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Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since my last activity here. Stuff’s just got real last few months and I am now experiencing some heavy RLS which makes the future of the whole Feverfew project quite uncertain. I’m very annoyed by the fact I have to move the release date over and over again, but, fingers crossed, I’ll be able to manage to make it this year. But before I post any updates, I need to answer my inbox!

@landgraabsims​ said:

feverfew is absolutely gorgeous!! is it inspired by any real-life places or towns? i live in england and it reminds me of a few in-the-middle-of-nowhere villages i've visited c:

Thanks @landgraabsims​! Yes, Feverfew is based on British countryside aesthetics without any towns or villages in particular. It has a bit of everything, really. It’s a fantasy place after all. But I do use a lot of real life references for making landmarks for it.

Anonymous said:

any idea of the date of release for feverwood? just redownloaded sims 2 and im in loveee

Hey Anon! I’m glad you like it! I really hope to make it happen this year.

Anonymous said:

i would die (or pay) for zagoskin omg it looks like TS3

Oh, thank you, Anon!

@katzengirl​ said:

Hello Criquette! I don't have a challenge or a question or a request. I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate the things you've shared with us! I hope you're having a good day.

Hello Kristina! That is so sweet, thank you ^___^ I hope you’re doing fine too!

Anonymous said:

Hi there, Criquette. Been having fun with your Rural Charm set and the Better Lighting.  Ran into one small problem with the RC. One of the narrow curves picks up the texture from a road section with a crosswalk, so that looks a bit odd (30degree inner?).  And a question - is there a Better Lighting for the Iron Bracket street lamp with the seasons banner?  Thought the iron bracket would work, but it's not. Anywho, Thank You for ALL the work you put into making our hoods look fantastic!

Hey Anon! Thanks! Depending on the road DR you’re using, there can be some  texture issues here and there since Rural Charm is optimised for road texture without any markings (apart from the broken white line). As for the Iron light post with a banner – no. I’ve only made 2 Maxis’ base game lamp posts.

Anonymous said:

It's amazing how this one game embraces so many different types of players. I'm planning to create my very own nh from scratch, and I'd be a liar not to recognize how your game pics inspired me to the task (not to mention your ever impressive work of hood deco cc throughout these years). For all that, as much as I'm just another anon, thank you, sincerely. But that left me wondering: do you also/still play with the other ts2 game modes or they no longer interest you?

Oh, that is so kind, Anon. Thank you! Yes, I do love to actually play the game. I enjoy building/decorating lots as much as live mode. In fact, I often get carried away during playtest sessions and just keep playing in lot mode and that’s why there are lots like ‘The Tower Inn’ or ‘The Moose & Beaver’ or sims like Tilda Phidbach, WHT-FC28 servo and their field lab.

Anonymous said:

Criquette, do you know something about this project? thesims1master tumblr (the idea is to make the game look like the beta version. I ask, because I liked it so much, but I haven't been able to find the person behind it and I'm very curious to see more or download it, as well as his world, which I've been waiting for since last year lol)

Hey Anon! Oh, I don’t think I know anything about this project, no. But it looks rather interesting!

@forever-evenfall​ said:

Hey Criquette! I just downloaded your Lighting Remedy (because I only just realised I needed to change the txt file and not just download it lol) and when I placed your lighting text in the program files, the lighting itself worked, but the terrain itself was flashing red. Do you know what I did wrong? I literally don’t think I can play without the fix lol. I am using UC and I placed it in the Fun With Pets/SP9/TSData/Res/Lights folder. Should I have put it somewhere else?

Hello Eve! I might be wrong, but isn’t it Mansions & Gardens SP that stands for UC? Anyway, flashing red terrain is really weird consequence for just replacing a txt file. Neighborhood terrain doesn’t have any dynamic light. It has a light map instead which comes with Lighting remedy too. If you only just replace the lighting txt file without putting LR light map into your ‘Downloads’ folder, the only issue you should get would by unsynchronized light directions for hood decos and the terrain itself.

Anonymous said:

I'm having a problem: not all the decorations I put in the neighborhood are showing up in simulation mode, even with the fade off and the long-range vision on. I think there is some code that I need to add to the game files to make all the decorations appear. But I can't find how to do this: c Can you help me?

Hello Anon! Basically, there’s only one type of hood deco that isn’t showing up in lot mode and that is neighborhood effects. All the decals, flowers, fields, all the animated stuff (except for texture animation, e.g. Maxis’ marquee sign) is not showing up in lot mode. There’s nothing we can do about it. Yet. If you think that there’s a proper hood deco that isn’t showing up in lot mode, please PM me with some screenshots and we could try to sort it out.

Anonymous said:

Hello--Anon who asked about additional pieces for the Rural Charm set--I see now, thank you for explaining about the floating intersections.  Is there anything you recommend then, to add on to existing roads? Otherwise, thanks for taking the time to explain.

Hello Anon! Oh, you’re most welcome. There is a tedious way to replace a texture on the existing tile of the real road, to make in into intersection so that it would connect better visually with decorative road pieces. But that takes time. What you have to do is to determine the tile you want to edit using technique described in this tutorial and then you have to change the texture name in the corresponding line. The texture names for the intersections (their index name parts) can be found in any road DR beforehand.

@sunradersimblr​ said:

Hi, I'm just wondering if you've ever done hood deco of a highway rest stop like the type we see in the U.S. along interstates and state highways, just a green space, usually, with toilet facilities and a place for a picnic and parking lot? I need one for a story and thought I'd check with you. Thanks for all the great work you share! 

Hello Sunrader! That would be really nice addition for the highway set, but I haven’t made it. Thought it’s quite possible to make something similar if you use ‘One side exit piece’ from the motorway set and add some picnic tables, umbrellas and benches using street tables & benches set. There’s also many 4t2 deco conversions for toilets and other small size decos that would help to create a decent resting stop.

@nataliepop​ said:

Hi there Criquette! There's a new game called Townscaper which I think you'd like. The architecture has an English aesthetic and you build cities or towns but it all starts on an ocean. It's in early access, so I hope by the time it officially releases they add boats and piers. Look it up on Steam or Youtube. I saw it via someone who usually does Cities Skylines videos. Btw, have you ever played that? Also, apart from sims what else do you enjoy playing? Anyway, hope you are having a good day!

Hey Natpop! Thanks for a lovely game suggestion! I’ve checked it out and it looks really fun. Can’t say I’d play it though XD All my free time (which I don’t have atm) is reserved for simming hood deco making working on Feverfew ^^

Anonymous said:

hey~ i love all of your stuff, you're so talented (๑♡⌓♡๑) i wanted to ask, do you think you'll ever release feverfew's sc4 map? 

Thank you Anon! That’s very kind. I’m not sure if there’s any point in releasing SC4 map I used for Feverfew because it’s completely differs from the way it looks now. The road layout is different, there’s no canal, no islands on the river, hills are different, etc. It has been heavily terraformed and edited during development process. I’d recommend just to wait till the Feverfew neigborhood release.

Anonymous said:

Hi! Do you have any idea of when Feverfew will be released? :) 

Hey Anon! It will be released this year, hopefully!

Anonymous said:

Hello :D Is it possible to get your linden trees as lot objects in build/garden section? I love them and they beautify my neighborhood but could really use an option to select them on lots too :)

Hello Anon! Yes, that’s possible, though I can’t say if I could make it myself. What I can say though, is that there’s a linden trees redux coming soon. It would make linden trees look better and highly optimised so that it would only take 4,5 Mb instead of 60 Mb without any losses in texture quality and resolution. 

[katzengirl]

More “story” at my Dreamwidth: https://katzengirl.dreamwidth.org/

[sushigal007]

Tarquin: Can I? Your lifetime want is to raise twenty puppies or kittens, so HAHAHA no.

Tarquin: How about now?

[simgaroop]

I just have to gush to you about how beautiful your portraits are. I love the crispness to them and though I feel like I'm missing a lot of the details (especially in the portraits where the premades are grown/have kids), every time I see them I have to stop and marvel over how lovely they are. I tried doing portraits ages ago and I felt like an amateur. I love the lighting and the poses and everything. Thanks for sharing them, they're so pretty!

Thank you so much, Katzengirl! 

I wish I could post larger pictures because I have noticed that some facial details are lost at 900 x 600 px, but Tumblr tends to fail to upload files larger than that. 

I still have the original files, so I will post closeups of the future pictures. I will abstain from editing them as heavily as I have done so far, though. I like using filters and Topaz Clean because the pictures look more like renders, but it is true they change them quite a bit.   

I will also try to write some details for the future portraits. I have tried to leave most photosets without text “for the aesthetic” (LOL), but I do enjoy coming up with short stories for these sims. 

My suggestion if you ever want to try posing again is to begin with only a couple of posing boxes or mods and then incorporate new ones as you grow more confident.  I began this project because I want to start storytelling again (I really, really need a creative outlet), but I was not confident at all with posing sims, it’s been so long since The Broke Legacy.  

The first pictures were done using only this box by Ndainye and since then I’ve slowly added some boxes to my collection. Right now I use DeeDee’s Toddler, Family and Arms overlay boxes (plus the Lumen one for the Space Pirates picture), Decorgal’s model hack and Ndainye’s box. That’s it. 

I only use one OMSP. It is the purple one with a number 2 from this set. That’s it. I was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of options, so I decided to stick with one. 

And for lighting, here’s an old trick:

I use these invisible floor lamps (soft version) by NixNivis. I place one in front of the group and two at the sides, forming a triangle. I move them until I like the lighting. Sometimes I add one at the back, but I haven’t noticed a difference. 

In short, just do it! And have fun! Thanks a lot of the message!

[deedee-sims]

Tons of replies :)

Honestly, I didn’t expect that overwhelming response I got from you about the woodworking bench! Thank you so much guys, I love you all! <3

ivy-sims reblogged your photo and added:

YOU ARE A FANTASTIC HUMAN                    

AHH THANK YOU *blushes*

nekosayuri replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

Woooooooo it's here and its its awesomeeee                    

Yeeees! You know my blood and sweat went into it, but it’s done :D

theatticbox replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

This is wonderful! And yay for learning something new! Thank you for sharing, it looks like it will be a really fun addition to the game.                    

serabiet replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

whoaa nice! learning new stuff is the best, congrats on the whole job!

Thank you guys! I love learning new stuff! I’m just always afraid in the beginning. Then usually everything turns out being easier than I expect :)

tanjassims reblogged your photo and added:

Sims 2 creators never cease to amaze…. even after all these years!

Sims 2 community is the best! ^^

alawren4ever replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

This is amazing! I always wanted more stations also. This will be a great way to raise the mechanical skill. Thank you SO much!

Ayyy, thank you, me too! I was contemplating about making it creativity skill related, but it’s better in mechanical :)

mortia replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

This is amazing! Congratulations on sticking with it even though it was a challenge :) It's super cool.

Thank you! I had a few headdesk moments, but I learned my lessons :D

lesyasun replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U

hexagonal-bipyramid reblogged your photo and added:

Wow! That’s so cool!! That must have took a long time to make this! Thank you so much for sharing! ♥

Haha, yes, it wasn’t 2 days ^^” I’m glad you like it!

taylors-simblr replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

Whaaatttt!!! This is so cool! The woodworking bench was one of my favourites from sims 1 and I always liked the look of the sims 4 one too. Now I’m just going to have to think of which one of my sims should get one of these :D

Me too! Now I kinda want to make a gnome making station too, heee :D Can’t wait to see who will end up using this!

12raben reblogged your photo and added:

I love it!!!

scibirg reblogged your photo and added:

Amazing! Thanks for this gift!

kayleigh-83 replied to your photo “Let me present you… The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

What the heck Deedee, this is AMAZING!

dezzydoesthings replied to your photo “Let me present you… The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

This is amazing

donlotharioscloset reblogged your photo and added:

Wow this is awesome!

joanna-squared replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

Oh my god. Oh my god. This makes me so happy. I'm feeling all wiggly.

niamh-sims replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

Fantastic work! Thank you

blackpandasims reblogged your photo and added:

Super wow amazing stuff!!! Thank you Dee for your hard work!

katzengirl reblogged your photo and added:

This looks phenomenal!                    

rudhira reblogged your photo and added:

Thank you!                    

no-fussficus replied to your photo   “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

Thank you!! ❤️

sterina-sims replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

This is amazing! Thank you so much!                    

eulaliasims replied to your photo  “Let me present you…  The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

Wow, this is so cool!

Thank you so much guys!! *group hug*

sitaechoes reblogged your photo and added:

Installing now. Tonight. Do not wait till tomorrow. Install. Make furniture. Make toilet. From wood. Make bathtub. From wood. Make hot tub. From wood. Make electric guitar. From wood.

tamtam-go92 replied to your photo “Let me present you… The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

This is awesome deedee! Can't wait to use it for my bacc!

penig reblogged your photo and added:

Holey mother of cheese! BACC needs thsi!

kaylynn-langerak replied to your photo “Let me present you… The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

Wow, this is too cool, and just perfect for my BaCC! Thank you so much, you did an awesome job on this!

alexbgd replied to your photo “Let me present you… The Functional woodworking bench Long story long:...”

so cute! :D cant wait to use it..

Ahh, I'm so happy to hear that so many of you already plan to use this in your game! <3

[star-spangled-bingo]

(Ivyentwined here again). If you could please change breath play (as it was a squick (asphyxiation)), reporter AU, hospital AU, kinky confessions, and cockwarming.

Sorry. Missed that one! I’ll sent your remake in a bit

[dramallamadingdang]

Hi iCad! I just read your answer about ghosts and I wasn't sure what you meant by "moveobjects" the gravekeeper off the lot. Can you elaborate a little? Would using the teleport cat to zap the gravekeeper off the lot achieve the same thing?

Possibly? I’ve never used the teleport cat, so I don’t know what it does or how it works. What I do is:

1) Teleport the gravekeeper to the lot with the Sim Blender.2) Also use the Sim Blender to make the gravekeeper temporarily selectable (so that I can access their inventory.)3) Move grave(s) into their inventory.4) Make them unselectable again with the Sim Blender.5) Delete the gravekeeper from the lot the same way I do any other object. (With moveobjects turned on; it’s always turned on in my game unless I manually turn it off.)

This is the simplest/quickest method for me, with the mods and such that I have, since there is always an iteration of the Sim Blender on every lot in all of my neighborhoods. There are many ways you could do it that would work just as well, though.

(Answering publicly because you’re likely not the only one who was wondering. :) )

[mortenavida]

For the MCU ask meme:15. Top 5 ships, 19. Favorite villain, 21. Dream Crossover

15 - Top 5 ships

–Besides PolyShipping the original six Avengers, here we go.

A) Frostiron. This was my first big ship in the fandom and there’s just awesome chemistry between the two of them. The things they’ve experienced and how they deal with stuff. They’re a good compliment to another. Besides that, Loki’s sass would make Tony grin, and Tony going on about his tech would definitely put a fond smile on Loki’s face.

B) Stony. Can’t help it, my second ship in the fandom and I sailed it for a long time.

C) Stucky. Come on. If Bucky was a girl, they would have been married by now in the MCU. We all know it.

D) Natasha/Pepper. I don’t give these two enough love at all. :(

E) Thorki. Can’t help it, Thor loves his brother too much lmao.

19 - Favorite villain

–Honestly? Thanos. I love when I get a background for a villain and understand where they’re coming from. The fact that we got so much of his backstory pleased me, and god his argument can be convincing. Those are the best villains.

21 - Dream Crossover

–Hands down, Harry Potter. It won’t happen, but that’s what fanfiction is for haha. Arthur Weasley being introduced to Wakanda. THINK ABOUT IT!!

[aondaneedles]

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My PC’s back and runs Sims just fine. Yay! (And I finally have my beloved spell check back!)

Sims = Fan fic?

mdpthatsme said: About the premades, I would think so.

primaverasims said: I would think so if it’s the premades since you imagine them outside of canon. But if it’s 100% original characters in a custom neighborhood (or emptied neighborhoods) I would categorize it as original fiction 

ejsims said: agree with everyone about the premades-technically, those stories are fanfic.

strangetomato said: I think it’s similar to fanfiction, but not the same. What we are given with the premades are hints and clues to story and some character details that can be interpreted in endless ways. It’s more of a template for storytelling than a fiction work to transform, as in fanfic.

Hm, interesting point of views...I would agree that original characters aren’t fanfiction. And yeah, technically posting about the premades is fan fiction- although canon is much broader and it is more of a template than a given story.

katzengirl said: Yep, stories about the premades is fanfiction. :) There’s even a category for the Sims on fanfiction.net though not many people have posted there.

Really? Wow. That’s kinda weird. I suppose it’s just text, too?

New graphics card

simlishnoir said: Nvidia GTX 750 is a good card that worked with TS2 and is quite decent for other games (maybe not the latest ones) as well. I personally use a GTX 1060 (after upgrading from the one mentioned before) and TS2 works for that as well.

ethanmcgregor said: I have Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and TS2 runs great with it.

Thank you for your suggestions! The game actually runs well with the graphics card I managed to lend (although it’s rather loud). I think I’ll look into the GTX 750, it sounds good and still cheap enough for a broke college student.

[stuckyaubang-blog]

Are crossovers or fusions allowed?

As long as stevebucky is the focus of the fic and it’s still an AU, yes! 

[ravenclawssource]

Ravenclaw Headcanon #3

Ravenclaw Prefects are the only prefects that have to do a curfew sweep, where they open the common room door at curfew to make sure students, usually first or second years, who couldn’t answer the riddle by themselves are still capable of getting into the Tower for bed.

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[synoir]

@katzengirl replied to your photo: Sneak Peek The World is Not Enough One is the....

Can I click the like button x1000?

OMG I LOVE YOU YOU JUST DID!!!

[fuzzyspork]

katzengirl replied to your photo “Not all walls are made of stone.”

This is both amazing and sad for the real life it reflects. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of patience and time that went into creating this shot.

It took about six hours to set up. There’s more that can’t be seen in the shot, but this was the best angle. My late father-in-law lived like this. As a result of having to clean out his house after he died, I’ve become a bit of a minimalist and I get rid of anything I absolutely don’t need. I start to feel like I’m suffocating if there’s too much stuff around me! In a weird way, it helps me to create scenes in TS2 of the things that frighten or bother me in real life. There’s a certain amount of satisfaction in deleting the lot when it’s done!

[njmphadora]

Have you ever been so caught up in the world of Harry Potter that you've actually said a spell out loud and expected it to work? (For example, wake up from a good dream or take a break from reading and try to accio something form across the room?)

no

send me “have you evers” and I can only reply with “yes” or “no”

[deedee-sims]

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polk-la-dots replied to your post “I can watch sims fall in love again and again... haha”

are there non-monogamy mods for sims 2? :o

I... don’t think so? But you can turn off jelousy in ACR. Also, @strangetomato​ has posts about how she operates the JRO relationship, marriage there :)

lokisimmer replied to your photo “MDP’s 4t2 EF06 Jacket Punk for TF and EF And here’s the jacket I age...”

OMG IS THAT THE ONE YOU WERE DOING ON YUOR STREAM

It is, indeed! :)

katzengirl replied to your photoset “Today, I bring you your Halloween Special :P Okay, I know I said I’m...”

These are lovely, thank you for sharing!

lokisimmer replied to your photoset “Today, I bring you your Halloween Special :P Okay, I know I said I’m...”

OMG THIS IS GREAT ( deedee my sims 2 Halloween special story comes out tomorrow just so you know :)

mdpthatsme reblogged your photoset and added:

YES!

I’m glad you like them, guys ^^

[kahlenas]

Little thanks to @katzengirl, @dunne-ias and @thelastautumnleaf. :)