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- Secrets Post #232, May 26th, 2012

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Save me tutorial Joe and Jane… save me…

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Gallery Collection 001

Published: 2-21-2024 | Updated: N/A SUMMARY This is the first in a series of upcoming investment objects for Sims 2 – things your sims can use to generate income over time. From 1975-2000, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. commissioned 30 paintings of African kings and queens for an extended outreach and marketing campaign. This set of paintings features artwork from this amazing series. Celebrate Black History Month 2024! #co2bhm #bhm2024 #sims2bhm.   *No copyright infringement intended – I own no rights to these images.

DETAILS Requires Sims 2. Requires Apartment Life for shiftability. §1K-15K | Buy > Deco > Wall Hangings Paintings are centered on 1-tile but cover more tiles than that. They come in various gallery sizes and images have been edited to fit the mesh. After purchase, their value increases by approximately 2% daily – watch out for burglars! Files with “MESH” in their name are REQUIRED. Frame recolors include EA/Maxis and yeti textures. Frame and painting recolors are merged into two files so you’ll have to take them or leave them. ITEMS Great Kings & Queens of Africa: Paintings 001-006 (92-764 poly) DOWNLOAD (choose one) from SFS | from MEGA

IMAGES

Akhenaton Pharaoh of Egypt (1375-1358 BC) by Barbara Higgins Bond

Alfonso I King of the Kongo (circa 1486-1543) by Carl Owens (1929-2002)

Askia Muhammaed Toure King of Songhay (1493-1529) by Leo Dillon

Benhanzin Hossu Bowelle—The King Shark (1841-1906) by Thomas Blackshear II

Cleopatra VII Queen of Egypt (69-30 BC) by Ann Marshall

Hannibal Ruler of Carthage (247-183 BC) by Charles Lilly

Hatshepsut The Ablest Queen of Far Antiquity (1503-1482 BC) by Dean Mitchell

Idris Alooma Sultan of Bornu (1580-1617) by Charles Lilly (1949-)

Ja Ja King of the Opobo (1821-1891) by Jonathan Knight

Khama III The Good King of Bechuanaland (1819-1923) by Carl Owens

Makeda Queen of Sheba (960 BC) by Debra Edgerton

Mansa Kankan Musa King of Mali (1306-1337) by Barbara Higgins Bond

Menelek II King of Kings of Abyssinia (1844-1913) by Dow Miller

Moshoeshoe King of Batsutoland (circa 1786-1870) by Jerry Pinkney

Mwana Ngana Ndumba Tembo—Ruler of the Angolan Tchokwe (1840-1880 circa) by Kenneth Calvert

Nandi Queen of Zululand (1778-1826 AD) by HM Rahsaan Fort II

Nefertari Nubian Queen of Egypt (192-1225 BC) by Steve Clay

Nehanda of Zimbabwe (1862-1898) by Lydia Thompson

Nzingha—Amazon Queen of Matambo (1582-1663) by Dorothy Carter

Osei Tutu King of Asante (circa 1650-1717) by Alfred Smith

Queen Amina of Zaria (1588-1589) by Floyd Cooper

Samory Toure The Black Napoleon of the Sudan (1830-1900) by Ezra Tucker

Shaka-King of the Zulus (1787-1828) by Paul Collins

Shamba Bolongongo African King of Peace (1600-1620) by Roy LaGrone

Sunni Ali Beer King of Songhay (circa 1442-1492) by Leo Dillon

Taharqa King of Nubia (710-664 BC) by John Thomas Biggers

Tenkamenin King of Ghana (1037-1075 AD) by Alexander Bostic

Thutmose III Pharaoh of Egypt (753-712 BC) by Antonio Wade

Tiye The Nubian Queen of Egypt (circa 1415-1340 BC) by Leonard Jenkins

Yaa Asantewa Queen of Ghana (1863-1923) by Barbara Higgins Bond CREDITS No copyright infringement intended – I own no rights to these images. Artwork and trademarks are the property of their respective creators and/or owners. If this exceeds fair use, please contact me via private message. Thanks: Simming and Sketchfab Communities. Sources: Any Color You Like (CuriousB, 2010), Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), Console Certificates (d_dgjdhh, 2019; 2011), EA/Maxis, Gyeongbokgung Sajeongjeon Painting (National Heritage Administration, 2024 via CCA; Sketchfab), Great Kings and Queens of Africa Series (Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 1975-2000; Kentake, 2016), Offuturistic Infographic (Freepik), Painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski (Sosnowski, 2018 via CCA), Yeti Metals (Shastakiss, 2017).

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How to Create an Invisible Pool

I use Cinema Secrets which can integrate Voeille's water mod. Of course, when you load up a lot that has water, it turns black and you need to place down a pool. However, it looks pretty tacky to have a random 1x1 pool, even if you try to cover it up with bushes and flowers.

I found a fix written out by MTS user damondamore that explains a very simple process on how to make an extra pool option in Build Mode that is invisible !

Add the below to .\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Apartment Life\TSData\Res\Catalog\Scripts\deckfoundations.txt (or whichever deckfoundations.txt goes with your latest EP-- I have the Ultimate Collection and use the file up there) manually even if you have the Scriptorium-- there's some quirk with pools/decks in it.

pool 900 wallStyle 29 floorPattern "floor_poolRoundedLipBlue" catalogTextIndex 6 notRendered

You will have an extra pool that will appear in pools with the OFB deck icon... but really it's an invisible pool. And, yes, sims can swim in it with ladders and diving boards too.

And now, you can see at the top that there is indeed an invisible 1x1 pool with a ladder attached to it, and you can also see that the water shader and reflections are properly loaded in !

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The Curiousi know what they like.

In honor of Glarn’s birthday (well, it could be. He’s an Aquarius) I got out the bicycle pump and blew up a few inflatable aliens for you.

Download@SFS

Download@Box

Credit: Original Mesh by Asteroth600

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Finally done with these!

Something cozy and autumnal for sims of (most) ages!

I really liked the shape of the jackets in included in this set by @platinumaspiration, and wanted to use some fun patterns on them!

The patterns are from HouseFabric, P Kaufmann, Online Fabric Store and Stonemountain & Daughter.

I've included a plain white PSD, if making your own recolors is something you'd like to do!

For teens, adults, and as pictured - elders!

Categorized as Everyday.

Polycount: 3k

Download - Autumnal Jackets for All!

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3t2 Fruit & Vegetable Displays

I have a small gift for you today: produce displays from the Island Paradise, Monte Vista, and Sunlit Tides grocery rabbitholes. Perfect for your farmer's market or neighborhood grocery store :)

Pics and download link under the cut!

First up, the Island Paradise produce stands. I shrank these to fit across two tiles and both the produce and the wooden stand/umbrella are recolorable subsets. I didn't end up repo'ing either of these to each other so you can keep both or delete whichever without missing any textures. The meshes should fit together snugly if you want to tile them together to create one big tented display!

No recolors included, found in Appliances > Misc for §650.

Next, these floor displays which were outside the Sunlit Tides grocery rabbithole. I shrank them down to just one tile, and I've included two produce recolors so you can have either the fruits/veggies combo, all veggies, or all fruit (the wood is also a recolorable subset). Found in Appliances > Misc for §550.

Lastly, these barrels which were hidden inside the grocery rabbithole from Monte Vista. The originals were very blocky so I actually recreated them using a smoother in-game mesh (the barrel of flowers!) and I think they look pretty cute.

Before (pic from Blender):

After:

The larger barrel is the PARENT mesh, the smaller one is the child. Barrel can be recolored, and I included NINE recolors using all of the produce textures included in the original rabbithole (note that I did use an AI upscaler because the original textures were itty-bitty). Found in Appliances > Misc for §75 & §65.

Enjoy!

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Oh, this is the guitar I’ve mentioned earlier. Now you can get it at GoS.

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I was working on arranging a model to 3D print in the future, but I thought I might as well render it, too!

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Here’s something for your scholarly ladies to keep out that  terrible library chill. I put honeycuts’ Misty Skirts on @mdpthatsme‘s conversion and then I put tights on them. They come betighted or tightless. The ones with tights are set as Everyday and Outerwear.

They’re very cozy.

Swatch and mesh included and everything’s compressed.

Download@SFS

Download@Box

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Nervous Subject quickly learns that when it comes to inheriting Dad's business, he sure has his work cut out for him.

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I recently created a pet for a family in game, and I loved how it turned out so I registered the breed and thought I’d share it!

I wanted it to look like a sheepadoodle (as much as possible within Sims 2 constraints) and when I was looking for references I came across this adorable dog Bayley, so this is mostly based off her.

Required Files: You’ll need these custom dog furs installed (the natural shades) AND the nose & toe beans markings for this breed to display correctly. Once you have those files installed, and then you download this breed, it will show up as a preset breed in the Create a Pet menu.

Hope you enjoy!

Download (SFS) | Download (MF)

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Omame-intyrannosaurus' Face Stickers 4t2 Conversion

Hey y'all! Back at the Simscord discord server requested by @grilledcheese-aspiration, these beautiful, kawaii face stickers by Omame-intyrannosaurus (they have really good cc! go check them out :3). This is first time actually trying to make a (kawaii) preview, I hope I can make more in the future :3

Comes in 5 swatches and 1 blush! Also, I made it so that you can layer everything, I dunno why you would do that, but there's an option to!

All files has been Tool-tipped and compressed, and two options: merged and unmerged!

DOWNLOAD

Merged | Unmerged

Credits: Omame-intyrannosaurus, Paluding (would not be possible without their Sims Tattooer!)

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Print Bundle Pack #1

80 prints including graphics and simlish texts! They are all from the game, mostly from CAS, but some are ingame paintings! I had to edit and redraw most of them in order to remove the background but it was so worth it, 'cause now they have transparent background and look marvellous as a t-shirt print! You might have to resize some of them, because a few of them are too big for a print. I hope you find them useful! Enjoy! ❤ (few examples where I used them: 1 / 2 / 3 )

➤ DOWNLOAD HERE (PATREON, FREE)

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Markisa Cactus Cat Set for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from Kate Emerald, low poly. Everything is functional. I changed the layout of the cat tree to adapt the shape to the original game one and make it work, hope you'll like it anyway :)

DOWNLOAD HERE

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This TS2 outfit turned into 2 tops 'cause I couldn't make my f***ing mind 🤪

Leather Vest Short & Leather Vest Long

for AF

& Recolours

Download (SFS) Polycount: 1690

All morphs although the short vest preg morph might show gaps.

You can choose short vest recolours repositoried to long vest, or standalone files.

Swatches under the cut:

As you can see in the pic, tops can be combined with bottom-only dresses.

Male top version of 'punk' outfit also exist, it was separated by Trapping ("motorcycle jacket") and can be downloaded here (SFS). Please note my Leather Vest recolours are NOT compatible with that one. Buuut I intend to do at least a few recolours for it at some point, or maybe I'll recolour the male outfit and do repos.

Enjoy!

Angry mouth on the back inspired by the jacket featured in this music video :)