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Poll Time: Pictures In Manuals

Frac here: While updating some manuals for upcoming releases, I found myself inserting pictures into some sections that would make the written directions more clear or helpful. That of course got me thinking...would anyone else like that? So I'm asking...do you?

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Hello :) I was just wondering if you'd perhaps consider making the same changes you did on Rebecah's Pet Stories Dog Training Items for Chris Hatch's version? Or perhaps you could tell me what you did to make them recolorable with subsets so I could potentially take a stab at it if not, though I've never really done anything like that before. Is there any particular reason you went for Rebecah's version over Chris Hatch's? Obviously both are great and a lot is down to personal preference but to me it seems like Rebecah's training outcomes are random whereas CH's are calculated with an agility skill and there's a whole show system, so I'd prefer the latter. But, perhaps I'm unaware of some concerns over CH's version or some particular benefit to Rebecah's? Thank you!

I went with Rebecah's because I was not aware Chris Hatch has a version.

Though to make them recolorable, I basically had to break the mesh into parts and then do the usual. If you give me a link I can take a look at them and see what modifications are needed. I assume if they were just pulled from Pet Stories, they have the same issues, and thus is could be simple as a mesh swap with joints and adding in a subset.

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Help ! When a visitor to my sims' lot picks up the bunny, the game immediately starts running at 3x. Is there a fix for this ? This does not happen if my own sim who owns the bunny picks him up. Thanks in advance.

What bunny are we talking about now?

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@jellymeduza OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH. The lack of morphs on these things have been the BANE of their creation and I just could never get the morphs to work. I'm so glad someone felt them worthy of updating to standard. <3

Animated Bonehilda jaw added to various Bonehilda outfits

@simstralia's animated Bonehilda's skull is such a quality of life upload. However, the outfits I'm using weren't included within the Bonehilda collection. Therefore, I took @simstralia's animated skull and slapped it onto:

Sentate's Bonehilda maid outfit & Bonehilda head as a hairstyle

MidgeTheTree's Sentate version of Bonehilda NPC maid outfit*

@freezerbunny-sims2's Skeleton Gearhead

*if you are using MidgeTheTree's Sentate version of Bonehilda NPC maid outfit, you shouldn't use Sentate's original Bonehilda outfit and hairstyle - they are incorporated into Midge's Bonehilda NPC maid outfit.

My edits are meant to replace original cc - these are not new meshes. If you put my edits, delete the original meshes. I changed filenames to make it easy to distinguish the originals from my animated skull edit.

I made sure to fit the UV map of @simstralia's animated skull to the respective meshes, so any recolors of the aforementioned outfits that you have are still valid.

Moreover, I only included edited meshes, so you need to get recolors separately by visiting the linked uploads.

Credits: @simstralia, @sentate, @freezerbunny-sims2, @midgethetree

Download at SFS | alt

FracturedMoonlight's Don't Bite The Hand with morphs

I added morphs to @fracturedmoonlight's pet bowls. Now the pet food will gradually disappear as pets eat.

They look quite silly as the food shrinks (and grows when a Sim fills a bowl), but at least you will be able to see a bowl needs refilling.

Some bowls have some scraps left in the empty state, so they are easy to tell apart. However, some bowls are completely empty int he empty state, so you have to read catalog descriptions to see which bowl you are buying.

I changed filenames to make it easy to distinguish the originals from my animated bowls edits. If you put my edits, you have to manually delete the originals.

Credits: @fracturedmoonlight

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hello! I love your dome roofs, but was wondering if you could please tell me where the windows with the greenery hanging down from them in the preview picture are from? and the moon object that hangs from the ceiling?

They are from the Ole Fairybulosa set. You can get the files from an archive here on @sims2packrat: https://sims2packrat.tumblr.com/post/638209023818235904/olemantikers-ts2-content-saved

The moon object is from MTS: https://modthesims.info/d/494204/give-me-the-moon.html

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Sorry to ask years after this was created, but For the Barnyard Bash - Ultimate Livestock & Poultry Collection, I have added the files that were required like the BB_Nooks And Niches & SunMoon-TimeOut, but for some reason I am still getting the blue flash with only the "Poultry Coop - Wicker" found in the Pets location in Build/Buy Mode. Any suggestions?

Looks like the documentation for Wicker items was left out when information was transferred over to a new document. Thank you for pointing it out. It's been fixed now. You need the Dining Chair from Basketweaving 4.1.

In the future, if you have any flashing blue you can download this smaller cache of files indicated in the Quickstart Guide that are common textures sources for everything else if you don't want a whole new set. Recolor not included.

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Updated 12-31-23

@niamh-sims asked about getting a completer set of sorts to the original size of my dome roof deco. She's a wonderful simming friend and beta tester for me, so I'm happy to grant a wish!

So now everyone gets the original size, now named Large, with updated description to indicate better how big of an octagon it fits, along with three more sizes Medium (3 Tiles Wide), Small (2 Tiles Wide) and X-Small (1 Tile Wide). The new sizes are of course repoed to the original Large. Like the original, you may need to use move objects cheats to get a refined position on top of your walls.

I've updated the original archive including some filenames for easier identification of the meshes themselves. Everything is compressorized, and NH enabled.

Download - SFS

Deco Dome Roof

Honestly, I made this for me and a specific build…because I discovered that the dome shaped roof that the game provides you…DOES NOT HAVE A PROPER INSIDE. Which ruined all my plans. So I made one. Shingles on the outside, and a “mural” dome on the inside. Does anyone else have a use for it? No idea, but sharing it anyway. Move Objects needed for exact placement in some cases.

Download - SFS

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How weird that we all share the same goal...so odd..

simblr goals for 2024.

PLAY the damn game!

that's it that's the list

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Loads 'o Laundry 2.0

2 years after the release of Loads 'o Laundry, we now present: Loads 'o Laundry 2.0: a much-improved version of the Laundry mod and system!

Several gameplay features have been improved and many annoyances bigger and smaller have been resolved! A large number of new objects have also been added for your enjoyment. Sims 3 and 4 players may see some familiar things... Overall, it represents a marked improvement over the original version.

Furthermore, the Laundry Mod now comes with full language support for Dutch, French and European Portuguese with more coming soon...

Before proceeding further, make sure you have the following requirements installed:

Requirements

Easy Lot Check

Easy Inventory Check

Smarter EP Check

Money Globals

Time-out Controller

Fetch Water (water bucket)

Suds 'n Bubbles (for making your own detergent)

Flowing Fabrics (for the fresh outfit)

Various master meshes (see Manual)

A more detailed list of requirements as well as detailed instructions can be found in the Manual.

Gameplay overview and Download links below the cut

Gameplay Overview

Your Sims will now generate laundry if their hygiene is low enough. This requires the Laundry Global Mod (offered separately from the objects) as well as a Laundry-related object being present on the lot.

Sims may store their laundry in a hamper. Sometimes automatically if it's close enough and your Sim is inclined to be neat....

Wash and dry your clothes: a variety of both historic and modern, manual and mechanical ways to wash and dry your laundry are included.

Tired of the laundry piling up? Simply place a "Laundry-Begone-Box" on your lot and your Sims will no longer generate laundry!

Laundry Global Mod

The global mod is the backbone of the laundry system. You will need it in order to have your sims produce laundry. As it is a Global Mod, it is in its own rar. The Laundry Mod also has various trait-related features for you to enjoy:

Support for the Nevernude, Neat and Slob trait

Support for the following custom lifestates: Ghost, Mermaid & SkeleBro

NEW: Support for @anachronisims' Nudist trait

NEW: Hamper magic! If your sims are neat enough, they may automatically put their dirty laundry in the hamper (if there's one in the room)

MAC-compatible!

You need to have the file "SunMoon-Laundry_Hamper_Wicker_Round-REQUIRED" in your folder in order for the global mod to work!

Washers, Dryers, Tubs and Lines

Your Sims may wash their laundry using a wide variety of both manual tubs and modern washers. Both of these require detergent to use. Of course, after your laundry has been washed, you can dry them using either a dryer or a line. Just make sure not to hang your laundry outside on a rainy day. Just a mall overview of the features offered:

Laundromat mode: run your own laundromat business at home or on a community lot! Sims will actually wash their dirty laundry! Of course, it works for visiting Sims too!

NEW: @anachronisims Big Spender Trait now effects the likelihood of a Sim using a laundromat machine

NEW: Stock your washer or tub with a detergent of your choice; no longer will you need an entire box of detergent for a small load, now one detergent will last multiple loads!

NEW: 2 extra detergents have been added. You can now choose between a Box or Bottle of detergent, Soap Solution or even a Baggy of Soap Nuts!

NEW: The fabulous @jellymeduza has created a fantastic little ceiling rack for drying your laundry

NEW: Many more washers and dryers straight from the Sims 3 and 4

NEW: Modern laundry detergent vendor. You can still access any laundry product still despite its looks.

Custom sounds and animations: not only does laundry come with custom (Sims 4) animations courtesy of @mortia, there are also some custom sounds!

Color Controller

This set also comes with a "Color Controller". This object allows you to choose the look of not only your newly-spawned laundry, but also how the fabric on your drying lines looks like! Use only ONE per lot.

Bonus

Another new feature is the (optional) support for @lazyduchess Laundry token: players with FT installed, have the option of downloading his laundry mod and getting the same slower motive decay for comfort when changing into different clothes using our fresh outfit object. Players without FT and/or this token will get a small bonus to the comfort motive instead. This is NOT available for MAC-users! You will need the following files from his mod should you want this feature:

ld_BecksLaundryMotiveDecayController

ld_BecksLaundryMotiveDecayToken

Download links

Now for what you have all been waiting for: the download links. REMOVE all old files before updating! File names have been changed!

Download Laundry Global Mod (Required) Download Loads 'o Laundry (objects) View Manual

Localization

Added support for Dutch

Added support for European Portuguese - Obrigadas @logansimmingwolverine!

Added support for French - Merci @helene2troie !

Partial language support for many other languages has been added in the form of catalog descriptions for Sims 3 and 4 conversions. (NOTE: 3t2 conversions have no Simplified Chinese, 4t2 conversions have no Hungarian. None of them have Thai)

Polish, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese support is currently in progress and should hopefully become available sometime in early 2024

Would you like to have this set fully translated into YOUR language? Don't hesistate to make a translation using the localization strings. Just send it over when you're done and we will add it to the set! (send it via or Discord or PM fireflowersims)

Special credits and thanks: @gayars, @2fingerswhiskey, @picknmixsims, @lazyduchess, @jellymeduza, @logansimmingwolverine, Gaby, @hodgekiss, @mustluvcatz-reloaded, CashCraft, ATS/Sandy, EAxis, all the people who helped to localize The Sims 3 and 4, all our many wonderful Beta testers

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Color Trait Enabled Writing Quills

THIS IS A DEFAULT REPLACEMENT

Blatantly inspired by @episims who just made a pen one. We don't use pens in Medieval Fantasy Kitchen Sink Land, so I made one for colored feather quills instead! Sims with a color trait in their inventory will pick the corresponding quill. Works for doing homework, university assignments, writing a diary, filling crosswords, drafting, and restocking. With no traits in inventory sims will use the White Quill.

Based off on the DR done by Sunni which I recolored at one time, I've expanded the color selection and enabled them to work with @episims Color Traits. So you'll need those for this to work. You'll also need the usual trait mods such as Easy Inventory Check and trait_MAIN, which I assume you already have.

Since this file is based on episims' own, that means that you no longer need the Menaceman44's diary pen fix and it also works with their updated simlogical school files. See their post for more details on that.

Download

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Hm...this is an interesting concept that I didn't think about at all but REALLY like. This could possibly implemented into the hunting set update that is occurring and also breeds possibilities for "domesticating wild animals" as well in a sense. You still hunt them...you just capture instead of kill.

Good idea! I'm going to throw it into the features to be considered pile!

mod idea: Wild Horse Spawner

Sun&Moon released the “Au Natural Pet Food Set” and “The Game’s Afoot Set”, which I really like. I thought, it would be nice to have a Spawner, that spawns wild horses, which sims can capture. Capturing a horse would be very exhausting. Success is based on their body skill. Once they’re successful, a mare, foal or stallion of Sun&Moon’s “Horsin’ Around - Horse Livestock Set” will be added to their inventory.

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*SCREAMS* Thank you! I requested something like this a few months back and gave up on it. After a long hiatus it is absolutely lovely to come back to seeing someone made a thing I desperately wanted. Time to go chuck ALL other engagement/wedding band defaults and accessory clutter. No longer needed!

Engagement and Wedding Ring Stones by Color Traits

This mod defaults the wedding ring with a new jeweled mesh and makes engagement and wedding ring stones appear in the wearer’s favorite color if they have a favorite color trait in their inventory.

If the sim has more than one favorite color in their inventory, the alphabetically highest will rule the color. Sims without a favorite color will have white stones.

Important! This mod is meant to replace the earlier engagement ring mod as well as pforest's version of it. Use one of the previous versions if you only want engagement rings to change color. With this mod, both engagement and wedding rings will change color.

The stone colors used in this mod for both rings are the ones from pforest's version. The new wedding ring mesh is also by pforest.

Download (SFS) (alternate) - the file is compressed.

Easy Inventory Check is required. The mod is compatible with the engagement ring mesh default by pforest. It can also be used together with txmt replacements for ring bands.

Technical info: the new wedding ring mesh is 927 polys. Many thanks to awesome @pforestsims for generously making it!

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Hi Frac, just to make sure I'd like to ask - does your Pony Rides object add an NPC to the game?

It's NPC free! Just a standard object.

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Checking In

No worries, I'm alive. I've just took some time to pretty much enjoy disconnecting from the internet while some life stuff was going on. The life stuff has been settled so that means I can turn my attention back to more frivolous things like modding for a 15+ year old game. I miss my computer and pixel people.

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Hi! I downloaded your bathing instincts object mod and it's a lovely addition to my game so far! Only downside is that my child sims would autonomously start bathing in it which I don't want. Is there a way to make it so that object is only interactable for dogs? Thank you!

Easiest way would be to open the file in SimPE, go to the TTAB, select the interaction from the menu and then uncheck the proper age box. Commit and save, and that will disable it without needing to do anything else. May have to re-buy the items from the catalog.

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Candle Making - Critical Fix

Completely forgot that Candle Supply Crates were tied to the fish crates, so when fishing was moved to 2.0, these crate textures are thus broken. Thank you to TeaAddict over at the Sun&Moon discord for pointing it out!

I did a quick fix that involved remapping and re-repoing the crates so that they now too use the Wine Cask as their texture source. Here I'm providing an individual hotfix file set of just the Supply Crates, but the main archive has been updated as well as of 9.4.23.

Download - SFS

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Flowing Fabrics

This set followed the simplified processes of turning wool all the way into garments for sims to purchase. They will have to collect, clean and weave wool into thread and fabric. If they'd like to take their craft a step further they can gather natural sources of dyes and extract them to then dye their fabrics. With access to fabric bolts they may make garments and if they also have access to materials such as tanned leather products and fur they can make a wider variety of garments.

This is one of the more intertwined and advanced Sun&Moon sets, requiring quite a bit of other sets to function. Please read the manual carefully to understand what is needed for all parts of production and smooth functioning.

Key Features:

Wool Cleaning Vat - Clean wool to be spun. Produces Clean Wool.

Wool Winder - Turn clean wool into thread. Produces Thread Spools.

Standing Loom - Turn thread in solid sheets. Produces Fabric Bolts

Dye Extractor Pot - Extract natural dyes from various plants. Produces Bottled Dyes.

Fabric Dyeing Vat - Dye plain fabric. Produces Dyed Fabric Bolts

Sewing Workspace - Turn thread, fabric bolts, tanned leather, leather strips and cured fur into clothing. Produces Functional Blankets and Wardrobe Grants.

Functional Blankets - Main texture source for Sun&Moon fabrics moving forward. Functions as a radiator, allowing sims to warm up when their temperature is low enough.

Wardrobe Grants - The end product of the process, these serve to be used by sims so they can add a garment to their wardrobes, simulating a purchase of an outfit or a self made finished project.

Skilling Objects - Dress Forms; sims can gain charisma or mechanical skills.

All Fabric Bolts come in 7 fabric textures and 16 colors.

Display Shelves - Three varieties; Tall, Short, and Short With Shelf.

Tools - A pair of shears helps with dealing with wool, thread and fabric and a botanicals book helps the dye making process.

Download - SFS

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