replacing the textures I repo'd them, meaning that the LOD90 default works with any leaf texture default you might use (it will only be showing one texture in neighborhood view).

Texture sizes are all the same as EA's:

Leaves: 512x512px x4 (my default +1: 256x256px)

Rake: 128x256px

Leaf effects: 32x32px x3

Edited leaf-related cc

I edited Sophie-David's leaf pile pet bed (the mesh) and repo'd it to leafpile_txtr, meaning the mesh will now pick up my default (or any other default you might have for leafpile_txtr, and if none - EA's original texture). The mesh now needs seasons + pets, since it's repo'd. Their recolors are not included, so be sure to download them from the link above if you want them and replace their mesh with mine!

I also edited Shakeshaft's leaf cover mesh (warning T$R) , I repo'd it to one of the leaf textures and made recolors - also repo'd - to the rest of the textures. This mesh and recs now need seasons, this also means that the mesh and recolors* can be used without my default.

*with the exception of rc4, which is repo'd to my custom leaf texture, found in my leaf default.

Recommended mod

I recommend simler90's Gardening Rake Leaf Pile Mod or jfade's leaf pile fix (I have no idea what the difference between those two mods are, they edit the same thing so choose one of them).

Nothing in this download is dependent on each other* so feel free to pick and choose what you want :-) remember you can only have one default for the leaves, meaning that if you have any other default (1, 2, 3, 4) or Shakeshaft's/Sophie-David's original meshes, make sure you remove them before installing my files. Everything has been compressed to reduce file size, as usual. Do let me know if I messed up anywhere!

*with the exception of rc4, see above.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: Neder, @lamare-sims (many many thanks!!), @shastakiss, Sophie-David, Shakeshaft and lasty EA.