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my mistria farm is done! renamed it to silverydew farm (cheers if you know the reference) <3

lil feature overview:

caldarus's shrine and the whole righthand side as a secluded area dedicated to the mythology of mistria

the little cherry orchard with the chess table nook at the bottom which is a little nod to my dog chess (i was mourning her loss and using this game as a distraction tbh)

the gardening shelves near the crop fields add a neat touch i think

the crafting / chest organization area !!

the picnic area up top + the outdoors journalling table. i want to sit there irl so bad and eat bread and write by lamplight

a lot of these features were inspired by other ppl's farms i've seen on reddit and youtube <3

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Peanut’s little house 🌼

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Oh my... It seems our young blacksmith is a bit of a lightweight.

bonus:

the girls are flirting fighting ~

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march was found dead shortly after

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farm go brrr

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Welp, I guess I'm doing this. Kinda wanted to try a custom farm map (and give Vibrant Pastoral Recolor a shot--I like it so far!). Most custom maps I find either use DaisyNiko's tilesheets which I don't like as it clashes with vanilla/Elle's palette and don't use the new 1.6 waterfall assets, OR they have preplanned crop plots which I hate. I know I could edit them myself but I'm too tired for that.

So I used this map, which is amazing and is neither smaller nor larger than vanilla map sizes. But I missed the pond in the center. Luckily, some genius on Nexus has added a mod that allows you to build ponds!

I guess I should call this a more "lore accurate" Eury playthrough, because I was a bit inconsistent at the start of the original playthrough. Here we go again :)

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All the episodes of Interview with the Vampire. I will be uploading Season 2 when it airs as well :)

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I found it on reddit. It's a website to preview house customize. That's what I needed

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sdv + sve marriage candidates and how old I think they are

in order of age, they go:

sophia (20)

they literally had to add an option to make her portrait look older because she looked too young to some people, she's definitely one of, if not the youngest

sam (20)

the way jodi talks about him makes me think he hasn't been an adult very long

maru (20)

I did originally think she might be a bit older but she has to have at least a couple years between her and seb because robin remarried and seb talks about his bio dad

abigail (22)

she's doing online school so she's probably pretty young

alex (22)

idk man this just felt right

victor (23)

assuming he graduated uni at 21, I think 2 years having passed since then makes sense

sebastian (24)

oldest out of their little trio for sure, again with the maru situation, but I can't see him being that old

haley (24)

I think her and Emily have a big enough age gap that you can tell Emily is older but small enough that they kinda grew up together

claire (25)

I don't know her too well but she's old enough to support herself with a job but she doesn't seem super old

penny (26)

I think this makes sense since I think pam is mid-late 50s

lance (29)

he's old enough to have established a name for himself and be pretty powerful but he seems significantly younger than marlon and magnus

leah (30)

she had a whole other life in the city, so she can't be that young, I think the farmer is probably around this age as well

elliot (31)

I think he must have had a life before as well, because how else does he afford to live in the valley without having his book published yet?

emily (31)

she's got her life together and is unapologetically weird so she's definitely not super young

shane (34)

he does not have his life together but he's not falling apart in the way that 20 year old do, also he had friends who were old enough to have a kid

harvey (38)

he runs a clinic. getting all the qualifications for that takes ages.

olivia (47)

she has an adult son, and I don't think it was a teen pregnancy.

magnus (above 48, I want to lean older, maybe 51/52?) old enough and powerful enough to be responsible for the magic of the valley, and to have an apprentice assigned to him. other than camilla, all the people we see him associated with are older

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The Sims 3 Smooth Patch 2.0

Disclaimer: This mod is not an all in one solution for lag; Essential improvements like NRaas mods are still recommended. Some people don’t see much change, others see a huge improvement.

ModTheSims Download

This mod alters the speed at which the game’s processing runs, which improves the overall performance of the game and some loading times. Most noticeably in Create A Sim, Create A Style and Buy/Build.

In addition, more specific fixes are included:

CAS clothes are now loaded in as you scroll rather than staggered, greatly improving CAS performance.

Create-A-Style no longer gets locked up and unusable while patterns load.

Create-A-Style drag and drop has been optimized a bit, making it smoother.

Certain CAS audio quirks such as music or voices sometimes not playing should be fixed.

Steam/Disk version: SFS / Dropbox

Unzip the file and drop the ddraw.dll, TS3Patch.asi and TS3Patch.txt files into your Sims 3/Game/Bin directory.

Origin version: SFS / Dropbox

For Origin, unzip the file and drop the TS3Patch.asi, TS3Patch.txt and TS3Launcher.exe files into your “The Sims 3/Game/Bin” folder and install my Custom Launcher or, alternatively, launch the game from “TS3PatchLauncher.exe”

Copy the packages from the “Packages” folder into your “Documents/The Sims 3/Mods/Packages” folder, but make sure you take out the “ld_SmoothPatch_MasterController.package” file if you don’t use NRaas MasterController.

You can configure the mod by editing the TS3Patch.txt file with notepad, and change the tuning by editing the XML file inside of the “ld_SmoothPatch.package” file with S3PE.

Update 2.0:

Added more precise tick counter.

Improve CAS clothing loading times.

Improve CAS music stopping at random.

Improve CAS Sim voices sometimes not playing.

Improve general Create A Style and Drag and Drop performance a bit.

Fix Buy/Build previews spinning too fast.

Update 1.2:

Improved FPS Limiter accuracy.

Package installer/uninstaller no longer goes fullscreen borderless.

The package installer/uninstaller will now be limited to 60 FPS regardless of your FPS limiter setting, as it can normally get into the thousands and it doesn’t make much sense.

Origin: Installing or uninstalling CC via the launcher no longer makes the patch not take effect once you launch the game.

Update 1.2.1:

Optimized FPS Limiter.

General Optimization.

Borderless should now work better, even if you change resolutions in-game.

I’ve made an album with some GIFs showcasing the mod (Tumblr is not letting me embed Imgur):

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@xiasimla made some very useful comparison videos as well:

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[TS3] Random Sim Fixes 2.0

Overview

This mod attempts to fix and improve Sim generation and age up, mainly by getting rid of pudding face, with a whole lot of other fixes and improvements.

Download

Patreon / MTS

Features

Generated Sims will no longer be pudding faced.

Sims won't age up into or generate with future clothing on non-future worlds anymore, and a lot of homeworld inappropriate or costume clothing has been blacklisted (No more elf hats!)

Male Sims now have tunable chances to grow facial hair and body hair, both on age up and on Sim generation.

Generated Sims will now actually have random voices and voice pitches, rather than all being 50% pitch Voice 1. Sims will also re-roll voice types on age up as more voice types become available to them.

Fitness, weight and breast size are now randomized as well, including muscle definition. Muscle definition depends on fitness and weight, with some variation.

Sims will no longer generate with green hair colors. Via tuning, you can also make it so that generated Sims randomly pick hair colors that you've saved as presets in CAS.

Installation

There are 2 flavors available, same mod, different tuning:

"ld_RandomSimFixes.zip" - Default flavor. Hair color for generated Sims is chosen from a preset list.

"ld_RandomSimFixes_CustomHair.zip" - Custom hair colors flavor. Hair color for generated Sims is chosen from your custom saved CAS hair color presets.

Just drop the package into your Documents/Sims 3/Mods/Packages folder.

You can modify the tuning with S3PE - inside of the package you can find a commented XML with all of the tuning values.

Compatibility

Won't take effect if you already have a core mod that fixes pudding faces - disable this feature in the core mod if possible to have this work.

Special thanks to Simler90, as I've found about some of these issues thanks to his GameplaySystems core mod.

Changelog

Update 2.0

Fixed Sim voices incorrectly randomizing on age up to young adult or older.

Store Future CAS Parts are now filtered out as future clothing.

Removed green hair colors for randomly generated Sims.

Added body hair generation.

Added clothing blacklist.

Added ability to utilize custom CAS hair color presets for generated Sims.

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Pure CAS Lighting Mod for TS3

Features

This mod changes the way lights are laid out in CAS. The overall lighting is becoming more even and smooth now, and your sims will look closer to the original textures (e.g. their skin).

Compatibility

✔Work fine on game version 1.67/1.69 and base-game compatible.

✔Compatible with any other CAS camera/animation edit mod and world lighting mod.

✖Conflict with any mod that edits CustomLightRigging.ini.

Credit

Thanks to @simbouquet for finding the exact file related to CAS lighting so that I can make it work^^This is something I've been wanting to o for a long time.

>more previews and download links are under the cut<

Download(choose only one) Version 1/Version 2

📌Previews from left to right are comparisons between the original, version 1 and version 2 respectively.

📌All photos are taken in CAS without edit (click for HQ).

♥@katsujiiccfinds@sssvitlanz♥

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Rec Center and City Park + Splash Pad (CC)

I’ve recently been making a lot of community lots because I love having places for my sims to go when they leave the house and I like making them family friendly so everyone can have a good time. 

So I present to you two community lots. The first one is a rec center (based on a real life boys and girls club) that offers art classes, music classes, a daycare center for toddlers, a gym, basketball court and a small cafeteria. 

The second lot is a playground splash pad combo. Once again, based on a real life playground and splash pad! 

The CC is included for both lots! The Read Me’s detail what was used from the packs so if you don’t mind missing some things you can still download!

Rec Center (30x30)  Packs Needed: University, Island Paradise, Showtime, Ambitions, Generations, Late Night and Supernatural, Rim Rockin Baskbetball Hoop store item

(Rec Center) Download: Simsfileshare or Mediafire

Playground/Splash Pad (50x40)  Packs Needed:  University, Seasons, Ambitions, Generations, Late Night and Supernatural

(Playground/Splash Pad) Download: Simsfileshare or Mediafire

I put this post and the downloads together at like 3 a.m. so if there’s anything missing in any of the lots, it’ll be inconsequential things. Cosmetic differences, all the functional objects will still be there and they will function! 

More Pictures of the lots under the cut! 

Keep reading

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house w.i.p.s

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love orchestrating all of my most f*cked up fantasies in the sims (home ownership without a mortgage, being paid a living wage, shopping for groceries in my fridge)

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“Boroughsburg is an up-and-coming neighborhood in New York City that straddles the delicate line between working-class grittiness and rarefied hipsterdom. Enjoy spectacular views of Manhattan from the waterfront while live music, outdoor markets, and art shows brighten atmospheric cobblestone streets lined with old brick warehouses and trendy lofts.

Not your stuff? You could always go for gyros, pierogies or matzo ball soup at the local diners, get to know the old-timers, or just dance the night away.”

Boroughsburg has been updated with a wonderful curation of residential and community lots, and improvements have been made to nearly every aspects of the world!

But in addition to these improvements, a customized populated savegame has also been created—this is Boroughsburg’s Story Mode—and with more than 80 diverse sims (and many more townies), this savegame allows you to immediately jump right into Boroughsburg—right into the tangle and drama of these sims’ lives!

To see more images, Click Here.

For more information on Boroughsburg’s inhabitants, Click Here.

Boroughsburg is a mashup of DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Long Island City, and Astoria- but is open enough that you can build whatever bit of New York City you want in it. 

Boroughsburg is a medium city world, with a total of 73 lots.

Nearly all lots are filled in, but some lots are left unbuilt at your discretion to fill in.

The world also contains two dive lots, three docks, a base camp, and a homeworld university! Perfect for travellers!

Lot assignment has been carefully selected to ensure that nearly all community lots are regularly populated.

Uninhabited base world, but includes an inhabited & customized savegame. I highly recommend playing in the savegame first.

Will require a decent computer to run smoothly! Created on Windows 7 | Processor Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz | Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | RAM 32 GB

Built on Patch level 1.67.

Installation instructions are included in the download folder. Please follow them carefully.

CC Notes

All custom-made CC is included in several packages. You must install them or else all you’ll get is an empty black world!

Includes recolors & replacements of the hot air balloon, train, police car, firetruck, taxis, flags, moon, clouds and weather made specifically for a New York environment- if you want to see these in action, you will need to remove other default replacement mods first.

Further CC notes & recommended mod lists are located in the readme. Please consult them carefully.

Expansions & Store Content

EP Requirements: World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise, and Into the Future.

No Stuff Packs were used.

Requires Riverview, the Rim Rockin’ Basketball Hoop & the Barrier to Entry System from the TS3 Store.

Download Link

Boroughsburg Download & CC List >>> HERE.

Acknowledgements

Thank you @mwthesims3​ for the immeasurable contribution you have made to this world, in its lots and its sims—I would not be joking if I said this world would not have been finished without your effort, and I greatly appreciate it!

Thank you @simshai91​ for your work on the salon and the hostel, @talesgh​ for your work on the Cleveland Building, 2-38 Landgraab, and 65 Badford Ave, and @simful-thoughts​ and Fourtendots for your help in contributing sims for the world. Further thanks must be extended to @simsmidgen​ for your inspirations for the gym and the Rutherford Arms, Kylaaab for your inspirations for the Baldwin Suites, @galadrielhs-simblr for the inspirations for the East Tradewinds Corp. lot, and @nornities​ for the The Real McKenzie Hobby Store!

I am grateful to @mspoodle1​ and @nornities​ for helping me troubleshoot all the innumerable problems that popped up, as well to all the testers who helped me fix problems in the world! Additional thanks to @alverdinesims, who let me use images for billboards, @dew-of-the-sea-customworlds​, who helped me with the map, @mspoodle1​, again for your awesome items, and Feindbild, who let me convert his wonderful buildings for the world. Also thanks to igazor, who helped me with NRAAS and all its infinite minutae.

And a final thank you to the sims community to standing by my side during this four-year on-and-off process of worldbuilding!

Happy travels to you all!

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wip of a personal save file i'm working on