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"A Rose by any other Name" Flower Arranging Station

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the residents of strangetown want to wish you a very out of touch thursday

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Non Autonomous EA Romantic Interactions

This mod disables the autonomy of all EA Romantic Interactions. And is meant to compliment ACR. While is sounds counter productive to ACR. The idea is as follows. Since ACR does not modify any vanilla interactions but add custom ones, any settings you set trough ACR does not apply to the original interactions. This has been sitting unreleased for over six months now, but I thought someone might need it. As I developed this for someone on reddit. Example: If Daniel Pleasant, who is having an affair with the maid. Is on the same lot with Mary Sue and Kaylin. And you set him as totally faithful, as it does not make sense for him to go and flirt with the maid in front of his wife. The faithful setting with only apply to the new custom from ACR(he wont perform any of them, and he should reject any directed from Kaylin to him). However the game can still push the vanilla interaction, so either him or Kaylin can still be romantic with each other. With this mod installed the game won't push any romantic EA interactions, only ACR will. I hope you can get the picture, and ow this mod compliments ACR. ACR is not a required, but without it you will get not autonomous romantic interactions.

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Espiritu Estate, home of Alexander Goth.

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Blueprints extracted

I extracted the blueprints from free time and made them recolorable. Cost is §15 and they are located in Deco - Wall Hangings.

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i started a new veronaville machinima/series!! go and check it out!!

dont forget to put the english subtitles!!!

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Just wondering if any content creators would be able to make this eyes into default-replacement and also geneticized and townified.

They can be found on https://modthesims.info/m/4183148 by creator Beautiful_Nightmare

Would really appreciate if anybody is able to!😊

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The Library

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Beaumont Manor Courtyard

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Engagement and Wedding Ring Stones by Color Traits

This mod defaults the wedding ring with a new jeweled mesh and makes engagement and wedding ring stones appear in the wearer’s favorite color if they have a favorite color trait in their inventory.

If the sim has more than one favorite color in their inventory, the alphabetically highest will rule the color. Sims without a favorite color will have white stones.

Important! This mod is meant to replace the earlier engagement ring mod as well as pforest's version of it. Use one of the previous versions if you only want engagement rings to change color. With this mod, both engagement and wedding rings will change color.

The stone colors used in this mod for both rings are the ones from pforest's version. The new wedding ring mesh is also by pforest.

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Easy Inventory Check is required. The mod is compatible with the engagement ring mesh default by pforest. It can also be used together with txmt replacements for ring bands.

Technical info: the new wedding ring mesh is 927 polys. Many thanks to awesome @pforestsims for generously making it!

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Sims 2 Medieval Bedding defaults

So I’m in the process of re-doing my Medieval downloads folder in the Sims 2 and couldn’t find any default bedding replacements that I really liked. Enter: SimPE and a couple of spare hours!

I have combined textures from my favourite medieval bedding sets:

 - https://modthesims.info/d/479068/medieval-bedding.html  - https://modthesims.info/d/479144/medieval-bedding-part-2.html  - http://affinitysims.com/index.php?/file/1314-requested-more-medieval-bedding-recolors/

And added some of my own to create this set. Pics and download under the cut

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Sims 2 Neighbourhood Pine Forest Defaults!

Hey friends, so I made these aaaages ago and never got around to uploading them because I was using things from other creators and wanted to make sure I had permission to share... and now, I do!

Lowedeus made these beautiful Shastakiss CS Pine Tree conversions into default replacements for the single hood pines HERE, with lovely seasonal snowy states.

I simply took their work, played in Blender and applied it to the pine forests, which I hadn't been able to find a good default replacement for. More pictures, technicals and download under the cut.

Technical Stuff:

I have slightly tweaked some of Lowedeus's original files, so I have included them in this download. Please let my files overwrite the originals or your trees might be funny coloured.

The forests pull their textures from the individual trees, so you will need to have all of the defaults in your game for them to work.

All credit for these goes to @shastakiss for the original conversions with snowy states, @lowedeus for those original, beautiful defaults that I have been using for years, and also shoutout to @lordcrumps who assisted me with creating these defaults and troubleshooting when the tree colours weren't right 😅❤️

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Snowy States:

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Ever wonder what Maxis was thinking when they made some of those outfits? Who knew they were stealing from Karl Lagerfeld?

Chanel Fall 03

TF Basegame Coutureshortdress

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I always thought that Puck's party was, in a certain sense, not only chaotic due to the scripted events we already know, but also very embarrassing.

Imagine this poor shy guy who would just like an excuse to talk to his crush, his parents arrive and tell him "YOU MUST MAKE FRIENDS, WE HAVE AN IDEA, LET'S ORGANIZE A PARTY" Puck is hesitant, but only accepts because he thinks that if nothing else is a good excuse to be able to meet Hermia in a way that is not too obvious.

Only afterwards, however, Titania shouts "AND WE WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE, MUM AND DAD WILL BE WITH YOU".

Puck swallows, he already knows the worst will happen.

So, while the party is full of teenagers having fun, arguing, and while Puck finally gives his first kiss to crush, in the background we see Titania and Oberon like this:

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Chris Hatch's Community Time Mod fix

This post is about Chris Hatch's version of the popular Community Time Project mod for Sims 2, which prevents an immediate return of a Sim to their home lot after a travel. It's a great idea and I use this mod ever since I started using mods in my game.

However, it has a known but so far unfixed issue. If the player ever closes the text box that shows the remaining time until the Sim's return, or if the player closes their game while a Sim is off-world and later reloads the lot, then the mod will throw an "Undefined Transition" error.

CTP also fails to calculate the time correctly if a Sim is away for longer than 72 hours, and instead flows over to zero.

I have prepared a little fix for these two issues which I deemed not large enough to upload to MTS, but it's a critical fix for CTP users nonetheless.

Note that, unless CTP is re-written from scratch, travel times longer than seven days (168 hours) will still slow over to zero, because the Token - Community Time does not keep track of larger time units than the current Day of Week at departure.

While I was at it, I also solved the conflict between CTP and @lazyduchess' Playable Nannies mod.

Make sure the fix loads after CJH_CommTime(StandAlone), and also after ld_scheduler_car_semiglobals if you have it.

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EDIT (2023-11-23): I was made aware that, if you did not have Playable Nannies, or No Driving Without A Licence by @picknmixsims, errors would occur. I have thus added an extra resource that by itself does nothing but extend a constant table so those errors won't happen anymore. The file is updated, please re-download if you don't have one of these mods.

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◆ 200 Essential Sims 2 Mods, Defaults and Fixes ◆

I have just reinstalled my game and currently reorganizing downloads folder. I thought that it could be helpful to share the resources that I use. If you’re starting over just like me, good luck! We can do it :D

All the mods are listed in the random order. But important ones go first. I also added tiny descriptions of what each mod does. Also, let me know if you notice that some of these mods conflict. I’ll appreciate ♥

This is an endless list, so I’m hiding the part of it under the cut. I also decided to share the PDF and word version of the list for convenience. Have fun!  ♥

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Clean UI - changes user interface to minimalistic and modern one.

Clean UI for Bodyshop - the same style interface for Bodyshop.

Bodyshop Brightening - redefines the lighting used in BodyShop. Must be put in Documents/EA Games/The sims 2/Config folder!

Minimalist Bodyshop Background - put in the Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 folder and click F5 when you are in Bodyshop.

Minimalistic Logo Screen

No Pause Frame - removes the red frame that appears when the game is paused.

Default book covers and novel icons

Better Bubbles - replaces the default blurry low-resolution Chat, Thought and Yell Headline Bubbles with brand new high-quality textures.

Talk to Me - a speech icon replacement mod that replaces (almost) all speech icons with TS4 icons.

Camera Mod Compilation

Widescreen Camera Cas

Maxis Match Lighting Mod by Dreadpirate 

Maxis Roofs Default Replacement by Curiousb4

Clean Neighbourhood Templates by Jawusa - these neighborhood templates allow to create clean custom neighborhoods with no Townies/NPCs or if you want to play in EA’s neighborhoods, but without the playables.

Clean and Empty Stealth Hood Plates by Jawusa - allow to get rid of Maxis families that appear in neighbourhood’s bin.

Rural Charm terrain and road default replacement by Criquette

Linden HOOD Trees Replacement 

Birch HOOD Trees Replacement by Sixfootsims4

Pine HOOD Trees Replacement

Palm HOOD Trees Replacement by Anima

Redbud HOOD Tree Replacement by Suratan-zir

Ginko HOOD Tree Replacement by Suratan-zir

Lowedeus HOOD skies + by Zena-dew-drop + by iCAD + by iCAD#2 + by iCAD#3 + by iCAD#4 + by iCAD#5 + by iCAD#6 - hood sky replacement which also can be seen from the hood view. Some of them have animated clouds!

Seasons Skylines - a custom objects that adds more realistic background in a hood view

No More Bluriness by Simnopke - replaces snow and beach textures into HQ.

Moon Replacement by Simnopke

Sun Replacement by Lowedeus

Neighbourhood decorations can be placed anywhere - enables neighborhood deco to be placed on/overlapping lots

No Rocks Hood Deco Mod - gets rid of those deco rocks that serve as placeholders when using certain hood deco.

Sim Shadow Fix - fixes Sims’ shadows shown as black rectangles.

ACR - makes all the romantic interactions autonomous.

Pregnancy Wear Any Outfit - allows your sims to wear any outfit instead of maternity clothes. If the outfit hasn’t got a pregnancy morph, it will appear on a sim without a pregnant belly.

Community Time Project - enables the passing of time on community lots to be spent on the home lot. When your sims come home from the community lot, they won’t travel back in time as in vanila game.

Simblender - can teleport sims onto your lot, set family relationships, move sims in, make townies, give skill points, set career levels and more

No Plumbobs - removes plumbobs above sims heads and in hood view above lots too.

Sims 2 Sliders - various extra sliders for Sims faces in CAS. I have most of them except for asymmetry ones.

Invisible Stop Signs – makes the stop signs in the hood view invisible

Busy Roads NH Traffic Default Replacement - replaces Maxis’ neighborhood cars

OMSPs - special tiny shelves that add extra slots for clutter

White Roof Trim Replacement

White Floor Edge

White Wall Top

Antiredundancy - spawns one NPC per type instead of 3.

No Townie Regen - doesn’t allow the game to spawn new townies when you create a clean hood

Breadfruit Tree Fix - yes, it’s a very important fix that must be in top 50 :D Maxis Breadfruit Tree is broken and when the lightning strikes it, the fire effect never goes away. This is so annoyiiing.

Build/Buy Mode Enabled on Community Lots

Community Skilling - enables your sims get skill points on community lots. By default they can’t gain them.

Sleep on Community Lots

Business Runs You - it will manage the employees, making them take breaks automatically, giving them reasonable wages automatically, etc

Autoyak - adds phone options to call friends. Automatically picks and chooses existing friends and calls until relations are repaired. This mode is required for the Business mod above.

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