#“The Sims 3 is ugly” Where?!

[tricoufamily]

HUGO HATER FOUND BOO HIM OFF THE STAGE

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august 7, 2021 10:00 p.m. copperdale county fair

[leatheraspiration]

major respect for sims 3 players... even with mods that game looks so bad. i literally have never seen a sims 3 sim i liked.

[gaypleasantview]

⋆˖⁺‧₊☆ bathroom bliss, part I. // Autumn Drop Day 3 ☆₊‧⁺˖⋆

⋆ 2 decorative objects to grace your toilet!

⋆ 37 various swatches

⋆ files are compressed and uniquely named

Link, swatch, detailed credits and more info under the cut ♡

Hi everyone! There's no way to say this that isn't awkward, but I made something to decorate toilets specifically! I like to take inspiration from the real world, so I've been noticing little things that are present in our reality and have never been seen in the Sims before, at least not in my game. And I must say, I really enjoy those little flower stamps people keep putting into toilets in cleaning videos (I have one too, but it's a very ugly shape for no reason). I thought about it and realized I'd never seen anything of the kind for the game, so I went ahead and created my first ever finished mesh from scratch, which is just a plain surface, to be honest, but it goes well with the first mesh I've ever converted, which I'm pretty sure was a period painkiller box... Anyway! I know small stamps like this probably wouldn't actually color the water in the bowl, but whenever I see those things that do color it I find them really funny, so I decided to make something like that to go with the stamp. Yeah, today I'm sharing a toilet water colorant. I don't know what to say in my defence. Toilets can be fun now!

Also, yes, the Part I in the name is a threat.

So, let's dive in! (or rather not...)

♡ Overview

This set consist of two objects, a flower gel stamp and a colored water surface. They're modeled to work with Maxis toilets, but are supposed to be compatible with custom ones, too, as long as they follow the Maxis shape. You don't have to use moveobjects to position them! They can intersect any object, allowing to place them directly into the toilet. Sims don't mind having them in the way (or their own clothing, for that matter).

Both objects can be found in Plumbing/Miscellaneous and cost §2 each.

♡ Object 1: Toilet Gel Stamp

This is an object to attach to the back of your toilet bowl. It's supposed to be positioned as shown in the screenshots above, but maybe you could put it in other spots, I haven't checked!

The mesh is a whole lot of 2 polygons, and it uses 128x128 textures because the flower was very cute up close and I couldn't help myself. It's an actual image from the game, it comes from the interests section! I made it semi-transparent so that it would look like actual gel texture (shout out to my best friend for suggesting that). It comes in 10 ridiculously bright colors that I had fun naming like they're candy flavors. They are all supposed to smell nice, just trust me!

♡ Object 2: Toilet Water Enhancer

Maybe some of us just deserve to have pretty water inside our toilets. To achieve that, I took the mesh of actual water directly from the toilet and just put it a bit higher up, so it's basically like a cap. Because of that, you won't really be able to witness the animation of flushing water or see if the toilet is clogged while this object is present.

The mesh is 6 polygons and uses 128x128 textures. I made 27 recolors in various colors I think are pretty, because the whole point of this project is to add something to the bathroom that will take our minds away from its general purpose. The swatches actually use a mix of Maxis water textures.

All swatches are pictured below in alphabetical order (aside from the mesh one, ignore where it is in the picture).

Credits: Maxis for the water mesh and textures, @horusmenhosetix for Organized Extracted TS2 Icons where I found the flower, SaraMK and Richief on moreawesomethanyou for originally extracting them, HugeLunatic for the Object Intersection Tutorial.

♡ Download ♡

SFS | Mediafire

[milkemie]

hi kemie! i hope you’re doing well <3

your sims’ outfits inspire me everyday, and i wanted to ask where I can find this blouse and skirt?

(and btw. maya is so pretty, idk how people can call her ugly, def blind)

hii i'm doing well thank you i hope you are too ♡

shushu tong peter pan collar top by charonlee

long soft skirt by backtrack

(🥹 i agree maya is so pretty they can stay mad!)

[occult-roommates]

oh and also I'm in the process of completely re-organizing and cleaning my CC folder. I did organize it once but I never cleaned it really and I've had this game since 2017 so uh yeah...it's a mess there.

Some news

Ok so I haven’t been really active lately, no particular reasons other than severe writer’s block. BUT I’m back babyyyyyy.

So here’s what my upcoming plans are:

A new chapter tomorrow and monday

something for pride month

i just found out about this “mermay” things and like, at this point it’s too late for me to participate, but i still wanna do some stuff with it.

a post of where the different world are located in the lore of the occult roommates universe. of course we all have differing opinions on this but this is just my personal headcanon for my story in particular. of course you can disagree with me but you’ll still have to keep it in mind while reading this blog.

So yeah, that’s it. Hopefully I’ll be done with season 2 before the end of the summer cause I have big plan for season 3 and I am really, really looking forward to them.

[eslanes]

A Devil Between Us

Lol so it occurred to me this morning that my dusty old story just turned 7 fucking years old. SEVEN!!!

I started working on it again this fall past but ran out of steam. Given the anniversary (and falling into a rabbithole where I reread 3/4 chapters- not the first, my sims were too fucking ugly lol) I have a bit of a renewed vigor to actually finish it. Given it's the finale, it's not even that much, like 20 posts. Just sooooo many poses lol.

My other plan is to create a separate WordPress account where the entire story will be posted (including the naughty bits)

I'm still working on real life stuff flat out but once I'm done I'll be updating 😊

Thanks to anyone who's ever read my mess at any point, it's meant the world to me. While I'm sad to close this chapter, I'm looking forward to what's next.

[simmie-stories]

Gen 3. Aurora #76 Triplet Merkids

With Phillip at the Royal Palace, Aurora was determined to get fit... after having 6 children, her core felt like mush. She went from Lazy to Active trait.

Alana wondered where her father had gone. She also found this ugly doll lying around.

Even Tabitha missed having Phillip around. He helped out more than Aurora gave him credit for.

But it was Attina who struggled and missed her father the most.

It was already time to celebrate the triplets.

The royal family was a little upset at Aurora at the moment, but at least Aurora's loved ones came to celebrate. Tabitha was wondering where Ursula had gone off to again.

Somehow, even with all the discord between Phillip and Aurora, the identical triplets all turned out well (if you don't look at milestones). It was probably partially familial support and Tabitha, but Aurora and Phillip were doing a better job than they felt.

The triplets took after Aurora in hair and eye coloring.

@surely-sims merkid poses (this was so timely, thank you!)

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[modestpixels]

"The Sims 3 is ugly" Where??!

[moonbiscuitsims]

My Stardew Valley project: Lots Layout plan in TS4

(This is not/will not be a save or a download as I use way too much CC for that, just a personal project and plan of lots I found suitable; I don't know how long this will take me or if I'll ever complete it but having a plan helps me so much to not get stuck later)

I'm sharing this in case it is handy to anyone wanting to do a Stardew Valley save in The sims 4 from scratch (lots off gallery are limiting with their sizes and needing specific lots, so I'm starting from zero unless a lot fits) without ugly set dressings or stupid backgrounds that don't make sense, and trying to group together the lots properly like they are laid out in the game so you can see them in the distance, or at least put them on an isolated lot with a clear surroundings if they have to be separated. It isn't perfect and is subjective and pack dependant but I spent a while today just laying out in my blank save (I use the srslysims blank save for this) where I wanna build what and who lives in each lot, so I'm sharing it in case it saves someone time or is useful Some lots are for a few sims living together to do two or more builds on one lot. This could possibly work with For Rent, but I don't dare try it lol. Others are just living alone. Others are just community. The main worlds I'm using are:

- Henford on Bagley:

The finwich area for the main Pelican town area ➡ 1= 1 Willow Lane (Sam Vincent Kent Jodi) + 2 Willow Lane (Hayley and Emily) these are here because of the river and the bridge leading "down to the beach" just everything is perfect for me. 2= Mayor's Manor, 1 River Road (Alex, George, Evelyn), 2 River Road (Pam and Penny trailer) this one is a little cramped and will have to be one next to the other but it can work. That way all these people live in the village centre. 3= Stardrop Saloon, maybe a little square if it fits, but probably not. 4= Harvey's clinic, Pierre's store. 5= Blacksmith and Library (+the little ice cream stand or market stall) 6= Joja Mart and/or Cinema (I'm doing both) 7= Bookseller with cute hot air balloon (this is random I wanted to do it, but it is usually just an empty area) 8= The farm 9= 24 Mountain road (Maru Seb Robin and Demetrius) 10= Quarry (set as generic) 11= Linus's tent 12= Adventurer's Guild and Mines (marlon gil and dwarf)

Willow Creek (Community Center)

It is on the big lot in willow creek, no surroundings or buildings, so It was perfect, and gives enough space to build the community center plus the childrens park and the natural area around it and it's by a river.

- Moonwood Mill as Cindersap Forest

I know it's a bit grungy and has industrial deco but I don't mind these buildings as they fit with the nature imo. It had the perfect amount of lots for what I needed, plus a river. 1= Wizards Tower 2= Travelling Merchant 3= Marnie's Ranch + Leah's Cottage 4= Krobus/Sewer (this is the main reason I chose this world and I know there isn't a beach but the sewer pipe with trash aesthetic and the large lot in the forest was enough for me) 5= Mouse Hat shop /Abandoned house

Granite Falls for Secret Forest:

I'm doing this one (using Zerbu's all worlds are residential) in Granite Falls in the National Park lot, I just liked how big it is, how tall the surrounding trees are, and that it has a little waterfall area.

Glimmerbrook as the rest of "Mountains" area (Railroad and Spa). I choose that lot of the railroad cause i can add a tunnel for the train with tool and it looks like its coming out the cliff

Sulani

Sulani as the Docks (with Elliots shack and Willy's shop) the build i've placed is from the gallery and is a water lot with the Night market (I really liked this and didn't want it separately) so I had to place it here. I do not actually like Sulani for this though, it is far too tropical and its on an island but I am forgiving it for the sake of having the beach lot. I wish Brindleton Bay had a beach lot near the docks would have been much better. You could change this and put it anywhere if you build your own beach as a pool but I hate doing that... In Sulani I'll also build all the Ginger Island stuff, but I still haven't played through that properly so I can't say what is going where yet.

Forgotten Hollow (witch's swamp/hut)

Forgotten Hollow as the witch's swamp /witch's hut area (again this is random but I wanna include it and make the witch for fun)

Oasis Springs as The Calico Desert

This large lot is perfect. It has a road, not too much going on around it except rocks and desert, and I'm gonna put everything here (Sandy's shop, Mr Qi's casino, and the desert trader outside). I will not be building the bus stop anywhere cause it is unnecessary. I forgot to mention but also the skull cavern might fit here or I'll do it on some other lot maybe OTHER INFO

Mods I'm gonna use to help the lots work as intended: I'm gonna play with littlemssams live in business mod to achieve the character being able to live on what should be a community lot and for it to still be functional, as well as chingyu's welcoming lot trait to avoid sims not being able to do what they want on these lots without being "innappropriate". For each of the lots and worlds I selected I spent time entering each and deciding which areas most closely resembled the areas from the game. For example if it had a lake or river nearby, or if the lot was big enough to build each thing. This could change but I think I'm happy with it. I might have to change some of this or make tiny builds to fit the multi build lots. Every single thing is super unfinished and empty, this is just my layout plan.

Conclusion: I hope this helps someone or if not and you even read this far that you like my idea :) If I forgot something or someone or said a name wrong, sorry, though I haven't fully finished the game yet. Basically I tend to get super overwhelmed and annoyed if there are stupid buildings or things that don't match, and am unable to just randomly plop any build anywhere like many players do due to obsessing over it not looking right around the build...maybe I'm a perfectionist or wish it was a blank world, but this is my next best thing. At least this was easier than my Cyberpunk save with way more foresty/countrysidish options 😅

[muppetears-stuff]

Alrighty alright<33

What stardew valley characters, the bully characters would romance!!

(Because I'm insane)

Headcanons under the cut ^^

Jimmy doesn't play stardew Valley, but he knows about the characters because of Pete and has watched him play. I'd say Abigail, but in all honesty, if he were to play stardew Valley, he'd romance all of them and then get the cutscene where they all turn on him and break up with him (later does it again but with the lucky rabbits foot😭) he is LOOKING at Robin tho

Pete 100% plays stardew valley, and I'd say he'd go for Penny (or Sam and Harvey,,,, but those save files are secret.) for her overall calm personality but also feels bad for her<3 doesn't understand the hate she gets. He downloads mods for extra character dialogue me thinks,,,,

Gary also doesn't play. He has made fun of Pete for playing it. I don't think he'd go for anybody if he did play it. He'd want to dethrown Lewis and he fixes up the community center super fast😭😭

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Imma start with the preps cause I can-

Derby doesn't play stardew Valley. Why would you want to role-play as a pauper?? But. I think he would be looking at Elliott

Bif also doesn't play, but I'd honestly say Abigail,,,, he'd like a gal with a fighting spirit😌

Pinky does play :DD she likes the cozy feel of it but doesn't actually work on anything,,, figures /pos she's here for the character interaction and dating Sim (same girl😭) Elliott. I can't stress this enough, but Elliott. He'd treat her like GOLD. She'd also like Leah,,,,

Bryce does play and is really good at maintaining a schedule of what he should and needs to do that day, he doesn't really pursue the romantic options until he realizes that it's a feature in the game😭 I think he'd like Harvey :3

Chad doesn't play, watches Bryce play tho :3 it's hard to say who he'd like in all honesty? Imma go with Haley but like,,,, if you have another option please let me know,,,

Gord plays. But he only plays for Shane and Haley. He has the "I can fix him" and "I can make her worse" mentality. Omg. He would also have 10 hearts with Emily, they're besties in his mind

Justin,,,, I've already explained this. Alex. 100% ALEX IT CANT BE ANYONE ELSE- the rest of the preps that do play, do NOT get the hype and actively judge him, and he has to defend himself (LIKE ME FR PLEASE HEAR ME OUT ON ALEX-) ugly cried during Alex's confession scene at dinner because he was just thinking of Ted the entire time.

Parker would go for Haley, but she'd make him cry irl- He does play and is very into customizing the farm and making it look cute<3

THE END FOR THIS POST BUT I WILL MAKE OTHERS, it's just getting long,,, I'm sorry😭😭💖

[griddlebait]

Ooh have you ever made a floorplan of the sckl apartment? I’m a bit confused by Harrow’s loft area, is it above the kitchen? :0

i planned to make the floor plan on the sims but i’m out of practice with building so for now i’ll share the floor plan i drew to use as a reference. i want to apologize in advance for 1) my handwriting 2) the ugliness 3) harrow’s “staircase” i can’t draw for shit. this makes the apartment look bigger than it should but i drew this up pretty quickly and it was mostly just to get an idea of where everything is

but anyway, harrow’s loft is above gideon’s room. it looks more like a flag but the box with the X is meant to represent the little platform at the top of the stairs 😭

this is just how the layout looks to me personally, everyone’s free to picture it however they like ofc

[simverses]

Installing Blowtorch, detailed explanation.

You want to install Blowtorch, my mod that takes out the ugly modern deco in Sims 4 worlds, but you are confused. Here comes a more detailed explanation.

Step by step:

Download the files either from Patreon or SimFileShare

Unzip the zipfile called Blowtorch

in your Documents folder, or other folder where you keep sim files, outside of game folders. This zipfile just contains the file structure.

Now:

After unzipping the mentioned files in Documents/Blowtorch, you have a repository for the mod.

Now you can always reinstall or uninstall it with two clicks.

Install:

This is what the Documents/Blowtorch should look like after unzipping everything.

Select the folder named The Sims 4. Right click. Copy.

Now, click on shortcut to YOUR location for gamefiles – I provided one for EA Games (if you have EA app) and one for Origin (If you still have the files in the Origin folder) Both these are in C:/Programs – if you have them elsewhere, go find them – for example on an external harddrive.

The shortcut takes you to the The Sims 4 directory where all the game files are installed.

Paste the The Sims 4 folder from Blowtorch you just copied, here. You will be asked to overwrite files. Say yes.

If you want to uninstall, repeat this process, but copy the The Sims 4 folder in Original Files instead.

If you don’t have all expansions, or for other reasons, want to keep some worlds NOT Blowtorched, go inside Blowtorch/The Sims 4 and delete the worlds/hoods you DON’T WANT, before copypasting the folder to the game folder in C:/Windows.

Download the PDF with documentation and list of EP:s/GP:s worlds/hoods here (SimFileShare)

Oh, and save the downloaded zipfiles somewhere. I am sorry I had to make it a 3-part-download but the limits of filesizes are what they are.

[cora626]

Feeling Stuck

I decided to experiment with above ground pools in the sims 2. I understand the concept but there is something wrong with my execution. I build the Pool and it looks beautiful and the sims can use the ladder to get in or even the diving board. The action looks a little strange because they shift down since it is on a platform and sometimes, they swim around and sometimes they get stuck, and I have to reset them. Other times I try to fix it and end up breaking it. I have been sitting on my butt for the most part of the day and I think I have some fanny sores because of it HAHA. Anyway, I am at my wits end as to why I cannot get this straight. Here's what happens when I try to fix something in the pool where it maintains its exterior shape, but the water looks all kerfuffled.

This is what swimming looks like:

So, he can use the diving board, jump in swims a little and then gets stuck and I know that has something to do with the pools depth, but I still cannot get the depth right even though I have figured out how to change the depth without affecting the floor elevation.

I have been trying to figure out how I can get them to stop shifting down when they use the ladder and diving board. I know that has to do with the floor elevation, but I cannot make a connection with the deck and the floor; any other way I try makes the pool look ugly and tacky. If there is someone out there knowledgeable about building above ground pools, please let me know if it is worth it to figure this out or will these problems exist no matter what and I have to decide not to be bothered and reset my sim because to be honest I truly enjoy how the above ground pool looks. They really cannot do much either, they cannot swim at times, and they cannot float on their backs either. :(

I used the instructions in these two posts and I viewed simmergetic's video.

Mod The Sims - How to make an above ground pool

simmergetic on Tumblr: Above Ground Pool Youtube Tutorial - Part 1/3 🏊🏼‍♂️ The Sims 2

Video here:

Sometimes it works and they swim, however most of the time it does not. If anyone else out there has tried above ground pools, please let me know if this is a common thing in your experience. Thank you in advance so much for anyone who gets back to me. I also have more video footage if you need to see it. I just can't post more than one video in a Tumblr post.

-Casey (~.~)

[goatskickin]

Some time ago, @namelesslibertad​ asked me how one would add tights to an outfit. 

And truly, it is not difficult at all to do, so I’ve made a little tutorial!

First, we will need a mesh to work with. I am using Bloom’s quite ancient elder skirt, separated from this seasons outfit.

It’s a nice little mesh! However, if it were going to truly be a part of an Outerwear outfit, we should have some leg coverage, no?

Once you have your clothing item in question in Bodyshop, and you have opened it in your Projects folder, we need to pay attention to the images files we have in front of us.

1 and 2 we don’t need to look at. This mesh is separated into groups, and the very first group is the boots. It’s the boots only and not the legs, so we do not need to mess with it.

If you want to know more about mesh groups aka subsets, @whattheskell​‘s tutorial HERE is essential. 

3 and 4 are what we want to look at. They are the TEXTURE of the legs and also the ALPHA of the legs. I’ll be saying the word ‘alpha’ a lot here, so if you do not know what that means: as mentioned in my tutorial about retexturing clay hair, the ‘alpha’ texture indicates where the texture should exist.

White means, “yes, texture”

Black means “no texture exists here”

Grey is in-between. Grey is what we want to work with; it’s how you can make sheer and semi-sheer tights.

Now you might be saying, “How did you know that the image file with the skirt texture would also have the legs available, you know, the place where tights go?”.

Well, totally optional step; you can go ahead and export the UV map (with a program like UVMapper) to find this out. The lower half of the texture contains the legs. @digisims2​ explains this a little more right here. 

Please know that even TS3 and TS4 conversions, while being mapped very differently from TS2 meshes, will still have a base ‘body’ map in one of the images files. 

ALSO! When you open a clothing texture, you’re going to be limited to 1-4ish texture files to work with. So, you can just guess which one has the legs and undo undo if you are not correct. One of them has to have the legs texture! 

Moving on!

The skirt texture: that’s where the tights texture has to go.

If you are putting tights on an outfit, you can really just fill in with one color and it looks fine! Most tights are just one color. You can get fancy if you want.

Now for the alpha - you’re going to fill in 2 rectangles of white, grey or black here. The whiter, the more opaque. The blacker, the less opaque.

If you’re totally lost - grab a UV map. You can see pretty clearly what is legs and what is feet.

Clean it up, if you like! ‘

Fully remove the feet even, if you’re worried that the tights will end up somewhere they should not.

For the purposes of demonstration, let’s fill that all in with the brightest white you got.

See? Tights! But very dark, very floodfill tights.

If you were going for leggings and if you had a nice texture, that all white alpha would be great! But, we are talking about hose, here.

Also - we haven’t quite gotten all that we need covered. That white bit there is the sim’s skin. Not fashion.

Let’s try a bigger section of alpha and a light grey this time.

You may have to play around with the grey scale to get the right result.

Also, I’d highly recommend you test your project on skintones S1-S4 to make sure that the alpha you choose works for light and dark tones. It also helps to catch mistakes.

This is a little better! The full leg is covered, and they are more sheer.

You can go ahead and copy and save this UV map if you like, if you don’t want to mess around with SimPE or UVMapper or any of that jazz. Really does help if you’re lost about what goes where.

See?

Sinfully ugly texture though, haha.

Not grandma’s best look - but helpful for explaining.

Alright, let’s fill in that texture with something nice, a deep burgundy. 

Oh, lovely! A little sheer but not too much.

Hooray!

Let me know if you have any questions!