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YES

I was hoping for a mod like this for so long!! since I like to take screenshots of my sims during the marriage cutscene without the dumb letterbox filter

tysm PForest!! <3

This is a replacement for various TS2 cutscene camera animation resources without bloom, grain, vignette and letterbox /OR with less of those/

NOTE: This mod is NOT an improvement of cutscene animations. It allows clean /or cleaner/ screenshots and that's it.

Less post effects in cutscenes

Download: SFS | BOX

updated 24.01.2025: first kiss scenes were all blurry, I've replaced those.

06.02.2025: Move in animation cutscene was black, I've replaced it.

This mod is still a work in progress! Some effects might switch on and off, also - At the end of the cutscenes anims tend to look glitchy, Sims rapidly changing position etc. That wonkiness is normally hidden by letterbox blackout.

People on Legacy TS2: Seems like EA removed sfx from cutscenes - so you don't need this mod to experience wonky cutscene endings xD

More under the cut:

The ugliest of the effects IMO, the filmgrain (especially in dark/night scenery), luckily takes up a few frames at most and was the easiest to get rid of. Well, not always easy to remove, because in some cutscenes effects depend on other effects, like the filmgrain is added with vignette, not filmgrain (???) and vignette creates a mask for the blur effect so if you remove it blur becomes worse - but you can't remove blur cuz it makes entire scene black. It's f*cked up.

Even EA has failed to do that in their Legacy edit which has (some) sfx removed from cutscenes, but not all of it.

Not all animations have all effects removed. To remove these, you need to click on each effect ('Joint') frame in cAnimResourceConst tab, Sub mesh: (dropdown menu) / Postprocessingmaterial and set parameters to zero.

Usually that's one, or a few more frames, but for some anims it's 60, 80 or even 289 frames (letterbox, enter college without parent anim) - so I've skipped most of those.

Replacement contains resources:

o-cineCam-alienAbduction_anim o-cineCam-proposeReject_anim o-cineCam-graduationParty02_anim o-cineCam-cinematic-EnterCollege-withParent-2_anim o-cineCam-firstKissTeen_anim o-cineCam-alienBirth-2_anim o-cineCam-homeBirth_anim o-cineCam-hotTubPlayInF2M-2_anim o-cineCam-hotTubPlayInF2M-1_anim o-cineCam-firstKiss_anim o-cineCam-cinematic-EnterCollege-withParent-1_anim o-cineCam-weddingReject_anim o-cineCam-graduationParty01_anim o-cineCam-moveIn_anim o-cineCam-alienBirth-1_anim o-cineCam-hotTubPlayIn-1_anim o-cineCam-weddingAccept_anim o-cineCam-a-cinematic-enterCollege-noParent_anim o-cineCam-ProposeAccept_anim o-cineCam-hotTubPlayIn-2_anim o-cineCam-returnFromAbduction_anim o-cineCam-ProposeMaleAccept_anim o-cineCam-playInBed_anim

In case of some effects, if they take up many frames - usually letterbox - it's not enough to zero frame parameters, you gotta go to raw view and zero leftover parameters in there too.

Also, as mentioned above, removing one effect can mess up another.

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this is what happens when tav is away

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BG3 | Flowers

No- I hate him I swear.

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Emotional support pumpkin

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Fun fact about me is that I LOVE puppets. So when I saw puppetstarion on Neil’s stream yesterday, I had to.

Shoutout to BokkiCat for making this beauty.

Also last thing. I’m (not) sorry:

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A monster has its teeth in your companions.

It builds nightmares out of their worst memories and drinks their pain.

One of your companions has a particularly bad worst memory.

Play Here

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Art by @cymk8

Character Specific Achievements:

Aldiirn - Dusksong Be a bard. Use music to make first contact. belongs to @mistercrowbar

Andar - Poor Man's Dancing Lights Be an arcane caster. Try to cast magic. belongs to Tatsunara

Ember - Ghosts Need Sleep Explain why you're sometimes absent. belongs to @catsharky

Finch - Get Safe And Cared For Idiot Successfully hug Astarion. belongs to @everchased

Francys - Priorities Ignore everyone else in the campsite. belongs to @ineadhyn

Greygold - Psspsspsspss Be a ranger. Help Astarion calm down after being frightened. belongs to @jeeaark

Nawen - You're Unbreakable Be a rogue. Give your vampire a pep-talk after a particularly difficult day. belongs to @ineed-to-sleep

Ria - Music Box Be a bard. Play the theme. belongs to @ladyofrosefire

Staeve - Don't Forget Me Say something memorable. belongs to @velnna

Temiter - This Is All A Bit Much Abandon the dream using the silver cord. belongs to @not-poignant

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Another link to the game.

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going to start calling him my little lemon

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does drow ever get like. cute aggression. for astarion or otherwise

Yes all the time

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"Fangs! Isn't pumpkin-carving so fun?!"

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃

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Awesome piece of animation art 🤯 Reels by alindraws

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Finally painted a tribute to BG3 ~

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don’t talk to me till I’ve had my morning blood

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Lmao keep it together, Gale

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sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)

plus:

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a vampire stroking ur hair as they're fangs deep in ur neck. u agree