Modern Row House Settlement (no CC)

Just yesterday I was thinking about what dimensions it has assumed. As soon as they can create, texture and upload a simple cube, they already have "Buy me a coffee" or "Become my patron". But it does not bother me. You will not see any money from me or a monthly subscription? Never ever! I like to use good CC as long as it is free. I can also make objects myself if I feel like it and have time for it. And then I like to share it with the community. But for me it is a hobby and not a commerce. So I also offer it for free. I do not need patrons, I would enslave myself because I would always have to deliver content. But as already said, they should do it. But what really, really upset me is the users who use foreign content to beautify their Sims or their homes and either share it with the CC and / or even want get paid for it. That's where my tolerance stops! When I create a sim or build a house in the game, it's in my eyes the gameplay. So they want get money for playing the game? What's wrong in their heads?

Something Bothering Me - Message Addressed to Sims CC Patreons

I don’t have issues with Sims CC creators desiring to get some kind of payback for the work they do.

I’ve dealt with ad.fly (grudgingly–it’s an awful experience and could infect others for barely any return)

I have tolerated and reblogged in the past those who want donations (again, not a huge issue, can be annoying if spammed

I support those who want to put their items on TSR and earn income by those who either download cc from there or buy a monthly pass.

And now there is Patreon. Which has seen an upsurgence in the S3 and S4 community.

While I have no inherent issues with people allowing others to support their work via any of these formats, I do have issue when it comes to gatekeeping content by means of putting CC behind a paywall.

And before I hear “people can do what they like”, yes they can, this is my opinion as a Former/ Retired CC creator and converter.

It’s alienating to many of the community, many young teens and adults. That demographic can maybe afford to support one or two creators, cannot pay $1-3/ avg per creator. It’s not feasible for many.

It’s also manipulative because it’s waving usually very popular content in front of others faces (by those that can afford it) and pretty much saying that unless you buy Into me ($1-2 for maybe one or two pieces of content) you’re getting screwed.

There is no way I’d pay $1-3 for one piece of virtual clothing/skin/whatever for any game, let alone Sims. Yet in this community exclusive cc, particularly clothing shared between friends or ‘popular’ simblrs brings status and further rebloggability for the simblrs they bestow it unto. It’s manipulative.

I have no issue with Patreon or giving money to creators. I have issue when it’s abused.

So the question can be asked, well what do you do instead to get more money in a less gatekeeping/paywall manipulative manner?

I will not say names, but one Simblr in particular has a good idea of how to encourage others to engage and participate in their Patreon but also not gatekeeping the creme Brûlée of their content: Timed Exclusives

Timed exclusives allows those who are willing to give a bit of money upfront to get the content sooner and therefore a slight advantage – the Patron still gets benefit. While those who are unable to pay but want to enjoy the content can still participate and download the content from their favourite creators.

I’ve never believed for myself that I deserved money for my creations (whether original or conversions) but I have tolerated and supported those when I could and support the choice of being able to be paid When it’s fair.

This message is not meant to shame but as a means of saying, Hey maybe consider the alternative of Timed Exclusives instead of gated content.

The only other alternative other than that is others taking your gated content and reuploading somewhere else – I’m old enough to remember the pirate booty during the S2 era.

Instead of leading people to desperation, keep an open mind and maybe consider this point of view

- from a former S3CC creator

WIP

Hi guys, my Sim was out yesterday and got hungry. But why buy food or barbecue when he has delicious fruit in his inventory? However, he had to eat 4 apples, so that the hunger bar was a little more than half full. Uh, if I eat two apples, I'm stuffed. I remembered that I had downloaded a mod a long time ago. I can't find it again. My thoughts that I had the mod from LitteMsSam or Bienchen83 were wrong, but I don't remember where I got it from. So I apologize in advance to the actual creator that I made my own version of it. It is actually only meant for me, but maybe somebody can use it anyway. By default, an apple or other harvestables fill the hunger bar at 15%. In my version it is 40%. If you assume that you never wait until the bar reaches zero anyway, it's pretty realistic if a sim is sated after 2 apples.

Hope you can enjoy this mod. ☺️ 

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My absolutely favorite shoes since the beginning! 😍 ❤️

Shoes - Anastasia (S4)

I did not plan to publish these shoes because made them for personal use. I made them “whipped up” for my models, ignoring possible visual shortcomings. And they have quite a lot of polygons - 6 398. But, despite this, my dear fans convinced me to publish them, which I hereby did. Do not judge strictly, I hope you enjoy it. :)

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Alternative 'AIKE' Cabinets and Shelves

Hi guys, i'm again. Today I bring you an alternative cabinet and a modular shelf for the Homechef Hustle Kitchen. I've changed the inner corner and for all cabinets the shading. It just annoys me when the inner corner is darker than the rest and when the cabinets don't really match the counters. The inner corner shelf is decluttered und now a piece of the modular shelves. There are 7 pieces like cabinets too. Hope, you'll like it.

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annigo’s OMSP’s 1cm to 10cm

Hello!

Today I bring you the good old OMSP's. Because I often realize how much I miss them in game. You may think that them are unnecessary, because you can move the objects up in height with the moveobjects-cheat ('moo') and because many creators provide their surfaces with a lot of slots. You're right, but still I think it makes sense. How many times do I have a surface or whatever in game that doesn't have the slots I would like. So it's not up to me to edit them in S4S, because it's not my creation. And in height you can adjust the objects in only 10cm steps. Then sometimes there is a gap between the object and the surface. Indeed there are a few OMSP's, for example from Severinka or Kitcat Simporium but only for the classic surfaces and seating but not for every height. So I made 10 small OMSPs covering every centimeter, not Milimeter, that would lead too far. ^^  You can also adjust the height when the 'moo' is active, so you can place almost any decoration for surfaces anywhere. Sometimes you don't need to make a slot invisible if the object is larger and the slot is completely obscured by the surface. But you can make it invisible and visible again through the design tool, if you know exactly where it is. Here just are some examples...

But beware! If you plan to re-paint your walls after decorating with the Slots (OMSP's), make sure that the moveobjects-cheat is disabled, otherwise EVERYTHING will end up in the family inventory. And even with the cheat off, the same thing happens when you place slots with objects on halfwalls. So do not wonder. It's not my fault, it's the game. As can be seen in the last two pictures, everything that is marked in yellow will disappear when papering...

Hope you like it. Have fun!  ^^

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Here is an older Post by me on Sims4Studio .

Hi guys, 🤗 today i bring you a modern backsplash-wall with a matching blank stucco wall. Sometimes I need it to scribble on a chit to soothe my nerves. Then sometimes something like at the first image comes out. Yesterday I've think, why not make in PS and seamless too. Tought and done. 😊 Furthermore, I thought the pattern could look quite beautiful as a subtle pattern on tiles. I love it to play with normal and specular effects. The pattern has the same color as the background but is visible through 3D effect and shine. I must honestly confess that I like the result very well. So I hope you like it too. As you can see, the walls are relatively monochrome. I do not like it so colorful. But this is not to prevent you from making your own recolors. But then please give me credit. And maybe I'll add matching complete tile walls.

Enjoy and have fun! 😘

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Guys, I need your opinion.

Looking around I see lots of beautiful highpoly* cc, and seems like people really enjoy it. In the meantime creating smth I spend 70% of time to make lowpoly versions of my highpoly meshes. And as an inevitable result my stuff is quite handy for playing the game, but looks not so nice as it actually could.

* - for those of you who is far from all that technical details. Highpoly meshes increases the load on your graphics card and other resources of your PC/laptop. If there are lots of highpoly content on your current lot [ including your sims and what they’re wearing ], you may encounter certain troubles, such as different graphics anomalies, lags, crashes, game or even operating system freezes and so on. However, many people have quite powerful computers nowadays, so they don’t experience any listed problems, if they’re not turning their TS4 game into 3D rendering show with extremely highpoly cc [ my favorite example was a small cake of 215k polys, and even that cake is used by lots of ppl, at least I often see it on various screenshots ].

So saying “highpoly” I do not mean decor objects of 100-200k polys, of course, or a simple clothes of > 50k polys. But since my own PC is quite perfomant, I’m fine with the furniture of 10-20k polys, detailed cars [ 90-150k polys ] and cas stuff up to 150k polys [ for some very complicated outfits or hairstyles, not for ordinary shirts or simple dresses ].  

Now to the textures. Usually I either link textures for smaller file sizes of the packages without quality loss [ storage space on your hdd/ssd is not endless, you know ]  or use 1024 size. But I can make them larger so your close-up screenshots would look much more glamorous, regardless of file size, but in less number of swatches [ otherwise there would be sets of 600-800 Mb each ].

So. The question is simple - maybe my efforts to reduce polycount and keep average file sizes is just a waste of time and no one actually need that?

I would be most grateful if you join the poll HERE.

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

My first Post on Tumbl 🤪

Hm, I know today is not Valentines Day but I don't want to wait until february to share these today finished files with you. Hope you like it. 😊

This set comes in 14 swatches. Excuse me for not making the mats in 10,000 different colors. I would lose patience about it. 🤭    I have chosen only for my taste these colors that fit the heart and that I myself would use in the game. 😚  But please feel free to create colors that you like. But please do not stand alone recolors. It's not about the meshes, these are just square planes. However, image processing costs me love, patience and time. Every single heart is hand-drawn and unique. The irregular shapes are so intentional. That's why I want this to be respected, with credit and mesh linked. Thank you. 💗

Get it without adfly here: http://sims4studio.com/post/100884