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Plumb Bob Keep Birthday Screenshot Contest

Screenshot by Sunni from Front Page Slideshow

As part of the birthday festivities, we're having a screenshot contest! Our main page slideshow is both beautiful, and dated. We would like some new images to add to it, and that's where you come in. Put together your best screenshots of any sort of Plumb Bob Keep downloads, and then the community will vote for their top five!

Up to three entries per person

Multiple entries by the same person can be declared winners

Submit to rugrat0ne via PBK DM by April 15th, 11:59 ET

Must be in an aspect ratio of 5:3 (Actual size is 400px x 240px, so check how yours looks)

Must feature at least one item of PBK content conspicuously

May or may not include one or many Sims

Does not need to have any sort of birthday theme

Must be able to tell it is a screenshot of the game: no AI, fake backgrounds, etc.

Light editing with graphics programs, and use of shaders like Reshade are allowed

In-game lighting mods are allowed as well

The council will decide on any editing questions

Winners will be picked by popular vote starting April 16th and running until the 30th

Winning entries will be announced on May 5th

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and start styling those scenes. We want to see your very best efforts to show off what Keepers can do! Questions? Ask one of the mods or in this thread. Be sure to submit your entries to rugrat0ne at the Keep (don't post them here) by April 15th.

For someone who struggles to understand sometimes what a given block does inside a specific BHAV, this might be useful!

BHAV to Diagram Tool

I've just released a web tool for The Sims 2 modders that converts SimPe BHAV code to Mermaid diagrams. It's intended to make BHAV functions easier to understand, especially the big ones.

BHAV to Mermaid diagram (cosmatevs.github.io)

"Age of Clay" - 4 Aged Terracotta Recolors and 1 4to2 Mesh Repositoried to the Glazed Pottery Superset

Download at the Plumb Bob Keep

Coinage - Part 1

The Time as come to finally release this, I’ve started working on this since… Late July, And I only released this today because I decided to motivate myself to do so.

So now I’m giving you all not 1, not 2, not 10… a whopping 71 CASH DEFAULTS with Coins, Shells, Gems and other assortments of Historic and Fantasy Currencies.

So for Starters we have hriveresse Drachmas converted from their acessory form, Hodgekisse’s Medieval Coins with 2 more extra styles of coin (Boat and White Gold Tower) besides the original 2 styles (Face and Imperial) in 3 colors for a whooping 12 Defaults, worship4ever0227 Investment Silver, with Xia’s 4 recolors, and 3 styles of Asian Coins, by me, Koban and Tenpo Tsuho only have one Color as of now, but the One I call “Cash Coins” has 7 Defaults:

- Thuận Thiên Nguyên Bảo

- Sangpyeong Tongbo

- Eiraku Tsuho/Yongle Tongbao/Vĩnh Lạc Thông Bảo (In Copper and Silver)

- Qianlong Tongbao/Càn Long Thông Bảo

- Hongwu Tongbao

- Wu Zhu

We also have some Gemstones from TSM in 7 Sun & Moon Colors, The Nuggets are based on an edited free mesh from Sketchfab, it only came in gold, so I made silver and copper colors, And Pearls from Skyrim, although the texture is not from Skyrim.

And I couldn’t forget seashell Currencies, We have Cowrie Shells, made by me, Bon Voyage Seashells, and Sand Dollars from Retailsims

And for the Legend of Zelda Afficionados out there, we have Rupees, A Rupee Bag from Hyrule Warriors, and a Bunch of Rupees from Link’s Awakening Remake, All come in 7 defaults each.

And to end it all, we have Frac’s Coin Pouch in 3 leather colors and 3 coin colors, making 9 defaults each, and a burlap pouch with salt and rice for currency, adding 2 more defaults for a total of 11 coin pouch defaults, we also have 3 Bottlecap defaults from Fallout 4 (Two Nuka Cola and One Sunset Sarsparilla) and to finish, Cocoa Beans made by me.

Some of these meshes might clip in Sim Hands, I tried mitigating it at best, but that’s gonna have to be something you’ll have to live with if you use them.

Feel free to use meshes I did for whatever, just give credit and don’t put them behind a paywall.

This will be all for the time being, I might do a part 2 later down the line, but for the time being, enjoy all the defaults. Special Thanks to @fireflowersims​, @fracturedmoonlight​, @hodgekiss​ and @illenlan​ for helping me with fetching for references and resources.

Swatches are included in the files, File have also been compressorized.

                                         Download Here

I made some eye bag/tired eye make up for one particular sim but I liked how they looked on everyone so I use it a lot. It comes in 10 colors (Used AlfredAskew's lip color actions, deleted the ones that were too neon pink)

Found in the blush category

10 Colors

For all ages, so your toddlers can be just as exhausted

Compressorized

Download (SimFileShare)

Happy 20th Birthday, The Sims 2! may we keep having fun for years to come!!

Happy 18th Birthday to the best game in the franchise! You're legal now, The Sims 2!

I need blogs to follow. SO..

Sunni's Default's Remastered - "Private School and University"

This is a remaster and rework of Medieval NPC Replacements: Private School & University by Sunni, mostly to make use of more modern techniques of default replacement, I made sure that these defaults only applied to a specific outfit and not the whole set (as you can see for the female tweed jacket, that the only color I replaced only affects female teachers, the rest remain unchanged, so other defaults can be used on their place, or the private school uniforms), with some exceptions that I will cover.

The link above should cover most of the previews of the set, so I'm not going to show all defaults, but I will add that I did some changes specifically to the Coach, Llama mascot and Cheerleader, Adding one new color to complement the original color scheme the original outfits had going on:

The .RAR contains up to 30 defaults that cover everything the original set had, with 3 exceptions, the diploma default, that i decided to leave out since this is only meant to cover CAS outfits and hairs, and the ballcap hat defaults, since those were meant to be more like hat hiders, and force one specific hair mesh, I'd rather use something like @kitteninthewindow No Fixed Hairs For Various Careers & NPCs than specify one hairstyle for each hat that might not be someone's cup of tea.

And without further ado, you can download the newly updated defaults here: Download

Credits: Sunni for the originals, TheLionheart for the original idea, Sherabim for the Textures, Tiggerypum, All About Style, IamLiz13, Mia86 and TommyTiger for meshes and everyone and the Plumbbob Keep Forum and Discord for the support

Milestone!

We've met and passed the quarter mark! Simon is off doing cat things, and blissfully unaware of his condition or, more importantly, the ride in the dreaded carrier that is in his future. (He is a fierce boy when it comes to facing the vet.) I will be relieved, though, to actually get a diagnosis and a suggested treatment. Everyone who has shared this GoFundMe or donated even a little has had a big part in making this happen. We still have a ways to go, though. Thank you all!

gofundme.com

Donate to S.O.S. - Save Our Simon, organized by Gen Love

This sweet baby is Simon, the loving companion to my friend, Heather. When Heather received a devasta… Gen Love needs your support for S.O.S