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i've spent roughly three hours on finding out how io's retexture of merida hair would look like on anto's naomi mesh and tbh. i didn't like the original super smooth texture of naomi but i thought maybe the shape could be used creatively. but now when comparing it side by side i like merida's shape way more. both hairs are made of idk, several flat planes and the idea of volume is mostly conveyed through textures. it reminds me a lot of those old meshes for curly hairs, like myos 15 and 14... anyway i've mangled io's textures quite a bit, edited the alpha, spent some time tidying it up and i'm not sure what for.

anyway this was picked randomly. had 0 ideas on what to do and everything bores me but this kind of pointless project hooked me in lol.

#wip

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looks like i've solved the jump bug yay. i forgot to put easy inventory check in my downloads (and i also had a number of conflicting mod versions). now i just have to move back in the rest of my mods and see if it breaks the game.

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It's a dead man's party Who could ask for more? Everybody's comin', Leave your body at the door

#reblog #the sims 2

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hcdu+ is good... i thought it will just show me hack conflicts but it turns out i had a bunch of conflicting default replacements and i even put in clothes with standalone textures and repo'd versions. there are even multiples of the same package bcs i guess other programms didn't detect them. there's so much i have to sift through lol...

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he's so cute lol

#omg i love him

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in a period where i could really use playing ts2. so i'm trying to fix my jumping sims bug and it's caused by both my folders with traits and with hacks. will have to 50-50 this one further.

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MOTHERLODE part 1- Bodyshape Undies & Swimwear (a collaboration with @kaylynn-langerak)

Did I mention I've been busy in my time away from Tumblr? Because boy oh boy I have been BUSY. I made other stuff and posted it on Dreamwidth before this, but that will come later because I absolutely could not. wait to share this 😄

This is a project that started in October but got put on the backburner for Halloween and an Advent I did for my friends on Discord. Then Jane and I desided to collab on it, since we have similar taste and she uses some of the same bodyshapes I do (if you like my CC and haven't checked out hers, please do!) And it just kept snowballing into more and more stuff, and we figured we should pause for a bit and start sharing.

I'm now using 6 bodyshapes in my game: Classic Pinup, Voluptuous Gal, Dummy Thicc, Renaissance Gal, Momma Lisa, and Trans Momma Lisa. @letomills has shared a ton of awesome undies & swimwear for DT, ML, & TrML, but I had nothing for the other shapes yet that suit my style, and the available meshes for them have… 3D anatomy bits. Now don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the realism… on NAKED sims. And I'm sure there are others that agree, plus people who'd like to use bodyshapes but prefer blockfeet. So I took it upon myself to create a set of new meshes, and expand on Leto's. I bring you:

NEW (smooth) undies/swim meshes for CPU, Vol Gal, & Ren Gal, with blockfeet/Maxis hands, sexyfeet/Maxis hands, or sexyfeet/smooth hands

Leto's DT, ML, & TrML meshes with sexyfeet/smooth hands option

4 sets of swimwear & 3 sets of undies on these meshes

As I do now as usual with multi-shape clothing, all files are BSOK'd (with non-BSOK'd option for Maxis shapes), and repo'd/texture-referenced to a required bundle labeled TEXTURES so you can keep whichever recolors you want for each shape. (I know there's a repo utility available now, but I prefer this way so there's no required "master" set). Just the shapes I did are pictured in the previews, but original AF versions and any that Leto did already are included and repo'd when applicable.

Please note that in my previews, my Trans Momma Lisa sims have skins made for their bodyshape and thus have the appropriate (AF) breast texture. I make bodyshape versions of skins on a per-sim basis for my game, but Leto has some here that I highly recommend.

And this is just part 1. It's the biggest part, but they all use the same set of meshes so I'm putting them together. Jane also uses DT, Ren Gal, and ML, so some of my sets don't include these shapes, but when she posts them I will be editing the post to link to hers.

Long post is long! Sorry, but kinda not sorry 😂

Basic Undies & Swimwear - Meshes

First things first: You're gonna need meshes! I decided that from now on meshes I use for multiple shapes for multiple projects will be uploaded once and linked in my posts as a "Mesh Pack." That way I won't have to include 18 different meshes if I make something for all 6 shapes with all 3 hands/feet options, and it saves me file storage space 😅 AF recolors won't need a mesh unless otherwise specified. So here's the one for just regular undies & swimwear. Includes 3 options (choose ONE) for CPU, Vol Gal, DT, Ren Gal, ML, & TrML:

Blockfeet & Maxis hands (1948 polys)

Sexyfeet & Maxis hands (polys vary slightly, 6526-6582)

Sexyfeet & smooth hands (polys vary slightly, 8334-8390)

These have all morphs, as do all other meshes in this post. Comparison (shown with sexyfeet & smooth hands):

DOWNLOAD Bodyshape Undies & Swim Mesh Pack SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Credits: DT, ML, & TrML meshes: LetoMills (smooth hands added by me) CPU, REN, & VOL meshes: me (with thanks to Digi for her help 😊) Sexyfeet: Bloom Smooth hands: Tenshii~Akari Bodyshapes: Warlokk, Digi, Frannysims, Kalux WSOs: Digi, Lifa, Kalux

And now, the swimwear sets:

Our Lips Are Sealed - AAS Retro Swimsuit Recolors

This is a brand new set by me! I've been wanting to recolor this forever. There are 12 recolors - 4 solid colors and 8 patterns. I solved the potential boob stretchage issue by keeping the top part solid.

Includes Maxis AF & all 6 shapes. Additional previews: DT/VOL/CPU | ML/REN/TrML

DOWNLOAD Our Lips Are Sealed SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Credits: Textures: All About Style, PSD by ZeroDark Patterns: -Casper Spell -VictoriaBat -Weirdy @ Colourlovers -banozac, byre_wilde, reinekke, & sugargrave @ Spoonflower Color actions: BerryNooboos, Furbyq, Pooklet

3t2 Tie Bikini

This is a set I did a while back (2020 was 4 years ago??) There are 20 colors, 19 of Pooklet's unnaturals and black.

Includes:

Original AF & TF version

CPU, VOL, REN, & TrML (new)

Leto's ML version (please note their original files can't be used with my texture bundle because they used a different repo method)

DT was also done by Leto but they used a mesh with different mapping and thus can't share textures. Additional previews: CPU | VOL | REN | TrML

DOWNLOAD 3t2 Tie Bikini SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Credits: 3t2 conversion: Rented-Space Recolors: me Color actions: Pooklet

Jane's 80s Swimsuits

Did I mention Jane and I have similar taste in Sim fashion? These come in 6 designs, Vol Gal has some pattern distortion but that was unavoidable and it's not bad enough to stop me from using them, at least.

Includes:

Original AF version

CPU, VOL, & TrML (new)

Leto's DT version

Jane is doing Ren Gal & ML, link coming soon! Additional previews: CPU | VOL | TrML

DOWNLOAD 80s Swimsuits SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Charlotte-Helen's "The Swimming Dead"

Spooky scary skeletons! This one has just 3 recolors:

Includes:

Original AF version

CPU, VOL, & TrML (new)

Leto's DT version

Jane is doing Ren Gal & ML, link coming soon!

DOWNLOAD The Swimming Dead SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Next, some undies!

Love is the Pulse of the Stars

This set is hands down one of my favorite things I've ever made for TS2. Since there were so many recolors originally, I did the ones I use the most - the galaxy prints, gradients, and opalescent. I'm not sure if I'm going to do the solid colors at some point but this is labeled "Part 1" just in case.

Includes:

Original AF version (NOTE: This one only is on Martini's full body pushup mesh, which you can get here!)

CPU, VOL, DT, REN, & TrML (new)

Leto's ML version (please note their original files can't be used with my texture bundle because they used a different repo method)

Additional previews: REN/CPU/VOL | DT/TrML

DOWNLOAD Love is the Pulse of the Stars SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Credits: Textures: Bruno Opalescent pattern: peacoquettedesigns @ Spoonflower Galaxy images from various Internet sources Color actions: Pooklet

Bruno's "Wild Thing"

One of those things I've had in my game since god knows when that I still use the heck out of. I don't care what people say about old CC, Bruno's lingerie still looks amazing in my game in 2024 and I will die on that hill. Anyway, there's 5 recolors:

Includes:

Original AF version Martini's AF pushup version (which was missing a color so I added it, and again, get the mesh here)

CPU, VOL, DT, REN, & TrML (new)

Leto's ML version (please note their original files can't be used with my texture bundle because they used a different repo method)

Additional previews: CPU/VOL/DT | TrML/REN

DOWNLOAD Wild Thing SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Veranka's "Funky Time"

One more bra & panty set! This one has 3 recolors:

Includes:

Original AF  version

CPU & VOL (new)

Leto's ML & TrML versions (please note their original files can't be used with my texture bundle because they used a different repo method)

Jane is doing Ren Gal & ML, link coming soon!

DOWNLOAD Funky Time SFS | Google Drive | Mega

And that's it for Part 1! 😮‍💨 I hope maybe someone will find something they like here and possibly be interested in using bodyshapes if they weren't before? Bodyshapes are wonderful and while it means more catalog space, I love the way my sims look now!

#i love the retro and 80s onepiece swimsuits so much... very nice color schemes #custom content #the sims 2 #reblog

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#cool lots

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Aoife's Maxis Match Face Templates UPDATED.

Now less gendered, more consistent between ages, and with baby faces! More info and a bunch of pictures below.

Finally, after months, I have finished these. A long time ago now, I'd made my original templates but didn't really pay any mind to how gendered faces really are, and how inconsistent they are between each age. I love the Maxis faces, I just wanted them to look a little less lumpy, and to replace ones that I felt were redundant. Basically, I hated that with any given template, I couldn't really tell what a sim was going to look like as an adult because every face looked different at each stage!

So today I bring to you my less gendered Maxis Match templates, where I have chosen which face I felt was more iconic and matched the other gender with it, and then made every age look more like that template (including baby faces).

Martin Ruben can be a good example:

Yeah, sure, the eyes are the same, but that's pretty much where the likeness ends. A lot of the templates will do this, and some of the female faces suffered for it (jaws were outlawed on females in 2004, didn't you know?)

They aren't perfect but they're miles better than the originals! I also think they bring a lot more variety to faces, because I did notice that a lot of the templates would use face parts from entirely different templates! Face 2's eyes and face 1's nose are really popular, as well as yeeting jaws and chins out the window.

Faces 1 - 4

Faces 5 - 8

Faces 9 - 12

Faces 13 - 16

Faces 17 - 20

Faces 21 - 24

Faces 25 - 27

An example between AF and TF

and the same face as a child and toddler.

If you noticed in some of the pictures, the ears clipped through a few hairs, and that's because I also took the liberty of adding custom ear shapes to almost every face. No, it didn't occur to me to change the hairstyle I picked for photos until I was already on face 18 and didn't want to start over.

These aren't perfect, and maybe someday I'll go over them again to change more minute details, but for now, I'm very happy with how they turned out! Please let me know if there are any issues, I triple checked everything but I probably missed something somewhere.

Download || Mediafire Box

Credits: Meowingcookie on MTS for their baby face templates. I pretty much just used their baby faces with some tweaks to better match my changes.

@withlovefromsimtown for giving me the idea in the first place. I love their faces!

#custom content #love the idea! will try them out #reblog

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veronaville teens (the real zillennials romeo and juliette tbh)

#art

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your average gay suburban zombie fam

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Because you can't save progress on them, I feel like someone should write timeloop horror for Tutorial Joe and Tutorial Jane.

#this framing captures how disquieting the sims 2 tutorial feels #it freaked me out tbh when i played it and i hate thinking abt them as. sims..

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I honestly ADORE androgynous Servos, but always felt weird seeing them walk around in the buff. So I decided to dress Criquette's WHT-FC28 default, in some appropriate androgynous clothes. This uses the work of many different people, I'll try to keep the description brief, but I've put a full list of credits/links under the cut.

The face is mostly Criquette's, but with whites ears & eyelids by Lilith, taken from Epi's edit. It comes only in the New/Matte version. I used the meshes from Amaryll's original, but removed the teeth/tongues from the head to reduce poly count, & added a version with the Maxis Warlock hat for magic Servos. The eyes are TechnoAngel's Cyborg Eyes, converted for TS2 by Gryning. Vampires will have red eyes, yellow for Werewolves, & purple for Witches.

For the everyday outfit, I mashed together YanderePlum's pants, with Letomills' version the AxA Adrian top, using Epi's texture. The dress is a shoe-swap of Lifa's Retro Dress, with Elexis' Lola Pumps. The suit is by Magpie, with texture from Amaryll. In the spirit of Androgyny, I've marked both formal outfits as unisex, so if you unlock hidden outfits you can use both no matter how your Servo is initialised.

A version of SummerGlau's uninitialsed servo is also included, since it makes sense for a freshly built Servo to be unclothed. It requires the main default to work, but uses a separate face texture, with the eyes recoloured to appear switched off.

I've also included a hat free version, for people who prefer completely uniform Servos, & a body only version for people who want clothed Servos, prefer a different face texture.

DOWNLOAD LINK

Forbidden Fruit Servo Defaults

Credits

Amaryll for the original androgynous Servo default, & the suit texture.

SummerGlau for the original uninitiased Servo defaults.

@criquette-was-here for the WHT-FC28 default.

@episims for their edited default, & shirt recolour.

@gryning for the conversion of TechnoAngel's eyes.

@letomills for the androgynous version of the original 4t2 conversion on AxA's top by @platinumaspiration.

@yandereplumsim for her Let Me Fix You pants.

@withlovefromsimtown for their Retro Dress.

@executables-sims for the bottom only version of Elexis' Lola Pumps by Martini.

@magpieplayssims for their suit, & @theboldandthebeautifulsims for their customs suits with Amaryll's textures.

#i love seeing the variety of servo replacements... #custom content #the sims 2 #reblog

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Misomoso's Feb Sweater M2F

Well, this is one of the things I dug up from my long-forgotten folders. The mesh (Trapping's TSS top edit) was converted to AF by Eir a while ago, however, I edited the mesh quite a bit, and ended up making a new mesh I couldn't find where it was reuploaded anyway. And copy-pasted these sweater recolors on them, because I like them! Yeah, that's it.

They're for AF, TF, and EF, they have the appropriate morphs. They come in the original 16 colors (swatch is stolen). You can choose if you want them repo'd to the AM files (that you can find here), or not :)

Download Misomoso Feb Sweater M2F Repo'd - Alternate

Download Misomoso Feb Sweater M2F Standalone - Alternate

#the sims 2 #reblog #custom content

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@frauhupfner 4t2 SP18 Jacket Collar Open recolors

When I saw this fanart, I knew I had to remake it 😂 Fortunately, we already had almost exactly the same mesh! I edited it a bit though (added morphs most importantly!) AM only, 6 recolors. The mesh undershirt texture is by Berrynooboos, patterns are from Freepik and Vecteezy :)

Download - Alternate

#ough.. good fit #the sims 2 #reblog #custom content

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Some TS1 Heads AI Remastered

#the first redhead reminded me so much of Franka Potente as Lola from Run Lola Run #also loved the brunette with assymetric hair... #the sims 1

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i usually make my own sims from scratch but @annachibisims made this absolutely adorable sim that I knew I wanted in my underwater hood. she created her as a koi fish alien but I have re-imagined her as a tamasaba goldfish, and accordingly named her goldie

#excellent... #the sims 2 #reblog