I Didn't Know About The Guid Database At MTS, Does Anybody Know If It's Still Being Updated?

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.

May I add, skip Chrome for browsing, if you haven't done so. Firefox is much better anyway.

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

I'm not a gamer, so I'm probably late to the Fallout London party, but this looks amazing.

I look at this and I see conversions.

Here's another good review, this time by a brit:

Good one! that's a neat find.

I keep coming across the simmer who’s responsible for this shitshow, so a friendly reminder, watch out. She’s still active:

Caption: [Video Games/Modding] When You Want Your Sims to Have Pretty Nails but End up Getting Lightning McQueen, Dozens of Secret Sims, Racist Aliens, Nightmare Dogs, and an Unhealthy Dose of Game Corruption.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/15yd5yj/video_gamesmodding_when_you_want_your_sims_to/

- watch out if you like your game not infested -

I keep coming across the simmer who’s responsible for this shitshow, so a friendly reminder, watch out. She’s still active:

Caption: [Video Games/Modding] When You Want Your Sims to Have Pretty Nails but End up Getting Lightning McQueen, Dozens of Secret Sims, Racist Aliens, Nightmare Dogs, and an Unhealthy Dose of Game Corruption.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/15yd5yj/video_gamesmodding_when_you_want_your_sims_to/

- watch out if you like your game not infested -

Verdant Fields - DRs for Weeds

You all can thank Sunni for putting this idea on the table and in my head in the midst of the DR madness I am suffering. Basically, as she watched weeds spread across a test lot of hers, she thought hm…it would be a nice touch if it was grass growing naturally. NOW IT IS. But you all know me and I can’t stop at that…so not only do you get grass, you get clover! Still not enough! How about some wildflowers instead? Pick from 10 choices! Let one “weed” sprout and watch it go crazy so you too can have wonderous things growing instead of nasty old weeds. But weeds are bad, my sims hate weeds! Is that what you say? These DRs are modified so that they don’t tank environment score when they are present! So enjoy letting them spread. Autonomy has been turned off on them so those OCD sims won’t rush to get rid of them. Too impatient to wait for weeds to grow? These have also been made available to buy from the catalog itself. Plop one down and let it take off. You can find it in the Misc > Misc category. These meshes are less poly than the original weeds so they shouldn’t bog down too much. You can always direct a sim to pick weeds but don’t let them do so unsupervised or they will pick EVERY “weed”. As always, you can only have one DR for anything in your game. Choose wisely. Mesh/texture props to Kate and Kativip.

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Tumblr can defiantly close down without sufficient notice, I've read someone here saying it happened to them on another site before. I've been meaning to make other/backup accounts - as to not put all of my eggs in the Tumblr basket. Got Pillowfort and Bluesky now, and will probably get Dreamwidth as a more proper blog, now that WordPress is out of the question. So far it's a bit empty out there for ts2, but it'll probably grow.

Most importantly there's the regular forums and sites, which I believe to be better for sharing information & downloads. Nothing gets lost that way under endless scrolling. These (anti)social media sites are like chat rooms, good for chat, not for archiving information. I recently got back to modding, and because of the forums I got all the information I needed to mod this relic of a game.

Oh and if anyone's interested these are my accounts, I've also added links to the profile description.. Pillowfort BlueSky Garden of Shadows Mod the Sims Simblr.CC

matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao

Wip: Assassin Sims.

Since i've shared my resources list, I might as well share this too. Nothing is finnished, hence the wip. Ezio's outfit was converted by Daislia at GoS. Working dl at page 3.

I don't want to unfreeze this frame. In the pictures: some cafe furniture from Unity. Roofs, plants and wall from Brotherhood. The wall will be a 3 parter, and seamless of course, in the picture it's just one part. Not ideal but otherwise the texture would shrink badly. None of the materials is ready yet, the end result will look nicer, I hope.

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.