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List of People's Experiments with Replacing Sims' Face Mesh.

An on going list. updates aren't showing up on reblogs. check out the original post for the most up to date version.

@myweirdslimblr: Experimenting with Replacing the Default Sims 2 Face Mesh.

Long thread started by @l-1-z-a: Extracting Hidden Face Morphs in The Sims 2.

@paluding: Taking the 4t2 concept too far...

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💬 19  🔁 14  ❤️ 115 · Taking the 4t2 concept too far. Yup, that's the Sims 4 face converted to The Sims 2, in all its blurry glory. Well, jus

@pooklet's answer to my question, & links to a tutorial:

pooklet.tumblr.com

welcome back to me screaming

Hey, i ran into your recent post [Anonymous asked Do you mind people editing sims you’ve put up for download?] in which you talk about editi

TS2 facial expression swatch, by @pforestsims.

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💬 12  🔁 96  ❤️ 415 · I did this recently for myself so I might as well share. This is TS2 facial expression swatch and also some expression

Oh, that's interesting. first time I'm hearing that claim. Now i understand what happened. in my legacy edition copy, I did notice a change to the graphic settings, but thought it was done by someone else, not EA. on the log it states that I have a slightly different card than what I actually have, and it did surprise me they didn't add mine to the pool, i was wondering what's that about. I tried to add mine manually, worrying its absence would cause issues, but it didn't change when I've added mine. I had no problems with it, so I just left it as it is.

Side note: I left this copy for testing (and forgot about it actually), I don't play it if I can help it, so there are hardly any mods on it.

Okay, I compared the Graphics Rules.sgr and Video Cards.sgr with the Ultimate Collection

They did EXACTLY what my brother has been saying for months but people have been debating him over it and didn't want to believe him

The new video cards.sgr doesn't include ANY new graphics cards. Wanna know why? Because the game doesn't fucking care. He has been saying for months that it doesn't care and that adding it via GRM doesn't do anything, it can actually potentially make it worse.

What they DID do is take out all the hacky stuff in the Graphics Rules.sgr to prevent the game from turning on and off certain settings depending on your hardware and software config. That's what I did as well, months ago, because he said it is the smarter solution.

Mini tutorial on how to improve catalogue thumbnails for custom TS2 decor items using SimPe

Tiny object mesh combined with large shadow mesh often results in crappy thumbnail (even if you can’t see the ground shadow that doesn’t mean there isn’t one).

The most popular TS2 deco cloning material ever: Fruit bowl & Chinese vase both come with custom (non-standard) thumbnail camera settings. Vase settings may work well for some cc meshes but usually don’t. Fruit bowl camera settings are sh*t.

Note: obviously you can also replace the shadow with a smaller one.

Note2: By “the entire mesh” I meant: everything above the ground level ;)

And if you’d rather fix a shadow instead of removing it, I did a tut on that.

Sometimes it’s enough to clear out custom thumbnail camera settings in thumbnailExtension. Sometimes removing or resizing the shadow will do the trick - often it’s both.

Game Fuckery Help and Linux List [Update].

I'm avoiding re-installing this shit again, so in the meantime I'm sorting some stuff into lists. For Linux research purposes.

Edit: Standby Memory Allocation on Windows 10: New info coming in: That's not the issue. However, what i wrote below about TM is my own experience and has worked for me (without doing what Jessa was saying in the SB memory part, I remembered, hope I didn't waste anybody's time). Does it make sense? idk, but it's harmless, and if it's actually a thing and not just a freak coincidence, and can help anybody else then why not. I do remember trying it with and without cleaning cache :/ [for fuck sake the nerve on EA to put out for sale a new edition without improving it to 64bit]. As discussed by Jessa below, it's an OS problem. What worked for me, for some bizarre reason was to keep Task Manager on before and while playing the game. without it my game was crashing often, on my main non gaming computer. What solved it was fixing windows... for anyone's interested, the gory details are at the bottom of the post under the cut.

+ That combined with clearing cache often.

Jessa's video (Memory Allocation and 4GB Patch Repair). Edit: Turns out this video was pulled back, so basically just make sure the patch is applied?

1. Secound opinion on the whole matter by BrandiNotBroke [the whole #pink flash diaries tag is interesting]:

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💬 26  🔁 129  ❤️ 468 · Oh, that's interesting. first time I'm hearing that claim. Now i understand what happened. in my legacy edition copy ☠

2. Leefish forum - Sims2 Graphic Cards:

3. @celebkiriedhel's Post (Texture Memory):

Linux:

@teaaddictyt & @niamh-sims About Linux.

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💬 23  🔁 94  ❤️ 271 · For anyone who is on the fence (or already made the jump) about running TS2 on Linux, this is an amazing video. @teaad

2. @nonsensical-pixels about Linux.

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💬 21  🔁 32  ❤️ 172 · A FINAL UPDATE FOR MY PINK SOUP EXPERIMENTATION · hellow, new update, for now this is gonna look a bit more like a rand

3. @brandinotbroke, first Linux supporter I've encountered here. A comprehensive post:

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💬 10  🔁 23  ❤️ 78 · Linux distros - what is the difference, which one should I choose? · Caution, VERY long post. With more and more simmer

Texture Memory Fuckery (Pink Soup, among other things):

Kiri's post linked at the beginning, first an foremost.

Original Post by @fireflowersims, plus; re-blog by @ovytia. Both of their tags, and comment:

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2. A recap on Pink Soup/Texture Sizes by @rockethorse in the comments:

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💬 31  🔁 9  ❤️ 89 · That pink soup post is well-intentioned but loudly wrong. fwiw

That's it for now. Any more information or good links will be welcome.

Task Manager thing briefly, for the curious (as if it interests anyone else but me, but in the interest of keeping track).

So the game was crashing often. That thing was easy to spot because the laptop would make loud airplane noises when I'd load the game. It got stuck or something, so I went to end it by force with task manager and noticed that all the resources where used to the max - right up until I'd open TM, and then everything would cool down. Like it was playing hide and seek with me. So I figured I'd get smart with it right back, and just leave TM open the whole time. Low and behold, the game stopped crashing. That combined with clearing cache often. Does it make sense? idk, but the computer works in mysterious ways.

A normal wedding in Pleasantview...

- Meme Parody with My Sims -

Woman Yelling at a Cat (1929)

*UPDATE* List of Asian Sims 2 Sites With Working Downloads

Here is a list of sites (163, Daum, NAVER, etc.) that have Sims 2 downloads available as of February 2017. Not all downloads on the site may work, but if there was at least one then I added it to the list. My old list is almost two years out of date so here is an update! Unfortunately some of those blogs are now dead too, but I can also add a few. If you need any help downloading feel free to ask away! So! Here’s the list, in alphabetical order, sorted by host:

163 (Chinese language):

 - 222, 37, AIKA, Daislia, The Doll’s Town, Esor Sims, Helena, Kyara/Clover, Laeris, Ran

Blog.me (Korean language):

Cazy, Cranberry, ELISSU, Haniyuyu, Luo, Mori, MYOS, PLIN, RUSTY, Siaorang, Tomang Homme, Yoosims

Blogspot (English language):

502508, Maysa, N-K, Pinty, SimsSM, SioSims, Totoasims, TsuKa

Daum (Korean language): 

Alicelove, Amily, Avika, BELL, Berry, Bobo, Dream, FahJung, Grayish, Heinz, Janita, Kawaiirei, Kraris, Louis, Maynarakmak, Menijung, NaerxNaer, Nely, Papa Gizmo, Pepa, Rose, SAU

FC2 (Japanese language):

1080, 11 Rabbit, GIGO, Hyacinth, Mercury Sims, Midnight Garage, Minga, Momoka, Motoi Sims, P Sister F, Pirinporin, Si5, Sims Rocket Coaster, Vera’s Atelier, Vertiges, Yume Maboroshi

Geocities (Japanese language):

GARA, Ton Sim

Jimdo (English language):

Hedman, JanMaSa

Naver (Korean Language):

A+S=Error, Acqu, Ang, Ariella, Asha, AvikaPang, BELL, Berry, Blue1489, Blue Lemon, Calvin Cao, Chabiiz, Crystalsims, Ehrpzla, Emgle, Enjoy Kiss, Feliojen, Ferris, Guy, Guzzhang, Hohoemi, Ilazys, Imziiz, Jaeeunp, JAPAN, Jiny, Karr, Kasu, Kawaiirei, KimJ, Kuku, LINDA, LuXon, Maynarakmak, Mjizombie, Momoring, MYOS, Narusia, Papiko, Paryun, Pingoz, Potae, Reichi, Rinlin, Rongmong, Royalblues87, SAOKI, Sizz, Slutty Ellie, Snow Flower, SORAbear, SpongKeku, TDN, Tealeafs, TJIN, WafflEploy, Xod, xxxholyshit,  Yeondang, YOOSHIN, Yul.E, ZIONWARD

SINA (Chinese language):

Luna, YF

Tistory (Korean language):

Black-le, Cerebella, Crayonsama

Xuite (Chinese language):

Abby, Ruby

Yam (Chinese language):

Hina, Tsing Sims, Yoriann

Other hosts:

BabbyebeSims, Blue Chilipepper, Dedital Sheep Bower, DeepSpaceUnder, Elton, Juna, JuNECHi, Karas, Keto, MayPink, Melo, MTSims Cakestore, SimpleLife, Sims2Heaven, Sims in Cider, XMSims

Hey sim 2 players there has been news that vegan-kaktus's uploads have also been compromised i know thats a sims 2 archive thats trying to preserve S2 cc from being lost

Can anyone confirm that vegan-kaktus has also been compromised? Do they have .exe or .bat file extensions do they have zips that get flagged when downloading?

As always be safe while checking have your anti Virus running while doing so.

Firefox extension, via WBM site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/ Info: moz-extension://4a61a43c-5a0d-4328-9ea2-c2b645bdab37/welcome.html All available add-ons on their site: https://web.archive.org/ If you use it on your main browser, don't forget to exclude sensitive information sites from the add-on.

@simnostalgia

Wayback Machine is a GREAT tool. It just has a few issues. The number one issue is that it isn't great at crawling. Normal HTML sites are no problem but more complex sites like forums and especially blogs are hard for it to navigate. It tends to get only very small pieces of LiveJournal for example. The entire official Sims 3 forum from 2009-2017(?) is just gone because Wayback wasn't able to access it.

As I've talked about over the past few years, I'm trying to archive a lot of CC with Archive.org. This works well for most older sites but not so well with newer ones. Plus, I'm focusing on custom content more than webpages and stories.

Stories, that people put hours and hours into, legacies, forum posts, pictures, blog posts, all things that are just TOO numerous for me to even make a dent in on my own.

Buuuut, if I could get a bunch of simmers who were actively viewing blogs and downloading content and reading forum posts to archive every post they viewed that could do something!

Wayback Machine Auto-Archiver is a bot that archives all PUBLIC webpages that you visit to the wayback machine. Think of it as a bot that follows you around taking a shot of every blog you visit. Obviously, this isn't just for Sims content but it would certainly help the community who may go looking for the content that you archived after it's LONG gone from the internet.

The auto-archiver is a simple extension. If you're running Chrome or Edge you simply install it like any other extension and then you surf the web like always.

The more simmers who use it, the more content gets archived. Also, it's entirely anonymous. If you're a lurker and you've never made or posted anyway, think of this as a way to give back!

Download it here and please reblog!

(I will be reblogging this post several times)

3t2 - Antique Adornments 7

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." ~~Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust, First Part

Episode 7 of the 'Antique Adornments' series. How many more to come? Oh, that's a good question! 💭

Find a detailed list of all of the conversions in this WordPress post.

Mediafire / SFS

Credits: floor by MsBarrows, rug recolor by kjkjljkjkjkjljkj, red paneling by unknown, wallpaper by SIP