Hello! Sorry To Bother. Do You Know If Someone Has Remade The Loading Screen From This Post (/post/612873024919781376/simhaus-shared-these-loading-screens-9-months)

Hello! Sorry to bother. Do you know if someone has remade the loading screen from this post (/post/612873024919781376/simhaus-shared-these-loading-screens-9-months) but without the white background (like the original by simhaus)?

Hello anon! :-D you’re not a bother at all! Afaik, no one has. It’s a small edit though, so I did it for you and you can find it in the original post! :-)

I don’t usually reblog things (I’m not sure why??) but I could not just scroll past this. I love her 🌱🥺💚

so for February i wanted to try my hand at another prompt-based sim-making month. i’ve come up with a list…some are just words (like today) and others are a lil more specific ideas. so here is.

february sims - day 1 - plant

Hi Kaktus! I downloaded and use nearly every single one of your object/texture replacement. Thank you so much for sharing your creations! You're a gem <3.

How am I supposed to handle all this love?? I can’t even explain how happy I get when I see asks like this in my inbox! I hope you have a nice day anon, and thank you so much for your kind words 🥺

You're a gem <3.

hi vegan-kaktus! I'm trying to default replace some of the fugly ea glasses but I'm not finding 3idr/gzps in simpe like I usually do for hair and clothes. do you have any idea of where should I start? I didn't find many tutorials about default replacing accessories, and since you're our default replacement queen I thought you could have some insights. thank you!

since you're our default replacement queen

*heavy breathing* (I am not though!!! but thank you!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺)

Hello veganossauro! :-D I come with good news!! 

I’m sure there are easier ways to do this, but I couldn’t find any tutorial either so yeah ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and sorry if this is too beginner friendly for you, I thought it would be better to explain everything in detail just in case :-D

1. Open up bodyshop, click on “make parts”, then “create new project”, choose “create facial hair, make-up & glasses” and then select the glasses you want to replace. I’ll use the black “ufaccessorysunglassesretro” glasses here as an example:

2. Click on “export selected textures” (i.e make a recolor) and name the project “glasses” or something (you don’t need to import the recolor to the game, we just want bodyshop to make a project folder). 

(I’m using SmugTomato’s version of bodyshop, if anyone’s wondering.)

3. Close bodyshop and go to your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Projects folder. Look for the folder (in my case, “glasses”) with your glasses and open up the package file from that folder in SimPE.

4. Now, select one of the XMOLs (XMOL seems to be the accessory “version” of GZPS), click on “Resource” down in the left corner and copy the text/numbers from “Type”.

5. Click on “finder”, choose “PropertySet Search” and paste the text/numbers you just copied in the “Custom Type (opt):” search bar. Then you want to write the name of your glasses (in my case it’s “ufaccessorysunglassesretro”) in the very first search bar where it says “Match:”. The name of your glasses can be seen in the XMOLs. Click on start when you’ve pasted/written everything :-)

6. Here you should get some matches! Double click on one, sort by “instance” (so it’s easier to find the matching 3IDR) and then you can extract them (right click + “Extract...”) like usual :-D

7. And you’re done!

Now I did only test this with these glasses, but hopefully it will work for other glasses as well. I have no idea how I came up with this tbh, and I haven’t tried this “solution” at all. I’m not even sure if it will work, but I think it should? (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)b I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t!

Also, I’ve read over at MTS that many of EA’s glasses are borked (especially the round glasses, I’ve heard that you shouldn’t even clone them when making custom accessories bc they are very much borked) so you might encounter some issues when defaulting, but I wish you luck my friend! :-D and do let me know if it doesn’t work or you stumble upon any other problem, I’m happy to help if I can! (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

Hahah! I’m glad I could be of help friend!! :-D

Downloaded that wonderful mailbox default, and the recolours show up but the mesh of it doesn't. I tried downloading the mesh from trishasimma that was linked in the post, but it still doesn't show. Do you have any ideas why?

Hey anon. Do you have any defaults that conflict with it? Maybe the buyable mailbox? Wild guessing here, I have no idea. Maybe see if it shows up without CC and if it does then try the 50-50 method until you find the conflict. 

I used other people’s packages because I couldn’t find the mailbox in SimPe but thanks to @vegan-kaktus I am now a new simmer. Unstoppable. If other people are having problems with the mailbox I can try starting from scratch. Let me know please! :>

You know that crappy digital camera from bon voyage, which isn’t even digital since you have to send your photos off to develop them? Yeah that camera.

I replaced this sad blob of pixels with the (very!) pretty analogue camera from the paparazzi outfit (from seasons). EA even made a separate texture for the analogue camera so I’m surprised they didn’t use it.

There are two versions to choose from and bon voyage is required for both. If you have seasons installed, you can choose to use the repo’d default (it’s repositoried to the uubodyjournalistcamera-black texture). If you don’t have seasons installed (or for some reason just don’t want the repositoried version) choose the bon voyage file.

Both files have been compressed to reduce file size, and remember you can only have one default for the digital camera in your downloads folder at a time. If you run into any issues, let me know!

And if you’re interested, sherry shared a deco version of this camera here (click on the second image to download).

Edit: @jellymeduza​ has updated their custom cellphone mod to include my default as a custom camera! :-D thank you!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credit: EA

Known Issue: when sims use the camera, for some reason it “flips” in their hand first. This has nothing to do with my default, it’s just the way EA.. decided to design the camera interaction I guess haha? If I knew how to edit this, I’d fix it, but unfortunately I don’t know :-( here is how it looks - and sorry for the very bad gif, I was lazy: