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Someone from Pillowfort linked to a post by former tumblr employee who very strongly encouraged people to backup their blogs while they still can so maybe do that? Just in case so nothing important goes missing if shit hits the fan big time.

While at it backup blogs/files of your friends and/or favorite creators who are no longer active here too, there's simply so much Sims stuff that would go missing if this site goes belly up. I'm busy with real life and barely doing anything sims related anymore so I'm not going to be here to do it for any of you even if I wanted to. (though honestly I don't even want to do it, I've handled few full websites and I never want to do it again)

I recommend just making a Simblr.CC account for your Sims stuff to make it stay available in a safe place or alternatively since I've heard people just love me shilling for p*llowfort here's some invites that should each be valid for 50 uses:

I'm really not sure why it insists on making each link a gigantic button like that but whatever, it is what it is and I'm not even gonna try to figure out how to make them not be ugly like that.

I really don't want to fearmonger or anything but if I was active user here I would be making at least a backup of my things if nothing else. In the best case you just have extra copy of your things and nothing bad happens, in the worst you'll be needing that backup to copy your posts/files elsewhere. Either way it's a good thing to have.

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Hey it's been a while and this is the annual "I'm no longer active on this account so follow me elsewhere instead" post. So without further ado, find me at:

Simblr.cc (for all the newer stuff)

DigitalAngels/DigiSims2 repository (WIP, still empty as I'm posting this since I literally just asked for it to be made moments ago. I need some place to store all my old stuff, hoping to handle this after the one below this is handled)

Backup from my time running Packrat stuff @ GoS (this also is pretty new, started in in December and it too is WIP at this point but not too far from being done actually*)

Pillowfort (this one's pretty inactive but it still exists, I'm more active on my other account there)

GoS (Profile, Updates thread, Uploads at GoS)

You're probably noticing that WordPress is missing from this list, this is because I'm planning to nuke it completely once I've copied all the posts from it so it'll be gone completely later.

*while posting these I found out that SFS has deleted some of my files. I hope not too many of them are gone but just in case you encounter a dead link somewhere I didn't remove it myself. :|

This is also reminder that everything shared in any of the links above is offered as is and no support is offered if something somehow blows your game up or something (though honestly, I'm very impressed if you managed to do that)

Also apparently tumblr's been nuking and banning blogs left and right so I hope you all have backups somewhere safe in the case that hits you. If it hits me I won't even fight it, good riddance. I recommend simblr.cc for alternative option, it seems to be reliable enough.

Below this just some real life stuff for those who have wondered where I've disappeared, feel free to ignore if you're only after Sims related stuff.

So. I became a student again in January and it's been eating a lot of my time and on my free time I'd rather just sleep or do something actually fun rather than copy paste hundreds of Sims posts from one place to another but I do plan to get all done eventually whenever I have the time and energy for it. I don't really have much interest in continuing doing Sims stuff anymore so dealing with all these files is a slog and it literally can't be over soon enough. 🙃

On my free time I've been playing lots of Dungeons and Dragons and have tried out other roleplaying games too and I'm having tons of fun just playing those with friends and drawing. I feel I'm mentally doing a lot better than I have for years and actually feel pretty okay overall. It hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows but I won't go into finer details about that here. I hope everybody here has been fine too. ♥

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Hey little heads up since I finally remembered to update this, about empty standby list, if you're on laptop that isn't always plugged in power you'll have to do one more tweak in its settings for it to actually run:

Open the Conditions tab and untick the Power: Start the task only if the computer is on AC power and Stop if the computer switches to battery power. Otherwise the task simply won’t run unless your laptop is always plugged in power.

This same piece of information was added on my tutorial linked above. I realized it was an issue when I was playing with my old laptop, installed it there and it just refused to run so I had to figure out why that happened and noticed that setting. After that it started working so there might be quite few people who have the empty standby list installed and never actually had it running. I'm a desktop girl so I never even realized it could be an issue.

Sims 2 on Windows 11

Alright, the new computer with Windows 11 is up and running and Sims 2 has been installed. These are the steps I took to get it running and looking pretty:

Installed the game through EA App

I installed "George" so I won't need to start the game up through EA App and let it waste resources and spy on me.

I ran the 4GB patch on the Sims2EP9.exe and TS2BodyShop.exe

I ran Graphics Rules Maker and tweaked things through that enabling it to use my full texture memory etc

I installed the EmptyStandbyList since without it I got pink flashing very quickly

????

Profit.

If this helped somebody else out, you're welcome! :)

(long, pretty messy and image heavy version of this process written as I did it is behind the cut. I mean it, it's very long!)

added my graphics card in the video cards file manually

did the common graphics rules tweaks (these) manually

applied 4gb patch to bodyshop and game exes

tested bodyshop, it started up but has no smooth edges, otherwise textures are good and new projects export and import as supposed. 4GB patch works as supposed. It'll likely require tweaking it through nvidia control panel so leaving that for later.

Started up game, after turning the edge smoothing on it looks this good (no mods thus the boxy shadows):

6. However my log is reporting only 1gb of RAM for the game to use, will have to reapply the 4gb patch and try again. But it's using all 12 gb for texture memory so that's cool, I probably won't need to worry too much about pink flashing but I'm going to stress test it a little.

View distance maximized:

Shaders work:

"I probably won't need to worry too much about pink flashing" I said earlier and then left the lot and:

:'D But looking at task manager I see my standby memory has filled up the remaining RAM already so this is actually working as expected, I just forgot one step.

7. installed the EmptyStandbyList.

8. This is where I closed game, applied the standby memory fix, rechecked my exe and remembered that you weren't supposed to run it in compatibility mode so I turned that off but just in case I also reapplied 4gb patch and restarted the game. Now it's correctly showing me 4GB of RAM to use for the game so that should be handled.

Side note: Mr. Humble spawned, I haven't seen him for years as I have mod to stop him from appearing. Was this sim always so ugly? It looks like his face is melting.

No pink flashing after leaving the lot this time:

But it crashed when I clicked on the sims icon.

New try, game restarted and this time we'll go straight to CAS and... *immediately gets distracted* There are this many bin families by default?

I've used clean templates for years so this was an unpleasant surprise. I don't like them, you're all getting nuked soon once I've made sure the game runs as supposed and can go ahead installing clean templates. So then to the CAS, it loads and I click to create a sim and....

Oh. Okay then. :| Guess I'm missing some tweak still. Let's try graphics rules maker instead, it should also easily fix my resolution etc since I forgot to do that manually.

One restart later, are you fucking kidding me?

but hey, nice crisp textures. Too bad it's so tiny I can't see shit. (I realized this was my error after a moment, I thought graphics rules maker said minimum resolution in the spot I didn't change but it actually says maximum, so I fixed that and all is good) But I'm gonna ignore that now and try loading CAS again, pls work.

.... Hell yeah, at least that finally loaded up as supposed.

She is beauty, she is grace, maxis defaults really ruin her face.

After the final restart with screen size etc fixed I went back and forth to different lots trying to make it flash pink and it never did so I'm going to say this was success.

So to recap:

Installed the game through EA App

I installed "George" so I won't need to start the game up through EA App.

I ran the 4GB patch on the Sims2EP9.exe and TS2BodyShop.exe

I ran Graphics Rules Maker and tweaked things through that enabling it to use my full texture memory etc

I installed the EmptyStandbyList since without it I got pink flashing very quickly

????

Profit.

And seriously, that's all, even if this post ended up this long.

I still need to get smooth edges in bodyshop but that will likely be done with nvidia control panel rather than texture settings. Here's one more random maxis sims image to end this with a pretty picture instead of just huge wall of text.

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Happy New Year!

I'm only quickly dropping in to remind that I now post new content exclusively to Simblr.cc, above is some of the new things I've shared only there (and GoS in some cases), includes newly converted hair, pretty neat necklace with animated texture, male clothes and even a new eyelash removal slider etc. Find that and more at:

{ Digi's Simblr account }

I'm not planning to return to tumblr in case you were hoping for that. But I felt that new year = new reminder that I'm not posting here anymore is in order. I don't expect anyone to follow me there, just reminding that if you're looking for new custom content by me that's where it is and will be in the future too and I'm not going to be logging back here to announce every thing separately like I did in the past, I have my updates thread at GoS for that purpose already. And now with all this done, off I go again, bye.

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{ This Blog Is Now Closed }

This time for good, I'm sorry but I'm just completely done with tumblr, the crappy updates here, the endless bot invasion which tumblr can't seem to fix, the constant push to make users pay for merely existing here and so on... But most importantly because now there actually is a better option for us Sims players in Simblr.cc so I'm moving there fully.

Please respect my TOU, while I might not be here I still exist in this community you know?

You can still find me at:

Simblr.cc <- The main place now

GoS (Profile, Updates thread, Uploads at GoS)

Discord, I use name "digisims" there and you can mainly find me at Sims 2 Shenanigans, Chill Sims Chat, GoS server and Simscord servers. (+few others so if you see someone called digi on some Sims related server it's very likely me)

Wordpress (mainly a back up of all the content I've posted)

Pillowfort (occasionally mirroring posts there too but it's mostly just a backup now.)

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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Anyway, as shocking as it is, I didn't log in to rant about the latest updates (even though ugh, I see I've received the Live tab too, yuck!), that stupid thing just popped on my face as soon as I logged in so I had to find how to block it again.

You've probably noticed I'm not posting here anymore, instead I've put all the new posts to GoS and Simblr.cc and that's also where I intent to keep posting from now on. I also moved most posts from this blog over to Simblr already and what isn't there is in my Wordpress. I'll make a new proper pinned post for this once I'm done writing this.

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The latest (new!) thing I've posted was my nth edit + defaults of Ephemera's NS II Eyes:

and you can find them at Simblr & GoS. The makeup set I shared as the Sim Challenge Prize will also be shared at Simblr soon-ish so if that's something that interests you keep an eye on it. (I think it has been long enough that I can post it for everyone now)

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I'm simply done battling against the windmill that is tumblr and the community that stubbornly sticks here, it's pointless waste of my time and energy. I don't expect anyone to follow me to simblr or even care about anything I'm writing here right now but I felt that it was the right thing to write this out here instead of just disappearing without another word.

This blog will probably eventually disappear once I fully stop logging back in ever and the address will get taken over by a spambot or something. (I think that after certain time of inactivity tumblr changes the address to blogname-blog? and that's when the bots take over the old name and you'll probably be seeing viagra, game or traveling ads or something else fun on my page lol.) but that's just how the system here works so I can't do anything about it.

I'm also closing the asks again and turning off the notifications so I won't be tempted to log in. If there is need you can contact me at GoS or MTS or Discord (I'm digisims there, I've set it to not allow anyone directly but if you need to message me there I'll notice the pending messages eventually). I think most people have account at one of those.

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Does Raw32bit texture format make TS2 CC makeup look better?

Raw 32bit format is basically what it says it is. It doesn't use compression and contains much more colour information than your standard 8bit DXT format - that is 32 bits per pixel. So CC item that contains Raw32bit texture takes up more texture memory. It's like loading FOUR textures instead of ONE.. Is it worth it?

Apparently there's a myth that Raw format is 'best for makeup' (but you can find Raw32 or Raw24 textures in all sorts of custom content). It increases the file size and clogs texture memory. Is it a good idea to use it in CC for the game that is not even able to display 8bit color depth correctly? After all, banding artifacts on dark colour gradients still show up, no matter what format you use.

Below is a little comparison. In extreme close-up, both 512x512 eyelashes are more crunchy - but also, quite crisp.

1024x1024 DXT5 lash mask looks a bit different to 1024x1024 Raw32, which is more smooth, but also a little blurry - none of those two looks as crisp as actual texture viewed in SimPe.

That's because the game shrinks 1024x1024 to 512 x 512 px, which is the default size of TS2 face texture (and also the scalp) and so the quality suffers from it.

I've shown my comparative pics to a few people, some said 1024x1024 DXT5 lashes look better. Let's zoom out just a little bit:

There's still a difference. But personally I prefer crisper-looking details.

If you go through TS2 game files, you'll find very few Raw colour textures that are actually being used. I only know about this one - lamp debris contains Raw24bit texture and I bet it was done by mistake.

I don't know if/how makeup files add up to pink flashing. These files tend to be much smaller than other Bodyshop CC items (when compressed ofc). Hairs are probably a much bigger culprit. But then again, if you often use layered face masks and you get pink flashing a lot, then it's something to think about.

*Lashes come from this really nice set by @goingmintal - textures are 1024x1024 raw32 so I had to suppress the urge to download all of it 😉

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forgive me for sounding stupid... but when you say remapped, does that mean your mesh won't work with previous recolours?

Not a stupid question, I don't think I explained it too well in the description. The answer is: yes, unfortunately it doesn't work with the previous/existing retextures. Which is why I made it into a new mesh so it won't overwrite the existing one and break all the recolors of it so it's a new mesh in the old shape with a new mapping. Meaning: you can use both versions together, but also that if there is a retexture of it that you really like it'll have to be remade to match the new mapping. I changed it quite a bit so just pasting it over would likely result in gaps or weird texture placements.

I know that's a bit annoying, but I really tried working things out with the original mapping for weeks and it just wasn't working out, the texture wasn't suitable for what I wanted and there was always a spot on the side where no matter what I tried the hair shine just refused to align with the rest. After getting completely frustrated with it I decided to just try making a new texture for it and remapping the hair completely instead - it was done in mere few days and I could have posted the damn thing weeks earlier if I hadn't insisted on trying to work things out with the original texture for so damn long. 🙃

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I posted a complete remap of Raon 103 and a male conversion of it to GoS, Pillowfort and Simblr.cc. Polycount is just under 10k so it's a nice relatively low poly hair. Genuinely surprised that no male conversion of it seems to have existed until I made this. (The shaved version is available for boys but not the regular)

On that news, I now have a Simblr.cc account I like it so far so I'll likely keep posting content there in the future too. You should all check the site out, maybe you'll like it. :)

Oh and I also created 2 small edits of the clothed CPU WSO actions for Fia, if such things interest you, you can find them here.

That's all for now, okthxbye.

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The real reason I logged in today was because I installed couple of Sims, each in their own folder so I knew I'd get duplicates and planned to sort them out but before that did this important little step:

Searched the whole folder for *.package to get all the package files listed. After that I set the order to "size" starting from the biggest one and it revealed me this;

Now you're probably wondering, what's so bad about these randomly named files I've highlighted. Well, maybe you've heard of the file that can make your game crash at for example sim aging to elder? Or perhaps your game randomly crashes when random sim enters your lot? Sometimes the file is called "uhkjhihjkj(11)" and it's a file that likes tagging along with packaged Sims and occasionally people pack it together with recolors that are actually using in-game meshes thinking that it's an oddly named mesh.

Well it's not a mesh. This file has few characteristics that make it pretty easy to spot: firstly usually the random name (or the uhkjhihjkj(11) mentioned earlier), secondly the file size, I've seen few slightly different sized ones but usually it is 6807KB or 6.64MB depending on where you check the size. Thirdly, if you open it in SimPE the contents will look like this:

It contains 1534 CRES resources, and as you can see it's CRES:es of all(?) base game accessories, clothes, hairs and who knows what else. The list is so long I never bothered checking it all though. Point however is that for whatever reason this file corrupts very easily and causes game to crash at random moments. And even if it doesn't corrupt it's just plain junk file that's taking space on your hard drive.

Now you're probably (hopefully!) looking through your Downloads folder to see if you have this file/these files and that's a good idea. Also good news is that you don't need to panic, if you find this kind of file in your game just delete it. Nothing will break, nothing needs it so your recolors will remain working. It's literally a junk file and it's perfectly save to delete so please do so.

I felt like making this little PSA since I realized that not everybody probably is aware of this stupid file lurking out there in random downloads. + this way I can just link this post whenever it sounds like somebody might have this particular issue with their game so I won't need to type it all over again every time.

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hey-- just wanted to let you know I love your Dummy Thicc bodyshape, and am adding it to my personal collection of Bodyshapes (TM). IDK how much use you'll be able to get out of any of it, but expect some medieval clothes using it Soon (TM).

I'm glad to hear it's a liked shape! I'm looking forward to whatever you'll make for it :D

I honestly didn't think there'd be many people who'd find use for it but it seems pretty well liked as far as bodyshapes go which is neat. I half-wish I had named it something less dumb but it is what it is.

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Hello Digi! I have been following your content for many years and I wanted to tell you that I love everything you do for us 💕 I am glad to have the opportunity to tell you on this platform

I'm a fan of the sims 2 and the quality of your hair and eyes is wonderful :D

Pd: Sorry for my english ;u;

I have no idea why tumblr never informed me of this ask but thank you for your nice words TT___TT I'm glad to hear you think so and your English is perfectly good!

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Hi there! A while ago you converted Kurikara by Nozomu from 3t2. The original hair is amazing and I'd love it in my ts3 game, but the creator is long gone. Do you know if you still have a copy of it anywhere? Since you converted it ages ago, I understand this is a long shot, but I thought I'd ask!

It was already reuploaded to my blog here. :)

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*dusts the blog a little*

So anyway, I posted some Tifa eye edits to the current GoS theme:

First image should be clickable link but if it doesn't work *click here*

I also posted my first hair mesh there. This is Digi_Hair001_Deimos It might very well end up being the first and last mesh I create but I named it that way in hopes that it'll encourage me to try making more 😅

Same deal, first pic should be clickable but if not *click here* since this is special hair it's also available in Pooklet's and Io's colors 👍 I know it's nothing that special or interesting but it's mine, I made it myself so it's special to me because of that.

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Download all custom outfits on SFS or Mega Download efbodycrumplebottom defaults on SFS or Mega

The other day I woke up wanting a default replacement giving Mrs Crumplebottom @digisims2′s Dummy Thicc body shape (my still hazy brain must have thought it was hilarious or something). Turns out this shape suits her beautifully!

Anyway, since I’m always on the lookout for elder and mature clothing, the idea expanded into a whole set of Mrs Crumplebottom outfits converted for standard Maxis EF and AF as well as some of my favorite custom body shapes (Melodie9 fat AF, Melodie9 fat EF, Momma Lisa, Trans Momma Lisa, Dummy Thicc). Poly count is low since this is a Maxis outfit: 2108.

The textures come from Lemonlion (bottom of this page) for the de-necklaced Maxis one, and Colorbox-sims for the others, I just edited them to remove the necklaces (thanks to @oldasscustomcontent for reblogging that post!).

So in the end, you get:

★ Custom outfits in 11 colors for all 9 body shapes, categorized as everyday, formal and outerwear. They have fat morphs, no preg morph. You’ll have to choose if you want them standalone or repo’d to the Maxis EF ones. The custom body shapes are BSOK’d (except Dummy Thicc, which doesn’t have a BSOK number). Previews/swatches included in the download.

★ Default replacement textures and meshes for efbodycrumplebottom. All are in individual files so you can combine whichever texture you want with whichever body shape you want. Choose at most 1 texture replacement (numbered swatch included) and 1 mesh replacement. Note that these only replace Mrs Crumplebottom’s outfit - the white bag shown on the titlecard is by @katsurinssims​ and can be found here (it also makes her knit white), and the hair default I used is this one by @peppermint-ginger​.

Full swatches/previews under the cut.

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reblogging this in case anybody needs more cool clothing options for this shape :D

Download all on SFS or Mega

Twelve outfits for @digisims2′s Dummy Thicc body shape. All are enabled for AF, most are enabled for EF as well. All have fat and preg morphs. All have a low to reasonable poly count (especially if you stick to block feet).

They span all clothing categories, giving you 1 to 4 options for each. Combined with the outfits from Digi’s original post (and Agnes’s very versatile suit), you should have enough to fully dress a few Dummy Thicc sims without overt redundancy.

Swatches and details under the cut.

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Couple of new updates

Download CoolSims 80 lowerpoly mesh edit & retexture from Ko-fi or GoS

Download Demonic Eyes from Ko-fi or GoS