You Know That Crappy Digital Camera From Bon Voyage, Which Isnt Even Digital Since You Have To Send Your

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:

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•◍)❤

Your handheld replacement looks amazing, thank you so much ❤

oh thank YOU anon for the sweet message!! I’m glad you like it 🥺🙏

WHAT WAS THAT WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT WORTHY??? GIRL I'LL FIGHT YOU!!!!!! ヽ( `д´*)ノ

WHERE DO ALL YOU LOVELY ANONS EVEN COME FROM

Hi! Tell me if it's not a secret, which outfit are you planning to replace in the near future?

Hello anon! :-D of course!! I showed this default back in march, but I’ve edited it a bit more and I think I’m on to something now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)b

I want to try and add seams on the shirt (sleeves+bottom) and perhaps play around a bit more with the print. I also fixed the fat-morph’s horrible mapping (my new print helped a lot too) but I mean, look at this:

Like?? did EA even look at the fat morph before adding it to the game..

Yay! :-D thank you so much!! 

As for the nintendo, I didn’t know how to fix that either, and I realize now that I completely forgot to mention that in my post - oops... :-D

Another post dedicated to updates

@maksplaygroundsims2​

Hey! I know you don’t generally take requests however I was just looking at your scuba diving mod and got really curious if it would be possible/easy to add in the ability to find treasure that would be some of the same things that you’d find when you’re combing for shells at the beach or digging for treasure on regular terrain.. Not sure if it’s doable, I know nothing about modding but just thought Id make the suggestion. Amazing work btw, you modders keep the Sims community thriving.

Hi!

It’s possible and fairly easy, so I created new version of main file of my diving mod. This new version is called Meduza_diving_in_the_ocean_find_sth. This version will let your Sims collect conch, starfish, colored glass and clam (beach collectibles). Sorry for not including found jewellery or things that Sims can dig up. These seemed the most reasonable things to collect during diving, but I might add more in the future. Sims will have 5% chance of finding something per loop.

You have to redownload the file and replace Meduza_diving_in_the_ocean with Meduza_diving_in_the_ocean_find_sth. You can’t keep both versions in your Downloads folder.

Custom cellphone and camera mod updated (again)

@vegan-kaktus​ released two wonderful default replacements (for handheld game and digital camera) and I decided to turn these into non-defaults and incorporate them into my mods.

Switch is custom handheld game and can be found for $400 in the electronics/small category. I included grey recolor.

If you want your Sims to use it, you have to put it into their inventory. If your Sim has both original handheld game and Switch in their inventory, original one will be used instead of Switch. Let’s just say those Sims want to act old school. ;) However, Switch will be prioritised over smartphone.

Reporter camera is repo’d to sherry’s camera (click on the second picture to download). You have to put sherry’s deco camera into your Sim’s inventory if you want them to use reporter camera. If your Sim also has decat’s extracted digital camera in their inventory, digital camera will be used instead of reporter’s one. Both cameras wil be prioritised over smartphone. If your Sim neither have any of deco cameras, nor smartphone, they’ll use default digital camera.

There’s an issue with Switch. When you buy it and place it on the ground it will sink leaving only a thin line visible. You’ll still be able to grab it when you zoom close enough. I’m sorry, I don’t know what is causing this behaviour.

Credits: @vegan-kaktus​, @wyxii​, sherry