Ive Got Like Three Months Of Posts Queued Up Right Now, Because Ive Been Binge-playing My 100 Baby Challenge

I’ve got like three months of posts queued up right now, because I’ve been binge-playing my 100 baby challenge save.

So like three months (honestly maybe more) worth of screenshots where I’ve been FIGHTING!!! with reshade DOF settings trying to make things look correct. And no matter what I did, no matter what tutorial I followed, or whose settings I used, the edges of my sims were ALWAYS blurry!

Anyways, I stumbled upon @pictureamoebae today and spent like two hours scrolling through their blog and trying all these little tips and tricks to no avail. And then I see something about global processing definitions? and how you gotta make sure that 1 is a 0?

TURNS OUT I HAD NO GLOBAL PROCESSING DEFINITIONS. SO. YOU KNOW. THAT WASN’T HELPING.

I added in the correct four lines, and everything is just fucking perfect now, easy as pie, working as intended. Months!!!!!! have gone by with me fighting these DOF settings and it was really this easy.

Also, apparently this isn’t supposed to be happening? but my reshade took FOREVER to load EVERY single time I switched it on to take a screenshot, which obviously is a huge pain in the ass.

This totally fixed that. Zero loading time now. jfc.

Anyways, the moral of this story is that you’re going to have to wait like four months to see these correct screenshots but ALSO, go scroll through @pictureamoebae‘s reshade tag if you’re having any trouble with it because they have SO MUCH good info on their blog. Just an incredible resource.

So I kept seeing people talking about the Sunblind lighting overhaul and I finally got around to testing it out in my game. Oh my god guys it’s so good, genuinely can never go back now. If you play on PC I highly recommend trying it out!!

I took some screenshots to compare:

this is the default EA lighting, plus a few light reshade settings (DOF, film grain, that kind of thing, nothing that fucks with color though!)

this is the Sunblind lighting!! LOOK HOW MUCH BETTER THAT LOOKS!! Honestly unbelievable. Same light reshade settings are used here.

this is Sunblind + my full reshade preset.

These were all taken at the exact same time of day, I think it was like 7 a.m.? anyways

download this shit. gameplay looks soooo much better now it’s unbelievable.

added fixing objects to the list of activities in my donor club!! very helpful!!

ugh they’re so cute

Helen and Naoki ♥

finally had to get around to decorating the kids/teens room now that one of them aged up. This was supposed to be the master bedroom but obviously the space was needed, so I crammed some bunk beds in there and turned the walk in closet into a playroom!