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That would be such a neat idea! Supernatural sims were so limited, being able to choose perks could add some fun and variety.

I would love a mod series that would expand on occult sim powers like how TS4 vampires and spellcasters have perks.

Maybe it uses the business perk menu or the lifetime aspiration menu as a base?

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It is time.

Year 1: Spring is starting for Kynsbern. We begin with Michelle's side of the Volcroft family, updating three times a day.

Year 1: Spring

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Heya! People were wondering about my mod updates from yesterday as it seems like some TS4 modders on MTS got hacked and uploaded shady shit coincidentally at the same time?

They're real, it's okay to download them. I just swapped the ASI loader for one that works better on EA App, that's why I didn't make any announcements.

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What a great resource! Thank you!

EA flower textures

hey maxis match cc people and everyone else too I separated flowers from 140 sims textures and put them all in one image grouped by color (with gaps large enough to rectangle select anything you want)

nothing is resized but tumblr will eat the quality so here's a download link (sfs, in the zip archive there's the whole image as well as every group by itself)

enjoy

kotpicard

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"Are you lost? Do not worry, I'll help you. Take my hand and I will bring you to where you belong,"

[es-sims]

Yay, a cat OSMP! It’s so cute!

One More Cat Slot Please!

Done in collab with @tvickiesims! An OMSP for cats 😺

Based on the invisible counter surface by @lamare-sims, but we made this useless for cooking and more useful for cats. Your sims and deco items will ignore this OMSP, but even cats that have learned to stay away from surfaces will be happy to use it.

By default, the OMSP is on the counter level. Raising the OMSP works nicely and it'll still work if you lower it too, but the jumping animations might get wonky.

The OMSP turns automatically invisible in live mode but there's an invisible recolor for those who prefer to hide it in buy mode as well.

🐈‍⬛ Download (SFS) (alternate)

Apartment Life and Pets are probably required. Located under misc/pets for free, the mesh is 4 polys and doesn't have a texture but the file includes a 40x44px custom icon so that thought bubbles don't appear empty when sims or cats think about the object.

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Long hair for masculine sims! This is Rita's Gdnf hair from RoseSims in Poppet V2, Poppet Unnaturals+Amphitrite and PMG V4. This hair has around 7.2K Polys, a 1024x1024 texture and is for YM-EM.

Amphitrite comes in two flavors: Custom and genetic. You can only pick one and if you choose the genetic version, you will need the Amphitrite Hairtone file from the Amphitrite Starter Kit for it to work.

Download: Simfile

Credits: Original Mesh: RoseSims, Rita Textures: PMG, Poppet

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I will wait and see. Like I said, I don’t really play the Sims 4 and when I do, I find the lack of features and the push to spend money very… obvious. I am concerned how it affects future 4t2 projects and what future games would have.

Like, I would enjoy a second Sims Medieval. But what would it look like in EA’s current strategy? How much would I have to spend to have basic fun in a game? I just need more info and less push to monetize.

(It’s okay. I know I don’t know a lot about AI and language models. I did check a few times to see if I said something really stupid though, lol. It’s all good.)

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So, this was just uploaded an hour ago for the EA Investor Day. It does not fill me with a lot of confidence in the future of the franchise, especially since they are really going into the social media aspect.

[es-sims]

I suppose it depends on what content they train on, since it uses the images to make the content. I wouldn’t want to know for sure they don’t use free custom content for training, I could see that discouraging creators.

I am trying to find more info on what the AI would exactly do, but I am skeptical on how this will work.

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Generating CAS items?! Are you serious, EA? I admit that I don’t know much about how Sims 4 CC downloading works, being a Sims 2/1 player primarily, but this seems like a terrible idea. A lot of my CC shopping has me go through the list to look at texture sizes, poly counts, to see if it has morphs and animations and such. I don’t think I would want EA’s algorithm to decide what would be a quality product for any of my games.

[es-sims]

Happy birthday to the Sims 2!

The Sims 2 (September 14, 2004)

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it did not, you had to download Inge’s mod. At the time, the page said it didn’t work on the latest version (and I didn’t know of a way to make it work together) so I never got version 2.

I may also have an edited bed controller too but I am not sure, I don’t have the documentation anymore and the file name is the same. I just remember that there was something conflicting with the original controller and one of the newer mods I wanted, so it required an edit that likely isn’t needed now.

Guess it’s just time to figure out how to use 2.0 and update all of the mods that were specifically for 1.0. Thank you.

This is going to be a strange question, but can your Inaccessible Beds mod be used with both versions of ACR or is it only compatible with the latest version? I am getting a Bad gosub tree number error and according to the logs, it has something to do with the edited ACR Controller for the Bed.

Hi! My edited ACR file is for version 2.0

I’m sorry I didn’t mention it, I thought I did

The Inaccessible Bed mod will function without my ACR edit, you can remove it

Does earlier version of ACR include Inge’s Inaccessible Bed? Sims will use it for ACR actions then

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Don't mind the UI, I switched to my testing hood and it has the UI testing I had worked on to try and get hair bins to show up.

So it does work for the other custom bins and different hairs, they age up with their correct hair meshes. The unnaturals hairs show up with the correct thumbnails when adjusted, but the Sims have solid grey hair when aging up. So it's slow progress, but it's progress.

I really wish I could figure out how to make custom hair bins work so they are selectable for all ages. I think I finally got the hairs familied in a way that allows the Sim to age up with the proper grey hair without losing the ability to pick the hairs in CAS/Bodyshop with the elder lifestage.

Just need to make a bunch of additional hairs in Amphitrite and my other hair colors to make sure it wasn't a fluke, but its progress.

Edit: Well... technically the elders don't keep their unnatural hair. I tried to switch it but it is staying grey. But it is still progress.

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I really wish I could figure out how to make custom hair bins work so they are selectable for all ages. I think I finally got the hairs familied in a way that allows the Sim to age up with the proper grey hair without losing the ability to pick the hairs in CAS/Bodyshop with the elder lifestage.

Just need to make a bunch of additional hairs in Amphitrite and my other hair colors to make sure it wasn't a fluke, but its progress.

Edit: Well... technically the elders don't keep their unnatural hair. I tried to switch it but it is staying grey. But it is still progress.

[es-sims]

I messed around with the UI cheat when exploring the CAS menus for hairs, I think you need to enable the allmenu cheat before you can use the UI cheat.

Be aware that enabling it means modifying the game files. So, be sure you are comfortable doing that before editing the files. I put a link for a Mod the Sims thread that mentions the cheats and how to enable it.

hi lamare. i'm trying to access the ui cheat but it doesn't work for me?? do i have to open up the cheat console too?

Hi! You're not alone, I know of other people that can't get the Ctrl-U cheat to work. Unfortunately, I have no idea why. Works for me every time 🤷‍♀️

Anyone knows?

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This is such a great add-on! Thank you!

It's been a while but I am back with another creation! I am very excited to share this with you, because it builds upon the work of a much beloved modding duo and I love being able to contribute to work by others in the community :) If you are a user of Sun&Moon's Loads O' Laundry, have you ever found yourself wishing that your Sims would have to do laundry if they wanted access to clean clothes? I love giving my Sims chores to do, I have to do them so they do too. And in this case of laundry, I wanted their hard work to mean something by actually needing the clean laundry for something. So I created an add-on to the original, that gives dressers a clean laundry count! Now your Sims use of them is limited, and they require restocking with clean batches of laundry to be usable.

This mod is meaningless without Loads O' Laundry, which recently got an update that you can read more about here. However, the two mods are entirely separate, mine is an add-on that alters dressers. The overlap is that it uses the clean laundry pile object from Loads O' Laundry.

What the mod does - Dressers now have a clean laundry count visible to you (except some CC, see more info below) - Dressers are given a default clean laundry count of 10. Easily changed in BCON if you want a different number. Your Sims dressers will start out with this amount, both those already placed and newly purchased ones. - When your Sim uses the dresser to change their clothes, outfit change count reduces by 1 - When clean laundry count hits 0, the menu option to change clothes disappears. Your Sim has no laundry in it, so they can't change their clothes! - All dressers (except some CC, see more info below) gain access to a new put away laundry menu, with a custom interaction to take clean laundry piles in inventory and add them to the dresser to stock up outfit changes.

Here is a little video showing off how it works and looks :)

Unfortunately this mod has some conflicts, and I apologize in advance for the fact that this makes downloading it a little confusing for users. I have made compatible versions so you can use it with these mods, but you'll need to figure out which version you need based on what you use. The two conflicts I am aware of is Inteen, and PregnancyWearAnyOutfit. There may be others I am unaware of. Please note this mod edits text strings, which means you'll need HCDU+ to check for conflicts I may have missed. The original HCDU does not scan for text string conflicts so it might miss some. Please let me know if you find any, so I can update the information :) Now, on to the links!

If you do not use Inteen or PregnancyWearAnyOutfit, download the regular version

If you use Inteen, but not PregnancyWearAnyOutfit, download inteen compatible version here (my mod must load last!)

If you use PregnancyWearAnyOutfit, but not Inteen, download PregnancyWearAnyOutfit compatible version here (my mod must load last!)

If you use both Inteen and PregnancyWearAnyOutfit, download the version compatible with both here (my mod must load last!)

In addition, I have a second version that I made specifically for ChocolateCitySim (whom you'll find streaming Sims 2 every sunday on her twitch channel) that allows Sims to change to their pyjamas and underwear even if their dresser is empty, as a sort of "I'm out of some clothes but not others"-thing. I have not made conflict-compatible versions because it's confusing enough as is, but if you'd like the idea of this version you can get it here. Can't be used with PregWearAnyOutfit, load order will not help, you either get my mod or theirs. Can be used with Inteen if loading after, though your teens will lose the ability to do romantic interactions in AL closets.

If you'd like some place your Sim can always change their clothes, in case of emergency, I recommend my edited towel racks that allow your Sims to change to everyday, formal and pyjamas.

Compatibility with CC dressers Unfortunately, depending on how the dresser was made, some CC ones will not be compatible with this. Depending on how much it conflicts, some may give you 10 uses before they become unusable, others will immediately be unusable. Most likely to happen in older CC, made back when it was commonplace to move pie menus to private levels. But fortunately, regular dressers with no custom functionality added are very easy to fix. I have written down instructions that you can grab here, and I also made a video tutorial here. I am very brain foggy so it might not be the clearest I've done, but hopefully it is enough to help you figure out how to do this to any dressers you use that aren't compatible. If you really can't and you desperately want to use both, assuming I am in decent shape health-wise I can help you fix it.

Please note that this method should not be applied to dressers with custom funcionality, such as the Numenor/MaryLou object that lets you buy clothes at home. Their original is unimpacted by my mod, it won't pick up on the mod but they retain their prior functionality. HugeLunatic's 4t2 versions based on Numenors were incompatible, but HL was kind enough to update her files so that there is no longer an issue. If you use her gorgeous wall-mounted dresser racks from GoS, please re-download the files. I'm not aware of any other custom functionality dressers, but if they exist they are likely to be incompatible as well. I am not making a tutorial on how to fix them as it would depend so much on how they are made, so if you have one, please let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Credits: @sunmoon-starfactory for the original Loads O' Laundry creation that this mod builds upon, some of the code in this is repurposed from the original creation's hamper mechanics, so thank you for both the idea, the reason to make it and parts of the code :) Fireflower also kindly provided dutch translations for the new strings. @kashmiresims for testing and feedback, finding parts I had missed including, as well as hyping up the creation on her twitch streams under the name of Rachums. @picknmixsims because he teaches me so many things and a lot of what I make today is using things I learned through his help answering questions. He often helps me when I run into problems, and I lose track of which creations he directly helped so he gets a shout-out always! @nikkasimms for the awesome posed I used in the thumbnail, love your poseboxes! Rachums and picknmix were also kind enough to assist me a little with the videos, splicing stuff I couldn't myself :) Thanks guys!