Is My Default Tooboring? I Mean I Want To Keep EAs Aesthetic And I Try To Re-use As Much Textures From

is my default too “boring”? I mean I want to keep EA’s aesthetic and I try to re-use as much textures from them I possibly can, but idk. At first I absolutely hated this cake’s texture but now I think... it’s kind of cute?

vegan-kaktus, I love all your vegan replacements for Sims 2 so much, but now I saw your picture of Shinee. Really? You love them too? You are adorable! :-)

Hello polly-poison! :-D woahh thank you!! 🥺 I'm very happy to hear you like them ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`)❤ and yes! I love shinee too! :-D

I absolutely love Episims' book defaults, but I also like some of EA's original book textures, so I decided to make my own defaults using both EA's and Epi's textures! Then I can simply get the books I don't re-use from Epi's default as deco instead (yay!) :-D

Here are some sneak peeks no one asked for 🥴

My edit of Epi's (totally awesome) cook book cover:

I used EA's "reference" book's texture as an overlay and re-sized it back to EA's original 256x256 size, since my other defaults will be using that size :-D

my edit of EA's romance book cover:

I had a blast editing this one, I wonder why it's so fun poking at textures like this? Also - how come I've never noticed that the dude is holding a FEATHER-DUSTER and he's wearing EA's maid outfit?! What kind of romantic story is this.... (; ಠㅂಠ)

my edit of EA's reward(?) book cover (from the career bookshelf):

Not sure about the design nor font yet (when am I ever sure about fonts lol?)

Now I'm going to sleep 🥴

I saw @phoebe-twiddle’s default for the maid outfit and knew exactly what I wanted to do: matching defaults for afbodydressmaid and ambodymanmaid!

NPC Clothing

I got rid of the shorts on EA’s Kitchen&Bath pre-order outfit, extracted the pants from afbodydeliveryperson / ambodydeliveryperson and colored them brown. I also made the gloves yellow, but there is a version included with pink gloves as well (choose only one file!). My default contains two 1024x1024 textures, and both AF and AM share those textures. The shoes are my fixed umbottomwillpants shoes from my pizza default.

This is my first time converting AF -> AM so the mesh is not perfect by any means, but it’s good enough for me. They both have fat morphs, of course! This was also my first time making a fat morph (AM) from scratch. I apologize, it’s not perfect either D-:

I did my best to reduce as much clipping as possible, but there are still some clipping during certain animations between the pants and shirt at the back. There’s also a slight (skin texture) seam/difference between the neck and body on AM. I was thinking of replacing the neck mesh with a “true” AM-neck mesh, but then I was unsure of how I would add the apron mesh back onto it.

In other words; I’m too tired/not sure how to solve these issues, but if anyone wants to try and fix them or know how I could fix them myself, please feel free to do so/let me know! :-D

EA original polycount:

female: 2932

male: 2280

My default’s polycount:

female: 2564

male: 2562

Vehicle

Included in the default is a simple texture default for the maid car, replacing EA’s pink maid logo with my new logo. I also cleaned up the registration sign and removed the shadow under the side mirror :-) the logo on the engine hood (is it really called hood in English?) has been replaced as well.

Recommended Mods

These are maid related mods I recommend downloading. They are not required for my defaults to work, though :-)

Amura’s fair wages for service NPCs

rio-sims’ random maid hair

You can also browse sims2defaults for a default of hairhatmaid. 

My default will not conflict with whattheskell‘s maid completer / male maid separates since @rudhira​ was kind and threw together my default file the “right” way! Also worth mentioning, EA originally had three different colors for the male maid but my default does not.

All defaults seen in this post have been merged into one single file, and the files have been compressed to reduce file size. If you have any other defaults in your downloads folder for afbodydressmaid, ambodymanmaid or vehiclemaid-main_txtr you have to remove those before installing mine! And remember to choose between yellow or pink gloves :-) if you encounter any problems, let me know!

Edit: I separated the vehicle default for an anon, so if you don’t want to use my NPC outfit defaults but my car default download the “vegankaktus_DEFAULTvehiclemaid” file :-)

Edit #2: if you have the “Buyable Work and NPC Clothes” you will probably see my default with invisible pants. Delete the maid gzps from that file and all is good :-)

Edit 2021-09-11: I updated my vehicle default with the nicer bumper texture from my taxi defaults! here is a quick image showing the new texture:

both the separated car default and the merged file have been updated with my new texture :-) please re-download!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: freepik for the icon, @rudhira for being so kind and helping me so much(♡), phoebe-twiddle for the yellow gloves idea and lastly, EA :-)

soooo I just found my old ts2 screenshot folder from 2017-ish, and I’m 🥺

I miss actually playing the game so much. back then I didn’t give a damn about anything. no styles, no “matching color”, no nothing. I just simply played

now I’m stuck here, creating defaults and constantly cleaning out my downloads folder

BUT I LOVE ALL THE DETAILED ANSWERS!!! SO RAMBLE ON ୧(#Φ益Φ#)୨

thank you for liking my rambling anon haha 🥺 made me very very happy!! ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`)❤