This Has Been On My To-do-list For Ages. I Cant Say Im 100% Happy With The Result, But For Now Im Okay

This has been on my to-do-list for ages. I can’t say I’m 100% happy with the result, but for now I’m okay with how it looks. Otherwise I would poke at this for all eternity (; ಠㅂಠ)b

This is an edit of @hugelunatic‘s CEP-extra (I fell in love with that bowl!) which means this should be placed in your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\zCEP-EXTRA folder. You still have to download HugeLunatic’s HL_CEP_bg_fruitBowl-programfiles.package file though from the link above.

Edit: sorry if I was a bit unclear! In other words: my file (vegankaktus_HL_CEP_bg_fruitBowl.package) should replace HugeLunatic’s original file (HL_CEP_bg_fruitBowl.package) in the document’s CEP-extra folder. HL_CEP_bg_fruitBowl-programfiles.package file is still needed! And should be placed in the program files folder :-)

I extracted the pineapple + pear from TNW’s 3t2 fruit hat (I edited the pineapple texture a bit to remove most of the shadows). The apples and oranges are extracted from seasons. The bananas are by soloriya (warning T$R) which @alienpod​ kindly extracted for me<3

I also included 6 recolors of the bowl and 1 green recolor for the bananas. Since I couldn’t fit everything into one texture (milkshape’s scale system in the texture coordinate editor is not my best friend) and ts2 can only have two subsets, I decided the second subset would be the bananas. If I ever figure out how to scale mappings easily without any distortion, I’ll try again. But for now, this is the best I can do :-)

My bowl recolors can be used with HugeLunatic’s original CEP-extra (just skip my banana recolor and you’re good to go) if someone would like to use my recs but not my new default.

All files have been compressed to reduce file size, and for my recolors you can choose between merged and separate files. The CEP is required for this to work, and remember you can’t have any other default or CEP-extra for the fruit bowl in your downloads folder while using mine! Let me know if you encounter any issues :-)

Polycount

EA’s original polycount: 1160

My default’s polycount: 4112

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: @hugelunatic for the CEP-extra I edited, @alienpod for extracting soloriya’s bananas for me, TNW for the pineapple and pear, and lastly EA :-)

hi! thank you for going through the trouble of fixing the pizza problem with the buyable hack. i really appreciate it! :)

Hello again anon! :-D no worries (nor trouble) at all!! I’m glad I could be of help! (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

hi, pizza box anon here! i figured out why your pizza box default wasn't working, it's because i have this hack installed modthesims(.)info/d/145026/buyable-pizza-and-chinese-food(.)html. i really like your default but i also want to be able to conveniently buy pizza straight from the buy mode. is there any way for me to enable that?

Hello again anon! :-D so sorry for my late reply! Oh yes, that explains it, what a relief it wasn’t anything weird going on with my default ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`)b

The cloned buyable pizza and chinese box from labine730 have their own textures, which is why it’s not picking up my default. It was a simple fix though, I repositoried it to “foodpizzabox-insideoutside” which is what my default is defaulting, so now it will pick up my default or any other default for the pizza box you might have (and if you use none: EA’s original texture). 

I also enabled it on community lots, edited the catalog (you can find it in both kitchen - appliances and kitchen - general now since I read about people having problems finding it). It has the same GUID as the original pizza box which makes it conflict with carvernosims’ extracted basegame items, so I edited that file to make them compatible. You can download my edits here. Hope that helped! :-D

All credits goes to labine730 and carvernosims :-)

The pizza delivery NPC has bothered me for ages with its screamingly red color. Also, what’s up with all the different logos? One logo on the car, another one on the pizza box and a THIRD one on the clothes???

Info + download link under the cut since I can’t explain things like a normal person ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`)b

NPC Clothing

I shoeswapped afbodypizzadelivery and ambodypizzadelivery with shoes from umbottomwillpants (”converted” to female by me). The shoe meshes are similiar, but not the same! I fixed the shoes’ texture as well to make them match better. In addition to this, I removed shadows, changed colors and fixed a black spot on the AF mesh.

I tried to fix the mapping on the female mesh (on the back) but I couldn’t fix it completely unfortunately - I’m talking about how the logo on the female mesh is a bit “squished” compared to the male mesh. I removed the logo on the front and replaced the one on the back with my new one. The simlish reads: “at your door!”

I uploaded my fixed shoe texture (.png) and two .ms3d files (AF/AM) here, for anyone who would like to use these shoes on other outfits!

Vehicle

I separated the sign on the car, re-mapped it, gave it its own (+new!) texture and also fixed the edges. This default is compatible with any texture default you might have for the pizza vehicle (vehiclepizza-surface_txtr), but it won’t affect the sign. It’s not compatible with dharden’s clean pizza car replacement though, since they also edited the shpe. I personally like the dirty car, but I included a version with the gold/clean texture from Michelle since not everyone might be a fan of the dirty look.

If you use my version, remove dharden’s!

Pizzas

I’ve edited both pizza textures a bit. I made the pepperoni one less red and increased saturation on the combo pizza. (It’s not that big of a difference - I'm aware, but they irked me!)

Before you say “two pizzas?!” - I know I know!! :-D when I extracted the pizza texture I came across a second unused pizza texture. I made a thread over at MTS about this which simler90 saw and kindly fixed EA’s mistake, so make sure to get their fix here! :-D 

Pizza Box

I also defaulted the pizza box. I’ve never seen a white pizza box in my entire life, we only have brown ones here in Sweden - so brown it is! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

to clarify: the pizza box and pizza defaults are in the same file - if you choose to download my defaults separately (vegankaktus_DEFAULTpizzasbox.package)

I also repositoried labine730's buyable pizza box to “foodpizzabox-insideoutside” (it will pick up my default now, or any other default you have for the pizza box. And if none: EA’s original texture) for an anon, and made carvernosims' extracted basegame items compatible with it. It's the file "functionalpizzabox+extracteditems.zip". I also made labine730's pizza box available on community lots + edited the catalogue so now it's found in both kitchen - appliances and kitchen - general since I read about people having problems finding it.

Recommended Mods

These are pizza-related mods/fixes I recommend downloading. They aren’t required for any of my defaults to work, with the exception of simler90′s fix :-)

simler90′s random pizza topping

Neder’s no relationships with delivery people

Marhi’s pizza box on counters only

Edit: You can find my Chinese delivery defaults here!

If you have any defaults in your downloads folder defaulting the same thing as any of my files, you have to remove those before installing mine :-) you can choose between merged or separate files, and all files have been compressed to reduce file size. Let me know if you encounter any issues!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: EA, Michelle for the gold texture dharden used in their default, simler90 for fixing EA’s mistake, labine730 for their functional pizza box I edited and carvernosims for their extracted bg items which I also edited :-)

Thoughts? I’ve been working on this for too long now, I’m not sure if I’m finished or not ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`)b forgot to mention: I removed the pizza logo on the back.

All I know is I want to poke at the pizza box’s texture a bit more..

hi vk! have you ever noticed that coffee from the coffee maker has no texture in the mug while the espresso ones do? it’s so weird it makes me think my sims are simply drinking air lmao

Hello anon! :-D the non-existent coffee has bothered me too, but I didn't know the espresso cup had coffee in it!! I opened the mesh in Milkshape and it even has a full and empty state?! I'll see if I can manage to give the coffee mug states as well, no promises though (; ಠㅂಠ)b

I saw now that I actually have an unfinished coffee mug default in my WIP folder, it must have been lying there for years. Perhaps I should start poking at that too :-))