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Maxis Match Buffet Platters and "Grand Rotunda" Banquet Table

If you don't care for the text exposure of how this set came to be, you can just go straight for the Neocities download page (Check it out, it has a gallery now too!!):

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and now, for the context

Early this week Lord Crumps released a 4t2 conversion of the Luxury Party stuff pack, that included this nifty custom functional serving platter, courtesy of Lamare.

However, since a lot of straightforward sims 4 conversions don't match the visual style of my game much, I decided to clone the serving tray and use Pineapple Forest's Restaurant Cloche default mesh and textures to replace it with, but then, the project escalated (Not as much as other projects), and I decided to also include a Banquet Table that matched The Rotunda Table from Celebrations, and instead of sticking of one size of party platter, how about two, and make it recolorable and repositoried while I'm at it!

So This is what you get, 3 Objects and 1 recolor

Again, special thanks to @lordcrumps @lamare-sims for the original objects, and @pforestsims for the mesh and textures of the cloche.

PS: I do recommend the mod edit that comes with the party pack to make the sims make more use of the buffet platters.

Is anyone interested in Testing Something for me?

I've decided to join the World of Base Game Compatible Conversions, for the simple fact my Sims 3 game is becoming more slower than anything, but i like some of the stuff of the SPs, I already converted a few objects and now I want to know two things:

- Is anyone interested in testing some of the stuff, the only requirement is that the tester must not have the Town Life SP (or uninstalled it recently).

- Do you want anything in particular from that SP, i already converted a few things from it, and i would like to know if someone was interested in an Item of the SP (CAS/Buy/Build)

Hey, @staff, what gives?! This blog was very important to the comunity, would you kindly restore it?

STAFF DELETED MY BLOG @2fingerswhiskey​. PLEASE RESTORE IT @staff @support THIS IS YEARS OF SIMS CONTENT AND RESOURCES THAT YOU’VE DESTROYED. 

Eorzean Imports - All Saints' Wake

🎃 Happy Halloween, Simblreen and All Saints' Wake!! 🎃

Download at the Plumb Bob Keep

Yeah, like, it makes sense when a large boat uses a larger texture, an hourglass that you see for like... 10 seconds.. not so much, if you can encompass details in smaller textures to the point none of them would be lost... better to do that than have 2k Textures for a piece of deco clutter that's gonna be used a lot but barely occupies the space of a slot

I was curious and decided to summarily investigate the base game's heaviest textures.

Most are 1024x1024. However, the urn sculpture is 512x2048:

Also, the Grim Reaper's hourglass' texture is uselessly big:

His ass is not respecting "texture size roughly matching the size of the object on the screen" !! lol

Edit: I initially did not look at EPs. PineappleForest pointed out the Bon Voyage pirate ship uses two 2k textures. Looking through EP files, I also found three for the Freetime basketball courts. Considering the sizes of these objects, a fair use.

(In general I find that the textures from later EPs are better in general 🤔 like you don't see the flat floodfilling you have in some base game textures.)

Get dressed action on towel racks

A while ago I started using @episims' wonderful towel lite mod that makes our Sims put on a towel or a bathrobe after they shower or bathe. It adds a delightful touch of realism that is really fun. But as much as I enjoy taking my rich lady from her fancy bathroom to her walk in closet in a towel, sometimes I don't want to send my Sim past their bedroom to get dressed. When I shower I usually get dressed in the bathroom, putting on clothes I hung by the towels before getting in the shower. I thought, why can't my Sims do the same? With a little imagination, I re-purposed the actions of the Seasons coat rack to add clothes-changing animations to the towel racks that most of my Sims already have in their bathrooms, so that I can pretend they too put out their clothes on the towel rack before getting in. I wasn't sure if it was worth uploading but you guys loved the idea so here we go! :)

I only added everyday, formal and pyjamas because those are the three I thought it likely I would ever want. Shower during the day? Everyday clothes please! Girlies got ready for a night out? Get glam with your formal wear! A shower before bed? You'll want your pyjamas. The other categories seem unlikely, but I am open to updating it if there's a persuasive reason :)

As you can see in the video Sims are pretty decent about using the towel racks, even if they are on a wall behind stuff. I haven't altered the actual code to navigate to it, it uses the same slot as viewing the deco object did previously, which in my test has worked well. In the end I had to use different animations for children because the coat rack uses a step stool which needs a slot that the deco objects do not have and I could not figure out adding one. It was either different animations or floating in the air, so different animations it is :)

I've edited three of the Maxis towel racks. "Towel on a Metal Rod", "Towel on a Wooden Rod" and "Towel Hanger Plus Plus". I'm also sharing one edited CC towel rack by Simply Styling, which I discovered through @gayars recolors found on her website here.

Get maxis towel rack add on on SFS | Get Jope towel rack on SFS

If any creators would like to add these edits to their own towel racks, please feel free to do so. To make it easier on you, or any simmer that simply wants to update things they downloaded, I prepared a download package with the resources you need and some basic instructions. It's not step by step, it assumes you are familiar with edits. Should anyone want or need more detailed instructions, I am happy to help when I can :)

Conflicts: The maxis towel rack add on are global plug in for those objects, which means there is a potential for conflicts. HCDU+ will find any conflicts, but I doubt there are any. Indirect conflicts may also occur if you have mods that add additional interactions to deco objects, they would not show on the towel racks because I have overridden their usual pie menu.

Credits: whoward69 at @picknmixsims who taught me how to edit event trees in animations, @episims for the towel lite mod that inspired this, @gayars who taught me how to repurpose animations between objects and for introducing me to the jope towel, and all you lovely people that encouraged me to post this with your enthusiasm <3

Happy to see some of my remeshes flying out of FreeSo and into other Sim Games!!

Happy New Year! 25th Anniversary Gift from The Sims for The Sims 2, Sims 3 and The Sims 4

Happy New Year! Here's part 2 celebrating The Sims 25th anniversary. I've always loved this bedroom set! Let me know if there's any problems! Info below the cut The Sims collection file for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 can be found on my collection files page: Found Here!

Downloads:

The Sims 25th Anniversary Gift - Happy New Year! For The Sims 2 - SFS For The Sims 3 - SFS For The Sims 4 - SFS

Alt Download - Patreon credits; Joe, BrandonSJ, NoCarbs, Lazy Duchess, @thesims1master Enjoy my work? Consider becoming a Patreon or buying me a coffee!

Pinegulcher Dresser Information: Recreated by Joe. Extracted by TheSims1Master. Mesh edited and converted by me. The Sims 2: Has 3 deco slots. The Sims 3: Create-A-Style enabled for 2nd swatch. 1st swatch uses an overlay for accuracy. Price - §250 Category  - ‘Miscellaneous > Dressers’ Polycount - 1700 Texture Size - 1024x512

Pinegulcher End Table Information: Recreated by Joe. Extracted by TheSims1Master. Mesh edited and converted by me. The Sims 2: Has 9 deco slots. The Sims 3: Create-A-Style enabled for 2nd swatch. 1st swatch uses an overlay for accuracy. Price - §40 Category  - ‘Surfaces > End Tables’ Polycount - 282 Texture Size - 256x256 Cheap Eazzzzze Double Sleeper Information: Recreated by Joe. Extracted by TheSims1Master. Mesh edited and converted by me. The Sims 2: The cheap eazzzzze double sleeper bedding is included.The Sims 3: Create-A-Style enabled for 2nd swatch. 1st swatch uses an overlay for accuracy. Price - §450 Category  - ‘Comfort > Beds’ Polycount - 2732 Texture Size - 1024x1024 Antique Persian Rug Information: Recreated by BrandonSJ. Extracted and converted by me. The Sims 3: Create-A-Style disabled. Price - §8,200 Category  - ‘Decorative > Rugs’ Polycount - 30 Texture Size - 512x512 Torchosteronné Table Lamp Information: Recreated by NoCarbs. Extracted and converted by me. The Sims 3: Create-A-Style enabled for the shade with 2nd swatch. 1st swatch uses an overlay for accuracy. Price - §200 Category  - ‘Lighting > Table Lamps’ Polycount - 1536 Texture Size - 256x256 Torchosteronne Floor Lamp Information: Recreated by NoCarbs. Extracted and converted by me. The Sims 3: Create-A-Style enabled for the shade with 2nd swatch. 1st swatch uses an overlay for accuracy. Price - §350 Category  - ‘Lighting > Floor Lamps’ Polycount - 1536 Texture Size - 256x256 Plushie Mushie Pleasure Chair Information: Recreated by Lazy Duchess. Extracted and converted by me. Regarding the Sims 2 and the Sims 4: Has the functionality of both a dining chair and living chair just like the Sims 1 and the console games, but categorized as a living chair. Use bb.moveobjects on to place in front of a coffee table in The Sims 4. The Sims 3: Fully Create-A-Style enabled. Price - §329 Category  - ‘Comfort > Living Chairs’ Polycount - 638 Texture Size - 512x512

PBK Screenshot Contest Voting

Voting for the Screenshot Contest is now live! Choose your favorite three out of the eleven entries, and the top 5 vote-getters will win. Voting closes Apr 30th, so vote now!

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This is the second upload for the anniversary. Go here for the Plumbob Cake

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Potions A Plenty - Potion Brewing Set

Pulling from most every other set of Sun&Moon for potion ingredients, this set gives the sims the ability to brew various potions that affect moods, skills, life states, aging, pregnancy, health, and a variety of other mostly harmless effects.

The Quick Feature Review/Set Breakdown below the cut.

Download - SFS

View Use/Instruction Manual

The Potion Crafting Bench - The heart of the set itself, the potion bench is where components are stored, prepared, and combined into batches of potions. At this station, sims can do the following.

Practice potion making and brew a total of 56 potions that have varying effects when drank by sims

Earn Logic Skill and Science Enthusiasm

Stock materials

Order Supply Bundles to facilitate quicker potion making

Obtain a Writ of Mastery in potion crafting

Keep a tidy workstation by keeping things clean

A set of “basic” potions, and their ingredients will be considered REQUIRED for function. Do not remove those files. Let the manual guide you.

Access to these is dictated by logic skill level as well as a writ of mastery/Creature Life State/Traits.

This station has 28 decorative slots, as well as a decorative mode to enable/disable effects and an "in use" look at will.

Story Mode Enabled - Skip all the ingredients and steps, just enjoy the end products, or just run the animations on a station for the ease of taking pictures.

*New Feature* - Station Cleanliness. As the station is used, it will obtain dirty points. This dirty level affects the outcomes of potion crafting and increases failure chances. Make sure to keep the cauldron clean to ensure quality products!

*New Feature* - Supply Ordering. For a flat rate, sims can buy a bulk order of various materials needed for any potion. They will be added directly to the station's crafting counts.

All potions can be found in Hobbies/Logic. Complete Danish and Portuguese translations. If you'd like to translate into your native language, please share your strings with us and we'll update the set proper!

Inventory Tools & New Items

Botanical Book - Pretty and useful. Inventory Tool.

Writ of Mastery - Apothecary Version. Inventory Tool.

Crate of Jars - 6 glass jars needed for potion making.

Cauldron Dregs - Waste produced from cleaning the station or failing in potion making.

Bonus Items

Reference Tome - In game recipe book for all potions

Counter Split OMSP - Give maxis counters a chance to hold more things!

Display Shelves - 9 decorative slots, two versions.

Apothecary Todd Cart and Pavilion - Previously released sets bundled into this set; they have been optimized and renamed, please remove the old versions.

Potion Specifics

Potions come in 5 types: Basic, Folk Remedy Potions, Arcane Potions, Creature/Lifestate Potions, and Poison Potions. The more fantastical the potion, the more complex it is to make.

Please be aware that depending on your playstyle you will have to add more files from other sources or you can delete certain files from this set without worry; For example, if you do not play your game with creature life states or custom creature life states, you may delete anything related to those potions, provided it is not used in another “basic” potion.

Potions are NOT recolorable and will not be made so in the future. If you wish to alter the bottle/potion colors yourself, this may be done in the properties/categorized properties tab of each subset txmt in SimPe, using the stdMatDiffCoef line.

Potions Vs. Teas: You will notice that many potions have the same effects as previously released teas from the Quali-Tea set. So what’s the difference? 

Teas are based on cooking and logic skills only. Potions function more on Logic skill level and a Writ of Mastery, OR Witch/Warlock state, and other traits.

Teas are single cup per crafting interactions (except basic hunger teas). Potions will always produce in a batch of 6.

In some cases, Teas require MORE ingredients to make, whereas Potions require LESS ingredients but higher Logic skill and rarer/less natural ingredients.

While potions can have the same effect as a similar tea, more risk is involved with taking them and sims can experience adverse/opposite of intended effects.