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Extended StandardMaterial Shader for the Sims 2

A Shader Edit/Default Replacement "StandardMaterial" is the shader commonly used by sims objects. It tells the game how to render them, and by default offers features such as making them glowy or transparent. However, most of its effects apply to the whole material at once. I figured out how to edit it! So here is my improved version. It now supports: - An "additive" texture map, lighting up specific areas of the material. - An envCube mask, controlling the intensity of this effect via a texture. - Two new envCube modes, and improvements to an undiscovered one. + "Blend" replaces the base texture by the envCube's. + "Multiply" multiplies them together (duh). + "DiffuseRadiance", which already existed in the shader, adds the envCube texture to the light received by the material rather than its already lit texture. All three of them support the envCube mask and the envCubeCoef parameter. The envCube modes are mutually exclusive, but all effects can otherwise be used with each other. The download itself contains the shader package, a pdf ReadMe listing features and material parameters, and examples showcased on my envCubeTesterObject (also included). The readme lists the specific shader files I've edited, in case anyone else made an incompatible mod. (I've not included the recolours from the first preview pic as they're kind of lame lol + I had to make a CEP extra for the robot.) I'm hyped to see what cool objects and recolours people will make with this! And I'm probably forgetting information.

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Just Reblogging this again to say that thanks to @fireflowersims there are some new translations up in this default and the file has been updated

Apothecary - @episims Improved Biotech Station Medievalized

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Apothecary - @episims Improved Biotech Station Medievalized

Download at the Plumb Bob Keep

"That's a Wrap" - bubodydiaper default (TenshiiAkari12's Mesh with Almighty Hat's Texture)

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"Repo What You Bow" - Lama's AC Crossbow as a Repogun DR

This is a quick project that had been floating on my head on and off, but decided to tackle now as a bit of a palate cleanser from other projects I'm working on

This is Lady Lama's Assassin's Creed Crossbow conversion as a functional default replacement for the Repogun.

Why a crossbow, you may ask, what are the logistics of a crossbow taking away your stuff? Magic I suppose, also, Rule of Cool, it looks really cool in action (well, it does have clipping going on, tried to mitigate it as much as I could, but I can live with it)

Credits: Lady Lama for the original conversion

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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

S4-S2 Robot Vacuum Default

I saw someone requesting a conversion of the Robot Vacuum as a default for the RoboCleaner, so I figured it wasn’t gonna be something complicated to do, and do that myself:

Comes in White, Black, Red and Blue, File has been Compressorized Since I’ve done this practically in a day, if something acts wierd, give me a heads up (Also a shame the bots share the same stand, could have converted the Robot Vacuum stand, also, a shame cats can’t sit on this one, maybe I can figure out how to do a custom version... we’ll see)

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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.

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