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(also posted to Garden of Shadows)

Here is some grass! It's actually green, unlike most of the lawns around here after this summer.

I made a new lush terrain replacement, plus some terrain paints to go with it - or, you know, any other terrain. It's a little more 'neutral' than most of the other lush terrain replacements I've found (not as bright, dark, yellow, etc.) and I've been pretty happy planning my new neighbourhood with it! There are six terrain paints - two match the lot view texture (03) and the neighbourhood outskirts (01), and the other four are variations of those two.

I also made a version of my default road replacement to match this terrain, which is included in the download along with the overlay rug.

Previews are shown with dreapirate's lighting mod, so colours may vary on your end.

There are a couple of other preview images you can view in this album, or at the link above to my post on GoS.

Download: Box, Mega

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After weeks of email round robin where every tech support person knew something different. ^_^

It's back! For realz this time. With it's totally centered header if your browser is wide that I'll most likely never fix because I don't ever want to do this again.

A big thanks to everyone for their patience and support. I hope to never do this again.

All bookmarks should work. All redirects from old digitalperversion links should work. Feel free to let me know of any links not working. Unless it's cc stuff, then I probably not the one to ask.

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Sims 2 Tools - Repository Wizard

Repository Wizard

The Repository Wizard is a utility for automating the repository technique for objects and clothing.

Object Mode

This mode of the Repository Wizard automates the process described by HugeLunatic in their Repository Technique tutorial.

Clothing Mode

This mode of the Repository Wizard creates new re-colours for a new/modified mesh based on an existing mesh with its own set of re-colours.

This is NOT the simple approach to the repository method of linking the dependant's TXMT resource(s) to the donor's TXTR resource(s), but a new, more advanced, approach of linking via the 3IDR resource.

See the application’s web page for extensive details about both modes.

If you do not know what the repository technique is, or why you would want to use it, this application is not for you!

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Did you accidentally make your fence too short, and now there's an ugly extra fence post in the way? Think you'll have to rebuild that whole section of fence to get rid of it? Worry not!

Simply attach another piece of fence to the post you want gone...

... and then manually remove it. The fence post will be removed as well.

Apologies if this is common knowledge, but I only figured it out recently and it's saved me a lot of building time/mild annoyance!

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As long as the adsense revenue and donations cover most of the costs, GoS isn't going anywhere. So far my out of pocket cost is less than 25% of the total costs for the site, which is within my budget still. I'm hoping this coming year will be the same but ad revenue is down. I understand ads suck and do my best to remove the auto generated page take over ones and keep them small.

But you know what scraping the site does? Increases bandwidth and server load which costs me more money. This annoys me. I have a budget man.

If I were not willing/able to continue, then there would be an announcement on GoS. All costs are paid annually. The biggest in May which is the hosting itself, the domains are scattered throughout the year. All in it's only about $225 annually.

I mean, if someone is concerned about the state of the site, they could. I dunno. Ask someone?

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^ More detailed info on what exactly is included in the GoS Sim Challenge prize to tempt more people into joining it. (The first sim also wears the blush, I just forgot to mark it in the picture) These will be shared publicly around half year later so if you want them within this month join the Sim Challenge now!

I promise it's low effort challenge, if you can make a sim and take screenshot of them you're perfectly capable of joining in, nothing else is required (and if you need help with posting pictures on the forum or other questions about this just ask in the thread, I'll help!) Deadline is March 21. so you still have 10 days left to participate!

Feel free to reblog this post if you think this is something your friends might enjoy too :)

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Picked a poison for a good ol' Sim Challenge at Garden of Shadows, hosted by @digisims2!

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Archiving the Keep

As some of you may have noticed, the Plumb Bob Keep site has been down for several days. At this time, we do not know anything about the future of the site; we have no contact with Sunni's family, who pay for it. Since the future of the site is uncertain, we are calling for all hands on deck to help us try to archive as much of the downloads as possible: images, text, links and actual download zips. We will primarily be using the Wayback Machine, but as Google searching was only turned on in the last year, many things will not be accessible. Fire_flower has created a spreadsheet to help organize the effort and allow us to see where the gaps are. This will be step one of the process, before we dive into our personal collections.

If you would like to help out, please add your name to the spreadsheet linked below. Large sections might need 2 or more people to team up. Please ask if you have questions over at the PBK Discord or fireflowersims or fracturedmoonlight via tumblr. Thank you so much for your time and help! PBK Archive Spreadsheet

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Added my gifts to the pile!

Becca shared such lovely gifts today!

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Another brilliant preview that showcases the product

Nail Overlay Boxes!

@isabella-goth made a post about wanting a nail overlay box. It's been something on my to-do list for a long while as I stopped using nails solely for the same reason. This is quite easy to put together because @themeasureofasim wrote a detailed tutorial. Thank you!

Today, I offer @maxis-continued's Fingernail Variety Project and -Ava- at MTS's Nails as accessory overlays!

There are two overlay boxes - FVP uses @neosimi's 4t2 Subtle Serve Makeup Kit (60 recolors) and Nails uses @lafeeverte-sims 4t2 Nail Care Basics (42 recolors) - swatches are available in the original posts, respectively.

They can both be found in Misc > Dresser for 15 simoleons - which is a steal for a manicure! They are all child -> elder, masc & femme, and sims will age up into the nails they have on.

If there are any issues, please let me know.

Download Fingernail Variety Project - SFS / MF

*updated 29 Dec - please redownload

Download Nails - SFS / MF

This is my last cc post for 2022 and probably... until February? I may queue up some uberhood posts, but I can't guarantee it. I'll see you all in the new year!

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@hugelunatic is hosting Secret Santa this year! Sign-ups thru December 9, 2022

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A Lot of Eyes and Stuff

Have some eyes! …lots of them! And a sclera. And a waterline. Look, it's a whole Thing.

As I explained in a previous post, the eyes currently in my game are kind of all over the place, but y'know, in case anyone else is interested...

The sclera is the result of poking at @virtualpeople's Solar sclera, mixing it with Tea Leaf's mswn + AlfredAskew sclera for some added animation-friendliness (primping faces for proof), then refining it a bit more. And then I stuck it on a bunch of eyes!

I created two new eye sets, and resclera'd some existing eyes I liked by other people. I only did the colours I personally wanted (not the full sets), and I reused the existing packages, so you can't keep these and the originals. The tooltips, filenames, and swatch images have all been updated.

New eye sets:

After Dawn (preview | swatch)

Marseilles (preview | swatch)

Resclera'd sets:

@curiousb - Box Set (preview | swatch)

@digisims2 - Falco (preview | swatch)

@entropy-sims - 4T2 Remussirion Connexin (preview | swatch; catchlight edited)

@esotheria-sims - Dragontamer (preview | swatch)

Jessi - Painting the Walls (preview | swatch)

@mouseyblue - Glossed (preview | swatch)

Nabila - Sound of Madness (preview | swatch)

Tea Leaf / @marzmud - Brick v2 (preview | swatch) and Swallowed in the Sea (preview | swatch)

Trapping / @linasims2 - Mouseyblue Glossed recolours (preview | swatch)

@whysim - 4T2 dangerouslyfreejellyfish Whisper (preview | swatch) and viiavi's recolours (preview | swatch)

All the eyes are geneticised and townified. The genetic values range from 1.0 to 3.0, with brown and dark blue being the most dominant and purple, pink, and orange being the most recessive. Swatches are all included, and in the same order as the file names. You know, for easy culling in case I kept too many purples or something.

Defaults are comprised of CuriousB's Box Set and Jessi's Painting the Walls (swatch).

And finally, a little extra thing because it kinda goes with the theme: an edit of @pooklet's Ephemera waterline edit. It's my favourite waterline for smoothing out that weird sharp slant, since it works for all skintones and doesn't obscure lower lash line makeup, but the inner corner kinda bugged me, so I made a tiny alpha edit. Here's a comparison if you want to see the difference.

I've also included a .png of the sclera, as well as a layerable overlay found in the blush bin (apologies in advance for the v terrifying swatch).

Download: Box, Mega

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Give a prize, get a prize! Deadline is October 31, 4pm GMT 🎃

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Hello Becca! First things first: I wanted to say how much I love your CC - every new release is such a treat! I have some eyes-related questions: which eye default do you currently have in-game? Also, may I please ask which eyes you used on the three female sims that appear in your Tumblr preview pictures for your recent set of default face templates? Thank you so much - I hope you are having a great weekend. :-)

First of all, thank you for the sweet comment! :)

Secondly, I need to admit that all of the eyes currently in my game are re-sclera'd using a sclera blend I made earlier this year, and since I just (lazily) re-used the packages and didn't do every colour in each set, it feels a little weird to upload them as-is. I can clean them up a bit for a proper upload at some point, but in the meantime:

My defaults are a combination of CuriousB’s Box Set (Deep Forest, The Great Escape, and Unfold) and Jessi’s Painting the Walls (Blue 1 and Grey 7).

As for the eyes in those pictures:

1 - Tea Leaf's Brick v2 in Tangerine 2 - Trapping's recolours of Mouseyblue's Glossed in Forest Fire 3 - Tea Leaf's Swallowed in the Sea in 27 (with sugarandcaffeine's large limbal ring)

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Hi. So, I am completely in love with your Penny Lane - Default Face Templates, but is there a way for you to make them non-default? Just regular face templates? Also, if you could link to that blonde hair with purple ends one of the sims have on, I would absolutely love you!!!

Hello! I hope you don't mind me answering this publicly, since there's an ~unexpected download~ involved. ;)

I'm glad you like Penny Lane! They're only available as default faces right now, and I don't currently have plans to make them non-defaults, but maybe someone will someday.

The hair! It's my own retexture/recolour of Anto's Dua, using a blend of Zeusar's Pearls + Io. Naturals are for child-elder female, gradients teen and adult only, with greys linked to browns. Original conversion is by Eir, but I've included @platinumaspiration's lower-poly mesh, as well as the full-sized volatile base texture!

Swatches: naturals, gradients

Download: Box, Mega

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Okay simmers I need to know: Reblog this post and in the tags tell me whether, when building/decorating, you 1) close the game to find and immediately download the specific kind of item/object you need, or 2) try and make do with the items you already have, even if it means using items in a way they probably weren’t meant to be used.

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Hi, I just wanted to say I really like the stuff you make, it's great having people like you in the community. That's all. Have a nice day!

What a lovely message to log on to, thank you! :) Hope you have a good weekend, anon!