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Sims 2 - Base Game/Vanilla Careers Fixed

Another series I am starting out of spite.

The careers are so sloppily coded in Sims 2.

This is an upload of the Medicine career. It overwrites the vanilla (unmodded) career.

Fixes:

Chance cards all actually take (or give) the proper amount of Simoleons based on what the chance card actually freakin' says

"General Practitioner", one of the mid-tier career levels for this career, is misspelled as "General practioner" and I fixed it. If you have the mod from MTS that fixes this typo, delete it because I incorporated it.

"Nurse" level 3 is changed to "Patient Care Assistant" since I have a custom Nursing career that is separate (It's on MTS)

Motives and skills required slightly adjusted (Getting promoted to Paramedic requires Logic now)

INQUIRY FOR MODDERS: Someone tell me: is there a reason why chance cards sometimes call for 50,000 bonuses but Bidou's Career Editor only goes up to roughly 32,000 ? And why. when monetary bonuses are pretty large such as 50k, WHY, are they coded as just the first two digits? For example, in most careers, large numbers such as 50,000$ are coded as just "50". Was this an error by EA or by Bidou??? I have no idea anymore.

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Update: I finally fixed some issues with the guitar accessories. Thank you to @heathensimmer for pointing out the problem.

I can't edit the original post, but the download has been updated on SimFileShare here and on Dropbox here. Re-rebloging because I didn't notice the original link was broken yesterday.

More Random Music Stuff :D

The music stand is an all new mesh functioning as an AL microphone (and therefore requires said EP). Its ‘paper’ channel uses the same recolours as my medieval music stand, which are included.

The cello is a conversion of a TS3 object by The Path of Nevermore. It functions as a bass, and uses the same recolours as the bass conversion I shared a few months ago. These are included, so no need to redownload.  It require Uni, Freetime and Argon’s custom instruments hack.

As requested, I made Argon-compatible versions of ToLaD’s 4to2 Freezer Bunny Guitar and Hamartia 3to2 Grim Reaper Guitar. Also included are a few recolours of both - but I’m not sure these are ‘backward compatible’ with the original versions.

Swatches: - Music Stand - Cello - Guitar Recolours

Download at SimFileShare: - Music Stand and Cello - ‘Argonized’ Guitars + Recolours

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Just the Updated Files for my Custom Guitars

Here is a download containing only the updated/fixed packages for my converted TSM lutes, TS3 and TS4 guitars. The guitar accessories will now have all the proper play, practice and watch functions. Their main download posts/links have also been updated.

They require Argon's custom instruments and pieguitaracc mods.

-> SimFileShare.

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Conversions of the TSM lutes + an all original music stand

Both lutes share the sounds, animations and functions of the default guitar. (However, I’ve removed the effects which the amplifier generated.) The metallic lute has a slightly boosted gain rate for fun points and creativity skill.

Both lutes require University and Freetime, plus Argon’s Custom Instruments by GUID mod.

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The music stand functions as an AP microphone. The microphone accessory will no longer appear in the sim’s hand, but I sadly wasn’t able to change the fact that they’re still clutching a handful of air near their face. I’ve also altered the “Stand Up Comedy” interaction to have it build charisma instead of creativity. I felt like my sims needed a fun way of doing that :P

The music stand requires Freetime and Apartment Life.

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Swatches: -> Lutes -> Music Stand

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DOWNLOAD:  -> THE LUTES : SimFileShare, Dropbox  -> THE MUSIC STAND : SimFileShare, Dropbox

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As always, do tell if I’ve forgotten to include anything in this post.

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Update: I finally fixed some issues with the guitar accessories. Thank you to @heathensimmer for pointing out the problem. The files have been updated on Dropbox, and added on SimFileShare.

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Conversions of Various TS3&4 Musical Instruments

These are functional instruments which require Uni, Freetime and Argon’s custom instruments hack.

Swatches: - TS3 Countrabass - TS4 Acoustic Guitar - TS4 Crappy Handmade Guitar - TS4 Grand Piano

Download at SimFileShare or Dropbox.

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Update: I finally fixed some issues with the guitar accessories. Thank you to @heathensimmer for pointing out the problem. The files have been updated at SimFileShare and Dropbox.

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Lot Sync Timer Fern edits

an edit of @shastakiss's lot sync timer fern. original mod by Pescado at MoreAwesomeThanYou

this is my secret for tracking households in my spreadsheet. BUT the original lot sync timer (& shastakiss's edit) dont count up when sims on the lot dont age, such as when a lot is entirely non-aging supernaturals or YAs

there was also an error, since pescado's original version used elixir of life animations the fern version would throw animation errors because it was still trying to use them. so thats gone & fixed also

i also changed the wording of some of its features to be a bit more clear (not pictures is the other families because this hood doesn't have any)

finally, i made it so it ticks up at midnight. for my sake, because my aging system works like that and its easier to keep track of

like with shastakiss's version, you can change the mesh to anything you like & it shouldnt give animation errors

Download

Buy section: Miscellaneous/Miscellaneous

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4t2 Metal Roof Hatches

These roof hatches by Phaeton99 converted to Sims 2.

I adjusted them to fit the grid: the small one is 1x1 tiles, the medium is 1x2, and the biggie is 2x3. Each size has an open and a closed version. The footprint for them all is only 1 tile, so OMSP wizards can go crazy with these.

I made the top and the base separately recolorable and gave them a few recolors, including some glass ones for the top that make these look less of a hatch and more of a skylight.

All of the other meshes are repositioned to the closed medium one.

These do not work like real windows, so you will need invisible floor tiles to use them as skylights without the weather getting in. This is intentional, as combined with ladders or loft stairs, these look like actual hatches sims can climb through.

I also added a sleeker edit of the 1x2 open mesh that clips less with ladders (no closed version of this one). The preview is included with the archive.

Download (SFS) (alternate)

The files are compressed. The closed meshes are around 450 polys and the open ones are around 1040 polys. The texture size is 512x256.

Located under build/architecture, the small ones cost §250, medium ones §300, and the big ones §350. If you don't have either Apartment Life or Mansion & Garden, you can use the object relocator to move them elsewhere in the catalog.

Thank you @lordcrumps for extracting the resources and @gummilutt for ideas and support ❤️

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📦 Tuesday CC Dump:

Decorative Roof Add-Ons & recolors

+ Large Rounded Corner + Bohemian Mini Roof Set

Diagonal Roof Corners and edgers match bohemian roof [AL], quarter-height roof set by Maxon @jennamaxon and half-height roof set by WhiteWaterWood (MTS) << these are much more useful than original tall roof decor and I recommend you get both sets.

Download: SFS | BOX

*This is for The Sims 2

My diagonal roof bit is quite different from existing diagonal bit included in this large set of add-ons by Julsfels (MTS). It has slightly rounded corners - these look good when put together as little turrets.

My mini roof bits are a new thing - these are meant as wall edge hiders. Large rounded piece matches my Large Rounded Corner Wall.

The corner bits are a bit problematic (wall shading), but most issues can be fixed by placing the object with grid-snapping turned off.

All objects included in the archive are visible in hood view.

Large Round Corner fits two-tile wide diagonal wall. It blends (almost) seamlessly with the walls when placed as shown above. I recommend putting some dark wall recolor on the diagonal wall side to get rid of any flickering of the seam.

Recolor pack makes use of base game and AL textures, so Apartment Life is required.

Three textures included with the mesh are based on Pixelhate's Time Factor walls:

Masonry-02, Poured-02, Siding-10

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Poster Collages on Butterfly Crawler

Never enough of poster collages for me, so I put together some ready-to-use ones and slapped them on the Free Time Butterfly Crawler mesh.

There are 28 variations. These collages use the work of 228 different artists; the archive includes full-sized swatches with artist names and a file with a link to each of them.

Full credit to the artists. None of the art is by me, and I don't make any profit from sharing these. Please see the links to check out other pieces by these people, I'm a big fan of their work!

Download (SFS) (alternate)

The files are compressed, Free Time is required. You can find add-ons for the butterfly crawler here and there.

I've tried to ensure no AI images are included. Please support human artists 💜

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henlo! i just wanted to pop in and say both "wow!" and "thank you!" for all the wonderful stuff you do/have done for this community!! admittedly, i am far from a computer whiz, and have little to no coding experience, but I think even if I DID know something about those things, you would seem like an actual dang genius! I am glad you are still in the community (and all the other long term TS2 modders/CC peeps ofc). ok that is all! have a nice week!

Thank you! <3 These days I feel a bit like "jack of all trades, master of none", haha.

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hello! thank you for all your mods! i was using the visitor controller and wondering, there's an option to ban plagued sims but would it be possible to make it ban healthy sims/only allow plagued sims? i've set up a hospital and only just realized that i can't do that final step D: is it something like a bcon i can edit in simpe myself or would it be more complicated?

Hey! As usual, sorry for the late reply :p

It's been a really long while since I've looked at the Visitor Controller, tbh. I probably should, though, since aparently the values I use to check personality scores aren't the right ones? My version isn't the most recent at this point, too. Maybe someone else fixed that. Anyways.

Looking at it now, it looks for "plague" by checking whether the sim has a disease token:

(It returns true when a sim indeed has a disease.)

Its greater context is the check of the sim's various characteristics:

It runs if flag "E" is set. Notice that if the sim is sick, we here return False, because this function determine whether or not we want them on the lot.

Flag "E" is the internal representation of whether to ban sick sims:

So you'd have to edit a couple of BHAVs and the like to add the option in, but you can (re)use the existing check. You'll have to rework the logic a bit, though. I'd help but my brain is kinda fried atm, sorry :x

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hi there! i'm not sure if i'm on the right track, but i've been using your 'brighter sims' mod and have noticed that 3d beards seem unaffected by the effects and are usually much darker than the sims when in dark spaces.

is this an oversight or simply just something the mod isn't capable of doing? thank you very much in advance! :)

Hey!

Looking at a random Maxis beard, they don't use either of the targeted shaders ("SimSkin" and "SimStandardMaterial"), but the "StandardMaterial" meant for objects.

The fix would be to default-replace the beards into using the "SimStandardMaterial" instead. Same as you'd do for fixing wonky accessories, actually. It's the "Type" in this tab of the material definition:

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Heeey /3

Saw ur attempt of improving StanfardMaterialShader and that's amazing! Wondered if u could edit the lot skirt shader to add cliffs?

Hey! Sorry for the late reply.

Tbh, I've not looked much into the hood/lot/terrain shaders. Searching through them now, I barely found anything for "cliff", which gives me the feeling it's not determined in-shader at the neighbhorhood level in the first place.

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Hi lovely. I really really love your 1to2 conversions. May I ask have you considered re-creating the Espresso bar from the Sims 1 Unleashed. Many thanks!

Hey!

I may do so at some point, but it's really not a guarantee.

I did save this concept art of it, so enjoy:

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Sorry, going through a period of "focusing on a new thing (remembered Spore existed), everything else fell out of awareness" 😔

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Some of my favorite eyeglasses with the lenses edited to be my preferred level of clearness.

These are not new recolors, only edits of existing recolors of glasses made by other people. Credits and thanks to @crispsandkerosene, @celestialspritz, @memento-sims, @platinumaspiration, @rented-space and Shannanigan.

Details & download links under the cut.

Meshes & swatches are included in the downloads.

[Originals by Crisp&Kerosene]

For CU-EU, 1k poly. Only my edits of the 2 recolors with uncolored lenses are included, check out the originals for the other 6 recolors.

↳ Download Heart-Shaped Glasses: SFS / Mega

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[Originals by Crisp&Kerosene]

For CU-EU, ~500 poly. Only my edits of the 2 recolors with uncolored lenses are included, check out the originals for the other 2 recolors.

↳ Download Large Round Glasses: SFS / Mega

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[Originals by Celestialspritz]

For YAU-EU, 2k poly. 14 recolors. The original recolors have invisible lenses for adults but dark Maxis lenses for elders (which I don't think was intentional). My edited versions have clear lenses for everyone.

↳ Download PS Machine Glasses: SFS / Mega

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[Originals by Celestialspritz]

For YAU-EU, 1.3k poly. 7 recolors. As above, the original recolors have invisible lenses for adults and dark lenses for elders, my edited versions have clear lenses for everyone.

↳ Download PS Papillon Glasses: SFS / Mega

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[Originals by memento]

For CU-EU, 1k poly. Only the 2 recolors that I edited are included, check out the originals for the other 6.

↳ Download PxelDaisy Oval Sunnies: SFS / Mega

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[Originals by Platinumaspiration]

For YAF-EF, 1.2k poly. 2 recolors.

↳ Download Magnolia Ckimmie Glasses: SFS / Mega

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[Originals by Rented-Space]

For CU-EU, 1.8k poly. 6 recolors (including one with black lenses that I didn't edit but still included for convenience since it was just the one).

↳ Download Under Rim Glasses: SFS / Mega

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[Originals by Shannanigan]

For CF-EF, 1k poly. 5 recolors (including one with green lenses that I didn't edit but still included for convenience since it was just the one). I renamed the files for clarity.

↳ Download Retro Cat Eye Glasses: SFS / Mega

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Recommendations for more glasses with a similar level of lens clearness (also for me in case I mess up my downloads folder):

• DeeDee 3t2 Glasses Rectangle • Pinketamine Tamo Cat Eye Glasses • Platasp PS Union V1 Glasses • Platasp Accessories Redux (esp. love 13, 15, 16) • Tamo Oval & Halk Rim Glasses

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📦 Tuesday CC Dump:

Posh Club Stuff

New meshes, add-ons, recolors and default replacements

Download: SFS | BOX

Round table is also included but please note it's a purely decorative object.

Glowing H&M stair and fence replacements require Extended Standard Material shader by @crispsandkerosene /work without it, but will not look like they do in the preview/.

Floors featured in the pic: VTMR tiles (carpet 5 and 6) converted by @freezerbunny-sims2 , wallpaper is 'Fiery red' by Donnha, wood panelling is from Bon Voyage, I think.

*This is for The Sims 2

So this lot is more of a photoshoot set than actual building and I can't share that mess - but here's most of the CC / defaults I used in there. Also, please note this Reshade preset affected the colors.

Plant in the main pic is Bioshock 2 conversion by Misty-fluff (anyone has a link)? I've included it - it's actually my mesh edit with pot removed.

Eventually I didn't place any grand staircase in my club - but I was going to. As my internet was down at the time, I made my own mesh edits without the stupid middle raillings. Mesh defaults for 'Sweeping Success Staircase' and deco staircase aka 'A Stair to Remember' (both are from M&G EP) - are included.

Defaults for these already exist - like this one by HL - but please note I edited Sweeping Staircase's railing posts and steps a bit. I also edited UVs, so my replacement does not require texture edits and is compatible with recolors for original.

There's also this default by simblrnova, which includes GMND fix, so the side panels change colors along the main subset (I think they also edited UVs).

You can use my texture replacement for 'Stair to remember' along any mesh default for these stairs. Please note I didn't replace side panel textures.

Matching texture / TXMT replacement for the deco fence 'A Fence to keep in mind' is included in a separate file. Obviously it will clash with other defaults for this fence, like "SN-RailingtoKeepinMind-TXMTFix" by Simblrnova.

/I have no idea if middle stair railing is used for sliding animations - if it is, anims will obviously look awkward. /

I gave Velvet Rope Fence posts a little makeover - you can choose between shape edit, or shape edit plus TXMT edit.

And in case you wonder about the microphone - it's a mesh replacement for "Small superstar microphone" (from Apartment Life, maybe?) with amplifier removed

Microphone dr is not included, I uploaded it HERE (SFS)

Steel support beam requires Apartment Life EP. It looks best in black so I recommend these pipe recolors too.

Round banquet table is a decorative object

It will pull textures from Roundabout table, which could be from Celebrations SP (?) . You can use some invisible 1x1 table to make it somewhat functional /I included invisible table recolor for the 'groovy' square table from UNI EP/.

Decor bits on the table are a part of the mesh, if you don't like it, you can open GMDC in simPe and delete unwanted subsets /FYI those plates are lower than default Eaxis plate/.

I've included small mineral water bottle that didn't make it into my bar decor set as it should.

Crystal chandelier aka Cascades chandelier is a TS2 preorder item, I've included the mesh /with edited texture, black 'circle' removed from the canopy top/. The other one is from M&G /I think?/.

Fancy planter is an add on for 'Off the hook egg" (maybe OFB?), has one placement slot. Recolors (2 in one) included - recolor says red and black, but I changed it to gold last minute.

2-story spotlighter was cloned from an ordinary ceiling lamp, and is not animated - 'light beams' are not recolourable, and are always on. It requires Night Life - I also included recolor for the other NL spotlighter, as I discovered later these are not texture-linked.

2-story curtains are an add-on for 4t2 Wondymoon Cycnus curtains converted by @deatherella - s4 original is here (T$R) - I included the required mesh and my recolors - red and dark purple.

Plumbob sign is based on a symbol from TS2 litigator podium (a career reward).

Stuff I'll share some other time: 2-story light cable extension, table lamps /also, chairs - maybe/.

And if you're up for some DYI, here's the texture I used for the club ceiling. This is based on Adele's sectioned wood floor texture, made dark brown.