Just Re-signed At MTS After Years And Went To Uppdate Profile. This Gives Some Proportions..

The Conclave fandom on Twitter appears to be in a crisis of tone (and whether its appropriate to be posting priest yaoi rn) and it's the most entertaining thing I've seen in fandom this year

I didn't know about the guid database at MTS, does anybody know if it's still being updated?

Sims 2:

Because I'm working on a simple solution, but idk if its still an issue.

Has anyone ever did something with that? it could be nice.

Great discovery. And that site Cutting Room Floor is also great, I've only recently encountered it.

Might as well throw in this list of unused Maxis stuff made functional by @kirlicues:

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Unused resources for belly piercings in The Sims 2 base game

I could not find this in The Cutting Room Floor, so here's some info. I noticed one of the models years ago but only looked for more resources recently. I'm not a 3D artist, so forgive me if I say something nonsensical (and correct me in a comment!).

This is a list of the resources I could find:

The meshes are incomplete in the sense that they are not assigned to any bones, and they appear at floor level, near the auskel joint.

There were at least two types planned, "ring" and "post". The mesh for the post is separated into two groups: "uuaccessorybellybuttonpost_gold" for the metallic part, and "uuaccessorybellybuttonpost_red" for the plastic/stones part. The ring only has one group, "gold".

The material definition files for the "gold" groups reference "shineymetal2" and "nightreflection2-envcube" as the base texture and cube map texture respectively. The "red" group doesn't reference any textures, so maybe it was meant to look like translucent red glass.

There are thumbnail cameras specifically for the piercings. By the names we can guess that they were planned for teens and adults (maybe elders too?).

I'm not sure why they weren't implemented, my only guess is they could not find a way to avoid clipping or warping during sim animations. Although if the meshes didn't even have bone assignments, maybe they didn't reach that stage in testing. Who knows.

It could be possible to restore these, you would probably need to make separate meshes for each life stage, gender and body shape.

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Mod The Sims

The Sims 2 Legacy Collection - Essential Mods Masterlist

by Jawusa in Sims 2

Great list. Saving for later.

Since there's been another "Tumblr is gonna die!" scare, let's do a poll...

Rb for larger sample size appreciated :)

Oh, that's interesting. first time I'm hearing that claim. Now i understand what happened. in my legacy edition copy, I did notice a change to the graphic settings, but thought it was done by someone else, not EA. on the log it states that I have a slightly different card than what I actually have, and it did surprise me they didn't add mine to the pool, i was wondering what's that about. I tried to add mine manually, worrying its absence would cause issues, but it didn't change when I've added mine. I had no problems with it, so I just left it as it is.

Side note: I left this copy for testing (and forgot about it actually), I don't play it if I can help it, so there are hardly any mods on it.

Okay, I compared the Graphics Rules.sgr and Video Cards.sgr with the Ultimate Collection

They did EXACTLY what my brother has been saying for months but people have been debating him over it and didn't want to believe him

The new video cards.sgr doesn't include ANY new graphics cards. Wanna know why? Because the game doesn't fucking care. He has been saying for months that it doesn't care and that adding it via GRM doesn't do anything, it can actually potentially make it worse.

What they DID do is take out all the hacky stuff in the Graphics Rules.sgr to prevent the game from turning on and off certain settings depending on your hardware and software config. That's what I did as well, months ago, because he said it is the smarter solution.

Look what I found! This tool is so good.

Found it through github, it produces all types of maps. Haven't seen it being mentioned anywhere... I used a Maxis floor as an example. It produced very nice results on images of floors I got online.

Index

Preparing For a Tumblr Shutdown Scenario - Where to Find Me Elsewhere.

Resources for Creating: My Go-To things: The Updated List on DW. Retired Post on Tumblr.

Resources For Playing.

GUID Database Revival.

Sims 2 Databases Database.

SimPE Material Definitions Index.

UV Maps Thread.

Game Fuckery Help and Linux List.

List of People's Experiments with Replacing Sims' Face Mesh. Other posts are organized by tags.

3t2 - Antique Adornments 7

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." ~~Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust, First Part

Episode 7 of the 'Antique Adornments' series. How many more to come? Oh, that's a good question! 💭

Find a detailed list of all of the conversions in this WordPress post.

Mediafire / SFS

Credits: floor by MsBarrows, rug recolor by kjkjljkjkjkjljkj, red paneling by unknown, wallpaper by SIP