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JUST FLOWERS AND MORE | CC-FREE ✅

Requires: All EPs and SPs Type: Community Lot

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⚠️ Last Updated: April 22nd, 2024

💾 SFS | MEDIAFIRE

Ko-fi ☕

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More pictures under the cut

Floor Plan

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The mod I always wanted THANK U SO MUCH @gummilutt !!! A liveful mod for every simmer for sure!

Autonomous crafting for all teen+ Sims

I've never before been so happy to share a creation! Get ready to get crafting, because it's about to get autonomous! Released today in collaboration with the wonderful @joplayingthesims who has built a community lot for the mod, seen in the pictures below. Exciting!

In my game, I have a community lot with crafting stations for Sims who can't afford one, or don't have space for one. But as I visited it recently with one of my college students wanting to learn flower arrangement, I got a bit depressed by all the empty stations and the other visitors just standing around chatting. I wondered if anyone had added autonomy, and I came upon iCad's autonomy enabler. While neat, it only adds autonomy for the active household which is the opposite of what I wanted. So I made my own that enables it for visiting Sims as well, only to quickly realize how annoying that got. All these Sims asking me to pick a recolor for them, blergh! So I went on tweaking, fixing the annoyances as they came up, and here we are! Finally it is possible to have a lively crafting studio where all Sims participate, without being annoying for you the player! Are you excited? Because I am excited!

What does the mod do? - Enables autonomy on "make many" and "continue" (see readme for more info on why not make one) for all five original crafting types - Robots, toy making, flower arrangement, pottery and sewing - Does NOT charge your Sims money for background Sim crafting. Money sounds and visuals show for all Sims, but only your current households crafting charges household funds. - By default only autonomous on community lots. Has optional autonomy on residential/apartment lots, you can enable autonomy on those lot types by placing the Autonomy Toggler object somewhere on the lot (custom object made using parts of the FT crafting clutter, found in hobbies/misc for 1 simoleon). I set it up this way as residential autonomy sounds irritating to me, but I'm all about flexibility for the user. Perhaps you want to run arts classes at your residential playable school, or you simply like autonomy more than I do :) Please note that autonomy advertisement is tuned with community lot use in mind, so it might be higher than you'd want for residential. If there's interest I am happy to make a second version with lower advertising for those who primarily want residential use. If you are somewhat familiar with TTAB edits yourself, you can try changing attenuation code to low or medium to limit advertisement distance which will reduce appeal to Sims. - Fixes annoyances with background crafting, such as selecting recolors and pop ups about progress - Changes inventory mechanics to allow for owned studio-type use, in case you'd like a friendly owner Sim present to provide instruction. Crafting now only goes to business lot owner if done by an employee, otherwise crafting Sim gets the object. Includes home business, so if it bothered you that family members don't get to keep their work, this also fixes that. If that part annoys you, see readme for how to remove this feature.

Download mod on simfileshare

You might say "Okay well fun for you Gummi, but I don't have a community lot with crafting stations, so why would I need this?". Well fortunately Joandsarah has the solution for that problem! Check out the cute crafting studio she built to give all of you a place to start community crafting! Available on MTS

Conflicts: Only known conflict is iCad's original autonomy enabler, you have to pick if you want hers version of autonomy, or mine :) Readme contains breakdown of the functionality of all parts, to help you decide a load order should you encounter conflicts. It should be possible to resolve conflicts though if there are any others, so please report them to me :)

Credits: @joplayingthesims for collaborating with me and providing a lot that you can get started with if you don't have one, iCad at @dramallamadingdang for the original autonomy enabling mod, @cityof2morrow who helped playtest the mod

If anyone else builds a community lot intended for autonomous use, I hope you let me know somehow so I can add links to it in my post :) If any other modders see ways to improve on what I did, please feel free to do so :) I am hoping to eventually post an update that sends all crafting to inventory to fix the make one issue, and the station clogging that happens over time.

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So frutiger aero 😍

Yesss @loonyjelly set up this default file for me which works perfectly! I also got an explanation from HugeLunatic on how I messed up mine, which maybe I'll test just to see if I can actually do it, but I'm just glad I can finally see the recolors without crashing lol

Well I gotta go to work now, but the final version shouldn't be too far off after that :)

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Development of the West hall - the library

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"Located in the state of Bel Air, between Sunset Valley and Del Sol Valley, an academic gem lies on the cliffs of the west coast. The pursuit of excellence in technology and arts takes center stage, with BelTec and BelArts being its most renowned centers. Students embark on a journey of innovation and creativity, surrounded by the rhythmic murmur of ocean waves and mesmerizing sunsets that paint the sky with hues of inspiration. Here, the synergy between cutting-edge technology and artistic expression unfolds against the backdrop of swaying palms and breaking waves, creating a dynamic environment that resonates with the intellectual and creative vitality of Bel Air."

Due to the fact that English is not my native toungue, I decided to use ChatGPT for the description, couldn't work best after a few tries. I also did my research and took some inspo on this reddit thread wich is simply amazing! Thank you Yannerrins!

By the way here you can see some pics of plumbtales orphanage in Belladona Cove, I moved the Goodies with them so the place look so warm and cozy :)

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Saving this two for later...

An addition to my clean skill bar DR - here's the replacement of TS2 shopping meter if you need it:

Clean OFB "BuyBar" default

Download (SFS)

*there's also an option to remove Simolean sign

Enjoy

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If you need it, it's here:

Clean TS2 Skill Meters default

and Autumn skilling icon default, including an invisible one

Download: SFS | BOX

This will replace TXMTs for interest, skill and repair meters plus glow effect texture.

Update: Clean shopping bar is here (SFS).

More pics under the cut:

*this is for The Sims 2

Subtle version is a little bit more transparent and with less glow. FYI "interest" meter is the blue one shown in the pic. "Skill" meter is a different shade of blue and I'm not sure when/if it's used in the game.

Autumn leaves show up floating around the skill meter during that season, as apparently vitamin-D deprivation Autumn enhances Sim's ability to learn. Whatever. Now you can hide this effect if you want.

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"Located in the state of Bel Air, between Sunset Valley and Del Sol Valley, an academic gem lies on the cliffs of the west coast. The pursuit of excellence in technology and arts takes center stage, with BelTec and BelArts being its most renowned centers. Students embark on a journey of innovation and creativity, surrounded by the rhythmic murmur of ocean waves and mesmerizing sunsets that paint the sky with hues of inspiration. Here, the synergy between cutting-edge technology and artistic expression unfolds against the backdrop of swaying palms and breaking waves, creating a dynamic environment that resonates with the intellectual and creative vitality of Bel Air."

Due to the fact that English is not my native toungue, I decided to use ChatGPT for the description, couldn't work best after a few tries. I also did my research and took some inspo on this reddit thread wich is simply amazing! Thank you Yannerrins!

By the way here you can see some pics of plumbtales orphanage in Belladona Cove, I moved the Goodies with them so the place look so warm and cozy :)

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My godness! It's been a while since my last post, finally set up my Sims 2 and set up AGS, I know I should continue with Capitello, but honestly, I wanted to take it easy. I got hooked on Cities Skylines 2, and when reinstalling TS2, I played with an old played copy I had of "Plumbtale's Belladona Cove." That's when I got hooked on improving the lives of the Newsons (aka the Orphans), and now that they were about to go to university, the idea of creating a personalized university came to me.

This doesn't mean I'm abandoning Capitello; I just want to diversify the creation of neighborhoods. I have a few ideas for custom neighborhoods, and I think it's time to expand horizons. I'll be posting the first images soon. I've been inspired by CalTec and CalArts institutes as the perfect university for Belladona, with beatiful cliffs, long cliffside roads and crashing waves on the beaches, I hope you like it!

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You want terrorist? Cause that's how you get terrorists

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This could help all of us a lot! Thank youu!

Pink Flashing Experience Research Survey!

Hi TS2 community, I am very interested in learning more about the way pink flashing happens or doesn't happen in different people's games. I have put together this kinda fairly detailed survey as a Google Form that hopefully can shed more light on the issue.

If you are familiar with your computer and graphics settings, you can easily finish the survey in about 5 minutes. If you need to look a few things up, it could take 10-15.

If you had flashing with some settings and resolved it, please consider filling out the form twice - once describing your experience before you fixed it and again for after. If not, please just use your post-fix experience.

Please, please reblog as data is only as good as the breadth of its sample. A summary of the results are viewable to all upon completion of the survey and I am happy to share more detailed findings with the modding community, just let me know.

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4T2 Typewriters!

Myself and @tvickiesims wanted to have a way to have these typerwtiers in the sims 2, but did not want to have a random screen etc!

This is still in testing, so please let me know of any issues!

DOWNLOAD

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Credit; Original meshes are from ozyman4

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I finally made it, got redone from the scratch, thanks god for tumblr, if I didn't got uploaded my advances I would have lost capitello, now I just have to restablish my sims 2 with all updates and reshade... oh my

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Oh my god... yesterday I terminate a process of windows 10 and my computer got a "critical process died" . It's loop crashing rebooting, tryed all (cmd,restore,safemode,etc.) But only solution seems to be repairing with windows 10 exe in an usb... But cannot figure how to preparing correctly the usb. Keeps crashing when booting from usb... sigh

WORST CHRISTMAS EVER!

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Hoy hace 2 años que llegué a Tumblr. 🥳

2 years... and now it looks like a wannabe live s3xchat

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I'm about to release a mod for the traits project which adds traits to factor in weather or not a sim will like the tv channel. Since I use your 7 Hobby channels, I went ahead and added trait factors to those 7 channels as well. Would you like me to post them with my mod, or should I give them to you, and you can update the Mod the Sims Download, or put them wherever.

Of course @noodlebelli post it all together, got no problem. That's one of the many uses I thought when creating the channels, love the ideayou made this 🥰, in fact, I was a trait mod lover but I didn't like the fact to put traits to every single sim one by one 🙄... If the mod would came with an in-game installer as the ACR would totally play with traits

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Hi everyone! my next one will be a Fire station! Cannot believe I managed to finish a firetruck that I'm happy with, hope you like it, though this would be could for a fire station, I will put up some cars as deco next to the lot for making it look more like a large fire station