#sims 2 coding

[l-1-z-a]

Scripting and Sims2: Coding the Psychology of Little People / Making The Sims the Sims: How we make objects and Sims behaviors in Sims2. - Jake Simpson

A presentation at the 2005 Game Developer Conference by Jake Simpson. He was the lead engineer on simulation and tools for The Sims 2.

The presentation covers the following topics:

Definition of the concept of an "object" in Sims 2.

The process of determining what an object will be.

Tools used in object creation, including the Edith Object/Scripting/Debugging Tool.

Discussion of alternative approaches to script creation.

Demonstration of the object creation process. (not saved)

Acknowledgments to the object engineering team in Sims 2.

Description of the core content of objects in Sims 2.

The process of object creation, including design requirements, technical meetings, scheduling of models, animations, textures, and sounds.

Tools and processes used in object creation.

Exploration of the Simantics language used for object script development.

Pros and cons of Edith/Simantics in the object creation process.

Discussion of scripting approaches.

Specifics of object construction, including hierarchical script construction and exporting/importing settings for external modification.

The importance of profiling and debugging in the object creation process.

Demonstration of object creation using the Sims 2 object pipeline. (not saved)

Additionally, the presentation includes mentions of developers, acknowledgments, and the opportunity for questions.

Slides from the presentation:

Audio recording of Jake Simpson's speech:

Transcription of the audio recording - to read if it is difficult to perceive by ear, and to quickly find information from the speech. Only the answers to the questions turned out to be incomplete:

На русском языке:

[reunitedinterlude]

june 16 & 17, 2024

happy one year (and a day) to the phagenda <3

[handonthemouse]

Sims 2 Skintone Editor Program

Since Sims 2 is an old game, it only has a limited amount of skintones, even the cc ones. And, if you want to create new skintones, you know that it's no easy task, with all the BMP files and such for just one skintone alone. Well, now, with this program, you don't have to manually adjust all of them, this program does that for you.

So, this program has two key features, 1. is to blend two skintones (if you want to make a middle shade from two skins, or blend two different skins from different cc creators and make a hybrid of that), and 2. adjust a skintone (brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation).

Video demonstration of me using the program (on Youtube):

Download the Program here (Mediafire)

Zip file contains two files, the python file (for transparency) and the actual exe program file.

If there's any errors, and/or if the program works on your computer please let me know so I can fix it. Constructive and positive feedback are absolutely welcomed! Happy Simming!

Note: I was able to make this image editor program because i have both a background in arts and in computer science, and mix that with a love for the Sims 2, and that's why I made this.

Update: Tried it on a separate machine it works y'all!

[starrodent]

@jonmartinweek day 8: martin’s poetry

nosey little shit. also that tiny succulent in the background is my pride and joy and i’m annoyed at myself that i only showed it in one panel

[str2ngetown]

first art piece of 2025 i hope u guys like it ❤️

[brandinotbroke]

Fun fact bc i feel like a lot of people (myself included) have never heard of this story

There are two games that are running gags on the linux gaming dev server because they are just THAT broken: GTA4 and The Sims 2.

Apparently, one of the devs of d9vk/dxvk, who is/was at the time (?) employed by motherfucking Valve, spent a LOT of time on trying to fix The Sims 2 specifically and could not do it. Or, well, they did do it somewhat, because DXVK does help and the game runs wonderfully on Linux, but why it's running so bad on Windows remains a mystery.

This wasn't (just?) about pink flashing either, bc they were testing on Linux. They looked at draw calls and stuff like that and apparently it's completely cursed.

So yeah, in a way not only is EA failing to make the game run well, but Valve as well. That's what we're up against here. 🥴

[nan-estrelas]

this is so silly

[picknmixsims]

Outfit Organiser - Updated

Outfit Organiser V3.0

Added Genetics menu (advanced mode) for skins and eyes

Added Genetics drop-down, can select from Maxis values or enter an intermediate value (press Enter to get it to "stick").

More info about genetics here, here and here.

With nothing open, you can drag-and-drop a folder from Windows Explorer onto the tree view to open it.

Outfits menu items now uniquely select an outfit. Shift-click on a outfit menu item to multi-select.

[bunnithechubs]

sneaky peaksy

[just-ornstein]

Circe is not an inventor, she doesn't get it. 😔

[mysimsloveaffair]

Could it be?? Another Giveaway...Retro Style

Thanks to the EA Creator Network for the extra EA App codes to give to lucky followers! This time, I will pick 1 winner for the Sims 1 and 1 winner for the Sims 2.

To Enter:

❤️ Follow Me

❤️Like This Post

❤️Let me know in the comments which game you want...the Sims 1 or the Sims 2**

Extra Entries (optional):

❤️Reblog this post (+1)

❤️Follow me on simsloveaffairreblogs (+1) [comment ‘following’ below if you’re already following]

❤️Subscribe to my YouTube channel (+1) [comment ‘subscribed’ below, even if you’re already subscribed]

Ends:  Friday, February 14, 2025, 10pm CST (2 randomly drawn winners will be notified via Tumblr messages the next day)

Thanks, and good luck! 🤗

[skell0man]

Moo deng and Pesto as jonmartin

[paluding]

Oooh 👀

[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 : /

[yaralulu]

having to suffer through booting my 100 year old laptop just to play the sims again. @highlordofkrypton this is your fault 🫵.

[simnostalgia]

So if you remember, WAAAY back, I posted a video when we found out that The Sims actually started out as a addon for Simcity 2000. We got a couple of seconds of video.

Here's some more images, from TCRF, showing off sims and buildings. My guess is that this is after the 1994-5 docs that we got? So this may have been 1994-1996 at some point.

By 1996 at some point they'd moved on to more fully rendered Sims so I'd guess that this is early '96 at the latest?

Funny thing is, this is the earliest development for the SimAntics engine which means that this is ALSO the earliest development point for The Sims 2, since that was just an extension of the TS1 engine engine.

Who knows, maybe there is something from even THIS far back that made its way up to TS2? After all there are pictures of one of the Steering Committee build sims and some UI elements from 1998 left in TS2's files.