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May I use your Bella Squared, reimagined in blender as my pfp, and obv credit you in my bio?

*dusting the cobwebs off this blog* yeah! That's perfectly fine as long as credit is given

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ABSOLUTELY NOT. DO NOT BANG KNUT HE WILL CAUSE OBJECT ERRORS IRL

i found this deep within knut’s character file what could this mean… (full video)

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i found this deep within knut’s character file what could this mean... (full video)

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how to entertain a tycho

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how to entertain a tycho

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Parents PLEASE check your kids’ candy bars this Halloween. I found pink soup in one of mine.

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Don't think it Don't say it

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vidcund pissing himself is the funniest thing to happen in the sims universe tbh

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the residents of strangetown want to wish you a very out of touch thursday

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might i offer my followers a cursed half abandoned project preview with lazlo

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good morning im budgieflitter and my tumblr blog of 8 years got terminated for no reason!! i contacted support ofc but still got no response (im seriously starting to suspect tumblr has a grudge against simmers lmao) so yeahhh please help me share this and contact tumblr support also! thank you!

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So I'm working on turning my old Sims 2 machinima into a novel, and I decided to browse old screenshots so I have references of bedrooms and what characters looked like and... This really makes me wish I had filmed at least one episode with reshade... but the last script I made was 70+ pages 🫣

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happy birthday sims 2!!

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Experimenting with Replacing the Default Sims 2 Face Mesh

So, after uh, whew, months(!) of experimenting with attempting to change the default face mesh in Sims 2, I’m here to basically share what I’ve found to be possible, what I still am struggling to get working, and what parts of my findings are still useful for a LOT of modding and custom content purposes, even if I couldn’t achieve my initial goal. I’m really tired of this project and I’d rather move on to doing stuff that are more doable (and more quickly doable) for my gameplay goals, rather than trying to do what seems to be a gargantuan task for my level of skills. 

In this post I’ll mostly focus on what is doable *in principle*. There’s lots of subtleties and tricks in getting things to look decent (well, at least I think I got it to look decent) which I won’t go into. Or try not to. I go into tangents a lot.

I’ll also not go into step-by-step details. Mostly because I suck at it but also because this post will be super long anyway. If you wanna know, ask!

For those who just want a brief summary: What I could get to work: a default replacement face mesh, with working templates and sliders, for adult sims. Though the procedures are the same for the rest of the ages.

What I still have trouble with: Basically, getting the game to recognize different parts of the face. This means applying the templates to different parts of the mesh, and, of course, genetics, don’t work yet. I have ideas about what could get it to work, but I’ve failed to do it so far.

Awesome things you could still do: My major finding here is that face animations can be applied to *any* CAS object. Clothing, accessories, and of course, nude skins (see below, this was an outfit with a bit that changes with eyes, proof of concept). This means that you can have specific sims with additional face parts and/or accessories and clothing that respond to face animations, or alternatively, you can have skin tones/body morphs that have face pieces which will not mix together between the parents, but are still heritable (with some limitations)

Oh, and full disclosure, the tools I used were simPE and blender 2.9. Nothing else. Don’t know how to do other stuff.

Thank you @simnopke , @rudhira , @withlovefromsimtown​  and many others for your help and encouragement in all this! I think there’s potential for some really good modding here.

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