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[crispsandkerosene]

The Custom CubeMaps for TS2 Post

You may know that the Sims 2 uses cubemaps to add a reflective effect to certain objects/materials. The details of this are explained in Part 2 of Pixelhate’s ‘Exploring the TXMT’ series.

This document also explains how to make a custom one... but the result is not functional, at least in my all-EPs, all-SPs game. Fortunately, there’s an easy fix:

‘EnvCubes’ are not regular texture images. They contain six different “blocks”/subtextures, one for each side of the cubemap. Thus creating a custom EnvCube involves extracting and renaming one of Maxis’, and replacing the various subtextures. (Unlike SpecularMasks, these don’t mind the DXT1/3/5 formats. Error messages may appear if you import a texture bigger than the existing ones, though. In that case, commit and close the ressource, save the package, and open the ressource again.)

So TL;DR, I made a bunch!

I also made a test object for ease of visualization. Here, it demonstrates Maxis’ “reflectioncubetemplate-envcube” texture with the material’s “stdMatEnvCubeLockedToCamera” parameter set to zero and one respectively. More on that later.

The materials in the following pictures generally have an“stdMatEnvCubeCoef“ parameter of 0.5, 0.5, 0.5; its base texture is flat black.

My first creations: extra recolours of the texture used by most of the game’s metallic cubemaps. The top ball shows Maxis’ “reflectiongold” envcube as a point of comparison.

The middle row contains “MetallicRed”, “MetallicPurple”, “MetallicBlue” and “MetallicGreen”.

The bottom row contains “RoseGold”, “MetallicBrown” and “Gunmetal”.

I’ve also made variations of Maxis’ “reflectionsparking” cubemap (visible left), often used for glass and plastic. The middle texture is “HighContrastSparkling”; the one on the right is “SparseHighlights”.

The same custom envcube, previewed on the urn sculpture. Probably not their best look, tbh.

Now for something quite cool:

With specific textures and the “stdMatEnvCubeLockedToCamera” parameter set to 1, we can achieve a rimlit and/or holographic effect! Here are “RainbowFresnel”, “HoloFresnel” and “Fresnel”.

The spheres don’t really do this effect justice. So here is a demonstration of their “cool holo fabric” potential, gif included. Hopefully no one beats me to making a holo skirt haha. (+ my two reflectionsparking edits on the sides. )

I’ve also fixed up Pixelhate’s own custom envcube, though their texture turned out not to be ideal.

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My test object and all the pictured recolours can be downloaded here on SimFileShare.

The tester is found under Deco/Misc for 1$. The actual envcube textures are found in its various recolour files, but are only referenced by the recolours of other objects. This means that if you delete “EnvcubeTester_recHoloFresnel”, “HnMManequinLongDress_RecHoloEnvCubeLocked“ won’t be able to find the texture it’s supposed to use.

And here is a zip containing these envcubes as individual TXTR ressources ready to be imported into SimPe, as well as a package file containing all of them.

Again, Pixelhate’s documentation explains how to actually use these custom envcubes for your own CC. My last package file can be used as a “pseudo texture repository” as described in their guide.

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And a few last minute tips for creators:

The projected envcube is additively added to the object’s main texture and shading. Its brightness is also dependant on the ambiant lighting, being much duller inside. This means that a dark envcube texture likely won’t have much effect.

Maxis’ cubemap projection is weird. Some of the textures don’t have the orientation you’d expect. I’d recommend extracting the subtextures from “reflectioncubetemplate” and testing out your envcube on my test object if you’re strugging with that.

Making a ‘rimlit’ cubemap only involves creating three textures: ‘back’, ‘front’, and a gradient between those that will be reused by all sides. See my ‘fresnel’ envcubes as a reference.

When using such a ‘rimlit’ envcube, don’t forget to set the “stdMatEnvCubeLockedToCamera” parameter in the material to 1. It won’t look too good otherwise :p

Custom EnvCubes can also be used for clothing and other CaS items with the “SimStandardMaterial”. However, they are a bit pricklier: “##0x1C050000!” has to be added before the texture name in the “stdMatEnvCubeTextureName” parameter. It won’t work if this extra string is not present.

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[keriworld]

I took the texture of some of my favorite sims 2 CC jeans. They look a bit (very) Blurry tho but most of them were created in 2005 ! For the original texture , if you want them for your sims 2 or just for the credit I would like to thank:

Creator From The sims ressources:

Sims2sister

RisingSun

brainchildvn

Kaylinn19

duddlyaaron88

Jordansgirl

Creator From Modthesims

sara_sare

dare2DV8

Kyriaw

And finally

Lianasims2 site , that somehow is still open after all these years! :)

Its just a recolor of the basegame lowrise jeans. I wanted to see what would happen if I would use TS2 texture on sims 4 jeans. Well , I'm a bit disapointed , but also, those are old blurry texture so what did I expected ! Hope some of you guys enjoy them anyway !

:( it's all blurry !

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[crispsandkerosene]

‘Bastian’ Knee-High Boots for Adult Males (TS2)

I ‘harvested’ these boots from a character model from the game LOST ARK, which was extracted and shared by the user :Dim0s: on Pack 3d Models. Cue their title of the ‘Bastian’ boots.

Though I mostly wanted to share these for other creators’ use, I’ve made them into a ‘pantless’/skintight bottom as they might fit into a historical or fantasy game. I’ve borrowed VampireKiss6661‘s “Aris Vest Skirt” texture for the leggings, but the only recolour included is the one pictured.

The mesh (legs included) weight about 1k triangles, and has fat and preg morphs.I’ve remapped the boots to fit onto regular Maxis body textures. They and the legs form a single mesh group, though the alpha bows form a second one.

As always, please message me if I forgot anything. My brain is lowkey a sieve lol.

-> Download at SimFileShare

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[crispsandkerosene]

Interesting discovery: TS2′s StandardMaterial shader can use a texture mask for specular highlights. The relevant parameters are “stdMatSpecMaskTextureEnabled” and “stdMatSpecMaskTextureName”. The texture mask has to be a black and white image stored in the ExtRaw8Bit format.

Here is my test recolour demonstrating its use, on the “Blossoming Heart” sculpture from Uni.

I’ve also included a few recolours demonstrating different values for “stdMatSpecPower” as the specularity parameters are not well known. I’d originally made others with values for “reflectivity“, but that parameter didn’t seem to do anything­. The other specularity-related parameter, “stdMatSpecCoef“, controls the ‘brightness’ and colour of the highlight.

(The specularity parameters are responsible for the plasticky appearance of objects cloned from the fancy base game vase. It can be fixed by changing the values of stdMatSpecPower and stdMatSpecCoef to low numbers.)

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[crispsandkerosene]

I wanted to use the Grandma’s Comfort Soup icon for a recolour and ended up redrawing it in InkScape. idk if this’ll be of use to anyone else, but vector art seems to be popular in the community, so :p

+ PNG and SVG files at SimFileShare

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[crispsandkerosene]

A List of Community Lot Ideas by Careers

Thought this list I came up with a while ago could be useful o/ also I just love creative community lots and I hope it may inspire them.

Other peoples’ lists of ideas: 1, 2.

Sims 2 Careers

Adventurer: - Embassy - Mine/cave/etc. - (Random adventure locations) - Harbor - Ruins - Archeological site - Ship/boat/etc. - Battlefield - Spacecraft launching site - Police station - Secret services’ bureau

Architecture: - Construction site - Construction company’s office - Real estate office - Architect’ office - City hall - Public services office - Home designer’s office

Artist: - Art supplies store - Art studio - Street corner - (Various wedding venues) - Museum - Fashion house - Newspaper redaction office

Athletic : - Stadium/arena - Sport Center - Playing Field - Gymnasium - Olympic installations

Business: - Post office - Office building - Company headquarters - Trade center - Golf course

Criminal: - Unsavory backstreet - Parking lot - Pawnshop - Racetracks - Casino/gaming ring - Bank - Totally not suspicious warehouse - (Whatever place might be targeted by organised thieves) - Mob’s HQ - Lair of evil

Culinary: - Fast food restaurant - Generic restaurant - Fancy restaurant - Chef’s own restaurant - TV studio

Dance: - Gymnasium - Sport center - Theater - Concert hall - Television studio - Film studio - Dance studio - Walk of Fame

Education: - Primary school - Middle school - High school - University - City hall - Public services office - Kindergarten

Entertainment: - Coffee shop - Restaurant - Bar/pub - (various party venues) - Street - Lounge bar - Theater - Medieval/renaissance fair - Film studio - Television studio - Film set - Walk of Fame

Gamer & Game Development: - Arcade - Cybercafé - Online gaming guild HQ - Professional gaming ‘arena’ - Video game studio

Intelligence: - Police station - Street (unsavory or not) - Private detectives’ office - Secret services’ bureau - Forensics Laboratory

Journalism: - Newspaper redaction office - Cybercafé - (Fancy techsmart office building) - High school - Television studio - (Various fields of investigation)

Law: - Law firm - Courthouse - City hall

Law Enforcement: - (Whatever place might need security guards) - Parking lot - Police Academy - Police Station - Forensics Laboratory - Jail/Prison - Superheroes’ league HQ

Medicine: - Hospital - Psychiatric hospital - Clinic - Medical school - Medical laboratory - Nursing home

Military: - Paintball court - Training encampment - Military base - Air base - Spacecraft launching site - Battlefield

Music: - Record store - Music store - Coffee shop - Summer camp - Theater - Stadium/arena - Street/road/subway - Open air show venue - Music/recording studio - Concert hall - (Various wedding venues) - Lounge bar - High school - Walk of Fame

Natural Science: - Laboratory - Harbor - River/lake/etc - On the field sites of research - Nature Center - Botanical garden - ‘Heart of the wilderness’ - University’s department of natural sciences - Mad scientist’s lab

Oceanography: - Harbor - River/lake/etc. - Municipal aquarium - Oceanarium/marine theme park - Nature Center - University’s department of natural sciences - Beach - Boat/ship/etc - ‘Heart of the sea’

Paranormal: - Call center - Newspaper redaction office - Cybercafé - Occultist’s shop - Mysterious tent/caravan/etc. - Paranormal convention - Spooky haunted location - River/lake/etc - Police station - UFO crash site - Church - House of cult

Politics: - City hall - Public services office - Courthouse - Mayor’s house - Political party headquarters

Science: - Laboratory - On the field sites of research - High school - University’s department of natural sciences - Military laboratory - Mad scientist’s lab

Show Business: - Television studio - Film studio - Cinema - Theater - Film set - Walk of Fame Slacker: - Golf course - Gas station - Convenience store - Record store - Cinema - Television studio - Art studio - (Fancy techsmart office building) - (Various party venues) - Pool - Film studio - (Various scenic tour locations)

 Non Sims 2 careers (many of these have been ‘converted’ here: www.modthesims.info/browse.php?f=229&showType=1&gs=0&showAll=1&u=2067321)

Animal Care: - Street - Beauty salon - Farm - Municipal aquarium - Oceanarium/marine theme park - Zoo - Nature center - Film studio - Veterinary Clinic - Theater

Astronomy: - Observatory - Air base - Spacecraft launching site - Stargazing field - Planetarium - Laboratory - University department of sciences - UFO crash site - Salvaged alien spacecraft

Circus: - Funfair/carnival - Travelling circus - Fancy circus - Sideshow - Gymnasium

Counter Culture: - Street - Headshop - Paranormal convention - Art studio - ‘Artsy’ warehouse - Public garden - Meadow - Massage parlour - Gymnasium - Sport center - New age healing center - Open air show venue - ‘Heart of the Revolution’

Fashion: - Department store - Fashion studio - Film studio - Television studio - Art studio - Fashion house - Fashion runway - Walk of Fame - Newspaper redaction office - Beauty salon

Ghost Hunter: - Spooky haunted house - Spooky haunted venues - Church - Cemetery - Mausoleum - Hospital’s morgue - Mad scientist’s laboratory - Paranormal convention - Ghostsbusters’ HQ

Hacker: - Cybercafé - Video game studio - Call center - (Fancy techsmart office building) - Public services office - Information Overlord’s den

Swindler: - Street - Car dealership - Television studio - Call center - Inventor’s warehouse of questionable legitimacy - ‘Bank’ - Pawnshop - Real estate office - Trade center

Xtreme: - Street - Gymnasium - Sports center - Olympic installations - Beach - River/lake/etc - Mountain/cliff/etc - Racetracks - Air base - Newspaper redaction office - (random adventure locations) - Garage - Secret services’ bureau

TS3 part time jobs: - Bookstore - Library - TV studio - Film studio - Grocery store - Convenience store - Mausoleum - Office building - Spa - Beauty salon

Service NPCs’ careers

Animal Control & Pet Adoption Service: - Public services office - Animals’ shelter - Local service sims’ office - Pound

Bartender: - Pub/bar/etc - Restaurant

Bulter: - Local service sims’ office

Caterer: - Caterer’s kitchen - Restaurant

DJ: - Club - Pub/bar/etc - Various party venues

Exterminator: - Local service sims’ office

Firefighter: - Public services office - Fire station

Food Delivery Person: - Fast food - Restaurant - Grocery store

Gardener: - Local service sims’ office - Public garden - Botanical garden

Maid: - Local service sims’ office

Matchmaking services: - Mysterious tent/caravan/etc. - Paranormal convention

Nanny: - Local service sims’ office

Repairman: - Local service sims’ office - Garage

Social Worker: - Public services office - Orphanage - Halfway house - Psychiatric hospital

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