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4t2 Ebonix Lanre Locs

This one was an anon request.

I had to use different methods for doing the male and female scalp but I think they both turned out good all things considering.

TU-EU, 22k poly (sorry), comes in Afterglow naturals with the original textures. Download Simblr.CC

Credits: @paluding for the tattooer

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9 people I want to know better

I was tagged by @hypersaline and @janika31. Thank you! <3

Last song: Dear God by Tate McRae. Can't stop listening to her latest album.

Favourite color: Purple!

Currently watching: The Office for the second time, first time for my sister hehe.

Last movie: Pretty sure it was Mickey 17.

Currently reading: I keep meaning to read anything at all and I keep failing so uh I might as well just give up. I have no idea when the time will come but I guess I'll start reading stuff some time again in the future lol.

Sweet, spicy or savory: Sweet.

Relationship: Nope.

Current obsession: Honestly, I've been chilling lately, but I know that won't last long. Switch 2 is about to come out and god knows I'm going to be glued to Mario Kart World for days.

Currently working on: Not much really. I recently got back to Blender and some meshing stuff. I've been surprised at how much I still remember about cc making for TS2 after a long break.

Tagging: I believe most of the people I know here already made this or got tagged, but I'll also tag @simmer-until-tender, @rascalcurious and @kalux-sims just in case. No worries if you don't feel like doing it!

And if you're reading this and didn't get tagged yet, here, consider yourself tagged!

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Another top (SP64 CK006 Cropped Lace) from ts4 Sweet Allure kit is done :)

Unfortunately, the texture gave me a lot of trouble… I tried to connect everything correctly, but unfortunately from the back you can see that it's not quite perfect.

This top has a nicely separated lace from the edge of the top in the front, but unfortunately it was something else in the back… I had to connect part of the top as well and that's when I started having problems. The texture doesn't connect very well there… I hope you like it this way too :(

🐿️ for teens and adults

🐿️ with all morphs

🐿️ categorized as casual top

🐿️ all original Maxis colors + normals

🐿️ all files are compressed

You can choose between standalone AF and TF version or TF Repod version for which you need AF packages 🙂.

Standalone AF version simfileshare/ mediafire

Standalone TF version simfileshare/ mediafire

Repod TF version simfileshare/ mediafire

Credits: EAxis, @paluding for amazing Tattooer ❤️

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Thank you so, so much for reaching out! This was a really cool project. So glad you managed to make it happen in the end 💛

Everyone try these face replacements if you've never been a fan of Maxis' chunky eyelashes. And don't forget to pair them with Piper's 3D eyelashes!

Maxis Eyelash Remover for TS2

Removes the default maxis eyelashes from sims' faces!

Eyelash Remover

There are 2 versions/folders for this mod!  PICK ONLY ONE FOLDER!  • One, containing a single package file, removing the default eyelashes from sims, from toddlers to elders. • Second, containing multiple package files, where you can pick & choose which sims you want the maxis eyelashes removed from.

MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE THE PREMADE SIMS' FACES VIA "CHANGE APPEARANCE" FOR THE MOD TO WORK!!!

☆ Informations ☆ • Available for all ages, toddlers to elders. • Replaces the BASE sim heads. • Compatible with custom sliders (exception being the eyelash sliders) and face templates!

Maxis Eyelash Accessory

☆ Informations ☆ • Available for all ages, toddlers to elders. • Compatible with facial animations, custom and default sliders (exception being the eyelash sliders). • Can be worn along with other accessories/glasses.

☆ Downloads ☆ Simblr.cc

☆ Credits ☆ @paluding for the BIG BIG Help and Support! Creators of SimPe

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Now that I've learned how to use @paluding's Tattooer, I've been playing around with running various TS4 textures through it. Leggings work wonderfully, so I'm bringing you...um...er...80 of them. I've used some of these maushasi (retired) textures before, in my TS2 20th anniversary outfit. I'd wanted to convert them as pantless bottoms, but I didn't want to lower them to the TS2 waist. The Tattooer is the perfect solution. These leggings are nice and high up, just barely covering the navel. And because 20 isn't nearly enough, all 60 of @pixelunivairse's TS4 Larissa Leggings are here too.

As if that wasn't enough, there are options! They come with flats or barefoot, and barefoot is wedgie or no wedgie. Unless you have a default replacement, the CU, TF, and AF naked bottom meshes have a very prominent butt crack. EF doesn't have a crack for some reason. I have no idea. So I took it upon myself to make non-default no wedgie versions for CU, TF, and AF. I also made a no wedgie edit to the UF flats meshes, but if you prefer the wedgie, these textures will work with the original versions of those meshes too. Most importantly, I made a version of @kaylynn-langerak's child pantless flats mesh that's mapped the same way as the other ages. It's a separate mesh, so you can still use that mesh too.

Everything is repo'ed to the AF flats versions.

The flats version is set as Everyday only. The barefoot ones are Everyday, PJ, and Gym. Everything has the standard morphs.

I edited the colors of several of the solid color Larissa leggings, because they looked very samey in TS2.

Note: EF barefoot requires @letomills' default ankle texture fix, which is included in the downloads.

Note 2: Because these textures go above the waist, they will layer over some tops. It's because of the way those tops are made. (Technical stuff: Mesh groups called "bottom" layer over mesh groups called "top" if the textures overlap. It's just how the game works.) Most 3t2 and 4t2 tops, crops, and anything that connects smoothly at the waist should be fine.

mausashi:

pixelunivairse:

(so many butts)

Download:

mausashi animal leggings: SFS or MediaFire pixelunivarse Larissa: SFS or MediaFire (NOTE: includes flats, EAxis barefoot, and no wedgie barefoot)

Credits: mausashi and @pixelunivairse for TS4 textures, @paluding for The Tattooer, @deedee-sims for EF flats mesh, @chalkmetal for TF-AF flats mesh, @kaylynn-langerak for CF flats mesh (not needed or included, explained above), @letomills for EFbottomnaked UV mapping fix

I want a sneaker version of these too, but I decided the post was big enough already. Maybe I'll do those eventually, or someone else can, if they want to.

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Gift for 100 followers!

Recently I've reached one of the starter milestones, now my blog is followed by more than 100 people, yay! As a thankfulness I prepared a little gift for you, and some parts of this gift is unusual for me! Hurry up and open it!

I'm very happy every time when I see the new followers, all your likes, the amount of your downloads, recolors of my conversion, etc. And I'm so foretaste to see all of your new activity! Thanks again to all of you ❤ See under the cut details about this gift!

All files are compressed, tooltipped, hairs are binned and familied.

GiuliettaSims Donna Glasses

Original mesh for TS4 by GiuliettaSims, you can grab it here

CF-EF

1152 polys

15 original recolors with black and brown lenses

Download: Mediafire/SimFileShare

LeahLilith Emery

Original mesh for TS4 by LeahLilith, you can grab it here

Comes with hairpins as a accessory

CF-EF

18261 polys for hair and 3945 for hairpins

Colors for hairs by Pooklet

Textures: straight by Remi

10 original recolors for hairpins

Download: Mediafire/SimFileShare

Reina Bianca 59

Original mesh for TS4 by Reina, you can grab it here

Comes with ribbons as a accessory

CF-EF

22555 polys for hair and 4383 for ribbons

Colors for hairs by Pooklet

Textures: straight by Remi

10 original recolors for ribbons

Download: Mediafire/SimFileShare

Trillyke Passionate Love Lingerie

Original 10 recolors for TS4 by Trillyke, you can grab it here

YF-AF

No polys! 🥳 Cause it is just the recolor of original sim body

Must say thank you @paluding for Tattooer, it is absolute game changer

Download: Mediafire/SimFileShare

@nhs-archive

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I always find @powluna's kid stuff irresistibly cute and I wanna convert all of it, but sometimes something just jumps out at me. This time, that something was her Candace pj's. Had the timing gone differently, they might have been my xmas post. Instead, here we are in March. Still good weather for snuggly pj's.

Set as Everyday and Sleepwear, unisex, with fat morphs. (Fat morphs for the bows too.)

I'm a bit proud of myself for how I set these up. Despite the variations you see in the preview, there are just two meshes for this set. The top mesh has 3D bows that can be hidden (a little tricky for me) and the bottoms can have socks or bare feet (which was easy).

There are 24 shirts with bows, 54 shirts without bows, and 54 pants both with and without socks. Sock textures are converted from the TS4 BG using The Tattooer, and some are recolored by me. The barefoot pants are available repo'ed to the socks version.

I didn't make my own swatches this time, but powluna always includes full swatches in her posts. See her swatches here.

Download - SFS or MediaFire *repo and standalone pants included - pick one*

Credits: @powluna for TS4 pj meshes and textures, @paluding for The Tattooer

powluna recently did TS4 infant and toddler versions of these pj's, which might be even cuter. I was already thinking of doing a toddler version, now I really wanna. Probably not soon, but maybe in a couple of months. Will I do a baby version? Hmm. Less likely, but not impossible.

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First things first: a bunch of clothes! This year's theme is sleepwear! 💤

3t2 I See London Chemise and I See France Bloomers

Some lovely PJs for lovely ladies! The top is for teens, adults, and elders, the pants are for kids too. They have the appropriate morphs. They come in 6 colors, but here are the PSDs for recoloring. You can choose if you want the other ages repo'd to the AF files, or not.

Download 3t2 I See London Chemise Repo'd - Alternate

Download 3t2 I See London Chemise Standalone - Alternate

Download 3t2 I See France Bloomers Repo'd - Alternate

Download 3t2 I See France Bloomers Standalone - Alternate

3t2 SP05 Romantic Slip Bows

Well, this was a wild ride to convert lol. Part of it is tattooered (by @paluding), the other is converted. I think I lost some lace in the converting process, but it looks nice like this too 🤷‍♀️ For teens, adults, and elders, they have the appropriate morphs. I made 6 colors, but here's the PSD for recoloring. You can choose if you want the other ages repo'd to the AF files, or not.

Download 3t2 SP05 Romantic Slip Bows Repo'd - Alternate

Download 3t2 SP05 Romantic Slip Bows Standalone - Alternate

Skittlessims 4t2 Shorts Loose F2M

I just wanted some nice shorts for guys! For teens, adults, and elders, they have the appropriate morphs. They come in the original 7 colors, and you can choose if you want the other ages repo'd to the AM files, or not.

Download Shorts Loose F2M Repo'd - Alternate

Download Shorts Loose F2M Standalone - Alternate

4t2 SP07 Romper Textured

Someting nice for the kids too! It has fatmorph, and comes in the original 12 colors.

Download - Alternate

Family Fun Stuff PJs for toddlers

I know this was converted before, but I wanted it without the weird slippers (or whatever that is lol). Repo'd and pinned to the ingame files, so the Family Fun Stuff SP is required!

Download - Alternate

Polka Dot and Striped PJs for babies

Just a simple copy-paste of some of my earlier toddler onesie recolors to the baby mesh by @kaluxsims (included). They come in the original 10 and 6 recolors. You can choose if you want them repo'd to the toddler files (that you can find here and here), or not. To use these, you'll need CH's Plan Baby Outfit mod.

Download Polka Dot PJs Repo'd - Alternate

Download Polka Dot PJs Standalone - Alternate

Download Striped PJs Repo'd - Alternate

Download Striped PJs Standalone - Alternate

I hope none of you got sleepy from the sleepwear, because we're continuing with the gifts soon! 🔜

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Sims 2 CC Dump #1 - 2 requests from @opheliapleasantview + @the-pixel-architect

not much to say but just posting cc from requests i got!!!

thank you for being patient with me 💕💕

Download: SFS | Patreon (free always!!!)

[ credits: @backtrack-cc @jius-sims @b0t0xbrat @daylifesims @goamazons + @paluding for the tattooer i needed it for the scalps + @nhs-archive ]

!(Semi Update)! I completely forgot to mention is that the hairs come in the new hair system !!!

info and previews under the cut

beachy raglan top

af only

704 polycount

lowrise jeans

af only

16.2k polycount

canvas sneakers

4.3k polycount

bright top

af only

684 polycount

carmen dress

af only

5.9k polycount

flat sandals

af only

3.3k polycount

waves tube top

af only

830 polycount

alicia v1

tf-ef

19.3k polycount

alicia v2

tf-ef

19.6k polycount

alissa v1

tf-ef

19.4k polycount

alissa v2

tf-ef

17.6k polycount

maria

cf-ef

4.4k polycount

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We've been suffering through Blender and SimPe, but it all paid off! Stay tuned, you don't wanna miss this :D

Well, it seems like it is possible to remove the maxis lashes! c: Ever since I saw Paluding's post about a complete 4t2 face conversion and pupil movement discovery I had to ask what made his attempts successful and where I failed. After a little brainstorming,,,

Voilà!

The AF head now has no maxis lashes, they were made "equipable" under the glasses category, like my 3D eyelashes! BUT, since the maxis lashes are gone, none of the eyelash sliders will work, (ex. the sliders that changes the lashes size, hides them or scales them down) the rest works fine, as you can see in the video!

and now, everyone say it with me!

Thank you, @paluding!!

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Oooh 👀

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No I'm fine I just had to change the UV map for 513 vertices manually by entering their values using SimPe. That's 2 values for each, X and Y coordinates.

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Taking the 4t2 concept too far. Yup, that's the Sims 4 face converted to The Sims 2, in all its blurry glory. Well, just a quick and really messy conversion, to be more precise.

Yet another Sims 2 face experiment I tried. Full disclaimer: nope, I will not finish this project. This was just a fun one day experiment I tried, because why not.

I made a ton of mistakes in this process, will definitely learn from that. Speaking of which, did you know you can make Shape Keys (Sims morphs) from rigged meshes in Blender? That's in fact the excuse I took to practice and learn in this little project. Sims 4 faces are rigged with joints, contrary to the Sims 2 faces which are animated with morphs. It was actually way easier than I anticipated.

The reason it looks so blurry is because I figured if (and a big if right here) this project was worth working on, maybe keeping the UV map mostly intact would help when transferring textures from TS4 to TS2. That's why it looks so pixelated. It's the original UV face map squished to fit into the TS2 mapping. I have to say, as uncanny as it looks and, even with the limited amount of morphs I made, I... kinda like it? But yeah honestly this is not worth it at all. It would require replacing all base face meshes, default replace all the Eaxis face templates, remake all the face sliders for these new meshes… All of that, but also for every single age and gender. Basically replace the whole Sims 2 face system! And then you would realize skins, makeup, eyebrows, and any face overlay would need to be adapted as well. So uh… that ain't happening, no thanks. If anything, it'd be better taking the original Sims 2 faces and making a couple changes here and there to improve their geometry. Better eyes, noses, ears, mouth, remove the original eyelashes and make them as optional accessories… As much as I love the iconic low poly Sims 2 faces, I still think there's quite a lot of room for improvement.

Well, that’s all for now! Here you have a couple extra screenshots I took in game, as a reward for reading this random ass post lol.

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4t2 EP16 Lingerie Net

A 4t2 conversion of an underwear introduced in Sims 4 Lovestruck because I thought it looked cute... It only comes in the first four swatches (the two shown as well as black and white) because I had to manually edit the textures and some of the middle swatches looked kind of bland. Maybe one day I'll go back and do the gradients at least...

Credits: @paluding for the Tattooer, whoever at EA remembered adult humor existed and pitched the Lovestruck pack, Isabella Monty for proving elders can still get it.

AF-EF, categorized as underwear, uses basegame nude mesh (so any mesh replacements with e.g. smooth hands will work), 4 swatches.

Download Simblr.CC

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Hi, hope you don’t mind me entering this topic. I’ve also been doing some research on the face morphs for animations for quite some time.

The Gigantic Baby updated project (as cursed as it is) is the first thing I shared with a fully animated “custom face mesh”, which actually is a hair mesh with all the face morphs added. Not the first one I made, but this one is downloadable, so if anyone wants to poke at it a little bit, welp, there’s that. At the end of the day, it’s actually a really similar mesh to the regular Maxis faces, so there's not that much new to see.

Yet another big ramble under the cut (sorry about the long, long reblog chain):

So first of all, huge shoutouts to @myweirdslimblr for this research they did back in the day, experimenting with custom faces and making them the “default face”. It was really inspiring seeing what could be possible with Sims 2 faces.

Also, a mandatory big thanks to @applewatersugar, whose 3D eyelashes were the very first instance I personally saw of morphs exclusively made for the face, but for an accessory mesh. One of my guilty pleasures is fiddling with people’s CC and mods in SimPe and finding out what they did. There’s so much to learn! That was officially the point where I became obsessed with Sims 2 face morphs.

Turns out, adding face morphs to any mesh is actually pretty easy in Blender 2.8+. As all the people I mentioned here have figured out, each vertex can only be moved by a maximum of 4 morphs (known as shape keys in Blender), which can be a pretty big limitation for higher poly meshes. If you go over that limit, you won’t be able to export that mesh when using DjAlex88's Blender add-on.

I have plans on making a full tutorial covering everything about how to add face morphs to any mesh using Blender and said add-on, but for the time being, here’s some stuff to keep you entertained!

-Definitely check out Piper’s custom beard accessory tutorial! It covers a lot of the stuff you’d need to know about face morphs, but applied specifically to “animating” beards.

-I started making this spreadsheet some time ago, showcasing with gifs all the adult female face morphs and their names, both for Blender and Milkshape3D. I still need to add the rest of the ages and genders, but screw it, here you have an early exclusive sneak peek! It’s just a not so quick sheet I’ve been working on to check at a glance any face morph and its name.

-And as a bonus, here’s a first look of that Night Beast project with the face animated with morphs made from scratch by yours truly. This has been in my projects folder way too long. I shared that first post way back in… checking notes… over half a year ago? Yikes… I promise I’ll get back to it someday! @pirillalothario here ya go!

Now about making actual animations using the face morphs (that is, adding custom facial expressions to “body animations”?)… Yeah that’s way out of my scope.

This is the animation for the werewolf howl interaction. As you can see in the dropdown menu with all the frame data, not only does the “ANIM” file include the body animation, but also the sound effects AND the face morph values for all the facial expressions (face, teeth and eyes direction).

I really tried editing stuff there in SimPe, but the editor thingy for animations in the plug-in is pretty hard to use.

Furthermore, the stuff about face morphs seems impossible to edit? At least I couldn’t add new face morph values to an existing Sims 2 animation which didn’t already have face animations in the first place. The “editor” in SimPe is extremely limited for animations anyway. You can only edit stuff that’s already there or delete them, but not add stuff there, as far as I know. I guess we’d need external programs to create animations with face morphs included, just like we do for body animations in the first place.

Well, finishing things off:

As far as I understand, regular body (and bouncy hair) animations work with a skeleton with its joints, which have their bones assignments on the meshes and all that jazz we all know.

On the other hand, face animations are made using morphs / faceblends, the ones you guys mentioned. They’re probably animated using values for each morph, depending on what face expression you want to achieve, blending multiple morphs.

And the direction eyes look at? That’s a total mystery for me. I think they’re animated and stretched using the UV map somehow? However it is, so far I have only managed to test a working eye look animation when messing with the actual “genetic default” face, similar to what myweirdsimblr did on their tests. I haven’t been able to animate the way eyes look at stuff on custom hair-head meshes, like the Night Beast or the Gigantic Baby I’ve shown here.

And that in a nutshell is all I personally know about face morphs, I think! Sorry I rambled so long. Ever since I found out about them I’ve been a little bit obsessed. They’re so fun to make and seeing them in game is the coolest thing ever.

If there’s any mistake let me know and I’ll be glad to correct it :)

👩‍🎨 Extracting Hidden Face Morphs in The Sims 2

In The Sims 2, Sim faces contain hidden morphs that can be extracted in different ways. For a long time, only two morphs were known, but there are actually more.

1. Extracting Morphs via SimPE

What You Need:

SimPE (enable "Advanced Mode" in the settings).

Sims2Pack Clean Installer (if no ready-made files are available).

MilkShape 3D 1.8.5

Steps:

Get the Face File:

If you have a SavedSims folder, choose any file from it.

If not, extract any Sim using Sims2Pack Clean Installer and locate the Face Preset file.

Open the File in SimPE:

Open the file in SimPE.

Find the Geometric Data Container (GMDC) resource.

Select the Sim's age group.

Export the Model with Morphs:

Click Export..., save the file in SMD format.

When prompted "Do you want to export Morph Meshes??", select Yes.

View Morphs in MilkShape 3D:

Import via File → Import → Half-Life SMD....

Select a morph and uncheck Rename Bones.

What Do the Morphs Contain?

One morph shows a smiling expression.

Another shows an angry or displeased expression.

2. Extracting All Morphs via 5gd File

What You Need:

SimPE.

Blender 2.80+.

GMDC Importer/Exporter (Blender plugin).

Steps:

Export the Face Model as a 5gd File:

In SimPE, open GMDC.

Right-click → Extract....

Save the file as 5gd.

Import into Blender:

Install the GMDC Importer/Exporter plugin.

Open Blender 2.80+ (Blender 2.79 only shows 4 morphs).

Import the 5gd file.

What Do the Morphs Contain?

Importing into Blender 2.80+ reveals all hidden morphs.

Additional Information

You can replace the default face model with one of the morphs to create a new default preset.

It works correctly in BodyShop and CAS.

There may be even more hidden morphs in the game that have yet to be discovered.

If you have any additional information about these hidden morphs, feel free to share!

Source (RU):

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Mellosakicc Dump requested by kitty-metalbaby

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hello again im back with some requested cc !!

there was a total a 6 pieces they wanted however i converted only 4 as the t-shirts weren't converted as the baked texture part of the sims 2 body wasn't aligned with the mesh

so i converted venom tee (not pictured in the preview), the sweater, mayhem crop top, and imitate dead jacket !!

also as of late simsfileshare has been hit or miss with download speed so i decided to open up a patreon and start posting there as of now. pledging is absolutely optional and my stuff will ALWAYS be free !!

edit- forgot to add credits i posted this at 5 am (ᵕ—ᗜ—)

[credits] : @mellosakicc (for the sims 4 meshes), @paluding (for the lifesaving tattooer)

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‧— everything is tm to am

‧— all morphs

DOWNLOAD : patreon

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🌟✨🌟✨🌟 Send this spark to 10 (or more 💌) mutuals to brighten their day and let them know they're amazing! 🌟✨🌟✨🌟

Aw thank you so much Moyo!! 💛

Sorry I've held this in my inbox a little longer than I should've.