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Simblreen 2024 Gift #2: Françoise Blouse for teen-elder

For the second gift, I'm excited to bring you my first more complex frankenmesh project! This is a combination between the Store Worlds Collide Outfit and the High-end Stylist Outfit from Ambitions. I really liked the frilly collar and blouse of the former, but hated...whatever was going on with the sleeves. So I went ahead and ripped the arms off the Stylist outfit~

As a sidenote, I think the red preset looks amazing 🥺

⚠️ Issues: I did my best to minimize it, but some exaggerated poses may feature clipping between the shoulder and the collar ruffles. This top also works best with high-waisted bottoms that are tighter around the waist; I tried to make it as loose as I could and let it sit lower than the waist seam, but more than this would make it would look goofy if paired with something more form-fitting.

For teen-elder females. Everyday, Formal, Career, Maternity. Not enabled for random.

4 channels, 3 presets. The first preset has a recolorable brooch, the other two have no brooch but do have recolorable buttons.

Original items not required.

Recommended: the gorgeous vintage conversions by @joojconverts, but especially the skirts in this set.

Also see: the Prairie Set by Aminovas contains a blouse that's very similar to this one! The sleeves, waist and textures are a bit different, though.

Credits: 1 (Pearl), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (preview), 7, 8.

🎃 Download: SFS | Mega

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The Ultimate CAS Catalog Overhaul - for real this time!

@lorasandolasbycz asked:

Hi! I love that you made ridiculous sims 3 outfit hiders. Is the procedure with putting them in and getting them to work just the standard? Put the package in sims 3>mods>packages ? For some reason the ridiculous outfits are still in my game. Thanks a bunch! 

Well this turned out significantly longer than I anticipated 😂 I did notice that those hiders weren’t working anymore for some reason, but figured it was just my game being pissy, so I left them up and went through ALL sim CAS items again to reorganize them (it was long overdue anyway). This is what I’ll be posting here. It’s a long-ass post, so check under the cut for details.

This applies for all EPs minus ITF, and for HELS. Also I did not initially mean to share these, so only the hairs have previews (because I gave them custom thumbnails). All of them are default replacements, meaning you need to have the EPs/SP for them to do anything. You can put them in any folder you want, as long as it’s under Mods\Packages.

Folder link (hair retextures + CASP recategorizers)

Read under the cut before downloading!

Hair retextures

The hair retextures are only for the hairstyles I decided to keep! Not all hairstyles are retextured! No, I won’t be doing more. Yes, you can use my textures to retexture your own. Yes, I kept the mullet hair from the Basegame. Who do you take me for? [ click for HQ version of the collage above ]

IMG edits

I use these alongside other IMG and mesh edits: [x], no UL stencils, [x], [x], [x], [x], [x], [x], [x]. Basegame: a merged version of all my texture edits: 1, 2, 3, 4. Ambitions: this edit for the low-level stylist outfit: 1. Island Paradise: stencil-less version of the male vest, plus this: 1.   Late Night: a few specular edits, a stencil-less version of the muscle shirt, plus this specular edit: 1. Showtime: specular edits of two dresses. University Life: stencil-less version of the male hoodie, plus this: 1.

CASP edits

Recategorizers and hiders for sim CAS content - tops, bottoms, outfits, shoes,  accessories -, all ages. Open each package in S3PE and use S3OC to see which item is which; there are over 1.5k entries so I have no time to go through every one of them again. At most I can show you how part of my catalog looks (see photoset above). Note that I also use Nraas Master Controller to compress the catalog so that only one preset is displayed.

Pets Riding Leggings Edit (BottomEP5RidingPants)

This is an edit that gives all the channels the same color (the mask is intact so they can still be recolored as usual) and rearranges the presets so that the all-black one is first. It comes with EA-match thumbnails to reflect the color changes. It applies to both genders, teen-elder.

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Ambitions & Late Night Trees made basegame compatible

This post has been in the queue for ages... They’re also available in World Builder, can be placed on slopes, separate files for picking and choosing.

Download: Ambitions trees made BGC (10 trees) Late Night trees made BGC (3 trees)

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Here you go, anon :) And hell yeah, we do! (for reference) Female and male Stylist hairstyles coming soon.

Issues: these hairs are badly made! 1. You can see fragments of mesh (? idk what that is) which are normally somewhat obscured by EA’s shitty textures. Sadly, IDK how to fix them. 2. Since the hair is wispy, the roots are sometimes visible through the strands. Might want to keep the roots close to the base color. 3. The tips of the long hair clip into the sim’s body. Not a problem for females, but males have a bulkier body mesh, so expect that.

I also threw in a hairstyle from Island Paradise that I thought was better made than these (the one from the first preview).

+ Teen - Elder unisex. + Custom thumbnails only. Separate packages. + Enabled for more categories (e.g. Outerwear), including Random. + Will conflict with CASP edits of the same hairs (recategorizers, hiders). Since Arisuka’s versions were CASP edits, these retextures will conflict with her recategorizers.

Download:

Default replacements: AMB hairs | IP hair Basegame compatible: AMB hairs | IP hair

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Playing journalist and police officer Sims comes with the added “perk” of having to go through a looot of grinding to advance to the top levels. Reports and reviews are an important metric of the Police and Journalism careers and give no Writing skill in return! Now they do, and they are also slightly fun to write :)

These are made for patch 1.63 and above. There’s only one visual issue: the skill and completeness progress meters will overlap. Nothing to be done about that.

Edited resources (ITUN): Police reports: WriteReport_Computer, WriteReport_HoloComputer Journalism reviews: WriteRabbitHoleReview_Computer, WriteRabbitHoleReview_HoloComputer Stakeout reports: WriteStakeoutReport_Computer, WriteStakeoutReport_HoloComputer

I’ve separated the mods so you can pick and choose. You can have all of them at the same time, and all of them increase the Fun motive.

Download:

Police reports improve Writing skill Journalism reviews improve Writing skill Stakeout reports improve Writing skill (requires Ambitions)

Related mod: Journalism and Writing Tweaks

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As you can tell, I’m on a texture roll, haha. This download contains some University textures and two fixed textures from the basegame and Ambitions (they had a few annoying grid lines left there by mistake, as a result of the patterns being made through this procedure):

1. Monte Vista pavement (terrain paint): fixed. Default replacement only because it’s part of a patch, it doesn’t require the Store world. 2. AMB pebbles (terrain paint): fixed. Comes in DR and NDR versions. 3. UNI pavement (terrain paint): a bit darker and crisper than the original. 4. UNI Weathered Wood (pattern): found under Wood, horizontal and vertical versions, recolorable with 3 channels -- you can see how these look on the armchairs and bookcase in the first pic. 5. UNI Dark Bricks (pattern): found under Masonry, recolorable with 4 channels. They were initially dark green, but I recolored them.

All the terrain paints show up under Stones & Pavers.

Download

Monte Vista pavement fix AMB pebbles fix UNI terrains & patterns

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I was NOT planning on doing this but, while looking for something for another project, I came across these terrain paints that seem to be used in Twinbrook, the world that came with Ambitions. As they don’t appear in the catalogue, I assume they’re used for the world rather than lots. So I made them basegame compatible and usable as regular terrain paints :) The archive contains the four terrain paints above: the two at the top are the Ambitions ones, and the greener and very green ones are variations I made. You can find all of them in the Grass category. They are not default replacements! Download them all here

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I seem to find something I’m displeased with like every day, haha. This time I was annoyed that I couldn’t reposition the sketches made with the architect’s drafting table from AMB, so I looked through the files and made this small mod. Requires Ambitions! I edited the workbenchDraftingCanvas object. Download here

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Do you play large families with a lot of laundry and are tired of clothes taking forever to dry, especially on the clothesline? Yeah, me too. Here’s a mod that reduces the time necessary for the clothes to dry by half, 5 times, or to one hour. Conflicts with anything that edits the DryerCheap, DryerExpensive, DryerDorm, DryerVenueLaundry and Clothesline XMLs. Built on patch 1.63 but should not cause problems with other patch levels. Applies to all the laundry items in AMB, and the dryer from UNI. EA values: clothesline (CL) - ~12h, cheap dryer (CD) - 1.5h, expensive dryer (ED) - 45min, dorm dryer (DD) - 45min, laundromat (LM) - 45min 2x faster: CL - 6h, CD - 45min, ED - 20min, DD - 45min, LM - 20min 5x faster: CL - ~2.5h, CD - 18min, ED - 9min, DD - 18min, LM - 9min 1 hour*: clothesline, dryers and laundromat dry clothes in one hour

Download

2x faster | 5x faster | 1 hour

* the time for drying in the expensive dryer and laundromat venue was actually extended by 15 minutes for this version Edit: well, crap, here’s to more updating mods! Please redownload if you downloaded before this edit, I forgot to edit a condition for when the clothesline is placed outside >.<

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The floor plan posted on this thread caught my eye, so I made this house with some small modifications due to how TS3 is set up (like removing some rooms and making others bigger to ensure better routing). This house is different from my usual style; I prefer houses with at most 3 bedrooms and very little clutter.

Details:

NO CC, only BG content + the washing machine, dryer and hamper from Ambitions (BUT I think laundry was added in a patch, so you may not need AMB at all?).

30 x 30, furnished, landscaped. $39,927 unfurnished, $75,948 furnished.

Rooms: 4 bedrooms (2 double beds, 2 single beds, 2 cribs), garage (2 cars), living + dining + kitchen (open plan), laundry, bathroom, patio

Entertainment: 2 bikes (adult, child), 2 bookcases, 2 computers, TV, console, stereo, treadmill, toddler play table, xylophone, peg box, toy chest.

The patio has room for a garden, and the front of the lot has a tunnel of hanging plants and an apple tree. I suck at landscaping and roofing :v

Download (.sims3pack and .package + previews)

install .sims3pack via Launcher OR put .package in My Docs\TS3\Library

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Another find from the files. These are the uniforms for the private investigator profession in Ambitions, and they were hidden in CAS. Which is a shame, because they’re totally good for everyday wear!

Details:

available in Everyday, Formal, Career, Makeover, Outerwear, Random;

female versions include 4 color options, male versions - only 3;

for a teen version of the female trench coat, see Spoonsthings ‘s post;

each outfit has 4 recolorable channels, pictured above;

Download:

Default replacements (if you have Ambitions) Non-default replacements (if you don’t have Ambitions) Pose credits: Elexis, starsha-sims, starsha-sims

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Continuing with the fixing of minor annoyances, these are recategorizations of the weeds and swamp rushes that are normally only under Flowers or the World Editor. The ranch weeds cost $5 (to match the Brambles) and are also available in the World Editor, under Landmarks. The swamp rushes are now available under Shrubs as well as Landmarks; they cost $0.

They're all separate files, so you can pick and choose which you want to keep. The NDR versions should show up properly even if you don’t have the EPs, but let me know if they don’t.

Download Dry and Green Ranch Weeds:

Default replacement (requires PETS) Non-default replacement (BG compatible)

Download Brown and Green Swamp Rush:

Default replacement (requires AMBITIONS) Non-default replacement (BG compatible)

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Ambitions Stylist outfits unhidden, recategorized, edited

Woop, first creation! Well, not really a creation, just a recategorization of all the Ambitions Stylist career outfits. Now they’re no longer hidden in CAS, and I got rid of the ugly scissors in the Low-End male outfits too.

Details

Ages Teen-Elder, both genders.

All outfits are visible in CAS now.

All are enabled for Everyday, Formal, Career, Makeover, and Random.

Enabled for Outerwear: Low-End outfit for TF, AF, EF ; High-End outfit for TM, AM, EM.

NOT enabled for Outerwear: High-End outfit for TF, AF, EF ; Low-End outfit for TM, AM, EM.

Download

Default replacement (requires Ambitions)

Non-default replacement* (doesn’t require Ambitions)

* You can get the NDR version if you have Ambitions, but the outfits will show up twice in CAS if you enable unlockoutfits.