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Title: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 17, 22:50:43
Oh yes, I clicked New Thread. You may cat me to the full extent of your disdain if it is deemed appropriate  :P

Well, the GoSlings have one of these and there's a lot of awesome free items out there, as evidenced in the "Free Content Pwns" thread. If we're going to slam paysite crap, why not advertise freesite shinies?

Here, I'll start:

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/46b027d6.jpg)

There we go, shiny steampunk Harley (http://sim-vention.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2110&highlight=steampunk) from Simvention. I've had this for a while and I still drool over it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2008 December 17, 22:55:06
Oh, that is exquisite!

Someone took a great deal of time to do that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 17, 23:00:30
I have been in love with macarossi's irises (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=195057) for forever now. I nearly *ahem* squeed myself silly when I saw that nymphy made recolors! (http://www.noukiesims2.net/tiny/index.php?PHPSESSID=oa4ros6im09fam7uhrhccu3391&topic=429.0) It's funny to get so excited about some recolors of a nearly insignificant item, but I really love that flower mesh.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 17, 23:05:38
nymphy made recolors! (http://www.noukiesims2.net/tiny/index.php?PHPSESSID=oa4ros6im09fam7uhrhccu3391&topic=429.0)

SQUEE!!!
I knew this thread was a good idea. Love those!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: kenmtl on 2008 December 17, 23:11:04
I think this thread's a really good idea. But then again, I thought that about the other Prettiest Freesite Creation thread too.

Just sayin'.





Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 17, 23:23:00
I think this thread's a really good idea. But then again, I thought that about the other Prettiest Freesite Creation thread too.

I knew I'd seen one of these around here before. Went two pages back before starting this one and didn't spot it though, so I figured maybe it was time to give it another chance. It got me those pretty flower recolours in any case, so I'm happy  ;D

Here's another one I really love, the Ocean House Hotel:

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/b6170049.jpg)

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=2805.0
I guess this is only really impressive if you've played the game, but damn that is accurate. I swear she got every little detail right (and I should know, I've played that game about 30 times, no joke). That must've taken ages to do. Very impressive.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round 2 (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 17, 23:26:05
I love the sweeping stair they used - might have to find that mesh.  So disappointed in the M&G ones.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: Miikan on 2008 December 17, 23:27:40
I love the thread already  ;D
Here are links to apartaments made by Danuta720, there is a lot of pictures :D
http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=5432
http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=5284

I like the whole site. It's in Polish and English and you will find there few creators you know from other sites like Modthesims 2


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round 2 (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 17, 23:33:53
I love the sweeping stair they used - might have to find that mesh.  So disappointed in the M&G ones.

They're by Arenia13 but apparently she took down all her stuff at MTS2 and I have no idea where to find her now. But they're included so you can always pick them out of the package I guess.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 17, 23:54:45
Or check the graveyard - and that first apartment - oh my god, I'm so imspired.  I've been wanting to make something more euro looking for my new neighborhood and that's just lovely.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2008 December 18, 03:50:42
Argh! As if my download folder weren't big enough already! Curse you, Devilfish!

Also, do you want recolors of nearly every Maxis object in dozens of shades? Piggi's Sims (http://www.piggis-sims.net/) has them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: EmilyTwitch on 2008 December 18, 04:01:36
Isn't Blacky's Sims 2 Zoo a paysite?

Piggi's has an announcement on the front page saying that everyone should support it.  :-\


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: Darqstar on 2008 December 18, 05:47:04
I have been in love with macarossi's irises (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=195057) for forever now. I nearly *ahem* squeed myself silly when I saw that nymphy made recolors! (http://www.noukiesims2.net/tiny/index.php?PHPSESSID=oa4ros6im09fam7uhrhccu3391&topic=429.0) It's funny to get so excited about some recolors of a nearly insignificant item, but I really love that flower mesh.

I have to say though, that those recolors are magnificent.  Nymphy is a genius with those textures. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SimARR on 2008 December 18, 06:04:30
Isn't Blacky's Sims 2 Zoo a paysite?

Piggi's has an announcement on the front page saying that everyone should support it.  :-\

Yes, its a paysite, but many also consider it the *official* German site, just like we have MTS2 as our *official* site for the English language.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 18, 07:12:36
Okay, I am officially loving this advent calendar (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=438). It's got clutter! But it's better than clutter! It's shoes (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=445), shoes (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=450), shoes (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=529), shoes (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=540), shoes (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=551), and MOAR SHOES (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=566)! But even better than shoes on the floor is... well, I'll let you see for yourself (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=500).  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 18, 10:51:26
Hey, that's a very nifty idea. Kielen is great. Look at all those shoes... *drool*

But even better than shoes on the floor is... well, I'll let you see for yourself (http://kieda.net/wp/?page_id=500).  ;D

 :D Awesome. *snags*

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/82c229de.png)

http://emosims.org/category/genetics/skintones/
I love this zombie skintone. I'm always looking for horror/fantasy/weird stuff and this one is just so well-made, I'm going to look into making it my zombie default. Emosims has some great skins.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 18, 10:53:30
Zombie skintones make me squirm. Dunno why.

Pretties!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311366
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311356

I really like the look of the second one. Just wish it wasn't so huge.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Obnoxicon on 2008 December 18, 11:00:22
Wow, those shoes are great! Perfect for sim feet addicts (I know a few ;))
This thread can't be good for my d/l folder  ;D

Eyecolor fanatics rejoice--Shady over at MTS2 has made a beautiful set of sparkling eyes (http://"http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=306892"):
(http://i42.tinypic.com/fmq6w1.jpg)
(More from her over at MTS2 (http://"http://modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1603428"))


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dorquemada on 2008 December 18, 11:46:38
Ren's Circonflex skintones:  (http://rensim.com/details.php?file=188)

(http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/4923/4p2kpw3ls4.jpg)

Not only the skins look smooth, velvety and non-oily, they make even Good Ol' Face Template 8 aka Gorillaface Fishlips look somewhat comely.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: deelink on 2008 December 18, 12:22:14
Oh I love those skintones dorque! They are just super awesome. I think they should be a definite staple in every game :P
But yeah, they are very photoshopped looking, but in my Utopia, zits/spots don't exist, so nyah! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2008 December 18, 12:25:27
Except they're from a paysite. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 18, 12:30:37
Houses are gorgeous, MissB! But how can you not love zombies? (http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/zombiervmp.gif)

Cala - I'm confused. I thought they were a paysite, too, but the Booty says this: rensims-freebuthostedbyrequest. Really, I'm confused.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anouk on 2008 December 18, 12:32:34
It's a file share friendly paysite. Isn't it a hoot?  ;D But anyway, still a paysite.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: deelink on 2008 December 18, 12:41:41
I probably have them in my game through a file sharing session, I never weeded out.
I'm having a faux pas week, month, year. My mouth with my foot in it, let me show you it. Oh and whether Ren is pay or not is irrelevant, it's just stupid that I forgot where they came from. Research always sounds like the best idea in hindsight  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dorquemada on 2008 December 18, 12:48:31
Oh, my bad then. I saw that 'fileshare-friendly' label on the page + never came across any payfile there so I thought it's good.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2008 December 18, 13:00:34
It's a file share friendly paysite. Isn't it a hoot?  ;D But anyway, still a paysite.

Yeah - Nouk explains it well.  Unusual case, so hence much confusion.

Oh, my bad then. I saw that 'fileshare-friendly' label on the page + never came across any payfile there so I thought it's good.

Rensims allows sharing the files, but still charges for them.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ugly_duck on 2008 December 18, 13:27:54
Actually, Ren herself shares those files, if you ask her at N99.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: jilly on 2008 December 18, 16:12:05
I didn't see a pay section  :-[


(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q186/jilly4/simstuff/hpscrib.jpg)

I love this crib.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311395



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2008 December 18, 16:52:25
Those Ren skins are nice. Honestly, if they want to make you go running all over the internet and oblige you to send emails just to get their precious goodies, meh. I'll get what I need somewhere else, danke.

This is how it's done:  Pixelhate (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=242442)
Great stuff for the urbanites in da house. As witnessed here (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/19658330/347686719.jpg) and here (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/19658330/347686717.jpg). Also thoughtfully added are DYI templates and instruction manuals.

Of equal great quality: Gelydh (http://www.clubcrimsyn.com/)
Some broken shit to go with your graffiti, here (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/19658330/347687723.jpg) und here (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/19658330/347687725.jpg).

I approve!



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round 2 (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2008 December 18, 17:04:24
I love the sweeping stair they used - might have to find that mesh.  So disappointed in the M&G ones.

They're by Arenia13 but apparently she took down all her stuff at MTS2 and I have no idea where to find her now. But they're included so you can always pick them out of the package I guess.

Arenaria is putting her stuff up for free here:

http://n99forumpaks.djssims.com/index.php (http://n99forumpaks.djssims.com/index.php)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find
Post by: Zazazu on 2008 December 18, 17:45:23
I have been in love with macarossi's irises (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=195057) for forever now. I nearly *ahem* squeed myself silly when I saw that nymphy made recolors! (http://www.noukiesims2.net/tiny/index.php?PHPSESSID=oa4ros6im09fam7uhrhccu3391&topic=429.0) It's funny to get so excited about some recolors of a nearly insignificant item, but I really love that flower mesh.
I'd nominate everything Macarossi. No idea how I didn't discover them until just six months ago. His/her build items are ingenius. I especially like the decorative roof edgings (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=185166).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Jonesi on 2008 December 18, 17:54:12
Oh no yes, not another best finds thread, these things kill my downloads folder!  :)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2008 December 18, 17:55:15
Vera Marina's GORGEOUS Marilyn Monroe here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=250645).
And i recommend you to get a look in her profile, it's full of GORGEOUS sims (for those who don't know her, obviously :D)

(edited cuz' i didn't know how to hyperlink ;D)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsrocks on 2008 December 18, 20:04:58
Jilly, that cot is gorgeous!

I absolutely love the independent expressions windows expansion set by MaryLou at modthesims2 Here (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=204488).
That's the link to the first part of it anyway.

I use the windows in all my houses, they rock!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2008 December 18, 20:09:19
Isn't Blacky's Sims 2 Zoo a paysite?

Piggi's has an announcement on the front page saying that everyone should support it.  :-\

Is it? Piggi's isn't a paysite though, so the recommendation stands. Since I found it, I now have matching doors and windows, finally.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 18, 23:17:55
Blacky Sims 2 Zoo is a paysite. Piggi's is not. Piggi has even allowed The Sims Cave to share/host some of her items to help with bandwidth. I guess this brings us to a sticky situation:

Do we support freesites that support paysites?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 18, 23:34:07
I absolutely love the independent expressions windows expansion set by MaryLou at modthesims2 Here (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=204488).

I use those windows a lot, too! Love them. There are a lot of great expander sets for Maxis doors and windows, my game is full of them.
I have these ones here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=300198), here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=297734), and here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=296632), plus fway's awesomeness here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307022) and here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307480). I now officially have a ton of windows and doors, and it is freaking sweet!

Edit:
Do we support freesites that support paysites?

They are free, and that matters. If you think about it, MTS2 allows OpenAssJack and others from teh ebil soul-sucking place to upload free stuff (obviously intended to lure in new monies), but we don't hate on them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 18, 23:46:35
Though MTS2 did stop the posting paysite stuff in pictures, and nothing from TSR can be used in case the creator becomes an FA and the stuff stoped being free.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 18, 23:50:01
Though MTS2 did stop the posting paysite stuff in pictures, and nothing from TSR can be used in case the creator becomes an FA and the stuff stoped being free.

They did. If you report a picture when any pay item in it, they will remove it.

Do we support freesites that support paysites?

They are free, and that matters. If you think about it, MTS2 allows OpenAssJack and others from teh ebil soul-sucking place to upload free stuff (obviously intended to lure in new monies), but we don't hate on them.

That's what I think, but I am still rather curious.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: EmilyTwitch on 2008 December 19, 00:58:25
I dunno, I'm slightly less inclined to go to a site that supports paysites, but since they're all free I guess its not so much of a big deal.  :-\ Whatever. Recolours are great.

I think my download folder is going to explode.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 19, 01:05:15
Do we support freesites that support paysites?

Oh God, I remember the heated debate we had over this way back when in FFSS and trust me, once you start blurring the line and taking people's intentions and personal opinions into concideration, there's no end to the discussion. Pay is pay, free is free and that's all there's to it. We tried to have a bunch of categories taking links on freesites and such into account and it was such a mess, I really think it can't be done. If a site has no content that needs to be paid for in some way, it's a freesite. If it has, it' a paysite. I like the simplicity of that because I've been on the slippery slope. It's unpleasant.

Anyway...

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/a291b5e8.jpg)
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7964.0

I love these sims so much. You've all probably seen them but if anyone hasn't... Well, here they are. I fart hearts at Neithan for making these.  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2008 December 19, 02:19:40
the "color in the sky" hack at Gos,Best thing ever, i use it all the time! not the better preview,but the others disappeared from the site.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/denialalice/mysimsstuff/snapshot_95dc8c66_95e32170.jpg)

edit: here is the link! http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6243.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6243.0)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2008 December 19, 02:38:56
aeris you might wanna post a link for that; some of us are lazy.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CJane on 2008 December 19, 02:42:46
aeris you might wanna post a link for that; some of us are lazy.

I was a little less lazy than usual...and I love this! Thanks for the heads up.

It's here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6243.0).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2008 December 19, 02:42:57
Do you have a link to that, maybe??

ETA: D'oh! Ninja'd TWICE! :D My download folder hates all of you equally. I'm loving it!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: heartless on 2008 December 19, 04:42:39
I'd like to nominate these lovely lolita dresses by Gabihime.
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=282760 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=282760)
I've used them on multiple sims. The pattern on them is just too pretty. They look great in-game.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 19, 04:58:03
I love this thread.

And these creations by jon119. Beautiful, animated basegame fountains: http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=310972

As well as his gorgeous ornamental tombstones: http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=304880


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2008 December 19, 05:04:54
Do we support freesites that support paysites?

They are free, and that matters. If you think about it, MTS2 allows OpenAssJack and others from teh ebil soul-sucking place to upload free stuff (obviously intended to lure in new monies), but we don't hate on them.

Yeah I agree - I've often debated this when putting up links to other sites.  But while I don't tend to use freesite stuff if they support paysites, I don't think we can make a distinction on the "right type" of freesites - free is free.  It would be nice if they moved in exclusive circles, so there was no crossover, but we can be content to focus only on destroying paysites.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 19, 06:25:50
Do we support freesites that support paysites?

They are free, and that matters. If you think about it, MTS2 allows OpenAssJack and others from teh ebil soul-sucking place to upload free stuff (obviously intended to lure in new monies), but we don't hate on them.

Yeah I agree - I've often debated this when putting up links to other sites.  But while I don't tend to use freesite stuff if they support paysites, I don't think we can make a distinction on the "right type" of freesites - free is free.  It would be nice if they moved in exclusive circles, so there was no crossover, but we can be content to focus only on destroying paysites.

Okay, so my understanding is it is okay to link to piggi's then.  :) Thanks guys.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 19, 07:18:18
the "color in the sky" hack at Gos,Best thing ever, i use it all the time!
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6243.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6243.0)

OHAY! I use that in my avi! It is pretty darn spenticular. And in that thread she links to Spookymuffin's light mod, which back when danicast first posted, too. It works so much better than GunMod's for me. And you can grab it here! (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7999.0)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2008 December 19, 08:24:14
Does anyone know Jaydee's sims animboxes?
I searched a long time before finding these and it could be useful for stories/pictures! It's poses boxes,there is one for each EP plus a special one. Not really a pretty creation since it's only animations, but well.
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g295/_jaydee/s3.jpg)
http://www.jd-movies.com/moviemakinghelp.php (http://www.jd-movies.com/moviemakinghelp.php)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Obnoxicon on 2008 December 19, 09:31:31
Jaydee's boxes are a must-have. I use them for storytelling and other purposes.

mouseyblue over at GoS has made an extravagant 7-set eyeset (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0)! Reccomended for their glassy and fantasy-ish looks.

EDIT: Fixed the link. Hope it works now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2008 December 19, 09:39:32
Speaking of GOS..

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8552.0

They're beautiful pencil skirts for your simmies. I wear pencil skirts all the time, so my self sim will be pleased.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2008 December 19, 09:51:00
0.0 very nice, CIAM. Don't know how I missed them. I'm a big GOS fan.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2008 December 19, 10:34:53
Jaydee's boxes are a must-have. I use them for storytelling and other purposes.

mouseyblue over at GoS has made an extravagant 7-set eyeset (http://"http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0")! Reccomended for their glassy and fantasy-ish looks.

Obnoxicon: the link is not working, i think you added an extra "http"...
Anyways, here it is extravagant 7-set eyese]http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0"]extravagant 7-set eyese (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0")

great set,btw!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2008 December 19, 12:57:55
Jaydee's boxes are a must-have. I use them for storytelling and other purposes.

mouseyblue over at GoS has made an extravagant 7-set eyeset (http://"http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0")! Reccomended for their glassy and fantasy-ish looks.

Obnoxicon: the link is not working, i think you added an extra "http"...
Anyways, here it is extravagant 7-set eyese]http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0"]extravagant 7-set eyese (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0")

great set,btw!

Awww - you're both having link issues.  Here's how to do it:

Code:
[url=http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0]YOUR TEXT HERE[/url]


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2008 December 19, 16:39:52
Speaking of GOS..

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8552.0

They're beautiful pencil skirts for your simmies. I wear pencil skirts all the time, so my self sim will be pleased.

/ahem

*SQUEEEE!!!!*

My downloads folder is begging for you guys to stop. Or is it saying "more?" I don't know, I don't speak folderese.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2008 December 19, 17:02:29
Quote
Awww - you're both having link issues.  Here's how to do it:

Code:
[url=http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3573.0]YOUR TEXT HERE[/url]

Cala, i'm running to hide my shame! the link seems to work for me,even if it was awfully weird


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2008 December 19, 17:06:09
Cala, i'm running to hide my shame! the link seems to work for me,even if it was awfully weird

No shame.  :-* We're not born knowing html or bbcode.  It did work, just all your bits were out of order. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 19, 17:24:59
For those who love clutter:

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=4362.0
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6927.0
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=5441.0
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3061.0
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=4146.0

And oh gosh, there is a ton more on GOS.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 19, 18:22:32
Missbonbon. That clutter is a jewel of a find.

I present one of my favorite bathroom sets: http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=241044

macarossi's been mentioned before, and is already a frequent topic in the paysite pwning thread, so here's just one of the classics again: The Pond in July.
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=237912

Ren's Circonflex skintones:  (http://rensim.com/details.php?file=188)

Not only the skins look smooth, velvety and non-oily, they make even Good Ol' Face Template 8 aka Gorillaface Fishlips look somewhat comely.  ;D

I also love skins that are blended, smooth, and not greasy looking. Seeing as rensim's free status is up for debate, I offer these by the incomparable Anva:
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/FemmePaleMediTanDark.png) You can find them here:
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=4325.0

Also sans oil slick, smooth, just ever so slightly more defined and ALL FREE! 

And the fuglier Maxis face templates look good in these skins, as well.
I'm a fan of rensim, too, btw.




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 19, 18:29:20
The only problem with those overdue books is they are all in english, but man, those are some nice clutter objects.

And it reminds me that I want to try and subdivide bookcases to make some that can be differing heights - maybe after the move.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2008 December 19, 18:32:59
Yanno, I tried some of those skins and they weren't matching up with certain hairlines. I thought that I might have a conflict somewhere but I couldn't find it, so I just took them out. It's too bad because they are quite nice.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2008 December 19, 19:38:34
I have a really hard time finding skins that have a lot of shade differential, and in which the dark skin is dark enough. (I find it really disturbing how many Sims players only want pale skins, but anyway.) Those skins are nice, I'll try them out if I find time to darken the second palest skin, add a blue undertone to one of the darker ones, add more hair to all of them, and geneticize them. I'm picky :D.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 19, 20:30:00
I'll admit half the reason so many of my sims are pale because I am - however, half the reason is its hard to find good dark tones.  I use Enayla's because she has a good range.

I can't remember who had some nice skins as defaults, but even the palest skins were too dark for my tastes, while the darkest were too pale.  I like some diversity for my skins, at least among my npcs, even if I always make myself so pale [ or bejeweled and in fantasy shades, but that's a different story. ]


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 19, 21:42:33
I have a really hard time finding skins that have a lot of shade differential, and in which the dark skin is dark enough. (I find it really disturbing how many Sims players only want pale skins, but anyway.) Those skins are nice, I'll try them out if I find time to darken the second palest skin, add a blue undertone to one of the darker ones, add more hair to all of them, and geneticize them. I'm picky :D.

would you... post that when you're done, please? ;)

I'd like something like that for my game. I'd do it myself, but I suck at adjusting color.

Yanno, I tried some of those skins and they weren't matching up with certain hairlines. I thought that I might have a conflict somewhere but I couldn't find it, so I just took them out. It's too bad because they are quite nice.
I had the same problem I think. A while back I noticed the colors getting wonky where skins met hairlines or necklines, and such. I deleted the files, redownloaded. I then just made seperate folders for sets of skins, and deleted defaults, and something about the new organizing fixed it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kragey on 2008 December 19, 22:37:20
I'll admit half the reason so many of my sims are pale because I am - however, half the reason is its hard to find good dark tones.  I use Enayla's because she has a good range.

I can't remember who had some nice skins as defaults, but even the palest skins were too dark for my tastes, while the darkest were too pale.  I like some diversity for my skins, at least among my npcs, even if I always make myself so pale [ or bejeweled and in fantasy shades, but that's a different story. ]

I also like to have a good number of Sims with tattooed skins, and tattooes rarely show up as well on dark skins. =(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Chinchillagrl on 2008 December 19, 22:52:14
I've noticed a problem with a lot of the darker skintones becoming pixelated. :| Sucks.

http://kinemortophobia.livejournal.com/22894.html (Phobia from GoS)
made some great dark and pale recolors of the Phasmaxian skins.


http://kinemortophobia.livejournal.com/23404.html
Also did recolors of Sarhra's eyes Geneticized and Defaults + Supernatural Defaults. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 19, 23:16:32
PRETTY OBJECTS! Some Adele love.

The first is a recolor of one of Adele's loveseat meshes by Problematique.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/2712718335_eb73eed035_o.jpg)

The second is Adele's dragon statue mesh for a far east theme
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/adele_oldAsiaPreviewDragon_small.jpg)

She also did some furniture to compliment the far east theme. I'm sure most, if not all of you have seen these:
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/adele_oldAsiaPreview_small.jpg)
The cute lion or dog face on that coffee table leg always makes me smile.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2008 December 19, 23:20:07
Ooooh, I want that stuff! Do you happen to have a handy-dandy all purpose link, maybe?? Please?? :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 19, 23:24:50
Ooooh, I want that stuff! Do you happen to have a handy-dandy all purpose link, maybe?? Please?? :D
Arg! I knew I forgot something!
For Problematique's sofa recolor:
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6268.0

Also both the dragon and chinese furniture set can be found in this thread:
http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=550.15


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2008 December 19, 23:27:10

Ooooh, I want that stuff! Do you happen to have a handy-dandy all purpose link, maybe?? Please?? :D

Adele stuff at MTS2: http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1374247 (http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1374247)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 20, 02:11:30
Adele Stuff not at MTS2: http://adele-sims.com/adele.php?page=updates (http://adele-sims.com/adele.php?page=updates) :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2008 December 20, 02:20:35
I thank you and my downloads folder curses you! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 20, 03:35:43
Wow, I just went back and looked at Adele's site and... WOW. Last time I was there she didn't have the teen options for everything. She must have been a busy busy bee! I'm super excited now.
Anyhow, I took a gander at MTS, and I saw Maylin's new dining set (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311494&c=1). It looks really promising. I can't wait to use it in-game!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2008 December 20, 04:17:36
I have a really hard time finding skins that have a lot of shade differential, and in which the dark skin is dark enough. (I find it really disturbing how many Sims players only want pale skins, but anyway.) Those skins are nice, I'll try them out if I find time to darken the second palest skin, add a blue undertone to one of the darker ones, add more hair to all of them, and geneticize them. I'm picky :D.
Why blue? I've only seen the wife turn blueish when I'm wringing her neck.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 20, 05:00:55
These are the same tuxedo's I have literally been searching for, for MONTHS!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311676

My sims can finally get married now!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311264

Very cute baby dresses.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311269

Yay! I love white appliances.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311494

Lovely dinning set!

Edit to add:

I wish my sub conscience would let me have simmies like these:

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8500.0
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7867.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 20, 05:44:42
I have a really hard time finding skins that have a lot of shade differential, and in which the dark skin is dark enough. (I find it really disturbing how many Sims players only want pale skins, but anyway.) Those skins are nice, I'll try them out if I find time to darken the second palest skin, add a blue undertone to one of the darker ones, add more hair to all of them, and geneticize them. I'm picky :D.
Why blue? I've only seen the wife turn blueish when I'm wringing her neck.
I don't think neriana meant a blue undertone so much as cool-toned. A cool hued undertone would suggest that the light is neutral. Too warm, and the sim might look like it's gone mistic tanning, or is perpetually in unnatural yellow light. Darker skintones do tend to have a cool sheen to it in flat lighting situations.

Or, whatever :-\


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2008 December 20, 05:50:01
I love Maylin's new dining set! Thanks for the link to Adele's site...her stuff is freakin' amazing!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 20, 05:55:17
But I don't see links for Adele's furnishings on her site - only for clothing.  Am I missing something?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 20, 06:04:42
But I don't see links for Adele's furnishings on her site - only for clothing.  Am I missing something?
I think a lot of creators now are uploading certain things to various places, but rarely all in one place now. I know a few creators have their own websites, and are members of certain forums and upload a few exclusives there, like noukiesim's forum. Everything else is kind of a mishmash so fans *cough* stalkers like me have to be vigilant.

dusdeedawn, thanks for the heads up about the new teen conversions! If it werent for Adele, Bruno, and ClubCrimsyn, my teens would be nudists.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2008 December 20, 06:07:08
 These are the skins I use as defaults. I love them because they do not have a high shine or oily look The defaults are a touch on the darker side for us brown folks. lol

from teru_k at MTS2


http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=261288


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 20, 06:18:31
I think this dress by sherabim takes the cake. http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=297612

(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/MTS2_sherahbim_801450_Bejeweled_pic.jpg)
AtomicSpaceKitty took amazing closeup screens of the dress in a perilous situation: http://sims2.atomicspacekitty.com/?p=186&page=6

Nearly all the objects but the ballet shoes are Adele's http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1374247

ETA, anyone know where I can get the foliage in that screenshot? The ballet shoes can be found on GOS, btw.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2008 December 20, 06:33:30
I have that dress and it is awesome!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2008 December 20, 09:02:09
But I don't see links for Adele's furnishings on her site - only for clothing.  Am I missing something?

Adele stuff at MTS2: http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1374247 (http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1374247)

Also both the dragon and chinese furniture set can be found in this thread:
http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=550.15

Links given on the previous page for Adele's furniture.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2008 December 20, 12:37:16
You have to be logged in to see the download links. :)

I found this wonderful resource for hair - absolutely rocks. That's also the source for some of the cute rabbit ears and stuff you see on GoS (ma lurking ftw!)

(http://i39.tinypic.com/2md44kw.jpg)

Dedital Sheep (http://dsb.g.ribbon.to/downloads/index.html)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2008 December 20, 13:34:54
Me, my game, my computer and my downloads folder will curse you forever! ::)

Anyway...

Retail Sims cool cigar shop (look great in game): http://www.retailsims.com/OFB_Shops/OFB_Cigar/Cigar1.html

And for those who LUV business, have a look at the rest of the site.

EDIT: BloodPledge's WONDERFUL neon recolours of XM hair 091: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8132.0

Isn't it beautiful? ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2008 December 20, 16:25:36
Because I like urban stuff, I'm currently enjoying this bit of business.

HIM Screenie (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/20739150/347927357.jpg) 
MOI Screenie (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/20739150/347928371.jpg)

Cooldadx4 (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=211415)

They're a bit high poly so you need to be able to handle it. I think it's a great set and well thought out. It's easy to place, the signs are shiftable and streetlights fit rather nicely into the poles. I approve!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Apsalar on 2008 December 20, 17:26:59
This Dining set from Sims 2 play has fast become my favorite, I use it all the time, especially in Apartments.

(http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2900/shsimpledininggq2.jpg) (http://sims-2.gameslife.ru/objects_sets29.htm)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 20, 20:36:21
I know they are in this thread, but Adele's actual page is just clothing and genetics.

As for me, I'm planning on putting everything but houses over at the Fox's Den, and uploading houses to MTS2 because it makes it much easier to credit any CC I use.  And since I like to use CC to help advertise other creators....

Anyways, about to wrap presents and go back to holiday type things.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 20, 20:45:50
Ooooh. I have that dining set too - it really is awesome. Simple, like its name, but very versatile. I love S2P. I'm always checking to see if they've updated, they're fantasmic.

Speaking of Adele, her Super Chouette set [link! (http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1150.0)] and Bosie's recolors of it [link! (http://hapsburgxx.livejournal.com/)] are just as wonderful in-game as they are in the previews.

So, I love this site (http://www.seriouslyamusedsims.com/), particularly this bedroom (http://www.seriouslyamusedsims.com/contents/objects/bedroom/bed4.html) and even though they rarely update, I keep checking there regularly, hoping that they will. Maybe one day...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2008 December 20, 22:25:44
Adele has a archive site - http://adele.sims.googlepages.com/archive.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 20, 22:59:45
I love Neena needles hair textures. It's almost an on going struggle within me on whether to practice recoloring hair with Nouks' textures, or Neena's.

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8202.0

Edit: I love this dress:

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=2430.0

I kinda wish it came with big stompy boots such as this lovely gem:

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6824.0

Edit 2: There's also this lovely dinning room:

http://secretlysims.foroactivo.net/descargas-downloads-f17/comedor-epor-epor-diningroom-t174.htm?sid=9964e9926e638819f115092ed45781fe

Only downside is you have to register and post to be able to download it.  :(



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Azaya on 2008 December 20, 23:46:37
Missbonbon, as far as I know no one's put stompy boots on the boho dress, but migamoo did put ankle boots (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7900.0) on it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 20, 23:53:24
Missbonbon, as far as I know no one's put stompy boots on the boho dress, but migamoo did put ankle boots (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7900.0) on it.

Oooh, thank you! I don't know how I missed those.  :-*

To keep myself from double posting, I will edit once moar! Yes, I have been an edit whore today.

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8329.0
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8570.0

Karaskaras is proving to be a very nice mesh artist.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kragey on 2008 December 21, 07:18:11

I wish my sub conscience would let me have simmies like these:

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8500.0
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7867.0

I know what you mean. I know the Sims is a fantasy world, and I can make them look completely fantastical if I want, but I just can't bring myself to use odd-colored skins or fantasy eyes. It even feels odd to me when my Sims have alien babies.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2008 December 21, 08:38:56
Look at this fantastic Johnny Depp:

http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=311779

It is the best version of him I have seen. I don't usually download Celebrity Sims but he is going straight in my game :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2008 December 21, 15:43:23
I don't think these have been posted: Sims 2 Play, Cambria set. (http://sims-2.gameslife.ru/objects_sets27.htm)

I use them all the time now.  I love white and wood combinations




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 21, 16:00:14
Some pretty cute new outfits:

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8622.0

In Ask A Pirate I inquired about a website that separated Maxis clutter. Well now here they are:

http://sim-vention.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2663
http://sim-vention.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2660
http://sim-vention.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2659
http://sim-vention.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2570
http://sim-vention.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2569




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2008 December 21, 16:05:51
I'm a total lot whore. My favorite lot ever is Sunset Ridge (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=287204) by normadesmond123 on MTS2. All of her houses are amazing. /fangirl

I also love keef1973 (http://nene.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=223325)'s lots. My mom is a HUGE fan of Christine (http://nene.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=155330). She makes some really cute Victorian houses, particularly her Buttercup Victorian (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=142589). She also has her own site (http://www.cc4sims.com/).


EDIT: Stupid Mheyin is stupid. How could I forget to list Illusions of Grandeur (http://www.illusionsofgrandeur-ts2.com/index.html)? I love you guys!  :-*

2nd Edit: I also love Sunni9676's ice cream parlor, Scoops (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=243980). It's in every neighborhood I have. She has a lot of other great community lots as well. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Rissa on 2008 December 21, 17:40:47
Glamorous Lounge is a paysite...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 21, 17:51:44
 deleted for your non viewing pleasure
:-[ well ain't that just a kick in the teeth? I liked some of their stuff. The pantsuits and body shorts- things not so much. But oh well.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Owl on 2008 December 21, 18:00:38
I'm a huge fan of Buggybooz (http://nene.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=580522), especially his/her KitchenBasic Set (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=278085).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 21, 18:48:27
I'm a huge fan of Buggybooz (http://nene.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=580522), especially his/her KitchenBasic Set (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=278085).

I use that set all the time! I squeed when the metal shelves and matching fridge were added. I'm also more than a little bit guilty of using that kitchen set in almost every house in my neighborhoods. I keep meaning to use other kitchen sets, and somehow it just doesn't work out that way. I just rationalize it by saying that all the houses were originally tract housing and the sims are just too exhausted to renovate the kitchens. And the kitchens look great anyhow.

Its only been in the past 2 or 3 months that I stumbled into the noukiesims aspiration sets and I'm always drooling for more.
From the steampunk aspiration archive: http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1018.0
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/VestigesOfTheFuture.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Beefcake on 2008 December 21, 23:37:29
I love all of that stuff from the Steampunk theme at the WNF. :D

This set isn't all that recent but I use it in almost all of my homes, and I think it deserves recognition. It's made by Mummysim over at Sims Divine forum. http://simsdivine.com/ There's tons of gorgeous stuff there :)

(http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj363/beefcakeontoast/index.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 22, 01:25:28
I love all of that stuff from the Steampunk theme at the WNF. :D

Yesh, moar steampunk! I love it. There's a sims 2 Steampunk Wiki (http://steampunksims.wikidot.com/home), in case you didn't know. Everything on it is lovely, but I especially adore this set by Anva (again, because all her stuff is yummy!): http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=5446.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Beefcake on 2008 December 22, 10:23:44
 :o I didn't know there was a Steampunk Wiki. Thanks for that Devilfish 8)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2008 December 22, 14:21:16
I don't really know what steampunk is really, but I love the stuff people make for it :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2008 December 22, 14:27:37
Steampunk is basically the Victorian times but with technology run by steam, as well as sci-fi and fantasy elements. Check this out as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2008 December 22, 14:56:41
Thanks Anyerfillag.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstucki on 2008 December 22, 20:46:51
Wow, those shoes are great! Perfect for sim feet addicts (I know a few ;))
This thread can't be good for my d/l folder  ;D

Eyecolor fanatics rejoice--Shady over at MTS2 has made a beautiful set of sparkling eyes (http://"http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=306892"):
(http://i42.tinypic.com/fmq6w1.jpg)
(More from her over at MTS2 (http://"http://modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1603428"))

I have those eyes in my DL folder, and never use anything else. They're just gorgeous in game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: badcyn on 2008 December 23, 00:14:12
I love Parsimonious.org.

Especially their Pirate Bay Market (http://www.parsimonious.org/furniture2/shops/k8-Pirate_Bay_Market.shtml) and Spring Onion (http://www.parsimonious.org/furniture2/shops/af-The_Spring_Onion.shtml) and Rizzale's Apothocary  (http://www.parsimonious.org/furniture2/shops/k8-Rizzales_Apothecary.shtml).

They have some fantastic fantasy clothes and objects. http://www.parsimonious.org/ (http://www.parsimonious.org/)

I also love Amythestfenix recolors in Amythest's Flying Circus (http://www.nectere.net/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=411a2d45a00e79a4fe279e2f7fdbdbc1&board=40.0).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 23, 04:49:22
Okay, I've been meaning to change my default skins for a long time, now. A really long time. I just hadn't run across anything that jumps out at me. I have maxis-match and I can't seem to commit to any other skins for some reason. But after seeing these (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8661.0) today, I'm so switching. I'm really impressed with the mannequin default. Looks nomable. Can't wait to see them in-game.

Oh, and I highly suggest that everyone check this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312004) out. I've been wanting something like this since I started playing!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 23, 05:29:34
I am jumping out of my skin.

This is special. Even for Adele.


She released a preview of an upcoming set.


I'm just in awe. I think she should hold classes on making and texturing for the sims. EA/Maxis isn't good enough for the likes of her, but that's probably a subject for a whole other thread.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/adele_petiteAbeille.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2008 December 23, 06:24:47
OMG, I really do want that, it looks marvelous! Wonderful looking stuff, I am way more than impressed!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2008 December 23, 15:02:58
Oh, and I highly suggest that everyone check this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312004) out. I've been wanting something like this since I started playing!

Dusdeedawn, I love you!  :D

I've also been making grabby hands at that Adele set since I saw it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paleoanth on 2008 December 23, 15:18:19

Oh, and I highly suggest that everyone check this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312004) out. I've been wanting something like this since I started playing!

This rocks and I cannot believe someone hasn't done this before!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 23, 16:17:01
Dusdee, those skins are awesome! I've been meaning to try my hand at blending them cause I like their noses.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2008 December 23, 17:03:04

Oh, and I highly suggest that everyone check this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312004) out. I've been wanting something like this since I started playing!

This rocks and I cannot believe someone hasn't done this before!
Dizzy has one too, and it doesn't need the picture on the desk.  This may work better though as, at least in my game, the sim with the second assigned desk tends to ignore his/her assigned desk and puts it on the kitchen table instead.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2008 December 23, 21:32:53
I kind of like the picture though, since it lets you see at a glance who's desk is whose.  I have been watching that as she was getting feedback over on MTS2.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2008 December 23, 21:43:12
Oh, and I highly suggest that everyone check this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312004) out. I've been wanting something like this since I started playing!

That's awesome! I love that it's a picture of the person who owns the desk, that will be very useful in my dorm study areas.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: nomansland on 2008 December 23, 23:26:01
You people are killing me with DigitalPerversion. I can't believe I'd never come across it until now. It's content is to murder for.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: darkmistress on 2008 December 24, 03:50:06
I am jumping out of my skin.

This is special. Even for Adele.


She released a preview of an upcoming set.


I'm just in awe. I think she should hold classes on making and texturing for the sims. EA/Maxis isn't good enough for the likes of her, but that's probably a subject for a whole other thread.
OMG it's gorgeous.... Can't wait for it to be released!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2008 December 24, 16:08:25
My favorite lip colors are by bunnyt0astx at MTS2: Marie Lip Tints (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=223848). They look beautiful in-game, as demonstrated by my self-sim:

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e284/mheyin/Marielips.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 24, 22:07:13
That's a cute Sim. But she's missing something. Let me see... ah, yes, I know what she needs - a cage on her head (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8711.0)!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 24, 22:13:51
Mheyin, those lip tints are gorgeous. Pretty, subtle. Perfect for my modest yet stylish sims.

Yoink!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2008 December 24, 22:53:07
That's a cute Sim. But she's missing something. Let me see... ah, yes, I know what she needs - a cage on her head (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8711.0)!  ;D

That cage is nuts and very creepy and I need to think of a way to use it in my game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2008 December 25, 17:42:02
That's a cute Sim. But she's missing something. Let me see... ah, yes, I know what she needs - a cage on her head (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8711.0)!  ;D

See, this is what I mean. Weird, funny, well-made, original stuff that I just need to have even though I'll probably never use it. Thanks!

V1nd1care was mentioned in another thread and I'm such a huge fan of hers, I felt the need to take my fangirling to this thread. All her lots are amazing and perfectly unique, but her ships are my favourites. For your pirating pleasure, I give you the Ebony Gale (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=172468), the Venture (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=228145) and the Corsair War Galley (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=188900).

But I think my absolute favourite is the Fallen City of Stones.

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/24a6ad07.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2008 December 25, 19:33:41
Totally gorgeous and now I want to install every other pack in existence, but would have to do some heavy ARRRing... Which is getting to be more tempting every day when I see the stuff being posted.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2008 December 25, 20:27:15
That would be most awesome in a vacation destination.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kaitlyn on 2008 December 25, 22:04:25
That would be most awesome in a vacation destination.
Ooh, you're right!  It's so beautiful, but for the life of me I couldn't think of anything I would ever do with it.  But now I haz me a reason to download.  Squee!   :D  V1nd1care makes such lovely and unique lots.  Her castles are the gems of my medieval neighborhood.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 26, 20:19:14
A disproportionate amount of my sims have antique bathrooms because of Pheonix_Phaerie's bathroom set.
Pretty, pretty, pretty.
Behold the pretty!
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/MTS2_phoenix_phaerie_802487_preview.jpg)
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/MTS2_phoenix_phaerie_802488_preview.jpg)
And much more! http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=297869


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2008 December 26, 20:38:44
A disproportionate amount of my sims have antique bathrooms because of Pheonix_Phaerie's bathroom set.
Pretty, pretty, pretty.
Behold the pretty!
*Pretty picture snippage*

Holy crap those are beautiful!  I thought at first it was a photograph of a real bathroom, not a real Sims bathroom. 

I like that it actually looks like you can put together a decent bathroom that isn't huge.  Half the custom bathrooms out there, need  a 10 x 10 room minimum to look good.  I'm used to living in places where bathrooms are put in out of the way places and thus are either tiny rectangles, or very unusual shapes. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 26, 20:51:30
A disproportionate amount of my sims have antique bathrooms because of Pheonix_Phaerie's bathroom set.
Pretty, pretty, pretty.
Behold the pretty!
*Pretty picture snippage*

Holy crap those are beautiful!  I thought at first it was a photograph of a real bathroom, not a real Sims bathroom. 

I like that it actually looks like you can put together a decent bathroom that isn't huge.  Half the custom bathrooms out there, need  a 10 x 10 room minimum to look good.  I'm used to living in places where bathrooms are put in out of the way places and thus are either tiny rectangles, or very unusual shapes. 
Good point! My bathrooms actually are quite compact as a result of using these objects. Which is more realistic in my opinion. I've never known anyone to have large bathrooms IRL. Ever. I guess my crowd just ain't rarefied 'nuff.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2008 December 26, 21:21:47
Good point! My bathrooms actually are quite compact as a result of using these objects. Which is more realistic in my opinion. I've never known anyone to have large bathrooms IRL. Ever. I guess my crowd just ain't rarefied 'nuff.

I've only known one person in my life who had a bathroom that was even close to what some people think Sims should have in their houses.  And they were fabulously wealthy, their whole house was huge.

That's half my problem with custom content.  I don't like huge horking houses in my game.  They slow it down and it seems ridiculous to have a house so big that your sims will need over an hour of their time to get from one end to the other.  I much prefer smaller houses, but a lot of the room sets people create seem to need a tremendous amount of space. 

That's one of the reasons why I always liked  Paleoanth's room designs.  Like the Lauren livingroom she recently did, it's small enough so that you can put it in a small or average size house and it looks just fine. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2008 December 26, 21:22:15
I have that whole set in game, I've been using it for awhile and it looks great. The bathtub needs a bit of space on the ends but other than that it's a very very well done set. It's been mentioned before.

I also have her Metro Wall series here (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=288189). There're 3 different sets; a definite must have! Come to think of it I actually have most of her stuff.

Speaking of walls, Xtian at MTS2 has an amazing Urban Loft set. I use them way too much. Here (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=292402).
Another great wall person is DaniKat also at MTS2. She has a whole collection inspired by Behr. I'm not a huge fan of double moulding but sometimes I need them and her colours are great. Here (http://nene.modthesims2.com/browse.php?f=380&u=171973).

ETA: Here I have screenies from a small bathroom in an apartment I built.

(http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/20065984/348664108.jpg)  (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/20065984/348664105.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kragey on 2008 December 26, 22:01:56
That's half my problem with custom content.  I don't like huge horking houses in my game.  They slow it down and it seems ridiculous to have a house so big that your sims will need over an hour of their time to get from one end to the other.  I much prefer smaller houses, but a lot of the room sets people create seem to need a tremendous amount of space.  

Yeah, and a lot of times, when I download a bigger house, the house tends to be full of excess crap that my sims will never use, with no room for skill objects or pets. Extra sitting rooms, randomly-placed plants...I usually just get small houses or download unfurnished versions of the larger houses.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 26, 22:59:01
Well, as far as wallpapers go, this set by JodelieJodelie (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3704.0) are some of my very favorites. Love 'em!

A disproportionate amount of my sims have antique bathrooms because of Pheonix_Phaerie's bathroom set.

Ooh, Oh, did you see the recolors that nixy did at Elegant Decay (http://www.elegantdecay.com/?p=67)? I like having lots of recolors for meshes - MOAR OPTIONZ!

Another great wall person is DaniKat also at MTS2. She has a whole collection inspired by Behr. I'm not a huge fan of double moulding but sometimes I need them and her colours are great. Here (http://nene.modthesims2.com/browse.php?f=380&u=171973).

I arrrrrgree, kenmtl - she is a great wall person! I use both her blue and green sets in almost every 'normal' house (ie. not old and beat-up). Love them! Very simple, very easy to mix with other wallpaper and such. Very well done. I like the moulding she's got going there better than the Maxis stuff. Om Nom Nom.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2008 December 26, 23:32:40
Yeah, and a lot of times, when I download a bigger house, the house tends to be full of excess crap that my sims will never use, with no room for skill objects or pets. Extra sitting rooms, randomly-placed plants...I usually just get small houses or download unfurnished versions of the larger houses.

I hate that.  The first thing I do when I build a house is put in skill builders, or leave the room for them.  I admit to having converted a few "body building" rooms on first floors to temporary nurseries for the little ones, but once I've decided the child rearing days are over, and all little ones are at child stage or older, they quickly get converted back.

I like to have an attic for the purpose of putting skill building stuff up there so if I need to remove it for a bit, I can put it right back.  I also like to put musical instruments up there when company comes over, and then block the entrance with a chair, just to watch the visiting Sim throw a hissy fit because he/she cannot play the goddamned piano for money..


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 27, 17:57:15
Well, as far as wallpapers go, this set by JodelieJodelie (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3704.0) are some of my very favorites. Love 'em!

A disproportionate amount of my sims have antique bathrooms because of Pheonix_Phaerie's bathroom set.

Ooh, Oh, did you see the recolors that nixy did at Elegant Decay (http://www.elegantdecay.com/?p=67)? I like having lots of recolors for meshes - MOAR OPTIONZ!
Dude, I visit that site everyday in the hope that it's updated. I luuuurve those recolors.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HavensHill on 2008 December 27, 18:02:00
Wow.... my downloads folder is set to collapse under it's own weight! It was bad enough before I found this thread.

I love it though, there's always room for moar pretties!!!!  ;D

P.s., I can't believe that digital perversion slipped under my radar, I thought I had sought out all of the best sims2 sites. Thanks for mentioning it.

I'd list my favorite stuff here but 99.9% of it has already had a mention  :D

... i ♥ this place.....  ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Keksich on 2008 December 27, 18:26:26
How comes nobody mentioned Phaenoh (http://linna.modthesims2.com/browse.php?u=1052675&showType=1)? I couldn't live without her default replacements.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 27, 21:21:55
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312539

That set is a rather interesting one to look at.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312208

But I do have the matching living room set in my game and it's awesome.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2008 December 27, 23:37:38
Dammit, now I'm zeroing in on the three gig mark in my DL folder and I bless and blame every one of you! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2008 December 28, 00:24:25
I'm in Bodyshop right now, and I tried Yuxi's Uni Fauxhawk Conversion (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7740.msg255240#msg255240) on a Sim - it's awesome! She really is talented. Her base game messy hair for chicks is awesome, too. That would here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3933.msg118978#msg118978), if anyone's interested!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 28, 03:51:39
Elegant Decay is the best. I love the recolors on that site.
http://www.elegantdecay.com/?p=25#more-25
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/toppledthrones01.png)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2008 December 28, 19:20:49
I'm in Bodyshop right now, and I tried Yuxi's Uni Fauxhawk Conversion (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7740.msg255240#msg255240) on a Sim - it's awesome! She really is talented. Her base game messy hair for chicks is awesome, too. That would here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3933.msg118978#msg118978), if anyone's interested!

http://esperesa.livejournal.com/tag/hair+edits

That is Yuxi's LJ, which has many lovely hair recolors/conversions. Yuxi is probably one of my favorite hair retexturer's out there, and I always check GOS and her LJ to see if she's done it. I've always loved how shiny she makes the hairs look. I guess that's because she uses Nouk's awesome textures.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kragey on 2008 December 28, 20:27:18
I'm in Bodyshop right now, and I tried Yuxi's Uni Fauxhawk Conversion (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7740.msg255240#msg255240) on a Sim - it's awesome! She really is talented. Her base game messy hair for chicks is awesome, too. That would here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3933.msg118978#msg118978), if anyone's interested!

OMFG, FAUXHAWKS, I LOVE FAUXHAWKS! When I finally end up donating my hair, I'm probably going to cut it so that I can make a fauxhawk.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anouk on 2008 December 31, 16:57:27
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH WWWWAAAAAAAAANNNTTTTTT!!!! http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1199.msg8195#new


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2008 December 31, 17:28:27
I love you Noukie - I got their Xmas stuff the other day - but new ponytail! I love them.  :D Thanks for letting us know.  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2008 December 31, 19:54:31
Do I dare download more hair files? I've already got over 565mb of hair as it is. (No thanks to Nouk)  I love you, noukie!

My poor, poor downloads folder.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 01, 00:00:33
Appropriately, as I was reading the last few messages, my MP3 player started playing "Hair" from the movie by the same name.   

I know, it's of no relevance at all to this thread, but I thought it was funny.  "Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer, here Daddy, there Mama, every where hair!"


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 January 01, 01:51:20
Ach! Now I got that damn song stuck in my head!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 01, 02:29:16
Oh wow oh wow oh wow! Nouk, thanks for pointing that out. Total Awesomeness!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 January 01, 02:33:03
Tim Curry was in Hair in London, before doing the Rocky Horror Show.....

And is that hair animated, by any chance?  It doesn't say and I'm super picky about that, for some reason.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: chemistrycourtney on 2009 January 01, 02:34:53
Tim Curry was in Hair in London, before doing the Rocky Horror Show.....

And is that hair animated, by any chance?  It doesn't say and I'm super picky about that, for some reason.

Sure it does.   :D  "Side Ponytail, All Ages, Binned and Animated" 

So that's a yes.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SimARR on 2009 January 03, 05:23:02
MTS2 has provided lots of neat goodies lately... a great new car by FP: (http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1610/mts2freshprince855698rrgm5.jpg)
http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312970

But this is a standout favourite, buyable deep sufaces.
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4102/68681521ex4.gif
http://my.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313164


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 03, 13:26:15
I love those buyable surfaces! ShanOw rocks!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 03, 13:50:52
I love those buyable surfaces! ShanOw rocks!

How is this not featured? Or at least picked? I love it so much, I'm going to write a new story just so I can use it! God, I really could have used that in the current storyline. Awesomeness ;D
To tie in with it, I only just discovered this: http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313286

Another entry in thesteampunk collection (I know, obsessed Devilfish is obsessed) by Timesynthesist at GoS

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/2e2ec0f4.jpg)

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8935.0

Omnomnom  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2009 January 03, 17:07:40
Oh, and I highly suggest that everyone check this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312004) out. I've been wanting something like this since I started playing!

Desk Locater now has a Uni version (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313224) as well. Woohoo!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 January 03, 18:15:22
The bed is up!

http://calalily.sublimesims.net/

 ;D ;D

In my utter excitement I forgot to thank Calalily once again for the pretty bed. And it's fairly low polys as well!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 03, 18:23:52
In my utter excitement I forgot to thank Calalily once again for the pretty bed. And it's fairly low polys as well!

It is - and thank you.  :-* I'm glad you like it - and now you know the other meshes included. :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 03, 18:57:41
The bed is up!

http://calalily.sublimesims.net/

 ;D ;D

In my utter excitement I forgot to thank Calalily once again for the pretty bed. And it's fairly low polys as well!

Oh, I've been waiting for this one! It's lovely, thanks cala ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 January 03, 19:11:39
In my utter excitement I forgot to thank Calalily once again for the pretty bed. And it's fairly low polys as well!

It is - and thank you.  :-* I'm glad you like it - and now you know the other meshes included. :P

Thank you so much. Yes, now the mystery is solved of what all is inculded. By the way, I love the dark wood recolor and all the wacky colors.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 03, 19:33:02
Thanks guys - just watch the signature - told you I wouldn't announce it :P I complain if people spam their updates, so I don't do it myself. At the moment it looks like everyone likes it - twice as many as the usual page loads I usually have when I update - so people have voted with their clicks and I will make my polycount a little bit higher.  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: spunkysim on 2009 January 03, 21:12:04
Cala, the whole set is lovely!  Thanks so much, I am putting it in the house I am working on this weekend.  I am trying something different and this bed works perfectly for what I had in mind.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 03, 21:14:21
Huzzah! Fly my pretties, fly!  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 03, 22:26:17
Goodie, a new bedroom set for my sims.  I shall celebrate by having a great deal of woo hoo going on in my Sim homes this evening.  Of the upcoming population explosion, I will be sure to name at least one of the girls Calalily.  And her parents will tell stories of the wonderful bedroom set that lead to their conception.  And, will give it to them, when they get married, in hopes that they will soon give them grandchildren. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 January 03, 22:41:05
Goodie, a new bedroom set for my sims.  I shall celebrate by having a great deal of woo hoo going on in my Sim homes this evening.  Of the upcoming population explosion, I will be sure to name at least one of the girls Calalily.  And her parents will tell stories of the wonderful bedroom set that lead to their conception.  And, will give it to them, when they get married, in hopes that they will soon give them grandchildren. 

 :D You should write a story about the family and the infamous Calalily bed.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 03, 22:46:43
Goodie, a new bedroom set for my sims.  I shall celebrate by having a great deal of woo hoo going on in my Sim homes this evening.  Of the upcoming population explosion, I will be sure to name at least one of the girls Calalily.  And her parents will tell stories of the wonderful bedroom set that lead to their conception.  And, will give it to them, when they get married, in hopes that they will soon give them grandchildren. 

:D It'll be the calalily-boomer generation.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 03, 22:54:06
Desk Locater now has a Uni version (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313224) as well. Woohoo!!

Yay! Thanks for the update, Mheyin! I'm actually just about to send a couple of my fav Sims to college, so I'll be needing it.

The bed is up!
http://calalily.sublimesims.net/

The bed is very pretty, and I love that cala did both versions of the bedding decor (goes down with zoom = AWESOME!), but what I'm really loving is the whole set! The bench, the table, the curtain, the deco... I'm swooning. Cala, they're very pretty! Thank you muchly. Now I'm off to DL and quite possibly even fire up the game (20 minute load time) just to use them. Again, THANK YOU!

Goodie, a new bedroom set for my sims.  I shall celebrate by having a great deal of woo hoo going on in my Sim homes this evening.  Of the upcoming population explosion, I will be sure to name at least one of the girls Calalily.  And her parents will tell stories of the wonderful bedroom set that lead to their conception.  And, will give it to them, when they get married, in hopes that they will soon give them grandchildren. 

YES. Will want pictures!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 January 03, 23:20:23
Gorgeous set cala :D I'll download it as soon as I'm finished picking up the hair I pulled out during my video card driver fiasco......


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 04, 06:07:24
:D You should write a story about the family and the infamous Calalily bed.

Hmm... you could be right! 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 04, 09:09:12
The bed is very pretty, and I love that cala did both versions of the bedding decor (goes down with zoom = AWESOME!), but what I'm really loving is the whole set! The bench, the table, the curtain, the deco... I'm swooning. Cala, they're very pretty! Thank you muchly. Now I'm off to DL and quite possibly even fire up the game (20 minute load time) just to use them. Again, THANK YOU!

You are most welcome.  I can tell no one but meshers looked at the swathes tutorial - that would have given you all a hint there would be curtainy goodness.  :D

Gorgeous set cala :D I'll download it as soon as I'm finished picking up the hair I pulled out during my video card driver fiasco......

Thank you  :-* I've had video card fiascos myself - they suck.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 04, 22:00:05
Thank you for the new beds ... my sims like them way to much. I just discovered the ACR hack and my simmies have been whoo hooing for 2 days solid.






 I am kinda jealous. Can you come to my home and make me a bed like that in real life??? lol


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 04, 22:06:46
You are most welcome.  I can tell no one but meshers looked at the swathes tutorial - that would have given you all a hint there would be curtainy goodness.  :D

Nope, definitely not a mesher. The curtainy goodness was quite a pleasant surprise!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 04, 22:21:26
Thank you for the new beds ... my sims like them way to much. I just discovered the ACR hack and my simmies have been whoo hooing for 2 days solid.

I am kinda jealous. Can you come to my home and make me a bed like that in real life??? lol

Lol - calalilysims - good for simsfucking.  :D  I'd have to send Coolington - he's the bedding co-ordinator round here, and gave me advice on colour schemes. I am beloved by God to have him.  :P

Nope, definitely not a mesher. The curtainy goodness was quite a pleasant surprise!

Need MOAR detective skills. :D The tutorial is of a mesh I ditched - that wide curtain made into one tile, but on reflection, it looked like shit.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: deelink on 2009 January 05, 00:26:29
Last night my connection was pathetic and I could barely navigate anywhere, now it's back and I have downloaded it :D
I want moar recolours! I have a lot of sims and they all need to procreate!  :-* thanks Cala!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 05, 00:54:49
I want moar recolours! I have a lot of sims and they all need to procreate!  :-* thanks Cala!

I hate bloody recolours - but live in hope - it's only been out 3 days, and I've seen it all over. I know HugeLunatic was downloading the UV maps, so I'm sure that someone else will recolour - you may be spoilt for choice. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 January 05, 02:31:04
I want moar recolours! I have a lot of sims and they all need to procreate!  :-* thanks Cala!

I hate bloody recolours - but live in hope - it's only been out 3 days, and I've seen it all over. I know HugeLunatic was downloading the UV maps, so I'm sure that someone else will recolour - you may be spoilt for choice. :D

So in other words, we need to designate someone to stalk the internet for recolors of that bed.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 January 05, 03:16:47
I want moar recolours! I have a lot of sims and they all need to procreate!  :-* thanks Cala!

I hate bloody recolours - but live in hope - it's only been out 3 days, and I've seen it all over. I know HugeLunatic was downloading the UV maps, so I'm sure that someone else will recolour - you may be spoilt for choice. :D

So in other words, we need to designate someone to stalk the internet for recolors of that bed.

Is that your way of volunteering?  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 January 05, 03:24:01
I want moar recolours! I have a lot of sims and they all need to procreate!  :-* thanks Cala!

I hate bloody recolours - but live in hope - it's only been out 3 days, and I've seen it all over. I know HugeLunatic was downloading the UV maps, so I'm sure that someone else will recolour - you may be spoilt for choice. :D

So in other words, we need to designate someone to stalk the internet for recolors of that bed.

Is that your way of volunteering?  :D

Hey I sparked the idea, my part is done.  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karin hoshi on 2009 January 05, 04:06:49
Huzzah! Fly my pretties, fly!  :-*

My downloads folder hates you Calalily, it is loaded with your stuff and Nouk's  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 05, 08:12:07
So in other words, we need to designate someone to stalk the internet for recolors of that bed.

I'll let you all know if I get referring links for recolours. :D

Here's one already:
http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=8724&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=1

Now got a special page for recolours so I don't spam it up. (http://calalily.sublimesims.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134&Itemid=166) :D

My downloads folder hates you Calalily, it is loaded with your stuff and Nouk's  :P

My sincere apologies to your download folder. :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 January 05, 12:22:02
So in other words, we need to designate someone to stalk the internet for recolors of that bed.

I'll let you all know if I get referring links for recolours. :D


Yay!  :D

For anyone who likes buffybot, since she pulled all her stuff from DL', Yay, she has been posting new blends onto her LJ. I really like her new lizard skintone blend and I'm sure looks just as awesome in game.

http://joedy-76.livejournal.com/3056.html#cutid1


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: fway on 2009 January 05, 22:40:31
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5207/mts2moghughson852258piemt9.jpg) (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1174)
This (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312004) will come in handy once I get my game reinstalled on my new HD. I'm already in love with it. Here (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313224) is one for uni students.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 January 06, 01:05:21
The desk claimer is a life saver! The only issue I've had with it is that it doesn't seem to work when placed diagonally, but it's worth having just to see my 6s and 12s actually using their desks to do their homework.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 06, 01:11:51
The kids in my game must be brats, they like to get off of the damn bus and put the homework on the ground and I STILL have to move it to the damn desk even with the claim thingie on it! Grrrrrrrrrrr....


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 January 06, 01:17:27
Sorry to mention the obvious Paden, but have you actually assigned each desk to a child? Other than that I can only think of it clashing with another mod. Didn't Squinge have a hack to force children into using desks? or is it Inge I'm thinking of?

E.T.A.: This set by AmberDiceless is absolutely gorgeous.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2w3oqs2.jpg)
Find it here (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=309307)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 06, 02:11:41
It's activated and as far as I know, it's the only homework hack I have installed. That set is calling me!! Can't resist! You FIEND!! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2009 January 06, 02:48:33
I downloaded that set last night in a mindless downloading spree. I haven't used it yet, but I'm going to load up soon so that I can nomnom it in game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: AW on 2009 January 06, 03:00:04
That bedroom set is beautiful.  Mr. Boddy, the desk is fabulous.  Awesome job.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: TapThatBooty on 2009 January 06, 04:02:53
I love that bedroom set, it is absolutly gawgus!! Downloading it now, and it will fit in with my new NH theme.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 06, 18:34:43
Guess who made a new car! *does happy dance* (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313907&c=1)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 06, 18:56:24
Guess who made a new car! *does happy dance* (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313907&c=1)

Oh I love - absolutely love - This one by Fresh Prince (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=297587)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 06, 19:19:22
:o I haven't seen that one before! It's so pretty!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 January 07, 21:17:26
I haven't put these in-game yet as it is running, but these look really nice from the preview pics:

http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313968


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Old Enuf on 2009 January 07, 21:32:06
Emma,  those are cute!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: celligirl on 2009 January 07, 23:52:34
Guess who made a new car! *does happy dance* (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313907&c=1)

Oh I love - absolutely love - This one by Fresh Prince (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=297587)

Oh, my! How did I miss that Phaeton!!? My grandfather had a 1930 Phaeton that he had inherited from his father. I loved that thing to death. *skips off to download*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 08, 05:27:50
Adele's latest set is here. It's here! It's fucking here!
I am a happy fangirl.

Now go! Yoink it! Yoink like you've never yoinked before!
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/adele_petiteAbeille.jpg)
http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1168.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 08, 05:38:57
Thanks for the heads up, on my way now! She is one of my faves, so I'm going after this one like a cat after catnip! Fucking meow! And the hair by Nouk is nommable, too! The recolours of the Holy Simoly set that Dour did are also on my list of things to yoink!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 08, 05:43:50
Thanks for the heads up, on my way now! She is one of my faves, so I'm going after this one like a cat after catnip! Fucking meow! And the hair by Nouk is nommable, too! The recolours of the Holy Simoly set that Dour did are also on my list of things to yoink!

I most heartily agree. A spot of rum for all involved in the aspiration sets!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 January 08, 06:36:06
Adele's latest set is here. It's here! It's fucking here!
I am a happy fangirl.

Now go! Yoink it! Yoink like you've never yoinked before!
http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1168.0
NomNomNomfreakingNOM.

Thanks for the heads up, I'd been stupidly checking her site rather than WNF directly. Very nice output by all of the creators :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Rum_Pig on 2009 January 08, 08:18:44
Oh wonderful. All that stuff in that thread is just gorgeous! A little too pink for my tastes, but nabbed anyway :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 January 08, 14:42:27
Yay more girlie things for my simmies!  ;D That Nouk hair looks a lot like mine when it's down minus the bangs.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2009 January 08, 16:07:15
*Runs to download Adele set, throwing chairs behind her to block others and tripping people the whole way*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Erhama on 2009 January 08, 16:16:05
i can haz sexi gurl stuffz?

OMG, I love everything that they have to offer!  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 08, 17:36:12
I love this fence, and I use it all the time.
The creator, Manga Moon says the fence requres University, (works fine without it)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=284924
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/Untitled-8.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: gayle_afcb on 2009 January 08, 18:17:15
Oh I love that fence - runs off to download before anyone else sees it  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 January 08, 18:27:04
Hopefully this SA from TSR is never ever snapped up as an FA:

*snipsnipsnip*

Tons of gorgeous maxis clothing recolours *drools*

edit: I hang my head in shame, I am such a bad pirate...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 08, 18:48:18
Definitely not from a freesite.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Chinchillagrl on 2009 January 08, 19:11:45
Hopefully this SA from TSR is never ever snapped up as an FA:

*Taking out the ghastly awful ThomASS site*

Tons of gorgeous maxis clothing recolours *drools*

Silly Anyerfillag! TSR is not a free site.
I like GrayDragonfly's items too. I really wish she would go to WNF or MTS2 to host her items.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 January 08, 19:28:13
But...urgh.

*hangs head in shame*

Pelt me with whatever you've got!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 08, 19:46:59
Just both of you asterisk the name and remove the link, no harm no foul. The more you link there, the more you're promoting TSR.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 08, 21:11:41
I probably wouldn't have wanted it anyway, Anyer. So don't feel bad. TSR files have their own compressor system, which I hear conflicts badly with the superior, squee worthy (and free) compressorizer system. Don't cross the beams! It fucks up games, I hear.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anouk on 2009 January 08, 21:27:41
Did Jfade work on TSR's compressor system?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 08, 21:55:48
Did Jfade work on TSR's compressor system?

I wouldn't know, myself. I made the mistake of using the free compressorizer on some tsr files, and learned the hard way that it crashes one's game. I had to back up all my files, delete the tsr files, and reinstall the game, and then someone told me about the conflict. I'm sure other people know the specifics of the problem, though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 09, 00:09:26
Hm... most of my own stuff was salvaged from TSR after I lost my computer and it's all been compressed and it works just fine.

On my old computer, the compressor screwed everything up, but on the new one, it works great.  So, I think different computers do different things with compression programs. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 09, 02:27:02
Hm... most of my own stuff was salvaged from TSR after I lost my computer and it's all been compressed and it works just fine.

On my old computer, the compressor screwed everything up, but on the new one, it works great.  So, I think different computers do different things with compression programs. 

I find that so odd. I've never heard of such a thing. But being that I know scant little about computers, I will believe it. My computer is getting a bit long in the tooth.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 09, 15:40:18
I never knew about the compressor conflict. I compress everything even hacks and never have an issue.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 09, 15:52:55
I never knew about the compressor conflict. I compress everything even hacks and never have an issue.

I've compressed hacks in the past, but then I heard that you should never compress hacks. Then I got rid of all my hacks but a couple that had already been safely compressed, so I guess it's an obsolete issue with me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 January 09, 15:55:56
I've used that compressoriser on TSR items and nothing has gone wrong with my game oolongteadrinker ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 09, 17:12:54
I never knew about the compressor conflict. I compress everything even hacks and never have an issue.
I've compressed hacks in the past, but then I heard that you should never compress hacks. Then I got rid of all my hacks but a couple that had already been safely compressed, so I guess it's an obsolete issue with me.

I've got the same thing going as littletoes: I compressorize everything - no issues. All my hacks get compressed before they go in my game. Everything gets compressed before it goes in my game. I have 30,000 files in my DL folder; I really can't afford not to run them through the compressorizer. Oddly enough, I have relatively few issues. Lately just one where some skintones were messing up every single hair I had - including Maxis. I was highly disappointed - it was really pretty skin.

I've used that compressoriser on TSR items and nothing has gone wrong with my game oolongteadrinker ???

From TSR itself or the Booty? 'Cause if you do your TSR shopping at the Booty, you're much less likely to have an issue, which is, needless to say, awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 January 09, 17:33:57
I haven't had any problems with Compressorizor, but Wardrobe Wrangler is another story--I don't dare use it for a lot of stuff because I don't remember what I got from TSR and what I didn't and using WW on a TSR item causes a huge crash in my game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 09, 17:54:26
dusdee, I had tsr files from tsr (before I discovered the light of EA's eula), and then from the booty. I'm kinda surprised some computer wiz hasn't surfaced to say "Ha, you should have burned an offerring, twirled counter clockwise and hit control+shift when you used the program on those files!"

Even so, I've been burned and I don't trust anything except bodyshop anymore and I only download from certain sites.

Quote
I haven't had any problems with Compressorizor, but Wardrobe Wrangler is another story--I don't dare use it for a lot of stuff because I don't remember what I got from TSR and what I didn't and using WW on a TSR item causes a huge crash in my game.

Damn it, I've got the wrangler, too. Haven't used it in ages, either, because I'm scared of some conflict because I also don't know what came from where. There are some files I've had since 2004


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lifeofpi on 2009 January 09, 23:26:33
(http://usera.imagecave.com/lifeofpi/acc_marcjacobsandnerdglasses.jpg)

I think shock&shames glasses are amazing.  :)

http://www.shock-shame.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: poissonRouge on 2009 January 10, 00:10:25
I think shock&shames glasses are amazing.  :)

http://www.shock-shame.com/

I agree!  It took me forever to find glasses that I liked, and was crazy excited when I found shock&shame's!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 10, 18:41:42
Lifeofpi, those are amazing. I've always wanted to have glasses like those in my game. I've found things that came awfully close, but never quite quite what I envisioned. The size, the frames, the little details- perfect.

my favorite part is that the glass is clear. Often people make it look like frosted blue. Frosted blue glass is fine for a coffeetable, but my glasses in real life are clear.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 10, 21:33:44
Ha! That's so great. I went on a glasses downloading spree a week or so ago, and I realized that the mesh for those glasses (this one here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=253246)) is incredibly popular. I actually have over 60 pairs of glasses using that one mesh. Which reminds me, I need to do another purge sometime soon - hopefully before my game explodes. I did have a point somewhere... oh, yes. Those glasses (that I have and adore) reminded me that these (http://iltrono.forumfree.net/?t=30389347) ones use the same mesh, and they're pretty darn cute, too, if I do say so myself.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 10, 23:19:23
Goddammit. I swore to myself that I was done downloading things for the week. Damn it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 January 10, 23:42:27
From TSR itself or the Booty? 'Cause if you do your TSR shopping at the Booty, you're much less likely to have an issue, which is, needless to say, awesome.

Does that include free stuff as well? Cause if so, cripes! *goes to save her game*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 January 10, 23:58:15
The Shock and Shame glasses are really nice. Iced Mango (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=255598) also has nice glasses.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: deelink on 2009 January 11, 02:47:20
I am so busy sending myself emails with these bookmarks from work!  :D
I also love just plain clear glasses. I remember being so desperate for glasses that I would grab some pay from TSR and they would just butcher the Sim wearing it next time I would reload the game.
You know what I mean, those weird blue glitches where the glasses would be either floating or cutting into the sim. Eech.
I am so happy I have free awesome ones to try! Thanks LifeofPi! (may I call you Pi?)  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Quinctia on 2009 January 11, 06:55:02
I love that eyeglasses mesh, but if I remember correctly, it is one of the ones I had to fix so they wouldn't flash blue.

I have the fixed mesh in a zip file here (http://www.esnips.com/doc/027f2038-5ffd-4167-a27c-5dbaf28ecd04/Glasses).  I had originally tossed up the zip file because someone had seen a picture of my self sim (http://community.livejournal.com/sim_spam/484403.html) and wanted the glasses she was wearing, which came from one of the Daum forum megapacks I got off of GoS.

But, anyway it's a tiny upload, and you can just toss out the recolors and nab the fixed mesh if you'd like.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 January 11, 07:03:05
Thanks, Quinctia. Much appreciated.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 11, 20:44:53
lacy napkinny, tablerunnery goodness
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=4970.msg267035#msg267035
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/napkins.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 11, 20:57:10
Those remind me of the ones both of my grandmothers had! Coolness!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 11, 23:21:33
I remember someone saying a few pages back that karaskaras is emerging as a very good mesher. Her Sparrow Furniture Set (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8860.0) looks to be just as well made as her previous sets, which is to say, very well made.
And guess who updated? All About Style (http://www.all-about-style.com/index.html)! I get excited every time they update, they're one of the only sites that seem to give a crap about my poor, forgotten elders. :)

p.s. Totally nabbed the Silent Hill stuff. Can't pass that up!
CRAP! That reminds me, look here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9276.0), it's freaking sweet.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 12, 03:19:28
I remember someone saying a few pages back that karaskaras is emerging as a very good mesher. Her Sparrow Furniture Set (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8860.0) looks to be just as well made as her previous sets, which is to say, very well made.
And guess who updated? All About Style (http://www.all-about-style.com/index.html)! I get excited every time they update, they're one of the only sites that seem to give a crap about my poor, forgotten elders. :)

p.s. Totally nabbed the Silent Hill stuff. Can't pass that up!
CRAP! That reminds me, look here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9276.0), it's freaking sweet.

I agree! I'm quite the karaskaras fan. I've got the Ibis set too. the sparrow set,  and the cube set. All of which match eachother and look amazing.
 :-\
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8329.0 cube
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8570.0 ibis
Quote
p.s. Totally nabbed the Silent Hill stuff. Can't pass that up!
CRAP! That reminds me, look here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9276.0), it's freaking sweet.
I will not give in to downloading clutter. i will not give in to downloading clutter. My downloads folder is nearing 15,000 files. Must not click download link. (hands over ears- lalala)




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 12, 03:47:33
You'll do it, you know that you will! You are a downloads addict! Say it! SAY IT! I am a junkie! SAY IT!!!!! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 12, 06:52:50
You'll do it, you know that you will! You are a downloads addict! Say it! SAY IT! I am a junkie! SAY IT!!!!! :D
My sims do need manly junk around the yards... Dammit, no! You will NOT make me give in! I cannot go over 15,000 downloads- alright you twisted my arm!

I am a downloads addict. (cough)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 12, 08:04:07
Oh, pish-aw. ;D I have twice that many, and it only takes about twenty minutes for my game to load. What's sixteen more files? :D
It's the gas and propane tanks that really did it for me. That's the kind of stuff that really makes a house a home. Nothing like the smell of Diesel in the morning!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 12, 22:31:19
Oh, pish-aw. ;D I have twice that many, and it only takes about twenty minutes for my game to load. What's sixteen more files? :D
It's the gas and propane tanks that really did it for me. That's the kind of stuff that really makes a house a home. Nothing like the smell of Diesel in the morning!

I'm mighty impressed that you can wait 20 minutes!! I'm like a whiny kid doing the pee-pee dance when my game loads for 12minutes +.

I spent a good chunk of last night cleaning out old files. Who knew I had 4esf files still in my game? I've had stuff in there for years that I never use. I used simcat to  track down all the misorganized recolors of crap I don't want anymore. By my estimation I've deleted 200-220 files last night. After that, 16 new ones don't seem so bad.

It's a new day! I gotz me space to burn! Where be all the free pretties?

eta= here they are!
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=314684


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 12, 23:34:51
*clicks the link* I have no problem at all admitting to my download addiction. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karin hoshi on 2009 January 13, 00:33:03
*clicks the link* I have no problem at all admitting to my download addiction. :D

Addiction! Of course not I never download anything! Ok I admit it I have an addiction.  :P

Fortunatly my game doesn't have loading problems.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 13, 01:28:52
I used simcat to  track down all the misorganized recolors of crap I don't want anymore.

What is this simcat that you speak of? And where can I find it? Does it track down all the clothing meshes that I don't have recolors for, too? Cause I don't understand how the Wardrobe Wrangler and Download Organizer are supposed to do that - they never have for me. Perhaps because I keep my mesh files in folders separate from my recolor files?

p.s. Manor House Kitchen looks SICK! (in the good way)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 13, 03:56:00
The simcategorizer by simwardrobe. I keep forgetting other people can't read my mind  :-[ It does not find clothing and hair recolors, unfortunately. But its good for finding recolors of objects, which is great because sometimes I'll goof and put deco recolors in my build folder, or surfaces, and whatnot. The only gripe I have for it is that it takes forever for it to find all the recolors.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 January 13, 03:57:38
Oh, those doilies remind me of ones I crocheted, the round really lacey ones.  I might have to put away my needles and pull out a hook again soon.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 14, 15:11:53
 15,000 downloads..I wish! lol

 I have over 45, ooo and that is with deleting about 2 thousand in the past week! And yes I am picky about what I do download.There is just so much good stuff out there! But every once in a while something nasty will be hiding...mostly sneeks in from lots I will download.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nova Strike on 2009 January 14, 16:28:27
I wonder if anyone's ever hit 1 million downloads.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 14, 17:34:42
15,000 downloads..I wish! lol

 I have over 45, ooo and that is with deleting about 2 thousand in the past week! And yes I am picky about what I do download.There is just so much good stuff out there! But every once in a while something nasty will be hiding...mostly sneeks in from lots I will download.

Holy shite! My computer would probably take an hour to load if I had that many! And that's with having organized the files and compressing them.

If you have trouble with sneaky cc when you download houses and lots, you could use the clean installer to import them into your game. You can see all the cc listed and check which ones you want to include in the lot. Or you could just click the lot slot and leave everything else blank (that's what I do).

I use the clean installer when to import simmies, too. That way if I like the sim, but it's wearing clothes, makeup, hair or accessories I don't like, I get to just keep the nice parts.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 January 14, 19:29:13
http://nonsensica.wordpress.com/

Lots of random clutter, mostly art related along with lots and posters. Gorgeous stuff!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 15, 00:18:57
I do use the clean installer......now! But for so long I didn't and so I had no idea what was being put in my game.AND I never organized anything. All my down loads were floating around all together in the folder. It has only been the past year I took on the task of organizing and going threw everything. But every now and then I will go to use an object I have not used for a while and find that it has a nasty recolor I don't want. So now I am more picky about what I put in my game and I have put things in my own collection type folders to find it all! lol


 I used that manor house kitchen in a lot today..it is awesome!!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 15, 01:46:31
I used that manor house kitchen in a lot today..it is awesome!!!

*crosses fingers* Now if only Nixy of Elegant Decay would come out with recolors of it!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Safety Pins on 2009 January 19, 17:58:14
Agh. My downloads folder says 5,420 files, 57 folders.

And, scarily, I think I like downloading more than actually playing the game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 19, 18:16:25
I think I have spent just as much time downloading as playing too, because it is like shopping, only it is free! 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 19, 18:41:58
I think I have spent just as much time downloading as playing too, because it is like shopping, only it is free! 

heh. I'm with you there. Sims free cc totally enables my hoarding tendencies. If not for the sims and it's community creators, I'd probably be one of those crazy ladies with stacks of newspapers from the 1950's- onward, 90 cats, and a bajillion purses I'd never use.

I don't think I've mentioned my love of bb (happy8) here in this thread yet, have I?
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/bbwindowwcif.jpg)

I love making houses with patios that double as living areas and I fell in LOVE with that adorable red windowsill.

ETA: because rudely not linking is my other unhealthy tendency
GANON!
http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 19, 19:09:02
Link please, Zelda!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CJane on 2009 January 19, 20:31:13
Hey, Oolong...that looks great, I'd love to grab it...but, where is it located on that site? I'm sifting through it and I've yet to find it. What section and page, plz?

ETA: NM...found it! Page 24 under objects. =-)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 19, 21:19:22
Sorry! Should've included the page#! Won't make that mistake again.

Incidently, can anyone else get into page one of BabbyebeSim's build mode section? Since discovering the site I've never been able to get into page 1, though 2-4 seem to work just fine. I'm not even sure if the first page has any content, but I'm still curious. I've left a comment in the guestbook about it, but the site owner doesn't speak english as a primary language and I'm not sure how often people check their guestbooks anyway.

Just wondering.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CJane on 2009 January 19, 21:35:56
Nope, can't get into page 1 either. I am sure I've visited the site before because I remember the empty 1st page. It's never been there, I don't think.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 19, 21:55:04
Hm. Guess it's just a quirk of the website.

Anyone up for a cool rinse?
This makes me wish I had the expansion packs required to use this
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=275659


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 19, 22:02:02
Try this:

http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/bm1.html (http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/bm1.html)

She made a mistake in the coding and named the page just 1, then coded the link as 01. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 January 19, 22:17:43
She has some great stuff. I have a bunch and it always looks great in game. I do find the site a bit of hassle to navigate though. That's kinda why I stopped going there.

Where are those blind things from?  Are they hers?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 19, 23:20:49
She has some great stuff. I have a bunch and it always looks great in game. I do find the site a bit of hassle to navigate though. That's kinda why I stopped going there.

Where are those blind things from?  Are they hers?
Yes, they do look consistently good in game.
I made a sweep of the site looking for those curtain shader things. Didn't see them. But that's probably just me. And dammit, now I want them.

And Darqstar, thank you! I've always wanted to know what was there, and now I do. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 January 19, 23:37:00
http://nonsensica.wordpress.com/
Lots of random clutter, mostly art related along with lots and posters. Gorgeous stuff!

Aw jeez. I just cleaned too. Oh well

*click click click click click*

 eta: a Justice poster, nomnomnom


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 January 19, 23:59:16

Aw jeez. I just cleaned too. Oh well

*click click click click click*


Thats exactly how I feel right now. I shouldn't read this thread! happy8 is blinding, but that windowsill is excellent! Thanks for the link oolong :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 20, 02:08:46
<=== has 8 cats and a million purses...is already crazy old lady :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 20, 02:33:08
<=== has 8 cats and a million purses...is already crazy old lady :(

lacking 82 cats. FAIL.  ;)
My sims don't own any "purses", save for the deco/clutter kind. Not that there aren't some gorgeous purse accessories out there. I just have so many accessories that I can't afford to have cc you can't see in the thumbnail.

That's why I love Adele's accessories.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/adacc.jpg)
http://www.adele-sims.com/adele.php?page=updates
http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1374247
You can see what they are and most importantly WHERE they are.

The xmas light earrings blink on and off, when the sim wears them, btw. AUGH! I've got much Adele love, it's killing me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 January 20, 02:38:42
I am absolutely ga-ga for Adele's stuff. I have over 70 of her clothing files and I don't know how many room sets I have. She is so talented. Awesome creator.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Safety Pins on 2009 January 20, 06:08:03
Adele's furniture sets make me vomit rainbow jealousy. Her texturing (not to mention meshing) is beautiful. Has anyone linked to her victorian-gothic parlor set?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 20, 14:31:17
Adele's furniture sets make me vomit rainbow jealousy. Her texturing (not to mention meshing) is beautiful. Has anyone linked to her victorian-gothic parlor set?

No idea, but just in case: http://my.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=299075
Nom nom NOM

Some of my favourites from Dedital Sheep (http://dsb.g.ribbon.to/) (I have no idea what that means)

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/be87d05e.jpg)
http://dsb.g.ribbon.to/downloads/cloth/cloth.html (Under 'Teamed')

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/f60e46f8.jpg)
http://dsb.g.ribbon.to/downloads/accessory/accse.html
Bunny hat! Cuteness!

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/0f89e0c7.jpg)
http://dsb.g.ribbon.to/downloads/cloth/cloth.html (Under 'Toddler')
Toddler Outerwear. Because there isn't enough of that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 January 20, 14:32:31
oolongteadrinker, where on earth did you find that Adele scarf (the fluffy like accessory)? I have never ever seen that before and it looks ever so om nom nom!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2009 January 20, 14:48:10

Some of my favourites from Dedital Sheep (http://dsb.g.ribbon.to/) (I have no idea what that means)


Oooo!! Nomnomnom!! Added site to my favorites!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: faraude on 2009 January 20, 15:27:36
oolongteadrinker, where on earth did you find that Adele scarf (the fluffy like accessory)? I have never ever seen that before and it looks ever so om nom nom!

I think it's on the WNF forum in Adele sims section as a gift, but I can't reach WNF right now, so I can't provide direct link.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 20, 15:41:08
oolongteadrinker, where on earth did you find that Adele scarf (the fluffy like accessory)? I have never ever seen that before and it looks ever so om nom nom!

I think it's on the WNF forum in Adele sims section as a gift, but I can't reach WNF right now, so I can't provide direct link.  :)

http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=348.0

I think that's it, but I couldn't get the picture to come up. It's an exclusive in any case.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 20, 15:52:09
It is!

And it's imitation fur, btw. That Adele thinks of everything, does she not?



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: LadyDea on 2009 January 20, 16:42:29
I wish more people would have accessories show up like Adele does. I have pages and pages of accessories, but I have to actually click on them and then search the sim to see what they are.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 20, 17:00:28
I wish more people would have accessories show up like Adele does. I have pages and pages of accessories, but I have to actually click on them and then search the sim to see what they are.

Oh I know, I hate that! Especially since CAS is extremely laggy in my game. I've been sorting all my jewlery in BV categories with Wardrode Wrangler. You still can't see it but at least the CAS camera moves to the relevant place on the sim's body. It's still a bitch to accessorize my sims though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 20, 21:17:01
Bruno and Adele both make some wonderful clothes, and Bruno's mts2 page has exploded with a slew of gorgeous new pajamas. I love jammies! Nom! Jam with my toast, please!

Secret Weapons
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=315629 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=315629)

This is NOT helping me curb my hoarding habit.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 20, 22:55:17
Just came across these wonderfull lots by Isaa over at simscrossing. Love them! And they're actually pretty light on the cc (by my standards at least). I love this one especially:

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/a232c21c.jpg)
http://simscrossing.net/index.php?topic=1689.0

You have to register to download.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 21, 15:23:21
 :o I have to have that lot!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pixelated on 2009 January 22, 12:44:51
That lot is amazing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Rum_Pig on 2009 January 22, 12:55:32
The ones from Dedital Sheep are far to cute. I kinda went a little overboard downloading them all.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 22, 15:36:00
 I wanted to share this find... I lurk over at MTS2 often but I missed this.HystericalParoxysm took all the neighbourhoods and put them into one giant hood... and it is updated for AL.


http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=301194

I Dl last night and been playing...kinda neat having all the charters living together.




 and just to add Delphy has updated his organizer...    http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=227925


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 22, 16:25:22
Oh right, Megahood! Seems like a neat idea actually, only the first thing I did when I got the game was remove all axis stuff I could ;D

Good news on DDO. Wouldn't know what I'd do without it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 22, 17:08:51
Oh right, Megahood! Seems like a neat idea actually, only the first thing I did when I got the game was remove all axis stuff I could ;D

Good news on DDO. Wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

Good news, I think? The bold "Now scans orphans" thing gave me pause. Didn't it always scan orphans? (just not very clearly or effectively?)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 22, 17:16:58
Good news, I think? The bold "Now scans orphans" thing gave me pause. Didn't it always scan orphans? (just not very clearly or effectively?)

 :D Yeah, I don't use that 'feature'. Don't trust it. But it's great for... well, organising downloads.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Quinctia on 2009 January 22, 17:27:06
If by "scans orphans" you mean, marks items I know aren't orphans as orphans while not actually marking any orphans, then sure it did.  XD

I may try it out just to see if it manages to get any this time.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 22, 17:33:21
I may try it out just to see if it manages to get any this time.

Don't bother, it didn't. Not for me anyway.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 January 22, 21:02:44
If you're one of those people who love to make your hoods look like real towns/cities, then Criquette's stuff is amazing. She just put up an airport neighborhood deco set. She has a few others on her profile, too, including a marina set and a roadways set.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=315821


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: RedSeawench on 2009 January 22, 21:09:21
I may try it out just to see if it manages to get any this time.

Don't bother, it didn't. Not for me anyway.
After I have scanned for orphans,it always states that I have no orphans when I  know damn well that I do,took me a while to figure out that I had to tick the show ophans box, they finally showed up(136 to be exaxt)
I like the preview texture feature as well  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 22, 22:11:08
GLEE!!!

I just found this site with the coolest lots. I know the rules say I have to convincingly act older than 12 to post here, but I'm giddy like a Japanese schoolgirl right now, so you'll have to forgive me just this once. ;D

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/Clipboard01.jpg)
http://blog.naver.com/2aspiration2.do

Go check it out. This one pic really does't do it justice.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 23, 00:00:07
OMG droll... call me 12 too because that stuff makes me giggle too!


 and the organizer has always done a good job for me with orphans, but I have not had too many at once so I think that helps.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Quinctia on 2009 January 23, 18:52:11
It didn't get any better.

My problem is I will never know if I have any orphans if I use that scanner, because it always brings up the same, oh, 300 files or so.  That aren't orphans.  That I use quite often.  That I actually have pictoral evidence that are working just fine as of my last playthrough.

Criquette's Marina set is the best thing that ever happened to my custom island hood.  Now I just have to decide if the landing strip is on the part of the island that my neighborhood is, or leave it back on some other portion (and in my imagination).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 January 23, 18:59:30
I love that program, but the orphan scanner is way too often false. I stopped using it for that long ago.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: badcyn on 2009 January 23, 21:48:48
The updated version of the orphan scanner took out most of my "false postives".  It seems to not read EA Store items and CAS items.  But it finally reads all expansions.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 24, 00:26:33
Club Crimsyn (http://www.clubcrimsyn.com/) updated! Oh, happy, happy day!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Owl on 2009 January 24, 02:07:11
Oh yay! Pretty new outfits!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 25, 04:53:04
I can't resist anything from Club Crimsyn. Goddammit. Do I need those sexeh male clothes? Nooo. On the otherhand, my sims sure do. DAMMIT


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 25, 12:02:28
Nixy made some dollies :)

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/2lw0s9z.jpg)
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9596.0

I already love those fugly critters.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Tabby on 2009 January 25, 15:44:54
I know I shouldn't even look in this thread. My computer is going to quit me one day...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 January 26, 03:51:26
*does a running jump to download link for Ugly Dolls*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 January 26, 05:27:13
I love those critters. I saw them yesterday when I was on GOS, so I got them and a few *cough*tons*cough* things. I haven't seen them in the game yet cause two of the lots I got from there yesterday had a ton of content from the booty used in it, but I didn't have it, so I had to go in and find what all i need and download a ton more stuff.

But my downloads folder hates this thread and me. It took me two years to get to 10,000 downloads. Two months ago I had a problem with something I downloaded, so I had to start over. So in theses two months I have gotten, let me check, ummm, 12,133. Hmmm, last night i just had 8,833. In less then 24 hours I got 3,300 more downloads, I've never done that much. The funny thing is that before my game was really laggy with just 10,000 downloads, now there isn't that much lag, but there is long loading times. And the best part of this is that I don't meet the minimal CPU or RAM requirements. But at least I will be getting a new computer after my parents get their tax refund, and I'll finally get to play those games I got for Christmas....


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 January 26, 08:02:38
Just checked out the Ugly Dolls in game. They're AWESOME. She made a million kinds of them...flopped over, small, large, and in a rainbow of colors.. And they're all slaved to the masters. Amazing!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: nixy on 2009 January 26, 20:54:05
Just checked out the Ugly Dolls in game. They're AWESOME. She made a million kinds of them...flopped over, small, large, and in a rainbow of colors.. And they're all slaved to the masters. Amazing!

I'm glad you like them :)   

Okay, I'm not just glad. I'm squeefully thrilled to see my stuff in this thread.

At some point, after I've forgotten exactly how tedious it was to make all those meshes into package files, I'm planning to do another batch. I just did some of the ones that I like this time, but I still want to do a couple that were requested.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 26, 21:17:29
Okay, I'm not just glad. I'm squeefully thrilled to see my stuff in this thread.

But your stuff certainly deserves to be here.  Those dolls are excellent.  And they sort of remind me of the freezer bunny in the game too.  And there is a huge lack of stuff that's funky, funny, edgy,  sweet, and decorative all rolled into one. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 26, 21:56:04
Okay, I'm not just glad. I'm squeefully thrilled to see my stuff in this thread.

That works out great then, I'm trilled you're thinking of making another batch ;D All your stuff is great, I can't wait for the next load of dolls. The colors and shapes and sheer madness remind me a whole lot of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for some reason. And I love that cartoon :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 26, 22:22:14
The colors and shapes and sheer madness remind me a whole lot of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for some reason. And I love that cartoon :P

Cheese rules.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 January 26, 23:51:50
Water Horsey! Brother Lady! I Like Chocolate Milk!
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/Ipooted.jpg)
Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go

Me + Child + Public Area + "I LIKE CEREAL!" ("Si, and I like Potatoes") = Favorite thing EVAR.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 26, 23:54:57
And don't forget the awesome music!

Twinkle Twinkle little bar,
how I wonder is a cat.

and "I LIKE the fair!"

My favorite?  Sneaking up on Edward in the shower with the carrot and stabbing him screaming "I FOUND A CARROT!" 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 27, 05:57:40
I get so friggin' happy when Bruno updates. I pretty much go crazy.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/brunoUndiesThumb.gif)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=316265

The thumb does not do these justice.

Oh god, those dolls!
I deleted over 2000 orphans (how did it get that bad?) It took me 3 days. 

I think I deserve some new downloads as a reward. (yoinks the deco ugly dolls) MOAR DECO!

ETA: thank you for slaving the colors. Hope I'm using the tern correctly. I wish desperately that more creators would do that sort of thing. Not that I'm picky. A good creation is a good creation, but the slave files make this a fucking great creation!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 January 27, 09:22:48
I love finding great maxis bedding recolors. I really like these from timesynthesist at GOS.
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/TimesynthesistBedding.jpg)

I'm new at this. I used photobucket. I believe it is the correct procedure. Please tell me if it is wrong. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 27, 09:33:28
Ohh yah  I dled those pertiful unmentionables today  ::) I love those beddings! Here's some gorgeous living room furniture by Zarrie @ Gos

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/SecretSanta.jpg)

It was a secret santa gift..I was so excited when they both allowed her to share it!
Here's the link..your download folder can hate me now.
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8750.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=8750.0)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 27, 11:23:00
I'm new at this. I used photobucket. I believe it is the correct procedure. Please tell me if it is wrong. ;D

You did it right. :D If it's a paysite, don't bother to use photobucket - just hotlink. :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 January 27, 15:51:00
OOOO Shiny new things! But, alas, I must refrain from downloading anymore stuff until my new notebook gets here ;D. this one huffs and puffs like a fat kid on a flight of steps when I run the game with all of my CC.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 27, 16:44:07
I usually carry around an external hard drive so I can download whatever I want, when I want it. I've also acccepted the fact that I'm a download whore and came to terms with it.

*click*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 January 27, 16:50:30
*kicks self*  I have an 80GB external hard drive and never thought of that...

(http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/dea99052eb731c1bf50fb5c4415f7ce04g.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 27, 17:05:38
I'm finally good in the space department  ;D (one point i got down to only 1 gb after a dl spree.... ::)) Now i got a new 320 gb hd and 1tb external! I can now be in dl heaven ..but *sigh* I still have to unzip/rar them and I'm not going to be my game's #1 fan anytime soon...Oh well! Bring more pretties  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: nixy on 2009 January 27, 18:49:40

ETA: thank you for slaving the colors. Hope I'm using the tern correctly. I wish desperately that more creators would do that sort of thing. Not that I'm picky. A good creation is a good creation, but the slave files make this a fucking great creation!

You're welcome. Since I usually have 50-70,000 files in my game at any one time (currently trying to find the crash-causing problems in 80,000+, which is just as much fun as you might guess), I have personal incentive to keep the number of files required to be in the game low. I learned how to do master/slave at practically the same time I learned how to make a mesh, so it was easy for me to just make it all part of the same process from the very beginning. It's actually very easy, and I wish more creators would do it, too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 January 27, 18:59:15
Here, here!  I learned that pretty fast too - can't remember what it was I first made that was slaved, but I know it was to a maxis object.  Just wish there was some way to go in and replace/remove all the hard to recolour stuff [like stairs and fences] with recolourables just like objects.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Zillah on 2009 January 27, 19:25:57
This thread is killing me. My desktop blew up and I'm waiting for the parts I ordered to arrive so I can rebuild it. I only have my laptop which has a tiny HD and won't play the Sims. And every day I come here and find more awesomeness that I MUST. HAVE.
I hate this thread - you'd think I could just wait and not look, but nooOOooo. . . .


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 January 27, 20:10:46
Ditto!My download folder is about to explode...But the dollies are so great, i must grab them !!! ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 January 27, 20:30:13
I make a folder called "DownloadSpree(insert date)" in my downloads folder. It helps with crashing problems after a download spree (which always happens to me). If there's no problems I move the contents of that folder to their respective subfolders.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 27, 20:40:03
This thread is killing me. My desktop blew up and I'm waiting for the parts I ordered to arrive so I can rebuild it. I only have my laptop which has a tiny HD and won't play the Sims. And every day I come here and find more awesomeness that I MUST. HAVE.
I hate this thread - you'd think I could just wait and not look, but nooOOooo. . . .

Don't spread this around, but *whisper* when I find my dl folder about to 'splode I go through all the cc and look for stuff that's old and out of fashion. It's easy to find things that I wanted at the time but never use. What's most helpful is looking for the stuff that's a bit outdated. (not counting my period era  themed stuff) Stuff that looked good in 2005 but maybe is not so flattering in '09. (why did I download those cute but clubby looking dresses in 2006?) It hurts to get rid of, but keeps my sims current.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 27, 20:59:20
That's a very good idea eternal_darkness!!!~ too bad..I didn't see your idea b4 my dls folder got this bad...(in all honesty I have not even bothered to look)-and I've got so much stuff it isn't even funny. Maybe i should gather the strength and take a look see. :-\ I'm thinking of throwing everything out (i do have a lot of junk crap I don't want..) and trying to start anew. Sometimes I truly think I just dl to dl. I am addicted! *sigh* it may be months before I can get it straight! Delphy's organizer is my only hope. (Thanks!) anyways...off to peek. :'(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 28, 03:11:41
I'm thinking of throwing everything out (i do have a lot of junk crap I don't want..) and trying to start anew. Sometimes I truly think I just dl to dl. I am addicted! *sigh* it may be months before I can get it straight! Delphy's organizer is my only hope. (Thanks!) anyways...off to peek. :'(

I go through stages like that, too. I think it's like organizing one's closet at home. We have stuff we wear everyday. Stuff we bought and loved in the store, but never look at at home. And stuff that doesn't fit or look good anymore, but served us well in the past.

I've gotten a bit draconian in my download keeper mentality. If I'm not tempted to use certain cc in most houses, than I ask myself, do I reallly like it that much in the first place? Also I have a list of my favorite cc makers. Nixy, Adele, Bruno, Fresh Prince, Buggybooz, Blake Boy, Maylin, Anva, Macarossi,  Phoenix Phaerie, Noukie,  karaskaras, Sleepless Angel--- You get the point. Even if I like cc, it might just be a momentary thing, so I compare it to my ultimate faves. If it doesn't live up to that calibre, it doesn't get space. And my hard drive ain't no friggin' ark.

Oh, look how disciplined and hoity toity I'm being. I've adopted this stance all of a week ago. ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 28, 03:43:22
Oh, look how disciplined and hoity toity I'm being. I've adopted this stance all of a week ago. ::)

A whole week?  Wow! 

All kidding aside, when I lost my old computer and got the "new" one (it was used, but it's new to me) and I realized I could do multiple layers of sub folders, I became positively anal about organizing downloads.  I've got everything organized, pictures in the folders to tell me what is what, so I can tell what I use frequently and what I don't.  If I find I don't use it, out it goes.   I also find I'm not all that willing to download individual pieces, I prefer sets instead. And I prefer to download stuff by the same artists than to find a bunch of different ones.  But, I have everything all catagorized and sub catagorized.   I must have a hundred subfolders in my download folder. 

I realize that sometimes I spend more time organizing my downloads than I actually spend playing the game. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 January 28, 03:58:52
I'm that bad too - not only do I sort downloads, but but also as I download its sorted.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 January 28, 04:01:48
I'm crazy about these new curtains by Gelydh

(http://i41.tinypic.com/zxth85.jpg)

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9719.new#new


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 28, 04:36:47
I also find I'm not all that willing to download individual pieces, I prefer sets instead. And I prefer to download stuff by the same artists than to find a bunch of different ones.  But, I have everything all catagorized and sub catagorized.   I must have a hundred subfolders in my download folder. 

I realize that sometimes I spend more time organizing my downloads than I actually spend playing the game. 

I'm the same way. I love sets. Also I categorize like crazy. But I only have 81 subfolders. Now I feel behind. :(

Also I yoinked those amazing curtains by Gelydh at GOS. That made for my 81st folder! Does anyone know what that chair is from? It looks like hek's work, am I right?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 January 28, 06:15:22
I'm a little OCD about my dl folder. I have 26 subfolders (i.e. appliances, seating, etc) then in just the deco folder alone I have 70 sub-sub-folders broke down by site/creator lol. I even have folders in some of those folders!
I have a 'go thru' folder too. I'm positive I spend at least 75% of my 'sims time' downloading & organizing!
Not sure where that chair is from (I know the pot & plant is buggybooz)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 28, 12:41:12
I just make subfolders accpording to the categories in DDO. It's easiest that way. Unzip, compressorise, remove duplicates with clean intaller, sort with DDO. I know it sound convoluted but this is actually easiest for me :D

I'd like to delete a whole truckloed of stuffses, but I' afraid I'll bork something. I download a LOT of lots andI hardly ever build one myself, so I'm afraid I'll delete a crapload of building stuff and furniture and completely gut my houses. And there's so much CAS stuff I need to get rid of, but deleting one outfit ingame takes about 4 minutes and I can't possibly find stuff in my dl folder.

I'm afraid I'm past the point of no return. The only option I have is starting all over, but I've got so much stuff from way back when and things I wouldn't find anymore, that's not really an option either.

Oh, and I just found this:

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/MTS2_Jasana_BugBreeder_771347_img_J.jpg)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=289069

No more ruining my themed lots with brown wooden fridges :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 28, 17:04:41

Oh, and I just found this:



No more ruining my themed lots with brown wooden fridges :D
The salvaged stories crap from maty would go great with those cellar "fridges". Leaf bedding. Tarp bedding. Tiki, and rustic wooden stuff. Even a limbo bar.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 28, 17:47:53
LOVE the fridge and the curtains!

And I think some of you OCD people who have a heart attack if you seen my DL folder. 45 thousand plus files all floating around together :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 January 28, 18:27:12
I'm not really OCD, just like to know where things are, when I clean out stuff.  I sort by creators, except for a few odds and ends, and those are sorted by where I got stuff from.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 28, 19:30:33
LOVE the fridge and the curtains!

And I think some of you OCD people who have a heart attack if you seen my DL folder. 45 thousand plus files all floating around together :)

That used to be my dl folder on my old computer, since I could only nest folders two subs down.  Of course, when I started DLing stuff, I never thought it would be that much.  "Well a few walls and floors.  Okay, a couple recolors...oh, I MUST have this hair, and that hair, and yes, some pretty outfits and OH BOY NEED TEH SHINY!"  I think a lot of folks start out doing that.  Most of the folks I know who have well organized download folder either remember the days of TS1, or have had their game crash and burn and had to reinstall everything, or have spent hours trying to track down a bad package that was crashing their game. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 28, 19:33:20
Makes me look like a total messhead. I've gotten to the point where I have one called "eyes", one called "hair", one called "seating" and so on. If they're in sets, they get their own folder. Such as windows. Windows have their own subfolders if they are in a cool set. Floors have their own, walls have their own, but they're all thrown together because I am NOT gonna take the time to sort the carpet from the tile from the wood. Fuck that. Walls are the same. Hacks get their own folder. Some creators get their own folder, too. *eyes board creators* I'd like to thank each and every one of you for making my game load in about eight minutes time, from click of the icon to choose a neighborhood to play. I have three gigs of CC but what can I say, I get impatient for the damn thing to load!! :D And it's all your damn fault for being too damn good to pass on. Thank you very much, no sarcasm intended. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 January 28, 20:09:48
This is my favorite kitchen of all time - I'm not sure why, maybe its the transforming counter pieces - though the end counter is in its own thread.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=142752


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 28, 20:17:57
Lovely!

Want a replacement bottle for your drinking sims?

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc79/EngramAu/Random/rumbottle.jpg)

RUMMMMMMM!  Piratey rum!

http://engram-au.livejournal.com/23670.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 January 28, 22:25:45
I've started doing "date", then subfolder "hair" "clothes" etc. My new laptop is probably gonna be like " WTF ?! I didn't sign up for this !! " ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 28, 22:27:41
Want a replacement bottle for your drinking sims?

 :D Love it! Thanks for that one!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 January 29, 01:14:47
Okay, I tried to look over everything and don't *think* anybody else has pointed these out yet. I found these a few days ago, and think they are beyond adorable-- I use them for all my Sims.

(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/snarkysnowlfake/Silhouetteprev1.jpg)

They are available @ GOS here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?PHPSESSID=j16i220gcfktg3d7j8jtv4ukc1&topic=9511.0).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 29, 01:49:34
I wanted to get Spookymuffin's replacement face templates, but she uses Send Space and I can't get that sucker to work for me, so I is sad tonight. :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 January 29, 02:56:27
Paden, your inbox is full.
link baleeted

I'll delete the link once I know you've got them.
  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 January 29, 03:43:01
how the hell do you manage to get 45,000 files into a download folder?  Does the game even manage to work ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 29, 04:20:44
Good idea ooolongteadrinker:) I need to just make folders for my fav creators (a lot of them the same ones ya have lol ) that way it's soo much simpler. I truly need to become dl ocd so that I don't end up in the same predicament ::) I still haven't even taken a look at my downloads folder--but this may tell ya how bad it is. I have not played my game since beginning of december-due to a constant download spree. It has only gotten somewhat ok since I've been sticking my nose on the phorum! (not too long lol) Oh well lol  I think I have over 14 gb of cc-most of it just sitting there because I haven't even opened it. This doesn't include what's already in my actual game folder. Yeah. I'm messed up. And this thread...does not make my "condition" better. ;) As I have to get those curtains. *Sigh* Ok back to being sick.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 29, 07:11:20
OK, pickles, go ahead and delete, got them! Many thanks!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 29, 12:00:30
how the hell do you manage to get 45,000 files into a download folder?  Does the game even manage to work ???

Closing in on 10G here... over 50.000 files and counting. The game takes half an hour to load on good days. I'm so ashamed... :-[


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 29, 14:19:53
how the hell do you manage to get 45,000 files into a download folder?  Does the game even manage to work ???


 there is a ton of great stuff! lol And yes I am picky about what I put in... I just like having lots of options!   It takes about 15-20  minutes for my game to load. In that time I keep myself busy.Do the dishes, put away laundry. In fact if it wasn't for the load time wait I would not get as much housework done!! lol


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 January 29, 15:01:25
-My request made real and oh so awesome-

I requested that over at GoS as that pretty much what I wear during the colder snaps in the year; I hated the fact my jean loving selfsim would either have to wear ski pants, skirts or nothing on bottom and just a long jacket and boots when it was Winter in my game. My selfsim is now very very happy :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 January 29, 17:24:49
I wouldn't call these "pretty" but when I was trying to mesh, I sure would have found them useful. 

Measuring Sticks for meshes (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=125750).

You folks can judge for yourselves if they'll be useful to you.   ;D

EDIT: Fixed link


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 January 29, 19:18:54
Those are clever, if not pretty.  But I'm not sure if I'd use it or not...I tend to clone stuff the height I want.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 29, 19:49:20
Oh I love those.  They will save me some laborious testing time! Thank you so much - this will save me immeasurable hours!  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 30, 12:21:48
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/MTS2_thePrincess_867935_childsroom.jpg)
http://my.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=316476

I love these walls! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 January 30, 13:06:05
So do I?  (child's walls<  I'd use them all over the house, dammit.  Good for the sims that like a bit of loopy colour minus the Atwatness.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 January 30, 16:41:44
I was looking for something else and found this:

(http://i41.tinypic.com/2rw7s3s.jpg)

http://www.simcasticdesigns.com/fences-p3.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 30, 21:15:24
Ohhhh I love those walls too!  *too bad mTS2 is down for maintenance* That bridge is the kind of stuff awesome is made of!

Also, I shall check out those meshing thingamabobbers too since I plan on trying to attempt to create lol  ;D I got all the programs I need-just need to read some tutorials about object meshing etc before I start though. Oki-doke peaz out!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 January 30, 22:14:34
Yeah, I am going to try my hand at creating once I finish installing the games on this comp. As of now, I am studying while waiting for the installation; A nerd milestone  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 31, 01:25:40
Yeah, I am going to try my hand at creating once I finish installing the games on this comp. As of now, I am studying while waiting for the installation; A nerd milestone  :P

You folks are far braver than I. More hands on, anyway. The most I ever do is recolor makeup and accessories. Clothing when I'm feeling less lazy. You'll post in the nom thread, right?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 31, 03:44:41
If I can somehow (and yes If is the operative word) create something that wouldn't make TSR look good (:shivermetimbers:) :o I will definitely post it lol. I am making it my sole point to learn how to create this weekend! (eh dunno if me lil pirate will give me free time but we shall see lol) So eh. Need rum pleeze. :P

ETA: Oh yeah I saw this awesome-o coffee table on Gos :) (not sure if posted?) but here's da pic:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/Sims2EP82008-10-1415-58-45-12.png)

and here's da link: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6905.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6905.0)

Enjoy :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 January 31, 04:47:16
Well, I wouldn't call it pretty, but it has to be the most interesting download out there.

(http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/nate1678/MTS2_J_M_Pescado_868933_2.jpg)

Here is the link, for people who haven't seen it yet, and read the comments to, if you haven't, http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=316764


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Cheryl Mason on 2009 January 31, 05:01:58
Now, what kind of perso would even think of making something like that?  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 January 31, 05:25:06
Now, what kind of perso would even think of making something like that?  ;)
um...I believe that idea originated here & eventually made it's way to MTS2 thanks to your new lord & master (if you intend to hang around here much anyway  :D ) aka site owner J.M.Pescado himself...you owe him your allegiance  ;D

ETA: oops...missed the sarcasm  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Cheryl Mason on 2009 January 31, 05:46:04
Pinky> I know  ;D I'd thought the idea had been abandoned - was chuffed to bits when I suddenly found it on MTS2!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 31, 06:03:56
I was actually curious to know if this would make the light of day-I stand in awe.  :o   :-X


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 January 31, 08:19:43
It caused a huge fuss, the thread is now closed to new comments. The way some people over reacted was hilarious.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 31, 08:51:22
;) Welp as I've been a post whore today..this will be my last for tonight! I was purusing Gos and found this:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/childishj.jpg)

This is friggin' awesome! I have been wanting doll furniture! Sooo cute! Anyways snag it here:

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7671.0
 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=7671.0)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 January 31, 13:41:46
Oh, those Childish sets are awesome! I fart heart at lalabubus for making them! Part II (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9543.0) is out, by the way. And they go great with these dolls (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9329.0) and doll furniture (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9690.0)

Have I mentioned I love GoS yet? :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 January 31, 15:40:39
Oooohhh!!! yaya!  :o This was some great stuff to wake up to ;D ! I absolutely adore these doll and miniatures:) *BIG Hugz!* I friggin'<3 ya and esp. those creators!! I smack my dl folder bc it is cursing yall!--Damn thing thinks it can get its way... :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 January 31, 18:07:54
Damn, now I want some Rocky Road and a Marlboro...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 January 31, 19:35:28
Damn, now I want some Rocky Road and a Marlboro...

Sorry! I deleted my cri moar post. Now this baby is gonna go whine in the corner because she just downloaded 40 more files she didn't need!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 01, 08:51:06
It caused a huge fuss, the thread is now closed to new comments. The way some people over reacted was hilarious.

Darn. :'( I was really enjoying those. I was under the impression that Pescado wanted the squealing to continue - now why would the mods take that away from everyone? :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: meowbark on 2009 February 01, 14:58:15
It caused a huge fuss, the thread is now closed to new comments. The way some people over reacted was hilarious.

Darn. :'( I was really enjoying those. I was under the impression that Pescado wanted the squealing to continue - now why would the mods take that away from everyone? :)

Well apparently unborn fetus contain the 'best healing qualities' And babies being the closest thing to unborn fetus, MTS2 apparently don't want us to have healthy Sims!

http://www.trosch.org/lif/baby-eat.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 01, 15:23:33
I don't think MTS2 has a problem with the babby roaster.  The fact that its a top thread says everything.  No, they're trying to silence the ones who have been wailing about it being immorral and sick and all of that.  Too many sheeples visit the site, you understand.  And when one sheeple starts bleating, they all have to join in.  Mass stupidity is a dangerous thing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 01, 15:33:35
Well apparently unborn fetus contain the 'best healing qualities' And babies being the closest thing to unborn fetus, MTS2 apparently don't want us to have healthy Sims!

http://www.trosch.org/lif/baby-eat.html

That's a disgusting little site. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 February 01, 15:41:31
Back on topic look at what Fresh Prince over at MTS2 has made  It's a gorgeous washer drier set (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=316968)
Finally my simmies house will be complete and stylishly so.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 01, 15:42:04
It caused a huge fuss, the thread is now closed to new comments. The way some people over reacted was hilarious.

Darn. :'( I was really enjoying those. I was under the impression that Pescado wanted the squealing to continue - now why would the mods take that away from everyone? :)

Well apparently unborn fetus contain the 'best healing qualities' And babies being the closest thing to unborn fetus, MTS2 apparently don't want us to have healthy Sims!

http://www.trosch.org/lif/baby-eat.html


pixel people are not  the real thing.... so what does it have to do with baby eating in china?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nova Strike on 2009 February 01, 16:35:27
I think MTS2 is based in the US, serverwise...

So the Sheeple can whine, but then they should STFU about it getting taken down or anything. Pescado is in full right to make his baby grill because it's a right of expression. So agree or disagree, it just shows how dumb the sheeple are. XD


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 01, 16:57:21
Back on topic again... HugeLunatic made some awesome shades that not only pull from maxis textures, but can be placed side-by-side without cheats to look like one big window shade. I have been wanting something like this FOREVARR!  http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=316944


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 February 01, 17:38:10
Oooo! Nice! Downloaded and thanked. I like those.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 01, 18:24:00
Those shades are awesome!  *DL's thanks, and runs to instal*  Damn it, I wish I didn't have to go out today, so I could play my game! 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 01, 18:46:55
Mine mine mine mine mine! *yoinks, thanks, installs, hopes to play in a short while* :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 01, 19:15:26
Those are very cool and very much nabbed - still got my kid challenge stuff in the que, but it included some simple curtains that pull from the baby bedding - not pretty, really, but nice for doing a nursery [provided you use the base game bedding....stupid maxis didn't use consistant bedding for babies.]


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 01, 21:11:48
Has everyone seen this yet?
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9861.msg280783;boardseen#new
Alpha and Omega. The bane of any recovering download addict.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/yuxifo3objectshotelitemdb4.png)
Theres much much more than just in that pic.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 01, 22:04:37
You're evil, you know that, right?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 February 01, 23:08:11
Shameful as it may be, I was kind of waiting for the baby roaster ::). I despise sheeple. If you don't like it, don't download it! STFU and navigate away from that page and let us heathens download the baby roaster in peace....


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 02, 02:23:58
I love the FO3 stuff! My son has the game & I started a character...just have her out of the Vault so still have a long way to go!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 02, 03:10:12
I love the FO3 stuff! My son has the game & I started a character...just have her out of the Vault so still have a long way to go!

I know next to nothing about the fallout series, but if Yuxi keeps making awesome stuff in that theme, I'd probably be obligated to sacrifice an animal or virgin at the franchize's feet. Or at Yuxi's feet. I'm not sure anymore!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: novastar on 2009 February 02, 09:14:49
My Downloads folder trembles under the weight that this thread gives it! Too many downloadables! *shakes fist*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 02, 10:19:00
*sigh*
Went on a bit of downloading spree today. But in all fairness, I deleted half as many files as I downloaded, so I that's one step closer to quitting the habit, right?
Got some extracted FreeTime objects at emosims (http://emosims.org/2009/01/making-music-objects/), picked up the sweetest new separates at All About Style (http://www.all-about-style.com/), had to get InTeen for AL (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php) (Yeah, fine, it sucks, but I miss me some teen-on-teen action!), and rounded it all off with the adorable new set from Sims2Play (http://sims-2.gameslife.ru/objects_sets30.htm). Now if you'll excuse me, I must go wash off the stench of shame that generally accompanies such a severe loss of self-control. There was more, too, but - well, I'm bad enough on my own - I wouldn't want to be an enabler, as well. ;)

psssst... whatever you do, don't look here (http://hapsburgxx.livejournal.com/40966.html#cutid1), here (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9233.msg276645#msg276645), or here (http://www.clubcrimsyn.com/) - m'kay?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 02, 16:51:55
Last I'd heard, inteen wasn't going to be updated, when his computer blew up and he lost his work.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 02, 17:04:59
I believe some others picked up the work and were trying to update and such.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 02, 17:23:39
Godammit! Why does that AAS stuff have to be so cute. *grumbles as downloading* Fucking cute beach clothes. For the love of Mike, it's not even spring yet! *grumble grumble*

I need a new computer. That's the number one thing I've learned from this thread. My rate of buying computers will correlate with how many downloads I cave to


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 02, 18:25:22
Actually, it is spring - at least by old reckoning :)  March 21 is the midpoint of spring [stupid weather frogs] unless you're on the south half of the planet, whereupon its the first day of fall with march 21 being the midpoint of fall.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 02, 20:03:13
Apparently they got somewhere with the AL Inteen, cause it is definitely there (http://www.simbology.com/mods/index.php?dir=inteen/inteenimater/&sort=date&order=desc). My jaw dropped when I saw it; I had been so disappointed when I found out it wasn't going to be updated.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 02, 20:21:19
*cough* I'm ashamed not to know this, but what is this inteen?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 02, 21:15:23
The Inteenimater is a pretty neato little hack (or set of hacks, I guess) that allows teens to do the WooHoo with each other, Y/Adults, and Elders (I think Elders, anyway, that's one I've never had the inclination to try). It allows teens to become pregnant, get married, move in, etc. and also does some other things, like add a 'biological clock' to every Sim, which says how long they have left to get crackin' on the baby making. Along with this, you get 'Birth Control', 'Risky WooHoo' (Meaning Sims have a chance to get knocked up even when not trying for baby), and Miscarriages (with custom memory). It was originally hosted on InSim, if I'm not mistaken, and then they branched off with their own site, then they decided to call it quits, and now it is hosted at Simbology. It really messes stuff up if you use the wrong version for your expansion packs, and because of this the creator was going to update it one last time for AL, but had a computer meltdown and decided not to start all over again (which is understandable, but disappointing none the less). I believe that others stepped in and updated it for AL, however, and for this I am very, very excited. Inteen also has optional 'Flavor Paks' which can be used to add, well... flavor. Read about it here (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php/topic,1349.0.html).
If I'm not mistaken, Pescado very much dislikes Inteen, possibly because it doesn't work with a number of hacks. But, there's a handy little thing at MATY that lists what the FFS hacks do (here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2086.50.html)), and the nice people that did those generally added a "DOES NOT WORK WITH INTEEN" bit, where applicable. The latest list there is for FT, but it is still quite helpful. Also, Inteen does not work with Squinge's Pregnancy Wear Any Outfit, but some have sort of worked around that. There's a thread at Simbology on that subject - read more here (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php/topic,2746.0.html). In general, it's a pain in the ass, but IMO, well worth it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 02, 23:06:59
Many folks don't like it because of the teen pregnancy angle, it adds just a bit too much realism to something that is a game. Each to their own, but I don't want it. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 02, 23:32:42
Many folks don't like it because of the teen pregnancy angle, it adds just a bit too much realism to something that is a game. Each to their own, but I don't want it. :D

I agree. My game's social dynamics are relatively simple: he/she likes me/ likes me not. Anything more complicated sounds more like work than play.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 03, 02:17:05
I thought about installing that but I'm afraid my game will just refuse to start up if I do..lol And it's ok bc I don't care about the teens in my game. Whether they gets theirs or not meh I'll still sleep at night. As long as my sim gets hers-I'm all good! ;) (sorry for the pixel porn reference..) :P But now I understand the program a lot better-thanks dusdeedawn!  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 03, 02:30:11
I actually like the birth control combined with risky woohoo for my adult sims.  But then, if I can't have most of my Pes fix's I might not ever put that in....not sure, because its actually faintly annoying to -not- have townies without generating them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 February 03, 02:38:13
ACR gives you risky woohoo, not sure about the birth control, though.

Pescado hates The Kitten Killer (Inteen) and will not give any support for game fuck-ups that happen if you have it installed.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cynt on 2009 February 03, 03:46:45
These pjs are just so cute!! ;D http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317337
Just what my babies need :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: nekochanpurr on 2009 February 03, 05:01:45
This thread is just EVIL. I promised myself i wouldn't download so much this time.. ::Sigh:: Thanks though. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 03, 05:17:53
Just Sims 2 has done an update.  Squee !!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 February 03, 13:15:59
Just found out these great walls at MTS2.Can't believe i missed this creator! :D
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=259195

And some great houses here: http://www.sheylassims2.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 February 03, 14:46:12
Just found out these great walls at MTS2.Can't believe i missed this creator! :D
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=259195

Those are really nice. I have this theory that walls and floors don't take up space, so I can have as many as I want...  ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 03, 16:15:25
A very interesting theory crunk?  So tell me, how did you come by that little nugget of ingeniousness?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 February 03, 17:17:07
I had this theory too...Until i realized that i had so many walls/floors in game that it was impossible for me to browse the build catalogue.I did a deep cleaning and now i have only some wooden floors,a few classy walls and some goth murals .Total:300 items  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 03, 17:51:11
Almost all my custom walls and floors are ones I did myself.  Though I do have some that I converted for Plasticbox, since she switched to a mac and couldn't use homecrafter, and some walls that expand the K&B tile sets.

I ought to go and zip up some of the walls I made that I never use though, and put them in storage.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 03, 19:31:42
(http://i39.tinypic.com/2cxd935.jpg)

Gorgeous: http://www.ossimstugas.com/downloads/objectos/index.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 03, 19:41:33
For prettiest, go to Calalily's site - she's just updated with pretty new electronics [which I'm so recolouring as soon as I make this shelf work]


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 03, 20:04:12
Cynt, Aeris, and Calalily--grrrr! Oh who am I kidding. *Jumps up for joy!* Thanks for the pretties  ;D  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 03, 20:07:18
For prettiest, go to Calalily's site - she's just updated with pretty new electronics [which I'm so recolouring as soon as I make this shelf work]

Yay for recolourers.  :-* Ima make less recolours in future and force someone else to do it.  :D

And just because you need more punishment, I was checking out my links page for validity and lookie what I found:

(http://i41.tinypic.com/xfns4o.jpg)

http://www.ellasims2.com/single%20objects/singleobjects.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sniken on 2009 February 03, 20:28:36
Crunk, I live by that theory too. Walls, floors and recolours doesnt take up space, so they dont really count.  ::)
Cala, thanks for posting that link to ellasims, Ive been looking for that mirror for ages (it - or one just like it - seems to pop up in every showoff screenie I see)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cynt on 2009 February 04, 01:20:08
always welcome siberiansunset  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Now, this I would't call "pretty" but it is still interesting http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317461
as well as this other one http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317427
I tried them both and the apartments are pretty cool, and I made that Rahan my sex toy in-game  :P ]
shouldn't have said that


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Miikan on 2009 February 04, 07:39:24
Just found out these great walls at MTS2.Can't believe i missed this creator! :D
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=259195

She has a lot of good stuff here:
http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=148
and also there are works of other wonderful creators:
http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/index.php

I think it's one of the best sites for downloading. It's in Polish but also you'll find many things in English. If you have problems with finding what you need, I'll be glad to help :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SimARR on 2009 February 04, 08:48:06
That above living set from http://www.ossimstugas.com/downloads/objectos/index.html is most probably extremely high poly. The last set from the site had a chair over 100,000 polys or something.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 February 04, 10:19:54
100000 polys ?Are you sure? That's a mass murder! *off checking*

Edit: The loveseat is 56000 polys,the table half this number . But it does look good... ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 04, 11:35:25
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/MTS2_HystericalParoxysm_430844_roas.jpg)
http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=211835

:D

Not really in the 'pretty' category, but after all the BBQ wank, this made me laugh.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 04, 16:23:25
Try this:

http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/bm1.html (http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/bm1.html)

She made a mistake in the coding and named the page just 1, then coded the link as 01. 

Babbyebe sims has fixed the first page of their build mode section, here http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/bm01.html
The other llink is actually from her old backup site or something, with different creations. The fixed one matches this red "windowsill" table.
 (http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/bbwindowwcif.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 February 04, 16:48:53
Adele's latest gorgeous set (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317486).

I love her things, they look so good in game :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 04, 19:36:10
Speaking of Adele, WNF has a new this month's Aspiration Reward set up! Post Apocalyptic/Trashed/Zombie = YAY! And it features some very neat Adele things (can that woman do no wrong?!).
Look-see:
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/Adele.jpg) (http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1212.0)
                   ^^ ClickyClickerton ^^


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 February 04, 20:28:18
Dude I was wondering if that aspiration reward set had been put up! Thanks Dusdeedawn ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 04, 20:33:06
I've been checking every day - sometimes twice. :-[ ;D I'm kinda diggin' on Agustin's new hair. I think I'll fire up the old BS and take a peek.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 04, 20:47:28
Agustin's new hair absolutely rocks.  I haven't downloaded yet, but I did go and have a quick looksie.  Will pick it up tomorrow. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 04, 23:05:12
Speaking of Adele, WNF has a new this month's Aspiration Reward set up! Post Apocalyptic/Trashed/Zombie = YAY! And it features some very neat Adele things (can that woman do no wrong?!).
Look-see:

                   ^^ ClickyClickerton ^^

MINE MINE AND MINE!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 04, 23:31:48
All time favorite Agustin hair:
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/ElegantPonytailFabulousSims.jpg) (http://fabulousims.wickedsims.com/sale/downloads2.htm)
High poly but very pretty in game.

Ms. Cala Teacher Lady -
Look-see
looksie.
:P Yeah, I saw what you did there. ;)
I lik mi speling bettr. :D :D :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 04, 23:57:02
 :-* trotting off to WNF now!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: EmilyTwitch on 2009 February 05, 03:37:41
Yes! Zombie stuff!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 05, 06:49:52
Ms. Cala Teacher Lady -
Look-see
looksie.
:P Yeah, I saw what you did there. ;)
I lik mi speling bettr. :D :D :D

That's cause yours is right. :D I use IE - no Firefox to check my atrocious misspellings.  And some of them are habits - so I go with them rather than get all angsty about it - I have Microsoft Word to correct me when it really matters.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 05, 07:00:12
Zombie eat bwains! Thanks for the pretties:) Here is a dress I am just loving right now!

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/Obrazek191.jpg)
I love shimmery goodness ::)

http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1931 (http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1931)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 05, 07:02:17
That's cause yours is right. :D I use IE - no Firefox to check my atrocious misspellings.  And some of them are habits - so I go with them rather than get all angsty about it - I have Microsoft Word to correct me when it really matters.  :D

Really? I thought yours was right! Damn! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 05, 15:31:42
Here is a dress I am just loving right now!

I love shimmery goodness ::)

http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1931 (http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1931)

The shoes in that outfit are gorgeous. And yes, the goodness is shimmery


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 05, 23:03:41
Where is that Agustin hair?  I've been trying to find it but can't.  ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 February 05, 23:08:00
All time favorite Agustin hair:
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/ElegantPonytailFabulousSims.jpg) (http://fabulousims.wickedsims.com/sale/downloads2.htm)
High poly but very pretty in game.

Ms. Cala Teacher Lady -
Look-see
looksie.
:P Yeah, I saw what you did there. ;)
I lik mi speling bettr. :D :D :D

This one Meanie? Click on the picture.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 06, 03:03:22
Thanks.  Got it  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 February 07, 18:02:24
Did anybody else notice that Adele came out with a new dining set on MTS2 (http://sumomo.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317681) today? I'd not seen it before, so I'm excited to go try it out. Pretty sure I have everything of hers in game...

(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/snarkysnowlfake/MTS2_Adele_872447_adele_everett_-1.jpg)

Edited to add picture.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 07, 20:06:37
I really like those chairs. The thumbnail with all the textures for the side tables - wow! Once again, I bow down to the wonder that is Adele's textures. I'm so going to find a use for that set. Actually, probably more like ten uses!

Edit - because no one likes a double poster!
If you're like me, you can never get enough of a good thing. In this case, a good thing is Nouk's Squid Hair! So of course I squeed when I saw this thread (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9969.0) over at GoS. Love at first sight!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 08, 18:28:33
I squeed when I saw that apartment dining set. I woke my dog.

I love this gift set. I don't think I've brought it up yet in other threads or anything. Love it to death
 http://www.simcontrol.es/sims/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=48
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/gift6.jpg)

simcontrol



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 09, 01:17:48
Oh my god - that's absolutely gorgeous! I have it - and thanked them in my crappy Spanish.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 09, 03:58:35
 :'( I can never get on that site because it will not let me register. I have tried several times before too!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 09, 04:20:13
:'( I can never get on that site because it will not let me register. I have tried several times before too!

Maybe it's your browser? When I have trouble I switch from Firefox to Internet Explorer. (And back to firefox again when IE gives me shit. Which is more often the case)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 09, 04:25:54
Don't try to use a translator - it screws up the registration process.  If you really have to, have the translator open in one tab/window and have the untranslated in one tab/window.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 09, 14:55:49
could be the translator! never thought of that and I will try IE instead too. I want their pretties!! lol

 And speaking of pretties Piggi Sims had sone reclours of buggybooz kitchen     http://www.piggis-sims.net/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 February 09, 15:51:05
I just came in to post that too, littletoes!

I found this gorgeous little PlantSim set (http://www.sims2code.hk/english/zet003.php). Pretty much everything on the site is lovely though.

http://www.sims2code.hk/english/index.php

[edit] These Elder Female Outfits (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=318002) are great too!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 09, 18:00:42
*cackles with glee as she keeps hitting the download buttons*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 09, 20:07:25
Awesomely pretty walls:

http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317827


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 09, 21:36:22
Awesomely pretty walls:

http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317827

WANT. TAKE. HAVE.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 09, 23:39:10
You're killing me here, you know that, right? :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: BoilerFox on 2009 February 10, 07:51:29
Delurking (after months of lurking moar to avoid being catted) to add my favorite freesites to this list.

Awesims http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/?p=462 (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/?p=462) makes some of the most beautiful walls. With crown moldings that are AL/ceiling compatible. Really love them. 

Like these here:
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2n0pmdf.jpg)

And Piggi http://www.piggis-sims.net/ (http://www.piggis-sims.net/) has finally done BuggyBooz kitchen. I love all her wood grains and colors. My artsy sims need color!
(http://i44.tinypic.com/244cd9d.png)

Hope I did the links right.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 February 10, 15:18:40
Thanks for that one, I have a 50:1 object - wall ratio. I'll get awesome sets, but then not have wallpaper to match :-\

This gem from petschauerg @ MTS2 made my day:
(http://s5.tinypic.com/2ypeutg.jpg)

Link: http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317173

Now my goth/vampire Sims can have babies and not have fluffy light colored cribs that mess up the house's dark theme.

Sorry for the hotlink :-[ I'm kinda handicapped when it comes to that :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 10, 18:01:40
eternal_darkness, could you post a link?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 10, 18:06:19
eternal_darkness - you're hotlinking MTS2 - you're hurting them. Host the image at tinypic.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 11, 01:27:27
Just when I think I got my downloading addiction over. :D *I give up!* Click. ::)
ALSO: these stairs! OMG! I have been needing these! Beautiful!
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/MTS2_SimArchitect_777520_snapshot_3.jpg)
Here's the link: http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=290339 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=290339)

I do see they are not recent but man they are perfect!-So Sorry if this was posted in the 1st thread before!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 February 11, 05:24:51
Oh,yay, Simarchitect again!He makes really good stuff! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: vexed on 2009 February 11, 22:49:14
Please tell me that pic is photoshopped.  I don't know if I could handle that much sparkle and shiny in my game :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 11, 23:08:27
Yeah, it should be a bit. Look at the railing on the second story. I believe that's a Maxis base game fence, and I know for sure it doesn't shine like that in game.
Speaking of shiny goodies, All About Style (http://www.all-about-style.com/) has more cute separates. They make me want to go back to Hawaii.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 12, 00:35:43
Yeah I don't think I could handle all that shiny goodness and I love shiny goodness :o
Ohh thanks for pointing out the cute goods dusdeedawn! *goes to AAS...* ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nova Strike on 2009 February 12, 01:58:59
Perused here, linked from another site we had linked in.....

Looked, looked, didn't see paid stuff, and OMNOMNOMNOMNOMSOMUCHGOODNESS.

http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/

THERE. YES. THERE. I was making happy noises just LOOKING. XD


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cynt on 2009 February 12, 02:17:49
That is a really nice site Nova Strike, thanks for sharing ;D ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 12, 03:56:25
I'm a sad, sad, sad panda.  :-[ The site won't work for me!  :'( My dling addiction makes me want to see it! *grumbles* Oh well I will keep trying, besides checking on it every half hour may make it work... ::)   ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lirael on 2009 February 12, 04:01:48
I'm getting a 404 not found error. Says the link is broken.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 12, 04:06:36
What, we're not reading threads we post in now? That a thing we decided to drop or something? What gives? ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 February 12, 04:19:24
It worked just right a few hours ago.The latest update (gift by Moirae) leads you to the "lowdown" site anyway. Just wait,i'm sure the link will work again later.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 February 12, 04:41:56
This is supposed to be GOOD? Those stairs are 100% pure USDA Grade A *SUCK*, and it says so even in the description. Just look at the horrible bugs. They are utterly unfit for use or release.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 12, 04:46:20
Hmm. Site works just fine for me. ??? I love that site, though. I go there every so often and just soak in the greatness. There's this one painting (http://www.happy8.com/bbsims/obj02.html) there with just feet, and for some reason I can't get enough of it.
I've been playing my game for, like, two days straight now. I want to get rid of everything, but all the stuff I've collected is so awesome, I just can't part with anything.
To hold ya'll over until happy8's back, I'll provide links to some of my favorite stuffs! ;D Must haves include: Maxis Recolors (especially the grun (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=5275.0)-gi (http://niaolong.net/forum/index.php?topic=117.0)-fied (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=6120.0) kind), eyebrows (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=3577.msg260329#msg260329), eyebrows (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=283968), eyebrows (http://esperesa.livejournal.com/tag/cc:+face+stuff), those 'Breeze' (http://beosboxboy.blogspot.com/2008/01/olemantikers-breeze.html) windows by Olemantiker (who doesn't love those, right? :)), all the Stories stuff floating around (here (http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/index.php/topic,745.msg88394.html#msg88394), here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10993.0.html), and here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,12631.0.html)), and anything and everything Aviolina. She's got a new house (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=4970.msg285034#msg285034) that I have yet to play, but everything in it is new and I can't wait to get a good look at it. And I've been loving some cute bedding (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=305430) for all the little Sim kiddos. And I absolutely adore this set (http://www.seriouslyamusedsims.com/contents/objects/RoomSets/1bedsurf.html). Well, actually, I adore the whole site. Maybe one day they'll update... *sigh*

ETA: Pescado, when was the last time you read the FAQ (http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/index.php/topic,1104.0.html)?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 February 12, 06:03:21
I like this build set. Thought i'd share the link here:
http://www.sims2collage.de/ermelind/meshes/buildingbauen/glaskuppelnundtunnelglasdoomesantunel.php

(http://www.sims2collage.de/ermelind/meshes/buildingbauen/b0552dd9bab070e6240.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 February 12, 06:20:43
What, we're not reading threads we post in now? That a thing we decided to drop or something? What gives? ::)

I'm lost. Wtf are you talking about?  ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 February 12, 08:55:00
I tried to go back and figure out what oolong was talking about, but now I'm just more confused. I think something to do with babbeye sims? Just a shot in the dark..


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 12, 10:04:26
After reading this page I think I've just turned blond  ???  ???  ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Irish Wench on 2009 February 12, 13:07:00
What, we're not reading threads we post in now? That a thing we decided to drop or something? What gives? ::)

I'm lost. Wtf are you talking about?  ???

Back on Page 29 of this topic oolongteadrinker discussed this very site (Babbyebesims). I assume that is what is meant.  ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 February 13, 00:06:31
I'm going crazy with the cutsy cottage stuff right now - must be that the snow is mostly black and rotted looking now, and I'm sick of being cold. Anywho, I found this. (http://annosims.net/forum/index.php?topic=1958.0) Yum. Actually, the whole site is yum.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 February 13, 02:28:27
After reading this page I think I've just turned blond  ???  ???  ???

You say that like it's a bad thing.  :D

Btw...I'm a blond.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 13, 08:58:52
The stuff is supposed to be pretty! *tsk, tsk, tsk* :o Be kind to those who share freely!!! They look good in-game to me :)
 I needed them to make my entrance look elegant  :P And yeah the site is working for me. *off to check it out*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SimARR on 2009 February 13, 10:21:07
Great new set at Luina Sims (http://www.luinasims.com)

Also love some of the new plants based on maxis plants at Natural Sims (http://www.naturalsims.com/)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 February 13, 16:27:05
After reading this page I think I've just turned blond  ???  ???  ???

You say that like it's a bad thing.  :D

Btw...I'm a blond.  ;D

Ya reallythere meanie. You should be so lucky.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rome_raven on 2009 February 13, 16:33:12
Found this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317716) cool link for more versatile OMSPs


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: VaVe on 2009 February 13, 21:09:48
When you look though these and then some of the paysite garbage it's hard to imagine how people can be stupid enough to not go for the free option, are they all on computers with no monitors?
I remember when I first discovered the booty (actually before mts2) I downloaded loads, then, after seeing the supirior quality of the free stuff I deleted it all.
I think I've added about 1Gb of downloads since i started reading this thread.
Sorry I've if started rambling but the stuff is incredible.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 13, 21:17:00
I feel ya Vave! Yes, this thread has pissed my downloads folder off greatly! But, ah the superiority of well made FREE things! Made with all that love  :D
I don't believe I'll be needing any inferior pay crap. I'm sure if I had any in-game it would all be gone @ first glance.  ;D Man the pool of talent in the freesite community...man I love it! (even if my laptop is a bastard and hates ya.) *beats it into submission*   :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 13, 21:22:41
Even before I knew about how bad TSR was, I could tell that a lot of the stuff there, and other paysites was bad, and I was only 12. But some people feel that having to pay for something rather then getting it for free makes it better and far superior then the free stuff. How they logic works out, I don't know, because there is a lot of stuff in real life even that is better that either free or very low cost.

Most of the pay content I have in my game is from houses I downloaded off of free sites and paysite hairs re textured , again from free sites. There is one paysite that I do have booty content from, but its because it is such a great site, I love it. I wish she would go free.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 14, 16:52:46
Found this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317716) cool link for more versatile OMSPs

SQUEE!!! Perfection! Thank you!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 14, 17:45:17
Ohh that's awesome Rome_raven!!!!! Thanks! :D *needs to go in-game now....* :P

These vertical vinyl siding are awesome! http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=226092 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=226092)

Also, not sure if this lot creator has been mentioned before (highly likely since his stuff is wow!) but check his stuff out!
http://linna.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=909847 (http://linna.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=909847) I have been on an audluvsvegas dling spree! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 February 14, 17:57:50
Found this (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317716) cool link for more versatile OMSPs
Oh God, you just shot my whole weekend. My jaw's still retracting. What an incredible idea! Thanks so much for a) finding it and b) posting about it and c) providing a link.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 17, 15:42:17
Not "pretty" but great anyway.

Old walls (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=318804)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 February 17, 16:46:16
Not "pretty" but great anyway.

Old walls (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=318804)

Thank you for finding these, and also the incredible Gothic furnishings by Adele that you used in your screenshots. I have many of her sets but didn't have this one, but now I do, thanks to you.

For anyone who's looking for that set by Adele, here's the link: Victorian-Gothic Set (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=299075).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 17, 17:51:46
Not "pretty" but great anyway.

Old walls (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=318804)

Pretty, "pretty" and great!
Yes yes! NOM NOM NOM
http://www.neebit.com/s?0080f770d8.flv


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 17, 18:20:23

Yes yes! NOM NOM NOM
http://www.neebit.com/s?0080f770d8.flv

Oh wow, that video reminds me of the day we found Jesse James and were giving him food!  He made those exact same noises, like he was trying to purr, talk, and eat all at once. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: justso on 2009 February 17, 18:49:43
The audluvsvegas lots are awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 17, 23:34:25
Oglarama is one of my favorite sites-- far superior to HolySimoly. Sadly, there hasn't been new content lately. But the content that is there is undeniably awesome, always looks great in game, and irresistible to overuse. I know I have to remind myself not to put them on every lot.
This is one of my most loved objects in game. I think I mentioned it once in the "free pwns paysite" thread, but not here yet.

I use it in all mansions, museums, and fine establishments.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/ogdisplaycabinetvaselarge1.jpg)
You can find it here: http://www.ogularama.com/objects.php
There's also empty versions that you can place other pieces of art in, found in your sims "surface" buy mode.
http://www.ogularama.com/objects8.php

eta: Jesse James is kind of a badass name for a cat.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 18, 00:05:32
This is one of my most loved objects in game. I think I mentioned it once in the "free pwns paysite" thread, but not here yet.

You know, I was just thinking I need to build a museum for my neighborhood and this will work out really well.  Thank you! 


eta: Jesse James is kind of a badass name for a cat.

He's an outlaw who somehow managed to get into our hearts and lives after we told each other and ourselves, "No more than two cats!"   He started out pretty loving, but he is a baddass.  The neighbor across the street have a couple yapkids that bark at my cats in the window.  When Jesse comes to the window they stop.  Just totally stop.  Very cool, is our Jesse. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cynt on 2009 February 18, 01:46:02
My dls folder is exploding!!!.....

Gimme gimme moar 8)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 18, 03:23:50
Jade's like that, snuck in after we said 4 was enough - but she was such a sweet, well-mannered cat, and obviously not a young cat, we had to take her in.  She's even finally decided, after the move, that inside isn't so bad.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 18, 04:22:28
I love those museum displays!! thanks!!!!!!! Man soo many good sites--soo much to check out! I had a cool item to post but I forgot where it's at.. :-\ As soon as I find it I'll post it ;) Then your dls folder can hate me :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 February 18, 07:45:12
Growing up, I lived in a house full of stray cats. It seems like every time my mom said "__ is enough", another bedraggled, hungry kitty would be mewing at our door. One in particular just about broke my heart- my Jinx. I found this poor little barely weaned black kitten shivering in a snow pile outside our front porch, mewing. As scared as he was of me at first, he couldn't even run away when I approached him because he simply didn't have the energy. I grabbed him, brought him inside and wrapped him in a warm towel, and promptly looked at my mom ( I was about 16 at the time) and said "Can we keep it?" He looked at her, and one mew and she gave in. We then ran him to the vet across the street. He grew up to be a wonderful, friendly cat who fiercely hated snow.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 18, 07:58:31
We then ran him to the vet across the street. He grew up to be a wonderful, friendly cat who fiercely hated snow.

You can't really blame him for hating snow, can you? I mean, if I was in snow and it almost killed me, I would never want to see the stuff again. My cat hates snow, but my cat is just odd. He hates a lot of things.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 18, 12:47:12
Cats are evolved for deserts - that being said, while some can function in cold, snow is another matter [domestic cats, not wild cats].  The wet makes it impossible for them to fend off the snow, and thus leads to sick, miiserable kitties.  This is also why most domestic cats hate submersion in water in general - they're not evolved for it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 18, 13:19:40
I'll remember that next time I see a kitteh hovering around my birds.  Had previously planned to fire a champagne bottle at them (the kittehs, not the birds.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 February 18, 15:34:39
I luvs me some Criquette.

Embankments (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=318102)

Check these out (http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1411270)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Quinctia on 2009 February 18, 17:42:04
Funny enough, we had a cat named Jinx who loved snow.  He'd run outside and dive headfirst into snowbanks...  He had a layer of fur that got pretty greasy, and we figured it provided pretty good waterproofing.

He also occasionally slept in the bathroom sink and played with the hose if someone was watering outside.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 February 18, 17:46:24
The Gang of Six all blame the Spousal Unit and I for snow--and they don't even go outside.  We open the door, they peer out and then give us a look that says, all too clearly, "WTF did you do that for?"


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 18, 18:08:55
I luvs me some Criquette.

Embankments (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=318102)

Check these out (http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=1411270)

Wow, complete and utter awesomeness!  My download folder can't decide to hate you or Criquette more.  But me?  I'm happy.  What's a few more minutes of loading time when you have such nice goodies to play with.

Cat news?  I took Jesse James to the vet today for his annual. (Annual, not that other word you probably saw first, so get your mind out of the gutter)  He's in marvelous health and the vet was shocked with how huge he is.  (Not fat, just a biiiig cat)  Last year when we brought him in the vet said he was a year old (we'd found him two weeks earlier)  I said no, he was a lot younger.  He insisted.  I insisted by telling him that we were sure Jesse was a girl and had named him New York, then in the next week, the boys fell, New York had a package and became Jesse James.   The vet said then that maybe, just maybe he was ten or twelve months old, but life on the streets had stunted the hormones.

Now the vet is of the opinion that I was right.  "That cat is HUGE!  I thought it was going to be a smallish cat.  I guess he was pretty young when you took him in." 

He's got paws the size of half dollars. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 18, 23:08:58
Some cats have evolved for snowy conditions, look at the Maine Coonie Cat and the Norwegian cat. My Magoo loved snow when he was younger, so long as I brought it in for him to play with while he sat in the tub. Odd, strange cat and I really miss that scratchy meow and smooth motor purr. (Magoo was half Maine Coon, half barn, totally spoiled.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 18, 23:35:52
The Gang of Six all blame the Spousal Unit and I for snow--and they don't even go outside.  We open the door, they peer out and then give us a look that says, all too clearly, "WTF did you do that for?"

That is the same thing my cat does. He will go up to me or my mom and ask to be let outside, and if its raining or there is snow on the ground, he sits and stares at it, then looks at us like its our fault its there. Just a few weeks ago we had like 6 inches of snow outside, and he wanted out. So I opened the door, he saw the snow there and wanted to keep looking (mind you, it was 5 degrees out that day). So since he wouldn't move from the door I picked him up and set him in the snow. He was trying so hard to find a way to walk on the snow so he could get back inside without touching the snow anymore. He fail miserably, and wouldn't look at me for a week after that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 18, 23:38:29
Speaking of cats, MANGO SIMS (http://mangosims2.free.fr/) has a decorative cat in one of their sets! I can't remember which one, though. :-\ Nevertheless, I hope you've caught my rather obvious hint. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 18, 23:57:22
Some cats have evolved for snowy conditions, look at the Maine Coonie Cat and the Norwegian cat. My Magoo loved snow when he was younger, so long as I brought it in for him to play with while he sat in the tub. Odd, strange cat and I really miss that scratchy meow and smooth motor purr. (Magoo was half Maine Coon, half barn, totally spoiled.)

Yes, but they themselves are descended from desert animals. Things like more body mass and thicker coats are superficial additions. The desert body design remains mostly unchanged as evidenced in their habits, and digestive tracts.

For example, nearly all cats regardless of coat or breed gravitate toward what most people would assume are uncomfortably hot places-- near a kiln, or a radiator, etc.

Their digestive tracts also absorb more water than other carnivores of similar niche. (that might explain why most people consider cat feces more offensive in odor to things like dogs or ferrets, whatever.

There are other more subtle signs, but you get the point.

Of course I forgot what I was originally planning to say. The embankments and trains are amazing. It never ceases to surprise me what the community members of the sims will come up with.

Usually for things that someone like me would never think they were even missing. But now that I see those things I wonder how I could overlook it. MUST HAVE NOW *grabs*

You know, I was just thinking I need to build a museum for my neighborhood and this will work out really well.  Thank you! 

Good luck with it! That was my reaction when I saw it on Ogularama. Shit! I need to make a museum for my game!
Ogularama does not get nearly the amount of love it deserves. If it did, I think we'd see more updates.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 19, 00:42:24
Yup - I've got acat thats some sort of snowcat - norwegian at a guess, and she's got thick fur, fuzzy toes - and if you get her wet she goes from sweet goof to terrified monser with claws and teeth.

They handle cold okay, its the -wet- that can still not only get to them, but -kill- them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 19, 01:01:55
Magoo really was an oddball, then. He adored a warm bath with lavender-scented cat shampoo. I told you he was spoiled. Suzie will tolerate it, but she has to be really suffering from fleas or dandruff. Since we switched her diet and the way we handle the fleas, she's not needed one for some time. High-quality diet = less dandruff/NO dandruff and high quality coat, among other things.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: TapThatBooty on 2009 February 19, 01:03:34
Speaking of cats, MANGO SIMS (http://mangosims2.free.fr/) has a decorative cat in one of their sets! I can't remember which one, though. :-\ Nevertheless, I hope you've caught my rather obvious hint. :D

Damn you vile woman! My obsessive link clicking compelled me to click that link, and now I'm on yet another download spree. I love you, my downloads folder hates you :P.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 19, 01:38:05
I don't decorate my hoods all that much, but I love that train!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 19, 01:43:35
Some cats like water, but its also -warm- water, with a nice toweling off after, at a guess.  Cats are all individuals.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 19, 03:16:55
I don't decorate my hoods all that much, but I love that train!

I don't either, but I might start now...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 February 19, 04:16:29
I don't have anything from ogularama, last I looked he didn't allow it to be included in lots.  Has that changed?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cookiepirate on 2009 February 19, 14:41:51
My kitty loves water.  She plays in the tub and will keep looking at the faucet until someone turns it on for her.  She bites at it coming down, drinks it, lets it splash on her head, chases the water down the drain, and then gets upset if you turn it off too soon.  She's deaf, and can't hear the water running or realize just how much noise she makes banging around the tub, so that might be why she likes it so much.  She also likes to catch snowflakes and raindrops.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 19, 15:19:09
I don't have anything from ogularama, last I looked he didn't allow it to be included in lots.  Has that changed?

I believe it has, I've copied the FAQ:

Quote from: ogurlarama
   Policy of use of our downloads:

You are freely allowed to recolour my meshes and place them on your site, however there are some guidelines I wish you to agree to:

- They are not allowed to be put on any pay site, or put up as member downloads.

- Please don't upload the meshes to The Sims Exchange.

- Wherever you use the recolour or mesh on your site, please link back to this site with proper credit to Ogularama or ogula.

These are very basic guidelines and I hope that you can still enjoy the objects and the new recolours you create, if you're actually able to recolour mine ;)

Unless I'm reading this wrong, it looks like lots are okay as long as you don't load them to a paysite or to exchange.

Cats and water.  I bought a dome fountain for my cats to drink out of.  Best 30 bucks I ever spent.  They drink twice as much water than they did before.  And, they amuse themselves at times by smacking at the dome, which in turn, amuses us. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 19, 17:35:36
My cat hates being put in water. The last time me and my mom had to give him a bath, he tried to climb up the kitchen curtains. But he loves to drink it. If we have a bowl of cereal or my mom drinks those specialty coffees (the ones you just add the powder to water). and when she is done if she puts the cup in the sink and fills it with water, the cat will get in the sink and drink that. He has tried to play with water coming out of a faucet, but everytime he bats at it, his paw gets wet. So he runs away, then comes back in 20 minuets when the faucet is back on.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 19, 18:16:18
Fiesty (in avatar ;)) loved to try to jump in the shower! He loved to have his fur blow dried and was simply the coolest cat I ever knew! (he passed away in november :'() He acted more like a dog than a cat (he plopped down when I'd tell him to sit). I'm quite positive he would have let me dress him as a pirate too ;)

*sigh*  But newaze before I get all emotional remembering him..


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 19, 19:04:29
Fiesty (in avatar ;)) loved to try to jump in the shower! He loved to have his fur blow dried and was simply the coolest cat I ever knew! (he passed away in november :'() He acted more like a dog than a cat (he plopped down when I'd tell him to sit). I'm quite positive he would have let me dress him as a pirate too ;)

*sigh*  But newaze before I get all emotional remembering him..

He sounds like a great cat.  *hugs*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 February 19, 19:07:32
Years ago I had a great cat who liked to walk along the rim of the bathtub whenever I was taking a bath. Well, one day he lost his footing and fell in, and I still have the scars.  :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Zillah on 2009 February 19, 19:22:17
My Siamese, Leica used to sit on the edge of the bathtub while I was bathing - why should a bath stop me from petting her, right? - most of the time her tail would end up in the water, just floating along, soaking wet, but she never seemed to notice. She went to the great litterbox in the sky about three years ago. One of the cats we have now, Hannibal, likes to drink my bathwater.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 19, 20:46:55
My first cat, Juicy, he didn't mind the water that much, if he chose to go in it. He jumped in the bath tub once, and didn't mind being out in the rain. We would let him out every night and when my mom went to work (4am) he would be at the back door waiting to be let in so he could eat, and he always left her a little present, the back half of a mouse. But he ended up eating a rat that was poisoned, so we lost him, man, 8 almost 9 years ago now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 February 19, 23:14:35
Sims2Cri has fake gambrel roof pieces & rafters in lots of colors.   :-*

(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5340/gambrelroofuc7.jpg)

http://www.sims2cri.com/eng_decor_15.php


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 19, 23:53:53
*Gasp* WANT!  Seriously, those are something I didn't know my sims needed until I saw them, and now i know, they can't live without them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 20, 00:17:26
those are something I didn't know my sims needed until I saw them, and now i know, they can't live without them.

I smell a motto brewin'.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 20, 00:35:32
Those are gorgeous.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 20, 02:15:50
Oh my! I NEED those! LOL darqstar should make a story based on her "motto"! (good catch oolongteadrinker!)

I gotta see these in-game! hehe

Oh yeah thanks for the *hugs* darqstar! :D *gives ya caramel rum cupcake*  (I'll give anyone caramel rum cupcakes for hugz!   ;))


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 20, 03:22:40
Where are those lovely walls and ceilings from, karu?
Oh my! I NEED those! LOL darqstar should make a story based on her "motto"!
I gotta see these in-game! hehe

I'd read that story!

And thanks to everyone who takes part in this thread. I used to think I was all about the drama and bitchyness, (*cough*simsecret*cough*)but I think I've been starved for positives like this for ages. This thread really is all about the love, and I realize now that I love the sims community.

I'll deny saying this tomarrow. Someone hacked into my computer and said these things with my IP. I learned that from Atwa.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 20, 04:49:04
haha yeah if atwat has taught us anything it's this: people love to haxxor "innocent" peps words! (AND they will fly to another country to be haxxors too)  :P
I totally hate to hear that your personal haxxor is spouting the piratey love in your name. How terrible of you them!
*(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/2693640550_f55386b5d1.jpg)*

But newaze I am starting to enjoy the community better myself  :D  --Damn haxxor at it again. >:(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 20, 20:39:34
haha yeah if atwat has taught us anything it's this: people love to haxxor "innocent" peps words! (AND they will fly to another country to be haxxors too)  :P
I totally hate to hear that your personal haxxor is spouting the piratey love in your name. How terrible of you them!
*(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/2693640550_f55386b5d1.jpg)*

But newaze I am starting to enjoy the community better myself  :D  --Damn haxxor at it again. >:(
International haxxors! Oh noes!!!111


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 February 21, 01:47:54
Has anyone used those fake gambrels yet? Do the sims clip into them at all or are they solid?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 21, 03:56:05
Has anyone used those fake gambrels yet? Do the sims clip into them at all or are they solid?

I've used them. They look great in game. Unfortunately I don't know about clipping. I assume you mean if a sim walks or stands too close that it'll cover their heads or something?
(I mostly build and decorate houses. Its been weeks since I played with my actual sim characters. Sorry I can't be more helpful.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Moonie on 2009 February 21, 07:15:16
I tried them and yes, but only a little. I tested them with my adult female sim and at the very lowest part of the gambrels her head went into them just a little bit. they do look awesome though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 21, 12:41:39
Yay for grungy recolours!

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/a6bbdbc4.jpg)
http://my.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319055

That poor kid is going to get tetanus fo sho  :-\


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 February 21, 13:57:31
Thanks guys - I couldn't resist the pretty, so I downloaded them immediately after posting that question - LOL!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: VaVe on 2009 February 21, 14:24:52
Yay for grungy recolours!

That poor kid is going to get tetanus fo sho  :-\

Finally a good alternative to the happy eye burning originals


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 22, 13:33:46
Pretty beach lot!

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/1a5aca11.jpg)
http://lifestyle4sims.de/

Snoop around a little, everything on the site is gorgeous!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 22, 14:01:21
Oh wow, that is a beautiful little house!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Apsalar on 2009 February 22, 16:52:26
Let me guide your attention to these little pretties (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319402). I think I'm in love.  :-*
(http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5968/mts2sentate879010blackt.th.jpg) (http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mts2sentate879010blackt.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 22, 17:02:29
Oh wow! Seriously reconcidering my decision not to download seperates...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 22, 18:10:50
I so want that stuff, but I can't have. My computer has finally stopped running the sims right, so I had to back up everything and start over, but I should be getting my new computer this week, so I will be able to put back my 20,000 pieces of CC, plus get more.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 22, 19:19:44
Mmmm. Separates. Yum. Sentate has some very nice shirts for ladies. Her meshes rock. As for downloads, I just put more RAM in my computer and my game is running like new, even with 30,000 or so files. It's freaking sweet!
p.s. Speaking of Separates... (http://www.all-about-style.com/index.html)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: VaVe on 2009 February 22, 19:27:34
arr! why must I always find links nice stuff to download when I'm on my sim-free laptop? oh well, I guess a few hundred extra downloads can't hurt...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Beth on 2009 February 22, 21:06:28
Mmmm. Separates. Yum. Sentate has some very nice shirts for ladies. Her meshes rock. As for downloads, I just put more RAM in my computer and my game is running like new, even with 30,000 or so files. It's freaking sweet!
p.s. Speaking of Separates... (http://www.all-about-style.com/index.html)

I'm sure I read somewhere that Sentate is a he? If he is my gosh he has a good sense of style! Try asking my boyfriend to choose an outfit for me he's probably choose the ugly brown dress instead of the nice flowy white one, typical man :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 22, 21:11:01
Oh, God, I hope Sentate isn't a guy. Not because it matters, but because this time I actually followed the "Assume Girl Unless Proven Otherwise" rule, and see where it gets me? I swear, I suck at the sex game. Although I suspect my husband would disagree. *snicker*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 22, 21:26:22
I am not going to comment on that one. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Owl on 2009 February 23, 01:55:20
I have almost every piece of CC that Sentate has made in my game. *fangirls*

Also, I tend to think all creators are girls... no offense to you manly content creators  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 February 23, 05:06:41
There is a movement in English to use feminine pronouns as a neutral or catch-all gender anyway. Using "he" is seen as sexist, although using "she" as default seems just as sexist to me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: EmilyTwitch on 2009 February 23, 05:11:55
There is a movement in English to use feminine pronouns as a neutral or catch-all gender anyway. Using "he" is seen as sexist, although using "she" as default seems just as sexist to me.

I 'spose it is easier than typing (s)he or s/he or he/she.
But yeah, I definitely don't get how that's supposed to be less sexist.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: plastikjess on 2009 February 23, 05:27:22
I am taking a class that says you should try to re write a sentence so you can replace he/she with their. I don't really care. I get called a 'he' all the time. I've even been called Sir over the phone. Jess can be easily confused for a boys name.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 February 23, 05:37:09
I tend to use their too. It feels like trading she for he is just sexism or reverse or something, since you're still excluding half of the human population. But anyway... off topic.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 23, 05:50:29
More epic win by buggybooz http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23248
I bow at her feet   :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 23, 07:49:43
(http://i39.tinypic.com/i3h3tl.jpg)

- check out this bedroom - delicious!

http://www.tarox4sims2.de/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 23, 08:13:13
I love the buggybooz bedroom. And Cala, that bedroom is really nice. When I get my new computer (hopefully this week) and get it set up (Sims is not going to be my first games to get on the computer, I got 4 games for Christmas, one o them was sims, and that was the only one to work, so needless to say, the other games get priority right now), I'm going on a downloading spree to celebrate getting my sims back working with the 17,000 pieces of cc I have.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 February 23, 11:30:06
I adore BuggyBooz's stuff, such great quality! Cala, that bedroom is great too (love the sofa in the set!), I don't think I've heard of that site before.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 23, 14:21:44
That was awesome of Buggybooz.  I know she has been working on that set for a long time, she's been posting progress pics over at MTS2.  Making it a gift is just super awesome of her, and once I'm back on my normal computer, I'm going on a download spree myself.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cookiepirate on 2009 February 23, 15:00:27
I love all the medieval stuff from Taroo and used all of it when I went thru my medieval Sim stage. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 23, 16:01:07
Both those bedrooms are sweet! I really love that Bali bedroom! (thanks for alerting Cala!)  I think that was really nice of Buggybooz to make it a gift too!
I pretty much downloaded all Taroo's medieval clothing just right now! lol Man, he's got some cool things! Thanks for the links everyone! :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 23, 17:30:38
I went to check out the Buggybooz set, but Black Pearl doesn't seem to have a record of me even though I joined just before they got shut down by the bitch. I guess that could be for the best. :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 23, 18:06:10
I'd resign up, Paden - at a guess they had to run a slightly older backup, so that might be why you weren't on record.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 February 23, 21:00:00
Yes, the members that registered right before the big delete(?) need to reregister. But Paden, please do come back to us! (us being Black Pearl Sims ofcourse)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 23, 21:09:25
Just call everybody "it" and you won't have a problem! lol

 Thank you for the finds, I love her stuff!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 23, 22:59:54
Lo and behold, Today I find this on MSN Encarta regarding grammar and he/she/it/they/their  http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Columns/?article=DontHaveCow&gt1=27004 Is one of you the author of this column? ;)

My favorite bit:
We also dislike the instructions given by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, authors of "The Elements of Style." They write that the generic he is "never incorrect."

Aw, bull. His is only generic if you're comfortable calling your mom a he. If it's so generic, why does that feel weird? BECAUSE IT'S NOT GENERIC.


Amen, I say.

Also, Buggy is so consistently awesome. Love love love. She even custom created the inside of the wardrobe. It's open for like 3 seconds when a simmie changes clothes, but she even wanted that to be perfect and pretty.*sigh* PRETTY!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 23, 23:49:38
Joy!

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/93eb0ab2.jpg)
http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=7188.0

I do so love pose boxes ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 24, 00:10:01
I have not tried using any pose boxes. I have to now! Those pics look ultra awesome-o!! Thanks devilfish :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 February 24, 00:17:57
I did sign up again, just waiting for an activation mail.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 24, 00:45:14
I have not tried using any pose boxes. I have to now! Those pics look ultra awesome-o!! Thanks devilfish :D

I'm seriously tempted. But do they alter gameplay, or do they mainly come in handy for story editors? I don't make stories or screenshots. (I don't even play much aside from designing houses)... Has anyone tried these yet?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 24, 01:59:16
I would imagine poseboxes would work like the one you can get in the game (Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true) they have a couple different reactor things.   If I'm wrong, someone correct me.

And Devilfish, nice find! 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 24, 02:34:27
They don't alter gameplay that I've noticed - but they are good for storytelling and pictures - including, I'd imagine, posing a sim to be painted.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 24, 02:41:23
SoggyFox, the boxes work wonders for posing sims to be painted. In one of my familys, once they have their golden anniversary, the couple gets their picture painted, and the boxes really helped getting them in the right poses for the paintings.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 February 24, 03:48:46
I need to start downloading poseboxes. They seem to make the game look so lovely and my sims are so "bleh."


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Zillah on 2009 February 24, 04:01:38
Well, the new computer is up and running. I have the Sims and all the packs installed and ready to go - and I just spent the better part of four hours downloading EVERYTHING IN THIS DAMN THREAD! I don't even wanna know how big my dl folder is now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 24, 13:47:06
Poseboxes are for picture-taking only, they're no good for gameplay. To pose sims there's so much fiddling around with OMSPs, the invisible tray, pose boxes and so on that it's not even funny anymore. It'd really mess up gameplay too, because most pose boxes I've seen (especially the asian-made ones) lock a sim in place untill the pose is deactivated.
So yeah, pretty much useless for people who aren't into picture-taking, but a godsend for those who are.

By the way, check out the 'Asian sites and other' (or whatever it's called) in the sharing area at Simscave. There's at least 20 different pose boxes there and some of them are ridiculously good.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cynt on 2009 February 24, 15:13:52
Those poses look darn good.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 24, 15:42:42
most pose boxes I've seen (especially the asian-made ones) lock a sim in place untill the pose is deactivated.


So they work like using the poses in the game?  Meaning, that if you order them to do a pose, they hold it until you actually have to cancel the action before they will stop?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 February 24, 16:12:21
Yep - there's little use except for taking photos.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 24, 16:20:00
Or painting.  When you paint a portrait, the sims are so dull.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 February 24, 16:21:55
You know, I thought there was something familiar about this lot. The one with the photos from 22 August 2008. below.

Pretty beach lot!

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/cosmic_charly/simsmisc/1a5aca11.jpg)
http://lifestyle4sims.de/

Snoop around a little, everything on the site is gorgeous!

I was sure I had seen it on Feb 19, 2009 posted by the lovely srgmls23.
 
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2626440.jpg)

*ahem*

ETA: In reading the comments the owner of the original called him out on it. As of press time there has been no reply. However it is still for sale.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 February 24, 16:47:16
That really is low. And they made that house look like shite too! The original is soo gorgeous! Asswipe thief.  >:(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 24, 17:00:00
Oh, that is just disgusting! And the original is so much better too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 24, 17:32:54
The idea of copying someone's house doesn't bother me, but the person who did the second one, should have given credit.  "This house was inspired by this house done by ______  here's a link to their site." 

I used to make houses based on modeling plans I found on the net.  If I had ever posted them, I would have linked the site plans, just in case someone else found the same plans I did and make something very similar first.  But that house has a pretty unique shape, unless it's from a houseplan it's obviously a copy.

I wonder what the layout looks like inside of each of them. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 February 24, 17:37:04
Ugh. Not only is that a blatant copy. It was copied so poorly. The original is so beautiful, and look what the lemming did to it! Ugh.

lovely srgmls23 even copied where the trees go. What a buttmunch


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 February 24, 17:55:14
Poseboxes are for picture-taking only, they're no good for gameplay. To pose sims there's so much fiddling around with OMSPs, the invisible tray, pose boxes and so on that it's not even funny anymore. It'd really mess up gameplay too, because most pose boxes I've seen (especially the asian-made ones) lock a sim in place untill the pose is deactivated.
So yeah, pretty much useless for people who aren't into picture-taking, but a godsend for those who are.

By the way, check out the 'Asian sites and other' (or whatever it's called) in the sharing area at Simscave. There's at least 20 different pose boxes there and some of them are ridiculously good.

Oh yes I know. But like Soggy said, it will make painting portraits a lot easier. Plus I will admit I snap photos of my favorite simmies so posebox just seems like a win win to me.

most pose boxes I've seen (especially the asian-made ones) lock a sim in place untill the pose is deactivated.


So they work like using the poses in the game?  Meaning, that if you order them to do a pose, they hold it until you actually have to cancel the action before they will stop?

I'm guessing that is what they mean.

I will admit, I'm not a fan restrictive TOU's, but blatant stealing is another. Just like there was another artist who is stealing Viviane's clothing and reposting them to TSR.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 24, 17:58:47
Well, there's 'inspired by' and then there's just slapping on a new wallpaper and calling it your own. I think that's just as bad as taking a mesh, slapping on a new textures and calling the result your own.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 24, 18:21:38
I've had the houselan thing happen to me - thought someone had uploaded my own lot, but once i downloaded it, saw we'd modified it our own ways, so I calmed down :).

There are a few more differences to these two houses, in the roof, but considering the fence is identical, and the landscaping not much different, I'd have to agree this looks like a stolen house.  Would love to see floor plans to know for sure though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 24, 21:38:48
There are so many house plans out there, why would anyone feel the need to rip off someone else's? That's pretty lame. Particularly when the end result is worse than the first. Perhaps someone should download both and take a snappy or two of the floor plans. [Not It!]

So, has anyone seen CTNutmegger's new cabinets? They're looking snazzy, fer shur!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319599 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319599)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 February 24, 22:13:30
Woot! I love those. Those are better than the ones I found and I can't remember the sites name now. I think it was Around the Sims. And these are updated!

Snagged and going in game!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 February 24, 22:26:24
Anyone got the nice house? It doesn't seem to be in the downloads on the site. I have the other one. I don't really need convincing, but I can do a side by side anyway.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 24, 23:48:23
 I could not find the original house on that site either to compare. BUt I am going to assume it will be pretty darn close if not the same. Maybe some different furniture.

 The only time I ever reuploaded a lot was one I downloaded that looked good outside but I hated the inside. I totally changed the inside layout and re did the landscaping, it barely looked like the same house on the outside and it was not the same inside at all.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: TapThatBooty on 2009 February 25, 00:03:43
The only time I ever reuploaded a lot was one I downloaded that looked good outside but I hated the inside. I totally changed the inside layout and re did the landscaping, it barely looked like the same house on the outside and it was not the same inside at all.

What I think you're trying to say is: "It wasn't the same house in the end after all the modifications I done to it, so it could count as a new house." Let me say it for you  ;) :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 February 25, 00:10:39
Anyone got the nice house? It doesn't seem to be in the downloads on the site. I have the other one. I don't really need convincing, but I can do a side by side anyway.




It's in the strand section.  http://lifestyle4sims.de/vacation.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 25, 00:18:52


What I think you're trying to say is: "It wasn't the same house in the end after all the modifications I done to it, so it could count as a new house." Let me say it for you  ;) :P
[/quote]


 Yeah that is  it! lol

 thanks for the link, I wanted that house anyways because it looks so pretty!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 February 25, 00:34:39
thanx karu

@myself
(http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL646/2837408/20739150/346523544.jpg)

ETA: Ok ouch! That lot is closing  in on 60mb. The layouts are in fact different. The TSR one has more rooms added upstairs also(admittedly not a bad choice). However, after shrinking the beach house I slid them together and found a perfect match with the placement on the lot. Coincidence? Possibly but not likely.

Also this is FAIL!
(http://i42.tinypic.com/2upd66a.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 25, 00:39:46
I couldn't find it either kenmtl ( I must have been following you lol) so thanks for the link Karu!  :-* I been wanting that!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 25, 14:45:36
I uploaded my game last night and both homes, but stupid me forgot screen shoots.  But anyways the house is the same, the only thing the TSR jerk did was replace CC with non cc, just like we already knew.
 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kaitlyn on 2009 February 25, 15:38:03
Well, I'm going to copy that house for personal use--can't get the smaller beach lots to work in my game  :'(.  But even if I were to re-post it (not planing on it) I wouldn't be telling folks it's my original work, and I certainly wouldn't post it on a stinking paysite to help pad my wallet and help Thomas furnish his new house. 

edt - What I'm trying to say (poorly) is that it's not uncommon for someone to copy someone else's house, for one reason or another; but to take that copy and put it up for download somewhere, under your own name with no credit given, and for pay on top of that, is just low.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 February 26, 08:33:34
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319831

This is such a cool idea.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 February 26, 09:56:16
They don't move, but they're so so pretty!
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/MTS2_Dragon20Slave_659989_poses.jpg)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=257255


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 26, 19:50:16
Oh, I like those pants! I've only ever had two or three 'bottom-tops' and I loved them (right up until I deleted them!). Super awesome.
And I'm not much of a horse girl (too preoccupied with the wolves) but I have to admit that those are really pretty. The poly count is surprising low, too. And even custom poses - wow. The creator must have put a lot of love into that!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: i saw drones on 2009 February 26, 21:00:21
Those horses look really amazing in game too, I've had them in my dl folder for a while now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 February 26, 23:36:38
Alas, I can't get to mts2 right now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 26, 23:39:05
Alas, I can't get to mts2 right now.


Me either...I think maybe the babby bbq broked the site  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eternal_darkness on 2009 February 26, 23:42:38
Oh, I thought it was just me :-[


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 February 27, 00:24:59
thanks kenmtl for clarifying about the lots, I should never look at anything when I am half asleep without my glasses! lol  When I took a second look the layouts are a bit different, but we all know the turd stole the house.

 I have not been able to get on to MTS2 for about a week now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 February 27, 01:10:05
Odd. It was definitely working earlier today, but seems to be back down again.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 February 27, 02:44:22
I just got in with no problems.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 February 27, 03:22:22
It's been whacky for me for a couple of days now. Now I can get on the site OK & page-to-page is fast but...every time I click on dl link I get a database error message...any download.
Maybe it's kharma...Delphy did say that the world did not revolve around Pescado...maybe this means it DOES!     ROFL


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 February 27, 19:15:44
I just downloaded two items successfully.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Evanesce on 2009 February 28, 03:11:38
Aww man, I was doing so, so, so well on not downloading anymore, until I saw this topic.
Now...
Well, let's just hope my computer still loves me after this. 
My favorite part of downloading sprees for my sims, is it's just like me going on a shopping spree, but for free  ;D In fact, I do believe my sims have nicer things than I could ever hope to have!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 28, 15:25:42
I seriously live through my sims, I think that's a big part of the attraction of the game. They have the whacky colourful manors that defy the laws of physics and hair that would render you blind if you looked directly at it, they have the best jobs and motherload to back them up, they hang with aliens and werwolves and are able to afford to keep the whacky clothes/makeup/hair combo that I can't have, and all their friends and family are attractive and nice, or simply fade out guilt-free if they aren't up to their standards.

I seriouly wish I was one of my sims ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Tabby on 2009 February 28, 15:38:32
You and me both, Devilfish. My self sims kids actually behave ! It's insane; plus they don't have to worry about anything, like, ever. Then when its all done, they hula off into the Great Beyond.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 February 28, 15:39:04
all their friends and family are attractive and nice, or simply fade out guilt-free if they aren't up to their standards.

Unless, or course, the friend is Marsha.  In which case, she will hound your elders into their grave with chiding phonecalls,  berating people for their neglect of the friendship.   ;D  I refuse to let my Simkids become friends with Marsha, for that very reason.  


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 February 28, 15:44:39
There's never any funeral costs when a sim dies anyway.  Instead of losing all their money, they get rich instead.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 February 28, 18:56:22
all their friends and family are attractive and nice, or simply fade out guilt-free if they aren't up to their standards.

Unless, or course, the friend is Marsha.  In which case, she will hound your elders into their grave with chiding phonecalls,  berating people for their neglect of the friendship.   ;D  I refuse to let my Simkids become friends with Marsha, for that very reason.  

This is going to sound stupid, but who the hell is Marsha. I always hear how bad she is, but I have never seen her in the four years I have had the game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 February 28, 19:08:26
Would that be Marsha Bruening or something like that? I sure hope not, because I've got a couple Sims that just became friends with her yesterday. I would hate to have to kill her.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 February 28, 19:10:59
Yep, that's the one.  Smite the little monkey.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 February 28, 23:42:11
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23557

There's Tarutaru in there!

I don't think I've been this happy in months. I love those little monkeys :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 March 01, 00:39:18
Would that be Marsha Bruening or something like that? I sure hope not, because I've got a couple Sims that just became friends with her yesterday. I would hate to have to kill her.

Yup.

Although, once a Sim grows up, can't you also grow up a townie as well?  I know it doesn't work on the baby to toddler to child, but if it works on child to teen, teen to adult, she might actually be more useful.  I'm just too used to doing a "Move objects on" and deleting her the moment she steps her smug little face out of the bus.

The only one who's close to her in annoyance is Sophie, but at least she does something funny once in awhile.  Like invite herself for dinner (fine) then proceed to fart all over the host, then to pester the hell out of the host's kid.  I always figured if they had a "bully" aspiration, she'd fit it perfectly. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 March 01, 04:12:07
Nymphy (http://www.nocturnalsims.net/) has her own site. I love her stuff.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 March 01, 20:55:17
SilentLucidity is coming up with some really creative stuff. I love it.

http://my.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320185


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 March 01, 21:46:35
Would that be Marsha Bruening or something like that? I sure hope not, because I've got a couple Sims that just became friends with her yesterday. I would hate to have to kill her.
Yup.
Although, once a Sim grows up, can't you also grow up a townie as well?  I know it doesn't work on the baby to toddler to child, but if it works on child to teen, teen to adult, she might actually be more useful.  I'm just too used to doing a "Move objects on" and deleting her the moment she steps her smug little face out of the bus.

Yes, I think growing up townies came with one of the expansions. I was all fall-over-tripping in love with it for about two seconds, until I realized that they don't die of old age. The prospect of my neighborhoods teeming with ugly elder townies sort of turned me off of that feature. I still like it, of course, but the spark is just... not there anymore. It is dead useful if you want a teenager's crush to grow up with him/her. I haven't had a good look at Marsha's face in a while, so I guess I'll do that before I decide whether or not to kill her.

Devil & keirra: (http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/wowrvmp.gif) I'm off to download heaven now...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kaitlyn on 2009 March 02, 08:34:21
Yes, I think growing up townies came with one of the expansions. I was all fall-over-tripping in love with it for about two seconds, until I realized that they don't die of old age. The prospect of my neighborhoods teeming with ugly elder townies sort of turned me off of that feature.

You should be able to pick townies to die of old age with your sims, too.   :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 March 02, 10:00:31
That came with freetime.

(http://i43.tinypic.com/331iu0i.jpg)

http://www.luinasims.com/luina%20sims/decomisc4.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kaitlyn on 2009 March 02, 11:26:49
That came with freetime.

-image snipped-

http://www.luinasims.com/luina%20sims/decomisc4.html

The ones at MTS2 allow for intersection; in fact, that's their whole purpose so it's a different concept.  But that one at luinasims looks cool.  I've never heard of that site before.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 March 02, 15:20:52
Hek has a new-ish set, check it out. (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319978)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 March 02, 16:04:44
the set is nice, had it in my game this morning. Along with that fire bomb...which I am in love with :)

and for those who like gardens and stuff  , these are super cute in game too!         http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320157


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 March 02, 20:28:09
They can fly! They can fly! (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320074)

Well, maybe not really, but they sure look like they can.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Devilfish on 2009 March 02, 20:42:35
http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320074

+

http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=169139

=

;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 02, 21:35:00
Ohhhhh! Now that IS pure WIN! :D I must fly. Now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 02, 22:20:14
If you don't already have it, go get it. :D
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/7097_screen_0846fa8c63b71efcf4e8b2d.jpg)
http://www.all4sims.de/board/filebase.php?fileid=2613&lim=15 (http://www.all4sims.de/board/filebase.php?fileid=2613&lim=15)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 March 03, 02:10:22
Has anyone seen this Harry Potter lot? It's a little old so sorry if it was already posted :D  http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=306904
 (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=306904)
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/1/3/8/3/0/1/2/MTS2_Black0rchid_833409_DiagonAlley2.jpg)

And this livingroom: http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23724 (http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23724)
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc48/CASSANDRE1106/private/DESIGNER%20AREA/Sanstitre1.jpg)





Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 March 03, 03:43:20
Maxis cheap couch recolors - not Piggis! :) http://community.livejournal.com/skittledboxes/29620.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 03, 03:52:18
Yeah, that's the most believable Diagon Alley I've seen done for the sims to date.

And not bad recolours.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 03, 07:32:12
Here's a cute house. Simple and sweet ;)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/vallonia001.jpg)
http://jenba.net/sims2/?cat=5&paged=6

And I am totally in-love :-* with the Dentelle set! Also have that diagon alley--it is truly super awesome-o:)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: gayle_afcb on 2009 March 03, 11:55:42
That Daigon Alley is superb - thanks for the link. I'd not seen it but am d/l as I type  ;D

The skull lamps were cool too ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 03, 20:05:39
These two PB rooms are awesome-o! They are both by Anna @ BPS:)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/Glavna-2.jpg)
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23375 and a sweet girl rc of it here: http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?p=370212#post370212

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/Girl02.jpg)
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23764

Enjoy:) :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 04, 05:15:38
Justsims2 has updated. One of my favorite sites for clothing.
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/1233438688_NSMarchesa040FA.jpg)
http://www.justsims2.ru/index.php?Module=File&IdFile=2335 (http://www.justsims2.ru/index.php?Module=File&IdFile=2335)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 March 04, 05:25:10
As soon as I get my 1.5GB cc folder moved back into my game I am gonna cruise back thru this thread & add some more...just can't help myself. I am a dl junkie  :'(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 March 04, 05:27:17
Onlly 1.5 GB?  You're not even trying.  Mine's over 7.5.

And, darn, skins are one of the things I am dling.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 04, 07:39:01
Lol I lost count :D Although I'm sure I am running @ 8 gb game wise (I have turned a blind eye to the loads of cc sitting in my half-assed semi organized folder waiting to be in-game ::)) I think my hair folder itself is 1.5 gb... Oh well I already accepted my dl addiction! :dls dress: hehe ;)

Seriously this weekend I need to finish unzipping/rarring and stick in folders. *riiight....* :-\

me=downloader phail

Oh believe me scurvy-I spent time there clicking away! ^-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 March 04, 19:51:41
You were able to stop with only one dress?  I found her "Off the rack" section and went berserk.  Like I really needed more FA clothes... ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 04, 22:18:22
I'm only at 1.8 gigs, but then I keep my downloads lean - not for loading time, but just because I am picky and hate sorting through my catalogue through things I never use.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 March 04, 23:21:05

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10554.0

Lovely lingerie set from GOS, think its a Bruno Set  :)

My first post so i hope i did this right!!
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/shelly30uk1/Brunoslingerie.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 March 04, 23:49:21
Till I got my new hard-drive I was sharing my son's pc so I had trimmed my cc folder down a lot (was actually trying to keep it less than 1GB) and have gotten used to keeping it trimmed down a bit, but I have a feeling it is going to be growing again now that I have my pc back up & running. All I left on his was my absolute favorite things, the things I have made & a few things that are no longer easily available. I have this weird habit of constantly trimming my folders tho  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: novastar on 2009 March 05, 01:21:25

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10554.0

Lovely lingerie set from GOS, think its a Bruno Set  :)

My first post so i hope i did this right!!
<painfully snips the pretties>

Those are gorgeous  :D! They look comfortable too, not like severation of the buttocks TSR crap.  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 05, 03:16:19
They do look like Bruno's work - got similar styles I got from MTS2 a while back, but not those colours - my guess is those are special for Valentines?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 05, 04:20:09
I was so excited to see new Bruno unmentionables! I guess they were too "racy" for MTS2. Oh well! Me happy :D Nice find ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 March 05, 04:25:50
They are Bruno's. She mentions in that thread that MTS2 basically said they are to racy.  :P They look marvelous in game too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 05, 05:04:35
I love all of Bruno's stuff. There is real talent in everything he(?) does. Speaking as an artist, I am quite envious.
Bruno's creations are huge win. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 March 05, 05:52:55
Bruno is a chick. And an awesome one.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anouk on 2009 March 05, 17:12:57
Huh? Too racy? Am I missing something? It looks like all her other (perfect and droolworthy) underwear on mts2?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 05, 18:07:38
Maybe its the colours or the picture?  I do find it funny that MTS2 is less smutty than TSR, yet isn't linked from being too 'adult'


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 March 05, 19:49:18
I think the difference is that while some of her other sets had one or two thongs, or only thongs & bra, or perhaps non-thongs and garters, this one has a nice, healthy amount of thongs and thongs + garters. Still, though, it's not even close to 'porn', 'smut', or 'racy'. I think it's rather tasteful, along with every other set she's done. Quite talented, that Bruno!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 March 05, 21:00:50
Now take a look at this Criquette update....and tell me that sharing isn't caring :D
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2mcuas9.jpg)
and you can find it right here on MTS2 (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319998)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 March 05, 21:56:26
Now take a look at this Criquette update....and tell me that sharing isn't caring :D

[snipped]

and you can find it right here on MTS2 (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319998)

My neighborhoods' deco has improved vastly since I discovered Criquette. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 05, 22:13:11
I need to break down and nab her stuff, though I tend towards more rustic neighborhoods usually.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sarafina on 2009 March 05, 22:44:28
Fanseelamb (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320728) has made some really cute and regular looking male hair.  I love her stuff.

March WNF Aspiration Set (http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1290.0) is up and it's really neat!

*edited to fix link fail


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 March 05, 22:57:50
I click on the link and get a blank page...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 March 05, 22:59:42
Fanseelamb (http://"http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320728") has made some really cute and regular looking male hair.  I love her stuff.

March WNF Aspiration Set (http://"http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1290.0") is up and it's really neat!

Your links are messed up. I fixed them.

Fanseelamb (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320728%22)

WNF Aspiration (http://www.wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1290.0%22)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Mheyin on 2009 March 05, 23:00:01
Fanseelamb (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320728) has made some really cute and regular looking male hair.  I love her stuff.

March WNF Aspiration Set (http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1290.0) is up and it's really neat!

Cute hair! I've been looking for some shorter cuts for my men.

All of this month's aspiration items are gorgeous, but I especially squee'd myself silly when I saw Adele's contribution. /fangirl

(Also, I fixed linkies in the quote... and Ninja Keirra got them too. lol)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 March 06, 03:14:58
Ooooh, the railroad set is done.  (Squeals like a fangirl.)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Butthurt on 2009 March 06, 03:47:30
Fanseelamb (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320728) has made some really cute and regular looking male hair.  I love her stuff.

March WNF Aspiration Set (http://wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1290.0) is up and it's really neat!

*edited to fix link fail

OM NOM NOM. I love Adele's Moroccan set. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 06, 17:16:44
God, is Adele from another dimension or something? Nobody human could come up with stuff like hers, she must have supernatural powers.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 07, 03:05:57
Bruno is a chick. And an awesome one.

Thank you Pickles for clearing that up for me. :D
 I was wondering if Bruno was male or female.
She has fabulous taste and skills.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 07, 09:30:55
God, is Adele from another dimension or something? Nobody human could come up with stuff like hers, she must have supernatural powers.

AHA! I knew I wasn't the only one who suspected this. She also must have access to wormholes to create so much content so quickly. Like, every month she makes loads of new stuff. That pace would kill a lesser mortal.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 March 07, 13:50:39
She also happens to be very nice. Amazing! :) I'm giving my downloads a fresh start and she's one of the first to go in - everything she's made that I can find!  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: redisenchanted on 2009 March 07, 15:09:22
Just joining in with the Adele fangurling. I love her objects, have them all I think.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 March 08, 06:18:41
Okay, so none of these are new or recently updated, but I did read this whole thread (thank you so very much for pointing me to some new sites and creators) and did a forum search and it appears no one has mentioned CokeBuilder's houses.  They are really gorgeous and aren't bogged down with tons and tons of cc.

http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=671691 (http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=671691)

And if anyone knows of some nice eyeshadows (dark, light, in between) that have little or no shadow underneath the eye, please share!  For some reason, that really bugs me.  I've been resorting to blacking that part out on the alphas, but I'm not real swift with the paintbrush.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 08, 06:46:33
CokeBuilder does do good houses.

And if you can find any of Heleane's cosmetics, her eyeshadows are pretty nice, and she does have eyeliner that does just the upper lashes.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 08, 16:02:51
Okay, so none of these are new or recently updated, but I did read this whole thread (thank you so very much for pointing me to some new sites and creators) and did a forum search and it appears no one has mentioned CokeBuilder's houses.  They are really gorgeous and aren't bogged down with tons and tons of cc.

http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=671691 (http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=671691)

Jeez, the kid's only 16 and comes up with stuff like that? I feel sooooo old suddenly.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 March 08, 16:30:29
Why have I not seen this before? Does anyone use this? Does it work? Should I just try it myself and shut up? Maybe I should just ask myself "WHY".

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=310249 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=310249)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 08, 18:16:34
Why have I not seen this before? Does anyone use this? Does it work? Should I just try it myself and shut up? Maybe I should just ask myself "WHY".

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=310249 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=310249)

Holy cow juice, Batman! If that thing really works as advertised....  8)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 March 08, 18:32:01
 wow, great stuff!

 I just downloaded much of Helaene's Makeup from the graveyard, she is my favorite make up person after Burno and I still use her default replacement eye shadows and lipsticks that I have had for years.

Adeles stuff looks awesome in my game. My downloads is now over 50 thousand tho :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 08, 19:47:37
Kenmtl, since Inge helped her code and test it, I'm pretty sure it does work - I keep meaning to nab it myself, but right now I'm still in the build my ultimate city mode.

And Leesester does awesome windows and doors.  I have almost all of them in my game and they are just as nice as in the pictures, if not nicer.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 March 09, 03:03:24
I love this set by leesester!   http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313762
 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313762)


ETA: Just found this absolutely beautiful bedroom set by Anna @ BPS  http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23957
        I just love this!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Zillah on 2009 March 09, 05:50:44
Just found this Russian Banya set by Jeka:

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=272692 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=272692)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 March 10, 01:07:40
Farting hearts for these right now: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10687.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10687.0)
Must now go make some vampires!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 March 10, 02:33:50
Why have I not seen this before? Does anyone use this? Does it work? Should I just try it myself and shut up? Maybe I should just ask myself "WHY".

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=310249 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=310249)

It does work. I got it right when it came out, and used it on several apartments. I love it, makes the apartments look better.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: apple_snap on 2009 March 10, 06:05:02
This is one of my favorite houses in my game.  I love the challenge of having a Sim family with little money gradually turn their crappy house into a beautiful home.  Mostly because I've downloaded so many beautiful things that don't cost much in game, that it's not a real challenge to create a beautiful home on little money anymore. 

Derelict Dreamhome (not brand new, but I didn't see it here yet - but apologies if I missed it)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=268417


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 11, 02:36:09
MTS2's downloads won't be available again til the 12th!

But I can wait.... I love that derelict house.

How creepily ... topical of that lot. According to something I read on either MSN Money or Yahoo, suburbs are going to be the new slums-- with unsold houses gathering weeds, squatters, and people selling their homes quickly to unsavory types. (The gist of it is that its smarter to rent than buy) ANYWAY...

I never know quite how to feel when real life creeps into my game but I think I'll make an exception for aelflaed


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: apple_snap on 2009 March 11, 02:50:06
I think with the sad state of things right now - we're going to be forced to adopt a more community atmosphere.  Right now, in my neighborhood, no one talks to one another - but it's totally true - we have several foreclosed homes on our block & maybe we could all pitch in and do the yards from time to time.  I don't know - maybe that's why I like poor challenges & the Broke family so much - success stories!!   :)

Sims is total escapism for me - in real life, I can't go to work in a helicopter or name my kids Count Chocula & Frankenberry.  heh

Thanks for the note on MTS2! - I'm going to be in a dark corner, slowly rocking back & forth until they come back. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 11, 02:54:51
Yeah.  I'm lucky, got some good neighbors.  Like the kid across the street torn between college and rotc, or going straight in to the service, and his family who are broncos fans, even though we live in atlanta.

And the neighborhood is well kept up too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 11, 02:58:21
I think with the sad state of things right now - we're going to be forced to adopt a more community atmosphere.  Right now, in my neighborhood, no one talks to one another - but it's totally true - we have several foreclosed homes on our block & maybe we could all pitch in and do the yards from time to time.  I don't know - maybe that's why I like poor challenges & the Broke family so much - success stories!!   :)
Oh, man. I've been hearing of special neighborhood watches and communities banding together to keep an eye out for squatters on eachother's homes as well as doing a bit of yard work here and there. People who stain that astro turf stuff for athletic fields are working overtime to keep lawns green and make it look more lived in. Its not happening everywhere and not right away but its happening. At least the banding together is a positive.

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Sims is total escapism for me - in real life, I can't go to work in a helicopter or name my kids Count Chocula & Frankenberry.  heh
Thanks for the note on MTS2! - I'm going to be in a dark corner, slowly rocking back & forth until they come back. 

HA! What are you, a New Zealander? My most daring name was "Erinyes" (a last name)

What? I like re-enacting mythological tales and folklore as best I can in the sim world. *cough* Sans incest*/cough* How's that for escapism?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: apple_snap on 2009 March 11, 03:13:22
Hee - I'm not as creative with the escapism as all that.  I have been doing an experiment lately though - speaking of incest (ick) - how far removed do Sim cousins need to be before they can hook up?  I know - warped, but I've always been curious...  I might have one giant infertile neighborhood soon...

I got on a kick of naming kids after breakfast cereals.  After Snap, Crackle, & Pop, things had to get a little more adventurous.  Honey Smacks?  Kinda sounds inappropriate.

By the way - I've had "I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS" stuck in my head since your post.   ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 11, 03:26:37
Hee - I'm not as creative with the escapism as all that.  I have been doing an experiment lately though - speaking of incest (ick) - how far removed do Sim cousins need to be before they can hook up?  I know - warped, but I've always been curious...  I might have one giant infertile neighborhood soon...

I got on a kick of naming kids after breakfast cereals.  After Snap, Crackle, & Pop, things had to get a little more adventurous.  Honey Smacks?  Kinda sounds inappropriate.

ooh. Cereal names. How about:
Quisp, Cerbi, Alphabits, Total, Cheerios, Shreddies, Ezekiel, GoLean,  Chex, Trix, Kix, Vive, and what the hey, HeartyMorning

I mostly play with house and decorating. I have no clue about the cousin thing. Do I want to know? It'd take forever to find out,so I wouldn't be surprised if the creators were like "meh" and had the sims forget they're related after a certain point.

But such talk is merely guessing. Will someone test that out for us? (resists making Bluth joke)

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By the way - I've had "I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS" stuck in my head since your post.   ;D
que??


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: apple_snap on 2009 March 11, 03:41:32
Derelict - Zoolander

Love the cereals - esp. Shreddies.  Hmmmm - sounds like he might be kind of violent.  I like it.  hehe  That's my problem too - I like building & decorating more than the patience of growing generations of Sims.  I'll let you know if I find out through play about the cousins thing - but it might be around 2011. 

Oh, and Soggyfox - I love that you know your neighbors so well.  That's really sweet.   :) 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 March 11, 05:33:49
I'm also a builder. I play on a Mac so it can only take so many character files before it starts freakin' out, anyway. I also almost went to school for interior design (before switching to advertising), so I've always had a soft spot for it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 11, 06:04:46
As a skitsophrenic(sp?), bipolar gemini with OCD, I have explored every possible way to play the game. I have all the EPs, so I have tons of sims with extensive life histories and generations of business owners, college graduates, farmers, home owners and renters. They live in elaborate neighborhoods with a variety of architectural styles. I'm a total control freak when it comes to my sims though, so most of them have no free will or motive/aspiration decay. I'm sort of a dictator god when I play, but I do take good care of my sims, always keeping them green and happy. Townies are the exception, I love torturing them.
I will spend days building a house and days decorating it. I love the architectural and interior design aspects of the game. I used to build very detailed houses out of legos when I was a kid. I also made and played with paperdolls a lot, hence my name. The Sims allows me the same enjoyment, but with way better graphics. ;D
I love the game, even if I'm not crazy about the politics behind it.

I think I'll try that cousins thing to see how far it goes. My kind of challenge. I'll let you all know how it turns out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 March 11, 06:09:59
I'm a total control freak when it comes to my sims though, so most of them have no free will or motive/aspiration decay. I'm sort of a dictator god when I play, but I do take good care of my sims, always keeping them green and happy.
If you DON'T HAVE ANY MOTIVE DECAY, then your sims don't need to *DO* anything! Of course they're happy. Also, you SUCK as a player.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 11, 06:21:39
I'm a total control freak when it comes to my sims though, so most of them have no free will or motive/aspiration decay. I'm sort of a dictator god when I play, but I do take good care of my sims, always keeping them green and happy.
If you DON'T HAVE ANY MOTIVE DECAY, then your sims don't need to *DO* anything! Of course they're happy. Also, you SUCK as a player.

Perhaps, but I do sometimes let the motive decay stay on in order to explore certain aspects that require it. The reason I keep it off a lot of the time is so I can have them do what I want without them having to got to the bathroom or go to sleep. Sometimes I just want to see what will happen in certain situations.
It's just the way I play. It's not for everyone. My mother plays also. She just builds houses and creates the sims, but she doesn't play them. I always play mine, so our style of play is quite different. That versatility is a big part of what I like about the game.

To each his own. You play your way and I'll play mine.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 11, 15:41:45
Perhaps, but I do sometimes let the motive decay stay on in order to explore certain aspects that require it. The reason I keep it off a lot of the time is so I can have them do what I want without them having to got to the bathroom or go to sleep. Sometimes I just want to see what will happen in certain situations.
It's just the way I play. It's not for everyone. My mother plays also. She just builds houses and creates the sims, but she doesn't play them. I always play mine, so our style of play is quite different. That versatility is a big part of what I like about the game.

To each his own. You play your way and I'll play mine.  ;D
OMG, he spoke at thee.
The wonderful thing about the game is that people can play however the fuck they want. Be it housing-slump recession survival, naming their kids as breakfast cereals, or making self-sims (and killing them creatively-- *cough*). More power to you.

I for one almost never use MAXIS anything. And I don't have any maxis match stuff. To some people, that's abhorrent.  Fuck them. That's how I play. I'm not going to tell them they shouldn't use it. Its just made for a different player. It's a fucking game. Come on.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 March 11, 17:12:13
Y'know it's weird, for all the stuff I download I'm using less and less CC in my houses.  I think it's because I'm afraid of the lag issue.  All I know is that I recently deleted all my ReflexSucks stuff* and when I was redecorating the houses it occupied I had a terrible time figuing out what to replace it with that would keep the "feel" of the original decor.  I finally realized I had plenty of stuff that would work, but I kept looking at EA stuff instead of CC. 

*Except for the Elements set.  If anyone knows where I can find a couple of cool flaming torches and a fire bowl like hers I'd appreciate it.  I use them in cemetaries.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 March 11, 19:14:28
I've found that on my computer, lag doesn't seem to be related to how much custom content I have. There's one custom hot tub I can't really use because it causes slowdown, but that's the only thing I've found that causes problems. I get lag from ghosts, old Sims with tons of memories who won't just die already, bubbles in fountains, elevators, Sims turning blue from cold, and bad witches making lightning. All EAxis' fault.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: youknowme on 2009 March 12, 03:06:12
heyy

i dont know if i'm in the right room to ask this

when my teenage make out in a hot tub

they just go forward-backward-forward-backward while kissing and hugging

thats weird

there's should be like they go to the other side of the tub, stand up, sit down and move again to other side

you got wat i mean??

so  ithink there might be a problem

anyone, help


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 12, 03:10:39
What the fuck are talking about? Whether or not it is normal in real life isn't related to whether or not it is normal in-game behavior.

I don't get a lag from CC, but I go on thematic hunts and get bogged down with stuff I won't use. I finally just start over every few months from scratch because I have a download anomaly that crashes. I just did that today although MTS2 and SimPE are both down so I can't get CEP back for a few days.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 12, 03:15:10
What the fuck are talking about?

I get it. It's a fail haiku.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 12, 03:16:01
Actually it's a failed English major.  :-[


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paleoanth on 2009 March 12, 03:16:12
This is the third thread you have posted this exact same thing.  Quit spamming the board. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: youknowme on 2009 March 12, 03:32:39
sorry kinda spamming

so just tell me
where should i post this question

in which room i mean if you cant help me


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 March 12, 03:34:41
This is not a Sims help site. Posting that here won't get you much, none of which would help you.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 March 12, 03:35:10
Try "Ask a Pirate" if you haven't already hit there.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paleoanth on 2009 March 12, 03:37:12
I PM'd you a link to the BBS.  Try there. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 March 12, 03:49:33
Paleo, I was going to post a link to the BBS, don't know why I didn't.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 12, 04:03:05
I'm too mean to help.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 March 12, 05:46:09
I'm too mean to help.

Me too. And too tired.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 March 12, 16:02:16
MTS2's downloads won't be available again til the 12th!

Just wanted to let people know, MTS2 now says the estimated fix time is now unknown.

This is the update from Delphy from today:

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Okay, so, turns out that when I said I didn't think we'd lost any data, I was incorrect.

The primary drive from chii had a ton of read write errors on it - so much so that currently all downloads past mid-october last year (when the server was first setup - remember, we moved servers back then) are basically toast.

The backup drive has so many read write errors on it that it wont even boot the machine with it plugged in and it just goes to kernel panic mode.

As it stands I have managed to recover most downloads prior to Mid-October last year (some 127gb worth), but anything after attachmentid 826742 is gone. I am not entirely convinced that *all* downloads prior to then are intact and am investigating further to see how many prior to that date are ok.

Suffice to say I am extremely annoyed at the situation and beleive that there may be some other hardware issue on Chii becuase to have 2 drives fail so utterly is extremely rare.

I'm going to see if there is a way of getting the primary drive looked at professionally to see if we can recover any more data, but right now it's not looking hopeful.


That looks bad.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 March 12, 16:17:26
I was too sick to be mean.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 March 12, 17:05:30
 :-[ crap. I was actually wanting to go over to MTS2 to look for some old stuff I lost. Now it looks like it could be in never never land.

 Why couldn't it be the tsr to blow up and lose half of it's stuff. I need a good laugh.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 12, 17:19:22
Oh my God! You mean they store their backups on the same server? This is a huge blow. I need to go check my closet for something in basic black.
 :'(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 12, 17:24:45
I feel bad for them. They must be in panic mode themselves. Maybe people can provide missing files later to fill the gaps. If the artist is retired, they might not see the light of day again. I'm thinking the graveyard might get a bunch of new acquisitions soon.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 12, 21:15:58
:-[ crap. I was actually wanting to go over to MTS2 to look for some old stuff I lost. Now it looks like it could be in never never land.

 Why couldn't it be the tsr to blow up and lose half of it's stuff. I need a good laugh.

I'm ashamed to say that this news has put me in a panic. I thought they were just doing routine maintenance!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 March 12, 22:53:15
Its worth noting that you can track progress with things by clicking on the announcement at the top of the page - Delphy has made several updates to the thread since that was posted.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 March 12, 22:57:21
Also note the two drives reference.  It sounds as if one held the files and the other was backup, and they both failed.  And files after mid October seem to be toast, maybe not the entire drive.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Requip on 2009 March 12, 23:00:14
It's got me in a mild panic too.  :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 12, 23:06:19
Dude. Their backup is dead. I really feel for them. They must be running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I'll have to get my CC backups out when they list the stuff that's missing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 March 12, 23:18:16
I'm just wondering if there will be a way to list all the stuff lost, if there is a record of that on another server (The pages still seem to be up, just the items themselves seem to be gone)  If that's the case, perhaps they can put out a call to the artists to replace them, and for any members who might have such items, seeing that some artists probably won't be able to be reached. 

If there was a list of missing items, I'm sure whoever could help would.  I know I'd look through my downloads and share what I have.  I'd assume most of us would. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Requip on 2009 March 12, 23:22:20
CEP!! Isnt' that the only place it's available?  :o I'm very panicked.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 March 12, 23:36:16
Didn't someone day that Numenor had the CEP on his site as well?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 12, 23:38:35
I'm guessing that only the actual rars and stuff got lost.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 March 12, 23:57:22
Quote
Okay RAID rebuild failed - the backup drive is completely toast.

I'm going to get the primary drive shipped to me so I can run my own recovery on it. However this will obviously take some days.

So, basically what I'm doing is re-installing the basic stuff on Chii (gcc, libjpeg etc) so I can get PHP compiled. Once that happens I'll run a script that tells me which files are actually missing from the filesystem, and then we can identify the threads.

Once we know which threads are affected, I'll make a custom banner appear at the top of each of them, asking for members or the creator to resubmit the files. This way we can hopefully rebuild anything missing.

I apologise for this and for the delay - it's obvious there was a massive failure of the backup systems here, which only ever comes to light when something actually goes wrong. Going forward I'm going to investigate more stringent and effective backup solutions but for now we'll have to see how bad the damage really is.

That is the latest info. What it looks like is Delphy is going to see what he can save, if anything. What can't be found the creator or if in the case that not possible, people who downloaded the stuff are going to have to resubmit it. This is going to be a mess, and take a long time to fully recover from it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 13, 00:17:40
Geez. That is some awful news :-X  I hope that things will go smoother for them. I'll help out as much as possible when the time comes for needed files.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: EmilyTwitch on 2009 March 13, 00:31:37
At least they can figure out what's missing. That may be a lot, but it's a start... And hey, maybe this whole mess will come up with a faster, better, stronger MTS. Not to mention, if a creator lost files (on MTS) and decides that they want to update it before uploading again, we get shiny new stuff.  ;D

Let's try to be positive.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 13, 02:48:24
*Back on topic for moment*

You guys gotta check out Cassandre's newly updated Promise Bedroom w/ new additions!
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/prom4.jpg)

Get it here! http://blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?p=377105#post377105 (http://blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?p=377105#post377105)

And yes, as Emilytwitch says, we should all try to remain positive @ the MTS2 situation. ^-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 13, 02:52:26
No worries about the CEP, I'm sure there are thousands of copies people have downloaded and I'm one of them. I've got the The CEP - Color Enable Package v. 9.1 - 09 NOV 2008 and I'll happily supply it, I also have the whole page saved with all the information.

I'm sure the biggest challenge is going to be figuring out what's been lost, which is on Delphy's shoulders. Once we know that I'm sure the community will be able to supply whatever's missing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 March 13, 02:56:23
That bedroom set is amazing.

FYI: El Diablo, we now have a thread in Sharkbait to discuss the MTS2 situation.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Canoodle on 2009 March 13, 03:05:06
I wasn't entirely sure where to post this and didn't know if it required it's own thread, but you folks have been so supportive and kind. :)

Delphy has released a list of missing files:
http://db.modthesims2.com/missingfiles.html   :'( Any help you can lend would be greatly appreciated.

For more information, please see this thread:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=321390

And thank you again for your concern and kind words.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ekrubynaffit on 2009 March 13, 03:06:12
Just stumbled across this site am liking alot of their mens clothes got some good one for women too. http://www.sims-style-by-simple78.de/sims2bodyshop/kleidungclothing/mannmen/alltagskleidung.php


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 13, 03:47:50
That bedroom set is amazing.

FYI: El Diablo, we now have a thread in Sharkbait to discuss the MTS2 situation.  :)
Thanks, just saw it a little bit ago (after my last post here).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 13, 15:56:30
I wasn't entirely sure where to post this and didn't know if it required it's own thread, but you folks have been so supportive and kind. :)

Delphy has released a list of missing files:
http://db.modthesims2.com/missingfiles.html   :'( Any help you can lend would be greatly appreciated.

For more information, please see this thread:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=321390

And thank you again for your concern and kind words.

I think alot of us got our start on MTS2, and some of us are still there.  So its a bit like home.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: apple_snap on 2009 March 14, 07:20:03
Just stumbled across this site am liking alot of their mens clothes got some good one for women too. http://www.sims-style-by-simple78.de/sims2bodyshop/kleidungclothing/mannmen/alltagskleidung.php

Thanks for mentioning this - not *everything* is my kind of style, but the ones that I did download have been some of my favorite in-game. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 March 14, 18:04:46
That bedroom set is amazing.  And I totally want that dress on the dress form for my simmies.  While MTS2 was down, I was browsing to find things I might want when it was back up.  Wouldn't you know that I would find some good looking eyeshadow without the metric crapton of shadow under the eye that is so common and it is one of the things that is lost.

But, I did find this today:

(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/cfoley1215/MTS2_Hek_881374_sommerferien_living.jpg)

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319978 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319978)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Office Rules on 2009 March 14, 20:54:04
ooooooooooooooooooooh andais,that set is loverly...............................I am away from my computer until tommorrow but I think I might have to go dl this!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kitiara on 2009 March 14, 21:26:27
Just stumbled across this site am liking alot of their mens clothes got some good one for women too. http://www.sims-style-by-simple78.de/sims2bodyshop/kleidungclothing/mannmen/alltagskleidung.php

Nice.  I'm always on the lookout for good male clothes  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 15, 23:59:42
The fabulous Adele updated
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=321620
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/MTS2_thumb_Adele_888182_adele_ramsa.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 16, 02:24:20
The fabulous Adele updated
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=321620
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/MTS2_thumb_Adele_888182_adele_ramsa.jpg)

The woman

is not

human!

*bows five times facing wherever Adele lives*



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Moonie on 2009 March 16, 02:38:12
I think Adele maybe the best furniture maker in the history of sims creators.  Everything is so stylish and looks just as good in game as it does in the screens.  Her other stuff is pretty awesome too!

Thank God she's free or I don't know what I would do with myself.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 March 16, 04:07:44
That set looks wonderful. And the framed artwork is her own work, just wow. And you can tell she is popular, As of right now, the set has been up for less then 14 hours, and has already had over 1500 downloads.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 March 16, 04:13:34
Nobody's posted this yet right?

Criquette=awesome.
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?p=2139424&postedt=1#post2139424


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 16, 04:30:35
Adele is, by far, my favorite creator. I have everything I can find of hers. Always tasteful and gorgeous, with reasonable poly counts. It's no surprise to me that she is a talented 2D artist as well.

TS3 wouldn't be able to hire her without shaming everyone else there.

She is most definately a sims goddess IMHO.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 16, 04:37:16
That bus station lot is so cute.

And I agree wholeheartedly with the Adele Fawning.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 March 16, 06:49:37
It's not a lot. It's neighborhood deco.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 March 16, 14:10:54
New Nouk Hair! *squeeee!*

http://www.noukiesims2.net/tiny/index.php?topic=923.msg4661#msg4661

It's so adorable.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 16, 21:12:56
New Nouk Hair! *squeeee!*

http://www.noukiesims2.net/tiny/index.php?topic=923.msg4661#msg4661

It's so adorable.

Yoinked it. Gorgeous as usual! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 March 16, 21:21:01
Damn! Nouk's site is down right now. I will definitely keep checking on it. I'm a Nouk hair junkie.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Moonie on 2009 March 16, 21:25:13
LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!  Nouk you are so awesome!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nietzsche on 2009 March 18, 21:01:59
This is a really great blush I found while trying to get more blushes.

(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/5/0/2/2/4/7/MTS2_arrtisste36_819435_BlushThumbnail.jpg)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=302949


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: redisenchanted on 2009 March 18, 23:59:38
This may be the most amazing download for Sims 2 ever: http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319898


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 March 19, 00:52:01
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/wowrvmp.gif) Oh. My. God. YES! I think... I'm going... to die. Love just isn't a strong enough word for such a thing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 March 19, 01:34:31
This may be the most amazing download for Sims 2 ever: http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=319898

It is.   :D  The hood is simply amazing.  The lots are so simple yet so unique and full of awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: crunk on 2009 March 19, 01:42:32
 :o I know what I'm playing with tonight! Amazing! :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Moonie on 2009 March 19, 02:20:35
Awesome hood.  I wish I could get mine to look that complete.   :-\


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 March 19, 02:51:05
I now wish I were a Sim so I could live there.  That is absolute awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 March 19, 03:34:33
Oooo! I love the look and feel of the 'hood. Will play with it definitely.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 March 19, 15:55:14
omg must have that hood now!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 March 20, 15:53:22
I haven't tried this out yet, but as I understand from this:
is low poly, and it WORKS!!!! The storage compartments are usable with OMSPs, and the stairs seem to remain functional with a fair amount of stuff encroaching on the stair treads, as well. There are 10 OMSPs included, several of which are practically the same height as one another, but each one does match up with a specific plane of the object.

(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/tansustairs01.jpg)

Am I getting this right? It's an dresser tansu. It can be used to place objects on (with omsp) AND it's a staircase? MUST HAVE NOW


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 20, 16:14:26
Wow - while its not personally to my taste, I'm impressed - and now I'll have to figure out how it was done.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Tabby on 2009 March 20, 16:20:52
That one huge pack of OMSP's has an option to put things on stairs, so really this just makes nifty looking stairs. I already have stuff jam packed on my staircases!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 March 20, 16:23:27
Where is this?  A link please so the rest of us can check it out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Tabby on 2009 March 20, 16:27:47
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=240082 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=240082)

 I think it was mention here when it first came out, it could have been GOS though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 March 20, 16:28:36
It's Nixy's at GoS: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10914.msg310041;boardseen#new


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 20, 16:35:33
I love those stairs! God, this is my favorite thread on this entire site.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 March 20, 21:45:42
I love those stairs! God, this is my favorite thread on this entire site.

I hate it. It's terrible for my downloads folder, which is already embarrassingly huge.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 March 20, 22:15:05
But isn't it a wonderful kind of hate, though? :D I know what you mean, mine is growing faster than weeds in a garden because I can't help myself.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 March 21, 00:38:34
I think I must have that...even though I am not sure what I shall do with it  :-\
It's just too cool to pass up yes I am a dl junkie


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: seriouscookie on 2009 March 21, 02:15:47
Those stairs have me in jawdrop mode.  They're really amazing!  I wish I was that good at arranging things in real life.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SimARR on 2009 March 21, 10:19:22
Luina Sims (http://www.luinasims.com) has two really nice objects up. The cushions on the sofa look great in-game.
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2qk58d5.jpg)

Those stairs look amazing as well!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 March 21, 10:23:17
is low poly, and it WORKS!!!! The storage compartments are usable with OMSPs, and the stairs seem to remain functional with a fair amount of stuff encroaching on the stair treads, as well. There are 10 OMSPs included, several of which are practically the same height as one another, but each one does match up with a specific plane of the object.
It's made of BOXES. It damn well BETTER be low-poly.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 March 22, 18:52:56
I like this:

(http://s5.tinypic.com/2j0do5w.jpg)


The above can be found here. (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=323142)


*discussion of chairs, snipped*
It's made of BOXES. It damn well BETTER be low-poly.

LOW POLY is becoming a battlecry that doesn't mean what it used to.  I'm always amused when I see someone posting boxes and other totally square things and bragging about the low poly count. 

Those stairs are made of awesome, but the poly count doesn't figure into the awesomeness of it.   It's like the package of chocolate chip cookies I bought for my great niece that said in proud letters on the front, "CONTAINS REAL CHOCOLATE CHIPS!"  Considering that they were rather expensive, 100% "natural" chocolate chip cookies, (not chocolate flavored cookies)  the fact that they contained chocolate chips was pretty underwhelming.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 22, 19:29:26
I saw that table set too. It's quite pretty. I always think I'll start a medieval theme and all I do is download a bunch of junk and clog my downloads folder. But I have the compressorizer now and 3 more gb of memory so maybe I can get away with it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 March 22, 19:49:50
Those stairs have me in jawdrop mode.  They're really amazing!  I wish I was that good at arranging things in real life.

Me too!   of course,  I have savages for in laws so  can't have anything breakable around anyways. My sims homes are so pretty compared to my own :{


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 22, 21:41:08
I go for low poly still, but more from a desire for minimal poly for the item - I've done some high poly stuff, but its still the minimum needed for the look I want.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 March 23, 00:23:00
I go for low poly still, but more from a desire for minimal poly for the item - I've done some high poly stuff, but its still the minimum needed for the look I want.

Exactly.  There is no need for high poly boxes.   Again, I adore those stairs.  They are well done and well textured.  But just looking at the shape tells me it should be low poly. 

EDIT TO ADD:

Train station!   

(http://s5.tinypic.com/2hpj8tw.jpg)


This can be found Here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=323498)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: nixy on 2009 March 24, 17:14:23
is low poly, and it WORKS!!!! The storage compartments are usable with OMSPs, and the stairs seem to remain functional with a fair amount of stuff encroaching on the stair treads, as well. There are 10 OMSPs included, several of which are practically the same height as one another, but each one does match up with a specific plane of the object.
It's made of BOXES. It damn well BETTER be low-poly.

They're special, faffy artiste boxes. If my artistic vision/muse had required it, be assured that I would not hesitate to divide those faces into a glorious, fractalized mosaic of polylicious redundancy.

Also, about the it WORKS! part: If you don't have AL, the first version uploaded may cause problems; I had only one report of a possible issue, so I'm not sure it was actually the stairs causing the problem. In any case, I've redone the file so it is now really and truly basegame compatible.

Even though there is a staircase OMSP already available, these stairs don't match the existing stair profile at every tread, so I made my own set. The gargantuan OMSP set by Silent Lucidity at MTS2 probably also would fit most if not all of the stairs for people who have the ability to shift them with AL. I have way too many OMSPs myself, but I also have many surface objects that still don't have an appropriate OMSP, so I just want to be sure that everything I make that might require one, has one.

Oh, and thank you for the nice comments in this thread :)  I thought they turned out pretty cool myself.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 24, 20:22:42
I love those stairs! The off-beat eccentricity of them is just awesome-o! ^-*

ETA: ohh I've been looking for one of those posters actually! LMAO thanks nietzsche! Man, I need to get back on the dl wagon..


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nietzsche on 2009 March 24, 21:57:54
http://www.lurania.com/mobilier-varie4.html

Scroll to the bottom, those posters are FABULOUS!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 24, 22:44:08
I love those posters. I actually have the first one, "Chat Noir" in RL. There's a whole series of those. I found them somewhere (probably MTS2) for my sims.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 March 24, 23:43:00
Nom nom nom vintage advertising. I wish they had some Mucha or Toulouse-Lautrec.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 March 25, 00:33:46
Squeeeeeee! New hair from Nouk (http://noukiesims2.net/)!  ;D

(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i119/keirra1983/File%20Pics%20for%20SimsCave/FemDreads09Nouk.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 March 25, 00:58:29
Noooo! But I haven't even had a chance to try out those uber-cute pigtails yet! Nouk's too fast! :D Well, I guess it's game time for me, then...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ooglafina on 2009 March 25, 01:46:51
That squeeee says it all.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 March 25, 02:47:40
Is that what that sonic sound was that burst my eardrums?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nietzsche on 2009 March 25, 23:24:31
http://coolsims.net/community/index.php?showtopic=282

The house is overall rather bare, but the objects are really detailed. Especially like the laundry room, wish mine looked like that. :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 March 25, 23:50:00
http://coolsims.net/community/index.php?showtopic=282

The house is overall rather bare, but the objects are really detailed. Especially like the laundry room, wish mine looked like that. :P

I already have most of the same custom content that's in those houses. It's fun to see how other people use the stuff. Athough I think I use it better.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nietzsche on 2009 March 26, 00:03:55
Probably. She has potential but I think the main problem was that it was too big. Common mistake, I used to make mansions and they'd have whole rooms that were empty.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 March 26, 02:15:11
I've never had trouble filling up even huge houses with stuff - I just used to run out of walls, so I quit building so big most the time.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 March 26, 16:18:06
Pilar has a new mesh set   ;D


http://www.simcontrol.es/sims/descargas/meshes/pilar/scandal.gif?phpMyAdmin=926c48fb42bft480e90d1&phpMyAdmin=17c49c7c094t43040501r7b58


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 March 26, 20:40:15
Pilar has a new mesh set   ;D


http://www.simcontrol.es/sims/descargas/meshes/pilar/scandal.gif?phpMyAdmin=926c48fb42bft480e90d1&phpMyAdmin=17c49c7c094t43040501r7b58
Oh God that's gorgeous! *smack drool*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nietzsche on 2009 March 26, 20:45:58
 :o Wow... Oh god, I need that.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=229103

These are cute bathing suits, perfect for most of my sims.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 March 27, 14:37:56
http://coolsims.net/community/index.php?showtopic=282

The house is overall rather bare, but the objects are really detailed. Especially like the laundry room, wish mine looked like that. :P


Is it just me or is there now download links? :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 March 27, 20:24:47
That new dining set is gorgeous! *click*  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 March 28, 05:34:12
So normally I'm a huge fan of "liberated" maxis content anyway (more clothing options FTW!), and the fact that these are for guys is just an added bonus. :)

(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/snarkysnowlfake/tssseperateam2.jpg)

http://fantasyrogue.livejournal.com/27691.html

She also has several other Maxis-separated downloads on her LJ as well.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CellBlockTango on 2009 March 29, 18:24:53
ooo Sigmund, I'm always on the lookout for maxis-match type things. *runs off to nab*.

I really like the look of this new bay window by Leesester. especially as it's extendable!
(http://i40.tinypic.com/d5f2w.jpg)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=324116


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 March 29, 19:33:00
Bugger! MTS is offline for uploads and downloads for awhile, so now I have to wait to get those!! Grrrrrrr.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: vikitty on 2009 March 29, 20:09:10
This may be a longshot, but does anyone happen to have Elsewhere still on their computer and could email me the zips? MTS2 was down by the time I happened upon it!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 March 29, 20:19:07
This may be a longshot, but does anyone happen to have Elsewhere still on their computer and could email me the zips? MTS2 was down by the time I happened upon it!

What is  Elsewhere?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 March 29, 20:40:30
It's a neighborhood. Sorry vikitty, I have the neighborhood already messed with by me, but not the zip.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: picklechick on 2009 March 29, 20:47:24
Aw man, if anyone has Elsewhere hiding somewhere please let me know. I would looooooooooove to snag that neighborhood.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: bluemoon on 2009 March 29, 20:49:16
I've got them. I think they're too big to email, so I quickly uploaded them to my site. Let me know when you get them, so I can delete them. :)

*edited to delete links


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: vikitty on 2009 March 29, 22:21:26
YAY Bluemoon!~ :D Thank you!~ I've snagged it. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 March 30, 00:40:28
Hey, has anyone seen this (http://nontainted.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/intensify-adeles-super-chouette-chairpainting-recolours/) yet? I likes it.
Edit!
And check out these (http://aeliaa.livejournal.com/7375.html) sundresses!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: picklechick on 2009 March 30, 03:25:51
Bluemoon, I adore you. Thank you tons!

Edit: Wow, those sundresses are adorable!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 March 30, 03:43:01
Hey, has anyone seen this (http://nontainted.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/intensify-adeles-super-chouette-chairpainting-recolours/) yet? I likes it.

I love those!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: bluemoon on 2009 March 30, 14:44:34
You're both welcome! I'm always happy to share. I've kept them because it took me a few times to get them from mts.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 March 30, 18:06:33
Oh dang, now I think I actually have to get that Adele chair.  I had resisted because the original colors weren't quite what I would tend to use.

And I think my sims are just going to wear sundresses from now on.  Because, dang.  I love all those patterns and colors.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Realmscat on 2009 March 30, 19:16:01
I must refrain from visting this site. I swear my download folder will soon explode if you keep making threads like this. I'm bad enough on my own now my poor game will take even longer to load. Thank you all so much for feeding my addiction.."Insanely cackles before devoring a few more downloads."


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 March 31, 01:55:04
All About Style (http://www.all-about-style.com/) - now with Moar Elder Separates! And check out the Emotions Bed recolors (http://macthekat.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/a-splash-of-colour/) from MacTheKat! I'm really excited about those. Always loved that bed.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: yuennie on 2009 April 01, 01:57:28
I saw this amazing work of art at some Sims 2 `finds`site (which I doubt is a pay site) and was in love, but considering I have no clue how to read Korean or Japanese, I'm out of luck and sad. Can you even download this?! How did he even built it? I'm just in awe...and want everyone to see its beauty.

http://blog.naver.com/funnypii/80063359989 (http://blog.naver.com/funnypii/80063359989)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Zillah on 2009 April 01, 02:08:34
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i244/dhaissa/snapshot_00000008_153763bb.jpg)
http://the-black-ladies.bplaced.net/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=243 (http://the-black-ladies.bplaced.net/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=243)

(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i244/dhaissa/snapshot_0000000c_d5b20d79.jpg)
http://the-black-ladies.bplaced.net/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=135 (http://the-black-ladies.bplaced.net/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=135)

(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i244/dhaissa/snapshot_0000000c_b516363f.jpg)
http://the-black-ladies.bplaced.net/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=229 (http://the-black-ladies.bplaced.net/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=229)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 01, 02:42:33
Looks like Korean to me.  Maybe Lord Darcy will pop in and can help us find out more info on that house.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kaitlyn on 2009 April 01, 06:27:23
This set (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=324502) by blake_boy is just gorgeous!  I love that guy.   :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 01, 07:22:11
Blake Boy is an awesome creator. I love his stuff. His Aussie Bathroom gets used alot in my game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 01, 07:47:44
If I'd been less lazy, I would have gotten a pic of phoenix phaerie's new addition to the Manor House kitchen. It has lighting, a dumbwaiter and all sorts of homey clutter that makes my heart feel all happy! Get it HERE (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=324661). I use that kitchen and the one by Buggybooz almost exclusively, they both rock!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CodenameEndure on 2009 April 01, 11:07:19
Wow, how come I've never heard of this Blake_Boy before? his stuff is gorgeous :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 April 01, 12:33:47


 I would LOVE to look at the new kitchen stuffs but I have no idea how many chips are in a Pringle's can....and I am NOT writing a 3 paragraph essay about it!!! LOL


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 01, 13:30:52
Well, this is weird...

(http://i44.tinypic.com/1g3868.jpg)
 
EDIT:  Silly me, I forgot the date.  *V8-headsmack*  Considering all that's happened over the last couple days, I thought this was some weird, new security feature.  And I was asking myself, "WHAT IS THE POINT?"


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 01, 14:21:07
Only the people who got it right would be TSR trying to hack into your account and steal your stuffs.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 01, 14:37:50
I've been waiting for the kitchen stuff.  And those are gorgeous meshes from Blake too....Can't wait to feel like -playing- again, I want to finish my own set of stuff, but between rl and this...just haven't been up to it, much less playing the game ;.;


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kitiara on 2009 April 01, 14:43:38
I got this when I tried to d/l a bathroom set at MTS:

Quote
Due to your embarrassing lack of hygiene, MTS2 ask that you please answer the following question to continue:

Q: Complete: I am vampire, hear me _____!
RAWR
SUCK
TWINKLE
EXPLODE

 ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 April 01, 16:26:54
I got the "Spatula of Indifference" or something like that. :) I think I chose "Fear and Surprise."

Blake's set is awesome, thanks for the link!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 April 01, 16:44:07
Nice set! I'm not getting any quizzes, I guess Firefox blocks them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 April 01, 16:49:47
Nice set! I'm not getting any quizzes, I guess Firefox blocks them.
Nah, I use FF too, with NoScript. I got Blake's set with no popup, the popup came when I then downloaded Phoenix's Gourmet Kitchen Part II. So it doesn't happen each and every time. I'm not annoyed, I think it's funny. Unless it's a Trojan or something.  :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 April 01, 17:07:15
Bah, I want random April Fools quizzes :P

This was linked over at GoS - lovely looking site with some gorgeous creations: SailfinSims (https://sailfinsims.com/index.php)

(Also, what the hell happened to Paden's avatar? :D)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 April 01, 17:12:16
Our Awesome Leader made a decree.  I forget why.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 01, 17:50:07
I thought FF was blocking the quizzes too, but, then I got one. I guess it's just random. What is this April Fools Day you speak of?  :D



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 April 01, 18:02:46
Our Awesome Leader made a decree.  I forget why.

LOL, oh Pes! He hit Keirra as well I see :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 01, 18:06:09
Our Awesome Leader made a decree.  I forget why.

LOL, oh Pes! He hit Keirra as well I see :D

The Avi's we changed for April Fools Day. Pescado did give Paden a custom title, though.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 April 01, 18:38:08

 what?? you guys got multiple choice questions??? i was suppose to write a flipping essay!! LOL


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Zillah on 2009 April 01, 19:03:08
I got both, I did write the essay, for fun, though it wasn't three pages. I wonder if anyone will ever read it?  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 01, 19:32:38
Aww. Nothing came up for me, except I had to download three times. Apparently there's a lot of traffic today! :)
On the other hand, I'm simply drooling over the pic for the new WNF APR. I can't wait until they release it, it looks like it's going to be stupendously, earth-shatteringly, life-changingly awesome.

(ps. Happy April Fools ya'll!)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 01, 22:00:42
I got one on the first go at downloading. It was some complicated math question and all I did was click "yes". Math and my brain don't work well together. It let me download, too! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 April 02, 04:35:42
My brain is full of snot from a headcold.  WTF is an ATF APR? 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 April 02, 12:49:19
I got the questions "What was Starbuck really?" I said a store that sold coffee. I never watched the "new" Battlestar Galatica. I loved the original cheezy one too much.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lowell on 2009 April 02, 13:48:39
I think my favorite of the MTS2 questions yesterday were probably the ones that didn't even have multiple choice answers or fields to type in essays. I know there was one that told you to hum the theme to Jeopardy and then hit F3, one that told you to go check and make sure you didn't leave the stove on, and one that simply said Dammit, make it stop! However, the one that asked me to "input the longest song title in the world into the 10-character box below" also had me laughing for a while.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 02, 13:57:17
Finally did end up getting a few. One of them said my any key is broken! Yeah, right. You can't fool me, MTS2, I already had that button fixed twice! :D

Skoria, the new Battlestar is good, just completely not the same. I wasn't really into the original (seen it, but meh), but the hubbs was and he says this one doesn't ruin it for him. I am glad I didn't get that question, though. I haven't watched the last handful of episodes yet - can't be having any spoilers!

Scurvy, WNF APR = Wicked Nouk Family Aspiration Reward. Actually, it's just AR, but Sims always use ASP for aspiration, so I can't help but stick the P in there even though it makes little to no sense.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: justso on 2009 April 02, 14:08:20
I got the questions "What was Starbuck really?" I said a store that sold coffee. I never watched the "new" Battlestar Galatica. I loved the original cheezy one too much.
 

Mine was interstella coffee, but wait isn't stella a lager.  lager flavoured coffee ftw


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 02, 14:38:44
I was fond of the original too, or at least had some of my first major crushes from it.  When they changed the gender of one of those characters....they lost me - even if the doctor or whatever was very nice to look at.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 April 02, 15:36:47
I did watch the first few episodes when the new Galactica started. I do have to hand it to them the writing for the series was very well done. Afraid it was too "dark" for me. Same thing with a lot of the newer "Trek" spinoffs too. Future is dark, worlds will end, etc. I do think its funny though that Dirk Benedict (The REAL Starbuck if you ask me  ;)) met the actress playing the new Starbuck (don't remember her name, but she's a great actress. Saw her on the new Bionic Woman and loved her character there) in where else... A Starbucks coffee shop to discuss playing the character. And yes, I have the original Battlestar soundtrack on vinyl. I loved the music to the original show.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 02, 17:23:45
I have the original pilot episode of the original Battlestar: Galactica and somewhere have most if not all of the books. Yeah, I iz a sci-fi geek. About the Starbuck question, I wrote that it was an overpriced coffee shop that sells bad coffee using over-roasted coffee beans. Have any of you ever noticed that there is a burnt taste to it? Eccch! I prefer the lighter roasts because they give you more of a caffeine hit. Also, the hotter the water you use to brew it, the better the flavour is going to be.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 02, 22:14:47
Ummmm, Sabian, this is the Prettiest FREE creation find thread. You're doing it wrong.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 02, 22:20:33


...and yeah, it's me! Blinkin Sabian. I lost my password to my proper account!!!!! >:( *slaps self hard* If anybody finds it, let me know! lol

When I first saw your avatar, my first thought was, "Oh crap, is it HER?  Of course not no one would be so stupid as to use the SAME avatar is they do on TSR, then come over..."

Then I remembered it was Dot and checked the name.  And read the post. 

Although, I have to admit, that Dot probably could roam around here under another name, acting like one of us, and I'd probably never suspect her.  What if we're grossly underestimating her?   


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 02, 23:40:40
You mean like the Scarlet Pimpernel?  Someone how, I just can't believe it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 April 02, 23:50:03
She'd be more like Daffy Duck as the Scarlet Pumpernickel.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SnarkyShark on 2009 April 03, 00:09:29
Although, I have to admit, that Dot probably could roam around here under another name, acting like one of us, and I'd probably never suspect her.  What if we're grossly underestimating her?   

::: shifty eyes :::

Gah. I, DOT, have been discovered SHAPE! I could have been getting away with trashing myself for YEARS if it hadn't been for that damn Darqstar SHAPE!  Oh well, might as well drag kenmtl down with me (He's actually princess padre)

SHAPE!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 03, 00:13:19
::: shifty eyes :::

Gah. I, DOT, have been discovered SHAPE! I could have been getting away with trashing myself for YEARS if it hadn't been for that damn Darqstar SHAPE!  Oh well, might as well drag kenmtl down with me (He's actually princess padre)

SHAPE!

I'd never suspect you or Kenmtl, both of you are too funny to be...

Oh, wait!  maybe this is just some game to make me think it couldn't be you, but it is you... 

Okay, time for a test.

A Lampshade can be made out of:

A: A Cat
B: Pixie dust from the Enchanted Forrest
C: Thomas's tears
D: Marble.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 03, 00:17:49
You forgot the, "E: Yes," answer selection for that one, Darq.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 April 03, 02:15:30
Uhm, headcold cat again, what am I missing?  Did she delete her post or what?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Irish Wench on 2009 April 03, 04:05:18
I was wondering the same thing Scurvy cat. Even scrolled back looking for Sabian's post.

Deletion = Confusion

 ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 April 03, 04:53:39
He deleted his other posts too from the tsr in ur account thread. It makes me look like I'm talking to myself!  :-\

Sabian, why haz you deleted!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 03, 05:11:36
Deletion isn't really looked upon with favour, hon...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 03, 08:19:24
Sabian deleted his posts before, too. He was told that time that it's really poor forum etiquette. I guess he doesn't care. He's now on my ignore list. ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 April 03, 11:24:09
Sabian didn't delete himself, he was deleted for losing his password. Since I can't recover his password and can't notify him if I reset it, the standard policy for losing your password is to be summarily deleted.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 April 03, 16:29:56
Ah.  I feel much better now.  I know my eyesight is going but I didn't think it was that bad.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 03, 20:37:32
Sabian didn't delete himself, he was deleted for losing his password. Since I can't recover his password and can't notify him if I reset it, the standard policy for losing your password is to be summarily deleted.

Oh okay, thanks for the info.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 April 03, 20:50:23
I have no idea what this Dot Snarky person is talking about.

Silly Dargstar, everyone knows lampshades are made from shapes. You ever tried to shape a cat?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 April 03, 23:10:17
Ole did it again (build stuff)  ;D  http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=9481  and there's a few recolors by engelchen and chalipo in the recolor section.


(http://bayimg.com/image/oaoaeaabm.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 04, 00:07:30
I have no idea what this Dot Snarky person is talking about.

Silly Dargstar, everyone knows lampshades are made from shapes. You ever tried to shape a cat?

I did once.  I still have the scars to prove it too.   ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 04, 01:38:17
Yeah, they don't like being stuck into a bunt pan, do they? :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eifslitc on 2009 April 04, 01:43:51
This set (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=324502) by blake_boy is just gorgeous!  I love that guy.   :D
Hahaha, I had to download that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 April 04, 02:39:39

 No but cats do fit in salad spinners, my 3 year old proved that yesterday!

 and I wants that castle!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 04, 02:47:20

 No but cats do fit in salad spinners, my 3 year old proved that yesterday!

 and I wants that castle!

I've got a cat that insists in sleeping inside a 20 cup coffee maker that sits up on top of a closet shelf.  I have no clue how she gets in it, because it's only got about a three inch clearance from the ceiling, but I've found her in there a lot.

I don't even know how we got the thing.  It's big, it's like the type of coffee makers you see at church suppers.  But we have it.  And I don't even drink coffee.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 04, 04:44:20
My cat sleeps in the hole in my box spring-  It doesn't provide much shape though rather like DOTS lamps- Which is good much like Darqstar's cat he doesn't like being shaped- of course my foster cat likes it even less - I love that castle to and I want it for my plantsims, and my evil witch.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eifslitc on 2009 April 04, 04:49:11
My cat sleeps in the hole in my box spring- 
LMAOOOOOOO. The mental image of that was.... Yea.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 April 04, 05:13:24
 ::)


DIE, 12!!!!!




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 April 04, 05:23:55
LMAO @ "VaginaRibcage"! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: VayaSims on 2009 April 04, 06:03:56
Ole did it again (build stuff)  ;D  http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=9481  and there's a few recolors by engelchen and chalipo in the recolor section.

Wow, it's beautiful castle. I am going to visit that site right now to download that build set. Thank you very much for this great FREE find.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 04, 06:09:20
It's a very pretty set to use. Has he released the wall coverings, yet? Sorry, I don't understand German...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 April 04, 16:48:16
It's a very pretty set to use. Has he released the wall coverings, yet? Sorry, I don't understand German...

There is a castle that has walls like that - http://www.all4sims.de/board/filebase.php?fileid=5710  You could dl the lot and extract them.

-snip-

You have the eye of Atwat.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 04, 19:56:18
Karu, thanks for the suggestion, I honestly forgot that I could do something like that with Clean Installer. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 06, 01:03:25
Moar awesome from Criquet. (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=324731)


(http://i40.tinypic.com/2rhlqo7.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 April 06, 01:17:19
Move.Away.From.Clicky.Button


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 April 06, 02:15:36
Oh my god, that 40 tile bridge looks just like the Golden Gate. It's so weird looking out my window and seeing the same thing on my computer screen, but in sim form. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 April 06, 05:08:14
 That is so beautiful. My neighbourhoods look so plain I should use those.

 I have 8 cats, I find them sleeping in the oddest places. One of them is now in the draw under the stove sleeping among the pots.  I do not understand why they find it comfortable when there is many beds in the house!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 April 06, 06:38:52
Criquette is GODLY!

It's amazing some of the stuff he thinks up and forms. My neighbourhoods would look like a load of carp (intentional spellingz0rs) without him.
He really does some amazing mesh work.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 April 06, 20:16:42
Huge Lunatic I LOVE YOU....thanks for completing that crappy excuse of an IKEA stuff pack.
People you can find it here and it rocks http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=325150 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=325150)

(actual downloads are in the coments and everything is repository...for us download whores  ;D)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 07, 15:14:10
Here's another pretty neat thing from Whitewaterwood.

(http://i43.tinypic.com/2zh3893.jpg)


You can find it Here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=325420)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 07, 15:17:47
Awesome - been thinking about cleaning up the chair anyway, sine it also matches the sewing table well.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: narlakins on 2009 April 07, 17:12:23
The WNF Sci Fi set is up.. a personal favourite of mine being adeles new set. Unmatched quality!
And of course, a hair by Nouk. Theres some awesome skins to.. check it out i suppose it speaks for itself

(http://i44.tinypic.com/jzgtqo.jpg)
(http://i39.tinypic.com/2vaiis8.jpg)


http://www.wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1322.msg8763#new

EDIT: Add bigger image


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 07, 18:47:53
OhGodYesIDieHappyNowYesYesYesYesYes! I have one neighborhood right now - and all of the Sims in it are 'oddities'. HappyHappyHappyNomNomGoodStuffYumHOORAY!
Perfect timing! I've spent the morning clearing room in my download folder. I can't wait to use those buns. Giggity.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 April 07, 19:43:37
I think the entire sim community must be trying to get the new WNF set - the forum will not load for me :D scrap that its slowly loading now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 07, 22:32:37
I think you're right, but I did get my shiny! All thanks to those that create the good stuff! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 07, 22:33:11
Mwah hah 20 minutes but, I got it Nouks new hair- and some pretty clothes - slow very slow - Damn it I just finished deleting 3000 craptastic paysite files from TSR and Peggy out of my files- and added 1500 - I can't ever win - Why does everyone have to flash the shiny and make me want them (note to self add to list of fave freeators - Heck,  HugeLunatic, Adele, Ghanima (oh wait she's already there). No more my computer can't take it please.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 April 08, 03:56:24
very kewl windows by Samba  8) - http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?p=93372#post93372

(http://bayimg.com/image/haoicaabn.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 April 08, 09:51:12
That Nouk hair is absolutely outstandingly gorgeous. I love it so hard.  :-* I can't find a place to squee at the WNFers on the forum, so I hope they read this.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 April 08, 13:38:47
These are gorgeous!
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/SocialiteWindows.jpg)
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=323765 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=323765)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 08, 13:47:25
I already have these and they are so pretty in the game - Now all we need is a Good M&G Moroccan, Art Deco, Second Empire add-ons set from either Leester or Fway and we are good to go.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 08, 13:49:23
I might make a stab at those - I love the second story stuff, and noticed a real lack of windows and stuff.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 April 08, 15:37:46
OH my! I was hoping that the new WNF would come out soon! I love that nouk hair! And the makeup! And the skins! Ahhh! *dies*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 08, 16:17:51
I was already a Nouk Fangirl and every one of her hairs is in my game- But this months WNF set has turned me into an Adele fangirl right along with everyone else here- I immediately went and looked up all her Mod the Sims stuff and her other contributions to the Aspiration Rewards sets and downloaded them immediately- it is so pretty- in game and out, unlike some of the pay stuff which is photoshopped to hell and back and never looks as pretty in the game as it does when you download it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 08, 19:43:00
Has anyone seen this (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11219.msg321636;boardseen#new)? It looks gorgeous. *Farts hearts for Yuxi*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eifslitc on 2009 April 08, 19:46:06
Has anyone seen this (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11219.msg321636;boardseen#new)? It looks gorgeous. *Farts hearts for Yuxi*
That looks nice, but I think I'd like that more if the contours had a more realistic edge. Maybe stray strands of hair or something. Regardless, it still looks nice.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 08, 20:03:27
Has anyone seen this (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11219.msg321636;boardseen#new)? It looks gorgeous. *Farts hearts for Yuxi*

Oh wow, nice! I'll bet it'll have a decently low poly count too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 April 10, 02:28:39
Went looking for some alien skintones and found these amazing default skins:

(http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/ElDPix/MTS2_Lucia_Carlota_829267_Blue_Chlo.jpg)(http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/ElDPix/MTS2_Lucia_Carlota_829270_Green_Lol.jpg)
(http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/ElDPix/MTS2_Lucia_Carlota_829272_Purple_El.jpg)(http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/ElDPix/MTS2_Lucia_Carlota_829274_Silver_Ne.jpg)

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=305760


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 10, 13:46:49
Yes those are lovely- Hector Rashburn (Rathbaum) did a " Sparkly" vampire default using the grey one that is absolutely gorgeous. He posted it over at Mod the Sims here http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=320945


Pic - Here (http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/MTS2_HectorRashbaum_885817_s3_head.jpg)

I don't personally use this one- I use one from Wella Creations that is  Enayla Pixie Demonic skintone with Yumedust Eye Defatuls. This one is gorgeous I just have issues with Sparkly Vampires.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: VayaSims on 2009 April 11, 11:13:52
The skintones are beautiful. Thank you both (El Diablo and dstar) for the links.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 12, 21:14:15
Geez, but I already have 175 Skintones... I hate you guys! ;)
Fantasyrogue's new skin set (http://fantasyrogue.livejournal.com/29037.html) is really, really cute, too!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 April 12, 22:06:38
That Zombie skin is fab. Pescado, I want my zombie-sim-self to have that skin in Awesomeland, kthxbai ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anouk on 2009 April 13, 01:09:01
Ohhhh that alien one! Do want!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 13, 01:49:59
I grabbed the naturals tf/gen ones- they are gorgeous


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 April 13, 03:44:01
 ;D Long have I desired an alien default skin. Finallly, the right one is presented. I picked the purple spotted one


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: VayaSims on 2009 April 13, 07:49:26
That alien skintones are beautiful dusdeedawn! And that werewolf skintone is awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: LadyVailen on 2009 April 13, 12:48:58
*drags away a now extremely heavy and bulging downloads folder*  ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lord Darcy on 2009 April 13, 16:24:10
I saw this amazing work of art at some Sims 2 `finds`site (which I doubt is a pay site) and was in love, but considering I have no clue how to read Korean or Japanese, I'm out of luck and sad. Can you even download this?! How did he even built it? I'm just in awe...and want everyone to see its beauty.

http://blog.naver.com/funnypii/80063359989 (http://blog.naver.com/funnypii/80063359989)
In case you're still looking for this...

This is Curio's blog, a famous Korean lot builder. You can find more information about her at Sims Cave. There is a very long WCIF thread (http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=5078.0) devoted entirely to her lots.

The blog only serves as her showcase for her lots. The actual downloads are available at her Daum cafe (http://cafe.daum.net/curio-shop). Surprisingly, Daum account is not required.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 April 13, 21:42:16
Wow, those lots are awesome. Now I just have to figure out how to download them. They're all split into separate parts which can't be installed ???.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: FreeForMeAlso on 2009 April 14, 00:57:40
You have to download all 5 files, then select them all and extract as usual.  I have winrar, but I'm assuming something similar is available in each unpacking program. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 April 14, 15:34:25
You have to download all 5 files, then select them all and extract as usual.  I have winrar, but I'm assuming something similar is available in each unpacking program. :)

Ooh. It's been a while since I had to do that, and I don't think I've ever done it with 7zip before. Thanks!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 14, 18:00:11
Hek has a new set up at Mod the Sims -http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326422

(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/MTS2_thumb_Hek_905444_symbiose_tabl.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: snowball on 2009 April 14, 22:28:57
My downloads folder now officially hates me  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 15, 05:35:41
This thread alone has been responsible for adding a couple of gigs to my downloads folder. It prompted me to search for more garden plants and that's what I was doing most of the day when I was able to get online at all. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 15, 07:25:04
Something I've been hoping for!
Sweetly Sweet Sweetness (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11503.0)
::Happy Dance::
Super sweet!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 April 15, 17:10:51
(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/snarkysnowlfake/mahattanbathroomrpinkpreview512x384.jpg)


I don't *think* anybody else has pointed this site out yet... I just discovered it a few days ago, and have been downloading like crazy. This bathroom (https://www.sailfinsims.com/) is the newest set.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 April 15, 19:18:51
Something I've been hoping for!
Sweetly Sweet Sweetness (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11503.0)
::Happy Dance::
Super sweet!

Ive been waiting for those too! I did like the tutu's but didnt think id actually put them on many sims...but the corsets are great...another download!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 April 15, 20:14:28
I'm too lazy to get a picture, but adele uploaded Eighty new walls and floors.

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326535


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 April 15, 20:22:17
They are bloody gorgeous! I love Adele's work.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 15, 20:23:22
I don't *think* anybody else has pointed this site out yet... I just discovered it a few days ago, and have been downloading like crazy. This bathroom (https://www.sailfinsims.com/) is the newest set.

That site rocks! *Bookmarks*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 15, 20:56:40
My only problem with Adele's work [and this is my problem with Nouk's too] its so bloody good that when I use it, I don't want to use anything else, certainly nothing by EA - so...I tend to just thank and leave it there to look at.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sailfindragon on 2009 April 15, 21:14:40
I don't *think* anybody else has pointed this site out yet... I just discovered it a few days ago, and have been downloading like crazy. This bathroom (https://www.sailfinsims.com/) is the newest set.

That site rocks! *Bookmarks*

Thank you Darqstar & Sigmund so much. Really glad you like my site & The Manhattan Bathroom Set. I really appreciate it.  :)

Sailfindragon ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 15, 21:27:34
I don't *think* anybody else has pointed this site out yet... I just discovered it a few days ago, and have been downloading like crazy. This bathroom (https://www.sailfinsims.com/) is the newest set.

That site rocks! *Bookmarks*

Thank you Darqstar & Sigmund so much. Really glad you like my site & The Manhattan Bathroom Set. I really appreciate it.  :)

Sailfindragon ;D

It's fantastic.  I've been going through my DL folder, getting rid of stuff I don't need.  I have a feeling I'll be filling up any space I gain with your stuff.   ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 15, 21:38:15
I skipped over there and joined the forum and downloaded that bathroom, it's going into my game tonight! Thanks again, Sailfindragon! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dietofworms on 2009 April 15, 22:52:25
What a terrific find!  Great site. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sailfindragon on 2009 April 15, 23:00:45
I skipped over there and joined the forum and downloaded that bathroom, it's going into my game tonight! Thanks again, Sailfindragon! ;D

Paden

Imagine meeting your here! LOL. I actually knew who you were when you joined. Let me know how you get on with the Bathroom.

Darqstar

Isn't that always the case, you think you are being so good in tidying up your download folder and bang it fills right up again! :)

DietofWorms

Thank you so much. :)

SailfinD


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 April 16, 00:19:27
That is gorgeous work, sailfindragon. (but you don't need to sign your posts, we know who you are. ;) )


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 16, 00:48:37
Some awesome candles from Buggyboots!

(http://i43.tinypic.com/2cprced.jpg)

You can find them right here. (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326637")


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 April 16, 00:53:34
I like thoses candles. And I love the little match box that comes with them.

 I'm so glad I'm organizing my downloads folder and sorting it all out. Found out I got some stuff in there 2,3,7 times. I was able to get rid of 1,000 downloads last night, and I am nowhere near done.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 April 16, 07:14:28
The little matchbox is perfect! :D Very nice...

[edit] This bathroom looks fantastic!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326755


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 April 17, 23:34:08
FINALLY!

(http://i39.tinypic.com/1hyv13.jpg)

This window has two textures so it can be one color on the outside and one on the INSIDE!

While Plasticbox doesn't take requests, I really have to say I hope they do more of these.

Awesomeness found here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326756)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 18, 00:44:28
I smile and say thank you both, while my download folder flips you and Emma the bird, Darq. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 18, 02:05:03
The little matchbox is perfect! :D Very nice...

[edit] This bathroom looks fantastic!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326755

I snagged that bathroom. Very nice.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 April 18, 02:12:27
FINALLY!
-snip-
When I saw it earlier today, I remembered how you were complaining a while ago about windows not having different recolourable textures. :D Looks like your wish came true. This is why I'm not leaving the Sims 2 community yet. Creators have just scratched the surface as far as fixing EAxis fuck ups are concerned and new ideas are implemented every single day... Who needs buggy Sims 3.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lilwen on 2009 April 18, 09:37:44
I don't *think* anybody else has pointed this site out yet... I just discovered it a few days ago, and have been downloading like crazy. This bathroom (https://www.sailfinsims.com/) is the newest set.

That site rocks! *Bookmarks*

Thank you Darqstar & Sigmund so much. Really glad you like my site & The Manhattan Bathroom Set. I really appreciate it.  :)

Sailfindragon ;D


I joined this morning, I have checked out your bathroom ingame, must say it looks great. many thanks.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sailfindragon on 2009 April 18, 21:43:26


I joined this morning, I have checked out your bathroom ingame, must say it looks great. many thanks.

Hi Lilwen.

Thank you so much, thanks for joining.

Back on topic!

That bathroom from MTS2 looks fabulous, i think i might have to go over there and get it.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Bangelnuts on 2009 April 19, 04:32:53
My Downloads folder will soon be going on strike from being overworked and never paid. Thanks to all these must have items being posted here. ;D*Bangelnuts rushes off to download some more stuff.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 April 19, 11:23:16
FINALLY!
http://i39.tinypic.com/1hyv13.jpg
This window has two textures so it can be one color on the outside and one on the INSIDE!
While Plasticbox doesn't take requests, I really have to say I hope they do more of these.
Awesomeness found here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326756)

I'm right with you on this. That's always been something I wanted. The only ones I have that are two textured are Inge's and I use them ALL THE TIME.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 April 20, 02:19:26
I must take this time to thank HugeLunatic for making the Arizona living set repository!

see... http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=961.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 April 20, 03:15:11
A lovely little rock border fence!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326630


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 20, 03:19:17
Le Theatre a lovely theatre house for your neighborhood by Stoffelsims- no cc here - http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327058


And this- The French quarter Bedroom by Zillah and Earth Goddess at Natural Sims

(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/zFrenchQuarter.jpg)

Found Here - http://www.naturalsims.com/bedrooms7.html

New Set of Wedding Arches by Eris3000- My heroine I was so looking for new wedding arches if my sims ever manage to achieve a formal wedding party again

Here - http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327201

Pics
(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/MTS2_thumb_eris3000_908498_Image1.jpg)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lilwen on 2009 April 20, 14:37:11
There should be a heath warning for your downloads folder in the title of this thread. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 20, 15:05:05
I agree- When I left started here I had removed 3000 paysite files from my d/l folder- I still have some but for every 1 paysite file I deleted I have added 5-10 freesite files. This includes substituting files for paysite creators that have x-posted the same creations on freesites like MTS2 (Ala Windkeeper,and MsBarrows), or that have since gone free and uploaded their pay files to the freesite they now post on (Aikea and Gelydh), and my build mode and Maxis Match/Completer sets which had tripled thanks to Natural Sims, Sim2Code and Sims 2 Artists. I had it down to about 6000 individual files in my d/l folder and now am up over 11000 files.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 April 20, 17:47:11
I must take this time to thank HugeLunatic for making the Arizona living set repository!

see... http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=961.

Great find. I deleted all of this stuff because it took up to much room in my Download folder. Now, I can add it back.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 April 20, 18:43:47
Great find. I deleted all of this stuff because it took up to much room in my Download folder. Now, I can add it back.  ;D

Me too!  :D ...and thank you pinky for mentioning it...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kitiara on 2009 April 20, 18:57:03
A lovely little rock border fence!

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326630

Love it!  I've been waiting for something like this  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: KiwiJaye on 2009 April 20, 19:28:30
Fifteen Maxis Match Bulletin Boards for Every Taste by Simgaroop  http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327135

(http://i42.tinypic.com/2i7qmgz.jpg)

Uni required. I've been trying to keep my download folder small, (despite this thread,) but I just can't resist these recolors. I know they'll go into every house I decorate. And I can't be the only one thinking about having a Bella Goth obsessed sim now?  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 20, 21:31:08
Omnomnomnomnom. I'm currently playing the Cleaned-Up Uber-Megahood (from mixreality here (http://mixreality.livejournal.com/8522.html)) so any and everything Maxis-Match is WANT. *insert Nemo seagulls here*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: strix on 2009 April 20, 23:27:24
Oh yay, a shinier cleaned up megahood! Now my game *really* hates me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 21, 22:08:54
RdgyAnne at Sims2Artists (http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/index.html) made some gorgeous ballerina sculptures. They're high poly, but they're absolutely lovely.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 April 21, 23:11:28
RdgyAnne at Sims2Artists (http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/index.html) made some gorgeous ballerina sculptures. They're high poly, but they're absolutely lovely.

I grabbed those too! I'll probably not ever use the couple, which is the highest poly, but just had to have them!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 April 22, 07:21:26
Oooh - why have Dot's craptacular lamps when you can have these:

(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj211/ShanOw0/ula20lamp.jpg)

http://www.luinasims.com/luina%20sims/lighting3.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 April 22, 16:11:11
Doing my usual browse on MTS2 and discovered this completer set for the bohemian build items:
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307480 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307480)

Reading through the info where fway helpfully points out some recolors, I ended up discovering this site: http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/ (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/) that I had never seen before.  Not only do I want most of the things on the site, but she does AMAZING preview pictures -- great clarity.

My new OS arrives today so after the re-install (*sigh*) I can finally install Sims 2 on my new computer and then I'm hitting this thread hard. 

(and, omg, repository Arizona set)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: BoilerFox on 2009 April 22, 19:47:03
Doing my usual browse on MTS2 and discovered this completer set for the bohemian build items:
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307480 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307480)

Reading through the info where fway helpfully points out some recolors, I ended up discovering this site: http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/ (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/) that I had never seen before.  Not only do I want most of the things on the site, but she does AMAZING preview pictures -- great clarity.

My new OS arrives today so after the re-install (*sigh*) I can finally install Sims 2 on my new computer and then I'm hitting this thread hard. 

(and, omg, repository Arizona set)



AweSims is my favorite. Walls with AL compatible borders! I'm such a wall whore.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: obsidian on 2009 April 22, 20:03:22
Doing my usual browse on MTS2 and discovered this completer set for the bohemian build items:
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307480 (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=307480)

Reading through the info where fway helpfully points out some recolors, I ended up discovering this site: http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/ (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/) that I had never seen before.  Not only do I want most of the things on the site, but she does AMAZING preview pictures -- great clarity.

My new OS arrives today so after the re-install (*sigh*) I can finally install Sims 2 on my new computer and then I'm hitting this thread hard. 

(and, omg, repository Arizona set)



Wow the pictures on there are amazing. i hope they look as good in game. and I wish I could get preview pictures like that. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Owl on 2009 April 23, 00:07:22
New Nouk hair! (http://sim-street.net/?q=node/23)  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 April 23, 13:37:00
Nifty, grungified cars: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11288.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11288.0) 

2nd page has pictures of the '58 Impala.  Was going to insert, but I'm *cough* working.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 23, 15:59:55
Part I: Wedding Cakes by Eris3000 at Mod the Sims 2 to add to her wedding set that I posted earlier.


(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/MTS2_eris3000_909475_Image7.jpg)




http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327448


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sailfindragon on 2009 April 23, 16:05:36
Those cakes are stunning. Absolutely loving work. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 April 23, 22:28:16
And the best part is they aren't deco cakes, but real cakes. Married sims can cut them and they feed a piece to their spouse.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 23, 23:04:56
I downloaded the entire set for this, tables, chairs wedding arches, deco and cakes- While the Maxis stuff is not bad- I like Eris3000's stuff much much better, plus to use a cheesy cliche- variety is the spice of life.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 April 24, 01:17:47
That chocolate one in the back looks so yummy. Great, now I want cake.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 24, 06:08:21
You know what they say about the cake... It's GONE! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!! *burp* ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sea_fox on 2009 April 25, 14:11:06
Gorgeous and delicious cakes! Just perfect for my witch wedding. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Souvenirs on 2009 April 26, 14:52:05
Bruno came out with 50 (yes, 50) new sets of lipsticks (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327829). :o  This is the first time I've ever had CC make my jaw drop.  Now I just have to quit gaping at them and figure out which ones to download.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 26, 17:14:45
I said to hell with it and yoinked all fifty... I've been grabbing the stuff over at Sailfin Sims, too. Walls, floors, you name it, I'm grabbing it! So much for a small downloads folder, huh? :D It's all you guys' fault! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 26, 17:25:06
New Skintones by Yreenah at LJ - here http://yreenah.livejournal.com/7080.html#cutid1


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 April 26, 20:36:11
New Skintones by Yreenah at LJ - here http://yreenah.livejournal.com/7080.html#cutid1

Oh, I love those!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 April 26, 21:06:52
Bruno came out with 50 (yes, 50) new sets of lipsticks (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327829). :o  This is the first time I've ever had CC make my jaw drop.  Now I just have to quit gaping at them and figure out which ones to download.

NOM. Definitely snagging a couple o' those. I'm wondering why MTS2 didn't mark that one a 'picked' upload. If anyone else had come up with 11 different mini-sets of lipstick (with different alphas, it seems), with previews that well done, it would have a little star by it. Especially if it was like their first upload or something. I realize that Bruno is stellar all the time, but that's no reason to treat her any differently than anyone else when it comes to all around standard of quality. Waaah.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 April 26, 21:09:06
Why the HELL would anyone need 50 lipsticks? A sim can only wear ONE, and unless you plan to give one to a different sim, meaning you need at least 50 different sims, what'd be the point?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: JFederated on 2009 April 26, 22:03:49
Cake-eating occasion lipstick?

gah, they look good.  cakes, I mean.  because it's after dinner and I need 'closure'.  and cake is my favorite food group.   ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 April 26, 22:44:41
Picks are done by the system - there is some formula based on thanks, downloads and views -I think- but I'm not sure what it is.  Give it a few days and it will likely be a pick.  And I have no clue on what decides a feature.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 April 26, 22:52:05

It can take a few days or even a week or so to be a picked upload.

 Here I am trying to get rid of some makeup and she goes and makes more! MUst resist downloading ! lol


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 April 26, 22:53:44
I dunno, Pes.  Why does my husband have 50 screwdrivers?  You can only use them on one screw at a time after all. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 April 26, 22:57:43
Why the HELL would anyone need 50 lipsticks? A sim can only wear ONE, and unless you plan to give one to a different sim, meaning you need at least 50 different sims, what'd be the point?

I bet you only have one pair of shoes too.   :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 April 26, 23:13:53
Nah, his feet have tough, naturally leather-like soles, rather like a hobbit from what I've heard floating around on the grapevine.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 April 27, 03:04:27
The shire would never be the same  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SimARR on 2009 April 27, 03:31:30
Luina Sims (http://www.luinasims.com) has updated with a cool new bedroom set.
(http://i42.tinypic.com/1zm337n.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 27, 05:54:21
I grabbed that one this morning. I love this  set.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: VayaSims on 2009 April 27, 12:01:43
bruno has made allot of lipsticks (50). I have only download 4 sets from him. ;)
And that bedroom is beautiful!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 April 27, 13:39:40
Those new skintones look lovely.  And the pale looks pale enough/the dark dark enough.  Definitely going to give them a try.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 April 27, 14:10:31
Migamoo just did a geneticized/tf version of the skintone here in the requests thread at GOS - last page http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=11728.msg331429;boardseen#new


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 April 27, 21:47:58
:o


(http://i43.tinypic.com/29pytex.jpg)                 (http://i43.tinypic.com/e9dzjt.jpg)


Thank you Adele (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327927)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 April 27, 23:24:10
 :o
Yes thank you adele!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 April 28, 00:53:28
I'm working on an apartment with that build set now, it looks great.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 April 28, 00:57:25
Oh, Adele.

I mean, just look at the windows, and the doors...

Oh, Adele.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: LadyDea on 2009 April 28, 01:12:43
Fangirling, I'm doing it!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 April 28, 04:28:37
Adele, don't you ever dare leave the Sims community :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 April 28, 17:37:23
Even if that isn't your style, one can't help but stare in awe at Adele's work.  Her attention to and level of detail is just amazing.   


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dietofworms on 2009 April 28, 23:03:18
I agree.  I don't generally care for the style, but she is so gifted.  And I think she's only 20. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 April 29, 01:18:41
And I think she's only 20. 

Yep, she is. She just turned 20 a few weeks ago, few days after she posted the set before this one, some really nice wallpapers and floors.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 April 30, 03:39:06
You say that like us youngins don't usually have talent. ;) I think, if anything, those of us around this age are more likely to be able to do stuff like this because of the exposure to computer programs since we were kids. I spent a lot of time in high school putzing around on my mom's copy of photoshop. And it's so easy to find good texture resources on the net these days. (I'm such a design nerd. Apologies.) Not that what she does is any less amazing. Her low poly meshwork combined with the way she puts the detail on the texture are brilliant.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 April 30, 03:47:59
As a sims player, and as an artist, I am always inspired by Adele's creations. She motivates me to play more and create more. If there were an Academy award for sims creators, she would easily win it.

Don't ever leave us Adele, we love you! ;D


*shameless Adele fangirling*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 May 01, 22:26:54
Everything at Grito's Sims 2 (http://gritosims2game.blogspot.com/) is fantastic. Especially the wallpapers. Everything - and when i mean everything, i mean EVERYTHING - is absurdly well done.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 May 01, 22:42:16
Oh! I love those wallpapers! Thanks for linking them1


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Megabolt on 2009 May 01, 23:17:34
Ashantimania, you're making my downloads folder curse at me, but I thank you for the glorious link.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 May 02, 07:34:26
Margierytka's "The Farm of Frantic Staszek" is one of my all time favorite lots.  It is charming, beautiful, authentic, and the pictures really showcase different parts of the lot.  You may have seen it at MTS2, but I'm providing a link to the Sims2Design page because it has more pictures.  I searched for "Margierytka" and "Staszek", nothing came up, so I hope this hasn't already been mentioned.

MTS2 page (English)
http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=198720

Sims2Design page (Polish, MOAR pictures!)
http://www.sims2design.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=259

(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww82/CatOfWar/farm0.jpg?t=1241249165)
(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww82/CatOfWar/farm1.jpg?t=1241249196)
(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww82/CatOfWar/farm2.jpg?t=1241249198)

I like what Margierytka did with the couches in the 3rd picture, overlapping two of them like that.  If you look at some of her other lots on MTS2, she does similar things with three tables joined at 120deg angles, nice effect.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 02, 12:16:43
how pretty!

Another lot builder who over laps furniture alot is Christine from CC4 sims ( or you can find her lots on mts2, exchange) . She uses most maxis content only  so see gets creative with furniture placement.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 May 02, 12:51:44
This is of questionable placement...
While I was scavenging like the clutter-bug that I am... I managed to find some pretty orgasmic meshing jobs.
The meshes I am showcasing here are, by definition, FREE. And very pretty I might add... However, the rest of the site is pay... and no matter how much they try to hide it, their shoe meshes can't make up for the shit they call outfits, above the ankles.

So, in accordance with the guidelines, I suppose you could call them 'free' ... they are free by all means, but the rest of the site (utter crap) should walk the plank...

Anywho...

Ladies, get your purses ready :o
(http://www.simskins.net/Imagenes/Shoes/003.jpg) (http://www.simskins.net/Imagenes/Shoes/004.jpg)
(http://www.simskins.net/Imagenes/Shoes/012.jpg) (http://www.simskins.net/Imagenes/Shoes/021.jpg)
http://www.simskins.net/2_Shoes_004.html


:o
It's like they're just ASKING to be textured and turned into shoe clutter!
And the site has a free to learn tutorial on how to add the meshes to your outfits... but again, it didn't really work for them, because if you look at some of the crap they put in their pay section.. no matter how many nice shoes they have... it ain't gonna happen.

Admittedly, I am expecting to be thrown in the plank for praising a creator that charges for most of if not all of their horrible work, but I couldn't pass it up...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 May 02, 17:39:14
/me tosses Axeleefe off the ship

free stuff from paysites doesn't count ya goober!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 May 02, 22:23:05
Yeah, they don't.
*takes the rum bottle away from Axeleefe*

But you can post the bloody ugly things on the Ugliest Paysites Finds thread. If you don't, I will!



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 May 02, 22:38:15
BAD Axelefee! You must resist those naughty urges.

*makes Axelefee walk the plank


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 May 02, 23:01:34
I counter those paysite shoes!  With free shoes!

(http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/dlimages/anne/rgdyanne_bootsnshoes.jpg)
http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/misc2.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 May 02, 23:30:31
I vote for the truly free shoes. I'm sorry, but the other one's just don't cut it for me. Not only are they from a paysite, I don't see how texture could make them better, I really don't. They just look too clunky and slightly cartoonish to me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pooki on 2009 May 03, 00:44:31
Those are gorgeous HugeLunatic!  My download folder hates me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 May 03, 00:54:00
I vote for the truly free shoes. I'm sorry, but the other one's just don't cut it for me. Not only are they from a paysite, I don't see how texture could make them better, I really don't. They just look too clunky and slightly cartoonish to me.

It's becuase they are not clutter; they are for meshing and stuff.

And those free shoes are GORGEOUS  :o My poor, poor downloads folder.

EDIT: I've checked the rest of the site - and it's GORGEOUS - :o - as well. If your were looking for decent athletic wear, look no further  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 May 03, 01:11:11
Quote
It's becuase they are not clutter; they are for meshing and stuff.

Yeah, I get that. I still think that no texture is going to improve them to the point that I would want them cluttering up my simmies houses.

The free shoes started with a Maxis mesh if I'm not mistaken. Since I've never seen any Maxis shoes as clutter (but I don't have all the ep's and stuff packs, so maybe there are), that leads me to think that the Maxis ones are clothing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 03, 01:13:20
Those shoes and boots make me wish that we could choose the footwear that we put on our sims. I mean, you can do it in the console games of Sims 2, so why in the hell aren't we allowed to do that in the computer game?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 May 03, 01:34:22
Those shoes and boots make me wish that we could choose the footwear that we put on our sims. I mean, you can do it in the console games of Sims 2, so why in the hell aren't we allowed to do that in the computer game?
We can, sort of, if we make the shoes as accessories and dress sims in barefoot mesh clothing.  There just aren't that many accessory shoes out there.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 May 03, 02:15:13
Thank you!  ;D
You took the bait  :D

I love you HL... I was posting those mediocre meshes to see if anyone could counter them from a TRULY free site  8)

Kisses all round for HugeLunatic!  :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 03, 04:36:18
Thank you!  ;D
You took the bait  :D

I love you HL... I was posting those mediocre meshes to see if anyone could counter them from a TRULY free site  8)

Kisses all round for HugeLunatic!  :o

Uhm... did it ever occur to you that maybe you could of... oh, I dunno, ASK us if they knew of great shoes?  Instead of playing some dumb game like this and putting items from a paysite in this thread? 



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 May 03, 05:36:25
Uhm... did it ever occur to you that maybe you could of... oh, I dunno, ASK us if they knew of great shoes?  Instead of playing some dumb game like this and putting items from a paysite in this thread? 

Did it ever occur to you that some people like to drink leisurely when they browse the internet?  ::)

That being said.... Oh, I dunno, does anyone KNOW of any great shoes?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: keirra on 2009 May 03, 05:55:11
Uhm... did it ever occur to you that maybe you could of... oh, I dunno, ASK us if they knew of great shoes?  Instead of playing some dumb game like this and putting items from a paysite in this thread? 

Did it ever occur to you that some people like to drink leisurely when they browse the internet?  ::)

That being said.... Oh, I dunno, does anyone KNOW of any great shoes?

I suggest you don't drink and post.

You fucked up. You need to own up to it and stop making stupid excuses.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 May 03, 06:47:06
Excuses? ;) I wasn't making an excuse. Besides, it's not like an insignificant post or choice of actions really affects anyone else's lives more than a tiny annoyance, that lasts what, five seconds?
Sure, it was an unintelligent choice, but really, in the big picture, has it ruined your fun/evening/day?
Now, shall we move on?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 03, 10:17:01
No, let's don't. Particularly when you're still trying to play it cool by acting like they're the ones being unreasonable. They're not. It may not have ruined my evening, but it's shit like that that ruins what is otherwise a pleasant thread. So knock it the fuck off.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 May 03, 10:25:45
Ok?
I accepted my mistake and tried to let the unpleasantness settle like an adult  :P
Now you're the one being immature and dragging it out...?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 03, 13:39:34

Did it ever occur to you that some people like to drink leisurely when they browse the internet?  ::)

When you start blaming problems on alcohol, it's time to recognize you have a problem with alcohol.    You wanna drink and be an idiot?  Go to a bar or a party. where such behavior is, if not enjoyed, at least somewhat expected.   I spent too much of my life having to deal with drunken idiots and their idea of a "good time" to buy that as the blanket excuse for poor behavior.  That's as bad as all the other excuse tossing we do these days. "I can't help it, I have ADD, I can't help it, I suffer from depression.  It's not my fault, I have Assburgers!"  If you're an alcoholic, then shut up  get some help.  If you're not an alcoholic, then drinking isn't an excuse. 

It's not that you made a mistake, it's the way you then tried to twist it so we were all little lab rats in some great experiment you were running.  You don't have to "trick" us into doing stuff, if you had asked, people who had the answer would have been happy to answer your question.  Instead you act like if you don't cleverly ask without asking, we'll all tell you to fuck off instead.   Nice.  I'm not a lab rat and you aren't the evil overlord. 

And yes, I know you want to move beyond it, but I didn't catch what you wrote in response to me, and thus realize it was more douche-like than your original behavior I called you on. 

And no, you did not try to let the unpleasantness settle like an adult, you kept responding and responding.  Dusdeedawn wasn't being immature, you are, by insisting that you must have the last word, and that anyone who won't let you have the last word is the one with the problem.  You started it, you treated us as inferior beings who had to be tricked instead of treated like equals.  You deal with the shit you get in response and quit acting like a victim. 





Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 03, 14:46:39
Axeleefe, from someone who has done a little 'drink posting' in the past, take it from me.  Do not blame your behaviour on the booze.  Even if you get so inebriated you don't remember what you did the next day, you are still somewhat aware of what you are doing at the time, and there is still a modicum of self control.  So control.  Alcohol doesn't make you do anything. And the only person dragging this out is you, so shut it.

And Darqstar, please don't start with including mental illness and neurological disorders as being excuses, and can be helped.  If a clinically depressed person could help feeling as bad as they would, they wouldn't be like that in the first place.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Jojoba on 2009 May 03, 15:15:28
Immortelle, I think Darqstar was snipping at people who self diagnose..not those who actually do have those disorders or issues. I hope so at least.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 03, 15:55:36


And Darqstar, please don't start with including mental illness and neurological disorders as being excuses, and can be helped.  If a clinically depressed person could help feeling as bad as they would, they wouldn't be like that in the first place.

Immortelle, I'll "start" with anything I like, you aren't my mother.  You don't have to agree with me, but you also don't have the right to censor me.  

Almost everyone has some type of mental issue, myself included.  And yeah, it sucks and it's hard to deal with.  However, in MOST cases it shouldn't give you a "Get out of responsibilities for your actions for free!" card.    Everyone is still ultimately responsible for what they do.    Yes, being depressed, having ADD (both things I suffer from myself, so, yeah, I do speak from experience) helps me to understand why I might do certain things, but it doesn't mean the world is under any obligation to allow me more freedom in my actions.  My ADD might make me more prone to tell my boss to fuck off and die if he gets on my case, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the right to take corrective actions with  me for doing it.   My depression means that there are times when I don't have the energy to do anything but sleep, but that doesn't mean that I don't have to face up to the consequences if I sleep through a family celebration or any other important occasion.  It also doesn't mean that my behavior wasn't shitty.  If I sleep through my nieces birthday party, even though it was due to being depressed, it was still a shitty thing to do and I owe her an apology and to try to make it up to her.   And by apology, I mean apology, not "I'm sorry, but I'm depressed, so, let's just let bygones be bygones,"  which is really saying, "Yeah, I fucked up, but don't blame me!  I have an excuse!"  but a sincere apology for my actions.  And my niece then has the right to forgive me, or be pissed off at me for awhile.  If she takes the high road to pissed off land, I don't have the right to say, "Well, gee, I can't help it you know."  

Yes, anyone can have a bad day and yes, sometimes you have to cut slack for that. "I'm sorry, but my kid is sick, so I'm a little uptight," is understandable.  "I'm sorry I don't want to go to your party, but my mother is very ill," yeah, that's fine.  But when you start using something as your blanket excuse so you can behave in ways society finds unacceptable, then it's wrong.  

Life isn't fair, but we're dealt the hand we're dealt.  It's unfair that a blind person can't get around as easily as a sighted person, but no one says, "You know, it isn't really the blind person's fault that they're blind, so what the hell, let's let them drive!"  Having a mental illness shouldn't be an excuse for you to act like a douche bag and never have to worry about taking responsibility.  You fuck up, you own up.  And yes, being depressed, having ADD, or being bipolar might mean that it's five times harder for you to cope in certain situations, but again, that's the hand you're dealt.  Just as it might be harder for a blind person to get around in a world where vision is important,  the person with the mental health issues has to work harder to cope in social situations.  

I probably shouldn't have tossed in the Assburgers one, because the real illness, Asperger's, is serious.  But, that's the favorite illness on the net lately, and 99% of the people who claim to have it, will tell you they diagnosed it themselves.  That's why I call it Assburgers, fake name illness diagnosed by a fake doctor.





Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 May 03, 16:01:51
I bring you a fun new toy for your sproglets. Echo's new wading pool is adorable and can be used by both toddlers and kidlets.
http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=327949

Thats right! A pretty freesite creation with no gimmicks or tricks. Maturity for the win ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 03, 17:51:56
Thank you for clarifying what you meant Darqstar.  I must admit I do get a little hypersensitive on the topic.  I've come across people who honestly believe that there is no such thing as a mental illness, or ADD or Aspergers or any of those.  That there just another way of scamming money out of people, and another excuse that people can fabricate to justify their existence.  That and the fact that you mentioned Aspergers in the list, which is still a raw nerve with me (I was diagnosed as having it when I was little, but it wasn't until I was 26 that my mother told me that I had it.  It came as quite a shock, but it did indeed explain a few things for me.)

I do agree that there is a degree of choice and accountability.  Everyone has choice, regardless of their situation.  It would be crazy to say that a blind person chooses to be blind, or that you choose to have ADD. But you can choose how you deal with it, and what actions to take.  And you are right, just about everyone has some sort of a mental condition, but for some most its an endearing little quirk . . . .

I could continue, but right now its 3 am, and I am now so tired I feel nauseous, shakey and weepy.  I really should be getting to bed ASAP.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 03, 20:11:12
Ashbashtus - That pool is so cute! I had her old one in my game for a long, long time, this one is even better!

Axeleefe - Is it even possible for you to say you screwed up without adding how everyone else is wrong, too?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 03, 20:59:57
Unless you are a deep sea diver, I'd not hold my breath on that one, Dusdee. You may pop a lung or pass out waiting.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 03, 21:24:10
Thank you for clarifying what you meant Darqstar.  I must admit I do get a little hypersensitive on the topic.  I've come across people who honestly believe that there is no such thing as a mental illness, or ADD or Aspergers or any of those.  That there just another way of scamming money out of people, and another excuse that people can fabricate to justify their existence.
And you deny that this is so? None of these things exist. Note the complete lack of historical backing for them. They are purely made-up conditions intended to stigmatize otherwise harmless behavior, or to justify obnoxious behavior. There's no "ADD", there is merely "not beating your kids often enough".

I could continue, but right now its 3 am, and I am now so tired I feel nauseous, shakey and weepy.  I really should be getting to bed ASAP.
Walk it off, you pussy.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 03, 22:09:18
Pescado, has it ever occurred to you that you may just be someone's garlic pizza with anchovies inspired nightmare? It would surely explain many things about you.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 03, 22:22:27

 Have a plate of my mother in law's Hagus and wash it down with a few pints of  Guinness beer and you will most certainly have those kinds of nightmares :-[


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 May 03, 22:26:11
Unless you are a deep sea diver, I'd not hold my breath on that one, Dusdee. You may pop a lung or pass out waiting.
I'm flattered, really.  ::)
Yes, it was my fault, nobody else's, and I am not trying to blame it on somebody else other than myself. That may have been how it was interpreted but not how I meant it.  :-\
Now, back to the topic at hand, that I derailed so ingloriously.

While browsing through Community lots, that I am such a junkie for, I found this (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=271303)  and my jaw dropped. Well, my first thought was, "Wow... she kicked those Maxis Twikkii ruins' asses."

(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4364/mts2v1nd1care709350fall.jpg) (http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mts2v1nd1care709350fall.jpg)

Seeing it in game is breathtaking... And definitely free  ;)




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 03, 22:31:20
Pescado, has it ever occurred to you that you may just be someone's garlic pizza with anchovies inspired nightmare? It would surely explain many things about you.
Eeew, garlic./me hiss at garlic.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pooki on 2009 May 03, 22:50:21
I am making note of the hating garlic.  Could come in handy.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 04, 00:28:53
Garlic and anchovy pizza?  Yummies.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 04, 01:20:59
I know, but some folks really hurt after eating that stuff, myself included. I'm tempting fate tonight with a liverwurst on white bread with Miracle Whip. ;D Live dangerously, because there's no fucking way you're coming out of this alive anyhow!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 04, 01:25:43
I know, but some folks really hurt after eating that stuff, myself included.

My husbands got thalassemia minor so he tends to react to garlic a bit too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 May 04, 01:27:33
The tower in the bottom picture really reminds me of Khmer architecture.  And of some Hindu temples, a bit.  Definitely getting an Asian vibe.  What a lovely lot!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Jaded on 2009 May 04, 04:38:28
Thank y'all SO much for this thread.  I was totally bummed because my poor computer was hexed with who knows what and I lost everything...all my downloads and a huge sim family I'd been playing for almost two years, but now I've found loads of new stuff.  I thought I knew where the best downloads were but I'd never been to GOS, had a few Adele things but had no clue she had so much, new to Calalily's, etc.  My download folder is ripe for the stuffing.  I'm only on page 29 of this thread and have gotten TONS.

I know I'll have more links later but right now only have one humble offering...a cute kid's wallpaper (yes, just one but I adore it).  I had this in my game before and it cheered me greatly to find it again.  http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=276162


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 May 04, 05:25:45
Personally I think he's a bot.   A devilishly complex, incredibly skillfully programmed computer routine.

I don't know what this says about either one of us.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 04, 12:19:08
Garlic is awesome.  And it lowers cholesterol.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 May 05, 13:40:09
It's also really good for your immune system.  I take it whenever I feel a cold coming on and it always works.

On a more tasty note baked garlic is the best thing EVAR. There's a very traditional French recipe called poulet aux 40 gousses d'ail which is basically exactly what is says it is.  Is da bomb ya! The best part is taking bread and soaking it in the juice then squishing the baked garlic on it. It's juicy and squishy and tasty and warm and running down your chin and totally orgahasmic! OMFG



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 05, 14:51:58
I'm going to open myself up to be laughed at, but is that 40 clove chicken?  A friend gave me the recipe and I made a variant with peppers and onions as well as the many garlic cloves - very tasty stuff.

And Garlic is what was used before penicillin was invented - its not an antibiotic, but it does work in a similar manner.  I suspect the tradition of chicken noodle soup when sick comes from a time when it was made with garlic.

Onions are also good for you, but not as potent as garlic.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: siberiansunset on 2009 May 05, 16:24:08
MMmmm garlic ^-*  Ne-who, here is Cassandre's latest mesh set! Pure awesomeness in game. -Not everything is pictured.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/siberiansunset/A1.jpg)
http://blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=26293
 Also, here is a link to some very awesome recolors of it by Crazytulip.
 http://crazytulip-crazycolors.blogspot.com/2009/05/cluttered-teen-studio-recolors.html (lots of other awesome recolors there as well!)

Enjoy ^-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 05, 16:33:21
I think its actually high in iron - which would explain why it makes people with thalessimia sick.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 05, 16:40:49
I suffer acid-reflux and while I enjoy my garlic, it hurts. :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 05, 16:44:28
Not good.  My hubbie still indulges in garlic bread.  But he moans and groans for the rest of the day and night afterwards.  Because of it that though, I don't often cook stuff with garlic in it.  But then again, I don't cook much of anything, because apparently everything I cook (apart from my stir fries and one or two other recipes) makes him sick.  The rest he just doesn't like (doesn't like mango chicken, lemon chicken, lamb korma, butter chicken . . . .)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 05, 16:52:31
Oooooh, mango chicken sounds nummy! I have this weird taste for mango lately and it won't leave me the hell alone. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 05, 16:57:18
Immortelle, that would drive me nuts. On the other hand, if you're upset with him, you can always take your revenge by cooking! :D My husband still thinks I can't cook, because I skillfully implanted the idea in his brain very early on in the relationship. Now it comes back to bite me in the ass, though, because he doubts everything I make - which is annoying as hell.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 05, 19:05:48
I have acid reflux, but garlic doesn't seem to bother me.  Sugar bothers me.  If I decided to buy sourballs or mint pinwheels, I have to be very careful, a couple of those and I'll be miserable.

However, the Prilosect OTC is a lifesaver. And thankfully, my insurance only charges me five bucks for a 28 day supply as long as it's a perscription. 

Tomatoes don't bother me either, yet they bother my mother something fierce. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 May 05, 19:28:12
I'm with your mum Darqstar, tomatoes are the ebil... I can't even cut the suckers without getting rashes all over my hands and eating them raw kills me. Strangely though, if they've been cooked to oblitaration I can stomach them. Too bad my M.I.L. doesn't seem to get the notion. To her cooking a tomato consists of boiling or broiling it for approximately 5 picoseconds...and then she wonders why I avoid her cooking  ::).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 May 05, 20:40:13
My reflux was finally cured by gastric bypass surgery.  Of course it cured a lot of other things, now, and instead of reflux I have random vomiting episiodes depending on a variety of factors from "too dry-urp" to "too fatty--urp"....


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 05, 20:55:05
Gaarlic doesn't bother me much, but sometimes tomatoy stuff can cause me acid reflux attacks - and apparently, so does apple juice - the last month wired, I had to stop drinking any juice, which lowered my calorie intake by a lot, but kept me from getting too ill to my stomach - now I'm unwired, I think I'll start on another prilosec regimen and see if that works. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 May 05, 22:00:29
I'm going to open myself up to be laughed at, but is that 40 clove chicken?  A friend gave me the recipe and I made a variant with peppers and onions as well as the many garlic cloves - very tasty stuff

Sounds like it to me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 May 05, 22:29:41
The rest he just doesn't like (doesn't like mango chicken, lemon chicken, lamb korma, butter chicken . . . .)
How can someone not like lamb korma?!  Immortelle, come cook for us.  I love mango whatever.  We will totally appreciate your cooking. ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 05, 22:52:23
Yay - I understood something in french!  Of course it will be a month or so before i can eat it again.  But its something to look forward to.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 06, 00:51:03
The cook thing about husband not liking anything that I cook is that he has to do all the cooking. I apparently do a shoddy job at doing the dishes, so guess who has to wash the pots too :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 May 06, 00:55:36
I tell my husband he's a wonderful cook and makes much, much better crepes than I do, but he's wise to my sneaky tricks.  So we usually end up cooking stuff together, he won't let me get out of it.  He does make better crepes though!  He just doesn't like crepes himself, and sees no reason to make them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 May 06, 06:37:11
If you haven't tried this yet, I know it works.

Add a pinch of cinnamon to anything with tomato sauce, like Italian pastas and whatnot. It will prevent heartburn. (and it makes the tomatoe sauce tastier) My ex-husband, who was a cajun cook, taught me that.

Eat a piece of crystalized ginger for upset stomache or nausea. It works almost immediately.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 May 06, 06:39:58
I'm going to open myself up to be laughed at, but is that 40 clove chicken?  A friend gave me the recipe and I made a variant with peppers and onions as well as the many garlic cloves - very tasty stuff

Sounds like it to me.

Yep - that's right.  Of course, you can also just plain old bake garlic by itself and use it over your roasts/bread etc.  I adore garlic - I have it on my cheese on toast.

Eat a piece of crystalized ginger for upset stomache or nausea. It works almost immediately.

Ginger is really great for all nausea - it's effective for cancer patients too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 May 06, 07:02:47
Another good thing for nausea (if ginger won't work) is Benadryl, oddly enough. And it's safe enough to be take while on the pregnant-and-vomiting train.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 06, 12:40:13
I lived on ginger capsules and eating ginger biscuits with all 3 of my kids as i was sick for the whole 9 months with all 3 of them!Id wake up feeling sick and they would mostly keep it at bay...i said mostly! :-\


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 06, 13:21:14
I keep hearing about ginger doing remarkable things and I should try it. The problem is that a friend of mine's mother, who was very much a child of the '60s, even though she was really too old for that whole thing, used to make him Ginger and kelp (yes, that's kelp as in seaweed) cookies.  And my friend would, as a lark, try to foster them off on unsuspecting fools. 

I have eaten seaweed in other things and it is fine.  However, it has no place in a common gingersnap cookie.  And it really turned me off to ginger.  "Mmm...nice cookie, not a bad taste...AW FUCK, SEAWEED!"  Big chunks of it too, that at first glance looked like raisins or chocolate chips.

She also used to say everything had it's place in the cosmos.  As in,  her son, "MOM! I just fell and BROKE MY ARM!"  His mom, "Well, perhaps it's your place in the cosmos to have a broken arm."  Me, "Yeah, that's nice, but how about taking him to the HOSPITAL?"  Mom,"Do you think we should?" 



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 06, 13:29:38
sounds like my sister... I am all for healthy eating but she takes it overboard too.

 that is why my niece calls me up and ask to come over for dinner at least 3 nights a week.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 06, 14:15:58
I agree with no ginger in a ginger snap cookie.  Seaweed is good for sushi, and in a sakata, but not a ginger cookie.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 May 06, 14:31:27
I agree with no ginger in a ginger snap cookie.  Seaweed is good for sushi, and in a sakata, but not a ginger cookie.

I'm assuming you meant seaweed since a gingersnap without ginger is basically a sugar cookie  ;). I never knew the whole ginger thing for nausea..I guess thats why when I had the flu as a kid I was forced fed gingerale.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 06, 15:18:31
Why the HELL would anyone need 50 lipsticks? A sim can only wear ONE, and unless you plan to give one to a different sim, meaning you need at least 50 different sims, what'd be the point?

It's taken me goddamn forever, but I downloaded and tried out ALL of the lipsticks in bodyshop and in game.

The different shapes and shading/highlighting of the lipsticks *are* undeniably fantastic. Each set can make the lip structure look different-- as in the lip's musculature. Some are even shaded to look like a woman has penciled outside of the lipline to make her lips look fuller. Some accent the top rim "cupid bow" even. Really, a great eye for facial anatomy.

Jeebus, some even make the lips look dry, bare and matte. (where some skintones fail to cover) All in all, a great way to make the sims look unique. Also, I think they'd come in handy for those folks who like story making. The same folks who download dozens and dozens of pose boxes. I don't make stories, but the majority of my female sims do have an everyday lipstick, and a formal lipstick.

The only drawback I can see is that some shades within each set look almost exactly the same. Does "lip glaze" need two shades of lilac? Does "Sweet Lips" need three shades of salmon that aren't even a half shade apart?  I spent a lot of time deleting specific shades that had a near duplicate.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 06, 15:26:58
lol.  Just noticed that.  I think my brain must have gone for a walk without me :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 06, 16:28:37
Jeebus, some even make the lips look dry, bare and matte. (where some skintones fail to cover)

Really? They all look shiny to me. Which set has matte lips? (My game has a desperate need for more natural-looking lips.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 06, 16:50:18
 Over at The sims Cave, I have downloaded some nice lipsticks from the chinese sites that are very natural looking, good for on males too because lipstick can change the shape of the mouth and gives variety to  the look of your sims.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 06, 23:04:28
Jeebus, some even make the lips look dry, bare and matte. (where some skintones fail to cover)

Really? They all look shiny to me. Which set has matte lips? (My game has a desperate need for more natural-looking lips.)

I'm too lazy to open up bodyshop again and verify-- it takes like 15 minutes for it to load. But I'm fairly sure it's the male "for all texture" lips. Don't hold me to that, though.

Another great set of bare-unglossy lips can be found on AtomicSpaceKitty's MTS2 page, as well as her profile on GOS, and her website "World's Apart". A bonus with AtomicSpaceKitty's are that they match all sorts of skintones, from pale, ethnic, to vampire/elf/drow. I think they look semi-realistic, or kinda maxis-like if you choose to see them that way, so it probably looks good in *everyone*'s game. She thought of everything! ;)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 May 07, 01:38:47
I've missed the food discussion apparently, but I'm going to indulge myself anyway.

I will eat anything. Anything except onions (I'm fiercely allergic).

And the ginger thing reminded me of something. About a year ago, my mom was staying with my roomie and I temporarily and my roomie was really nauseous. Because my mom is the motherly type, she went out and got some ginger ale for her. She came back, and poor Amy just looked at her and went "I really really appreciate it, but I'm allergic to ginger. It'll just make it worse." 'Course, then, my mom just resorted to making chicken soup (and my mom's homemade chicken soup is phenomenal), which she only makes in enormous batches, so I benefited from that one. ;) And the roommate? She's Chinese and Thai- the two cultures in which cooking with ginger is most prevalent. Her mom, being traditionally raised in Shanghai, used to force feed her ginger in an attempt to make her immune to it, and apparently she would get ridiculously nauseated. It didn't really work.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 07, 02:01:29
used to force feed her ginger in an attempt to make her immune to it

This reminds me of when a parent makes their kid smoke an entire case of cigarettes after catching them with one.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 May 07, 02:04:29
Haha. Definitely.

It sucks so hard being allergic to onions, though. I didn't develop the allergy until I hit adulthood. When I was a kid, onion rings were just about my favorite things ever. Now, they make me incredibly sick. I can only have onions that have been dehydrated beyond recognition, like onion powders in soups and stuff.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 07, 10:56:14
Well, at least when children get caught smoking the punishment is a consequence for their action. That poor girl. I'd imagine it was 'for her own good' and all that, but it probably felt like being punished for something completely out of her control. And now I have this image stuck in my head of someone allergic to bees being stuck in a room full of them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 07, 17:00:00
That's more likely than you think, Dusdee. A swarm of honey bees had made a hive between the walls of my bedroom when I was a teen and they found their way into my room. I woke up with about twelve of them crawling on me and totally froze, not daring to move because I am highly allergic. My dad came to see what was taking me so long to get out of bed, took one look and went to get the pot of honey. It seemed to take forever for those little bastard to get off of me. I took no time getting out of that room and into the bathroom, I had to go!

They got the hive out that day and transplanted into another receptacle. Cleaning up was a pain, but I was just glad to see them gone. I also learned just how much bladder control I have, too. :D I can laugh now, but I was terrified then.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 07, 22:06:34
That's more likely than you think, Dusdee. A swarm of honey bees had made a hive between the walls of my bedroom when I was a teen and they found their way into my room. I woke up with about twelve of them crawling on me and totally froze, not daring to move because I am highly allergic. My dad came to see what was taking me so long to get out of bed, took one look and went to get the pot of honey. It seemed to take forever for those little bastard to get off of me. I took no time getting out of that room and into the bathroom, I had to go!

They got the hive out that day and transplanted into another receptacle. Cleaning up was a pain, but I was just glad to see them gone. I also learned just how much bladder control I have, too. :D I can laugh now, but I was terrified then.

That is the stuff of nightmares! Expect a bill from my therapist.

Wasn't there a story by Kipling about a similar sort of circumstance? (but instead of bees, it's a deadly snake?)


I take it everyone's seen this, right?
http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=328344


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 08, 01:47:07
Scary is having a red back spider take up residence under your car seat and not realise until one day you feel something crawling across your leg while you are on a busy road, look down see what you first think is a black bug crawling across your leg, but then realise its redback, and a very pissed off one.  (That happened to me last year).  Also had two redbacks crawl out of my bag during a MYOB.  I don't like spiders, so yes, I screamed.  Used to have a resident redback under neath my bike seat while I was at high school too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 May 08, 05:36:37
I hate spiders more than anything. I was bitten by a brown recluse when I was in high school, but I hated them even before then.
I understand the absolute terror you must have felt with a red back on your lap. But, Immortelle, aren't you in Australia, where damn near everything is deadly poisonous?
I admit, I've always had a fascination with Australia and I truly have a weakness for Australians (something about the accent). But the idea of actually being in the Australian outback terrifies me. I don't think I would last very long. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 08, 06:02:25
Not everything.  The ants aren't.  Some of the snakes are.  Redbacks and funnel webs are our most dangerous spiders as they are in abundance over here and both can kill.  The rest of the spiders if they bit will make you a little sick, but you survive.  Cane toads are deadly, but they are an introduced species.  And we do have a mosquito that carries the Ross River Fever virus.  But apart from that our bities are just that - bities.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 May 08, 06:39:51
*snip*.......... But apart from that our bities are just that - bities.

Sorry, but considering what your signature is...   I  :D'ed


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 08, 06:44:29
lol.  Fangs for noticing


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 May 08, 07:17:35
Not everything. 

Lots more things are dangerous, and lots of them are far more poisonous than shit anywhere else.  You forget the killer octopus, the deadly jellyfish, the crocs, stone fish, cone fish, earwigs, sharks ranging from great white to mako and tiger, and the nut-removing roo.

But paperbeth, apart from redback spiders, on a daily basis in a city, you are unlikely to encounter any of these things without entering into their habitat.  Asia has some incredibly dangerous animals, as does South America - but no one freaks out too much about them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 08, 07:45:16
Oh, jeez, screw that. I'll stick to Alaska - no deadly snakes, ants, toads, or spiders. Not even the nuisance bugs like cockroaches, ticks, and fleas. Although some Brown Recluses have been known to smuggle themselves aboard boats and such from the states, but it's rare enough to not be worrying. Guck. I really, really hate spiders. Really. I'd rather come face to face with a grizzly bear.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: strix on 2009 May 08, 10:01:23
Even some of the ants are deadly! Don't forget the jack jumpers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_jumper_ant (sorry, dunno how to do the linky-trick:P)

As the Scared Weird Little Guys sing in this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMarRzd28w, "Come to Australia! You might accidently get killed!"


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 May 08, 13:47:01
The East Coast of the U.S isn't that bad until you get to the Mason Dixon Line. Until you hit Georgia all we have to deal with for poisonous/dangerous animals are wildcats, fisher cats (vicious little shits that attack anything), brown bears, black widow spiders, Eastern Rattlers, and yellow jacket wasps. Once you hit the SouthEastern states there are also alligators, and a few other varieties of poisonous spiders and snakes that I can't remember off the top of my head. The only ones I have ever ran into are the yellow jackets - cause they live anywhere- all the rest you would pretty much only encounter in the garden, or when camping and I don't do either.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 08, 13:57:28
That is why I stick to a northern climate! I spent sometime in the middle east and would wake up to scorpions staring at me...but when you are in the middle east the bugs are the least of your worries. I still could not get use to it tho.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 May 08, 15:16:09
New pretties at Awesims:

Recolors of MangaMoon's lamps from SimsDivine (I think that's where they are from):
(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/cfoley1215/jill-lamps-preview-off-500x281.jpg)

Cool new desk that looks like it is a built in, nifty colors:
(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/cfoley1215/simple-desk-main-preview-500x281.jpg)


Link to check out the other preview pics (click on the pic on the main page to open up more): http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/ (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/)

I really want to find the leaf wallpaper in the desk preview.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 08, 16:16:46
I live in Georgia - luckily most of our poisonous snakes are either good-natured [Coral snakes] or skittish - only one is actively pissy and aggressive, and those are cottonmouths - unfortunately they tend to live in swarms, so you usually don't get attacked by just one - but they are mostly a water snake so....

Also, luckily the normal scorpion for this region is not poisonous - since one got into my bed one night and bit me twice before I smashed it in my sleep and then woke up.

Spiders, well...we have brown recluses and black widows, otherwise most of the spiders are pretty friendly.

Yellowjackets - let's say they are worse than most wasps for aggressive nastiness.  Lived in a place where some had built a nest right near the walk path - they stung me on the nose and got several other people, including our landlord, who is an entomologist and has experience working in extermination.

We don't get gators except in the southern end of the state, near florida, but there are bears, coyotes, wild dogs and wild cats, like cougars.  And we have sharks in our coastal areas too - tigers and bullsharks that I know of.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Megabolt on 2009 May 08, 17:03:40
I live in upstate South Carolina, and I'm one of the lucky ones that hasn't dealt with that stuff.  I've only seen little black snakes in the wild, and my only link to bad insect stings is when my dog was bitten by a brown recluse.  (He turned out fine after some medicating from the vet)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 08, 17:32:49
I grew up in Iowa near the Des Moines River and when you'd go to the beaches there, it wasn't too uncommon to see rattlesnakes, water moccasins or cotton mouths. Scary as hell, specially if you were walking along the sandy bank of the river and what you think is a branch starts to rattle at you. Talk about turn tail and run like all hell.

Flying insects that bite and sting are common. Hornets, honey bees, wasps of all kinds exist to make your life hell if you're allergic to their venom. When I was little, a year above a six, I had extremely long hair and a couple of hornets got caught in my hair. Those bastards stung me at the base of the skull, right side, seven times. I was down sick for two weeks and don't remember any of the hospital time, which my mother always said was a blessing because apparently it didn't look good. (Skinny, half-starved looking little thing even though I ate like a horse and had energy that made the Tasmanian Devil look torpid.)

We've got the brown recluse and I think the black widow in both Iowa and Illinois. As for other critters that are unfriendly, there is always the skunk you scare the hell out of of while he's raiding your garbage cans if you aren't careful enough to put the lid on tightly. Raccoons will do the same thing, as will the opossum, but those guys won't spray you like a skunk will. I've heard that the wildcats are making a comeback, but haven't seen one so far.

Road hazards all year round are the deer looking for food and breeding. When I used to get out and about on my own, it was rare that they didn't declare Paden Season and try to make me hit them. They're almost as suicidal as the bunnies and squirrels! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 May 08, 17:34:42
While browsing through Community lots, that I am such a junkie for, I found this (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=271303)  and my jaw dropped. Well, my first thought was, "Wow... she kicked those Maxis Twikkii ruins' asses."

(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4364/mts2v1nd1care709350fall.jpg) (http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mts2v1nd1care709350fall.jpg)

Seeing it in game is breathtaking... And definitely free  ;)

Holy s**t! I'm not going to believe this one until I see it in the game for myself. Un-freakin'-believable!

Thanks for finding and sharing this.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 May 08, 17:36:53
Thank You Andais for reminding me of the existence of Awesims. Somehow I missed bookmarking that site when I first visited there. Now, I've got some nice, new pretties for my simmies.  :)


Paden: Wildcats AND coyotes in Illinois.  :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 08, 17:45:54
o_O.  Where did he get the dome roofs from? I have been mucking around with building houses and castles and stuff in hills and mountains, and would love to try a roof like that on one of them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 08, 17:47:58
I've seen some foxes streaking through my backyard the last couple of weeks, too. To be honest, I don't know if I'll miss the wild life when we change residence or not. I sure the shit won't miss all of the fucking mice we've had streaming through, though. I'm still pissed about my art portfolio. Good news on that, before I told that family to fuck off, I was able to get the part of the collection back that my sister had in her possession, so I didn't lose it all, just the majority. A slice of bread is better than none at all, I guess.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 May 08, 18:05:34
Foxes?? I forgot about those. Someone in my neighborhood saw one not too long ago.
Mice?? Oh boy... mice and spiders used to party in my house- until we got a cat.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 May 08, 18:10:43
The dome roofs are in game but, I am not certain which EP/SP they came with. I have not used them yet, but seeing that I may try them out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 May 08, 18:12:38
Wall paper used in Awesims screenshot is by Grito (http://gritosims2game.blogspot.com/search/label/Walls)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 08, 18:16:47
Oh, I have a cat and she wore herself into fitness from chasing those little fuckers. :D

HugeLunatic, I have to say thanks for finding a way to recolour my fave modular stairs, that made my day to see that! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 May 08, 18:24:52
All hail HL!  Extreme font of information!  (nifty wallpapers at that site)

And, yes, thank you so very much for the recolorable art nouveau.  And the backless showers/tubs.  And pretty much every else you've done.  :D  I just spent a couple hours adding your stuff to my slowly-being-rebuilt cc collection.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 May 08, 18:36:19
Why, your welcome!  A full downloads folder is a happy one.  ;D

As to those stairs, if I can get some BHAV help, I have an open underneath one in testing that will allow the first tile to be usable by sims/doors.   And I blame BlueSoup for leading me to Grito.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 May 08, 21:46:01
Living in the city means I dont have to deal with a lot of wild animals. We have different dangers, like the Craigslist killer and being hit by a car (which has almost happened to me twice and actually happened to my brother once). However, that means when I see an insect or snake I absolutely freak out! I can't even see a big bug on tv without shuddering. I went camping once and was ravaged my mosquitoes and bedbugs while all the friends I was with got nothing. I think it was because they all lived in wilderness areas before and were immune unlike me::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 08, 23:22:23
3 years ago, when I was heavy into walking, I was out on one of my ten mile hikes.  I stopped at this tiny roadside convenience store and bought a bottle of propel and a packages of Twizzlers. 

As I continued my walk, a wild turkey came out of the bushes.  Not that uncommon, we have lots of wild turkeys around here. But he walked up to me, (my hands were at my sides) and grabbed the Twizzler right out of my hand, and ate it.

Wild animals have gotten awful cocky since they've realized we don't run around with guns. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 May 08, 23:31:42
Well, to be fair, turkeys are kinda greedy fucks anyway.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 09, 00:00:36
Turkeys are also -smart- which is why Franklin wanted to make the wild Turkey our national bird - unfortunately, we chose the majestic looking but incredibly stupid eagle.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 May 09, 01:20:29
The new WNF aspiration set is up. i didn't see to much up that I was interested in  but the new Masquerade Costumes  by Adele found here http://www.wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1357.msg8840#msg8840 are absolutely gorgeous - here is a pic

(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/adele_masqueradeSet_main_500.jpg)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 09, 01:43:18
One might question the intelligence of a turkey  who, surrounded by corn and an abundance of other farm fresh things, decided to grab a twizzler.  Of course, I love Twizzlers, my husband says they're my crack, but I never thought turkeys felt the same way.

Also, wild turkeys do not look ANYTHING like domestic turkeys.  They actually aren't bad looking at all, except for all the wrinkling and waddling around the face.  If it wasn't for that, the wild turkey would have made a pretty good official bird.

Hawks and Eagles are similar in a lot of ways.  I lost my respect for hawks when one chased after me to the point where I had to walk across the street, and up into the yard to get around him.  Why? Because he had a dead squirrel and he seemed convinced that I just couldn't wait to get my hands on it.

Birds and I do not get along.  I find birds creepy.  When I first read that the theory of birds having evolved from dinosaurs, my reaction was, "yeah, that makes sense."  I always got the feeling birds know they came from creatures who were once on top of the food chain and they still haven't gotten over being dropped from that status.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 09, 02:13:13
Well, wouldn't you be bitter if you once ate the mammals for lunch and now they have you for Sunday dinner, roasted with 40 cloves of garlic and some onions and such?? :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 09, 04:26:03
I find birds creepy.  When I first read that the theory of birds having evolved from dinosaurs, my reaction was, "yeah, that makes sense."  I always got the feeling birds know they came from creatures who were once on top of the food chain and they still haven't gotten over being dropped from that status.

Not that I'm trying to convert you into a bird lover or anything, but try checking out the "Life of Birds" series by Sir David Attenborough. It has the power to make any anti-bird person at least look at them in a new way. The man is just magic and has not been nor ever will be equaled by other naturalists. He has a way of making you see the grand scheme of nature that just *clicks*

I've been drooling over that new Adele set ever since the preview. MY GOD, the detail is so rich. I want to take a color theory class from her. And she's what-- 19? 20? That's just a baby!

Also, dinosaurs are awesome! To counter the "creepy" image some might have, dinos may have been the pioneers of "cuteness" that we mammals so lurve. Dino hatchlings were the first animals to have features we think of as "cute" and mammilian-- large eyes, small noses and mouths, blunter faces. Some scientists think it was what helped wittle dinos survive and what fostered the motherly behavior that paleontologists increasingly attribute certain dino species.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 09, 05:26:54
Birds and I do not get along.  I find birds creepy.  When I first read that the theory of birds having evolved from dinosaurs, my reaction was, "yeah, that makes sense."  I always got the feeling birds know they came from creatures who were once on top of the food chain and they still haven't gotten over being dropped from that status.

For you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr8GMV5P5w8

I worked his show at the Fringe Festival here a couple of years ago, and was pleasantly surprised to find a video of this bit.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Zillah on 2009 May 09, 05:32:27
I am also creeped out by birds - something about the way they look at you. I don't trust them. I know they're just waiting for me to drop my guard.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 May 09, 06:22:39
Parrots are smart. Turkeys are very very stupid. I've lived around both. It is true that a turkey can drown in the rain. I've seen it happen. We had one that drowned in it's own water dish. The water was about a centimeter deep. I once found a mother turkey (wild) who had built her nest right next to the road. We tried to move her and realized she had chicks. She kept leading them back to the road.
I don't know of any African greys that ever drowned in their own water dish.

Oppossums are also very very stupid. btw


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 09, 09:45:36
Parrots are smart. Turkeys are very very stupid. I've lived around both. It is true that a turkey can drown in the rain. I've seen it happen.
Arizonians are like this also. When it rains, they all run out and gawk at it, and a goodly number will drown from it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 09, 14:24:25
The moment we domesticate anything, we set right to work on breeding out any brains.  Domestic turkeys are dumb as a post, but wild turkeys are not. 

I don't hate birds with a passion, I find them very beautiful when they're eating from the birdfeeders my parents have.  I used to find the hawks circling around our street to be pretty cool, until I saw my neighbor have to throw her body over her dog to prevent one of them from trying to make off with the animal.   I think birds are wonderful in nature.

However, I have no desire to own one.  No keets or canaries, or parrots for me.   They just aren't my thing. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 May 09, 16:10:01
We have lots of birds around our little farm (mostly barn swallows, which I love cause they eat nasty mosquitoes) none of which I raise or anything.
I like the cardinals & robins, love the hummingbirds enough that I actually feed them, and tolerate the field sparrows.
We also get a lot of little wrens & finches. I have a birdbath which they love to flop around in. We generally get about a dozen hummingbirds a year,
all fighting over the same little feeder. My mom has 2 big feeders & only about 6 regular hummingbirds, but she gets lots of other birds because she feeds them.
She lives just across the field, has tons of trees around. While we have one lonely tree!
Birds are, apparently, very territorial. I've had bluejays swoop at me when I get near their nests & hummingbirds get real pissy when you take their feeders down to clean/fill.
But they eat bugs (hummingbirds kill bumblebees & wasps too) so I really don't mind them.

We also have a fox nearby this year...very pretty little critters!

And yeah, hate possums...just big rats in my book & dumber than cows.

ETA: no inside/caged birds for me! I had a bad experience in college ... a stupid roommate bought lovebirds for her boyfriend but he couldn't keep pets, so we had the joy of them in our apartment. It wouldn't have been so bad, except the stupid twit let them out of their cages daily (so they could feel 'free'  ::) ) and they would fly around & shit on everything. I finally told her that if she did not cease this activity that the birds would be 'really free'. The next day she took them to her boyfriends.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 May 09, 18:43:25
Parrots are smart. Turkeys are very very stupid. I've lived around both. It is true that a turkey can drown in the rain. I've seen it happen.
Arizonians are like this also. When it rains, they all run out and gawk at it, and a goodly number will drown from it.

Bite me Pes.  (enjoying the Arizona heat right now.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 May 09, 19:45:39
Parrots are smart. Turkeys are very very stupid. I've lived around both. It is true that a turkey can drown in the rain. I've seen it happen.
Arizonians are like this also. When it rains, they all run out and gawk at it, and a goodly number will drown from it.

I thought that was Southern Californians. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 May 09, 19:49:49
For me chickens are possibly the dumbest creatures in the world or seen from a different point of view the most scheming evil bastards alive. My F.I.L raises hens for eggs and they're pretty much free range. If I'm completely empty handed the bastards will keep their distance eyeing me up with contempt as if to say "We once ruled the world hairless chimp". The moment I'm carrying anything it's "Let's all swarm all over Alexia till she drops whatever she's carrying and hopefully fall down."

Free birds such as cardinals, swallows and robins I've got no problem with. Heck if it's winter, I always keep the old bread for them and I put out fresh warmish water for them to drink. Pigeons are flying rats and should be exterminated. I swear the bastards wait till I've just finished washing the car to take a crap on it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 09, 20:12:42

 I have a scarlet Macaw named Max. He was a rescue and came into the spca, I new the ladies there and they new I had experience with large birds so Max came to live with me. He is smarter then most people I know! He likes to get in the bath tub with you and has an obsession with Doritos. You can not eat them in this house without him going nuts.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 09, 21:19:06
Free birds such as cardinals, swallows and robins I've got no problem with.

A robin chased me down an alley when I was seven or eight six, dive-bombing my head the whole way. (In fairness, it all started with me walking over to take a peek at it's chick which was sitting on the lid of a garbage can. I didn't touch it or anything - didn't get anywhere near close enough!)

And seagulls are evil bastards. I've seen them team up to steal hot dogs and such from unsuspecting tourists. One will fly straight towards the person, and when he or she raises an arm to ward off the apparently attacking bird, another will swoop in snatch the food out of their other hand! Occasionally there will be a third one as well, presumably to dive in if things go wrong. The result of which is signs like this all around our public market. ;D

(http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6652/3449902498d70d8a200.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: strix on 2009 May 09, 21:53:44
While visiting a wildlife sanctuary on the Gold Coast some years ago, it was the roaming emus that freaked my shit *right* out! They're big birds, and their heads and faces are decidedly reptilian. Just take one look and you can see that these birds are related to dinosaurs. Having lunch in the park was perilous. All the emus decided that what I thought was MY sandwich was in fact theirs, and I had 3 of them come up and eyeball me, shove their heads right in front of my face barely an inch away, while the forth one nicked off with my sandwich! Once the others saw it had succeeded in seperating me from my lunch, they all took off to the forth bird and it's prize, and shared my lunch between them.

Egg sandwich too.

Seagulls are absolutely evil. Our great family tradition of sitting on the beach or at the Marina to eat lunch on the weekend is always disturbed by multitudes of seagulls. Especially if we have a serve of their own "natural diet" - hot chips! :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cookiepirate on 2009 May 09, 22:34:27
Growing up on a beach, we saw seagulls steal and eat anything they thought was edible.  Especially hotdogs that were on the grill.  Even had them attack a fishing line that was being cast out with bait on it.  My mom had to chase the bird down the beach to get the rod and reel back and to try and keep the stupid gull from swallowing the hook.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 10, 00:16:42
I've got 3 birds.  2 budgies, and an hand reared albino cockatiel.  The budgies are called DJ and Twitter (Twit for short), the cockatiel is called Phoenix.  DJ is my oldest.  Hee's over 8 hears old and tends to keep to himself these days.  In his younger years different story though.  He used to roll one of those plastic cat balls over the house, hat a thing for a little toy ladder with a twirling mirror on it (would try to fornicate with it) still loves his booze, if I've got a glass of red he's there.

 Phoenix is quite often on my shoulder trying to get a pat.  Loves flying around the living room at top speed, often tries to land on doors but puts the landing gears on too late, so gets stuck behind them.  He also does a really off key rendition of the mexican hat dance. 

Twit's a new one.  My husband found the little guy wandering around on the ground at work and took him in.  He looked old and on his last legs: his claws were extremely long, his beak was overgrown, and he could barely open his eyes for face mites.  Took him home, and introduced him to the gang.  The others weren't too enthused.  Phe had to do the whole big bird thing - stand on top of the cage with his crest up and wings out.  DJ wandered in, had a look then wandered over to talk to a wall.  Twit on the other hand can't leave the other two birds alone.  A few months later, and his claws are now properly trimmed, and the face mites are all cleared up.  And by all appearances he is only a very young bird.  Quite timid, but we're sorting that bit out.

Had a wattle bird for a while there too (a very big honeyeater).  We found it went it was only a week old, it had fallen out of the nest and hit its heat.  Was a little brain damaged, but nothing it wouldn't recover from, if only partially.  Got a photo of it somewhere on this computer.  Motley little thing, but quite smart.  It liked to untangle nots and could undoe the most complicated in seconds.  It was hopeless at eating mealworms - would drop half of them on the cage floor.  But it was quite tame.  It used to jump out of its cage, find us, clamber up and try to lick inside an ear or up a nose.  Got a lot of giggles that.  He was funny with Phoenix, too, as he used to think the crest was a flower, and chase after it.  Phe would always look at him as if to say, 'what are you doing mate'


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 May 10, 04:18:12
My husband and I were in Disney World in Florida about 15 years ago on vacation. We stayed at one the on sight hotels and they opened one of the parks early to the hotel guest (a different one each day). We went to MGM for breakfast and were eating outside. One lady got up to get some butter and a bird hopped right up on the table and grabbed her toast. She wasn't gone for more the a few seconds. The birds had no fear of humans and there were many signs posted around saying not to feed the wildlife, but the "wildlife" fed itself.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 10, 18:47:07

 Max is better than any guard dog, I find more people are afraid of him then they are of dogs! lol


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 May 11, 02:35:23
The pigeons and seagulls out here in SF are both ridiculous. As are the squirrels in Golden Gate Park, but that's another story. I get so pissed off when I see people dropping crumbs for them. That's what causes these birds to swarm people.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alexia on 2009 May 11, 09:43:20
Now this is absolutely fabulous  plasticbox's wonderful potted plants (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=329370)
(http://i41.tinypic.com/zmo87r.jpg)
Couple this with fway's shrunken plants and your simmies living in apartments need not worry about not having a garden anymore. Plus you needn't water them. (Just wish my plants needn't be watered :D)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 11, 11:07:40
The birds had no fear of humans and there were many signs posted around saying not to feed the wildlife, but the "wildlife" fed itself.
See, it's unhealthy for wildlife not to have a fear of humans. That's why it is necessary for humans to occasionally eat some of them. It reminds them that they should be afraid of us. People, however, have gotten feeble and toothless, and so the wildlife no longer properly fears humans as predators. With the wildlife not properly fearing humans, detrimental human-wildlife confrontations result which are harmful to both.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 11, 12:30:49

See, it's unhealthy for wildlife not to have a fear of humans. That's why it is necessary for humans to occasionally eat some of them. It reminds them that they should be afraid of us. People, however, have gotten feeble and toothless, and so the wildlife no longer properly fears humans as predators. With the wildlife not properly fearing humans, detrimental human-wildlife confrontations result which are harmful to both.

Humans like to believe we're still at the top of the food chain and nothing will upset us.  Wildcats have been reported in a nearby area, and people were warned to keep an eye on young children and pets.  What amazed me was the number of people who just didn't believe it.  "Wildcats?  Near Boston?  Nonsense." 

I keep waiting to hear that a baby got carried off,  and if that will be enough to make them believe.

It used to be that animals kept to their area, and when we went into it, we'd be likely to have a gun.   But, we're taking all of their area, we don't run around with guns, and human society gives for some pretty easy pickings for animals.  Why hunt when you can go down to the dumpster behind McDonalds and get all the food you want?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 11, 13:02:25
 I don't understand people who build homes in the woods, like these new subdivisions, then complain when they see a bear wanders by or see a wild cat in their back yard.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 11, 13:04:20
I've always thought that people in general have a whole 'there is people and then there are animals attitude' as if homo sapien is seperate from all other living things - an exception.    In my believe, we are animals, the same as birds, dogs, monkeys, guinea pigs, zebras etc.  Nothing more, nothing less.  We have our strengths and weaknesses.  We are smarter than many animals, but we can't see as well as some, can't hear as well as others, can't run as fast etc.  Certainly, animals seem less intelligent than us, and essentially have a different culture to us, but to me, we are all nothing more than animals.

I don't understand people who build homes in the woods, like these new subdivisions, then complain when they see a bear wanders by or see a wild cat in their back yard.
People seem to have a compulsion to complain about anything.  When I was living in the city, people used to complain about the noise coming from the nightclubs and complain louder still about live bands.  That and any other issue about living in a city (ie. traffic).  The way I see it, its the city.  If you want to live there, put up with it.  Personally, I actually quite enjoyed living in the city.  I got to hear the Super Cars buzzing away, I saw the Olympic torch arrive in our city when the Sydney Olympics was on from my own window and a million other amazing things, and everything I ever wanted was just around the corner.  I never needed to drive a car or anything like that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 May 11, 14:47:08
We have wildcats in our area too.  Male panthers require a range of about 200 sq miles and females need about 75.
(http://bayimg.com/image/fapmiaabj.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 11, 14:51:57
I've always thought that people in general have a whole 'there is people and then there are animals attitude' as if homo sapien is seperate from all other living things - an exception.    In my believe, we are animals, the same as birds, dogs, monkeys, guinea pigs, zebras etc.  Nothing more, nothing less.
Seconded. To a point. A human's very presence in nature alters nature. So there is definitely an "otherness" with people and animals. Case in point-- our anthropomorphizing of animals. We can't help it-- how can we not? We don't know what it's like to be a bear for example-- with a sense of smell many times greater than a bloodhound. There is no point of reference, physically and mentally for that.

Also, we tend to vilify or romanticize certain animals for how they reflect back on us. A very mammal-centric, human-centric rubric which always irks me. Not too long ago, someone was telling me that they saw an animal in trouble and had to rescue it-- not for the sake of rescuing it- but because it was beautiful to her. Well, how ego-stroking was that? Did she want a cookie or something? She should've just pat herself on the back like my sims do.
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I don't understand people who build homes in the woods, like these new subdivisions, then complain when they see a bear wanders by or see a wild cat in their back yard.
People seem to have a compulsion to complain about anything.  When I was living in the city, people used to complain about the noise coming from the nightclubs and complain louder still about live bands.  That and any other issue about living in a city (ie. traffic).  The way I see it, its the city.  If you want to live there, put up with it. 
Heh. What I have NEVER understood is when the news covers the story of a break in where the poor yokel just never locked their doors. No one deserves to be broken into, but lock your goddamn doors, people. If I hear another "we don't lock our doors in this neighborhood" line again, I'll scream.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 May 11, 15:12:03
I've always thought that people in general have a whole 'there is people and then there are animals attitude' as if homo sapien is seperate from all other living things - an exception.    In my believe, we are animals, the same as birds, dogs, monkeys, guinea pigs, zebras etc.  Nothing more, nothing less.
Seconded. To a point. A human's very presence in nature alters nature. So there is definitely an "otherness" with people and animals. Case in point-- our anthropomorphizing of animals. We can't help it-- how can we not? We don't know what it's like to be a bear for example-- with a sense of smell many times greater than a bloodhound. There is no point of reference, physically and mentally for that.

Every animal "alters" nature just by being there. Look at what happens to an ecosystem when an outside plant or animal gets put there -- rabbits in Australia, various water-hungry plants where I live. Or if an animal gets removed, as when predators are wiped out. The balance gets totally farked. Nor are human animals "smarter" than other animals. For instance, horses wouldn't be very good at being human, but we'd be quite terrible at being horses. Not to mention the fact that we're the only ones "smart" enough to wipe out almost all life on Earth if we wanted. (Though actually, I'm not sure if we could get the bacteria and insects that make up most life.) Brilliant!

Humans drive cars and we spread out everywhere, taking land we don't need, using far too many resources, etc. We're like rabbits in Australia, except for the entire world. Since we supposedly have the intelligence and foresight to know better, this makes us the stupidest animals, since we don't actually use our skills.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 May 11, 15:14:07
We have problems like that in Vermont all the time. The biggest issue is transplants from the big cities like New York and Boston who come up here expecting to have a nice little country life without understanding that the animals were there before they were. So they call the Parks Service or the Police all upset because a black bear or fisher cat broke into their improperly secured garbage, or their kitchen because they don't lock up at night or put figure they can leave their stuff in open dumpsters or cans on the sidewalk like they did in the city and not have animals get into it. The other issue is inexperienced campers. Big issue around here because most bear and wildcat attacks are caused by people who do not put their food items in airtight containers to begin with and then do something stupid like storing the food boxes and food coolers in their tent (really bad and incredibly stupid idea).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 11, 16:58:36
Exactly my point too dstar!  You can live among the wild life if you respect the fact that they live there too and if you leave a garbage buffet out in the yard they are going to take advantage of it, if you leave a door or garage open they will wonder in .

 I am from the north pole, and now family back home have issues with polar bears wondering in land because the ice is melting. Polar bears are aggressive and hard to kill because their skin is so thick. You need to aim for the head and hope to god you don't miss.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: LadyDea on 2009 May 11, 17:01:26

I keep waiting to hear that a baby got carried off,  and if that will be enough to make them believe.


If that happened people would get into a huff and start rallying together to "remove" these "dangerous creatures" and "think of the children!". It's like those idiotic people who keep wild animals for pets and are surprised when that cuddly hug from their tiger was actually a move to bite their face off. Then the animal is put down because it is not the "cuddly, good pet" that they intended to have. Pisses me off. >< They're wild  animals, for fuck's sake, not domestic house cats.

Edit: Just to get back on topic: PIPES! (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=329735). I know that grunge/industrial isn't in everyone's taste, but I thought these were well-done and I know I'll get much use out of them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 11, 17:09:55
The other issue is inexperienced campers. Big issue around here because most bear and wildcat attacks are caused by people who do not put their food items in airtight containers to begin with and then do something stupid like storing the food boxes and food coolers in their tent (really bad and incredibly stupid idea).

Have you ever read "Death in Yellowstone"? It details all the grotesque ways people have died at Yellowstone because they ignored signs and/or did the opposite of the advice of rangers. 99% of the deaths were from pure stupidity.  People who dived into the hot springs and boiled to death-- walking around the wilderness, bewildered in leather dress-shoes-- asking in amazement if the surroundings were real or an amusement park (i kid you not). They act like the wildlife are interactive characters, like in disneyland and get gored or trampled.
Out of the whole book, there were only 2 or 3 deaths that made me sad. A little boy who got some hot water from the springs in his eye, then dove into the hot springs, mistaking it for normal water and died. A unleashed dog that dove into the hot springs (his owner then dove in to save it despite his friends trying to stop him-- both died). And a woman who was camping alone and eaten by a bear.

The woman was the only one that seemed to have followed all reasonable precautions. But despite her preperation and knowledge there are no garantees.

So basically, the dog, the kid, and the woman. The rest I chalk up to natural seleciton.

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Every animal "alters" nature just by being there. Look at what happens to an ecosystem when an outside plant or animal gets put there -- rabbits in Australia, various water-hungry plants
I'd like to point out that what you're describing there are alien species introduced by the idiocy of people. Rabbits were introduced by white people in austrailia because they thought it would make them feel at home to hunt game that they had from home. My original point was that any photographer, natural scientist, naturalist who tries to observe nature can never take what they see as "natural" because their human presence alters natural behavior. Take the praying mantis for example. For decades people thought they ate eachother when mating, but that was a grossly exaggerated behavior due to the way the scientists orchestrated the mating. They do sometimes, actually. But its more like "sometimes" vs. a requirement as previously thought.

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Since we supposedly have the intelligence and foresight to know better, this makes us the stupidest animals, since we don't actually use our skills.
I thought what made humans being stupid was watching reality tv and the fact that FOUR fast and the furious movies were made.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 11, 17:13:17
Happens with domestic animals too, and half the time, its not even a case of the animal behaving aggresively, but playing a little too rough and drawing a little blood.

In high school, we got a dobie pup.  Sweet creature, he was, and since we didn't clip his ears [ his tail had already been docked 8grrr*] he looked as sweet as he was.  But he was also a goober.  When he hit adolescence, he decided the female goats were female dogs and spent a lot o time trying to chase them down for fun.  And dogs nip at the necks of their girlfriends....he got too good of a nip, though it didn't scare the goat, just confuse her, but the vet said if a dobie draws blood it will become vicious and hurt the kids, so my mom had him put down - she should have known better, too.

Same thing happens with domesticated wild animals.  People are pretty sure the 'attack' on Siegfried [or was it Roy?] wasn't an attack, but a case where the cat thought his friend was in trouble and tried to pick him up like you would a cub.  Disastrous, but not a case of a wild animal attacking.  A domesticated wild animal is still domesticated - but even the most domestic animals are dangerous if the human is stupid.

And some animals have been domesticated for generations, but are still considered wild, because the fur industry doesn't want their breeding stock turned in a pat - such as the domestic fox breeds - and yes, the red fox used for fur and raised on ranches is most definitely domesticated, just like minks, chickens, cows and the like.  Then there are the pet breeds like the Fennec, which were originally domesticated for food, then it was realized they made good pets too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: LadyDea on 2009 May 11, 17:19:24
Very good point. I just don't understand how people can want to have "exotic" pets and expect them to not attack or play roughly. It makes me incredibly sad when I hear stories how some lady's pet tiger bit her arm off, or drew blood and suddenly they're not "fit" for keeping as a pet. They shouldn't be pets, they aren't pets. Collect foreign china or something, stupid humans. Not animals. ><


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 11, 17:23:40

I keep waiting to hear that a baby got carried off,  and if that will be enough to make them believe.


If that happened people would get into a huff and start rallying together to "remove" these "dangerous creatures" and "think of the children!". It's like those idiotic people who keep wild animals for pets and are surprised when that cuddly hug from their tiger was actually a move to bite their face off. Then the animal is put down because it is not the "cuddly, good pet" that they intended to have. Pisses me off. >< They're wild  animals, for fuck's sake, not domestic house cats.
My god. Those people are the worst. You just know that THEY know that deep down, they're horribly bland,  stupid, boring people, and that scares them to death. Getting an "exotic" pet is just to flatter themselves and convince themselves that they're exotic by association. In the end, its the animal that suffers. I just hope they get a little revenge before they're inevitably put down.

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Edit: Just to get back on topic: PIPES! (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=329735). I know that grunge/industrial isn't in everyone's taste, but I thought these were well-done and I know I'll get much use out of them.
GORGEOUS. Those would look great with my fallout collection (the game objects, not the band)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 11, 18:17:02
 I have an exotic pet, he was a rescue. The scarlet Macaw is one of the largest parrots and are very intelligent and could also break your bones with their beaks. We tried looking into an animal sanctuary to take him, none close will because they only deal with domestic wild critters. We would have to send him to florida on our own money , which would be around 2 thousand dollars. Plus the stress of being quarantined may kill him.
 Max is too be respected, he is very love able but will bite if threatened... he was abused and still has issues.  so idiot neighbours who want me to introduce their kids to Max I say NO. He hates fingers coming at his face and that is the first things kids do... or they pull his feathers, another big no no.
 Idiots get these birds and have no idea they require tons of special care and can be dangerous. We respect Max and he respects us... he is more of a rommate then a pet  lol!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 11, 18:53:34
Exactly - all animals, not just the wild ones, should be treated with respect and love.  My cats, dog and snake are family.  There are some things they aren't allowed to do, but its little thngs like the cats not being allowed in the basement if no one is down there [because then they are stuck down there without food, water and a littlerbox] or allowed outside [we have a lot of dogs in the neighborhood, as well as hawks and of course traffic.]  Its for their good, not to be cruel.

And having a 6 and a half foot long constrictor as family teaches alot of respect.  She is active, but she likes to curl around my neck [its warmest there] and so I have to keep an eye on her when she is being held.  She hasn't tried to hurt me, but she has hugged a bit too tight a time or two and I've had to shift her around to breath properly.

I have no problem with rescued 'wild' animals being taken in - if someone is willing to take the risks and not blame the animal if they get hurt, then that's fine.  I take risks of getting clawed every day, and its rarely an attempt on my kitties to hurt me - they get startled and leap away from my lap, or play a little rough.  My mom got bit by our dog when he got bitten in the butt while she was holding him [ to get him out of a fight with said buttbiter] and she never got mad at him - she knew she shouldn't have scooped him up.  And he did a number to her face.  That's how I grew up - as I said, she should have known better on the Dobie, but she was worried about my baby sisters who were pretty small still, but I grew up with animals being a part of the family - even the chickens, turkeys and goats were respected.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 May 11, 20:28:56
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Every animal "alters" nature just by being there. Look at what happens to an ecosystem when an outside plant or animal gets put there -- rabbits in Australia, various water-hungry plants
I'd like to point out that what you're describing there are alien species introduced by the idiocy of people. Rabbits were introduced by white people in austrailia because they thought it would make them feel at home to hunt game that they had from home.

Oh there were the height of stupid experiments in Australia.  They introduced cats in order to get the rabbits, and the cats mostly died or went feral eating all the things that didn't have inbuilt fear of fucking cats; and they introduced moths to get rid of the damn prickly pear they introduced too.  If they had genetic engineering in those days they would have invented some super creature designed to eat prickly pears and rabbits, but that they later found had a desire for arable land and humans.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 May 11, 21:19:58
That Simpsons episode with the various animals being introduced to "control" various other animals was sadly not very exaggerated :P.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 11, 22:05:33
Just a thought...humans are predators too, originally we hunted to survive and killed to protect our own...and also i think theres a part of humanities makeup that just has the urge to kill, the need to assert power and authority over others by whatever means it takes. Its human nature...but of course centuries of evolution have turned us into the domesticated creatures that we are now...soft living has dulled our senses and made us stupid...we used to be alert and respectful of the animal kingdom, and feared it as we should. The remark from Darqstar on waiting to hear a baby being carried of...and their stupid naivetee that these creatures are not real/shouldnt be there/ wont encroach on their property made me think, though Darqstar was refering to a wild creature it reminded me of the stupidity of (some) parents with regards to their children...and that nothing will happen to their kids. I lived in an area where many families let their very young children roam the area and further...these were 2/3 year olds....these kids roamed around unwatched anywhere they liked for hours, no one checked on them...we had a kids coming to play with my children but upon being asked if their parents knew where they were...they said they didnt...i couldve been anyone...these kids went in anyones houses. I had a friend of my daughters come round..., so i asked her if her mum knew where she was, no was the answer...we were going out so i took her home...no one was there...i didnt have it in me to leave this 4 year old wandering around unable to go home...so we had to postpone going out, i put a letter through the parents door, explaining the situation, 2 hours later...no parents...i called again...theyd just got in. Said theyd gone to do some shopping, they hadnt being able to find their daughter before going out and didnt know where she was...so just went out anyway!
Anything couldve happened to her!
The point im trying to make is that...people are also blind to another predator...that is the human predator. If there going to ignore the obvious predators of wild animals, theres little reason to believe that they would acknowledge the less obvious predator that could be living next door....people just think it will never happen to them. If that little girl had gome missing in the worse way possible, the parents wouldve been quick to say that they only let her out of their sight for a minute.
Sadly where i used to live there were too many families allowing their barely out of nappies children to wander off, and worse to allow older children to dress like prostitutes. A 13 year old girl that lived nearby dated men in their 20's. The mother thought it was great that her daughter( her child) could attract a man! He stayed over. They didnt seem to understand that he was a paedophile, no different to the men theyd watch on tv news stories or read about in the paper that theyd be swearing about and saying how they should be strung up, that theyd be repulsed by what theyd done to some child. They couldnt connect they were allowing such to happen to their own child...that it was happening under their noses!
Its the same with these idiots and wild animals, they hear about it, read about it...but dont connect it with the wild animal in their bins or that theyve adopted as a pet!

Sorry to go on... ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 11, 22:46:41
That Simpsons episode with the various animals being introduced to "control" various other animals was sadly not very exaggerated :P.

I want my koala invasion and I want it now.
http://spacecollective.org/userdata/bD7n8SiD/1201569637/1128184582f2aa.jpg


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 May 12, 05:22:59
Dude, I don't mean to be rude or nitpicky ferncapel, but the exaggerated use of ellipses in your post makes it really hard to read. I'm sure you have something good to say, but I just can't read it. If you're ESL, again, I'm sorry.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 12, 10:25:05
I don't understand people who build homes in the woods, like these new subdivisions, then complain when they see a bear wanders by or see a wild cat in their back yard.
I'm of the view that if you choose to live in the sticks, you should EXPECT to encounter wildlife. Me, I expect that bears and other wildlife will occasionally be seen in my yard, as a direct effect of my choosing to live in the sticks and have a yard that consists of several square miles of space. In fact, I prefer it this way. They are tastier than human neighbors.

I want my koala invasion and I want it now.
Koalas are a poor invasive species because they eat only a single specific food source that isn't native to anywhere else. Maybe if we genetically engineered some deadly killer koalas that were extremely clever, conniving creatures that ate humans...like, say, "Phascolarctus Bityness"...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 12, 13:41:29
Dude, I don't mean to be rude or nitpicky ferncapel, but the exaggerated use of ellipses in your post makes it really hard to read. I'm sure you have something good to say, but I just can't read it. If you're ESL, again, I'm sorry.

 I do that too sometimes. It is a bad habit I have picked up being ESL, but it is still good to be reminded if something is wrong or annoying.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 May 12, 17:08:16
I want my koala invasion and I want it now.
Koalas are a poor invasive species because they eat only a single specific food source that isn't native to anywhere else. Maybe if we genetically engineered some deadly killer koalas that were extremely clever, conniving creatures that ate humans...like, say, "Phascolarctus Bityness"...

You would like the drop bears, Pescado.  But they could live quite happily in California - LA has a surfeit of eucalyptus trees - they're drier over there than they are here and constantly fall onto houses, so you would get plenty of drop bears raining down eating you all.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: LadyDea on 2009 May 12, 23:08:17
I had actually gotten the creator name from MATY while reading through a thread, but thought I'd mention it here. Eris3000 (http://nene.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=235958) at MTS2, also mentioned in this thread for her edible wedding cakes (or did I see that on MATY as well?) has made tons of custom food. It's probably old news, but I'm just downloading everything now, so I imagine I'm not the only one who hasn't seen it. Most of the food is on Eris3000's later pages, so you have to poke through his/her downloads.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 12, 23:14:36
She also makes some gorgeous showers, tubs and sinks at MTS 2. I haz them! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 May 13, 00:49:20
@LadyDea

Your link is missing an 8.

Eris3000 (http://nene.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=235958)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: LadyDea on 2009 May 13, 04:49:42
Fiddlesticks, fixed. Merci beaucoup, kenmtl.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 13, 05:52:24
I don't understand people who build homes in the woods, like these new subdivisions, then complain when they see a bear wanders by or see a wild cat in their back yard.
I'm of the view that if you choose to live in the sticks, you should EXPECT to encounter wildlife. Me, I expect that bears and other wildlife will occasionally be seen in my yard, as a direct effect of my choosing to live in the sticks and have a yard that consists of several square miles of space. In fact, I prefer it this way. They are tastier than human neighbors.

Not to mention more considerate! They certainly never call the cops if your music is too loud, or drive by at forty miles over the speed limit. Hell, they'll even dispose of your garbage, if you let them. Very good neighbors, indeed. Bears, wolves, moose, fox, even freaking sandhill cranes, they're all predictable. They act exactly like they always do and only surprise you if you're dumb enough to stumble across them unawares. Of the many, many moose I've met, only one has been truly insane. I cannot, however, say the same of humans. Personally, I've never understood why people get all upset when they see one of those wimpy little lower 48 black bears at the community playground. I'd be more freaked out if it were an old, bald guy with a big beard and a dark outfit lurking around the kiddos.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: JFederated on 2009 May 13, 10:49:16
Are they pretty?  If you like Fallout 3 they are - nice to see freesite creators get some wider exposure:

http://kotaku.com/5251551/where-fallout-3-meets-the-sims


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 13, 16:57:14
Dude, I don't mean to be rude or nitpicky ferncapel, but the exaggerated use of ellipses in your post makes it really hard to read. I'm sure you have something good to say, but I just can't read it. If you're ESL, again, I'm sorry.

Firstly, i am not a Dude!
I wouldn't really call it an exaggerated use of ellipses (An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence) its just a habit that i write in that fashion as i'm thinking something through in my head...don't even realise i write like that sometimes. There i've done it again! I actually don't write like that most of the time!
If i'm ESL? well not sure what that means, after not having heard of the abbreviation before. I looked it up.
ESL - English as a Second Language. Is that what you are refering to?
I'm British, therefore i am English. English being my language and the country that actually spells and pronounces the English language correctly...unlike other English speaking countries that spell and pronounce common words incorrectly, and think it's the correct way! I think i know the English language well enough. Also using ellipses is certainly not an indication of being ESL, so why think that? Anyone in any language can use ellipses, i can not see how its a sign that i am not of English speaking origin.
Don't get me wrong, i doubt you intended offense, but i do not understant how using ellipses indicates a possible ESL!!!
I understand that it may be annoying (but not wrong) as ESkimo Pie said may be the issue so i will try to curb my ellipse abuse...if you'll refrain from using the word "Dude" as i find that irritating as i'm quite frankly not at all what the word alludes too! :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 May 13, 17:15:48
Um dude.
Whatever problem you have with Chaos is yours to deal with however you see fit. However

I'm British, therefore i am English. English being my language and the country that actually spells and pronounces the English language correctly...unlike other English speaking countries that spell and pronounce common words incorrectly, and think it's the correct way!

How was that was appropriate? You just insulted a LARGE contingent of members here for absolutely no reason. Good luck with all that.
 
FYI, some of us are ESL or EOL(to be more exact) and write better than you. So drop the fucking attitude.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 13, 17:19:33
Do we really need to bring in the whole "English language debate?" The language as a whole is bastardized from Latin/German/French/Norse with many others thrown in and really doesn't have anything that can actually be called "true" in its form. There are different regions of the world that use the language to communicate with and arguing semantics is going to get us nowhere but into a massive shit pot of an argument that, frankly, I couldn't give a shit less about. Wanna argue the proper use of the tool we communicate with? Take it to a site that specializes in it. So long as we understand each other in what we say, whether it be written or spoken in form, that ought to suffice.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 May 13, 17:20:45
I think what ChaosInAMinor meant is that posts with an overuse of ellipses can be difficult to understand. As a general rule, once per post is plenty, otherwise it can be difficult to follow what is being said. Also, as a side note, I wouldn't worry too much about being called "dude". Here in the midwest, at least, it gets used plenty as a slang term for both genders.

Incidentally, your post lead me to believe that you are confusing American English and British English, which are in fact two different things, thus neither can be more "correct" than the other. (The English teacher in me just had to point that out. ;))


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 13, 17:29:19
 Then there is Canadian English  eh!!

 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 May 13, 18:24:29
And there is also Australian English (spelling is sort of a combination of American and British English).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 May 13, 18:30:17
I'm British, therefore i am English. English being my language and the country that actually spells and pronounces the English language correctly...unlike other English speaking countries that spell and pronounce common words incorrectly, and think it's the correct way! I think i know the English language well enough.

Heck, I'm British and I'm offended by this. You do realise that all countries around the world that learn English as a second language learn it from us, right? So if theirs is so bad, then ours must be equally as bad if not worse. Also, countries like America don't spell it incorrectly its just how its evolved over there. We spell colour with a U, they don't - just how they flow. Get over it already ::)

Also British does not equal English goddamnit, it equals BRITISH. Britain is made up of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English people and are known collectively as British.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 13, 18:40:21
Also British does not equal English goddamnit, it equals BRITISH. Britain is made up of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English people and are known collectively as British.

You know, I have always wondered about that.  Seriously, I have.  But I was too afraid to ask, for fear it was something that everyone *but* me knew.  So, thank you for clearing that up for me.

Now, where does "UK?" fit into this?  I know it means United Kingdom, but what area does that cover? 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsrocks on 2009 May 13, 18:49:14
I think the UK is England, Scotland and Wales.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pickles on 2009 May 13, 18:52:39
And Northern Ireland, yes?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 13, 19:05:33
Um dude.
Whatever problem you have with Chaos is yours to deal with however you see fit. However

I'm British, therefore i am English. English being my language and the country that actually spells and pronounces the English language correctly...unlike other English speaking countries that spell and pronounce common words incorrectly, and think it's the correct way!

How was that was appropriate? You just insulted a LARGE contingent of members here for absolutely no reason. Good luck with all that.


 
FYI, some of us are ESL or EOL(to be more exact) and write better than you. So drop the fucking attitude.


No problem with Chaos at all, just making a point that using ellipses should not evoke a reply that i may be ESL. The two do not connect together. I just explained that i was in fact...English.
As for the remark that you write better English than me, your post certainly was not proof of that. Using abbreviations for "for your information" and swearing are certainly not better.
As for insulting a whole contingent of members, that was not my intention and i apologise if i have. I don't have an atitude, i made a valid point...that i was British and English and just clarifying that i wasn't ESL. Reading back i can see that what i said was not appropiate and really wasn't a suitable reply to what Chaos said anyway! All i can think is that i totally misunderstood what he/she was saying.
Though i never actually mentioned any particular English speaking country or said  i was refering to every single one of them...i said 'other'.Take it which way you want, if you take it personally thats up to you. Your atitude is no better.

I apologise to anyone i offended, was not intentional.


I think what ChaosInAMinor meant is that posts with an overuse of ellipses can be difficult to understand. As a general rule, once per post is plenty, otherwise it can be difficult to follow what is being said. Also, as a side note, I wouldn't worry too much about being called "dude". Here in the midwest, at least, it gets used plenty as a slang term for both genders.

Incidentally, your post lead me to believe that you are confusing American English and British English, which are in fact two different things, thus neither can be more "correct" than the other. (The English teacher in me just had to point that out. ;))

Dude over here tends to be used towards the male population and was popular as a term in the 1970's.

But now you've all carried on the conversation and turned it into a debate...i have a few replies to those posted. Didn't want a debate on the English Language,  i was annoyed because of a stupid remark that because i used ellipses a little too much, that English was possibly not my first language.

I am not confusing American or British English at all. Whereas i agree that the old English language is a combination of many going back through centuries of history...thankyou to Paden for the history lesson! American English still originates from British English ( which was really just English until the British Empire in the 19th-20th centuries swept through the world spreading the language,thus we now call it British English, well we in Britain don't...we just call it English!) As with the U.S.A, British colonisation brought it to you, after all the U.S.A has no officiall language, only those adopted from other countries as you were colonised.
I understand that over the years the U.S.A has adapted the language to it's own and now it's called American English but the word English kind of gives it's origin away...it still is a bastardisation of the English language that we brought over to you. So therefore the British English is actually more correct than the American English...they were never originally two different languages, just one, that you have changed dramatically and is now called American/Canadian English (wherever you're from) . Or Australia.

Im not an expert on any of this, but i don't pretend i am either.

I'm British, therefore i am English. English being my language and the country that actually spells and pronounces the English language correctly...unlike other English speaking countries that spell and pronounce common words incorrectly, and think it's the correct way! I think i know the English language well enough.

Heck, I'm British and I'm offended by this. You do realise that all countries around the world that learn English as a second language learn it from us, right? So if theirs is so bad, then ours must be equally as bad if not worse. Also, countries like America don't spell it incorrectly its just how its evolved over there. We spell colour with a U, they don't - just how they flow. Get over it already ::)

Also British does not equal English goddamnit, it equals BRITISH. Britain is made up of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English people and are known collectively as British.

I never said that being British equalled English...get your facts straight. I said i was English as i mentioned the English Language. As English is England's native language. But Ireland, Wales and Scotland have their own native language and i was discussing the English language...not them.

Reply to Darqstar, Simsrocks and Pickles. The U.K is England, Scotland, WAles and Northern Ireland, also known as Britain (or Great Britain) We seem to like lots of names over here  :D

Again apologies to anyone i offended  8)





Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 13, 20:03:11
I thought the Picts and Celts were the original settlers there and were driven out by the Anglos that became the English peoples of today. What happened to their language? What about the Bretons or are they counted as the same peoples? I have so many questions because my ancestors that hailed from England buggered the hell outta there in the early 1600's. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 13, 20:22:05

I wouldn't really call it an exaggerated use of ellipses (An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence) its just a habit that i write in that fashion as i'm thinking something through in my head...don't even realise i write like that sometimes. There i've done it again! I actually don't write like that most of the time!
If i'm ESL? well not sure what that means, after not having heard of the abbreviation before. I looked it up.
ESL - English as a Second Language. Is that what you are refering to?
I'm British, therefore i am English.
I think the ESL thing was maybe a bit harsh, and the original point was lost in whatever baggage those initials imply.
What I think that person was getting at is that your post was long and seemingly unorganized. I myself just skimmed over it. No offense intended. I was too lazy at the time to give it my full attention.

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Also, as a side note, I wouldn't worry too much about being called "dude". Here in the midwest, at least, it gets used plenty as a slang term for both genders.

West Coast too. I call my fellow gal pals "dude" sometimes. Calling them "sister" or "chicka" or something is just TOO girly for my taste. And sometimes it just comes out. For a lot of people "dude" is gender-neutral. In fact, most people use "dude" in place of words like "wow" or "Whoa" nowadays. It's not even a word anymore, as much as it is a gasp. Or a grunt.

Then again, I think most of my peers and younger folk talk in grunts and clicks anyway. (now all we need is the dolphins to take offense at that comment)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 13, 20:46:55
Psssst, I heard that Flipper is boycotting you and planning to throw fish at your head next time you're at the beach, dude! Be careful! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 13, 21:03:46
Koalas are a poor invasive species because they eat only a single specific food source that isn't native to anywhere else. Maybe if we genetically engineered some deadly killer koalas that were extremely clever, conniving creatures that ate humans...like, say, "Phascolarctus Bityness"...
Do I look like I'm picky about how I get my koala invasion?

All I know is that the 80's have promised us many things and are yet to deliver. The only ones of worth being voluminous hair and cigar smoking/possibly airline piloting koalas.

Psssst, I heard that Flipper is boycotting you and planning to throw fish at your head next time you're at the beach, dude! Be careful! :D
Bitch can take it up with my koala.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 May 13, 21:08:16
Wow. I wasn't expecting to offend you so much. I apologize. I threw in the ESL bit because if you were, I didn't want you to think I was being mean. I'm sorry that it may have come across as offensive. And dude is gender neutral out here, too. It's just slang, like "mate" out there. So, sorry for any misunderstanding.

Now that my apologies are done, I hope you don't fall off your "The English here is sooo much more superior" high horse and hurt yourself. That had nothing to do with what I was saying.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 13, 21:18:28
Now that my apologies are done, I hope you don't fall off your "The English here is sooo much more superior" high horse and hurt yourself.
Oh no!
http://www.inquisitr.com/22231/madonna-falls-off-horse-minor-injuries-reported-p2s/
(http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/madonna-falls-off-horse.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 13, 21:29:56
I'm British, therefore i am English. English being my language and the country that actually spells and pronounces the English language correctly...unlike other English speaking countries that spell and pronounce common words incorrectly, and think it's the correct way! I think i know the English language well enough.

Heck, I'm British and I'm offended by this. You do realise that all countries around the world that learn English as a second language learn it from us, right? So if theirs is so bad, then ours must be equally as bad if not worse. Also, countries like America don't spell it incorrectly its just how its evolved over there. We spell colour with a U, they don't - just how they flow. Get over it already ::)

Also British does not equal English goddamnit, it equals BRITISH. Britain is made up of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English people and are known collectively as British.

Actually, some of us yanks spell it with a u too - all those British writers I grew up reading, at a guess.  I've even gotten points off on papers written for a music class in college, for using british spellins [ turns out my prof's ex-husband was british :) ].

As for american English verses british english - some of it was natural linguistic evolution - some of it was on purpose right after the Revolutionary War.

I'm not offended, personally - I took it as being a tongue-in-cheek sort of comment.  I don't care if its -al-u-min-ium- or -a-lu-min-um-, its still this flimsy, silvery metal. :D

Editted to add - Oh, and since no Brit pronounces English exactly the same way, which way is proper?  West-side London?  Liverpool?  Yorkshire?

Also - There were plenty of -native- languages in the Americas before the bloody Europeans came over and pushed aside the natives.  Don't get me started, but the notion that the Natives were ignorant savages pisses me off, and that rage is a bit high still, after having fresh reminders of what -exactly- the Europeans and their descendants did, having gone to Cherokee this past weekend.  It was the exact same bloody attitude Julius Caesar had towards the Celts.  Not to mention that a good chunk of the settlers here were -not- British.  Its just the founding fathers were.

If I sound bitchy, then oh well - but I really get pissed at the attitude that either noone lived here before the Europeans sailed over, or they just aren't worth mentioning.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsample on 2009 May 13, 21:45:12
I think the UK is England, Scotland and Wales.
Great Britain is the landmass that consists of England, Scotland and Wales. The British Isles also refers to the surrounding islands such as the Shetlands. The UK consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Eire is seperate.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 13, 21:54:25
 I am native, Inuit to be exact or Eskimo. When I say I am esl  most assume I am not Canadian or north American. I grew up speaking Inuktitut , then french. When I say I am from the north pole I mean it! lol there was 300 people in my town and there was no roads in or out just plans in the summer. Even tho I am an adult I had to take ESL classes when I moved to nova scotia. It was funny because I was sitting in class with people who were not from canada, my people always have been here but I could not even order a coffee at tim Horton's.

 Native languages are still alive in some parts of the world. The language of the Celts is too. Here in Nova Scotia  there is celtic schools that teach it .

 So thank you soggyfox for remembering us savages lol!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 May 13, 22:35:38
I never said that being British equalled English...get your facts straight. I said i was English as i mentioned the English Language. As English is England's native language. But Ireland, Wales and Scotland have their own native language and i was discussing the English language...not them.

Sorry but whats this then:

I'm British, therefore i am English. English being my language and the country that actually spells and pronounces the English language correctly...unlike other English speaking countries that spell and pronounce common words incorrectly, and think it's the correct way! I think i know the English language well enough.

That to me says you're equating British as English. Also, would you class Scotland, Wales and Ireland as other English speaking countries? Cause the majority of us (I'm scottish) speak English, and have our native language as our second language as its been beaten out of us for centuries by well, the English. I still say that you were snobbish and offensive telling others, the majority being American, that they are wrong for spelling things differently. Heck, we as a nation spell things differently from region to region, depending on the language and dialect we use.

For those confused by our numerous names, we use the abreviation of UK in the day-to-day conversations and Great Britain is used during sports such as the Olympics. As a matter of fact its less Great, more Britain; I might be wrong but Great Britain relates to our Empire days. Oh and Eire is also known as the Republic of Ireland. Yes, we like having many names for our countries :D

The 'proper' English is the Queens English, which is posh without a regional accent. But we commoners like to fuck around with it all the time :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 May 13, 22:45:33
something offensive to dolphins

(http://i41.tinypic.com/2wc4g1c.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 13, 22:57:10
Not to mention that a good chunk of the settlers here were -not- British.  Its just the founding fathers were.

*raises hand* This seems like a good time to mention some pointless trivia. So, when the United States took a vote on our 'official' language, English won out by one vote. We were ::this:: close to speaking German. Or at least that's what they told me in all those damn history classes that never made it even as far as the Civil War. Personally, I'd rather speak Spanish (I can haz EZ verb conjugation), but, yeah...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SnarkyShark on 2009 May 13, 23:15:08
Quote from: dusdeedawn
*raises hand* This seems like a good time to mention some pointless trivia. So, when the United States took a vote on our 'official' language, English won out by one vote. We were ::this:: close to speaking German. Or at least that's what they told me in all those damn history classes that never made it even as far as the Civil War. Personally, I'd rather speak Spanish (I can haz EZ verb conjugation), but, yeah...

I was under the impression that the United States has no official language, so I'm curious about this vote. Was it a colonial thing?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 13, 23:25:30
Wow. I wasn't expecting to offend you so much. I apologize. I threw in the ESL bit because if you were, I didn't want you to think I was being mean. I'm sorry that it may have come across as offensive. And dude is gender neutral out here, too. It's just slang, like "mate" out there. So, sorry for any misunderstanding.

Now that my apologies are done, I hope you don't fall off your "The English here is sooo much more superior" high horse and hurt yourself. That had nothing to do with what I was saying.

I already said that even i admitted that what i said had little to do with what you said. Dont know why i went of on one...brain glitch i think ;)
Misunderstanding over with on my behalf...believe me, the English here is not always superior, sometimes i struggle to understand some people because of the slang in our language and the way its being degraded. It's ok , i just hurt my self a little falling of that damned horse. I should never have got on it in the first place! ;D

Anyerfillag

No saying i am British therefore i am English does not equate British as English. English is England's native language, we all in Britain have our native languages even if they are no longer our first language.  Scotland, Wales and Ireland are English speaking but its not your native language. To be honest, don't balme the British for beating your native language out off you. You could revive your own language if you wanted to...thats your choice!
I never actaully stated a country, i thougt this forum was quite mixed.
If you think im snobbish and offensive, fair play, your opinion. Im unaffected by it.
Also as a nation i can honestly say that ive never noticed that we spell things differently. Say things differently only because of the tones of our accents, but not spelll. Ive never come across words spelt differently anywhere in the country, only words spelt incorrectly. I'd like a few examples of that how different regions here in the U.K spell words differently. Come on...educate me! ;)

Anyone else, non U.K residents,  accept you spell differently due to the language being adapted, thats fine, not an issue. This is to Anyerfillag only.

Also to Soggyfox,

"Also - There were plenty of -native- languages in the Americas before the bloody Europeans came over and pushed aside the natives.  Don't get me started, but the notion that the Natives were ignorant savages pisses me off, and that rage is a bit high still, after having fresh reminders of what -exactly- the Europeans and their descendants did, having gone to Cherokee this past weekend.  It was the exact same bloody attitude Julius Caesar had towards the Celts.  Not to mention that a good chunk of the settlers here were -not- British.  Its just the founding fathers were.

If I sound bitchy, then oh well - but I really get pissed at the attitude that either noone lived here before the Europeans sailed over, or they just aren't worth mentioning?"

Whom was this intended to?
Because i never said all settlers were British, i said the English ones wouldve taught you the English language as did the European settlers teach you theirs. Also i am well aware that America had its own native languages and people before we Europeans and whom ever else came over and did what we did. I actually have always had the opinion that what the Europeans did to native Americans was atrocious and though we saw the Indian tribes as savages, it was in fact us that were the savages. I don't believe we had any right to do what we did. I certainly dont have the atitude that no-one lived there before the Europeans went over.
Im not having a go, just unclear as to whom that part of your post was aimed at and wanted to clarify my position just in case it was me! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 14, 00:34:00


No saying i am British therefore i am English does not equate British as English. English is England's native language, we all in Britain have our native languages even if they are no longer our first language.  Scotland, Wales and Ireland are English speaking but its not your native language. To be honest, don't balme the British for beating your native language out off you. You could revive your own language if you wanted to...thats your choice!


Okay, I've taken no sides in this, because honestly, Ellipsis don't bother me.  I see them merely as pauses, but I can't judge what others think, so I just stayed out of it.

But honestly, Ferncapel, what you wrote above is about the coldest thing I've seen someone say in awhile.  The Irish and the Scottish weren't just convinced to give up their language, they could be killed for using it.  It took brave people to make it so those languages didn't die.  The same with many Native American dialects.  Some are completely gone, but others were saved by people willing to risk their lives to keep speaking it, and to teach it to others. 

It's not a simple matter to say, "Hey, you know what?  Fuck it, we're going to speak Gaelic and you'll have to deal."  First of all, there aren't a lot of people who can speak it.  Also, because of the status as an almost dead language, to revive it as the national language will likely put up a barrier between themselves and the rest of the world, which no one can really afford to do these days.

When you take away someone's language, it's not just the language, it's taking away a part of them.  How would you feel if someone came to you and said, "Nope, you're not allowed to speak English.  If you do, we'll kill you.  Oh and your religion?  WRONG, you can only worship our God, the one true God.  And while we're at it, that Internet you go on?  No more.  We don't believe in the internet. And let's take away any other hobbies you might enjoy, they aren't what we consider to be appropriate hobbies.  And your land?  It's not yours anymore either, it's ours.  You can't have land until you worship our God and become just like us."  How would you feel if they destroyed your culture?  Forbid you from telling any stories of your family and your people?  Forbid you to read books written by writers of your nationality? Forbid you to sing the songs of your people?

I'm not saying we should beat up the British (Or, every white American for that matter)  what's done is done.  However, to just casually brush it off like it was no big deal, just doesn't sit right with me.  And the way you said they could revive their language, forgive me if I misunderstood, but that came across to me like you were almost accusing them of being lazy about it.  "It's your own fault you're not speaking your native language!" when that is so not the case.

 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: vindi on 2009 May 14, 01:14:35
Does anyone mind if I re-rail this before we go into a deep conversation about the homogenization and deaths of languages and cultures?

You can haz some dirty pretties from guatla on MTS2, her Broken Bathroom set!
(http://i40.tinypic.com/fozmoo.jpg)
http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=326755

Her other stuff is pretty cool, but I don't really have a use for it... except the broken windows. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 14, 02:19:21
I was under the impression that the United States has no official language, so I'm curious about this vote. Was it a colonial thing?

I have no freaking clue. I just remember my history teacher telling me about it. But, with public school being what it is, I can't even say whether or not she was legally sane. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 May 14, 02:51:23
That is actually an urban myth in both the US and Germany. This is from Wikipedia:

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The Muhlenberg legend is a popular urban legend in the United States and Germany. According to the legend, Frederick Muhlenberg kept German from becoming an official language of the United States. At the heart of this legend is a vote in the United States House of Representatives in 1794, in which a group of German immigrants asked for the translation of some laws into German. This petition was rejected by a 42-41 vote and Muhlenberg was later quoted as having said "the faster the Germans become Americans, the better it will be." The United States has no statutory official language; English has been used as on a de facto basis, owing to its status as the country's predominant language. At times various states have passed their own official language laws.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 14, 04:10:16




When you take away someone's language, it's not just the language, it's taking away a part of them.  How would you feel if someone came to you and said, "Nope, you're not allowed to speak English.  If you do, we'll kill you.  Oh and your religion?  WRONG, you can only worship our God, the one true God.  And while we're at it, that Internet you go on?  No more.  We don't believe in the internet. And let's take away any other hobbies you might enjoy, they aren't what we consider to be appropriate hobbies.  And your land?  It's not yours anymore either, it's ours.  You can't have land until you worship our God and become just like us."  How would you feel if they destroyed your culture?  Forbid you from telling any stories of your family and your people?  Forbid you to read books written by writers of your nationality? Forbid you to sing the songs of your people?

I'm not saying we should beat up the British (Or, every white American for that matter)  what's done is done.  However, to just casually brush it off like it was no big deal, just doesn't sit right with me.  And the way you said they could revive their language, forgive me if I misunderstood, but that came across to me like you were almost accusing them of being lazy about it.  "It's your own fault you're not speaking your native language!" when that is so not the case.

 


 People like to think that it happened a million years ago, but the last residential school in Canada only closed down in the 1980's. I think 1984 to be exact. My father had sisters taken away never to be seen or heard from again. When I went to high school it was a church school who made us speak french only and made fun of our faith and culture. And even tho I am Canadian, I get told by strangers here in nova scotia to speak English or get out of "their" country. Just on Sunday I was on the bus speaking my native to my young son and I was told by 2 old men that I should go back to my country and that "foreigners" like me take all the jobs. Idiots had no clue.
 I do not hate all white people, I hate the government for covering up history and not educating people. anyways that is enough heavy thinking for me today lol


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 14, 07:53:26


No saying i am British therefore i am English does not equate British as English. English is England's native language, we all in Britain have our native languages even if they are no longer our first language.  Scotland, Wales and Ireland are English speaking but its not your native language. To be honest, don't balme the British for beating your native language out off you. You could revive your own language if you wanted to...thats your choice!


Okay, I've taken no sides in this, because honestly, Ellipsis don't bother me.  I see them merely as pauses, but I can't judge what others think, so I just stayed out of it.

But honestly, Ferncapel, what you wrote above is about the coldest thing I've seen someone say in awhile.  The Irish and the Scottish weren't just convinced to give up their language, they could be killed for using it.  It took brave people to make it so those languages didn't die.  The same with many Native American dialects.  Some are completely gone, but others were saved by people willing to risk their lives to keep speaking it, and to teach it to others. 

It's not a simple matter to say, "Hey, you know what?  Fuck it, we're going to speak Gaelic and you'll have to deal."  First of all, there aren't a lot of people who can speak it.  Also, because of the status as an almost dead language, to revive it as the national language will likely put up a barrier between themselves and the rest of the world, which no one can really afford to do these days.

When you take away someone's language, it's not just the language, it's taking away a part of them.  How would you feel if someone came to you and said, "Nope, you're not allowed to speak English.  If you do, we'll kill you.  Oh and your religion?  WRONG, you can only worship our God, the one true God.  And while we're at it, that Internet you go on?  No more.  We don't believe in the internet. And let's take away any other hobbies you might enjoy, they aren't what we consider to be appropriate hobbies.  And your land?  It's not yours anymore either, it's ours.  You can't have land until you worship our God and become just like us."  How would you feel if they destroyed your culture?  Forbid you from telling any stories of your family and your people?  Forbid you to read books written by writers of your nationality? Forbid you to sing the songs of your people?

I'm not saying we should beat up the British (Or, every white American for that matter)  what's done is done.  However, to just casually brush it off like it was no big deal, just doesn't sit right with me.  And the way you said they could revive their language, forgive me if I misunderstood, but that came across to me like you were almost accusing them of being lazy about it.  "It's your own fault you're not speaking your native language!" when that is so not the case.

 

I never said that what we did as English people was correct, it was certainly wrong, as is any conflict where one forces another to conform to what they believe. It was our fault originally,but don't keep wallowing in history, in fact because of whta happened in history it should give them morre incentive to revive it, after all they have their own government now and have broke away rom the English a little. They shoud petition their government to teach it in schools as part of their history and culture.The Cornish people are working hard and steadily at reving their language, their version of the Celtic language and more and more people are learning it. So if someone, say from Scotland, felt that strongly about losing their language...then do something about it. Even if just for themselves. I certainly was not accusing them of being lazy. Reviving a language is a long slow and hard process, but it can be done, even if not by the majority, then by a minority. But you can not forever blame the past and what happened, you have to look forward and make changes and if language is one of them, then good.
To be honest, our culture in England is slowly being destroyed because of the government and what it allows and when we can't even fly our own flag without offending people, we are already being told we can't do things regarding our own nationality. So i do understand what you are saying. Some things you have little control over, but some things you can have control over.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 14, 08:08:37
Quote from: dusdeedawn
*raises hand* This seems like a good time to mention some pointless trivia. So, when the United States took a vote on our 'official' language, English won out by one vote. We were ::this:: close to speaking German. Or at least that's what they told me in all those damn history classes that never made it even as far as the Civil War. Personally, I'd rather speak Spanish (I can haz EZ verb conjugation), but, yeah...
I was under the impression that the United States has no official language, so I'm curious about this vote. Was it a colonial thing?
Actually, it is simply a not-trueity (http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SnarkyShark on 2009 May 14, 10:14:46
Hmmm, it's just as I suspected. Poor dusdeedawn was being taught history by a pathological liar. Dusdee, it's obvious that you'll need a crash course in American history to help undo some of the damage.

-George Washington was actually married to Martha. They were not shacking up.
-Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton not George Hamilton.
-Ben Franklin didn't write Little Richard's Almanac.
-Tar and feathers was not a fashion trend.

(thanks for the link to the bathroom, vindi)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 14, 11:05:45
Of course it figures that the one bit of history I hold onto is the wrong bit. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Skoria_Bay on 2009 May 14, 11:25:12
The Irish have preserved their version of Gaelic. One of my favorite musical groups is Irish and has recorded traditional folk songs and written new songs in Irish Gaelic. Clannad, the band, is fluent in their native language. Enya (who is the lead singer's younger sister) sang with the group before she went solo. And by the way, I am an American (of German, English, Irish and Scots decent).

Anyway, cool bathroom. I am not sure what I'll use it for now, but I will use it at some point.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 May 14, 15:17:41
Actually, Ferncapel, you said there was no language here until the british got here.  It might not have been what you meant, but its what your said.

And I spent the weekend up in Cherokee North Carolina.  The signs and everything are dual lingual - english and cherokee.  Pretty looking language.  And since the town -is- the reservation, alot of the businesses were run by Cherokee too.  I tried to avoid the touristy shops and hit only the ones selling actual native crafted stuff - it was not at all easy, but I got some really nice things - a white fox dreamcatcher made from wood, sinew fur and feathers, and a doeskin [I'm pretty sure anyway] bag in white with a turquoise button.  I got one of them with my winnings from the casino, since I was determined to leave the money -there-.

Seriously though, while other languages are spoken here, English is the official language of the US - it might change, but it is now.

And as I understood it, Wales was forced to abandon their language [legally anyway] by the Welsh....unless my reading is off, the Tudors were welsh nobles before ruling england - and when they took the throne, they took away Welsh as a language [ not that they succeeded ]


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Realmscat on 2009 May 14, 15:39:01
"Grumbles softly." I seem to have lost my orginal reply. Though it may show up eventually, I basicly said, mankind itself has a history of doing all these things your discussing to itself. It is the nature of man to take what it desires, and destroy that which it does not understand. Throughout history mankind has destroyed culture after culture, language after language. Even today our children pervert the language to their desires, and their children will to. Laying blame on one specific group really is pointless, all you have to do is read "all" past accounts of conquest. This people did this, that people did that, and so on, and so on. Mankind takes what it wants, destroys what it does not.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 14, 15:57:57
Then does this mean we're gonna win against the pay site assholes and EA Games? ;D

Anyways, back on topic, Shady (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=329899) has another set of the awesome eyes. She does some of the best and I think I have all of them. Hair and eyes are really a weakness for me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Realmscat on 2009 May 14, 16:08:02
Apparently I am having issues with posting so please bare with me. If this comes up later more then once please be so kind as to delete them. Anyways.."laughs" More then likely you will not win, yet you continue to fight. Also on course I found this at Black Pearl.
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?p=436799#post436799


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 14, 16:40:59
Actually, Ferncapel, you said there was no language here until the british got here.  It might not have been what you meant, but its what your said.

And I spent the weekend up in Cherokee North Carolina.  The signs and everything are dual lingual - english and cherokee.  Pretty looking language.  And since the town -is- the reservation, alot of the businesses were run by Cherokee too.  I tried to avoid the touristy shops and hit only the ones selling actual native crafted stuff - it was not at all easy, but I got some really nice things - a white fox dreamcatcher made from wood, sinew fur and feathers, and a doeskin [I'm pretty sure anyway] bag in white with a turquoise button.  I got one of them with my winnings from the casino, since I was determined to leave the money -there-.

Seriously though, while other languages are spoken here, English is the official language of the US - it might change, but it is now.

And as I understood it, Wales was forced to abandon their language [legally anyway] by the Welsh....unless my reading is off, the Tudors were welsh nobles before ruling england - and when they took the throne, they took away Welsh as a language [ not that they succeeded ]

Soggyfox...i did not say there was no language until the British got here...i suggest (nicely)that you read back. I said you had no official language, a point thats been repeated by other members on this thread. Its pretty obvious you had languages before Europe colonised you because you already had native Americans and and many other tribes. I said you had no official language...if you can find where i said you had no other language before the British came...then quote me. Because i can not remember saying that and can not find it reading back. If you find it...i'll hold my hands up and apologise. :)

As for your visit to Cherokee, North Carolina...i bet it was a fantastic trip. I admire the past and present Native Americans for keeping hold of their culture and traditions and lifestyles after 'we' colonist tried so hard to  (wrongfully) change them and even eradicate them. It ccould not have been easy. I hope they continue to hold on to their culture as so many others are being wiped out.

Realmscat, i totally agree with you. Too much is destroyed, and were all too blame in one way or another and at some point in history. That is why we should try to keep hold of what cultures and traditions we can.

Back on topic, that bathroom is very nice, great detailing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 May 14, 16:55:41
Interesting choice of words "pervert the language to their desires". Nothing to do with you Realmscat just picking up on that. I've always found that expression fallacious because of it's derogatory connotation. I know it's not always true but the word perversion generally carries that weight. I think pliability is essential to the vitality of any language. Culture is a dynamic entity and in a constant state of flux. Language as a form of expression needs to adjust itself accordingly or it becomes redundant and useless. It's one thing to respect a language's heritage and uniqueness and to preserve it's integrity. However restricting it's ability to adapt and strangling it with outdated cultural idioms is it's death knell. The greatest strength of the English language and probably the sole reason for it's existence today is that it's a linguistic sponge. It takes whatever it needs at the moment and incorporates it. Always has and always will. That's it's thang, making itself relevant. That's why it's such a great language. You can twist it and turn and shape it and kick it in the balls, but it will always adapt. I love using English for exactly that reason. Any language that's not ready or willing to do that will eventually fade away because it'll no longer be useful or relevant.

Anyway, MOAR FREE STUFZ!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 May 14, 17:06:43
Anyerfillag
No saying i am British therefore i am English does not equate British as English. English is England's native language, we all in Britain have our native languages even if they are no longer our first language.  Scotland, Wales and Ireland are English speaking but its not your native language. To be honest, don't balme the British for beating your native language out off you. You could revive your own language if you wanted to...thats your choice!

Also as a nation i can honestly say that ive never noticed that we spell things differently. Say things differently only because of the tones of our accents, but not spelll. Ive never come across words spelt differently anywhere in the country, only words spelt incorrectly. I'd like a few examples of that how different regions here in the U.K spell words differently. Come on...educate me! ;)

You did it again! British does not equal English! If I were to blame the British I would be blaming my own home country (Scotland) that did no wrong >:( If you're British, you're British. If you're English, you're English. Being British includes every country within Britain; are you half English and half something else?

I will admit I got the spelling part wrong.

The Irish and the Scottish weren't just convinced to give up their language, they could be killed for using it.  It took brave people to make it so those languages didn't die.  The same with many Native American dialects.  Some are completely gone, but others were saved by people willing to risk their lives to keep speaking it, and to teach it to others. 

When you take away someone's language, it's not just the language, it's taking away a part of them.  How would you feel if someone came to you and said, "Nope, you're not allowed to speak English.  If you do, we'll kill you.  Oh and your religion?  WRONG, you can only worship our God, the one true God.  And while we're at it, that Internet you go on?  No more.  We don't believe in the internet. And let's take away any other hobbies you might enjoy, they aren't what we consider to be appropriate hobbies.  And your land?  It's not yours anymore either, it's ours.  You can't have land until you worship our God and become just like us."  How would you feel if they destroyed your culture?  Forbid you from telling any stories of your family and your people?  Forbid you to read books written by writers of your nationality? Forbid you to sing the songs of your people?

THIS! You can have my unborn child for this! I try explaining this to people who have the same response and just don't understand how cruel the English where to the rest of the UK when it came to culture and language, and then Britain were towards the Native Americans.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Realmscat on 2009 May 14, 17:56:48
I can't say as I disagree with you kenmtl. Perversion was the only word at that moment I could come up with to explain basicly what you said.  :D No worries either, I seldom take what others say personally. Unless of course it is directed to me specificly. Like realmscat your a bitch.."LOL" I can't assume their is any malice in what anyone types unless it is clearly stated.

Oddly I found this hair quite cute actually, and there is never enough male hair for me.

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12036.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 14, 18:10:31
Just to clarify what i originally said... I know British does not equal English, that is so obvious! As being English is part of being British, it makes my statement, the use of 'therefore', true. It doesn't stae that British equates English at all and does not mean that English is the only consequence of being British. There are other consequences of being British and they are Irish, Welsh and Scottish. But i did not need to include them in my statement because i was also refering to the English language!

Also that was a genuine mistake that i used British where you've highlighted it, it should say English. I hold my hands up to that one. I apologise.

Also i'm 100% English...well at least that i know of!

Also i admit the English were cruel to the Scottish people, as they were to the Native Americans. I've never condoned our behaviour in any of these. I believe we were wrong through and through and i also agree and understand what Dargstar said, as if you'd read back you'd know. So i'm uncertain to what same response you are refering to. I was talking about your language only and your statement that we beat it out of you is what i replied to. I never disagreed with you.

Darqstar
Also the Gaelic language is not an almost dead language , its still used, though not everday, in certain parts of Scotland. It is in the decline due to the lack of need to use the language. Also Scotland has attempted to reverse the decline of the language with limited successs, but in some schools it is taught. Also the Scottish Government is working to promote the language in the media. So it can be done, and credit where credits due, they are working to maintain the language. I understand doing this is a long slow battle and can seem a losing battle So for an individual, trying to learn it just for themselves it would be time consuming when people have such busy lives so i do not think anyone is lazy for not trying...but for those with the time and want to learn, there are courses and groups that teach the language.


Anyerfillag


You've yet to give me examples of different spellings of words from one region to another in the U.K. I seriousley want to know as i have honestly never come across this before. I work inthe Tourist Industry for the U.K so encounter many people from all over the U.K and have never witnessed this. I even asked a few lovely individuals (from different regions) that i met today during work and they hadn't seen this either! So as your are the one with the knowledge on it, as ive said, educate me! :D



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 May 14, 18:26:11
I said in my post 'I admit I got the spelling part wrong' Ferncapel ::) Also, I am not the fountain of knowledge, I do not know everything and if I ever say I do then I am lying through my teeth.

You said that I can't blame anyone, and could quite easily learn my native language. I have heard that from other people who I have had this same discussion with, so thats why I said that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 14, 18:47:00
Oooh! Apologies...hadn't realised that when you said about the spelling part that you were refering to what you had said about regions!...i though it was about the bit you highlighted in black. Duh! Just realised that was my typo! Sorry...forget about it then! I know youre not the fountain of knowledge! as i was only asking about one topic! None of us are! ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 14, 18:54:54
 *claps and screams wildly* Yay! More short hair for men!!!

 And I am loving the build set, I already have the bathroom and is sitting pretty in a few of my homes.  I went from having over 50 thousand downloads to over 30. I must resist the clicky button!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 May 14, 19:14:46
Im so NOMing that male hair when I finally get rid of dial-up tommorrow. ;D. As for the language debate going on here, living in Massachusetts, I get accused of murdering the English language with my lack of "R's" at least once a day so I'm not too offended. However, like Darqstar, I hate the notion that the America was desolate and empty before the colonies came here. Its ignorant and cold. I'm not accusing anyone here of saying that, I'm just stating an opinion.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cookiepirate on 2009 May 14, 19:27:15
All if this started because of a post with some ...'s?  Who knew that ...'s could have such power!  Bowing to the wondrousness of the mighty ...'s


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 14, 20:31:31
They are amazing aren't they? So full of power..we should start a cult to them and start wprshipping at the mighty altar of the ...'s :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 14, 21:09:24
Just to clarify what i originally said... I know British does not equal English, that is so obvious! As being English is part of being British, it makes my statement, the use of 'therefore', true. It doesn't stae that British equates English at all and does not mean that English is the only consequence of being British.

I don't want to start a thing here, but you did actually say that British equals English even if it was unintentional. Your original statement was:

I'm British, therefore i am English.

The only way to interpret that statement is to mean all British people are English.

This might be a bit clearer with an unrelated example:

"I am human, therefore I am a mammal."
vs.
"I am a mammal, therefore I am human."

The first sentence indicates that all humans are mammals, which is true. The second indicates that all mammals are human, which is definitely not true.

Again, I'm not trying to pick a fight here, and I'm certainly not trying to be the Grammar Ploice, but this is one of those cases where improper usage completely changes your meaning so I thought I'd point it out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 14, 21:44:02
Cheers! Have a bottle of rum on me! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 14, 23:24:04
Darqstar
Also the Gaelic language is not an almost dead language , its still used, though not everday, in certain parts of Scotland. It is in the decline due to the lack of need to use the language. Also Scotland has attempted to reverse the decline of the language with limited successs, but in some schools it is taught. Also the Scottish Government is working to promote the language in the media. So it can be done, and credit where credits due, they are working to maintain the language. I understand doing this is a long slow battle and can seem a losing battle So for an individual, trying to learn it just for themselves it would be time consuming when people have such busy lives so i do not think anyone is lazy for not trying...but for those with the time and want to learn, there are courses and groups that teach the language.

Now it's coming down to nitpicking and it's better off just put aside.  The world "almost" might mean one thing to me, and another to you.  A dead language is pretty easy to define.  Although, I have people who argue to me that you can't even call Latin a "dead" language, because it's still taught. 

By "Almost dead" I mean that it is a language that is almost never, if ever, the only language of a people, or a first language.  It's not, as far as I know.  It's a dual language, it might be taught in schools, but as far as I know, there aren't communities where children learn it as their first language because that's what their parents grew up knowing, so on and so forth.  There might be a deliberate effort to revive it, but by my personal definition, it's an almost dead language.  For a village/town/area to raise their children to speak it as their first language, the parents would have to know it as a second language, and then make a deliberate effort to not speak their first language, but to only speak Gallic so their children would learn it first and only, until taught another. 

And again, I might have misunderstood, but the comment came across like, "if you're not living in a country where everyone speaks their original native dialog, it's YOUR fault and you can't blame anyone else."  And that's just not true.

People like to think that it happened a million years ago, but the last residential school in Canada only closed down in the 1980's. I think 1984 to be exact. My father had sisters taken away never to be seen or heard from again. When I went to high school it was a church school who made us speak french only and made fun of our faith and culture. And even tho I am Canadian, I get told by strangers here in nova scotia to speak English or get out of "their" country. Just on Sunday I was on the bus speaking my native to my young son and I was told by 2 old men that I should go back to my country and that "foreigners" like me take all the jobs. Idiots had no clue.
 I do not hate all white people, I hate the government for covering up history and not educating people. anyways that is enough heavy thinking for me today lol

I understand that this is not ancient history by any means.  When I was born, there were still parts of the country where white people had to have their own bathrooms and water fountains because they couldn't risk using the same toilet that a person who wasn't white might have used.  I think it's actually a credit to how far we've come that the whole concept of being unable to stand the idea of sharing a sink or a bathroom with someone who isn't white, just is something I cannot wrap my head around, nor can most people I know. 

I just think that it doesn't do much good to continually beat ourselves up over it.  At this point, the past cannot be changed, the best that can be done is to go forward and try to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. 

THIS! You can have my unborn child for this! I try explaining this to people who have the same response and just don't understand how cruel the English where to the rest of the UK when it came to culture and language, and then Britain were towards the Native Americans.

No children, unborn or not.  However, were you to offer me a kitten, I'd find it hard to resist.   ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: EmilyTwitch on 2009 May 15, 00:34:21
Re-railing with new plants from PlasticBox on MTS2!

(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q303/egypt_girl333/MTS2_plasticbox_916517_groupshot.jpg)


No watering, no trimming, found under deco, Maxis match... WOW!  ;D
Grab them Here. (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=329370)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 May 15, 00:40:53
Not taking sides here (and also late to the party d/t being without internet last couple of days) but I like ellipses...use them all the time  :P
I think I use them a lot for where I would pause if I were talking instead of typing cause I kinda write like I speak much of the time & I hate starting new sentences for some reason.
I also hate starting sentences with "I" so usually just start a sentence without it. for example. when expressing my opinion (tend to speak that way too).
Part of that, I think, also comes from being a nurse & having to write a lot in a few words. Especially since I am quite "talky" as my niece says  ;D

btw...those are awesome Emily! I have them saved in my favorites at MTS2 & you just reminded me to go & dl  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: obsidian on 2009 May 15, 10:29:29
Ooo those plants look great. ( should stop viewing this thread its causing my downloads folder to get full)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Realmscat on 2009 May 15, 15:15:37
Ban! This thread caused my download folder to explode. Now I have to pick, and choose what goes in. I swear it took a good ten minutes for my game to load before I removed my folder to do my house challange on MATY. "laughs"

I found something interesting while mucking about on the net this morning. For those of you who like this kind of stuff a nice industrial fan at MTS2:
http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=329884

These glasses are nice too, on GOS:
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12078.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 15, 15:49:24
Anyways, back on topic, Shady (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=329899) has another set of the awesome eyes.

I would just like to say:

Damn you, Paden!!!!

292 new eyes in my downloads folder, and it's all your fault! Do you have any idea how long it's going to take to sort through all those?

(But they're so pretty, so I forgive you. ;) )


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 15, 16:21:31
You think you've got it bad? My eye folder alone (which is divided into subfolders by creator) has, get this, nine hundred ninety-nine files in it and still growing when I find more. At the moment, though, I'm on the hunt for the steam punk stuff because of all of you guys! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: KatCat on 2009 May 15, 18:05:56
Paden - have I got the site for you!  ;D

http://steampunksims.wikidot.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 15, 19:09:35
Oooooh, many thanks from me and many catcalls and groans from my download folder! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 May 15, 20:36:41
Those plants are very pretty...

Fallin_Angel...you have 292 eyes! Yoou know i was astonsished at that then i saw that Paden had 999! I did read that right yeah? How do you find what youre looking for? It must take hours just to choose the eyes you want for a Sim!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Emma on 2009 May 15, 20:58:41
Sorry Paden, but these eyes look really pretty! (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=330144) I hope someone makes defaults for them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: KatCat on 2009 May 15, 21:56:51
You are very welcome, Paden.  My deepest apologies to your downloads folder! LOL  I did mean to ask - are there that many different shades of eyes?  I mean, you'll never use them all, will you?  :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 15, 22:17:19
The problem with eyes is that they come in a set. You can't have one color without the whole set! Or, at least, I can't.
Also, PLANTS! Genius! Absolute genius!

You know, Club Crimsyn (http://www.clubcrimsyn.com/) updated recently, too... ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 May 16, 00:03:33
I recently weeded a bunch of eyes out of my downloads & managed to get it down to 50 eyes + my defaults (bruno's Olivia eyes). I love bruno's eyes & my other favorites have to be Shady, Anva & Tabatha. ShojoAngel has some nice ones too. It all depends on the look I want my sim to have.

SapphireSims2 has a pirate theme going on right now with some nice stuff. Ya gotta register to dl I think but it is all free (of course!) These 3 are my favorite so far:
http://www.sapphiresims2.com/showthread.php?t=37051
http://www.sapphiresims2.com/showthread.php?t=37055
http://www.sapphiresims2.com/showthread.php?t=37048


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 16, 02:49:30
Oh, you tempt me so! I've had a great time shopping around for stuff and had a royal blast. I'm going to check out Sapphire tomorrow, trust me! ;D And Emma, I so snagged those eyes, they are pretty!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 16, 03:24:24
Fallin_Angel...you have 292 eyes! Yoou know i was astonsished at that then i saw that Paden had 999! I did read that right yeah? How do you find what youre looking for? It must take hours just to choose the eyes you want for a Sim!

313 actually (plus defaults) - 292 that I just downloaded today. And that's exactly the problem. I can't find the ones I want with that many eyes, which is why I now need to go in and whittle down the list. Otherwise I keep using the same few over and over again, even if they're not my favourites, because 300+ eyes is a lot to scroll through.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 May 16, 08:55:26
You think you've got it bad? My eye folder alone (which is divided into subfolders by creator) has, get this, nine hundred ninety-nine files in it and still growing when I find more. At the moment, though, I'm on the hunt for the steam punk stuff because of all of you guys! :D

I can beat you with my eye folder, Paden, 1114, not counting the ones I downloaded today, that haven't been added yet. Sadly, this is after a big clean up. *sigh* I am a hopeless download-a-holic.

Also, pretty clutter at BPS by Billyjean: http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=26718


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 May 16, 10:10:29
I don't download houses, but I think these are gorgeous:

(http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo9/gneas/BLAAAAAAAAAAA-1.jpg)

http://sun-it-rises.livejournal.com/4462.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ScooterBabe on 2009 May 16, 19:21:51
*sigh* My poor downloads folder is groaning thanks to this thread.  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 May 16, 21:50:52
Those are nice houses, eh?

The best eyes ever - Shady's Sparkling Eyes - gained 10 new recolors and a new sclera. (http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=330300)

Sorry Paden.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 16, 22:07:18
I respectfully disagree. The best eyes ever are Phobia's Sahrha's Eyes (http://kinemortophobia.livejournal.com/tag/dl+-+eyes)!
I also really like enenen's Haribo eyes (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10363.0). I downloaded the geneticized version (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10458.0) and the best thing ever happened: I got a restaurant hostess with jet black hair, bright orange eyes, and the name of Patience Winchester. Favorite townie evar.
But I've looked at mine eye folder - it's only 343. I really like every single set that I have, so no changey changey planned on my part.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 May 16, 23:07:37
I downloaded the geneticized version (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10458.0) and the best thing ever happened: I got a restaurant hostess with jet black hair, bright orange eyes, and the name of Patience Winchester. Favorite townie evar.

You. Are. Kidding. Me.

Quick question: if you download default eyes, the geneticized ones won't work in pre-created Sims?

ETA: The 2nd best ones, for me, are Pooklet's Yumedust's "Eye Love" on Anva's sclera (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=5104.0). Teh colors are so awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 May 16, 23:40:53

Quick question: if you download default eyes, the geneticized ones won't work in pre-created Sims?

ETA: The 2nd best ones, for me, are Pooklet's Yumedust's "Eye Love" on Anva's sclera (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=5104.0). Teh colors are so awesome.

Sorry, I don't know the answer to the question. But now that you bring up Anva, for me, my ultimate favorite. There are many other eyesets that I'll have great fondness for, but I reserve my obsessive love for hers alone. She's the best at making brown eyes that look like brown eyes you'd see in real life.

Anva's "fickle eyes" is my favorite set.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/veggiedeggie/ooooeyes6.png)
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=4776.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 16, 23:50:52
Damn you all...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 May 16, 23:54:06
Those eyes are the best. Another ones that are great, me thinks, is Shady's Wild Eyes (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=308219). Goldie oldie.

Ok, i admit. I'm a Shady obsessed. I can't help it.

ETA: Mouseyblue's Blackjack or Fruit Salad Eyeset (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=10596.0). I freakin' love that set.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 17, 00:03:26
Random question, since we're talking about eyes. I understand default replacements - that's easy. But what is meant by 'geneticized' and 'townified'? I've tried figuring it out, but I just get more confused.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 17, 00:13:45
Basically, it means that they have been hacked so that they will appear on townies and don't use the custom-eye superdominance rules. However, like with all "custom genetics", once you put them in your game, they are stuck there FOREVER and you can never remove them without screwing up every sim using them. They are a bad thing: Stick with default overrides.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ScooterBabe on 2009 May 17, 00:17:46
Kinda wondered about geneticized eyes myself.

I'm trying to be a good Pirate & not overload my downloads folder, but there's too many pretties posted. *tries to pull hand away from mouse*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 May 17, 00:41:23
Well, that sounds like a giant pain in the ass, especially given how often I purge my downloads. I'll definitely just stick to the default replacements which I can change without repercussions if I get bored with them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 May 17, 02:19:08
I'm having a ball downloading today, you guys have really shown me some cool stuff. And in thanks, let me mention that Sailfin has updated with a cool desk and office chair, and on the same site, Beth has some car recolours as well as some recolours of the Caress of Teak bed. You can find them here (https://www.sailfinsims.com/forum/forums.php). You'll have to register to download, but it's free so it's all good. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Axeleefe on 2009 May 17, 02:51:26
No eyes that I've ever found have ever match Nouk's Sharp Eyes. (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=243858)
They look great in game, and any other eyes I've found look very... eh... animé...
I challenge someone to find more realistic eyes.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 May 17, 05:37:48
All4Sims.de IS a free site, right? Here's hoping it is:
I've been looking for a climbing, flowering vine for a while. I've found plenty BUT none of them look good from the back- the flowers only show on one side and I needed something that looks good front and back. I hope this hasn't been posted already... I found what I was looking for:

(http://i39.tinypic.com/zn0fol.jpg)

Honestly, I think the back view looks better.  ;D It's really pretty in-game and comes in four sizes..or is it 5?

If you likey: http://www.all4sims.de/board/filebase.php?fileid=4775&lim=0 (http://www.all4sims.de/board/filebase.php?fileid=4775&lim=0)
Recolors here: http://www.all4sims.de/board/filebase.php?fileid=4810&lim=255 (http://www.all4sims.de/board/filebase.php?fileid=4810&lim=255)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 17, 05:45:32
Quick question: if you download default eyes, the geneticized ones won't work in pre-created Sims?

Not quite sure what you mean, so I'll answer as best I can. Defaults work on every Sim, existing and yet to come, as they simply take the place (well, override) the Maxis eyes. Townified eyes have the ability to end up on any townie spawned after you put the eyes in your game. Geneticized eyes are what Pescado says above ^^  and creators will give them dominant or recessive traits, so that they act like human eyes (greens recessive, browns dominant, etc...). I'm certainly nowhere near as cranky as Pescado, but I wouldn't recommend geneticized eyes to someone who is constantly changing out their content, or just downloading them to see what they look like in-game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: strix on 2009 May 17, 07:45:41
I totally agree about Nouk's sharp eyes. They are gorgeous, and I've been using them as default replacements since they were released as such. Just love them.

Curse you all, my downloads folder is about to explode.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 May 17, 08:10:47
My downloads folder has not exploded however with most of my downloads being clothing I have begun the awesome and terrible task of organizing my clothing downloads. I finished my Aikea/Gelydh sub folder tonight and next I am moving on to dustfinger. It will take me about a month to finish it since i have tons of meshes and re-colors.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kaitlyn on 2009 May 17, 15:37:55
Thank you for pointing out those flowering climbing vines, mustluvcatz.  I, too, love flowering vines and am always on the lookout for good ones.  Those meshes have been in my game for a while now, so it's neat to discover flowering recolors of them.  Their use shall be severely abused on all my overgrown, back country cottage lots.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 May 17, 17:03:17
Kinda wondered about geneticized eyes myself.
Also evil. Non-default skins, eyes, and unbinned hair are all Evil.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 17, 17:10:50
Also evil. Non-default skins, eyes, and unbinned hair are all Evil.

Unbinned hair can be easily fixed with Wardrobe Wrangler.   But non default genetics I usually stay far away from.  I just have replacement eyes and skins. 

I have to agree with some of the whining on SimSecrets though, there really isn't any truly well done dark skin.  I understand that it could be a graphics issue, but to me, the darkest skins aren't really all that dark. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Jojoba on 2009 May 17, 18:50:00
I have to agree with some of the whining on SimSecrets though, there really isn't any truly well done dark skin.  I understand that it could be a graphics issue, but to me, the darkest skins aren't really all that dark. 

Oh I agree with that. The one I am most fond of as a darker skin is Enayla's Pixie Ebony (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,88287.0.html), which may not be to your taste but thought you may like the link


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 May 17, 19:00:47
 those are my favorite dark skins ( I also like rensim..but there is that whole pay or not pay debate about her but she makes the only skin tone that s anything like my own).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 May 18, 04:46:49
I recently downloaded some very pretty dark skins (the caramel & chocolate are esp nice) by PeachT (?) that appear to be an enayla-rensim-ephemera blend. The only problem is that my dumb ass forgot to label with the site or blog where I found them (possibly GOS or a link from SimsCave).

fake edit: found them!! Ya gotta love google  http://yreenah.livejournal.com/7080.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sea_fox on 2009 May 18, 17:35:23
Thanks for the link,Pinkyfriend! The skin is perfect. I'm not crazy about skin,but that set is really something.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 18, 22:58:51
Oh I agree with that. The one I am most fond of as a darker skin is Enayla's Pixie Ebony (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,88287.0.html), which may not be to your taste but thought you may like the link

Oh wow, I love the ebony one.  Do you know if anyone has done a default of the skins?  Because that's all I'll do with skins is have defaults. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 May 19, 00:56:41
Sausage at MTS2 has done defaults of the Enayla Pixie Skintones including ebony, here- http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=297409  for S3 and S4 tones, and here- http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=297400 for S1 and S2. Engram has done a set of defaults with the Pixie Skintones here- http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,88557.0.html but it does not contain Pixie Ebony as the S4 default. I have not used Engrams defaults but Sausages defaults look great in game- she/he has also done the Enayla's Pixie Supernaturals as Plantsim, Vampire, Alien and Evil Witch Defaults, and Engram has used the Pixie Bruise as a genie default


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 19, 01:23:52
I actually have one of her default skin sets in my game. But boy, I'd love that ebony as my default darkest skin.  It's one of the first really rich, more true looking dark skins.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Tryclyn on 2009 May 19, 08:39:46

 I have collected the default versions of Enayla's skintones as I have found them.  I don't remember where each of them are from to give you a link so   http://www.4shared.com/file/106341324/5cfb2aa0/default_S4_PixieEbony.html    Enjoy.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 19, 18:45:42

 I have collected the default versions of Enayla's skintones as I have found them.  I don't remember where each of them are from to give you a link so   http://www.4shared.com/file/106341324/5cfb2aa0/default_S4_PixieEbony.html    Enjoy.

Wow, thank you!  I do appreciate it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Tryclyn on 2009 May 19, 22:48:16
Very welcome.  I like being able to mix-n-match and defaults don't mess up my sim genetics when I change them out


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 20, 23:21:44
UNDIES, AHOY! (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12168.0)

I'm not even joking, those made my day. My UberMegaHood has precious little for Maxis-like undies. And what with the drawstrings and all, I think I'll make some into swimsuits. YAY!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 May 21, 00:30:47
UNDIES, AHOY! (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12168.0)

I'm not even joking, those made my day. My UberMegaHood has precious little for Maxis-like undies. And what with the drawstrings and all, I think I'll make some into swimsuits. YAY!

Those are cute!  And yeah, they'd make awesome swimsuits too. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alastair on 2009 May 21, 20:01:52
Wow!
After 2 days of slowly ploding through this topic, I have downloaded most things :D
My downloads folder was 500mb and now it's 800mb :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 May 21, 22:19:55
MogHughson has come out with another Jawdroppingly Sweet Mod - Decorative Parking Spaces (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=330492)! I think I'm in love. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 May 21, 23:57:33
Oh, I wish I had Nightlife :-[ Those are AMAZING.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: asiahardon on 2009 May 22, 02:46:51
yes. im using them already. i love this thread


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 May 22, 02:55:23
Aaaagh!  IE 8 dumped all my cookies and MTS2 won't take what I thought was my password.  Now I have to wait to DL it. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Alastair on 2009 May 22, 19:34:13
MogHughson has come out with another Jawdroppingly Sweet Mod - Decorative Parking Spaces (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=330492)! I think I'm in love. ;D
They're handy!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 May 31, 10:17:04
I don't think this has been posted yet. Mummysim at Black Pearl Sims has updated her Laura bedroom set (http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=25915). It is absolutely beautiful.
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/Lauraextrasscreenpeach.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 May 31, 15:05:24
That is really stunning. I've been fighting downloading it as my beds/bedding folder is bulging badly, but I may have to just give in  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lilwen on 2009 May 31, 15:44:35
I just love the colours of that bedroom, What a beautiful set.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 May 31, 17:41:36
There are to many to show in pics- my Photobucket would crash- But, Bruno has a new set out of about 100 Eye Shadows- here -http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=342448. i have recently played them in game and they are gorgeous.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 May 31, 23:31:32
There are to many to show in pics- my Photobucket would crash- But, Bruno has a new set out of about 100 Eye Shadows- here -http://nene.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=342448. i have recently played them in game and they are gorgeous.

The link was fudged, so I fix it here (http://linna.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=342448). ;D
Bruno's stuff is always fabulous. I especially love the leopard print eyeshadow. Leopard print is my favorite color. *squeeeee*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 June 01, 03:50:36
beth, when I look at your avatar & 'see' you squeeee it makes me giggle  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 June 01, 03:52:10
What do you call that thingie at the foot of the bed?  Can sims sit on it?  The color palette is quite soothing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 01, 06:24:48
Yes, I be Patchy, and I be squeeeein' often whenever I come here, I do.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: badcyn on 2009 June 02, 21:04:55
As for recolors of Maxis stuff, I loved the grungified Socialite set at MTS  http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=341924


I love the new Maxis Match arches http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=342709

And the recolorable stairs http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=327976 and matching gates http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=330277


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: soulpatrolmn on 2009 June 03, 02:30:29
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=342880

buggybooz has a new kitchen set


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: emethyst on 2009 June 03, 05:00:21
I know what new set will be monopolising all the kitchens in my houses. I was getting tired of seeing buggybooz's Kitchen Basic everywhere in Simland. Anyone has a altar dedicated to her stashed away somewhere?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 03, 05:15:01
Buggybooz new kitchen! Want it! Need it! Got it!  *squeeee*   ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 June 03, 08:33:40
I know what new set will be monopolising all the kitchens in my houses. I was getting tired of seeing buggybooz's Kitchen Basic everywhere in Simland. Anyone has a altar dedicated to her stashed away somewhere?

Yes. Would you like to come join the Buggybooz cult?  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 03, 13:57:22
Many have already joined actually I am thinking of uniting the cults of Adele, Buggybooz, Maylin, Bleke-Boy, HugeLunatic, Nouk, and Bruno so we can has more members, and better parties. Passes Rum


The kitchens looks so good in game- I like that her stuff is simple and designed for smaller kitchens, and less expensive kitchens- so many other creators design kitchens like they are designing for Malcolm Landgraab IV which is great if you are playing him in game, but not if you are playing Gen 1 Founder in an 8x5 starter home.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 03, 14:40:53
Those kitchens that BB makes look wonderful in any size house, be it the grandest of the grand or the smallest of the small. I'll let you in on a small secret: I squeed myself when I saw them and yes, they're in my download folder now! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 June 03, 14:46:34
(http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1379.0;attach=1953;image)

amythestfenix made these gorgeous IKEA LACK recolors (after my not so subtle hint).  It works for the basic kitchen and the new shakerlicious.  She will have them up on her site shortly.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 June 03, 16:52:39
Oooooh.  Been wanting non-subtle colors for the basic set since day 1.  Waiting eagerly for link for those recolors.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 June 03, 16:54:47
Those kitchens that BB makes look wonderful in any size house, be it the grandest of the grand or the smallest of the small. I'll let you in on a small secret: I squeed myself when I saw them and yes, they're in my download folder now! :D

Paden, you squeed yesterday! You know it, I know it, Pooki knows it.. should I go on?

P.S. I was squeeing before you...and after checking that set out this morning in-game, I'm still squeeing!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 June 03, 17:14:14
Many have already joined actually I am thinking of uniting the cults of Adele, Buggybooz, Maylin, Blake-Boy, HugeLunatic, Nouk, and Bruno so we can has more members, and better parties. Passes Rum.

Sorry, no alcohol for me. Liver condition. I'll join you in the united cult though, as long as we can have smoothies too.  :D

The Ikea recolours do look like a must have!

But Scurvy Cat, there are quite a lot of brightly coloured recolours around for the Basic Kitchen. Not as neon-y though.

Edit: Have any of you seen this Dining set at Simsdivine my msfs yet? http://www.simsdivine.com/home2/index.php?topic=5369.0 It seems like it's his first set, and it's quite amazing. I can't wait to see what he makes next.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 03, 19:40:20
Organizes rounds of non-alcoholic pina coladas, strawberry daquiris and mimosas at the grainy weathered looking pirate bar for eefje


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 June 04, 00:04:46
I'll join that cult dstar!  ;) bb has also promised more in the future...the best thing has got to be that it uses the recolors from the basic kitchen.
And yeah, I squeeeed too when I saw it & again when I saw it in game. I loves it!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: badcyn on 2009 June 04, 00:51:15
amythestfenix made these gorgeous IKEA LACK recolors (after my not so subtle hint).  It works for the basic kitchen and the new shakerlicious.  She will have them up on her site shortly.

Amythestfenix is must have!  She creates some beautiful recolors!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 June 04, 07:09:40
Many have already joined actually I am thinking of uniting the cults of Adele, Buggybooz, Maylin, Blake-Boy, HugeLunatic, Nouk, and Bruno so we can has more members, and better parties. Passes Rum.


But Scurvy Cat, there are quite a lot of brightly coloured recolours around for the Basic Kitchen. Not as neon-y though.


Where?  I can only find 1 set of recolors on MTS2....  Must have!  Life incomplete! 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 June 04, 07:38:24
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=27498&highlight=basic
http://kaskurgi-chan.blogspot.com/
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=21467&highlight=basic
http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=6429.0
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=27464&highlight=buggybooz
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=24536&highlight=buggybooz
not specifically colourful, but with Blake_boy's tivoli textures: http://sims2.mystic-rain.de/
http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=6519
not specifically colourful either, but very high quality countertop recolours: http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/?p=160
http://www.piggis-sims.net/ in Downloads/objects from other sites/room sets/kitchen
http://www.dlmulsowssim-antics.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5883&hilit=Sienna&sid=1503f0bee1e4c7d7e44957ff296df1d3
http://zenkawistram.org/sim2.html
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=27673

And there's two sets at tsr, which I won't link to, since I have no desire to be eaten alive.  ;D

Enjoy!

Edit: I forgot Nengi's!
http://simscrossing.net/index.php?topic=725.0
http://simscrossing.net/index.php?topic=724.0
http://simscrossing.net/index.php?topic=723.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Eskimo Pie on 2009 June 04, 13:51:05
 wow, thanks for all the links! that is by far my fav kitchen too, and her new one will be another favorite.

 I have to say that is the only thing I am enjoying about the sims3, is that you can recolour everything the way you want very easily.. besides that I am sticking to the sims 2 .


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 June 04, 15:43:27
Kool.  Those should keep my hard drive spasming for days.

And somebody at TSR had the balls to do a recolor of something of buggyboos?  Jeeze.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 June 04, 16:00:56
I do wish Froilan would move his/her recolors to another site.  Visiting TSR is so horrid.  But they are really nice recolors.  *sigh*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 June 04, 16:36:56
Kool.  Those should keep my hard drive spasming for days.

Yeah, good thing the set is repository, so at least all the recolours don't take up that much space.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: BobbinRobbin on 2009 June 05, 06:37:38
I found these at Paegin Sims......

http://www.paeginsims.freeforums.org/index.php


A three-tiled maxis match desk!! It's perfect!!!   ;D

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn254/MaraMara_01/Frogger_PS_MaxisMatch_CounterProduc.jpg)


Here is a great new bedroom mesh also by Frogger:

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn254/MaraMara_01/Frogger_CubedBedroom_Meshes-1.jpg)


And, this isn't a mesh, but it IS a really nice recolor of the above bedroom by Riverwillows....

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn254/MaraMara_01/RWSailorKidsBedroom.jpg)


I just thought these were really pretty.    ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 05, 07:27:49
Huge Lunatic: Which site, now? I'm salivating over teh pretties, but amythestfenix seems to post in a few places, so I'm just wondering which place I should be obsessively stalking checking hourly looking for.

eefje: ZOMG, thank you. Only had two of those sets of recolors and - Gah! I can't believe the sheer amount of awesomeness my game has been missing all this time!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 June 05, 14:02:12
She has a temp link in a thread at S2A (http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=1379.msg32111#msg32111), but she will be posting them at The Laden Swallow (http://www.nectere.net/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=39a69fc6f9403656660f89cc39b49344&) once she gets a set of Maxis Match woods (YAY!)

I say temp cause I don't know if that will be the exact link once she posts at TLS.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 05, 18:16:09
Thank You!  :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: gayle_afcb on 2009 June 06, 14:20:01
Well you would find it there River it's your site  ::)

This thread is for finds of other people's items not advertising your own under one of your varios user names >:(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lilfroglet on 2009 June 06, 17:26:10
 :D I knew Snarky could teach me something!!! Nice Maxis Matches! I really like that the headboard pulls its texture from the bedding! That's really nice!

I ran across something that brought back memories of the Sims 1 Days! Fresh Prince converted the makin magic nectar bar to sims 2!

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p277/frogger1617/snapshot_cdae71fd_372dd540.jpg)
(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p277/frogger1617/snapshot_f43a9adb_b72f04e1.jpg)

http://www.freshprincecreations.com/table/mm23.htm


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 06, 18:32:50
MogHughson is a fucking genius. GENIUS! (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=342517)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lilfroglet on 2009 June 06, 19:11:33
 ;D That is awesome dusdeedawn! Thank you so much for pointing that out!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 06, 19:27:33
I love the necter bar. Tons of my houses on Sims 1 had it.

Oh that makes the leftover so much better. And it seems EA knew they really messed up with season because that is sorta how leftovers work on Sims 3. You put away the group meal, and when you have your sims get leftovers, they only pull out a one serving plate rather than the entire platter.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 June 08, 13:32:21
Cassandre has a new set at BPS. It's very detailed, and the wood textures look great. Most importantly, there's a huge amount of bathroom clutter!
http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=27879


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 June 08, 13:37:40
Leftovers als go bad eventually in sims 3 - which means there is a reason to keep cooking.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 June 08, 18:26:31
Many have already joined actually I am thinking of uniting the cults of Adele, Buggybooz, Maylin, Bleke-Boy, HugeLunatic, Nouk, and Bruno so we can has more members, and better parties. Passes Rum


The kitchens looks so good in game- I like that her stuff is simple and designed for smaller kitchens, and less expensive kitchens- so many other creators design kitchens like they are designing for Malcolm Landgraab IV which is great if you are playing him in game, but not if you are playing Gen 1 Founder in an 8x5 starter home.

Seconded. May I also suggest some additions to the pantheon?
Macarossi, Anva, Fresh Prince, phoenix_phaerie  and Nixy?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: emethyst on 2009 June 09, 11:57:13
Just wondering; what sort of qualifications must you have to become worthy of a cult?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 09, 15:29:58
Just wondering; what sort of qualifications must you have to become worthy of a cult?


Beautiful, gorgeous, gorgeous, lovely FREESITE CC that everyone sees here or in the Om Nom Nom thread and goes ahhh, oohhh  - begins to drool and immediately races to the site to download the stuff- like that of Macarossi, Bruno, Anva, Adele, Augustin, Fresh Prince, Phoenix Phaerie, Guatla etc


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 June 09, 16:13:26
Don't forget the cult of Kate (k8) at Parsimonious....


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 June 09, 18:49:11
Just wondering; what sort of qualifications must you have to become worthy of a cult?

A bunch of crazy people who like the things you make for a game and therefore want to worship you because you are capable of modding and have a bit of artistic talent, apparently.

Have I mentioned lately how much I despise the whole "zomg I LOOOVVVEEE YOU" crap in the Sims community?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 09, 18:49:53
I keep checking Parsims every day to see if she has any actual patterns for TS3 up yet- I love Lethes Aikea Guineas, and HystericalParoxsysms patterns but Kate always has such wonderful textures and great use of color that I can't wait to see what she does with TS3.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 09, 21:45:36
Leftovers als go bad eventually in sims 3 - which means there is a reason to keep cooking.

I like this feature because on The Sims 2 I had a family that the 4th generation was still eating food the first generation made.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 June 10, 01:33:58
In one neighborhood I was on the 4th generation of a family, before I got bored with them.  They were still getting twins from the cheesecakes left over from the first generation's bakery.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 June 10, 18:11:36


Have I mentioned lately how much I despise the whole "zomg I LOOOVVVEEE YOU" crap in the Sims community?

ZOMG! *Squeal* I LURVE U 4 SAYING THIS!!!1111!!!!

*don't hit me*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 June 10, 18:34:52
Have I mentioned lately how much I despise the whole "zomg I LOOOVVVEEE YOU" crap in the Sims community?

ZOMG! *Squeal* I LURVE U 4 SAYING THIS!!!1111!!!!

*don't hit me*

Did you light the grail-shaped beacon again?

(Sorry, in a really geeky mood.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 June 10, 18:44:20
Have I mentioned lately how much I despise the whole "zomg I LOOOVVVEEE YOU" crap in the Sims community?

ZOMG! *Squeal* I LURVE U 4 SAYING THIS!!!1111!!!!

*don't hit me*

Did you light the grail-shaped beacon again?

(Sorry, in a really geeky mood.)

And here in Castle Anthrax, we have but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped beacon.  You must tie her down on a bed and spank her!




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: TapThatBooty on 2009 June 10, 21:26:26
Oo-er. ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 June 10, 22:49:25
Have I mentioned lately how much I despise the whole "zomg I LOOOVVVEEE YOU" crap in the Sims community?

ZOMG! *Squeal* I LURVE U 4 SAYING THIS!!!1111!!!!

*don't hit me*

Did you light the grail-shaped beacon again?

(Sorry, in a really geeky mood.)

And here in Castle Anthrax, we have but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped beacon.  You must tie her down on a bed and spank her!




And now the oral sex!  ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 June 11, 02:13:02
I'll pretend I didn't see the above, and feast my eyes on the below instead:

Stained Glass Dressing Mirror by Joyfulgirl @ Simvention
(http://i40.tinypic.com/33mwuf7.jpg)

Dunno if this has ever been posted, sorry if it has. I just ran across this yesterday. The pic dosen't do it justice- in game, it's beautiful. The lamps in the pic are there too, along with recolors. They're just as beautiful.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: KatCat on 2009 June 11, 02:39:21
Stained Glass Dressing Mirror by Joyfulgirl @ Simvention

<SNIP>

Dunno if this has ever been posted, sorry if it has. I just ran across this yesterday. The pic dosen't do it justice- in game, it's beautiful. The lamps in the pic are there too, along with recolors. They're just as beautiful.

She has a whole matching set that is gorgeous!  Wall mirror, wall lamp, table lamp, floor lamp, and end table.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: emethyst on 2009 June 11, 03:31:32
buggybooz has new recolours for her new set! *insert obligatory fangirl shriek* So that can be added to the list of Kitchen Basic recolours already available.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=344367 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=344367)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 June 11, 03:53:07
She has a whole matching set that is gorgeous!  Wall mirror, wall lamp, table lamp, floor lamp, and end table.  ;D

 :o   That's right, she does...and I forgot to mention all that!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sigmund on 2009 June 12, 00:48:40
I don't think anybody else posted this yet...

Coolsims.net has a new hair. Very cute.

(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/snarkysnowlfake/1_big.png)

Link (http://coolsims.net/).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: River on 2009 June 12, 01:18:03
oh, that IS nice!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 12, 02:11:57
That hair is causing me to salivate. -le sigh- Unfortunately, I'm not sure that my poor game can handle it at the moment.
Referring to that hair, Nymphy had this to say over at GoS:
Quote
Warning on the Coolsims hair, its very high poly. 15531 faces and 9571 vertices. Its a pretty hair but thats too high for me
:'( :'( :'(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 June 12, 17:24:01
Not that high poly bothers my new shiny computer in the slightest *huggles computer*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 June 13, 13:37:58
Buggybooz has updated her Shakerlicious kitchen with a high chair, trashcompactor, butler sink, buffet table and some casseroles. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=342880
Just thought I'd let you guys know in case you don't obsessively check that thread, like I do.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 June 13, 13:58:56
amythestfenix (http://www.nectere.net/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=39a69fc6f9403656660f89cc39b49344&topic=1756.0) updated her LACK recolors to include MOAR goodies!  She now has the bowls/plates stuff recolors as well.  


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 13, 16:51:46
*toodles off to get the goodies*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 13, 19:44:00
I. LOVE. BUGGYBOOZ. Love 'er! What a fantastic creator!
So, while tootling around the community yesterday, I came across some great stuff:
Pooklet recolored some (of my personal fav) eyeshadows (http://pooklet.dreamwidth.org/1494.html)
She also made some REALLY CUTEASS skins! (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12555.0)
lmhwjs has some beautiful potted plants (http://lmhwjs.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/happy-mothers-day/)
Aelia made cute little girl outfits - with polka dot boots! (http://aeliaa.livejournal.com/10222.html)
CatOfEvilGenius gives Grandpa some untuckables (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=345904)
I rather like these tops from slkn (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=345270)
psychosim has a hack for postnuclear TV channels (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12558.0) <-- Not really my cup of tea, but this is really amazing!
And last, neato necklaces from Sunshine Faire (http://sunshinefaire.wickedsims.com/index.php)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: BoilerFox on 2009 June 14, 07:55:40
Awesims has switched to all Sims3, but her new patterns are beautiful!

(http://i42.tinypic.com/avo7bt.jpg)
(http://i40.tinypic.com/241s12f.jpg)
(http://i42.tinypic.com/27ya842.jpg)

I love them... maybe some of you all will too.

http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lilwen on 2009 June 14, 14:57:34
Beautiful house, looks and works great in game too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 14, 15:38:04
Aikea Guinea posted a new set of patterns at GoS: quilt, denim and linen! Nom nom the shinies here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12668.0
(http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2710/previewusj.jpg) (http://img193.imageshack.us/i/previewusj.jpg/)
She also posted an update for her camera tweak (first uploaded at GoS) http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=345987


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 14, 20:59:08
For those of us still hooked on TS2 - check out what Nymphy made! Pretty corsets! (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12682.0)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Saraswati on 2009 June 15, 11:34:02
Drool!@Aikea Guinea's pattern..


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 18, 14:14:24
by agustin at MTS
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/MTS2_agustin_913160_colors.jpg)
nom nom nom!!! (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=328510)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sailfindragon on 2009 June 18, 14:25:15
These hairs are gorgeous. The Sim models look great as well.

Thanks. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rome_raven on 2009 June 18, 18:35:49
If anyone is looking for default replacements for TS3 eyes, Aikea uploaded one at MTS:  http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=348047


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Solvig on 2009 June 20, 03:01:17
http://www.tarox4sims2.de/verschie.html

This is all full of awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: EmilyTwitch on 2009 June 20, 03:56:17
Heh, I like their little NO PAY emblem. It's cute.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SamanthaS on 2009 June 20, 16:03:51
http://www.tarox4sims2.de/verschie.html

This is all full of awesome.

I love the covered swings about 2/3 down the page. Tarox is pretty well known around the community but that was a nice first post anyway, Solvig.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: marikocha on 2009 June 21, 10:03:29
I don't know whether or not Insim is still OK, considering their aggressive donation policy, but I didn't see anything that said *WARNING* Insim = BURNINATION! so here goes:

(http://i43.tinypic.com/2hgx16t.jpg)

(http://i39.tinypic.com/4tmyae.jpg)

http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,54557.0.html

Sgoobysnacks awesome (but high poly) Roman/Greek statues. Absolutely beautiful in game and part of a series of ancient world deco items.

(http://i40.tinypic.com/6s5guw.jpg)

(http://i44.tinypic.com/2z5ov8l.jpg)

http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,71178.msg1100857.html#msg1100857

Leeloo from "The Fifth Element" by trash_ Probably the best creator of look-alike sims that I've ever seen. S/he also makes the skins available for all ages and genders, which is extremely useful if you want realistic sims once in a while.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SnarkyShark on 2009 June 21, 10:39:06
http://www.tarox4sims2.de/verschie.html
This is all full of awesome.

I haven't seen her around lately, but Tarox's Roxelane is also member here, Solvig. You have very good taste. Tarox is a fantastic free site.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 June 21, 15:37:23
I don't know whether or not Insim is still OK, considering their aggressive donation policy, but I didn't see anything that said *WARNING* Insim = BURNINATION! so here goes:

Aggressive donation policy? Do you mean the donate link on the front page, or has InSim changed to pay-for-content/access and I've been too out of the loop to notice? *waits for Paden to come by and clear things up*

At any rate, asking for/accepting donations to cover server costs is fine, as long as CC isn't being held hostage until you pay for it. (Having exclusive CC as donater 'gifts' or 'thank-you's' is just a sneaky way of selling something no one but EA has the right to sell.)

Those statues are lovely! I think I may have to throw them into an art gallery or something, since none of my Sims are wealthy enough to have something like that in their actual houses. And that Leeloo also looks amazing. I haven't seen the Sim in-game, but from the preview pics it looks like the creator actually paid attention to Mila's bone structure and facial proportions rather than just slapping a photoskin on any old face template.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 21, 16:18:43
I don't know whether or not Insim is still OK, considering their aggressive donation policy, but I didn't see anything that said *WARNING* Insim = BURNINATION! so here goes:


InSIM never has and never will charge for content and I don't know where in the hell you get this thing about "aggressive donation policy", but you're totally full of shit. Here's the little text, lifted right from the front page, in case you bloody well missed it: "If you can spare a little to help towards server costs it would be most appreciated. Funds will NEVER be used for personal gain and will sit in cyber-space until needed for the server bills or upgrades." THAT nice little paragraph is followed by a single, get this, SINGLE, button marked, "Donate".

Scroll down a little more and you'll find a list of affiliates and other great sites, ALL of them FREE sites, and then a nice handy donation meter by which you can keep track of just how much has been given in donations, IF you feel like chucking some spare change or the cost of that Big Mac you're currently stuffing your face with. We have members that do just that and we're as grateful for them as the ones that sling more our way when they can. If we can't meet the cost, Ali picks up the slack out of her own damn pocket.

We didn't get away from some dumb motherfucker that wanted to use that community as a cash cow to line his pocket with just to have little twits like you start to fling around the garbage when you obviously know not a damn thing of which you speak. I hope that straightens out your confusion about the donation policy over there and if it doesn't, ask. There's a lot more going on content-wise than you posted, too.

Oh, as an added note, we do recognize those that do donate to help out with the server costs. I know a custom title isn't really much, but those that do get called "Site Santas" and heart-felt thanks. There are three admins and El Presidente, who would burn the place if we ever thought of going pay. Pay site and Pescado working hand in hand? Are you fucking crazy?! Again, I am going to state it for the record and you'd better remember it well: InSIM never has, and never will be, a pay site. We will never charge the user for the content that they can download from our site. How can I say this so strongly? Easy, I'm one of the three admins.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ali on 2009 June 21, 17:48:32
maybe it was the picture of me in full riot gear wielding a baseball bat above the donation button?!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 21, 18:08:55
How in the world did I miss that one, Ali? Did you have that taken on your latest holiday?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: marikocha on 2009 June 21, 18:14:10
Sorry, Paden, I obviously didn't do enough research before posting. I saw the thread about that dude Walt buying the site and people on other threads complaining about BBB taking over the site, but had not actually gone over to Insim and checked any announcements. Totally my bad. I went through this entire thread to make sure that I wasn't double posting and was therefore lazy. Not an excuse, I know.

Not that it really matters, but I'm a vegetarian, so no Big Macs for me.  :P

ETA: I know that there's a lot more at Insim (Bloom, Squinge's archive, and Warlokk are creators that I use a lot), but Sgooby's statues and trash_'s sims are some of my favorites and I thought the people here would like them a lot.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 21, 18:22:02
We've been free of BBB for ages, as well as Walt, Kathy and Eric. We're a bit more friendly and a lot less bitchy and whiny for money to keep the place going, that's for damn sure. Also, we've lost the sugar-coating that caused diabetics so many problems when they would come over to the site. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 June 21, 18:33:39
ORLY?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: marikocha on 2009 June 21, 18:59:58
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=312539

(http://i44.tinypic.com/2zp11j6.jpg)

(http://i42.tinypic.com/2iqzuwl.jpg)

Love art nouveau, love guatla's work. The stack of books functions like a book case and you can place it anywhere. It's probably the single most used item in my game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Jojoba on 2009 June 21, 22:54:22
I love candles and therefore love that candle. You just fed my bizarre obsession some more marikocha :D I also adore the the stack of books function as a function, as I do enjoy having clutter but not pointless no-function objects.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Saraswati on 2009 June 21, 23:04:11
 ;D oh my god.. I love that set from guatla.. It's just so romantic. :) Downloading now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 21, 23:24:06
Love art nouveau, love guatla's work. The stack of books functions like a book case and you can place it anywhere. It's probably the single most used item in my game.

ZOMG, I love guatla's stuff, too. Ever since I downloaded her Broken (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=302846) Kitchen (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=317113) and Broken Bathroom (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=326755) sets all of my starter Simmies have them in their shacks. Love, love, love them. And the stack of books is, indeed, freaking amazing. With that and karaskaras's set of books (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=9613.msg275638#msg275638), I haven't used a proper bookshelf in ages!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 21, 23:28:04
For sims 3, there are some nice plaid textures here http://blog.naver.com/bluetohazel/20069368229


And Kate, she is going to kill my game with all the great textures she has.


ETA: If you don't want any content created with TSR's tool, don't download the textures from the first site.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 21, 23:37:32
I just discovered this amazing little site called Fairy Forest (http://www.feenwald.de/en/index.php) aka Feenwald. I don't recall it ever being mentioned here, so I hope I'm not repeating, but this is one of the coolest sites I've come across in a long time. 

There are many items that are very innovative, such as the painting that is actually a TV.
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/tv-b03.jpg)

The most awesome set of shelves with extra slots and tons of recolors.
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/slak-regale06.jpg)

Great grungy colors and textures for your appocalyptic sims.
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/grunge01.jpg)

And this is the cutest little 1x1 lot I've ever seen.
(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/H01-01.jpg)

100% free!!
Fairy Forest or Feenwald (http://www.feenwald.de/en/index.php)   ;D ;D
I just wish I had found it a long time ago.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: marikocha on 2009 June 22, 18:01:28
I just discovered this amazing little site called Fairy Forest (http://www.feenwald.de/en/index.php) aka Feenwald. I don't recall it ever being mentioned here, so I hope I'm not repeating, but this is one of the coolest sites I've come across in a long time. 

There are many items that are very innovative, such as the painting that is actually a TV.
*snipped like Edward Scissorhands*

There's also this one (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=303145) by Numenor, if you want a different frame or something.

I lurrve Fairy Forest. They also have a OMSP controller that looks like a simlish bulletin board in-game, which I can't find on the site. It's on MTS (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=324383), though. It's compatible with Lord Darcy, SilentLucidity, ariffrazalin, JohnBrehaut1, and Fairy Forest OMSPs so that you can turn them all in/visible at the same time.

I have all Feenwald's paintings in game. They're perfect for my museums, rich sims' houses, various Malfoys, etc.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 23, 11:40:58
I can't wait to use these textures in game. They are called Grungy Victorian, and they look great.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349364


Textures are going to kill me. Not counting the ones from the store or the pre-order/game guide/preview disk textures, I have 150, getting ready to go up to 168 after the above set and another one on MTS.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 23, 19:41:44
I guess I must be operating light this time, or just not finding the sites with all the goodies on them - I don't even have 100 new patterns yet and that is after a visit to Parsims.

Hello Kitty Watches bu Lurania at MTS- does not replace existing watches- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=348705

Haunted Mansion patterns by HystericalParoxysm - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349519


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsrocks on 2009 June 23, 20:40:11
Lovely tiles for bathrooms- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=348935

And some beautiful wings- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=348111


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 23, 22:52:27
Hello Kitty Watches bu Lurania at MTS- does not replace existing watches- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=348705
That's uber cute! *grabs* EDIT: *ungrabs* It's only for adults.
On my side I found teen wohoo/preg/marriage/move (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=348890) mod + teen maternity wear (http://www.customsims3.com/forum1/YaBB.pl?num=1245544064/40#40) LOL It took only one month to have these!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 24, 00:08:20
*shakes head sadly* Feh, I'd hoped those would get left behind. There is such a thing as wanting more realism in a game, but do they have to make it that damn real?? :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 24, 05:16:01
I dunno, my high school had less than 250 kids in it, and growing up I knew 7 girls who had babies before 18. And it wasn't some sort of psycho pact thingy, either. Every one of my childhood friends had sex before 18, and most before 16. I see it as a little more than realism, it's just the way things work - and the game not having it bugs me. Anyway, I figure at least my (rather rare) teenage Sim mums actually take care of their children, instead of going out and partying and repeating the same behavior that got them in their respective situations in the first place. I can understand how you're not too fond of it, though, Paden. To me it's kind of like the babby roaster. It may not be for everyone, but for others, it's a hell of a lot of fun!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 June 24, 11:15:50
I like these little seats:

(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj211/ShanOw0/Mydiaoutdoor.jpg)

http://www.luinasims.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Immortelle on 2009 June 24, 11:18:09
I personally think it is nothing short of hilarious that EA intended Sims 1, 2 and 3 to all be PG, yet at the end of the day, it still got slapped with a M+ rating.  Those guys are in dreamy dream land.

I'm not big on the couch, but you're right those chairs do look good.  Not Adele good, but still pisses all over whatever crapola T$R could dream of dishing out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 24, 15:10:06
Huh Paden? I didn't notice before but since when do you have the "Pottymouth" title? Is it due to Sim_Outlaws' latest appearance?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 24, 18:35:15
No, it's been on there for a few months now. Tried to avoid it by behaving myself, slipped once and got nailed. So, piss on it, I'll express myself how I please and those that judge a person based on how they use language to get their point across be damned. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 June 24, 22:47:24
No, it's been on there for a few months now. Tried to avoid it by behaving myself, slipped once and got nailed. So, piss on it, I'll express myself how I please and those that judge a person based on how they use language to get their point across be damned. :D

I'd take it as a compliment. You're a potty-mouth but at least you do it with style. There are too many times to count where some angry troll just swears at us willy nilly making us point and laugh. When the post is of substance, the swears are basically sentence enhancers. Best Spongebob EVAR


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 24, 23:11:02
I'd take it as a compliment.
Funny, that's exactly what I said in petto. But I'm a wicked nut lol

So it's censorship in a way. Funny. I thought we were a pirates community, not a knitting and pastries club. How are we supposed to do moar fight to please Pes' while being muzzled? Bleh. *offers rum to Paden*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 24, 23:39:12
I don't do the fight thing to please him, I do it because it can be fun to get into it with a troll. But really, that's unfair of me to do. Having a battle of wits with the unarmed is rather like shooting fish in a barrel.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 24, 23:45:32
I know all about those "sentence enhancers". There are exactly 13, and you should never ever use them.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 25, 01:10:00
I prefer the original Heavy Seven, and use them whenever. :D Carlin taught me not to be so repressed in expressing myself. Well, my dad and Carlin, actually.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 25, 01:43:33
I also follow the teachings of Carlin. He be wise in the ways of enhancing a sentence, but for pirates there are still 13.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 June 25, 05:01:58
My favorite word is 'fuck'. Unfortunately it just exemplifies how I feel about so many things  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 25, 06:49:10
Acceptable sentence enhancers are as follows:

fishpaste
barnacles
tartar sauce

-that is all.


My favorite of Carlin's seven dirty words is 'twat'. Especially the way the British use it, and the way it's taken on new meaning here.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 09:06:34
A Sims 3 hack, and a really nice one at that. This hack makes it that sims can no longer autonomously "put away" the fire pit. This is a feature of the game, and it was getting on my nerves, to the point I just got rid of the damn thing. What is the use of putting it out if 5 minutes later the sim is going to pick it back up.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349647&goto=newpost&postedt=1#post2648066


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: calalily on 2009 June 25, 10:13:05
Acceptable sentence enhancers are as follows:

Fuck. Definitely fuck. I love to use fuck like it's fucking going out of fucking fashion. 12s are not my concern on PMBD.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 12:27:44
Fuck is a fun word, it enhances sentences so much. See calalily's post above for a fucking great example.

A Sims 3 hack, and a really nice one at that. This hack makes it that sims can no longer autonomously "put away" the fire pit. This is a feature of the game, and it was getting on my nerves, to the point I just got rid of the damn thing. What is the use of putting it out if 5 minutes later the sim is going to pick it back up.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349647&goto=newpost&postedt=1#post2648066

Could someone test this out for me. I downloaded it and the game keeps crashing. I did everything I've been doing when the game crashes and it didn't work, so I took it out and the game worked fine.


And another thing for Sims 3. aikea-guinea over at GOS made some kneesocks for males since the choice of socks for males is very lacking.
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12860.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 13:06:26
It does the same thing to me- what else are you using for hacks?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Darqstar on 2009 June 25, 14:03:47
I always liked George Carlin's act about changing the word "Kill" in to "Fuck" on old movies.

"We're gonna fuck you, sheriff, but we're gonna fuck you slowly." 



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 14:27:16
It does the same thing to me- what else are you using for hacks?

I have:

Pescado's Mod
HP's floor thickness mod
HP's No build sparkle
A no blur patch
A mod that makes fish last 365 days (I was tired of going out to look for seeds or rock to come back to dead fish)
A mod that allows 16 commands rather than just 8
Faster Homework mod
Mod that unlocks and allows everyone to play air guitar
Aikea Guinea's Default Eyes
And 2 meshes (kneesocks and shortened boots)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 June 25, 15:35:37
I know I saw the 365 day fish thing, but now I can't find it.  Is it one of the xml mods?  If it is, i might give it a shot to make my own.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 15:46:48
This is the fish mod I have http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=3077


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 25, 15:47:37
I just tested it, loads perfectly. I've bought a fire pit and put it in the garden of a 4 sims family. None touched it.
I'll cross out the mods I don't have:
Quote
Pescado's Mod
HP's floor thickness mod
HP's No build sparkle
A no blur patch
A mod that makes fish last 365 days (I was tired of going out to look for seeds or rock to come back to dead fish)
A mod that allows 16 commands rather than just 8
Faster Homework mod
Mod that unlocks and allows everyone to play air guitar
Aikea Guinea's Default Eyes
And 2 meshes (kneesocks and shortened boots) Will go see these right now. Men's fashion is severely limited.

SoggyFox, without it fulfilling a perfect aquarium LTW is a horrible shore! :-X http://www.customsims3.com/forum1/YaBB.pl?num=1244474365 This one doesn't require any logging. Specially that Sims2Workshop works only on full moons or when the wind blows from the East :(
Stupid EA! I WANT a BIG aquarium!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 15:53:10
I'll have to try taking those mods out to see if it works. I wouldn't mind if I have to take out the air guitar mod, slightly irritated if I have to take out the 16 commands mod, but really irritated if it is the homework mod that is conflicting with it, because I feel that homework takes forever to do.  :P

ETA: Its the 16 commands hack. Taking that out the game works fine.

On the Sims 2 I never got any of the tattoo skins because my sims were stuck with them. If I didn't like it on a sim anymore I couldn't take them off. Well someone made some tattoos for Sims 3 that show up under accessories, they work like the gloves. I love this idea.

Link to see them http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349720

And has anyone noticed a lag in the game starting up and load times yet? I have, and I have almost 200 custom textures already. By years end this is going to have some really bad load times.  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 25, 16:04:25
Fuck. Definitely fuck. I love to use fuck like it's fucking going out of fucking fashion. 12s are not my concern on PMBD.
Same for me. I also like "Stupid" in impersonal sentences, like "That's stupid". My favorite one being "Stupid EA!". If I want to enhance it moar I'll just say "Stupid Fucking EA!!" <= notice the additonal "!". It's all into details lol ;D
Note: EA is not a person, it's a commercial entity.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 June 25, 16:10:25
A Sims 3 hack, and a really nice one at that. This hack makes it that sims can no longer autonomously "put away" the fire pit. This is a feature of the game, and it was getting on my nerves, to the point I just got rid of the damn thing. What is the use of putting it out if 5 minutes later the sim is going to pick it back up.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349647&goto=newpost&postedt=1#post2648066

There's a fire pit?  Which EP? 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 16:12:26
A Sims 3 hack, and a really nice one at that. This hack makes it that sims can no longer autonomously "put away" the fire pit. This is a feature of the game, and it was getting on my nerves, to the point I just got rid of the damn thing. What is the use of putting it out if 5 minutes later the sim is going to pick it back up.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349647&goto=newpost&postedt=1#post2648066

There's a fire pit?  Which EP? 

The Sims 3 base game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 25, 16:21:40
ETA: Its the 16 commands hack. Taking that out the game works fine.

On the Sims 2 I never got any of the tattoo skins because my sims were stuck with them. If I didn't like it on a sim anymore I couldn't take them off. Well someone made some tattoos for Sims 3 that show up under accessories, they work like the gloves. I love this idea.

Link to see them http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=349720

And has anyone noticed a lag in the game starting up and load times yet? I have, and I have almost 200 custom textures already. By years end this is going to have some really bad load times.  :P
Hehe I almost replied that the 16 mod should be the culprit :)
Yeh, my loading is already stretching out a bit (more or less 30 seconds loading until sims' house). I should time it to check. Luckily I was reasonable with patterns. Only have 89, yet I still think I'll weed some. I must have 5 Mariko patterns, will weed out 3.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 16:27:59
I don't think it is going to be anything compared to my TS2 game- of course with TS2- I have all EP's and all SP's except KBID's and FFS- and 13,000+ CC files- so my load time is often around 10 or 15 minutes as of yesterdays load time- I don't thinks TS3 will be that bad with CC as long as it is just the base game- but I am such a download whore I can see it becoming a real problem once we have more than houses, altered base game clothing  and accessory meshes, hair, skin and eye replacements and patterns- Especially since the poly counts at first with the new object meshing tools they are working on are likely to be hideous even for some of the more experienced object meshers like Kate at Parsims who have been doing object meshes since the TS1 days and are used to the changes in the tools and so on.

Still a download whore for TS2 and today - Tabletop AL Peacock Statue- by pixi1971 at BPS  here- http://www.blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?p=472891#post472891


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 16:28:57
Now I can't get it to work. It would turn on once after I got rid of the 16 commands mod, but I just went back to go test out the Sound file in Riverview saves, and the game wont turn on with the fire pit hack. grrr...  >:(

dstar, you only have 13,000+ CC files. I've got almost 40,000 files.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 16:41:25
That was after getting rid of around 15,000 TSR files in my downloads folder and only keeping the work of FA's, SA's and Retired Artists like Aikea Guinea and Gelydh who had x-posted files elsewhere, and some Maxis Matching stuff that had not yet been done by Huge Lunatic, Raggedy Anne, Ailias or Snarky, as well as a bunch of SIP beds that although pretty were not very functional, ( Delphine and Jasmines work is so pretty but their beds just don't work for me) and a bunch of stuff I downloaded in 2005 that I looked at and went "I thought that was good?"


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 25, 16:47:34
dstar, my sims 2 game is so bloated 11300 files, 1.6Go. Loading time around 6 to 7'. Hate it. rum_nate, 40k? Man, that's HUGE!

That's why I want to avoid being stupid again with sims 3. Haven't downloaded any houses yet. I'm only expecting a dazzling farm lot I saw in a pic and the creator said (s)he'll upload it. But frankly checking the lots page at MTS is a shore as it's already bloated with stuff. In fact this farm is an excuse for me to not grab any lot, since I'm waiting for Godot :). Didn't grab the Hello Kitty watches as I want them for kids only and the tatoos are nice but seem too colored to be realistic, normally tatoos fade out. Plus these are sooo big, I just want classical ones like a small red & black heart with "MOM" written below ^^ or a reasonnably sized dragon in faded black color. No pattern recolors, that's useless. I'm also trying to avoid mods and pattern invasion. Recently added superior bed and gender 50-50 though and the buy flame fruits and whatnot at the grocery. Haven't downloaded any sim either even if I have a huge urge to grab really nice ones. MUST resist. Will NOT bloat sims 3. Gosh that sounds like a group therapy. *shuts up* :-X
 ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 17:05:26
The only lots I have grabbed for TS3 are one by Qbuilderz, and one by BlackOrchid simply because their lots are usually so well done and as a lot builder myself they inspire me to try new things.

The Hello Kitty Watch was actually for my niece- she is really into Anime and Japanese Street Style and there is so little that goes with that in base game TS3 other than the cartooney anime hairs for both genders that she has been suffering from lack of stuff.

I don't mind the new patterns because it allows to take the usually mismatched mishmash that EA gives us because they are to lazy to ever finish a set (even the Story Stuff Sets that I have I can think of a dozen other pieces per set that are needed to make them complete and the Store Sets oddly enough are usually more complete than the stuff that they release in the EP's and SP's when it comes to TS2 at least) and turn it into a nice rather than a typical starter home with mismatched items everywhere- I like eclectic but there are simply some things that should match. I don't have many patterns - right now so many of them are merely recolors of the stuff in game that I can do myself and are posted on the Exchange where I am loathe to go- though I have nabbed HP's, Lethes, Aikea Guineas,. Saraswati's, and many of  Kate at Parsims patterns. I don't even think I have 50 at this point .


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 17:14:11
Ok there is something really wrong with my game. I took out every single hack because the game would not turn on at all, even when I took out all the hacks I put in in the last 24 hours. I put back in pescado's mod and the firepit mod, won't turn on. I take out all the patterns, then go to turn the game on with only pescado's mod and configur file and the firepit mod. The game wont load. I take out the firepit mod, the game turns on fine. I am again at a loss as to why it is doing this. I'm going to add back in my other mods one by one to see if any of them have problems too, since even when the fire pit and 16 command mods weren't in I still was crashing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 17:27:04
Did you delete your cache files  ? Also there is a file called XCMPT something or other - it has both an unrecognized file format and .txt user logs- if you have more than one of these in your MyDocs/Electronic Arts/TS3 folder in the same area of your folder as the cache files you are supposed to delete when the game goes poof they can also cause problems. I have had my game crash because of that as well. - If you do delete those and it should be fine- that is what fixed it for mine.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 25, 17:50:04
dstar, these are due to the enablescripterror.package, right? I keep deleting the bloody XCMPT or something since these are useless and just crash logs. Didn't know they could bork your game.

btw rum_nate, try taking out or putting the enablescripterror.package. It may help.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 17:57:40
This was before Pescado uploaded the enablescripterror pkg at MATY. I kept wondering why townies that did not belong in Sunset Valley kept showing up (Bob Newbie WTF), and why I would go somewhere and be unable to interact with townies and pre-mades who were stuck in place. Deleted the cache files didn't work , I didn't have any mods that conflicted with Awesomemod, so I noticed I had like six sets of the XCMPT files I deleted them and the game was fine.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 25, 18:15:47
Bloody hell the borks it caused in your game is frightening. Okay always delete that crap. Thanks for the info dstar.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 18:37:57
Don't get me wrong- when someone figures out how the  relationships memories  and neighborhoods work and creates a merged Riverview -Sunset Valley hood- Bob Newbie showing up in the park to play chess with Mortimer Goth is no problem- After all in my TS1 game they were close friends- but no merged hood is supposed to = no people from other towns showing up on community lots


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 25, 18:55:17
Ok, I deleted all those cache files and the crash logs and all those files and put the enablescripterror.package in and the game still didn't work. I took out the fire pit hack and it still didn't work. I too out the knee high socks and the game works. And a few hours ago when I took everything out and was putting it back in one at a time, just having Pescado's mod, the configure file for it, and either the fire pit hack or the knee high socks, the game would crash. The second I took either of those last files out (I never put them in together when I was trying to figure out what files were causing me problems) the game worked fine. So for some odd reason, the fire pit hack and the knee high socks are not compatible with Pescado's mod for me. That really has got me lost.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 June 25, 19:06:48
I only have about 25 patterns, and most of those I've made.

Thanks for the aquarium mod - I know I'd seen it on some forum, was looking all over MTS and MATY and couldn't find it.  Didn't think you check CustomSims3 [still getting used to it actually having stuff now :)].  I'm doing a chocolate chunk with whipped topping Legacy [ie, I'm going with epic lifespan and cheating as needed.  I just can't do the vanilla challenges, I've tried and tried and tried.  Closest was apocalypse with plant sims where I actually got a fair bit into it with 10 generations.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 25, 19:46:11
I am actually doing a Pleasantview/Old Town Pre-Mades Legacy and a Rock and Roll Legacy at the moment. The first one I am playing on epic/aging off with Hand of God Enabled to prevent pre-made move outs- I am playing each pre-made family that are ancestors of the Pleasantview Sims in TS2, and the Old Town Sims in TS1, Newbies, Landgraabs, Simovitch's, Brokes, Crumplebottoms, Goths, Bachelors etc. To ensure that they do what they are supposed to do to make the lives of the premades in TS1 and TS2 possible- e.g. Bob and Betty marry, have kid Brandi who marries Skip Broke, Bella and Morty Marry have Cass and Alex etc, Landgraab III marries whoever the hell he is supposed to marry in order for IV to exist. Story continuity damnit!!!

The second one - is with a CAS Sim that I made- Rose Sinclair who married Jon Lessen in Riverview- all their descendents will have the virtuoso trait and I will try to pick LTW choice with one of the musical options.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 June 25, 19:56:41
HystericalParoxysm did a mod removing the cartoony effects when sims fight for S3: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=346507 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=346507) Bloody awesome if you're a storyteller, moviemaker, or just plain hate the "Hanna-Barbera" effect EA seems to so insist on in all of The Sims generations. Makes me almost wanna go slap-happy in the game ;)

Edit -> No toony notes when playing instruments either: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=346508 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=346508)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 25, 22:09:21
So for some odd reason, the fire pit hack and the knee high socks are not compatible with Pescado's mod for me. That really has got me lost.
Nope, fire pit mod is already in my game since I tested it for you and will keep it since it's handy and I just added A. Guinea's socks to the game: (http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/3485/screenshot27c.th.jpg) (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/screenshot27c.jpg/) (http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7821/screenshottnk.th.jpg) (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/screenshottnk.jpg/)
Awesomemod is still in. Game loaded fine and I didn't even delete any cache files.

Okay, what else did you add? Do you happen to have two default skins? Did you add Peggy's hair? I'm going to add the GoS short boots for females, maybe you grabbed this one too (and I want it anyway lol) EDIT: Still working with the boots. Nice stuff btw, look at the second pic. Gosh it feels soooo good to add a new item to the game by only installing one tiny file! YAY! :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 26, 00:46:07
I took everything out, all hacks and custom patterns. Then I just put in Pescado's mod and configure file, just to make sure the game wasn't fucked up and I had to reinstall, the game loaded fine. So I put in the fire pit hack, so the only CC that is in the game is Pescado's mod and configure file, the fire pit hack, and the store stuff and some custom textures in my downloads folder. The game crashes on start up. I take out the fire pit hack and put in the kneen high socks, and the game still crashes. I put back in all my mods and custom patterns, take out the knee high socks, so I no longer have them, the fire pit hack, or the 16 commands hack in, and the game loads fine. Nothing I did would get the

Fake Edit: I finally got it working. I had to put the fire pit hack and knee high socks in one at a time and turn on the game after I put each of them in. Then I added Pescado's mod and configure file, turned the game on fine, then added all my other hacks and patterns, game crashed. I took out the air guitar hack, and the game turns on fine.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 26, 02:38:11
Sounds like a lot of bullshit just to run a game. Wow, what a dog and pony show they've got on the store shelves. I'm more glad than ever that I am not getting that thing. ;D I'm glad you guys like it an all, but I'd snap the game disk out of frustration if I had to go through all of that garbage to play.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 June 26, 02:57:52
Quote from: dr. House
MUST resist. Will NOT bloat sims 3.
Yeah, I remember saying similar things about Sims2.  I hope you'll have more willpower with Sims3 than I did with Sims2. ;)   I'm at 1.4Gb (old machine, tiny hard drive).  I swear I only download stuff I actually use, and I compress everything, and I don't have 50 different versions of the same thing.  None of it helps.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 June 26, 03:16:46
Paden, I never had problems with Sims 3. Awesomemod kept crashing at a certain builds for some days but it quickly resolved with Pes' updates. I'm a happy sailor :D And reading some at MATY or here that have a lot of problems I don't understand why I don't have any: my computer is average and in a very bad state, it badly needs dust cleaning plus one nuked fan is slowly dying (of course it's the worst placed one, you have to completely dismember the computer to reach it. Arg.). And 2 of the 3 HDs I have are very unstable and sometimes act like crazy bitches (huh their produce was quickly stopped because of these borks!), my soundcard is so old it doesn't have any updated drivers and now Windows hates my speakers...  Well, lucky me I guess: my computer is a total wreck but Sims 3 runs flawlessly. *knocks on wood* ROFL Happy Happy Joy Joy
Sometimes I wonder how come my comp doesn't self-destruct and explodes.

LOL I discovered one of my sim couple hate each other! Left them alone and they immediately started fighting and insulting eachother :D Okay their relationship wasn't awesome but they've been too busy to talk and cuddle for a lot of days, not my fault.

CatOfWar, I'm trying hard and WILL try to RESIST ;D Don't want to redo the same shit than with sims 2. Oh well at least an item now = one tiny file. No need for a gazillions of recolors, which must have made approximately a fourth of my Downloads folder in sims 2. You and me are both strong kitties and we will resist! *rambo mode*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 26, 04:00:27
 Paden I actually haven't had that many problems with TS3- it has crashed fewer times than my  TS1 and my TS2 did unpatched, and unmodded with no CC when I first got them- I am sure that this problem existed for both TS1 and TS2 when hacks/mods first started coming out because everyone was trying something new and modders didn't always consult each other on what they were doing- These things happen. I enjoy both of them- and have actually been playing TS2 most of today once I found my M&G disc (which is good since I have a re-color set to test out) which was luckily not buried to deep in my boxes of stuff to move. Hell I even still play TS1 and just now found my Sims Mega Pack with Sim Golf, Sim Theme Park, Sim City 3000, Sim Coaster, and Sim Safari (and my machine is an XP which means they work to) and am planning to drag them out later tonight.


Dr House I know what you mean about the downloads. My main issue with TS2- was I never purged my d/l folder. I realized this yesterday when I purged some God Awful Sims Connection, hairs that I got when I first started downloading stuff and realized that their hair is awful even in comparison to Peggy. Now objects and clothing will be purged from the d/l folder on a regular basis- as soon as subfoldering becomes a possibility it WILL be organized according to type and creator. Some creators are also uploading 7 different recolors of an identical pattern so when I download patterns I only download one color of the pattern since they can be recolored in CAST anyways. I will limit it this time.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 26, 04:14:50
I recently purged my dl folder for the first time ever, for many of the same reasons. It had 10 g's.
In the last 2 weeks it's gone from 3 gigs to 9. This time I am organizing it as I download. Each site gets a folder and each creator gets a folder within that. Some creators like Adele, Buggybooz, Bruno, etc, get their own folders not within a site folder. Even if I get a mesh from a recolor set, I put in the folder of the original creator.

It's very time consuming process, but it's already come in handy. I had a file that was crashing my game during the loading. I was able to isolate the problem file so much quicker because everything was organized. Then I was able to see where it came from, so I could let the creator know about the problem.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 26, 11:06:56
A few weeks before Sims 3 came out I used Delphy's Download organizer and Sim PE to purge and organize my downloads folder. I did it by the catalog sort, so One folder for buy mode, build mode, and body shop, and then the different sections in them. Then also folders for foods, default replacements, hacks, nhood objects, and a few creators have their own folders in the main downloads folder. But I have over 6gig in my download folder and probably 1 to 2 gig in the files in the the files in C/Program Files/ EA Games. But I ended up deleting about 2 to 4 thousand things when I purged, and I am still deleting stuff in game. But I haven't been playing lately, I would rather the 2 minute load time for Sims 3 than the 30 to 45 minuet load time for Sims 2.  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 26, 14:38:49
I get a lot done while waiting for my game to load. I usually go do dishes, or laundry, or I'll just play with my daughter. She usually gets bored with me by the time the game has loaded. So it all works out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 26, 14:41:53
I try and play TS2 just as often because there are still things I am loving about it- like the ability to make a custom hood- including all of the houses, community lots, and so on, and the fact that the other families that I am playing don't age up and die along with my character if I don't play with Pescado's TS2 Style Aging from the Aweseommod or Aging Off. I still even play TS1- cause I like TS1 Vacation better than BV. I have a 500 GB HD so it isn't exactly an issue just leaving my game on the computer. As for downloads I do a purge from the TS2 bin about once a week----

Oh shoot- I have to have this - didn't see anyone else post a link or picture so here we go- new kitchen by Buggybooz- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=342880

But as you can see often for every set I purge another gets put in


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 June 26, 15:23:22
I wish I could keep playing sims 2 - I need to find out what's causing my graphics issues.

Sims 1 I'll reinstall because I like Makin' Magic far better than Free Time/Apartment Life.  The spells and hobbies are more whimsical and sims 1 expansions built into each other better, imo.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 26, 16:17:01
I have to get complete collection because I borrowed some of the EPs from my aunt and uncle to install and my makin magic second disk is messed up, I don't know what happened though. But yeah, The Sims 1 EPs worked together better than on The Sims 2, and vacation was so much better, there seemed to be more to do. But I could go on and on about how good Sims 1 was, because every EP had so many good things in them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 26, 16:29:31
I like the truly new things about TS3- but it seems like with the elements of TS1 and TS2 in the game they only included a few of the really good elements from the previous games like gardening  and included a lot of the worst- e.g. the uneditable hoods from TS1 . It doesn't make sense since we were all telling them for nearly a year what elements of TS1 and TS2 we would love to see in TS3- of course they were probably to busy listening to the noobs on the BBS and the 12's on the TSR forums to pay attention to what any of us who had actually been playing the franchise since TS1`actually wanted.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 26, 20:43:22
It's not only this site that I'm reading about the problems, all. There are plenty of others out there where people are saying they keep having crashing issues with or without mods. Some people have the good fortune not to crash at all. It just seems to hit or miss to me, you know?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 26, 21:11:37
I think that is true of any game in the beginning- as I said I like the game but there are issues and I am not blind to them- and I can also understand your frustration with EA- I am just lucky that I have not had many (although I have had some ) of the problems associated with EA games products. And I really wish that EA's execs and the Sims Design Team would start listening to what the majority of the Sims community wants instead of listening to what a whopping 15 people (most of whom are  probablyTSR/Paysite execs or Maxoids honestly) want from a game- they could have actually used the 6 months delay to accomplish something to fix the problems with the game that have been existent since apparently the build the creators played with at the Camp last fall- but they didn't and now the rest of us are having to deal with it- with me not so much the Awesommod thats the problem - but the content by creators like Peggy who and TSR creators who are after the quick buck (all of Peggy's and TSR shit is free at the moment but you know the minute that we have the ability to put brand new sparkly non=EA cloned objects into the game - they will be pay) and don't really give a shit if their crap conflicts with damage control mods like Wintermutes or Pescados


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 June 26, 23:34:12
Well, it's just too bad that people will pay for shit when they shouldn't be obliged to. You get the people with talent curing the problems that the company makes, you get people with drive making the tools needed to make original content and then you have the leeches that take all of that and make a buck. We know which side of that fence the paysites fall on, now don't we?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 27, 01:21:03
Yes we definitely do- Peggy TS3- DNW - TSR TS3- DNW- I intend to stick with TS2 just as I have with TS1- and enjoy TS3- but until more Cc comes out and Pescado figures out how to fix moar of the glitches and bugs the other two are simply more fun - even with TS2's 15 minute load time due to my overpacked downloads folder and TS1- outdated graphics. Personally there are things that I like about each game - just like I enjoy different things about the other franchise type games I play such as Heroes of Might and Magic.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 June 27, 03:38:46
Well, it's just too bad that people will pay for shit when they shouldn't be obliged to. You get the people with talent curing the problems that the company makes, you get people with drive making the tools needed to make original content and then you have the leeches that take all of that and make a buck. We know which side of that fence the paysites fall on, now don't we?
Paden, you've summed up the history of the Sims franchise in three sentences.  Do you sell conciseness pills?  Want!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 June 27, 10:22:11
For Sims 3, it is a retexture of the money tree. I don't like how it looks, so this will be real nice to help it fit in better. You can either have green or pink.

http://www.bogsims.com/sims3/index.html

Go under Object>Regina


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Marcus on 2009 June 28, 05:49:31
Well, it's just too bad that people will pay for shit when they shouldn't be obliged to. You get the people with talent curing the problems that the company makes, you get people with drive making the tools needed to make original content and then you have the leeches that take all of that and make a buck. We know which side of that fence the paysites fall on, now don't we?

I agree with this too,
When you compair the quality of the work done by dedicated modders and then see what the paracites at the paysites produce it's not dificult to tell whose in it for the chalange and love of what their doing and those in it just for the money.

ETA:  I'm really looking forward to when there are some modding tools released for Sims3, hopefully well see a flood of superb content on MTS3 and similar sites.
I wouldn't piss on T$R if it was on fire, mind you I'd happily piss on Thoma$$ just for the hell of it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 28, 20:19:56
Guess what's finally been released! Just Guess! (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=350615)
Yes, MOAR Guatla! lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove

And be sure to check out .{ nonsensica } (http://nonsensica.wordpress.com/). Rida's got some really lovely recolors of some really lovely meshes by Nixy!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 June 29, 20:26:51
TS2 - find of the Day- Shakeshit isn't the only one with a Second Empire Window Add On Set- Leesester released hers/his today and it is gorgeous - so for those of use who love to make Victorian and Edwardian homes here-http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=350895


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Sarafina on 2009 June 30, 01:12:53
Found a site I've never seen before and this super cute mirrors

Ella Sims (http://www.ellasims2.com/index.html)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 June 30, 01:22:26
MmmHmm. I think I have a crapton of her paintings in my game. Good site, that.
So, has anyone seen these lovely recolors of the BV mesh (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12894.0)? I know there are a ton of them out there, but I really like the artwork. And they go very well with AweSims' Simple desk Artist recolors (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/?p=901). ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 June 30, 05:29:09
Bruno (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=350050) has new eyeshadows. 4 sets in all. All of them, gorgeous!

(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/MTS2_bruno_945269_cherieshadow.jpg)

(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/MTS2_bruno_945270_graffitishadow.jpg)
SQUEEEE!!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ChaosInAMinor on 2009 June 30, 07:28:00
dusdeedawn- I ADORE Audrey Kawasaki's artwork. She's a really interesting person, too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sniken on 2009 July 01, 07:35:46
Look!!
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351006 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351006)
Yaay!!!

(Apologies if this is already posted somewhere else)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sailfindragon on 2009 July 01, 11:11:59
Paperbeth,

That eyeshadows you posted from bruno are just gorgeous. Heads over to download!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 01, 13:10:19
Look!!
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351006 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351006)
Yaay!!!

(Apologies if this is already posted somewhere else)

Wow. I don't make movies or anything, but that hack will be a really nice one for storytellers. And Adele's stuff is just beautiful.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 01, 18:36:28
Oh. My. Bejeezus. Adele and Decorgal. Teaming up. Heaven? Yeah, it's me. No, hold off, I'm quite satisfied down here, thank you. Wow. How incredibly spenticular is that? It must have taken those two a while to make that, and just imagine how much of their hair they pulled out. It couldn't have been easy. What talent each of them have. And together? Absolute bliss. Can't wait for Decorgal's to come out. Then life shall be complete and my Sims can die happy. YES. YES YES YES YES YES. YES. YESSSSSSSSS.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 July 01, 20:29:04
*hands dusdee a pair of towels and points her towards the showers* Go. Now. Clean up.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sniken on 2009 July 02, 07:52:13
If I've understood it correctly, there are also decorative verisons of the items,  which is great for those of us that doesnt make movies or take a lot of pictures (I have discovered I am completely useless at taking pictures - both in real life and in sims! How sad isnt that!). I cant wait to try the items in game!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: badcyn on 2009 July 03, 01:07:05
Yah, the decorative versions look to be included in that.  The props share textures apparently with the deco items.  I'm installing tomorrow to play with them.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: RiotOnTheRooftop on 2009 July 04, 13:00:15
That is an amazing find, I am thrilled that talented people are still producing stuff for TS2.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 July 06, 02:06:12
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351524 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351524)

Decorgals Hack!

And, if you've always wanted to build an apartment lot and have shops? MogHughson says now we can!

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=352602 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=352602)

I was looking for a reason to load up the game. I think I just found 2.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 July 06, 23:01:31
This (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351301) is the most touching tribute I have seen so far for Michael Jackson, and it definately deserves to be posted here.
It's probably the best celeb-sim I've seen anywhere. You can tell that she made this sim with love. It came from the heart.

Her poem should be posted everywhere. It really moved me.

"This is my thanks to you for:
all the joy you gave me trough your imense talent;
all the good memories I have when I listen to your songs;
the way you make me fell when I watch you dance...
I have no words to tell you...how I'm gonna miss you...

The Gods envy, when a human becames one of them
and have no mercy of those who dare to conquer their's Glory,
like you did.

At the end,
you transformed your beautiful face in an empty mask,
to hide your fears and feelings,
from a world that was eating you alive.

You destroyed your real face
but gave away your soul in return,
to all of us who loved you art.
And for THIS only,
you should be remembered by,
no more, no less... forever.
You Are Not Alone Michael...this pain will pass and you'll rest in peace;
You don't have to hide anymore..."
 *quote from Vera Marina at MTS*

(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/MTS2_Vera_Marina_950373_jacko4.jpg)
I was a lifelong fan, watched him grow up. I thought he was a beautiful person, but he was a stranger in a strange land that didn't understand him. :'(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SimARR on 2009 July 07, 00:09:49
I came across this pretty today @ one of my fav sites;
(http://i31.tinypic.com/e0r6hd.jpg)

Its from Luina Sims - HERE (http://www.luinasims.com/luina%20sims/bedrooms2.html)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 July 07, 00:59:24
Coconut, heh heh!  How appropriate!  ;p


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 07, 15:21:20
M.Calero posted a set of 18 fabulous patterns for Sims 3 at GoS: Here's just a small sample featuring denim jean and weathered leather: (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/melcalero/05.jpg)
The other patterns are beautiful tweeds and realistic knitting :)
Grab these shinies here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13096.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 07, 18:25:14
I'm going to have to go get those. I have been good, I have only downloaded 3 patterns in the last like week, but I really need to cut down on the patterns I do get, I have 201 now not counting all the ones the store content added.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 07, 19:51:56
Sorry to double post, but I wanted to make sure people see this.

It is an overhaul of the ingredients for Sims 3.

It's features are:


- Better, more complex recipes. Almost every recipe now requires three ingredients (Ambrosia recipe was not changed!).
- 10 new non plantable ingredients: spaghetti, rice, macaroni, bread, buns, long buns, nori, peanut butter and yogurt. All in a separate UI tab!
- 4 new plantable ingredients: cantaloupe, eggplant, orange and dragon fruit.
- Every dish is made available to vegetarians with appropriate names; after all there are fish and meat substitutes on the real life market.
- Faster cutting on cutting board.
- Every meal available at any time.

It even adds a custom UI tab when you go to the grocery store. And it also says you can use the ingredients as clutter now too. There is a problem with the seams, you can really notice it on the orange, but its because of EA's meshes, not bad meshing on BlackCat007's hand.

I can't wait to get in game a check this out.

Link: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=353351


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Miikan on 2009 July 07, 22:05:54
This (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351301) is the most touching tribute I have seen so far for Michael Jackson, and it definately deserves to be posted here.
It's probably the best celeb-sim I've seen anywhere. You can tell that she made this sim with love. It came from the heart.

*MJJ great sim*

I was a lifelong fan, watched him grow up. I thought he was a beautiful person, but he was a stranger in a strange land that didn't understand him. :'(

Paperbeth, thanks for posting. I totally agree with everything you wrote. I am his fan since I was 13, since Thriller video was made. I was always standing on his side, didn't believe in any lie. I was seeing a Human not a "freak", "alien", and whatever  press wrote. I hope He is looking at us from above and smiles.
Michael, you gone too soon but you are not alone.
Thank you for everything.

Oh, how I'm gonna miss His gentle smile... :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 07, 22:45:27
rum nate, wow this is impressive! :o Yay new ingredients and meals are now costing more money. However watchout as apparently any grocery mod (like buyable fishes and/or life fruit etc) is incompatible, as well as the faster cooking & slower eating mod. Waaaaa! I'll also have to ditch my newly added mod with buyable gnomes :-[ Darn. *goes reading to double check*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 July 08, 01:01:57
Paperbeth, thanks for posting. I totally agree with everything you wrote. I am his fan since I was 13, since Thriller video was made. I was always standing on his side, didn't believe in any lie. I was seeing a Human not a "freak", "alien", and whatever  press wrote. I hope He is looking at us from above and smiles.
Michael, you gone too soon but you are not alone.
Thank you for everything.

Oh, how I'm gonna miss His gentle smile... :(

You're very welcome. His music and his message will always be a part of who I am. I'm really going to miss him, but I'm glad he's finally at peace.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 08, 01:32:47
EEK! Can't resist sharing these knitting collection! Click for bigger pic.
(http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7301/mts2guatla954100knitted.th.jpg) (http://img43.imageshack.us/i/mts2guatla954100knitted.jpg/)
Grab them here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=351811 And see how good This looks on bedding and clothes! :o


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 08, 19:33:05
Some pretty watches. I think they are only for female, it looks like that from the preview pic.

http://www.simmum-bonum.com/ts3.htm


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 July 08, 19:55:26
http://www.simmum-bonum.com/ts3.htm
Thanks, run nate!  I've been to lots of nifty little sites that I never would have known about if not for this thread.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 08, 20:25:26
http://www.simmum-bonum.com/ts3.htm
Thanks, run nate!  I've been to lots of nifty little sites that I never would have known about if not for this thread.

Same here. I found that one a few weeks ago at GOS I think it was. This thread and the best content threads at GOS have tons of great little sites and really make my game mad at me.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 08, 20:54:13
Wow! Real watches not kiddie stuff for adults :) Awesome thanks for the link rum_nate. Finally my ladies will have some! Didn't know that site either, looks nice :D *goes to check GoS Finds thread too*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: captaincaliena on 2009 July 09, 08:42:06
Omg...I nearly wet myself.  How did I not stumble on this site before?!  These awesome movie costumes were made by NataliS of JustSims2
http://www.justsims2.ru/ (http://www.justsims2.ru/)


(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/CaptainCaliena/1183386313_NS11.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/CaptainCaliena/1183386415_BA_VanHelsing.jpg)

YAY PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN SIMS!!!

**EDIT** Ok, obviously the second one is Kate Beckinsale's outfit from Van Helsing, but I was just too excited to remember to add that in


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 09, 08:51:16
Those are really good looking. I'll check out the site later. I don't know how fast it will load, and I'm on dial up. And I don't like slow sites at 5 in the morning.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 July 09, 09:11:57
Rida at Nonsensica updated with a huge and fantastic beachy recolour set. Go check it out: http://nonsensica.wordpress.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 09, 14:43:07
I discovered this nice site for Sims 3, it has some nice clothes for female and toddlers and patterns. The site's name keep ringing bell but I must be mixing up with some TSR artist ??? It seems totally free though :P
(pic removed)
Also see the toddlers' Tshirts, they're adorable! http://www.lianasims3.net/index.php

EDIT: I edited my post as we decided it should be removed if Liana becomes (again) a paysite. And she did. :( Bitching whore.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 July 09, 15:38:41
The site is also the same as Liana Sims 2 and links to the site you posted. Liana sims 2 has many free items but also has a donation area where you pay for items/sets most of which end up in the booty. This is obviousley her Sims 3 site which does appear to be free at the moment but as her sims 2 site has pay for items i wonder how long til the Sims 3 site has!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 09, 15:59:29
I don't know if this link has been posted yet: Adele's site (http://adele-sims.com/adele.php?page=clothing&type=dress&item=dresses_laceUpPencilSkirt&view=front&pane=0) I couldn't find it in search. If it's a dupe I apologize.

(http://i974.photobucket.com/albums/ae227/Hellcat1973/dresses_laceUpPencilSkirtA.jpg)

This is just one of the huge number of drool-inducing clothes I discovered. I didn't even know Adele had her own site, nor did I know she did clothing as well as fabulous furniture. I went insane.

Screw Sims 3 when there's awesome content like Adele's out there for good ol' Sims 2.

P.S. BTW every single thing has a mesh available for both adults and teens!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 09, 16:34:01
Dr. House- She is also on TSR so you aren't really mixed up at all.  I think she even uploaded some of the same patterns to TSR as well.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ferncapel on 2009 July 09, 16:39:57
Omg...I nearly wet myself.  How did I not stumble on this site before?!  These awesome movie costumes were made by NataliS of JustSims2



A few of these are on MTS2 too.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=144504


I just this minute came across them as i was searching for decent alien clothes for men...which i cant find anywhere. Found some beauties for my female aliens but no male outfits!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 09, 18:07:02
Dr. House- She is also on TSR so you aren't really mixed up at all.  I think she even uploaded some of the same patterns to TSR as well.
The site is also the same as Liana Sims 2 and links to the site you posted. Liana sims 2 has many free items but also has a donation area where you pay for items/sets most of which end up in the booty. This is obviousley her Sims 3 site which does appear to be free at the moment but as her sims 2 site has pay for items i wonder how long til the Sims 3 site has!
Ah shit. That's what I thought. Sorry pals :-[ So do I delete my post since it's a TSR "artist" or do I leave it since her sims 3 site is 100% free for the timebeing?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 09, 19:06:51
I think you should leave it, Dr. House. If that's site is free right now, then it's free. If/when she does go pay, you can just come back here and strike it all out, then put in big, bold, red letters that she's a big fat cheater. Or something less 1st grade, if you prefer. ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 09, 20:35:58
Okay, deal.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 July 10, 00:37:17
You could always put that she's a big fat liar, too. I like that one.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ekimsal on 2009 July 10, 18:00:01
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=352546

One of the most amazing meshes I've seen in a while, can't wait for the make cunterpart


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 July 10, 19:48:07
I don't know if this link has been posted yet: Adele's site (http://adele-sims.com/adele.php?page=clothing&type=dress&item=dresses_laceUpPencilSkirt&view=front&pane=0) I couldn't find it in search. If it's a dupe I apologize.

Screw Sims 3 when there's awesome content like Adele's out there for good ol' Sims 2.

P.S. BTW every single thing has a mesh available for both adults and teens!

Agreed. My teens haven't worn much other than Adele, Bruno and Club Crimsyn in ages (nor have I felt the need to dress them in anything else).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 10, 23:25:11
I've been bored and going through my bookmarks, doing a little stalking, all that good stuff... :-\ But look at teh pretties! ;D
New Hair retextures from Yuxi (http://esperesa.livejournal.com/84097.html)
Mirror recolors from Nocturnal Sims (http://nocturnalsims.dreamwidth.org/34797.html)
Cardigans by Amaryll (http://witheredlilies.livejournal.com/1805.html)
Skinny Jeans by Bunnylita (http://bnlcreations.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/loose-graphic-tee-cuffed-jeans/)
Those H&M tops made dresses that dustinger put on MTS... (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=347462)
...now have teen versions to match! (http://maxistraum.de/kleidung.php?lang=eng&art=&gender=&age=t&kat=&mesh=&base=&anzahl=)
Cute posters by Alleliua (http://www.the-treehousesims.com/dearfrankie.html)
Equally adorable Tees for the ladies by kaputt_geliebt (http://kaputt-geliebt.livejournal.com/8586.html)
Sims3 Posters for Sims2 by Simgaroop (http://simgaroop.livejournal.com/103999.html)

And speaking of three:
All About Style is making Sims 3 content (http://www.all-about-style.com/)...
Good news for those with TS3, not so good for those sticking to TS2 (aka me :'()


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 11, 02:01:18
Good news for those with TS3, not so good for those sticking to TS2 (aka me :'()

I remember how that was about 5 years ago with Sims 1. I didn't get Sims 2 until Uni came out (I went to the store to get Sims 2, I didn't even know that was the day Uni came out, go I bought both).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 11, 02:46:01
Well, I figure I'll get it eventually, but I'm trying to put that off as long as humanly possible. Till, like, never. So I'm trying to stay away from places I know will have nice pictures of new Sims or really pretty patterns. Basically, AweSims. Also, no pictures where they show the neighborhood zoomed out. Damn that horribly beautiful view and its stupid despicable gorgeous breathtakeyness.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 11, 03:22:18
Well, I figure I'll get it eventually, but I'm trying to put that off as long as humanly possible. Till, like, never. So I'm trying to stay away from places I know will have nice pictures of new Sims or really pretty patterns. Basically, AweSims. Also, no pictures where they show the neighborhood zoomed out. Damn that horribly beautiful view and its stupid despicable gorgeous breathtakeyness.

Nothing says you can't play both. I'm enjoying playing around with Sims 3 but it gets boring, fast. Maybe when the community figures out how to create meshes and the ball really gets rolling, it will be more fun, but EAxis has made it so absurdly difficult to mod/mesh for the game that I just can't see it reaching the heights Sims 2 has. Plus, it's difficult to create an immersive non-21st century world when every Sim can pull a cell phone out of their ass. AAS may be creating content for Sims 3 but without new meshing capabilities, their gorgeous Regency, Victorian and Edwardian-era clothing will still be the mainstay of my Sims world, and that means Sims 2.

There are pluses to Sims 3 but I just keep wishing I could play Sims 2 with the new features. Would it have been so damn difficult for them to just incorporate the Sims 3 features into the existing Sims 2 structure? At least the ability to mesh and mod, and keep using all the thousands of downloads I already have. Even if they couldn't be recolored like the new stuff, at least to be able to use them in my game would have made all the difference in the world.

But yeah, you're right about the breathtaking views.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 11, 14:31:09
Don't be so negative, CC will come to the rescue. Medieval players had all sort of CC to hide the technology in Sims 2. Painting tv, scroll phone, runic fire alarm. Crystall ball tv, hidden computers of all sorts etc... None of these were EA, it all was CC.
If someone made a mod that would graphically replace the sims 3 mobile phone with a banana, that would make it to play other theme. Well at least for prehistoric cavesims and for tropical/beachy sims :D A rolled scroll would do it for medieval sims.
What could it be replaced with for victorians sims? A huge ham? A pitchfork maybe? ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 July 11, 15:57:59
Exactly - I do like -playing- sims 3 more, but until there is a way to mesh new items, I won't feel completed - unfortunately, I don't like sims 2 likes this computer - it graphic glitches like mad, and until I find a good spot for the laptop....

Anyway, I do wish it was possible to import the landscaping stuff to Sims 2, and the landscaping stuff from 2 to 3.  I love the look of the new stuff, but the stuff from 2 is better for putting right up against a house.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 11, 16:31:41
Anyway, I do wish it was possible to import the landscaping stuff to Sims 2
But then you'ld have all these huge pixels for the outside of your sims lots. All the other lots would look horrible even at the max detail option. It was almost okay for night shots but it ruined all my day shots :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 11, 17:47:18
Don't be so negative, CC will come to the rescue. Medieval players had all sort of CC to hide the technology in Sims 2. Painting tv, scroll phone, runic fire alarm. Crystall ball tv, hidden computers of all sorts etc... None of these were EA, it all was CC.
If someone made a mod that would graphically replace the sims 3 mobile phone with a banana, that would make it to play other theme. Well at least for prehistoric cavesims and for tropical/beachy sims :D A rolled scroll would do it for medieval sims.
What could it be replaced with for victorians sims? A huge ham? A pitchfork maybe? ;D

I don't think I'm being all that negative. In fact, it's only my consuming faith in the ingenuity of the Sims community that keeps me from reclaiming the 6+ gigs of hard drive space that Sims 3 takes up. But come on... It's obvious that EAxis has done everything possible to discourage independent, FREE modders/meshers from creating content for TS3. My hat's off to Pescado for the brilliant Awesomemod, but even he has even commented on the insanely convoluted coding. I don't pretend to understand the mechanics of the game engine but I listen to those who do.

I guess it's pissing in the wind to complain about the way EA ignores its customers' preferences. But jeez, you don't need a marketing degree from Wharton to understand that the popularity of this particular series is based on the ability to mod, mesh and recolor. I've been a Sims player since 2000 and I know that without CC, I would not only have shelved TS1 but I would never have bothered to invest in its EP packs or gone on to TS2. Hell, I even bought a new computer based on my Sims 1 needs. Crap from the EA store doesn't begin to meet my CC requirements.

My point in the post you've referenced is that I wish TS3 had been launched as an improvement on TS2, not a replacement for it. And, if the new game engine couldn't accommodate that, would it have been possible to make the existing content usable in TS3? All the thousands upon thousands of downloads, not to mention the hundreds of hours spent hunting for and downloading them, abandoned? No way! TS3 is utter fail in my book on that point alone. I admit I don't understand how the game works, any more than I understand what wyrd magicke goes on under the hood of my car when I turn the key. But it seems to me that the developers could have, if directed to by EA management, found ways to incorporate the nifty features of TS3 like integrated neighborhoods and the pattern/color customization without sacrificing the beloved features of TS2. But no, it seems like they said, "Make it as difficult as possible for anyone but us to create new content, so we can sell the stuff in our online store."

Yeah, I guess that does sound pretty negative. Okay, so I feel negative about this issue. God, I hate EA.





Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 11, 17:59:15
I totally agree with you on all your points. EA did everything to ruin it. The store items with the game being so empty is really the thing that irks me the most. EA sucks, it's not new anyway. They started with Bon Voyage and now they're getting better with it with each day that passes :(
But CC is already extremelly close to being done - I mean some new furniture mesh -  so just like Sims 2 and Sims 1 all that matters is the community of awesome modders, creators and recolorers! Nothing new either. And the harder EA tries to nuke CC, the more awesome CC makers and modders are. See it as a huge race and EA cheated and tried to make the other contestants fall :D And the winners are the modders.

So in a nuttshell: EA sucks since BV, CC rocks since Sims 1 :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 11, 18:04:22
Agreed. Let's go have a pizza and some beer, Dr. House!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 11, 18:20:45
Cheers, mate! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 11, 21:06:20
That had to have been the best thread derailment ever. :D
Back to business, then: Everyone must see this work of... art? Yeah, art. Or something. (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354430)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 July 11, 22:41:10
New skin replacement at GoS by TummyZa.  ;D

(http://i25.tinypic.com/19b3v6.jpg)

GET HERE! (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13191.0)

Pwns Peggy's crappy hairy skin, but since that one is free too for now, I didn't throw this into the Free vs. Pay thread.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 July 11, 23:03:30
That had to have been the best thread derailment ever. :D
Back to business, then: Everyone must see this work of... art? Yeah, art. Or something. (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354430)

It is so very awesome.  And so obviously a labor of love.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 12, 08:14:23
Lady Vader, your picture isn't working.


Anyone remember the "Diva" Hair Thomas made back on '05. For those who don't, here is a picture of it. Warning, its pretty bad:

(http://images.thesimsresource.com/scaled/492/w-570h-497-492979.jpg)


The person who did the plaid textures I posted a little back did a retexture of of with with nouk textures, and it doesn't look too bad now.

http://blog.naver.com/bluetohazel/20069368229

I just wonder if she got permission from Thomas to retexture it because he said it can't be recolored by anyone else. Not that I would care if she didn't get permission, its not like people from TSR get permission before they steal use things from the community.

This is ok to post this right, since its free content from a free site? Just a retexture of a free item from a pay site.

I do have to say though that the comments for Thomas' hairs are scary, especially the ones saying how realistic it looks, and there is even one where the person said it looks like their hair.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SnarkyShark on 2009 July 12, 14:24:16
Quote from: rum nate
...and there is even one where the person said it looks like their hair.


Was her user name either CashPussy or Rentahole? Because, obviously, she must have been a cheap hooker using her dead john's laptop to visit TSR.

I also saw the new version and thought the new texture was an improvement, but I can only imagine Thomass' reaction - "No, no, NO! It's supposed to look like a gob of melted wax!"


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SamanthaS on 2009 July 12, 15:50:53
That Redneck mansion is so awesome I keep going back to look at it. I think I'll have to stick it in my game just so I can gawk from time to time.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 12, 16:49:47
Anyone remember the "Diva" Hair Thomas made back on '05.

The person who did the plaid textures I posted a little back did a retexture of of with with nouk textures, and it doesn't look too bad now.

http://blog.naver.com/bluetohazel/20069368229

I just wonder if she got permission from Thomas to retexture it because he said it can't be recolored by anyone else. Not that I would care if she didn't get permission, its not like people from TSR get permission before they steal use things from the community.

You're right, it looks fairly decent. Took a fair few minutes to find the download link, though. Babelfish was no help.

I remember downloading that mesh of Thomas's way back when I first started playing TS2, and though I thought the style itself had possibilities, the textures were so crappy that I soon deleted the whole thing.

S/he includes the mesh but I seriously doubt she obtained permission first. Had the class to at least acknowledge and thank the source, however, which, as we know, is not always common practice.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 July 12, 20:47:00
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Lady Vader, your picture isn't working.

That's weird, I see the pic just fine.

As for the permission for retexturing, I would've normally stood behind following the TOU. However, this mesh and TOU came from TSR, free or not, in this case as far as I'm concerned, it don't matter. And if Thomas minds his objects being recolored without permission, well, he should have thought about that before he joined a site that on a regular basis violates TOU's, the EULA, basic manners, good taste and who knows what else... <an image of Evi's kid clothes comes to her mind, and she wonders if those somehow don't fall under some paragraph...> Ughhh, that was a bad one  ;D Either way, this only makes me wanna quote a good, old saying "What Jack does to god, god does to Jack."


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 12, 20:53:07
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Lady Vader, your picture isn't working.

That's weird, I see the pic just fine.

For me its the tiny pics filler image that says "This image or video has been moved or deleted." Eh, its not that huge of a deal, I went to the site to look at the skins anyway.

I didn't know they included the mesh with the file (granted I didn't download it right away, so I wouldn't have known anyway). Its from TSR, so I don't think we will have issue with her/him doing that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 July 12, 21:01:28


For me its the tiny pics filler image that says "This image or video has been moved or deleted." Eh, its not that huge of a deal, I went to the site to look at the skins anyway.


Thats how it shows up for me too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 13, 00:29:43
Me too. Tiny pic deleted. lol then we ALL have a problem... Except Lady Vader ???
*ding!* Aaaah yeah it must be due to the cache of her browser!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 July 13, 01:43:25
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"This image or video has been moved or deleted."

Fixed it. Probably got deleted because it didn't suit PG-13 rules. Who knows, maybe a bit of pixel bush can actually deprave the already depraved internet...  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 13, 02:32:52
As for the permission for retexturing, I would've normally stood behind following the TOU. However, this mesh and TOU came from TSR, free or not, in this case as far as I'm concerned, it don't matter. And if Thomas minds his objects being recolored without permission, well, he should have thought about that before he joined a site that on a regular basis violates TOU's, the EULA, basic manners, good taste and who knows what else... <an image of Evi's kid clothes comes to her mind, and she wonders if those somehow don't fall under some paragraph...> Ughhh, that was a bad one  ;D Either way, this only makes me wanna quote a good, old saying "What Jack does to god, god does to Jack."

It's natural to feel that way. However, IMO it's hypocritical to condemn the practice for one artist and condone it for another.

Mind you, I'm of the opinion that meshers should always allow recolors. Meshes are useless without good recolors. Requiring a link back for the mesh itself is fine, and it's a classy gesture on the part of recolorists to ask permission and give credit. That's the way a free community should work. Respect and sharing.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 13, 02:59:44
For all your Sims 3 females here are manucured toe & finger nails recolorable ingame as you like! For all the ages (Yay, finally something for teens & kids!) and you can also apply (tiny!) patterns on the nails :o Now, that's awesome!
Fancy feet: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354194
Fancy fingers: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354024
I can't believe I nearly missed these huh.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 July 13, 03:21:30
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It's natural to feel that way. However, IMO it's hypocritical to condemn the practice for one artist and condone it for another.

Mind you, I'm of the opinion that meshers should always allow recolors. Meshes are useless without good recolors. Requiring a link back for the mesh itself is fine, and it's a classy gesture on the part of recolorists to ask permission and give credit. That's the way a free community should work. Respect and sharing.

I absolutely agree with you, El Diablo. On both cases. However, over the last year I've developed so much loathing for TSR, that I don't mind being a hypocrite when they're in question. Pretty much unless I'm absolutely proven that a TSR creator still sticks around them only because he or she is a complete and utter cretin - after all, it's not an idiot's fault he was born one -, I don't mind anything that'll spoil their blood a bit. I might not aprove the certain practice that caused it, but whatever it would be, in their case, it's not gonna make me cry either.

Quote
For all your Sims 3 females here are manucured toe & finger nails recolorable ingame as you like! For all the ages (Yay, finally something for teens & kids!) and you can also apply (tiny!) patterns on the nails  Now, that's awesome!
Fancy feet: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354194
Fancy fingers: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354024
I can't believe I nearly missed these huh.

Lovely find, Dr. House. It actually amazes me how quickly people are cracking TS3. Must not as complicated as it seemed in the beginning.

***

Here (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354593) I found a pair of shirts for the game at MTS by Shep. They look very nice in-game  ;D
And here (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=354616) a sporty v-neck dress by Maxwell755, also MTS.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 13, 03:35:39
It actually amazes me how quickly people are cracking TS3. Must not as complicated as it seemed in the beginning.
Me too. Manicure took some time for Sims 2 and they're here already for Sims 3! Now we have stocking, gloves, boots, watches etc I would have never imagined all these beautiful stuff when the game was released, really! The best thing with Sims 3 is not having to grab a ton of recolors, simply grab the tiny mesh and off you go ^^ That's a LOT of space & headaches saving.

The dress is way too short for my taste but the cache-coeur top is so lovely! *melts* Thanks for the link, totally missed it :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 July 13, 03:57:18
The problem with recolor files is gone, yes, but now we have a pattern problem, even if you download just one color option of it. Hopefully someone will come up with a method of foldering stuff for TS3 just like TS2, cause I don't know about you guys, but the contents of my package folder are already changing into a royal mess.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 13, 04:07:24
Yeah but pattern is just one small file for all the colors you want :D I'm sure a fifth of my sims 2 downloads are recolors.

Subfoldering already exists for sims 3 (I don't need too many subfoldering for now so I only made Mods, Patterns, Default and Bodyshop Items for now), let me get you the MATY link that'll explain it, gimme a sec.
EDIT: here! http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15176.msg444885.html#msg444885
I changed it to point directly at the ressource file. Here's a pic of my packages folder, not too crowded, ain't it? Nice & clean. I keep the awesome mod & its optional files at the root since it's updated almost every day, sometimes twice a day lol
(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5426/packagesfolder.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 July 13, 04:41:21
Ah, perfect! Thanks a lot  ;D Now all I have to do is figure out how to best categorize all my stuff, so I don't mix it up in the end anyway - yeah, I'm actually capable of that even after organizing everything in the neatest way possible.

***

Another little beauty I found, painting replacements by Gelydh at GoS: Follow this path to grab (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12864.0) ;D Not nessecarily a fresh find, but I don't think anyone posted them here before (or I'm just blind). Don't know about you guys, but I don't mind a bit that these replace the maybe-not-ugly but flat EA paintings in-game.

EDIT:
To not take up space, 2 more on the cool replacements for EA stuff in TS3, both at GoS by M.Calero:
Book cover replacements: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12914.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12914.0)
Billboard replacements: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12932.0 (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=12932.0)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 July 13, 22:49:11
Oooh, those are great.

Back to The Sims 2 [Im gonna stick to it for some time] - This site (http://simplelife.chagasi.com/) has the best eyebrows I've seen in a long, long time [RenSim's eyebrows are great too, but, technically, RenSim is a paysiste, so... yeah]. They also have great stubbles/beards and THE facial effects - you'll never have to use another eyebag.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 July 14, 04:45:03
Those are niiiiiice brows, but are they binned?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ashantimania on 2009 July 14, 11:46:24
That I don't know  :-[ I haven't used them yet, but I think they are.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 14, 16:27:17
So for equity here's the Sims 3 cool find of the day: default replacement for the 3 kinds of lipsticks YAY!
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/borrowedcrimeicons/Sims/bipolarprev.jpg)
First grab the files here http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13250.0 and only install the matt and wet replacements, then grab the updated glow type here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13269.0, take the default flavor of it, delete the simcompositor cache and you're set! Your sims will have beautiful default lipsticks :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 14, 18:02:36
That lipstick is really nice. EA really fucked up on some of the makeup. But I think the worst is some of the eyeshadows. Don't use pink or red eyeshadow, even on the setting where the least would go on, it is still really bad looking.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 14, 19:31:06
Cheers to Nymphy! (http://nocturnalsims.dreamwidth.org/36000.html)
There's all kinds of new goodies at Nocturnal Sims. She's on a roll!
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/Onaroll.gif)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 15, 06:54:07
Three Sims 2 beddings for Sims 3.

They were made with the TSR tool, just in case you don't want anything made with it.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15914.msg457761.html#new


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 July 17, 00:32:50
I am loving this recolor of the OFB robot-making station.

(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/MTS2_C_Hickin_962028_untitled.jpg)

by C.Hickin at MTS (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356036)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 July 17, 03:53:14
That bench is totally kick-ass! But you know what would make it even more kick-ass? Steampunk/grunge/etc. robot recolours to use instead of the EAxis Rainbow Brite coloured ones.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 17, 04:19:56
There are some of those out there. Someone made them, I'm guessing someone at GoS. I have them. They're nice.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 July 17, 04:25:12
I've seen toy robot recolours, but not ones for the hydrobot etc. I guess I'll have to look harder.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 July 17, 04:30:07
Quote from: falln_angel
That bench is totally kick-ass! But you know what would make it even more kick-ass? Steampunk/grunge/etc. robot recolours to use instead of the EAxis Rainbow Brite coloured ones.

Steampunk Robot Set (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=275722) by sherabhim at MTS
skin tone, not robots, but could be adapted, if she allows it

edit: Replace the servo mesh with adult human meshes, and use that skin on them.

edit2: I'm sure these were posted before, reposting since you asked about them.

(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww82/CatOfWar/sherabhim.jpg?t=1247805069)

(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww82/CatOfWar/MTS2_sherahbim_724969_inline.jpg?t=1247804796)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 17, 10:07:09
Clean Bot, Munchie Bot, and Hydro Bot, including docking stations, in steampunk and old metal. Or at least that's what the Clean Installer is telling me. It's also telling me that they're by the ever awesome Azaya, so I'm guessing they're at her LiveJournal... [that's me gone away for a few minutes] ...yep!
Found 'em here (http://sixtylilies.livejournal.com/24393.html) and here (http://sixtylilies.livejournal.com/26826.html#cutid1). Because Azaya's shit's the shit. ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: falln_angel on 2009 July 17, 16:01:03
Thank you! Those are gorgeous.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 18, 19:48:39
ZOMG, Nymphy's still on that roll! She's got much better default replacements (http://nocturnalsims.dreamwidth.org/) for a bunch of things. I haven't made it through everything yet, but I think this one (http://nocturnalsims.dreamwidth.org/37805.html) is my favorite. 84724333673 cheers for Nymphy!

Edit! Just a heads up, you may want to compressorize those files, though. I downloaded them all, compressorized, and saved 26 MB. That's a tad big! Reduced them to 6, though, so that's not bad at all.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsrocks on 2009 July 18, 19:52:05
I love the replacement for the Nightlife outfit, it's so much cuter. And I like the other one that makes the dress more decent looking instead of showing half the Sim's chest.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 18, 23:40:13
Regina at BogSims Institute made European type street replacements. It comes in four parts, sidewalk, sidewalk corner, street lines, and the street. They can be used as a group or separately depending on your preferences.  I like the darker street color and the grey sidewalks, so I'm going to get them, but keep the yellow lines since that is what I am used to being in the US.

Link: http://www.bogsims.com/sims3/index.html

You have to go under Objects>Regina>Around Town to find it.


ETA: Here is a pic of what it looks like if you do what I did, take just the sidewalk, sidewalk corner, and the street but not the lines. I really like how it looks, it looks more like a street here than without these replacements. They do now show up when you are in map view, but that isn't a big thing, its not like you will be spending huge amounts of time in map view.

(http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/nate1678/Screenshot-68.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 July 19, 03:39:46
Well I have dabbled in "nouking" my fair share of sims 2 hairs for some time now. Nothing broke my heart more when it didn't appear to be so easy in sims 3 to "retexture" hair files. Well Ja, over at GOS has replaced those terribad EA hair textures with pooklet's edits of vintage d edit's of nouk's textures! All men hair here. (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13285.0)All child hair here. (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13339.0) Hopefully Ja will write an in depth tut as well so we can get some different textures in as well.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 19, 15:43:03
rum_nate, now that's awesome! I'll grab the full options since I like european style. The default one makes me think of a rollercoaster with that ugly yellow line huh. Thanks for the link :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 19, 18:14:54
 HystericalParoxysms first custom hairs for TS3 are up

Cherub Hair -http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356940 - child through elder

Nouks Sport it Short it Unisex - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356951 - child through elder




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 19, 20:10:30
I loved that nouk hair, and it looks really good in Sims 3. And the file size is a hell of a lot smaller than the store and peggy's. I really can't wait to see more hairs come out. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 19, 20:33:33
Me neither- Hystericalparoxysm, Nouk and Augustin's hairs are most of the one's I use in game - so if HP is converting her and nouks hairs and Augistin converts some of his old ones or makes new ones for TS3 I will be good to go - I can't wait for more curly hair it is really what is lacking in base game - and a default 40's one


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Miikan on 2009 July 19, 21:05:02
I'm so happy to see so many wonderful things. I love these hairs! Unfortunately for me, I won't be able to play Sims till september ( not at home, too old notebook with me :'( ) But! seeing all this stuff makes my waiting worth every minute spent without the game. It seems I'll became downloading demon quite soon  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 19, 22:13:33
Cherub hair is also for both genders. I'm really happy, HP stated that she'll convert all Nouk's hairs, that's extremely good news! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 20, 00:17:30
My new male Sim has the Nouk conversion and my little girl Sim has the Cherub hair they look terrific in game


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: THE Antagonist on 2009 July 21, 22:10:30
Some tattoos, hair replacing and shredded female stocking from Kitty Klan.

http://www.kittyklan.com/tattoos.html (http://www.kittyklan.com/tattoos.html)
http://www.kittyklan.com/grooming.html (http://www.kittyklan.com/grooming.html)
http://www.kittyklan.com/boutique.html (http://www.kittyklan.com/boutique.html)

I've tested not yet those new creations, but the ones uploaded on MTS works just fine and empowers my badass sims.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 21, 23:04:15
Cool! I grabbed a lot of her stuff on MTS, but those beard replacements are interesting :P

Edit: Here's a good one: All About Style is doing Sims 3 stuff now! She has done interesting stuff like ectracting top part of a dress, etc. The new clothes are quickly adding up ^^ So go grab the shinies here: http://www.all-about-style.com/sims3.html
Here's a nice jean and a top she's done :)
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/475/fajeans3aastyle.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 22, 00:39:39
They have some really nice denim textures over there on All About Style too. I had to restrain my self, I'm racking up way too much CC and we don't even have new meshes yet.  :-\


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 22, 01:54:46
I grabbed the jeans - all the shoes- and the shirts over there- I am trying to avoid patterns unless something really good comes out otherwise it could quickly grow to the number of recolors I have in my TS2 downloads folder- lately it has been mostly clothing - though I wish someone would come out with some kids stuff other than t-shirts- my kiddles and guys are sadly neglected in comparison to my adult female sims.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: MrsBulldog on 2009 July 22, 03:55:54
Some tattoos, hair replacing and shredded female stocking from Kitty Klan.

http://www.kittyklan.com/tattoos.html (http://www.kittyklan.com/tattoos.html)
http://www.kittyklan.com/grooming.html (http://www.kittyklan.com/grooming.html)
http://www.kittyklan.com/boutique.html (http://www.kittyklan.com/boutique.html)

I've tested not yet those new creations, but the ones uploaded on MTS works just fine and empowers my badass sims.

OMG, I'm all a'drool! Thanks for sharing these, I didn't even know about this site (just some of kitty's stuff on MTS)! Total simsgasm. Ungh!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: THE Antagonist on 2009 July 22, 10:52:37
HystericalParoxysms first custom hairs for TS3 are up

Cherub Hair -http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356940 - child through elder

Nouks Sport it Short it Unisex - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356951 - child through elder




I already installed 'em and like cherub hairs a lot. But i still to understand not a thing: must you download ALL packages in .rar archive, or only one?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 22, 12:38:32
 You have to extract all of them to your C:Program Files/Electronic Arts/Sims 3/Mods/Pacakages file  if you want them to show up for each age -child to elder- each package is for a separate age group


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsrocks on 2009 July 22, 13:29:06
Simgaroop who brought you the brilliant recolours of the Maxis University bulletin boards has come out with 12 more!

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356000

They have Sims 3 paintings and pictures on them, and they are fab.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 22, 14:43:48
Jasmine posted two new living room sets at Sims in Paris

Living Room 6- http://www.simsinparis.net/living.php?start_from=5&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&

Living Room 7 - http://www.simsinparis.net/living.php?start_from=6&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&


Sadly according to the news here- http://www.simsinparis.net/news.php this is probably going to be the last update for the site - nothing has been indicated as to whether they are leaving BPS or not though Jasmine is no longer listed in the creators section.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsrocks on 2009 July 22, 15:10:14
They're beautiful. Simsinparis has some gorgeous stuff.
I hope they won't stop creating, I love their furniture.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 22, 17:38:55
Their stuff is beautiful though I am not a fan of the beds- but this has been coming for awhile- the site disappeared completely off the radar for quite some time and then Jasmine and Delphine dropped in  back in March to say they were working on the sets they just posted and then disappeared again until day before yesterday when Jasmine posted in the news section that the two sets would probably be the last update for the site. It is sad- it is always sad when good creators retire - but real life takes precedence over The Sims any day and that is generally why creators retire or leave the community.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Qing on 2009 July 22, 21:18:55
but real life takes precedence over The Sims any day and that is generally why creators retire or leave the community.

Now if we can get a few dozen T$R goons artists to realize this...



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 22, 21:28:19
Jasmine posted two new living room sets at Sims in Paris

Living Room 6- http://www.simsinparis.net/living.php?start_from=5&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&

Living Room 7 - http://www.simsinparis.net/living.php?start_from=6&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&


Sadly according to the news here- http://www.simsinparis.net/news.php this is probably going to be the last update for the site - nothing has been indicated as to whether they are leaving BPS or not though Jasmine is no longer listed in the creators section.

Thanks for the links! I haven't visited SIP for a while and missed these. Very sad to learn that they might not be around for much longer, but alas, I think with Sims 3 we may see more sites devoted to Sims 2 going bye bye. People seem to feel after all this time that there's not much left to offer creatively for Sims 2, it's all been done before.  :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 22, 23:15:09
Yes but for every old creator that retires a new one is born- For instance Lurania,  Snaitf, and  Robokitty at MTS and , Ja. M Calero  and Random Noir at GOS  have some great TS3 stuff (at least at the level of creativity that the available tools and techniques allow so far) and the only one of them that actually created anything substantial for TS2 was Snaitf. We also still have a lot of the old vets that began creating in the TS1 and  TS2 days like HystericalParoxysm, Aikea Guinea, Kate and SalixTree at Parsimonious all of whom seem to be in it for the long haul even if The Sims goes all the way to TS10 (as much as I love the game I hope not TS3 already pushes it with sequelitis)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 July 23, 03:04:37
Engelchen made some beautiful recolors of the Shakerlicious kitchen. (http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=10368)
Everything she makes is full of WIN!

(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/Bild8-5.jpg)

(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/Bild14-3.jpg)

(http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo20/paperbeth/Bild1-4.jpg)

I assume everyone already has this gorgeous kitchen set by buggybooz, but just in case there is someone who doesn't, you can get it at MTS (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=342880), or you can use the link provided by engelchen. ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 July 23, 08:57:35
Ooooh. Wow, those are really pretty.
Wait.
Now there's a fridge?!  :o
:dies:


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 23, 09:05:04
I really need to play Sims 2 again. I have been busy with Sims 3 for the past month, and these last 2 days I have been going through Sims 1 content (had to delete a ton of crap I didn't want anymore, deleted over 2000 files). I downloaded that kitchen when buggybooz posted it, but never went to play with it.

Here is a lost and found for Sims 3, and I don't really understand why they hid it. Has anyone noticed the lack of gender door, like for restrooms and locker rooms? They are in the game, just hidden. Snaitf found them and posted them on MTS.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=357873

Why they hid them, I have not clue, unless it is because we don't have stores we can see the inside of, so they figured no one would need them, but we have locker rooms and restrooms at other lots that would need them. The only thing I don't like about the door is the sign to show that its male or female. I hope someone can edit it sooner or later to make it better looking.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 23, 16:04:59
There's already a Lost & Found?! Gosh! Thanks for the linkie :)
Duh the catalogue text is awesome ;D gee I hope it'll display correctly in my language.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Qing on 2009 July 23, 21:18:13
Oh man, do those kind of fridges take me back.  That's a beautiful kitchen set! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 July 24, 01:00:22
I've done some stuff since sims 1 days....just haven't had the time to do more than try and make a different colour plant [and failing] and make some patterns.  Its been hectic lately and so until things slow down, I can't do much.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 24, 01:09:56
I found this site today and just fell in love with the paintings for TS3. They are really cute

http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/



To balance out the TS3'ness there is a new set by Studio 8-3-3 out at Easter Egg

http://niaolong.net/forum/index.php?topic=555.msg5493#msg5493


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 24, 02:28:34
I found this site today and just fell in love with the paintings for TS3. They are really cute

http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/
Yet another blog I didn't know! :) Very nice paintings indeed!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 24, 03:45:12


I have been looking for freesites for my finds community at LJ and came across this at GOS. The creator mentioned over at GOS in the Sims 3 Best Finds threads - I was not even aware of it until today and my freesite list in my bookmarks has somewhere around 75 or so active totally free Sims 1, 2, and 3 sites - Paysites is somewhere around 14 and other than ATS and Holy Simoly  I only go to those if I need one of their free meshes for something made by a free creator or for ammunition for the uglishes smuttiest, and free site pawns threads.

 For my finds comm at LJ - I define an inactive community as one in which the creators have not uploaded anything new in more than 3 months - and have not left posts stating why e.g SAU's site issues so a lot of the paysites at Sims Cave and in the Booty are not included in my lists for comparison posts etc. If the number of free vs pay sites is any indicator - PMBD is doing it's job well - Though I am quite certain I don't have anywhere a complete list of either one


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 24, 19:19:40
There are hi top versions of the low top skate shoes. Up close they do look blurry though.

http://www.casas-cosas-sims.com/moda-fashion-f78/udok-shoes-nueva-mesh-t3326.htm#41443


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 July 24, 19:33:46
Engelchen made some beautiful recolors of the Shakerlicious kitchen. (http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=10368)
Everything she makes is full of WIN!

OMG, thank you so much for that link! Fantastic recolors of what's become one of my favorite kitchen sets.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 July 25, 02:05:31
I found this site today and just fell in love with the paintings for TS3. They are really cute

http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/

These are new and not replacements for existing paintings, correct? They are indeed cute and tasteful, but I am skipping the ones with English writing. I am kind of anal like that, but I only want Simlish in my game or it kind of breaks my suspension of disbelief. :P

There are hi top versions of the low top skate shoes. Up close they do look blurry though.

http://www.casas-cosas-sims.com/moda-fashion-f78/udok-shoes-nueva-mesh-t3326.htm#41443

Oh dear god, they are using Peggy's femmy emo wig on that poor male sim!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 25, 03:18:45
Yes, they are totally new paintings not replacements- she does some really great work and some of her paintings are by a friend of hers that is an artist- not just classic artist recolors, movie poster recolors and fantasy art recolors like I do for TS2.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 25, 03:42:18
I too prefer simlish ingame, sadly simlish items are so rare. I was once PWND at MTS for requesting simlish recolors for an item LOL. Grabbed the tropical paintings, these don't need simlish translation ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 July 25, 03:48:06
I too prefer simlish ingame, sadly simlish items are so rare. I was once PWND at MTS for requesting simlish recolors for an item LOL. Grabbed the tropical paintings, these don't need simlish translation ::)

MTS are n00btards only one step up from the Exchange.

Well someone put up a TS3 style simlish font at MTS so once the tools are a little more robust and user friendly to create new paintings I will probably just make my own. :P

And yeah. I did get all hers that didn't have any text. They're quite nice.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 25, 04:39:53
I was thinking, wouldn't paint.net and the posted simlish font enough to change them to simlish? You could export the png or dds with Postal, modify it with paint.net and reimport it (only Sims3PE seems to do the reimporting correctly). And Zam! Simlish paints. Okay sure it's not as easy as it sounds but hey simlish is worthy.
I've been doing that to remove stupid logos for some clothes. It's tedious but it works.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 July 25, 04:59:46
So is TS3 simlish that different than TS2?  Cause that one looked weird to me, I like the TS2 font better.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 25, 05:20:37
So is TS3 simlish that different than TS2?  Cause that one looked weird to me, I like the TS2 font better.
According to the posted simlish font yes it changed during the making of Sims 3. I too prefer the old one though, it's more round. What is odd is that I noticed the old one was in one of the previews pics - the one with the shop sign and the females sims walking by. Now I can't remember if this shop sign is indeed in the game. ??? I think I saw the new one one the movie/concert posters. i will check the pics.
Here's the preview pic with the old font:
(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2785/thesims3screens20080320.th.jpg) (http://img268.imageshack.us/i/thesims3screens20080320.jpg/)

Here's an example ingame of the new font:
(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/90/sim15.th.jpg) (http://img268.imageshack.us/i/sim15.jpg/)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 25, 08:49:43
That exact sign is not in the game, but a modified version of that building is.

(http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/nate1678/Screenshot-79.jpg)

So they turned the clothing shop into the spa. Eh, I really don't mind much.

And Dr House, where you say "Here's an example ingame of the new font:" Is there supposed to be something there?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 25, 14:41:08
Well click on the second pic to make it bigger, it's the yellow sign on the restaurant. It shows the new simlish font ingame ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 25, 14:47:42
It wasn't showing up for me when I posted that. I don't know why though.  :P

ETA: Heres a nice Sims 3 hair.

http://einfachsimlisch.ei.funpic.de/Sims3/index.html

Click on genetics then hair to find it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 July 25, 16:10:24
It wasn't showing up for me when I posted that. I don't know why though.  :P

ETA: Heres a nice Sims 3 hair.

http://einfachsimlisch.ei.funpic.de/Sims3/index.html

Click on genetics then hair to find it.

Funny, TSR just put up pay versions of those:

http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims3-hair-hairstyles-female/title/Elegance/id/899376/

http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims3-hair-hairstyles-female/title/Longer%20bangs/id/898565/

The second one is a little different though, theirs is longer bangs with longer hair. Their second one is free for the moment but the bun is pay which is dumb because it's just the maid without the hat. Someone at MATY also did it.

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Posting to share the maid hair with the frilly cap removed.  The hair works quite well as an updo on its own, with the cap taken off.  I made this a while ago, but was mostly inspired to share it after seeing that the same hairstyle (sans cap) is being offered at TSR as a pay item.  This is to spite them for asking people to subscribe to buy an in-game, EA hairstyle that they haven't made (seriously, it takes a minute to remove the cap and anyone with the tools can do it).

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,16063.0.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 25, 17:40:00
Holy Shit, T$R makes a simple alpha edit of the maid's hair and makes it PAY?! Fuck these assholes! >:(
Thank you both for these links, I'm now in heaven! :-* Hairs! Want!!

rum_nate, there's a small problem with the spanish tennis shoes you linked, problems only arise for the female sims:
(http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4633/screenshot10v.th.jpg) (http://img16.imageshack.us/i/screenshot10v.jpg/)(http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/914/screenshot12pam.th.jpg) (http://img16.imageshack.us/i/screenshot12pam.jpg/)
With a full bottom the clipping is bearable, but with anything shorter the legs are broken. Not such a big problem, but female townies could be generated with these and short bottoms and we'ld need to "dresser" them. I'm keeping them though. Why creators only make new tennis shoes for males but NONE for females?! ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 25, 18:36:17
I saw that when I got in game to look at them. I'll have to check back from time to time to see if they update it to fix that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Irish Wench on 2009 July 26, 04:32:21
http://www.parsimonious.org/ (http://www.parsimonious.org/)

Parsimonious posted their Sims 2 6th Anniversary Special. 40 pages of goodies to celebrate!

Just click on the box on the left that says "For The Sims 2 6 Now Online"

 :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 26, 07:49:51
I went and read the comments for the pay edited maid's hair, and I love this comment:

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This is a hair that comes with the game - the maid hair, with the frilly cap removed.  I hope you aren't suggesting you meshed this...?

This was AnoeskaB's response to that:

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Tweiland, the Workshop needs to be developed a bit more before we will be able to import complete new meshes. In the mean time we'll do the most we can do with the material we have, which means modifying existing hairmeshes. Exactly the same as happened it the early period of hairmeshing for Sims 2. :)

ETA: Inge has made 3 living chairs act like dining chairs, that way you can use them with the chess table.

Link: http://simlogical.com/slforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=8677fbd3b6df839e2867499255fa2897&topic=2902.0


And Syera on BogSims Institute has made, get this, necklaces. Yes, necklaces that are separate from clothing. What it is a combo necklace and bracelet cloned from a glove, so you can use a watch to hide the bracelet if you don't want it. They are pretty much 2-D like all the necklaces that are on clothing.

Link: http://www.bogsims.com/sims3/index.html

Go under Wardrobe then Syera, then Jewelry to find them.


Edit 2: Has anyone seen theses. Snaitf made buyable rock, seed, insect, and fish spawners. You place them on your sim's home lot and it spawns things depending on what one(s) you put in. There are 2 draw backs though, they are invisible and underground, so if you want to get rid of them you will have one hell of a time finding them. There are also a lot of objects to go with these, so they kinda clutter up the rock category.

Links:

Rock- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=358405
Fish- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=358197
Seeds- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=358301
Insects- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=358267


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 26, 12:45:42
I didn't find much for Ts2 today but did find these for Ts3- Papercat already has tons of pretty and good makeup for tS3 - here http://papercatsims3.blogspot.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 26, 16:08:51
I haven't seen this get any attention anywhere and I am kinda surprised.  We keep talking  about the progress that is being made in developing for Sims 3 but no one is talking bout the fact that Wes put up the first independent working in game OBJECT Friday evening!

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=358398

It may not be the Prettiest thing but it is tradition of sorts and groundbreaking at best so enjoy. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 July 26, 16:14:06
I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes along - can't wait to try and convert my meshes to the new game and make new things too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 26, 16:17:21
I totally saw that when I was getting the links to the spawners I posted above, and it didn't click it was a new object. And I have seen that like 3 times, and people all over the place talking about the first independent working in game object, and I couldn't find it. I really need more sleep, and stop reading stuff in the late night/early morning.  :P

But anyway it is great we have gotten to this point just 53 days after the game came out. I really can't wait to see the stuff people make new and convert once all the tools are up and working. And it is so great we won't have to worry about getting the millions of recolors of the objects we end up downloading.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 26, 16:21:45
Just popped back in to post that there is apparently also a .....New Object Cloner tool!!

http://www.simlogical.com/Sims3ToolsForum/index.php?PHPSESSID=da80bc33478cd9590e24958c616531de&board=20.0

Yay!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lgphoto on 2009 July 26, 21:14:49
http://www.parsimonious.org/ (http://www.parsimonious.org/)

Parsimonious posted their Sims 2 6th Anniversary Special. 40 pages of goodies to celebrate!

Just click on the box on the left that says "For The Sims 2 6 Now Online"

 :-*

Thanks for posting that! For those of us who are still sticking to Sims 2.....

I looove Parsimonious. Their stuff is full of win!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 July 26, 22:10:06
Adele has a made a new set for Sims2...beautiful as always  http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=358710 
but guessing that EVERYONE is trying to dl it today cause I am having a helluva time lol. I'm sure it will be worth the wait though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Qing on 2009 July 27, 20:49:48
Wow...I absolutely, positively, indubitably am in LOVE with those chairs! It's no wonder why everyone is in such a rush to get them in their games! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SamanthaS on 2009 July 27, 21:01:08
Adele has a made a new set for Sims2...beautiful as always  http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=358710  
but guessing that EVERYONE is trying to dl it today cause I am having a helluva time lol. I'm sure it will be worth the wait though.

If you're still having trouble downloading that set from MTS you can get it here, too: http://www.wickednoukfamily.com/forums/index.php?topic=1290.msg8620#msg8620

It's from the Wicked Nouk Family's Aspiration Gift from March.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 27, 23:07:35
I got lost in the spanish intraweb dimension and found these new shoes for Sims 3 males! ;D
(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2640/chanclasveraniegashombr.jpg)
Grab them here: http://www.sims-extremos.com.ar/foro/viewtopic.php?f=145&t=20425
Scroll down on the same page to grab males trashed jeans as a bonus!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 28, 00:02:31
They are cute but I will not download them- I have already downloaded my allotted content for TS3 today. Besides stuff is coming out so quickly that I have decided not to do what I did with tS2 and download every little thing I think is cute unless it is  especially well done or by a favorite creator . It makes keeping track of downloads hard and since subfoldering is slightly more of a pain in the butt in TS3, I don't want to have anymore subfolders than I must.


This is one of my favorite sites so far for the Sims 3- http://papercatsims3.blogspot.com/.  (http://papercatsims3.blogspot.com/.)She has some really great makeup here including some great lipstick, freckles and bandaids.


And this really adorable beach lot at All4Sims- I don't normally download lots but have made an exception for this here Kitten has a new beach lot at All4Sims this lot is gorgeous and I am tempted to download it myself http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=10501&sid= (http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=10501&sid=)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 28, 11:51:27
Someone converted Agustin's Cute Modern Hair for the Sims 3.

Link: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359375


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: captaincaliena on 2009 July 28, 14:05:51
They are cute but I will not download them- I have already downloaded my allotted content for TS3 today. Besides stuff is coming out so quickly that I have decided not to do what I did with tS2 and download every little thing I think is cute unless it is  especially well done or by a favorite creator .

Ah yes, very nicely put.  I did the exact same thing with TS2, and I'm desperately trying to avoid it with TS3 as well.


......But I DLed those awesome ripped jeans that you posted, Dr. House.  I couldn't help myself.  I'm weak!!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 28, 15:11:25
I tested the spanish stuff ingame. the sandals are okay, eventhough the third model doesn't look like the pic at all. Of course what I really wanted was that third closed sandal model :-[ Meh but who cares, it's a new shoe type for male so it's really unique, I'm keeping them 'til someone makes better ones.

The ripped jean on the same page looks AMAZING ingame :o It's really the most beautiful ripped jean I've found so far, it looks so real that it's scary - without any photoshopped pic effect. I'm crossing my fingers that he'll convert them to female as they're like 1500% better than the female ripped jeans I've found so far. Really guys, grab the jeans they're worthy :P

LOL I'm the first downloader of the fixed Agustin's lovely hair! I've been hammering the page trying to download and it kept 404 me, refreshed the page and the download title changed to 'description: gap fixed - 0 downloads'! Jolly day, finally a free long hair! I don't really like short hairs for females, the store one is way enough for my use so I never installed HP's ones. Now I finally have a free hair in my game *proud*

Edit: RandomNoir posted his sequin patterns (at last!), grab the shiny here: http://linna.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359518&goto=newpost&postedt=1#post2746289


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: captaincaliena on 2009 July 28, 16:53:36
The ripped jean on the same page looks AMAZING ingame :o It's really the most beautiful ripped jean I've found so far, it looks so real that it's scary - without any photoshopped pic effect. I'm crossing my fingers that he'll convert them to female as they're like 1500% better than the female ripped jeans I've found so far. Really guys, grab the jeans they're worthy :P

Oh my little hopeful heart can only dream!  Want new female ripped jeans.......*wipes drool* 



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 28, 17:22:34
I want some ripped female jeans too, and ones that are a little higher than the ones that came with the game. I also want some for teens too.

Here is a overall dress for toddlers for sims 3. http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13558.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 28, 17:58:07
rum nate, got these yesterday. They're adorable ingame! :-*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 July 28, 20:21:40
This is all rather exciting.  I had sims 2 from the very beginning (and played sims 1) but for some reason only got into cc a couple years ago.  So I missed all the beginning stuff.  It's fun seeing what new thing people have come up with every day for 3.  Like the necklaces at BogSims (retarded EA giving us bracelets but tying necklaces to specific shirts/outfits).  I'm heading right over to check out the living chairs as dining chairs and Papercat's site.  And the ripped jeans at Dr. House's recommendation.

We will know we have arrived when we can have a version of the Shakerlicious kitchen in our Sims 3 game (omg, I love that kitchen so much and crave it for 3).  That's the thing I probably want most.  Well, that and more house plants and more paintings.  Not enough artwork and such for our houses.

ETA:  More paintings up at Sims Art Gallery.  And she was able to recolor the calla lily plant. 
(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/cfoley1215/botanicals.jpg)
http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/ (http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/)

I LOVE that we are getting non-default paintings.  If anyone knows of other sites producing pretty paintings, I demand you share!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 29, 01:41:48
Here's my sims 3 finds of the day. New shoes - and FREE !! Joy!
(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3514/tnfanewshoeaastyle.jpg)(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8940/tnshoepumpaastyle.jpg)
Sexy I tell ya! Get the shinies here: http://www.all-about-style.com/Sims3accessories.html

As a bonus Carrigon finally unlocked the pizza box for the catalogue, that's always the first 'CC' food that is done - like in sims 2! Fully working (haven't tested though) That's extremely useful for sim kids left alone getting hungry while mommy and daddy are working (or having fun ^^)
Get a pizza delivered to your game here: http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=3246

I'm delusioned. Why did assdude12 at MTS changed his shoes alpha edits of high heels to non-replacement ones? I don't want to clutter the shoes tab with all the shoes in double, that's silly. If someone wants the old replacement version of the 7 pairs of shoes PM me and I'll send it to you. I'm glad I grabbed it before he changed it. Too bad he won't make a non-replacement of his new set of 10 shoes alpha-edited. :-[


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 29, 01:51:49
He made them non replacement because there were a lot of people who wanted both his and the original one. I think he should give you both options, either replacement or non replacement.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 July 29, 01:56:23
I kinda like the idea of the shoes being non-rep, gives more variety. After all, don't sims fishing on high heels look funny?  ;D

Corset galore day today, I guess:

Lovely white one by Tiari: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359402 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359402)
And a goth one by Pipmom: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359264 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359264)

Plus, more cache-coeur by Shep: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359572 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359572)
A convertion of Agustin's Cute Modern Hair: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359375 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359375)
And an overall dress for toddlers: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359206 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=359206)
All FREE at MTS  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 July 29, 02:22:10
Argh! More painted on bows! Why does the Sims community love painted on bows? It looks like someone who got a tatoo of a picture of a bow. :P

I realize people want the cutesiness of it but to me you are limited to a large degree by the shape of the mesh. There's some things you can get away with with just shading and/or bump maps, but anything with significant depth is just no.

/rant


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 29, 03:16:05
Well yeah, just keep the old rep shoes available. Since the file already existed, why toss it away? Give people some choice. Oh well. At least I still have it. Yo pirates, don't hesitate/forget to PM me if you want the rep one.

Nice finds Lady Vader, but I'll hold back. I didn't download the first everyday corset posted at MTS as it was too sexy (too small in fact ;D) for my taste, so all these also go way beyond my need/acceptance. These corsets are lovely but why outfits? I'll have to wait for M.Calero, he said he'll unlock his gorgeous lingerie corset to an everyday top. The question is when :P

Painted bows has always been a problem in the sims community. When they're uber small, tiny and cute I'm okay with them but bigger ones should be burminated (that problematic size starts at that corset's bows size).

A. Guinea is working on a real 3D piercing set, there's a preview pic for yall to drool here: http://www.clubcrimsyn.com/Images/Screencaps/Sims3/071609/screenshot1113.html

Edit: I found some hair edits here: http://www.simplystyling.de/Sims3/homesims3.html (the third one featuring the maid's bun without the fringe has a wrong link though). And Einfach posted new edits for girls and toddlers: http://einfachsimlisch.ei.funpic.de/Sims3/index.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 July 29, 05:34:31
These corsets are lovely but why outfits? I'll have to wait for M.Calero, he said he'll unlock his gorgeous lingerie corset to an everyday top. The question is when :P

Have you tried Delphy's CTU? (CAS Texture Unitool) (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=348082)

It's super easy! Run the file called CASPartEditor.exe, load your clothing item, go to the tab called "Part Category", then look in the lower left there's a section called "Category" with a bunch of boxes for everyday, formal, sleep, bla bla.

Just check off the ones you want. Hit commit, then file, save, done.

Make a backup copy in case anything blows up. ;) It's way less complicated than it sounds.

Alternately, you can use a cheat to have all items available to be planned for any type outfit. 'unlockoutfits on' or 'disableclothingfilter true'

Changing subjects a bit, I found this new hair via the Exchange of all places

(http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1972/simsprocfunhair.jpg)

http://www.toolregame.com/forums/thread-299.html

You do have to register to get it though. Supposedly it's a new mesh. Really it's just a different bun pasted on existing hair but it's low poly (only 500 polys compared to Peggy's usual 10,000-ish) and it's variety.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 29, 06:13:06
Well Calero's corset is in fact an outfit. He promised to convert it to an everyday and formal top *knocks on wood* It's so beautiful that I just can't wait...... *head asplodes*

Hey thanks for tip! I looove fiddling with stuff. (btw I still have to translate the spanish fridge's catalogue text Duh I forgot)
So I tested, expecting it to turn out like the corsets outfits linked above and LOL it ate the package! The size passed from 400ko or something to 25 and the result ingame was a funny ninja like outfit :D Oh well. I'll have to try changing some swimwear I grabbed to lingerie and vice versa. And I found one crappy corset top lingerie, I'll use it as a test to change it to an everyday and formal top.

Went and registered, didn't grab the hair but I found pearl earrings! It doesn't replace anything, it's recolorable and for almost all ages for Females. Grab here (if registered): http://www.toolregame.com/forums/thread-294.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 29, 16:59:11
A cute bolero top for female girls. http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13615.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: THE Antagonist on 2009 July 30, 00:13:51
http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html (http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html)

That's a page full of win. I know that beign so happy for something virtual shall be seen as dumb and definitely negative, but the first custom objects for The Sims 3 are all free. There's WesHowe BioHazard logo (Free, at Modthesims), and there's this fancy modern set that's just waiting to be downloaded and is completely FREE. Where are TSR's FA now?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SamanthaS on 2009 July 30, 00:47:44
http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html (http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html)

That's a page full of win. I know that beign so happy for something virtual shall be seen as dumb and definitely negative, but the first custom objects for The Sims 3 are all free. There's WesHowe BioHazard logo (Free, at Modthesims), and there's this fancy modern set that's just waiting to be downloaded and is completely FREE. Where are TSR's FA now?

So a paysite ftps a new folder named "Sims3", offers up a free mesh and that makes it a prettiest freesite creation? New object meshes for Sims 3 is exciting but Stylist Sims is still a paysite.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 30, 00:54:16
Their Ts2 site is pay- as of this moment their Ts3 content is 100% free and the Ts3 site is 100% free without even a donations section. It may be only a matter of time. What did we do about this when Ts2 came out and the Ts1 sites that were pay started out as totally free for Ts2 ? Were they considered freesites until they posted a donation or pay items section or were they considered paysites just because they had been pay for the previous game? I'm asking mainly because of the free finds site since they do have the first furniture set that I am aware of.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 30, 01:25:41
I would say they are a Sims 2 paysite but a Sims 3 freesite until they start charging for this content.  If we don't at least give them the chance to change then why would they?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SamanthaS on 2009 July 30, 01:41:18
I'm still skeptical but I'll go along until they do something rash. They have put a blurb about donation sets on their Sims 3 FAQ page though so I fear the worst.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 30, 01:42:55
Me too. Give them at least a chance, 'tis a new start after all. Maybe a couple of ones will change. Even If only one of them change and never post any sims 3 pay set/item, it'll be worthy. So for me their sims 2 site is pay, but their sims 3 site is for the time being free.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 30, 01:46:58
Strangely enough Liannaa - who has been releasing stuff for TS3 longer than Peggy- does not have pay items on her Ts3 site yet. She has a donations button but it is just a donation button like you see on any freesite e.g. If you want to support Lianaa Sims 3 Please hit the Donation Button.  No content up for pay and she has been coming up with stuff for nearly a month. No mention in her TS3 site FAQ either. It will be interesting to see how things play out. Because some of the sites we traditionally know as paysites may go free for TS3 (Great Motto or Post Title) while some sites that started off free in the latter days of TS2 may end up going pay for their Ts3 content.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 30, 01:51:53
She's my personal bet for a change, seen her welcome texte?
(removed her blatant lies)
*crosses finger*

Edit: that whore has gone pay.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 30, 02:07:27
Well, she is already getting paid at TSR after all.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 30, 02:13:24
I am keeping my fingers crossed to Of course I am not getting my hopes up any more than I am about XM Sims - (just cause they have released half their donation packs doesn't mean they won't make others)

Of course there are a few things indicating that she might stay free for TS3

1. She has always shared her meshes willingly with the community free and pay and has no problem even wither her TSR FA meshes or donation meshes being included with content as long as she is credited for her work.

2. She has not even mentioned pay items, donation packs or anything donation except in the same manner that owners/creators on 100% free sites mention donations from downloaders on her TS3 site

Of course her Sims 2 stuff is still pay and she still works for TSR so those are an equal number of points against her and the possibility of her TS3 stuff staying free



Edited as Liannaa is a FA for TS3 at TSR


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 30, 02:52:06
She is a TSR Sims 3 FA. Her Sims 3 creations at TSR are all pay. Her category or specialty or whatever they are doing is clothing obviously.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 July 30, 02:59:18
Aren't a few things she posted on TSR for pay also on her site for free?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 30, 03:11:07
Yeah, her lace lingerie set and the stocking set. In fact there's even more stocking models way better for free on her site, as all her jeans (she only posted one jean on T$R). It's true that her latests pay sets totally sucks compared to what's on her site.
She seems to make less for T$R than her site, but it should be checked correctly. On her site everyday there's a new set of something, on T$R she seems to have a lower produce.


Edit: that bitch's site is now a paysite >:(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 30, 03:38:37
At least on her TS2 site she has a couple of other creators with her. ulkhrsn is one of them and Annamaria was for awhile before she got her own little paysite. So far on her TS3 site she seems to be showcasing newer creators from free sites like Lorandia from LorandiaSims 3 who does not seem to be pay at the moment, and another seemingly new creator annasims. Who knows maybe she will remain free for her Sims 3 site.

Clutteraholic, Peace and Unres and Fairywitch both have new clutter sets out today clutter a holic is here http://lmhwjs.wordpress.com/ (http://lmhwjs.wordpress.com/) , Fairywitch is here http://fairywitchsims.com/ (http://fairywitchsims.com/) , and Peace and Unrest is here http://peaceandunrest.blogspot.com/ (http://peaceandunrest.blogspot.com/)


For Sims 3 more cute new paintings from SimsArtGallery- here http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/ (http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/) I just downloaded her Asian set to go with the modern furniture set from Stylist Sims


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 30, 03:39:48
I must have missed that they left something free when they made her an FA.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 30, 03:49:30
Only her patterns are free on T$R. Talk about a bargain. Again those on her site are better and more numerous.
Edit: that freaking whore has gone pay.

SimsArtGallery have new paintings sets, really gorgeous.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 30, 03:55:11
I know this probably belongs on another thread because it is not exactly pretty but I was doing finds and checking to see who if anyone had new skintones out for TS3 and  someone over at SexySims just came out with either new anatomically corrrect skintones or  accessory   male anatomy  meshes that are recolorable  either by the color wheel or in CAST not sure)   if I am reading correctly which I may not be since it is late and I am tired and have been dealing with getting my TS3 game up and running all day. If they are the second option WTF - who would want a green one when they aren't green skinned or  plaid one or one covered in little skulls?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 30, 04:45:25
Err? It allow to recolor the... eh kit to whatever your sims' skin color is. And there's apparently a lightning, just like accessories lightning in sims 2, so it always looked off colored and a lot of users didn't like that, it looked wrong. Now the problem is solved, recolor it to fit perfectly (lol). Haven't tried them though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 July 30, 06:57:43
Hmm, I've never woken up and said 'I feel like my penis should be purple today' but I guess now if my sims ever should have such a desire, they can.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 July 30, 14:21:58
Or have lovely little flowers for spring time? ;D

M.Calero converted his dazzling corset to everyday & formal top, drool and grab here! http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13645.0


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 July 31, 16:14:47
At work, so I can't find any pretties, but I have to say that I'm beginning to worship at the altar of SimsArtGallery.  Such a nice variety of artwork.  Lots of different paintings was one of my biggest weaknesses in Sims 2.

Also, what's the word on that modern living room set?  How does it look in game?  Curious how custom objects are looking out of the gate but I've been too busy with dr appts and work to test it myself.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 31, 16:33:42
People at GOS are saying it is very non functional- instead of doing the common sense thing and cloning a bookcase from a bookcase they cloned it from a deco object which means it doesn't function. The seats on the chairs are to wide so that the Sim cannot sit comfortably on them, and the couch also appears to be for deco purposes only. Other than that it does look nice in game if you don't mind having non-functioning furniture. Of course it is the first furniture mesh set for TS3 so I am sure it will take time to work the bugs out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 July 31, 17:23:06
Yes, but is it really that hard to clone from the -right- base object?  That doesn't seem like a problem with in-dev tools, but someone not thinking.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 July 31, 17:29:36
I checked out Stylist Sims it may be inexperience on their part- Their TS2 site doesn't have much in the way of furniture either. Of course it could be inattention to detail as well. That is why while it is pretty - I will wait on someone more experienced at Furniture Meshing like HugeLunatic, Kate from Parsims or Adele (if anyone except Kate plans to -she already has a TS3 furniture section so I am assuming she is working on learning to use the tools since what she has up are EA recolors from CAST at the moment)  to learn furniture meshing for TS3 because they are all experienced enough to well I don't know clone a bookcase from well a bookcase so that it functions as well a bookcase.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 July 31, 17:36:01
If its like sims 2 at all, cloning from a bookshelf will make it add like a bookshelf.  Not that I've managed to figure out the tools myself, been too busy to work on it the last few weeks.  One of the first things I want to do is convert some of my old meshes and the original sims 2 meshes that go with.  I imagine that mapping is even more important, but I'll manage to figure it out one year :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 July 31, 19:10:12
Reminds me of all those Reflex Sims bedrooms I used to download where she'd decided her stuff was too "romantic" or something to actually use endtables to clone her endtables.  No she had to use coffeetables.   So you could never put an alarm clock in her bedrooms.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: THE Antagonist on 2009 July 31, 23:17:46
The StylishSims set also has some texture issue. It's definitely NOT a masterpiece, since it looks  - and works -  just not enough good in the game. But it's still a milestone, and it's still free. Can you imagine the first new TS3 object posted by a ThomA$$ servant?

P.S: i didn't know StylishSims2 was paysite...Sorry, my fault.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: scrappysim on 2009 July 31, 23:24:39
Part of the cloning issue with the Stylist set is that the object they cloned for the large shelving system was not only not a bookcase (so no real functionality) but the original item was only 1 square and the new one is three so sims walk through it and stuff.  I was excited about it myself but I'm sure it just because it is the first furniture out there.  I will gather up some patience and wait with everyone for actual functional and pretty shinies.  I mean if they can pull off this and it isn't even their normal area of "expertise" then I can't wait until the people who really know furniture meshing really get it going.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 01, 01:42:53
Don't know where to put that. Well, here'as a bad news: Liana posted 2 paysets on her site, arguing that maintaining a site costs money yada yada. You know, the usual. I'm extremeley decieved. See the betrayal here: http://www.lianasims3.net/donation.php :(
I was really stupid to think that maybe she have changed >:(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 August 01, 03:20:30
You weren't stupid, Dr House, people do change. Unfortunately not everyone "sees the light" though. We can only hope other will change and the ones that don't, we'll continue mixing with mud and shit. After all, wouldn't a paysite-free world be a boring Utopia for us pirates? Something tells me we're kinda like chimps, we need at leats a couple of people to fling poo at, gives us an extra hobby  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 August 01, 04:53:28
I've never really gotten into Sims in Paris' items only because the screenshots of everything are so bright and kinda weird.  However, I saw this recolor Livingroom 6 over at SAU and I must say it looks like a rather nice set (not to mention the cabinet recolors are very lovely).

Recolors by Sesame found http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=1586.0 (http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=1586.0)

(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/cfoley1215/VCPinkScreenshot.jpg)

(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/cfoley1215/VCPinkCabinet.jpg)

ETA:  If you are a fan of the Jonesi blanket, Amythestfenix (whose recolors I LOVE) has done it in all her linen solids here: http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=1468.0 (http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=1468.0)
Note that you can also get towels, the whodunit lamp, and various curtain sets in those solids over at Laden Swallow: http://www.nectere.net/smf/index.php (http://www.nectere.net/smf/index.php)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 01, 05:26:42
Don't know where to put that. Well, here'as a bad news: Liana posted 2 paysets on her site, arguing that maintaining a site costs money yada yada. You know, the usual. I'm extremeley decieved. See the betrayal here: http://www.lianasims3.net/donation.php :(
I was really stupid to think that maybe she have changed >:(

All we can say is yeah right Liannaa server costs my ass- If you really wanted to be shut of paysite shit and TSR really Delphy, Sailfindragon , WNF, any of these guys could have helped you find a free home for your sites. Call the pile of shit what it its- GREED pure and simple! Also we all suggest you stop using WesHowe and Delphy's tools for creating your stuff- THEIR TOU's forbid you for using it for pay content! Try the TS3 Workshop- after all what harm could it do- Thomass and Atwat already have all your infos and have spread it all around cause you has worked for them for years, and I am sure they will reimburse you if your computer blows up from one of the viruses in the ads  the Workshop connects you to (sarcasm intended).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 August 01, 06:08:48
That recolor looks awesome, I must snag it!

As for Lianaa, I too am disappointed since she was showing very promising signs of going free (Releasing all her old TS2 sets etc.) - Now I'm going to take great liberty in removing the links to her site from mine.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 01, 06:12:13
I hate the cost argument. It is such BS! If someone truly is finding that hosting their content is proving expensive then they are not being resourceful or are just plain stupid.

Years ago I worked on a mod for Morrowind which was one of the most popular and most downloaded mods. I'm not exaggerating to say that thousands of people or more downloaded it. It wasn't a small file either. It replaced all the default heads and hair and I think the final version ended up being over 100MB.

And you know what? We always found sites willing to host out mod, several in fact, and for free.

This was well before the days of Mediafire and other file sharing sites too. Now with those and the free image hosting sites, any idiot can make a web page and then just link to offsite free hosts for file and image hosting. So what bandwidth would they be paying for exactly, the bandwidth of transmitting text?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Lady Vader on 2009 August 01, 16:29:55
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I hate the cost argument. It is such BS! If someone truly is finding that hosting their content is proving expensive then they are not being resourceful or are just plain stupid.

I absolutely agree, I never had much to do with hosting, but a close friend of mine does and has a couple of his own webpages. A year-long cost for a site is really small nowadays, especially if you combine it with storing download files on mediafire, megaupload, rapidshare, or whatever else rocks your boat. It makes it almost impossible to think, that a person who can afford an internet connection, a computer, TS3, TS2 (or both), plus licences for tools needed to create meshes, photoshop which isn't cheap, and what not else, can't afford to host a site using methods mentioned above. Last I remember, my friend told me, that the cost is somewhere around 80 pounds (sorry for no symbol, I don't live in Britain, and for hell can't find the symbol on my oh so, eastern european keyboard). 80 pounds a year? I spend more than the equal amount in my currency (after currency exchange, of course) a month on cigarettes.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsrocks on 2009 August 01, 17:02:29
I left Liana a comment.
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You know, you can get very reasonable hosting, that doesn't require you to have to make items pay to fund it.

There's lots of people out there that will help you find a better host, and offer support and help.

If other sites can be hosted without the need to go pay, she can too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 02, 20:41:33
We have a newish dining set for sims 3. Its a table and chair from Nightlife, the one EA used in most of the restaurants.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=360739


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 02, 21:14:04
We have a newish dining set for sims 3. Its a table and chair from Nightlife, the one EA used in most of the restaurants.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=360739
Yay! Awesome! The first usable CC totally new and at a real free site, rum for everone! :)

I found a really nice tunique top for your ladies: http://www.modthesims.info/d/358913
And a gorgeous wedding dress: http://www.modthesims.info/d/360326


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 02, 21:19:56
 I downloaded it, and  I will be testing it later. It is going on the Finds site later this evening. I don't think there should be many problems other than lack of experience with the tools or creating. I tested his  port of Agustin's ponytail yesterday and there is nothing really wrong with it, other than some glitchiness that was present initially in the mesh that even Agustin does not seem to have been able to get rid of.
On the Sims 2 front Nymphy has updated at Nocturnal Sims http://nocturnalsims.dreamwidth.org/ (http://nocturnalsims.dreamwidth.org/). A skirt with stompy boots, more male facial hair, ripped stockings, and some cute clothing and hair recolors.

Also one of my favorite TS3 creators so far - Papercat. She mostly does makeup but it puts anyone at TSR in the DUST. Her eye makeup and lipstick is incredible in game. You can see it in this shot of my Riverview Rock Star Sim - Janna James (http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/Screenshot-3.jpg).  Janna is wearing Papercat's Freckles, Faded Flare eyeshadow, Outer Eye Eyeliner and her Lip Lines lipstick- all non replacement. You can find Papercat's stuff here  http://papercatsims3.blogspot.com/ (http://papercatsims3.blogspot.com/)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2009 August 03, 04:07:58
Bosie just released a conversion of Peggy's Aug 09 hairstyle. It's at GOS (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13734.0) and it's gorgeous.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 August 03, 14:48:41
Yeah - even a shoutcast server is only 10 dollars a month if you don't have too many listeners.  And that's something that takes a lot more space, between having space to load music files for the auto-dj and streaming at high quality.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 03, 15:39:12
There are also places like Yahoo Groups, LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, Blogger, Blogspot, Wordpress etc where you can put up a blog type content site that may not be as pretty or as sparkly. What it will be is free or mostly free- and at least for LJ and Dreamwidth memberships that give all sorts of little perks like more file storage, more user pics, and the ability to design your own site layout only costs about 25 USD per year. Frankly there are plenty of respected creators that post creations for free on these sites like Nymphy, Aikea Guinea and Gelydh (they also maintain an independent site as well) , Skittleboxes, Simgaroop, and Selzi and they don't seem to have any problems with the fact that the blog type set up doesn't offer fancy  layouts or blinkies.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 03, 16:04:35
they don't seem to have any problems with the fact that the blog type set up doesn't offer fancy  layouts or blinkies.

Not many of them would want blinkies on their site would they? But this is Peggy, if she can't have more blinkies than a normal human can stand, it wont work for her. But even if she chose to do a blog one, couldn't she just upload a million blinkie images to the blog to blind people?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 03, 16:35:15
True- true. I don't think I have ever seen a blinky , or sparkly anywhere around anything made by Aikea Guinea and Gelydh, or Nymphy either for that matter. None of them do Blinkies or Sparklies.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 03, 16:49:19
If they started using blinkies, I think I would worry, especially since I think it was Aikea Guinea who said on GOS that Peggy has way too many blinkies on her site.

Another new object for Sims 3, the backless shower. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=361082&c=1



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 03, 17:58:57
I tried Nandonalts dining chair and table and they look great in game


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 04, 14:40:12
The backless shower! I've been waiting for it since I got the game, cool! The available two showers are boring, the backless one lets you do a lot of designs and looks :)

The hairs conversions for Sims 3 are popping out at such a rate that it's getting hard for me to follow up lol so I'll give some tips for the Sims 3 newcomers.
Aikea Guinea made a nouk dreads conversion for males & females, teen to elders!
(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5211/dreadsthumb.jpg)
Get it here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13760.0
Use that link to grab other hairs. And other nice stuff :P

Otherwise there are a ton of hair conversions at Simscave here: http://www.simscave.com/index.php?board=169.0
For unfindable hairs you see around the net they're in fact posted in tiny blogs or asian sites so the best thing is to grab the files or the links here: http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair
There's also MATY that has some links or edited game meshes: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/board,29.0.html.
Now you're set to have a ton of hairs. From my download whoring I counted more than FIFTY hairs to grab! In two weeks that's a lot uh converters slow down a bit I can't take it anymore...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 04, 15:10:44
I am really liking Oepu's Edit of the Base Game Feathered Bob- You can get it here- http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=360839 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=360839). And the best thing is that the Shorter Bob Version is for all ages, all genders so more hair for my Tots and Little Kids without having to resort to Rose Hairs.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 04, 15:57:11
From my download whoring I counted more than FIFTY hairs to grab! In two weeks that's a lot uh converters slow down a bit I can't take it anymore...

lol. People are making too many hairs and clothing right now, and paintings. But I can honestly say I have not downloaded any patterns in like a month  ;D

Not that that helps much when I'm downloading a million other things. If I get World Adventures, I'm probably going to have to purge my downloads. But at least I have my Mods folder organized from the start, rather than what I did with The Sims 2, waited till a week before Sims 3 came out to do so.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 04, 16:31:41
Most of what I have right now are default replacements, and a few patterns I really like. I only have HystericalParoxysyms hairs, Oepu
s bob, the new XM Sims hair and three hair edits that Aikea Guinea and Gelydh did. Object wise I have not downloaded the shower but have Nandonalt's dining set. I just did a week through and got rid of all the clothing my sims are not using or wearing and will probably do so again later today. I tend to download stuff, test in game and delete if I don't like. The Stylist Sims set quickly went bye bye for instance. I really wish we already had DDO for TS3.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: captaincaliena on 2009 August 04, 16:42:47
The Stylist Sims set quickly went bye bye for instance.

Yea, it didn't even work in my game.  *shrug

rum nate - where are you finding the paintings cause I'm pretty sick of the base game stuff.  All my Sims have the same wall decorations  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 04, 16:48:45
Sims Art Gallery. She has way too many paintings there, and updates about 2 times a day, every day.

http://simsartgallery.wordpress.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 04, 17:06:41
I like her stuff and it looks good in game but hopefully now that other stuff is possible like objects and real recolors not just CAST stuff or something, we will start seeing a bit of variety on her site- like deco objects- they are art to.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 04, 17:12:40
I hope that some day someone can find out how to make the cloned pictures be recolors of their base, like what we had on Sims 2, rather than I have 10 pictures that are based off of one in game painting, and all 11 pictures are cluttering up the painting section.

I'm not so sure we will see deco objects from her, she seems to be only paintings, and now moving into houses. But I do hope to see deco objects soon, there is a major lack of statues in this game. I hope with World Adventures they add a statue section to the deco section, because I can see a lot of statues coming with this, and putting all the statues in the misc. deco section will really clutter it up fast(especially since the catalog viewing area is so small, at least for me.).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 August 04, 18:24:26
I hope one day we can figure out how to clone and make recolourable -all the currently- unrecolourable stuff - I mean, I know there is no reason why stairs and fences can't be recoloured....none whatsoever.

And pictures, they could have done like they did with the deco kitchen jars - had some different non-recolourable patterns.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 04, 19:04:10
AAAAAAARGH!
For the last time - I don't want TS3! Plz 2 B Postn MOAR UGLY. Teh shinies hurt my resolve.
 ;)
TS2 TIME, YO
Simgaroop (http://simlish.dreamwidth.org/) has a new dreamwidth specifically for all of her creations. There are quite a few these days! Check 'em all out, but particularly her new goggles. (http://simlish.dreamwidth.org/36571.html)
Buffybot has two new skins - they're cute! (http://joedy-76.livejournal.com/18755.html)
CrabOfDoom has some -ZOMG!- dark skins. (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13758.0) Thanks, Crab, for doing what Ephemera won't!
But as far as skins go, needlecream (http://needlecream.livejournal.com/) definitely takes the cake. I think she's doing the community a serious service. Her newest skins are to die (http://needlecream.livejournal.com/4390.html) - the VINES! NOM.
Amaryll has MOAR STOMPY BOOTS (http://witheredlilies.livejournal.com/2600.html#cutid1) at her journal!
An older (but so very good) update from Chimerical - boxes! (http://chimerical.nightofdreams.net/) :drool:
And lucky for us stubborn people, All About Style is still doing Sims2 stuff (http://www.all-about-style.com/adult_fesle.html).
Lest we forget the men, Bunnylita did hoodies! (http://bnlcreations.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/bi-color-hoodies/) I really like so much of bunnylita's stuff. Don't know why, just do.
StrangeTomato has some really cute recolors of ASK's 'Just Lips' (http://strange-tomato.livejournal.com/176801.html) - the very lip set I use the most. Gotta delete some old crappy lipstick to make room!
Omer (http://peaceandunrest.blogspot.com/) has a little somethin' naughty for your simmies. ROWR.
lmhwjs (Clutter-a-holic) gives us... well, moar clutter (http://lmhwjs.wordpress.com/). Hooray! Shoes! Hat! YES!
This month's GoS theme (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13682.0) already has some wonderful creator making some kickass creations! Stop in and peek around!

Lastly, has anyone seen this site? (http://sims.eternity-online.net/) Dana's Sims. Last updated June 10th, but I hadn't seen it before. Haven't looked through everything, but so far I really like the first AF dress (nice and green, yum).

So :P!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 04, 20:12:30
For those who want their own custom paintings in the game but can't be arsed to learn how to clone and object and replace the dds and all that business, you can use the Sims 3 Neighborhood Workshop to change sim created paintings (the ones they paint on an easel) to any gif or jpg you want.

http://linna.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=350770

It has a plugin that lets you view sim created paintings and swap out the default picture for one of your own. Super easy and no fuss.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsartgallery on 2009 August 04, 20:39:40
Hi!

I just wanted to respond to the questions and statements about my paintings. First of all, I thought my site name, Sims Art Gallery, actually explained exactly what my site was. It is primarily for art. I love art. I have so many paintings up because my game is sadly lacking and each and every one of those paintings were in my sims 2 game and will be used again in my sims 3 game. I just thought I would share. I also realize that there are different strokes for different folks. Not everyone is going to like everything I post and everything I post is not going to fit into every style of decorating. I'd like to think I've given everyone something to suit their style.

As for recolors, ea has actually lessened the need for every item to be recolored. There are actually few things that can be recolored. Hence the lack of recolors of ea's meshes. The things that I use the most get recolored. If there is something you'd like recolored, by all means, leave me a message. It may not be possible, but I can always try. I needed the quilt rack recolored.  Sadly, it's not even in the list of things that can be recolored. Otherwise, we'd all have had recolors of that god awful quilt rack.

As for new meshes, at some point I'd like to try my hand at new meshes. The process is so new right now that I'd personally like to wait until it's a little further down the road. It's not a perfect system, but these tool creators are limited by what ea has done to the game. Personally, I think they've done an excellent job to get us this far down the road. And I'm not being ugly, but the some of the new meshes that have come out are not quite to my liking and I feel that at some point, things can only get better for meshes. I'm not interested in being one of the first to put something out simply because it can be done. I prefer to do it when things are better and what I post is a bit better quality. I'm not saying the new meshes are garbage or the creators. They are only doing what they can with what they have. Kudos to them for that.

I hope this has explained why there are so many paintings and what I hope for the future for the site. If you'll hang in there, so will I.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 04, 21:16:38
We are not saying we don't love your art, just expressing our wish for the technology and creators tools to advance faster than they are. I have actually featured your work a couple of times on Free Sims Finds. I like that you offer a variety of paintings from modern to vintage type art. That gives me more choices when building a lot or decorating a home. Besides every creator has their forte, you enjoy creating new art while others may like creating new furniture meshes or hair conversions. By the way I must not have read your first posts, welcome to PMBD.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: MrsBulldog on 2009 August 04, 21:53:59
We are not saying we don't love your art, just expressing our wish for the technology and creators tools to advance faster than they are. I have actually featured your work a couple of times on Free Sims Finds. I like that you offer a variety of paintings from modern to vintage type art. That gives me more choices when building a lot or decorating a home. Besides every creator has their forte, you enjoy creating new art while others may like creating new furniture meshes or hair conversions. By the way I must not have read your first posts, welcome to PMBD.

A second dstar: I check your site every day and I love that there's always something new to look at! While not everything you post is my style, I still love browsing through ALL your screenshots in the same way I'd browse through a real art gallery. Your work is wonderful!

Welcome, to PMBD!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 04, 21:56:29
Actually I am the same dstar (and deestar) I have been a member here for several months. I have actually almost passed the 500 post mark. I was here under another name while getting my Google Toolbar straightened out after it crashed  and caused my to lose all my bookmarks and passwords.That is my user name on Sailfinsims and Free Sims Finds. Same person, both me. At Free Sims Finds I try to present a rounded variety of content, and it is really dependent on what I find on a given day. For instance, this last week creators on sites like Nocturnal, Garden of Shadows and other sites offering more alternative content have been more active in producing content for TS2/TS3 so that is what has gone up in finds. Next week it may be sites that do a lot of  High Fashions stuff like Stylist Sims, Pretty Baby, and Agustin. I also haven't been able to post anything from WNF Sites like Adele or FabulousSims this week because they are moving their server.


Also it would help if people just PM with what they would like to see or I will post a poll at LJ or the forum that you can go to. That way I know whether to look for Maxis Match, etc


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simsartgallery on 2009 August 05, 00:14:21
dstar,

Thank you. I hope you don't think I'm upset. I just wanted you all to know where I was coming from. I'm very appreciative that you've included my site in your updates. I'm really happy that you all like what has been put out so far, whether it's to your taste or not. I have to say, this experience has been one of the best I've ever had in this community and for that, I'm a happy camper. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 06, 03:48:42
simsartgallery, I love all the paintings you are putting up on your site. My Mods folder is so going to hate you soon. :)


I really haven't been looking at lots because there are only a limited number of lots rather than we just plop a lot where ever we feel like it, but I am doing a huge redo of Sunset Valley. I have done work on/moved or rebuilt everything in the main part of town, around City Hall, except for the park. I really don't want to redo that one, because I suck at making parks. So I was looking on MTS to see if anyone had posted an parks that can be used to replace that one, and I found one that looks really good. It's called Nu Central park, and it has outdoor and indoor ponds, a stage, lots of outdoor green space, and a playground. I can't wait to see it in game.

Link: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356663


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: janedoe on 2009 August 06, 15:48:15
simsartgallery, I love all the paintings you are putting up on your site. My Mods folder is so going to hate you soon. :)


I really haven't been looking at lots because there are only a limited number of lots rather than we just plop a lot where ever we feel like it, but I am doing a huge redo of Sunset Valley. I have done work on/moved or rebuilt everything in the main part of town, around City Hall, except for the park. I really don't want to redo that one, because I suck at making parks. So I was looking on MTS to see if anyone had posted an parks that can be used to replace that one, and I found one that looks really good. It's called Nu Central park, and it has outdoor and indoor ponds, a stage, lots of outdoor green space, and a playground. I can't wait to see it in game.

Link: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=356663

I love this park in my game...  I grabbed it right as it became available and my sims love it... best community lot in my neighborhood! 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Andais on 2009 August 08, 19:09:05
OH, OH, OH.  White stairs for Sims 3.  http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362401 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362401)

(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/cfoley1215/MTS2_Srikandi_979704_WhiteStairs.jpg)

Still sad that creators have to spend time on this, though, because EA got its head stuck up its butt and left stairs non-recolorable.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: cookiepirate on 2009 August 08, 19:47:43
New roofs, new stairs, Go FreeSites!!  I sure hope some matching fencing is coming soon.  EA really screwed the pooch on fences and stairs.  They should have made them recolorable.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 August 08, 20:21:49
They originally were - I guess they decided not to so they could sell recolours in the store >.>


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 08, 20:44:23
You know, 3 games and a whole mess of expansions and stuff packs and store crap and the god damned stairs still never match without having to be modded. Ugh.

But much thanks go to Srikandi for this.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 08, 23:07:09
Modders are looking into this. i.e. making non recolorable stuff fully recolorable in CAST. Like the CEP. 'Hope they get it soon. In the meanwhile you there's already single recolors for plants, clutter and now stairs (grab'em all at MTS). that's already a lot. :( Fuck you EA.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 09, 01:11:56
I've been avoiding recolors of non recolorable things right now because I don't want to get my catalogs all cluttered up, I had and still have that on Sims one, don't want to deal with it again. Hopefully they can get that worked out.

HugeLunatic made a counter height version of the Limbo window.
Link: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362506

And Deluxe Designs made a Roman Seating set, it has 2 seats, a 2 seater loveseat and a 1 seater armchair. They look a lot like the benches people put in foyars of their houses, or at the end of their beds, so thats what I'm really going to be using them for.
Link: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362440


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 09, 01:18:47
Today has seen a crapload of new furniture and build mode stuff for Sims 3. Edited to reflect that Rum Nate just posted the Roman Seating and Limbo Window

Stylist Sims has a new dining set out and I just tested and none of the obvious problems as with their living room set- also all mention of Donations- and Donation sets has been taken out of their TS3 FAQ. You can get it here http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html  (http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html)

Sims3Marketplatz has a new dining room set and a new kitchen set- The kitchen is under downloads/objektes/kuchen, and the dining set is under downloads/objektes/essenzimmer. You can get them here but you have to register to download- site is in English and German. http://www.sims3marktplatz.net/forum/index.php?page=Portal  (http://www.sims3marktplatz.net/forum/index.php?page=Portal)

Carrigon has converted the flower fairy mesh from M&G for TS3. You can get it here http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=3275 (http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=3275). Just like with the Sims3Marketplatz registration is required to download.

The free community kicks ass, 3 new furniture sets, a new roofs,  new stairs, a new window, and new clutter objects all in one day for a game that has been out less than 3 months.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 09, 01:38:17
Stylist Sims removed all donations/pay references? Did they do it too for their sims 2 site?
Gosh the window, the benches are awesome and the fairy statue (perfect for gardens), thanks for the links guys :)

Come to think of it I don't understand why we don't know how to make the unrecolorable stuff CASTable, while we're able to do a new mesh fully recolorable. How come we can't correct the plants, stairs, fences and clutter?! ??? It ain't logic.

EDIT: Carrigon also has a pitcher here: http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=3262
EDIT2: looking at the pics the benches seem to have a flaw on the left armchair of all the benches. Anyone checked them ingame to see if it's the OP's specs making crappy pics or if it's a real flaw?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 09, 01:42:54
Still pay for TS2 at Stylist Sims  but free for TS3 so far and with no mention of donation packs other than this - " Donation sets are under the copyright of Stylist Sims and may NOT be cloned, recolored or redistributed in any way. Ask for special permission if you want to recolor them! " Which says nothing indicating whether they plan on donation packs for TS3 or not. They seem to be sticking to Delphy, Peter, and WesHowe's EULA's so far at any rate.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 09, 03:06:44
Dr. House, if the glitch you are talking about is the black stripe thing on the arm, then yes, that does show up in game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 09, 03:23:15
Dr. House, if the glitch you are talking about is the black stripe thing on the arm, then yes, that does show up in game.
Yes, that glitch. Arg... Okay. Thanks, that'll save me some time. *deletes* :-\


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 09, 03:52:46
I think at this point I am not looking for perfection- the tools such as they are at this time are leaving shadows at least in some places - WesH, Delphy, and Peter Jones are working on this , and I don't really understand the technical aspects of it since I am just learning to mesh for TS2,  but it has something to do with the limitations of the tools at this time.

I like Deluxe Designs benches - shadow or no a  lot better than I do the Stylist Sims Living Room Set, and I will just use them til something better comes along. Stylist Sims dining set is also much improved in comparison to their living room set. So you can see that the tools and people's skills are improving which is good, and an indication of where CC for TS3 is going.

I am mostly in testing phase right now- I  try things and if I don't like them they are binned immediately. I think I have got much more control of the obsessive downloading of CC than I had in Sims 2, at least at this point in the game. Of course this time I am starting out with good habits- like sub-folders which now work in my game and getting rid of what I am not using.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 09, 04:19:29
I think I have got much more control of the obsessive downloading of CC than I had in Sims 2, at least at this point in the game. Of course this time I am starting out with good habits- like sub-foldering which now work and getting rid of what I am not using.
Ditto for me. Didn't know how to organize myself at first with sims 2 until I lost my downloads folder and grabbed the opportunity to make it neat; but didn't go far enough and allowed a LOT of so-so stuff. But now for sims 3, like you I quickly ditch things out, even for the store. I prefer perfection and will quickly ditch out things now. But it's hard to do it for hairs as apparently the sims head size is important and can mislead to fake flaws. So I test them thoroughly. But since the vanilla game has such awful and dreadful hairs I tend to allow several meh hairs for now at least, but won't allow meh furnitures. I know I'm being harsh but really, the game has enough of these. Plus an EP is coming. I'm sure some stylish benches will be in it (probably for Paris stuff). And moar store stuff every month. The next castle set will be the outdoor one and surely have a nice bench.

Cool you finally managed to subfolder your stuff. It was the links I posted?

BTW guys forget about the XMSims FloraHair003, it has a LOD problem: when you zoom out a tiny bit, ZAM a part of the hair disappears. Minor problem but it'll ruin your pics.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 09, 04:54:33
Yes the  sub folders are working finally. The only XM hair for 3 that I have in game is Flora001. I tried the long, one with bangs and a scarf in game as well as it's un-accessorized twin and they both have problems. The scarf doesn't show up except as part of the hair and is non-recolorable, and the other one has a blank gap in the mesh where the scarf ought to be. I deleted them as they are not faves anyways.
 I think while Aikea Guinea, Gelydh Oepu and HystericalParoxysm are making very sure to convert, edit, or age convert base game hairs or TS2 hairs in such a way that they fit the new head shape and to choose hairs from TS2 that look good on puddings, others are not so careful.
I am really loving Oepu right now. She has even more out there than she released at MTS including a receding hairline short cut for guys and edits of the 40's style so that it is a short wavy bob. Her age and gender conversions looks good in game. You can find the non MTS ones here http://www.simforum.de/showthread.php?s=a83ded32fa1a53fdcb621f5615935fea&p=3635475#post3635475 (http://www.simforum.de/showthread.php?s=a83ded32fa1a53fdcb621f5615935fea&p=3635475#post3635475)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 09, 05:29:49
Then the LOD 'hole' I saw must be the missing scarf. Too bad, it's cute. But there are 5 hairs converted every day, so whatever.
Totally agree, Oepu's stuff is neat! grabbed all the hairs edits but haven't put them in yet. I have all his clothes ingame though and it's useful and well done stuff - specially for the male sims, they lack so much clothes.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 09, 14:22:54
I wasn't a big fan of Oepu for Sims 2. While I like Maxis Match clothes I always went after Fanseelamb, Fakepeeps7, and dustfingers stuff more, and I just don't like Maxis Match hair. I always liked Nouks and HP's hair textures better since they were semi-matching but still had some shine and curl to them. But, Oepu's work for TS3 is really good. I mostly like it because it is neither poufy anime hair, nor runway model stuff which is what I  prefer


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 09, 17:05:45
Just a quick drop-by :)
M.Calero posted a set of 3 new shoes for YA&AF at GoS.
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8484/shoeslrj.jpg)
Arg, this pair is so beautiful that my head is gonna explode!
Grab the shinies here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13893.0
LOL at the teasing "Top by me - coming soon" Make it quick, damnit!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 11, 16:53:53
Stylist Sims has a new dining set out and I just tested and none of the obvious problems as with their living room set- also all mention of Donations- and Donation sets has been taken out of their TS3 FAQ. You can get it here http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html  (http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html)

Thought I would point this out, but Stylist Sims now has pay content,a set of 9 clothing items for women. And I love what they say about them:

Quote
All outfit comes with a new mesh. You can fully adjust the weight of your Sims, but the outfits are not recolorable.

Bold added by me. Really, we have the tools to make the clothes recolorable, and we have Create-A-Style in game to recolor clothes. If you aren't making your stuff recolorable, there is a problem, especially if you expect people to pay for your content.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 11, 16:59:05
Yes I noticed- just took them off my finds list. Mango Sims has a new chair and cushion set for Sims 3 http://mangosims2.free.fr/  (http://mangosims2.free.fr/) .No noticeable shadows or mesh holes. I will test in game when I get back from work tonight.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 11, 17:18:08
Quote
All outfit comes with a new mesh. You can fully adjust the weight of your Sims, but the outfits are not recolorable.
How lame >:( Even T$R 'creators' manage to make some recolorable clothes, that says it all.

Thanks for the find dstar, I grabbed her leaf pattern weeks ago but stopped checking since there was no new updates. The archive contains 2 new meshes in package format: the chair and the cushion, but it also contains 2 sims3packs for the recolors (!) Well I guess these last 2 are useless ;D
Gonna test it now, can't wait. Deco cushion, Yay!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 11, 17:25:42
For those willing to use the Launcher or the TSR TS3 Workshop(not me) it is a nice touch though- at least to see what patterns she things are pretty for recolors for the chair and cushion, but I prefer to do my own recolors . For one thing my CC doesn't get overwhelming if I don't have the creators recolors clogging up my packages and downloads folders.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 11, 17:39:24
Done! Go ahead blindly, Dr house seal of approval given! :D

More serious report:
The chair has 2 channels: you can recolor the cushions and the wood support separately. I tested with a full white recolor and there's no black spots, no greyish white, nothing wrong! The cushion pattern will be shrunked though, so don't be surprised (first pic: I used the same pattern for both the chair and the deco cushion). Seating sim has a perfect posture (second pic). It's already delivered with a lot of EA recolors - as the chair she cloned. Found with the other living chairs for 50§ (sic)
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4341/samepatternforboth.th.jpg) (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/samepatternforboth.jpg/)(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3753/seatensim.th.jpg) (http://img18.imageshack.us/i/seatensim.jpg/)

The cushion was cloned probably from the cow plant so it can be put at the same places (floor, coffee tables, eating tables, counters and wardrobes). It has a small lightning problem, so don't put it in the sun (see pic below). Found in deco/misc 10§ (sic again). One channel to recolor it wholly. The pattern will have a normal size, so it's bit hard to match the chair pattern if you want figures (see upper pic).
(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2798/lightningproblem.th.jpg) (http://img18.imageshack.us/i/lightningproblem.jpg/)

The only problem would be the price, given the advantages:
The chair has a ++ confort. EA's first armchair with that confort is at 375§ (or 350§? Blame my memory.)
The cushion has a 4 environment! The first EA item to have that is the cow plant which costs 475§!
So it's darn cheating, prices should be changed to chair: 300§ and cushion: err around 100§ or 150§.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 11, 17:42:57
Cushion and chair look good then ? Good - I just tossed out the Roman thing and am waiting for Schnuffi to release her two new object sets- they both look good in the pics in her blog on Sims3Marktplatz forum, one is an entertainment center, and the other is  a patio set.


Okay Dr House you will hate me for this one

New Mission Counters- No Stained Glass -Non Replacement by Srikandi http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=363069 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=363069)

Hollywood Movie Posters in Simlish by bilizico http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362948
 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362948)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 11, 18:06:57
I updated my upper post for a full report. Reload your page.
Cushion and chair look good then ? Good - I just tossed out the Roman thing
Way to go! Plenty of CC to come :D

Okay Dr House you will hate me for this one
Arg! *mumbles somethg incomprehensible*
*reads on*
Okay, will go test... Hold still ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 11, 18:13:52
You don't have to test all this stuff right now Dr House, I am booting up my game as we speak- still a little while to go before work- I already looked at and tested the chair- Sims sit properly, the textures are nice. The counters are pretty good as well- but then Srikandi was the first to give us new Roofs and Stairs and i have had not complaints about his/her work so far.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 11, 18:45:30
Done. 2 moar seals of approval given!

Here they are in testing, the whitish color proves it can be recolored without having a weird result and the lined color on the counter is okay. Credits for my test family#2.
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7693/screenshot31r.th.jpg) (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/screenshot31r.jpg/)

Paintings are perfect too and look very nice: 100§, sims like them and have a little fun viewing them. Haven't checked the environment score vs price, nor the frame recoloring (forgot ;D) Please check that.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 11, 18:49:54
I don't remember stuff coming out this fast for Sims 1 or Sims 2. I just glad it is- it might remove some of my disappointment in Sims 3- temporarily that and the fact that twoftmama just released Awesomemoized versions if Sunset Valley and Riverview with a crib and child bed in every home over at MATY- So i don't have to fiddle around with it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 12, 03:37:31
Oh hell even my meh @ TS3 lately ass had to download the Simlish stuff. I lurve me some Simlish because it's such a nice touch. It shows extra effort and care that the creator took the time to make their images fit the Sims world and not just slap some picture they found on the net on a mesh.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 12, 04:01:54
I like to have the majority of my pictures be in simish, but I do like a few to be in real languages. Its sorta like if an American goes to France and buys a painting that has French on it. They may not know what it says, but they still buy it. So I look at it that way when I have paintings in English or other launguages, its from a foreign land where they speak another language that my sims don't understand.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 12, 04:08:30
I generally don't like real languages in my game, but I did love these ad posters by Natia128 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=95394) so.

It reminded me of how in Japan you will see ads randomly peppered with English words because they think it's cool.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: captaincaliena on 2009 August 12, 16:12:57
*drools over cabinets*  Yeehaw no retarded glass!  Just plain old boring cabinets.  Just the way I like 'em.

Might I just say, thank God for this thread otherwise I'd never know when and where all the good stuff comes out.  Well, anywho.  I found this shirt the other day over at MTS and I nearly screamed like a little girly girl

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/CaptainCaliena/MTS2_Gabrielle42_977882_New_Fangtas.jpg)
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=361367


It may not look like much to you guys, but to any True Blood fan, this is gold!  So I thought I'd post this in case any of my fellow pirates are also True Blood fans.




Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 12, 17:16:54
Just a quick drop-by :)
M.Calero posted a set of 3 new shoes for YA&AF at GoS.
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8484/shoeslrj.jpg)
Arg, this pair is so beautiful that my head is gonna explode!
Grab the shinies here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=13893.0
LOL at the teasing "Top by me - coming soon" Make it quick, damnit!

This gorgeous pair also included: (http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/ElDPix/Dorothy.jpg)

And you can also get them at MTS2: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362444 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362444)

God, I can see where this is going... People say loading TS3 is soooooo much faster than TS2 with all its recolors and years of CC, but my game's already slowing down with the severely limited CC we've got so far. Not that I'm complaining, no sirree! Bring it on!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 12, 17:50:38
ROFL I only posted one of the 3 pics as a teasing to not overload the forum. One pic and one link is the best thing to do. Btw you have to snip off the pics when you quote someone. Not everybody have a high DSL connection.

EDIT: Aikea Guinea posted this AMAZING sims 3 hair at Gos:
(http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4903/mitbtitle.jpg)
Run here http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?PHPSESSID=lpl0llcsnc8fkq3k5136gll564&topic=13991.0 To grab it! *drools*
Sadly she didn't manage to do it for females :'(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 13, 03:00:22
Oh, thats a great hair, and its looks like a guy hair, rather than some of the hairs people have been converting lately.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 13, 03:07:59
Yeah and personally I rather like the idea of men hairs for men and women hairs for women. I have seen too many pictures lately of female sims looking like they are trying to be Annie Lennox in the 80s or male sims that look like tranny hot messes.

I don't think it needs to be obligatory to gender port every hairstyle or even most.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 13, 03:11:09
Aikea Guinea's hair conversions are the only ones I have been grabbing other than HystericalParoxsysm's and Oepu's Maxis Edits, and a few others. I tend to try them and then take them out if I don't like them- AG's and HP's are the only stable CC hair in my pacakges/bodyshop folder right now. I love that one though.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 13, 05:27:15
Hollywood Movie Posters in Simlish by bilizico http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362948
 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=362948)

If you haven't checked those movie posters today check back because a bunch more were just added.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 15, 20:38:45
There's a set of six Sims 3 converted hairs from Sims 2 at Gos, I'm sure a lot of you will be interested to grab it! :D
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5513/finishedygf.jpg)
http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=14043.0
PS: also see the project link for a sneak preview of more upcoming hairs! (specially 2 beautiful dreadlocks hairs *drools*)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 15, 23:19:49
Number 4 was one of the hairs I was going to convert from the Sims 2 Store, glad someone else made it, get it sooner.  :D

I love that someone is working on converting the Sims 2 Store hairs and hairs that came with The Sims 2 and EPs, because there were some nice hairs in there.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 August 16, 02:18:25
Yay! Is great to see all the hair meshers keeping busy, hair is something I really want to learn to create.

^I love #4 btw :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 16, 15:39:08
There's a set of extracted kitchen stuff for you to clutter your sims 3 homes!
(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7208/mts2lemoncandy984742clu.jpg)
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364110
Also go in the build mode tab, there's a modified window.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Irish Wench on 2009 August 16, 16:30:54
For Sims 2 players Adele has left the WNF and opened her own site. I has all her stuff from everywhere, objects, clothing etc. in one place now. She also says she has unreleased build stuff she will be adding.

http://adelevk.com/sims/ (http://adelevk.com/sims/)

And for Sims 3 players, she says she will eventually be creating for you as well.


 8)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 August 16, 16:51:32
That is awesome news.

Just checked it out, and may I just say  SQUEEEE!! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 August 16, 18:02:53
Being die-hard Sims2, it is nice to have all her stuff in one place & I can't wait to see the unreleased stuff (more squee-ing)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 August 16, 19:21:46
Add happy noise of your choice, I refuse to squee because my squee mechanism asploded after seeing that site. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 17, 00:38:50
I love extracted stuff to clutter up my houses.

And its great that Adele has her own site where you can find all her stuff. And Adele stuff for Sims 3, my game will be pissed off at me by the time WA comes out.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 17, 00:59:11
Yup yup, adding my voice for Adele working on Sims 3, I want to be able to recolor her awesome clothes and spoil my sims! And her hairs too, want them converted :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 August 17, 07:49:11
Thank God Adele's site is a) Back Online and b) More awesome than ever... wait for it... .... ... SQUEEE


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 August 17, 07:54:30
*joins ShanOw in SQUEEEEEing unabashedly*

I consider Adele an actual artist, not just a creator.  Not that there's anything wrong with being "just" a creator.  Those textures take some real talent to make.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 17, 12:23:40
Speaking of Adele, has anyone watched her UNDEAD series? I just watched the first episode, and damn was that good. Her attention to detail in it, and the sets and props, wow, simply wow. And the music, that is some damn good music, and its by Adele herself. I'm getting ready to watch the second episode, and I can't wait for more to come out.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 17, 18:13:56
Gos has 2 updates for Sims 3 today! I haven't tried these finds, but they look very nice :)
First a set of clothes for YA&AF: one top + one levis jean. Grab'em here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=14063.0

And a set of 2 male hairs who were poorly converted before and limited to only YAM (how usefull! Sheesh ::)), now they're from teen to elder. One is a typical mangaish one, we already have at least 5 hairs of that style... But the second is very interesting because it's a different style: wavy hair with a side split! Catch your new pokemons here: http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=14068.0

EDIT: Wow, MOAR clutter was extracted! Cute rabbits, ducks, toycars and more magazine recolors! Spot the critters here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364568


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 17, 18:17:02
Fresh Prince has released his first TS3 mesh- a pumpkin. It says it is non-recolorable but the option is available if you wish to do so. Fresh Prince states that it is mostly not recolorable because the pumpkin does not work well with some textures. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364491


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lkandak on 2009 August 17, 23:02:30
All About Style has some great stuff and they are 100% free (from what i know of :))
here is a link, i love the sims 3 clothes!

http://www.all-about-style.com/index.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: CatOfWar on 2009 August 18, 06:29:47
Yes, All About Style is all free, and does have lovely uploads.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 18, 16:07:37
I had a lot of their clothes and a couple of patterns, awesome stuff :)

There's a sandwich sbard with chalk writing in simlish at MTS! It looks freaking neat, as if EA done it. So it's perfect :D
Grab here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364511

There's also a 2 story column made by FP and recolorable here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364565
Now that's so useful that Fresh-Prince deserves a statue!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Irish Wench on 2009 August 19, 02:23:57
A relatively new site for Sims 2. it is in forum form but you don't have to register to download. Owner is Amaranth and there are already lot of nice things there.

http://www.coloursims.missingstudios.com/index.php (http://www.coloursims.missingstudios.com/index.php)

Just a few:

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee181/irishwenches/Miscellaneous/colour1.jpg)
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee181/irishwenches/Miscellaneous/colour4.jpg)
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee181/irishwenches/Miscellaneous/colour3.jpg)


 :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: millahnna on 2009 August 19, 03:28:10
Crap.  There goes my downloads folder again.  It's always just when I get it all organized too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 19, 10:52:31
Even more clutter  ;D

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364791


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 19, 13:00:10
Oh damn you, Parrothead! I gotta have that bed! (Hey, that rhymes. Sort of.)  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 August 19, 14:50:26
That lovely toile pattern recolor is by sesame, she made it as a gift for Amaranth new site.  She does awesome work.  You can find MOAR of her at Sims2Artists. (http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?board=180.0)  Seriously that one is the tip of the iceberg with her.  But don't visit if your downloads folder is on a diet.  ;)  She also gives gifts and recolors at BPS.  Her latest SIP recolor has me seriously re-considering my no shabby chic rule.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Irish Wench on 2009 August 19, 17:09:18
Should have mentioned that the bed was Sesame's gift HL. I have been chasing down her stuff as well at the different places she posts.

*Downloading is tiring business*

 :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: JWong on 2009 August 19, 17:12:29
I hope I am doing this right!
Mango Sims Dining Room Set for TS3!
(http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n35/l_lds2006/mango-s3-asera-600x450.jpg)

http://mangosims2.free.fr/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 19, 18:06:28
About Sesame's stuff: I. Luff. You. Guys. Thank you so much for linking to Sesame's stuff! It is so perfect for this house that I was working on all last night. I didn't want it to be all neat-clean-shiny but grunge was definitely out, so I opted for a shabby-chic type thing instead, and... I luff you guys. Sesame's things are gorgeous and just what I needed to finish that house for my Sims (who are currently expecting - can't let baby grow up in a work-in-progress!). I love her creations!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 19, 18:34:58
*squee!* Savio updated his bob hair at simscave! I've tested it and it looks perfect ingame, proof:
(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1285/screenshotuox.th.jpg) (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/screenshotuox.jpg/)(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3854/screenshot2uxg.th.jpg) (http://img6.imageshack.us/i/screenshot2uxg.jpg/)
Toss your fugly bob converts and grab this beautiful one here http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=10358.0
EDIT: forgot to add that it's from teen to elder.

Random lulzness: here's the accessories I grabbed on the russian community:
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2596/lolccm.jpg)
My bad boys will be delighted with the ear one :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 20, 03:49:53
MangoSims stuff is fully recolorable - I just tested the little chair set yesterday and the dining set this afternoon. They look pretty good to .


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 03:55:49
I don't get it, I used Delphy's CTU to check the bob, it told me that it's 5.354 polys. So... Wut? ??? Why the CTU gives me a fake polys? How did you get your number? And how can someone alpha edit a hair that has a side split to make a hair with a middle split?!
Even so, 20k for a perfect bob... Who cares? ^^ 'll just change it to not be random and use it. This way I won't have a neighbourhood filled with a gazillion of random sims using it :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 04:35:56
I did not check the Lod0 mesh, I only launched the CTU who tells me that it's 5k. I didn't know that for hairs the CTU only sees the Lod0. I don't have any hair program to check it otherwise, I only noticed that the CTU spouted a number for the polys and falsly assumed it would be the correct one. I'm checking a hair mesh tutorial to see what program I could use that would correctly sees the total polys. Have an advice?
I removed the random feature and added the maternity (why everybody forgets that one? Is it nasty to turn it on or what?)

Btw Motoki can you remove the uneeded part of the hair?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: chrysalis on 2009 August 20, 05:09:54
*squee!* Savio updated his bob hair at simscave! I've tested it and it looks perfect ingame, proof:
(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1285/screenshotuox.th.jpg) (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/screenshotuox.jpg/)(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3854/screenshot2uxg.th.jpg) (http://img6.imageshack.us/i/screenshot2uxg.jpg/)
Toss your fugly bob converts and grab this beautiful one here http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=10358.0
EDIT: forgot to add that it's from teen to elder.

I believe you posted the incorrect link for the bob. It's actually here: http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=10015.0
Coolsims 41 is a completely different hair. This should remove any confusion.  :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 20, 05:12:51
Maternity doesn't do anything. I wouldn't mess with it.

I don't know that there's a good program to do poly counts outside of Milkshape. CTU really should be looking at the correct LOD, not the lowest level one, that only gets used when you are way zoomed out.

Meh, I don't know. I've been reluctant to mess with meshing because I don't know Mikshape's controls well and also because Inge and Peter's S3PE is a hell of a lot less user friendly than Quaxi's and it seems like every time I try to do something with it shit goes wrong and doesn't work like it's supposed to, but maybe I am being an impatient tight pants tard. :P

I could try I guess. It annoys me enough that he did that that I almost want to fix the damned thing.  >:( I just know it will turn into a huge headache though.


EDIT: Ah okay that makes more sense now, but 20k is still too gd high for a bob. :P

EDIT2: Okay the real bob is 5,354 polys, not that bad and it does have reduced LOD meshes so that is good. Forgot everything I said, I was linked to the wrong file. This one is fine.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Missbonbon on 2009 August 20, 05:34:00
Motoki, are you sure you opened the correct mesh? Because the way that mesh is layed out it looks like this one. (http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/2009/08/anto-coolsims-41-by-savioaraujo110_17.html)

Edit: My bad. I thought I was on the last page when I posted this.  :-[


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 06:07:17
WHAT?!! I've just spent an HOUR searching for tools for these polys and you're telling me that the CTU is right?! Niiiaaa! *falls dead*
Btw I haven't found a thing - except a clothing tutorial lol. I even caught a virus in my trip to the bad hood of the 'net looking for a crack for that milkshape of my ass. Avast is still cleaning my C drive. Oh crap. Okay CTU is right, 5K so I'll put the bob back on random since it's a perfect mesh for the mere price of 5k, a real bargain.
And all that because I failed my link *sob*. Thanks cinnamon for correcting that. I'm really sorry for the confusion Motoki :-[

About maternity, I was afraid that like clothing if it's not enabled your sim would change hair to one that allows it. Well  it don't seem to hurt to turn it on anyway, hairs still works afterward.
Btw what is the "Singed" option and why does it have to be turned off? At MATY they didn't explain it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 20, 06:20:11
PSSST get the milkshape crack from a torrent. It doesn't matter if it's an older version. Install the cracked one first, then install the newer version over top of it in the same directory. Check the comments on torrents. If it has a bunch of comments saying it's okay and not a bunch of people screaming about it being a trojan than it should be safe but scan it anyway!

But my name is Bonita and you ain't heard it from me!

Anyway, onto finds.

Judie from All About Style actually tipped me off to this. I was lamenting the lack of modder made elder clothing and she told me Control Sims had some:

http://www.simcontrol.es/

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2300/190809.jpg)

In their TS3 section there's some tunics and tights, and floral underwear and such also. Some adult stuff too.

For you TS2 types (which really seems like the majority here actually) they also just posted a cute botanical bathroom set:

(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5107/180809.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 06:27:22
Pssst > Rlly? Okay. 'Will see if that works, Bonita :P

Don't forget about the Singed option. What does it do and why is it so bad? They only said at MATy 'Don't enable it!!Einz' but not a word of explanation.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 20, 06:32:44
Singed is when your sim gets burnt or electrocuted. Basically only one hair should be set to singed and that's the singed hair. You wouldn't want a sim walking around all dark and roasty looking in torn clothing with a perfectly coifed bouffant.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 06:49:08
Aaah! That's what I supposed, but wasn't sure since none of my translators and dictionary (urban or not) gave me a coherent definition. Thanks for confirming. :)
The trick still work. Not that I understand anything to that tool anyway but meh it could be of good use one day. I'll rather stick with clothing stuff for the time being, I like it more & it's easier as it's in 2D lol


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 August 20, 07:16:31
OMG, I LOVE that set by Mango Sims on the last page, Must Have!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 20, 10:51:10
One of my Sim families got robbed this evening. It should have been a total pain. She's pregnant, they've got a toddler, and everyone's trying to sleep - they don't need the excitement, really.
But then, I saw the most amazing thing.
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/dusdeedawn/ScreenShot.jpg)
Alien Burglar. For seriousness. Look at him, isn't he FANTASTIC? I'm thrilled. Point is, this most awesome of things would not have been possible Pooklet's lovely [free] creations:
Pooklet's face templates (We've Got Obsessions) (http://pooklet.dreamwidth.org/5394.html)
and
Pooklet's geneticized skins (My Poor Lover) (http://pooklet.dreamwidth.org/9433.html)
They're gorgeous. Really.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Veles on 2009 August 20, 11:49:05
I heard that geneticized skins are bad (if you decide to pull them out after some time of playing with them), but if this is the result, I might forget about the warnings. I wanna alien burglars, and alien maids, and alien everything in my game!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 August 20, 16:03:12
Thank you Aikea!

 Piercings (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=14128.0)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 20, 16:12:21
Yay, they are up and working. I can't wait till we get the layerable ones, but I will be happy with these for right now. I have several sims who would look great with the,. :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 16:25:40
Yay! Finally the piercings are here!!! :D *jumps around*

I can't wait till we get the layerable ones
That's currently impossible, so we'll have to wait for modders to finally find a way.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 20, 16:32:12
I know its not possible right now, but Aikea is going to try and work it out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 20, 17:31:35
Kitchen clutter condiments by EveryR here http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365058  (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365058). She also did the dinette set at Simmer Valley (XMSims)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 17:44:28
FP Posted his awesome car! http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365245
Youtube video of it in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4Gpj31-sU
 ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 20, 17:51:53
FP is killing my finds list for today- 5 out of my ten TS3 finds are from FP- his pumpkin, nutcracker, column, deco car, and now real car. Two more cars 2008 Audi A4 http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365426  (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365426)and 2008 Jeep Commander http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365361  (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365361)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2009 August 20, 18:01:15
SimsControl uses TSRW for clothes, which comes in Sims3Packs, as you all know.  I would love to have the Nazariopilar's clothes in my game, but her Sims3Pack files are not compressed. The elder shirts are 20MB, that's a bit much for me. She have some gorgeous tunics, but the S3P file is 24MB.

I am still trying to understand how to compress files in S3P's just so I can enjoy Nazariopilar's work.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 18:24:32
Use Pescado's S3rc to compress everything you like, even *.packages files :D
Edit: here's the link http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15129.0.html
Read the thread to know how to use it.

Want your sim to buy a pink limo? (or any unbuyable car?) All the cars and fully unlocked and buyable here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364790


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2009 August 20, 19:02:04
Thanks House. I know that program and use it on all S3Ps, that's the only way I can install them. Doesn't reduce the package enough.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: badcyn on 2009 August 20, 20:12:50
I love Adele's new floors for the sims 2

http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=build (http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=build)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 20, 21:43:26
I heard that geneticized skins are bad (if you decide to pull them out after some time of playing with them), but if this is the result, I might forget about the warnings. I wanna alien burglars, and alien maids, and alien everything in my game!

This is actually possible without geneticized skins, I think. Somewhere out there there is a hack that allows your NPCs to spawn as Creatures. Like Zombie Maid. Not sure what exactly the hack entails - I'm still trying to find it - but I think it should be possible to have alien NPCs/Townies, and they of course will use the default alien skin. My default currently is FantasyRogue's green Canvas (http://fantasyrogue.livejournal.com/29037.html) one, so that would be pretty awesome. Crap. Now I have to find that mod! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 20, 21:54:32
lewisb, I don't know of any other tools.

I have to warn casual users that it's true that genetized skins or eyes are extremelly bad! You can nevar remove them forevar!

Yo, Sims 3 users, finally there's a Nude pregnant belly for women!!! God knows why it's at sexysims though, how prude ::) Your pregnant sims will finally have a belly when taking their shower or when naked :) Oh my gosh that's perfect! And it works with modded boobs (not TSR's Cara boobies' fug, real edited boobies at sexysims ^^)
Grab your belly here lol -> http://www.sexysims2.com/showthread.php?t=172558


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Kraz on 2009 August 20, 22:31:36
FP Posted his awesome car! http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365245
Youtube video of it in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4Gpj31-sU
 ;D
Ah yes I was gonna post that :D that car makes me salivate.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Snowflakes on 2009 August 20, 22:42:29
Yo, Sims 3 users, finally there's a Nude pregnant belly for women!!! God knows why it's at sexysims though, how prude ::) Your pregnant sims will finally have a belly when taking their shower or when naked :) Oh my gosh that's perfect! And it works with modded boobs (not TSR's Cara boobies' fug, real edited boobies at sexysims ^^)
Grab your belly here lol -> http://www.sexysims2.com/showthread.php?t=172558
Thank you for posting that! I hated that my pregnant sims weren't shower-proof. I don't go to sexysims very often, so it probably would've been another month until I noticed it there.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 21, 00:23:54
More work for you, dstar :P FP posted 2 more usable cars! ;D
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365426
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365361


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 21, 00:25:31
He is keeping my TS3 update section full. I can't wait to see these in action.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 21, 02:20:08
You can extract Sims3packs to package files and then compress the textures in S3PE. There's various tools to do the extracting from Jfade, Delphy etc.

I should go try it on those elder clothes and yeah I agree that files size is nuts.

Edit: Okay got the Elder Tunic file down from 22 MB to 1.5 MB  :o

Here it is if someone can't be arsed

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nzgzghz5ztj

But here's what I did. First I loaded it in JFade's 3Viewer tool. I 'installed' it but chose to install it on the desktop. It created a package file with a hashed up gibberish name which I renamed. Then I dragged the package file onto Pescado's s3rc.exe and voila 22 down to 1.5 and no launcher needed to install.

*****

Oh and found this by randomly looking at the BBS (don't ask)

Windchimes for TS3:

http://simmingitup.org/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=504 (note: you do have the register for the forum to download but the registration is instantaneous and the download is free)

(http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/motokimo/silverwinde.jpg?t=1250823630)
(http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/motokimo/pinkwind.jpg?t=1250823655)

Apparently, patterns won't show on it but you can change the color.

Poly count is 1882 so not so bad.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 21, 04:17:47
Well I was wondering if the same file being compressed with S3rc would have a different compression rate if it's a sims3pack or a package. Since I only use packages for CC except for EA's store stuff I didn't care much to find it out myself lol. Thanks for the confirmation. 'Tis true that s3rc does wonder with packages, a while ago I compressed a mere top package which was 10mo to 250ko, Awesomeware is indeed awesome!

Arg yet another forum to subscribe! >:( Damn I love windchimes so I'll just have one more log to add to my collection of one gazillion subscribes. Plus the size seems correct. (compared to the windchimes CC that was for sims 1 lol that thing was so damn huge) Great find Motoki. Edit: ROFL I was already subscribed to this one! ^^

You're welcome Snowflakes, I rarely go there myself too since there are barely new adds :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2009 August 21, 08:37:20

But here's what I did. First I loaded it in JFade's 3Viewer tool. I 'installed' it but chose to install it on the desktop. It created a package file with a hashed up gibberish name which I renamed. Then I dragged the package file onto Pescado's s3rc.exe and voila 22 down to 1.5 and no launcher needed to install.

I have followed your tips at MATY and they were successful, so I am thankful for this. I am afraid my brain can't figure these tools, but your tip above looks easy enough.

EDIT: I was so excited about learning something new, I forgot to post Heidi's conversion of my favorite Sims 2 set to Sims 3 @ Exotic Elements (http://www.exoticelements.org/).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Motoki on 2009 August 21, 14:38:42
Somebody really needs to make a simple program to extract a sims3pack to package without some fancy pants installer asking you a bunch of questions. I know Delphy has his sims3pack installer thing so maybe try that one out.

Once you get it to a package it's super easy to compress, just drop it on the s3rc.exe file from Pescado's site and that's it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 August 21, 15:16:34
Echo has one, super easy. The only option is to open and extract.  I don't know where it went now that Simlogical is down.  I uploaded to file factory, I think she would be ok with it?


http://www.filefactory.com/file/ah26bfb/n/PackExtractor_rar


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 21, 17:17:25
WTF happened to SimLogical?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 August 21, 19:08:51
Sorry  I shouldn't have said simlogical, I should have said Sims3Tools.  Now that all the tools have been moved to MTS, they took that forum down.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Veles on 2009 August 21, 19:28:48
I heard that geneticized skins are bad (if you decide to pull them out after some time of playing with them), but if this is the result, I might forget about the warnings. I wanna alien burglars, and alien maids, and alien everything in my game!

This is actually possible without geneticized skins, I think. Somewhere out there there is a hack that allows your NPCs to spawn as Creatures. Like Zombie Maid. Not sure what exactly the hack entails - I'm still trying to find it - but I think it should be possible to have alien NPCs/Townies, and they of course will use the default alien skin. My default currently is FantasyRogue's green Canvas (http://fantasyrogue.livejournal.com/29037.html) one, so that would be pretty awesome. Crap. Now I have to find that mod! :D

Oh, thanks for the tip. I've never heard of such hack before. I must look for it. On default skins - I have so many downloaded and switch them all the time. I wish there's an option for multiple replacements. The ones that you linked to are simply gorgeous.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2009 August 21, 20:46:11
Somebody really needs to make a simple program to extract a sims3pack to package without some fancy pants installer asking you a bunch of questions. I know Delphy has his sims3pack installer thing so maybe try that one out.

Once you get it to a package it's super easy to compress, just drop it on the s3rc.exe file from Pescado's site and that's it.

I tried, I failed on the compression part. I did everything you said, made my package, renamed it, dragged over the s3rc.exe put into the Mods/Packages folder, started game.  No show. Had the bright idea to try CTU, the compressed files showed as original meshes, but the whole body was the textures, head to shoes. I laughed so hard.

Delphy's multi-installer made the package files, but naming them would be a  mess if I had a batch to do. Compressed a copy of the packages with s3rc.exe, turned on the game, no show.
Deleted those compressed files and moved the original .package files extracted by the multi-installer and they showed up in the game. I guess I can only keep the original size after all. I must be doing something wrong. Bummer.

At least I have .package files now. Yay.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 21, 22:33:09
Be sure to have the latest version of s3rc. I'm myself testing what can be sompressed, 'til now it's approximately 90%. And when you compress stuff be sure to delete the caches to force the game to see them. I often made the mistake of forgetting to do that and it wouldn't show until I did.
About the multipack extrator, Delphy will correct the renaming feature right after the CTU update is done. So all look out for these 2 tools updates. Will test the pack extractor, 'love tools :P

Thanks about exoticelements, didn't know she was doing stuff for sims3. That's awesome!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 22, 00:17:32
Sorry  I shouldn't have said simlogical, I should have said Sims3Tools.  Now that all the tools have been moved to MTS, they took that forum down.

Ok, panic averted.   :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 22, 06:52:44
Cool, I would hate Inge's place to go down :P

I tested the pack extractor uploaded by HL: very useful! It extracts where you want (no double install in the downloads folder and no extra clicks anywhere) and lets you rename the package. I'll keep on using it :D I should have grabbed it when I saw it a looong time ago but I was only discovering all the tools and was a bit lost. Ah shit I would have saved time with that thing. I don't know if it can handle mulitpacked files but hell it's really nifty.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 August 23, 16:14:45
Semi invisible parking space: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365570

Instead of that bar, its now a simple little white line. The creator had made it 100% invisible, only problem with that, you can place it, you just can never pick it up, so he settled on just a simple line.

And Mango sims has a bedroom set up now:

http://mangosims2.free.fr/s3-sets1.htm


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 23, 16:59:00
http://mangosims2.free.fr/s3-sets1.htm
The set has a bed. I wonder if the covers are animated.

EDIT: FP posted a new gorgeous car that has the lights working! It appears the lights problem was because he was cloning a car that had no lights :P http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=365943


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: kenmtl on 2009 August 23, 23:32:36
Dude is doing great work and I luv how enthusiastic he is in his descriptions. He makes me laugh. MOAR CARS!.

Dr. House I'm using that bed now. I'll let you know.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 23, 23:35:40
Okay while Kenmtl is sleeping in Mango's Bed (Kenmtl's Sim rather) I can tell you the bloody Bugatti looks fantastic in game. Also Exotic Elements remade part of their Traditional Living Set including my favorite chair for TS3 -http://www.exoticelements.org/ (http://www.exoticelements.org/)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2009 August 23, 23:58:58
The creators are coming along with great stuff for TS3. Hmm, doing great with "free modding tools".

It has been a few months since I played TS2, but the chairs have a Suza style from "SimplyStyling".  I don't remember Mango having those chairs, but they are very nice looking at pictures.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: millahnna on 2009 August 24, 02:28:35
Ack.  I keep clicking on links of nifty looking stuff only to find it's sims 3.  At least the pudding faces help me figure it out for Body Shop stuff.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: missangelica on 2009 August 24, 04:04:49
Ack.  I keep clicking on links of nifty looking stuff only to find it's sims 3.  At least the pudding faces help me figure it out for Body Shop stuff.

You know, it's funny because I have seen many screenshots of the Sims 3 look like the Sims 2, especially in lower settings.  Someone posted a series of pictures on MATY and I couldn't tell which game it was.   :D  It turned out to be Sims 3 pictures.

ETA:  Aren't both games built on the same engine or am I losing it?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 24, 04:12:42
I heard that geneticized skins are bad (if you decide to pull them out after some time of playing with them), but if this is the result, I might forget about the warnings. I wanna alien burglars, and alien maids, and alien everything in my game!
This is actually possible without geneticized skins, I think. Somewhere out there there is a hack that allows your NPCs to spawn as Creatures. Like Zombie Maid. Not sure what exactly the hack entails - I'm still trying to find it - but I think it should be possible to have alien NPCs/Townies, and they of course will use the default alien skin. My default currently is FantasyRogue's green Canvas (http://fantasyrogue.livejournal.com/29037.html) one, so that would be pretty awesome. Crap. Now I have to find that mod! :D
Oh, thanks for the tip. I've never heard of such hack before. I must look for it. On default skins - I have so many downloaded and switch them all the time. I wish there's an option for multiple replacements. The ones that you linked to are simply gorgeous.

Well I looked for that mod and the most I could find of it was a mention, and then a link to an LJ post that no longer exists. I may have to take it to another site's WCIF section, since I, too, would like to have that hack.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: neriana on 2009 August 24, 05:51:59
I think they're built on the same engine.

I can see major graphical improvements in Sims 3 when it comes to plants, especially the way they move. Otherwise... yeah. Puddings. I think pretty soon I'll be going back to TS2, at least until Pescado beats TS3 with a hammer enough.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 24, 15:24:47
Yes, agreed, the landscape graphics are quite an improvement. Terrain paints are loads better, too, looking much more natural. Do I even have to mention the incredible water effects? But, the pool water effect is crappy compated to TS2, and in general I find that the Sims-related graphics are jerky and poorly animated. The way they just wave their arm at something to pick it up, for example, and of course the fade-out effect when they get into a car. Their butts don't even touch the bicycle seats, have you noticed? I can just see the programmers, bleary-eyed at 4 AM with dozens of empty Coke cans and Twinkie wrappers scattered around, envisioning their supervisors coming around in a few hours to demand a progress report. I'd just throw up my hands and say, "Fuck it, that's good enough!" too. EA's misuse of its programming talent is legendary.

On another note, I'd like to echo others' comments about the similarities between pictures of Sims 2 and Sims 3 content and suggest that this thread be split off into a separate Sims 3-only version, to avoid confusion.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 24, 16:00:18
I don't think it's the same engine and it can't be. Too much differences in everything: lots displaying, managing a huge load of neighbours and all the citizens. Nope can't be. Sims 2 engine would be left dead trying to render even a single lot. I seem to recall an interview where they said it's a new engine. Basically the pre-release ones I guess.

The pudding. Yeah right ::) Funny how those who smash sims 3 will keep arguying, even if you show them they're wrong. Want to know the real difference between the games? sims 2 is a single lot simulation, sims 3 is a whole hood simulation. Now sims do have real neighbours and can go relax on the beach without loading time; don't you see a difference?! Clearly: Sims 2 is a demo compared to Sims 3. Yes, you read it right. Don't you realize that seeing your other lots kids actually going to school is something amazing you'll never see in sims 2? Sims 3 simulates a whole friggin' town, not a mere lot with a horrible outside view. You really see your neighbours kids growing up, getting married etc. No more 'Oops mommy's dead! We'll have to take the grave to a graveyard, let's load the graveyard! Ow I'll put her here, it's a nice spot. Now loading time again: we have to go home feed the kids before they go to that school that I've never seen and nevar will! Loading time over, I can keep on playing this lot 'til they all die! Weee!"... LOL alienating. Smashing a game because of a feeble lightning that utterly turns almost every pic into crap is really silly. Then you have all the other improvements that a lot here keeps mentionning, but who cares?! There's pudding! ;D Ooooo I prefer my tiny lot 'til my sims death! My god, pudding! Pudding, the magic word! ROFL. Come on, seriously. :(

Edited for taipoo.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 August 24, 16:28:47
Dr. House, its getting pretty irritating to hear you basically telling those of us who have decided to stick to The Sims 2 how wrong we are. I get it, you love the new game. However, there are many of us who don't want anything to do with it. You may think TS2 is a demo of TS3, but I disagree. Sure the terrains are pretty, but I don't like the gameplay. If all I want is pretty graphics, I'll stare at a damn landscape picture for a couple of hours. We're all open to our opinions, but its getting sickening to watch you plug this game to everyone like a EA fangirl. There are some of us who arent interested in TS3, you're probably not going to change it. You may think the game is amazing, which you're obviously welcome to, but not everyone is going to think like you. In my opinion, the game is well thought out but poorly executed. Obviously, you're welcome to your opinion, but the rest of us are allowed to dislike the game as much as you love it.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 24, 16:50:29
Dr. House gave me rum, I don't forget. So I won't bash her for bashing TS2. Otherwise I may never get rum again.   :'(

But I don't understand the anger. TS3 has some great improvements, and it's turned out to be more fun than I originally thought it would be. And, I appreciate that judging this first release against a game that's had umpteen EPs and Stuff Packs is unfair.

That said, I have to defend those who prefer TS2. Actually, the story progression feature that Dr. House likes so much is the thing I immediately turned off and leave off. So I'm a control freak. I don't want Sims moving in and out without my say-so. I don't want to miss the childhood/adulthood of my created Sims because I was engrossed in another family for a time.

Maybe it's because I'm such a natural hermit in real life and I can stay happily cocooned for days, but I have no problem with my Sims being "confined" to one lot at a time. I rarely take them to community lots, especially after OFB fubared the grocery shopping feature. Getting clothes for them is now the main reason for leaving home turf. In TS3, you don't need to shop for clothes at all, you have access to the entire wardrobe collection via your dresser, which I find even more unrealistic than paying 200 simoleons for a single piece of clothing.

But, to each her own. For me, the best solution is to keep both games installed and play whichever one takes my fancy at the time. At present, because it's still new, I play TS3 a little more, but it's fast becoming old news and the scales are starting to tip back toward TS2 and all those gigs of great content and super hacks. If it's going to take TS3 two or three years, or more, to catch up to TS2 in terms of EP content, interactions and playability, then I'd say TS2 has a lot more life left even for those of us who find much to enjoy in TS3.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 August 24, 17:09:47
There are hacked computers for Sims 2 that allow you to shop for everything from in front of your computer desk. I believe it's Monique's Moneywell computer and that you can get it from MTS. I'm the same way about leaving my sim at home, it's how I live myself. I don't go out much and most of the time, I'm OK with it. I use hacks to achieve things such as keeping my sims happy, fit, rested, educated, etc. I don't give a rat's fart in a hurricane about Sims 3 and you guys know it, but since some of you like it so much, I'm not going to tear you a new asshole and rip you apart for loving it. I would appreciate the same. This is a big forum with lots of room for differing opinions, yanno? I like the look of the doll houses in Sims 3, I will admit that, but I also have to like the look of my dolls and such.

Plus, it just seems that Sims 2 doesn't require so much damn nurse-maiding and didn't from the get go. The style of play in my game pleases me, which is all that matters. If the Sims 3 style suits and pleases you, find and dandy, but don't come off and say that my game can't be as fulfilling to me as yours is to you. Then the gloves could well be off. *passes rum to El Diablo* Cool avi, I've liked it since I first saw it.

And yeah, I am with some of the others that think this thread needs split, kindly separate Sims 2 finds from Sims 3 because other wise, I get confused and disappointed. I want to be able to find the shiny for my game when I'm in the mood to go looking and so far, haven't seen much in this thread for what, a week or so? :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 24, 17:15:21
However, there are many of us who don't want anything to do with it.
Then stop whining about it! You hate the game, we got it! There are even some that put stupid comments in the sims 3 section of MTS 'Oooow that's lovely. Too bad it's for sims3. Pudding!' Then why go see the sims 3 section? Why post there?
but its getting sickening to watch you plug this game to everyone like a EA fangirl.
Now that is crazy. Where did I do it?!! LOL it's only the second time that I rant pro sims3. The first time was in another thread 2 months ago! Really, where?!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 24, 17:19:47
Same ol' Same ol'.  "You played Sims 2 wrong, and You must convert to the One True Way and then you will be happy to play Shit 3."

Watch my lips:  I hate the way the ugly sims look, I hate the enforced "play it EA's way or no way", I hate the mini-games, I hate the locked into one neighborhood.   I have no intention of starting up with Sims 3. Now or ever.  Get over it.

And I suggested a while back that we split the  "prettiest free sites" threads Sims 2 and Sims 3, and was basically told that I was a moron for not being able to tell the difference.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 August 24, 17:40:27
Okay - as someone who happens to like both games, for different reasons [and Sims 1 for its reasons too] can we please fucking stop with the attacks back and forth?

I'm not adverse to having two threads, myself.  Because if nothing else, maybe we'd stop having this fucking bickering.  I -thought- we were adults here.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Dr House on 2009 August 24, 17:43:23
Same ol' Same ol'.  "You played Sims 2 wrong, and You must convert to the One True Way and then you will be happy to play Shit 3."
?! Again, where? Are you being paranoiac or what? And why are you suddenly being so fussy? You stated your opinion against sims 3, I stated mine against sims 2. So rant is over. Respect my opinion as I do respect yours. I only posted my rant because there was yet more "Same ol' Same ol'" pudding argument! So what?! Respect should be in both ways: stop bashing sims3 on a daily basis and I'll stop bashing sims 2 in my every-couple-of-month rant!
And I suggested a while back that we split the  "prettiest free sites" threads Sims 2 and Sims 3
That may be totally useless and makes the same fights: pro sims 2 will go post comments in the sims 3 finds saying 'Oooo cute! Too bad it's for sims 3! Pudding!". Then you'll dare to say you respect the others' opinions? And do you think there'll be ONE similar comment in the sims 2 one? Nope, 'cause of apparently mono-sided respect!

But yes it should be done, so we'll be able to see what happens ::)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: sleegee on 2009 August 24, 18:43:11
I agree with Paden and all else who said it, we do need a separate thread for Sims 2 and Sims 3 finds.   I come to this thread to find new prettys for my Sims 2 game.  I'm not about to play the Sims 3 for various reasons.  I'm perfectly happy with the Sims 2 and will continue to play it for awhile.  I'm still discovering new things about the game and I've been playing it for a few years now.

 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 24, 19:07:33
Trust me, if we split the threads I have no intention of visiting the Sims 3 version. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: MrsBulldog on 2009 August 24, 19:22:26
I'm also putting in a vote for splitting the threads.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 24, 19:59:10
Well, much as I'm sorry about the way this has come to be, I also vote for a separate 'prettiest free' Sims3 thread. I was thinking it might be a good idea before, but what with the petty bickering, it seems that that may be the best course of action, anyway.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 24, 20:03:06
There are hacked computers for Sims 2 that allow you to shop for everything from in front of your computer desk. I believe it's Monique's Moneywell computer and that you can get it from MTS.
Actually, that's pretty realistic, as I buy most of my clothes over the Internet these days anyway. But my fave clothing hack is the good ol' Hacked Coat Hook. Although, I did change its price from $50 to $2500, which seemed more reasonable to me if I was going to get unlimited clothing in return.

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*passes rum to El Diablo* Cool avi, I've liked it since I first saw it.

Thanks for the tipple, and glad you like the avi. I forget who once described cats as having "lovely blood-red thoughts," but it fits.

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And yeah, I am with some of the others that think this thread needs split, kindly separate Sims 2 finds from Sims 3 because other wise, I get confused and disappointed. I want to be able to find the shiny for my game when I'm in the mood to go looking and so far, haven't seen much in this thread for what, a week or so? :(

And you may not see much for quite a while, if ever. Sadly, lots of people seem to think there's nothing new to be done for Sims 2. I've even severely curtailed my downloading over the past several months, even before Sims 3. It seems that most of the time I've already got something so similar that it's not worth swelling my downloads even further for some minor tweak. Anything by Adele, of course, goes immediately into the kitty.

I'm not suggesting splitting the thread to curtail moar fight, though. I think it would be a good idea only because it's difficult to tell whether stuff is for TS2 or TS3, and I don't think anyone's a moron for being confused. It all does look very similar. Especially after a few swigs of rum.  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 24, 20:07:28
There, I did it for you guys, problem freaking solved. Now can we get back to the pretties?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 24, 20:12:48
There, I did it for you guys, problem freaking solved. Now can we get back to the pretties?
Muchas gracias. Have rum.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ekimsal on 2009 August 24, 21:10:19
I'm loving this Togruta mesh and eagerly awaiting the male version. It grows with age! How awesome is that?

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=352546

(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg194/ekimsal/MTS2_earendil_952126_pic1b.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 24, 22:31:47
Cute stuff for TS2

HugeLunatic

Recolorable Storybook Modular Stair http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=1685.00

Recolorable Euroval Stairs - http://sims2artists.sublimesims.net/smf/index.php?topic=1681.0

Sorceress and Company - New Gnomes http://www.thesorceressandcompany.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ekimsal on 2009 August 24, 22:52:07
I can already see the gnomes in Coral Oldies house. It's where Kitsch goes to die


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: millahnna on 2009 August 25, 04:41:23
Quote
However, there are many of us who don't want anything to do with it.

For the record I just can't run 3 on my machine and I've learned the hard way to let the hackers have at for an EP or two before I jump in.  Puddings or not I'll be playing it once I can (and I'm convinced some modder will fix that too).  And I'll be following both threads of pretties.  Thanks for the split for us visually confused types.  I was really having a hard time with some of the objects from just screen shots. 


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Ashbashtus on 2009 August 25, 13:51:42
Thanks for splitting the thread :). Just for the record, I didn't want to come off as bitchy as I did. It just came off that I was being told the right way to play the game, which doesnt sit well with me.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 25, 16:34:18
Just found this site today.  Haven't had a chance to see how it looks in game, but from the preview it looks great.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/Lerf1950/update250809.png)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Veles on 2009 August 25, 16:52:00
Just found this site today.  Haven't had a chance to see how it looks in game, but from the preview it looks great.

<pic of The Pretty>

Oh, the joy, it's not pudding hair!  ;D Link, please?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 25, 17:10:50
Oops, sorry about that.  Cold meds have turned my brain into snot.

http://coolsims.net/cool/index.php?show=items&items=hair47 (http://coolsims.net/cool/index.php?show=items&items=hair47)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Veles on 2009 August 25, 18:15:44
Thanks a ton! I'll check it later in-game (currently running TS2). But it looks great, and I hope it's well animated.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 26, 04:06:35
It's a TS2 hair, Veles. The thread's split now, remember?  ;)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 August 26, 18:11:39
A page back, I was talking about the computer made by Monique and mentioned vaguely where it could be found. I realized that wasn't good enough and today got to poking around a little bit. Here (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=64137) is where you can get the original over at MTS, which goes up to Free Time. Now, over to InSIM, Chaavik has been working on updating it clear to AL and THIS (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,93501.msg0/topicseen.html#new) is where you can get it. She gives clear credit to the original creator and does takes care of bugs when they're reported. If you have hermit sims like I tend to, it's a big help. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 August 27, 01:03:49
Thanks for the link Paden. Most of my sims tend to be hermit-y too.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 27, 01:24:40
Thanks bunches, Paden, for the link to the computer. How'd I miss that all this time?  ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 August 30, 09:50:54
Adele posted a new bathroom set  ;D  http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=objects


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: putti on 2009 August 30, 13:04:08
Adele's stuff is gorgeous unfortunately that set is very high in polys...87.3 MB.WOW!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Jojoba on 2009 August 30, 13:28:14
Adele's stuff is gorgeous unfortunately that set is very high in polys...87.3 MB.WOW!!

Actually the polys are ok its just the file sizes of the sink colours which are huge. 15MB of alternative sink colours, to be precise, out of a total 20MB for the entire set. I dont know why she says its 87.3MB, according to my laptop its 8.3MB..


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 30, 17:03:20
I get 8.3 MB for the whole shebang, too. The extra "7" must have just been a keyboard slip. So, go ahead and download it. It's Adele, for God's sake! *does happy dance*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Moune on 2009 August 30, 19:41:47
Actually, it is rarely the poly count that create large files. It's the size and detail of the texture map that makes the biggest difference. A 512 x 512 complex and colourful texture map can make a package file 3, 4 or even 10 times as big as a 256 x 256 simple black and white texture map. Adele's textures are very detailed and I'm guessing she's using rather big texture maps, which is why those sink recolors get that big.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 August 30, 19:47:18
I saw that candle last week...it is the most adorable thing!  I had kept the testing one until she released the set.  ;)  I'm greedy that way.

Regarding the size though, maybe they can be compressed and wont' be so big.  I haven't looked yet to see if they are, but her textures are nothing short of amazing, IMO.  Maybe she didn't compress, some people have crashing issues with files compressed.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 August 30, 20:15:21
I downloaded it, and, no, she didn't compress. The files named 'Adele_opheliaSet_alt1' through 'alt9' (which I'm assuming are the sink recolors) went from 1711 [KB] to between 858 and 902. The sink mesh itself went from 1954 to 985. The rest of the files are relatively small, but they all went down some, too. All in all, I'd say those are numbers that I wouldn't be afraid to put in my overly-crowded DL folder. ;)
Booty stuff is not compressed, and this is because it does change files and sometimes they don't work for some people or have problems being recolored, etc. I think it's better, anyway, to have the file whole and intact and let the downloader decide what to do with it from there.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: karu on 2009 August 30, 21:15:24
What I've been waiting for,  a vaulted ceiling set - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=366443


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: putti on 2009 August 30, 23:26:22
Adele's stuff is gorgeous unfortunately that set is very high in polys...87.3 MB.WOW!!

After your comments I went back to check and  she changed it...it was a typo, it's 8.73MB.
What a relieve! :)

Those ceilings look fantastic!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 August 30, 23:59:39
I know I'm not asposed to download anymore stuff, but I must have anything and everything that Adele makes. I've been waiting for her to make a bathroom. Now all I need is a kitchen by Adele and I can build a house decorated entirely with her stuff. SQUEEEE! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 31, 03:12:42
I downloaded it, and, no, she didn't compress. The files named 'Adele_opheliaSet_alt1' through 'alt9' (which I'm assuming are the sink recolors) went from 1711 [KB] to between 858 and 902. The sink mesh itself went from 1954 to 985. The rest of the files are relatively small, but they all went down some, too. All in all, I'd say those are numbers that I wouldn't be afraid to put in my overly-crowded DL folder. ;)
Booty stuff is not compressed, and this is because it does change files and sometimes they don't work for some people or have problems being recolored, etc. I think it's better, anyway, to have the file whole and intact and let the downloader decide what to do with it from there.

You're talking about using the Compressorizer, right? I remember reading somewhere (maybe here, I dunno, I go lots of places) that sometimes compressing the mesh file fubars things, but compressing any recolors is no problem. I never had a problem that I was aware of, but better safe than sorry. So, since reading that, I make sure to separate out any mesh files and only run recolors through the Compressorizer.

It does astonish me how much smaller the files get. It doesn't make load times any shorter, sadly, but it does save considerable hard drive space, which is at quite a premium for me these days.

Anyway, I'd make room for Adele no matter what! She is a goddess. Or an alien or something. She's not of this world.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 31, 08:32:20
Moune's put up a new bathroom:

http://mounes-neighbourhood.110mb.com/


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 August 31, 10:12:21
I love both the new bathrooms! Yay for Moune and Adele updates!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 August 31, 15:07:19
For those who are sticking with TS2 but have been oogling over some of the TS3 items, the new update at Clutter-a-holic is a must (http://lmhwjs.wordpress.com/).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 31, 15:44:29
For those who are sticking with TS2 but have been oogling over some of the TS3 items, the new update at Clutter-a-holic is a must (http://lmhwjs.wordpress.com/).

Soooo.... It's possible to make objects created for TS2 work in TS3? As in, all the CC I've collected over the years?


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 31, 15:52:24
Yes- Amadeo and Nextor Torres, at GOS have already extracted several TS2 hair meshes from the base game and converted them to TS3 and there have been a ton or CC hair conversions as well. I have not seen any clothes conversions though.

Nandonalt has already converted a TS2 EA chair and table to work in TS3 , and several other creators are working on converting some of their stuff to TS3.


And as we see from Clutter- a- holic people are also doing the reverse with TS3 to TS2 conversions.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 31, 18:35:13
Be careful on that last site.  I just got hit by a highjacker--some crook trying to convince me to invest in his phony real-estate scam.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Anyerfillag on 2009 August 31, 20:04:09
Thats strange Scurvy Cat I've never come across something like that on Clutter-a-holic ???


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2009 August 31, 20:33:56
It went away after a bit.  It not only resisted my trying to go to another site, by putting up multiple pop ups asking things like, "Do you really want to miss out on this opportunity to be scammed?" when I'd try to navigate elsewhere, but showed up the next couple of times I opened Firefox. 

I was procrastinating about putting in Ad Blocker and no script.  They're both on there now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 August 31, 20:38:54
Yes- Amadeo and Nextor Torres, at GOS have already extracted several TS2 hair meshes from the base game and converted them to TS3 and there have been a ton or CC hair conversions as well. I have not seen any clothes conversions though.

Nandonalt has already converted a TS2 EA chair and table to work in TS3 , and several other creators are working on converting some of their stuff to TS3.


And as we see from Clutter- a- holic people are also doing the reverse with TS3 to TS2 conversions.

I'll be VERY interested to see some sort of tutorial on how to do that! If it's something not too complicated, like just changing a code or something, and I could convert whatever TS2 CC I have... Hmmm.... I might just keep TS3 installed after all.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 August 31, 22:45:52
Check over on MTS to see if Nandonalt posted a tutorial in the meshing section on how to do it- or try pm'ing him at MTS to see if he can send you directions on how to do  TS2 to TS3 conversions.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: HugeLunatic on 2009 September 01, 02:15:39
Converting from TS2 to TS3 or vice versa is not simply changing a code in the package.  The packages are different, the uvmapping and texturing is different.  Depending on what your converting it can be as time consuming as starting afresh.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: El Diablo on 2009 September 01, 04:40:25
Converting from TS2 to TS3 or vice versa is not simply changing a code in the package.  The packages are different, the uvmapping and texturing is different.  Depending on what your converting it can be as time consuming as starting afresh.

I was afraid of that.  :(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 September 06, 19:17:00
I need to convert my stuff over - 'specially the counter culture stuff I made.  And think I'll ask Numenor and Mary Lou's permission to convert their kitchen stuff over too, though it might require me doing stuff as seperate meshes....I'm not -that- good.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Veles on 2009 September 11, 14:10:52
Just found this pretty F2M conversion of XM Sims hair (shame on me for not seeing it before). I'm so in love with all Sion's textures/re-textures/re-alphas/everything.

(http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww272/MyneUsername/TS2%20Stuff/Hehe/SionXMF2MConversion.jpg)

It's here: http://xxxsisterxxx.web.fc2.com/i/hair.html (http://xxxsisterxxx.web.fc2.com/i/hair.html), and no, this isn't direct link to the page, because you have to see moar pretties!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 September 11, 22:48:26
 :-* Thanks for that link Veles. I never been there before!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: millahnna on 2009 September 12, 02:05:03
She makes really interesting sim faces for her models.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 September 18, 21:22:07
New Studio 8-3-3 Clutter Set
http://niaolong.net/forum/index.php?topic=609.msg5847#msg5847
(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/EE_littletravelset2.jpg)
Lawn Ornaments
http://fairywitchsims.com/
(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/arelenriel/gardenstakes_baubles-1.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 September 19, 04:59:17
Oooh! I love fairywitch sims, great find Dstar!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 September 19, 13:03:58
I love her stuff to especially now I don't have to register to download it. I already nabbed the Studio-8-3-3 stuff - I haven't been downloading much of anything lately to tell you the truth. I have pared my Sims 2 downloads folder down to around 9,000 files - cause I went through and got rid of everything (even stuff I will admit I liked) from my TSR days which got rid of about 4000 files mostly clothes, and got rid of all the stuff I never used.I am also trying to keep TS3 manageable. I have been on the Download Whores Anonymous Wagon for about a month now.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 September 28, 21:52:04
2 recolors of Adele's Ophelia bathroom here:

(http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5457/ophelia4.jpg)

 (http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=10874)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 September 28, 21:56:04
SQUEEEE!!!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 September 28, 22:44:57
LOL  ;D That was also my reaction.

Edit: We can never have enough recolors of that set, so here (http://www.all4sims.de/board/thread.php?threadid=10864) are 3 more.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2009 September 28, 23:27:34
You are cruel, aeris, you know that? I must have those! *dashes off to grab* I don't feel real guilty about it because I cleared some stuff from my download folder the other day. Well, not real guilty, anyhow! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: autumnrose on 2009 September 28, 23:55:57
Paden: Adele stuff is like sock yarn. Does not count as stash! You can have all the Adele stuff you want!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rapture on 2009 September 29, 01:01:16
adele's definitely my favorite creator. and i don't have a lot of bathroom stuff, so this is amazingggg~!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2009 October 01, 16:12:04
I can't believe no one posted theses, Adele has 2 new things up.

(http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/nate1678/Sims%202/aviatorJacketFemale.jpg)
A female aviator Jacket. And

(http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/nate1678/Sims%202/aneskaCarpets.jpg)
A new set of aged carpets.

And for people who watch it, the third episode of her movie is now up.

Link: http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=main


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: marja on 2009 October 01, 18:13:16
Ah, Adele is simply amazing.

And, she's working on a kitchen set! ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 October 01, 19:07:17
I love Adele's stuff- she is somewhat  Maxis Match for her clothes and objects but her textures are so much better than EA's it is not even funny. Right now I am loving her jeans sets which even my old lady sims can wear as long as I have top separates designed to hold fix the elder slouch


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 October 01, 21:16:54
I am creating a second DL folder dedicated to Maxis Match (uber-mega-hood FTW) and all of Adele's objects just *ahem* magically ended up in there. There are a lot of fantastic non-MM things in the community, but hers are the only ones I couldn't bear to spend a second of gameplay without.

Speaking of Maxis Match, here's some gems from aquilegia (http://aquilegia.dreamwidth.org/2063.html?style=mine#cutid1). I think they were up in the finds at GoS, so if you frequent that, you've probably already seen them before. I'm trying not to download anything new until I get all the files on my poor dear old compy organized, but those will be the first thing to add after I'm done!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: SoggyFox on 2009 October 07, 13:15:43
For the longest time, I wouldn't put Adele's stuff into my game just because it -is- so gorgeous.  It makes everything else seem to bland [at least the maxis stuff].  She isn't the only creator that I feel like this about either.  I tended to stick to maxis-y looking stuff for everything in sims 2.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rapture on 2009 November 18, 22:57:25
Sorry if this is necro'ing, but this is an ongoing topic, soo...  :D




yuxi made MORE fallout 3 objects, which made me fangirl.


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/PeanutPete/fo3sims2dolls.jpg)


They're the voodoo dolls in Point Lookout, which is my favorite dlc (excluding broken steel, of course).  They look pretty good for scaring off sims neighbors. ;)


http://esperesa.dreamwidth.org/37762.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Veles on 2009 November 19, 16:35:36
Rapture, you made my day with that link! Yuxi's stuff is amazing, as always!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: aeris on 2009 December 10, 05:22:10
Fangirl moment!!! an awesome Arkham Asylum version of Batman! here:

(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1004/mts2taure1034506bat2.jpg)

 (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=381549)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 December 10, 08:33:19
That's really detailed and awesome - snags!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 December 10, 09:26:52
I don't know if you've all seen this yet, so I'll just post it in case you haven't.
Buggybooz has a new mesh set up, with 3 recolours. The textures are fantastic, as usual.

(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8712/main800.jpg)

http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/ (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: emethyst on 2009 December 10, 10:05:29
buggybooz has a blog?!?! *fangirls and follows* And the set isn't even complete. Wow.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2009 December 11, 06:16:14
OMG! Yes! Must Have Now!

Buggybooz = awesome!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 December 11, 06:23:01
That set is unbelievably well textured - Om Nom Nom!!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 December 11, 14:32:29
Well, I'll concede that it looks very good in the picture. It's not something that really awes and astounds me, but then, nothing that doesn't actually DO something does.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 December 11, 18:11:07
It DOES do something. It doesn't just sit there in the game. It gives Sims something to look at and they can even put stuffs on the tables. It also gives those of us who recolor something else to..well, recolor.  :P Besides that, wood burns well in those fires my Sims tend to set cause just happen to be in the area of when they spontaneously occur.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2009 December 11, 19:31:20
MLC - you could try not putting fireplaces in your Sims homes, or teaching them to cook and getting a fire alarm if you don't want them to accidentally catch things on fire (or is this your sooper sekrit method of getting rid of unwanted Sim families without corrupting your neighborhood by simply deleting them,.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: mustluvcatz on 2009 December 11, 19:56:33
Well, it's cold out so they need to have the fireplace. The fire/smoke alarm is present. So that leaves us with the possibility of that being my not-so-sooper-sekrit way of getting rid of unwanted Sims...


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 December 20, 08:16:45
I'm so in love with GOS's default revamp challenge.

http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=15817.0

I came to the realization that instead of hundreds of cc downloads to try to drown out the eaxis fug I can download shinies that replace the fug. No more fugly townie clothes???

And some of the best sims 2 default clothes come from Nocturnal, of course. http://nocturnalsims.dreamwidth.org/tag/clothes%3Ball


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 December 22, 17:02:00
I dunno, I think being shabbily dressed is partly a rite of passage for townies. Like in the real world, the homeless can be identified by their shabby clothes. Given that randomly-generated townies in Awesomeland occupy the same position on the social ladder that bums do in the real world, it's only right that they wear their shabby outfits.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 December 22, 19:42:52
But it uglies up my nice houses. No one who owns a house worth $1.4mil expects a bum to show up on the doorstep and say "Welcome to the neighborhood!" Well, in most places anyway.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2009 December 22, 21:00:31
Also, a custom "shabby/homeless/bum townie" texture is a million times better than eaxis's "shabby/ homeless/bum townie" textures imho.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 December 25, 23:58:40
But it uglies up my nice houses. No one who owns a house worth $1.4mil expects a bum to show up on the doorstep and say "Welcome to the neighborhood!" Well, in most places anyway.
Oh, how quaint. You still are playing the unmodified game where random bums show up as the welcome wagon instead of actual neighbors.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2009 December 26, 01:57:17
Well, I have the local walkby hack or whatever it's called. I must admit, the welcome wagons usually consist of one personage. But townies still come 'round to ugly up my houses.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: TapThatBooty on 2009 December 27, 03:01:27
Where could one find this awesome mod or what is the name of is so I may google for it.  :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Pescado on 2009 December 27, 03:36:38
Like all other things awesome, everything awesome is at MORE AWESOME THAN YOU. Accept no Kewian-based substitutes!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: pinkyfriend on 2009 December 27, 22:50:09
 :D I have a plant (by twojeffs I think) in every sim house that I just clicky on...and poof go townies, paperboys, strays...whatever I choose not to come around.
Best thing since sliced bread  :P


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2009 December 28, 04:51:33
Sarah at Awesim (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/?p=1234) has continued her wonderful Midcentury sets.

Bed with headboard, lamps, bedpillows, spread
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/Bed-Set-Preview-1.jpg)

Settee
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/bench-preview.jpg)

Coffee Table
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/bench-table-preview.jpg)

LivingSims Magazine (http://livingsims.nl/issue14/02page.htm) Issue 14 have some cute gifts.  The reply screen is jumping around so much, I will post a few pics.

Monoply game decor
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/monopoly.jpg)

Wall Shelf Decor
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/TypeShelf.jpg)

Sideboard and floor decor
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/SideboardBooks.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: ShanOw on 2009 December 28, 06:05:37
Om Nom! I love AweSims stuff - both there TS2 and TS3 stuff is awesome :)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: emethyst on 2009 December 28, 17:02:56
Too bad the creator decided to switch to Sims 3 completely  :'(


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2009 December 29, 13:43:05
Too bad the creator decided to switch to Sims 3 completely  :'(

I know, I'm still mourning over that. All that stuff that she's made for TS3 would look so good in my TS2 game.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rapture on 2010 January 06, 16:08:14
New FO3 objects from Yuxi:


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/PeanutPete/yuximiscobjectsfo3.png)

And Taure from MTS (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=348558) has made some batman outfits. She also made Ivy:


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/PeanutPete/MTS2_Taure_1043249_ivy-1.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: simneesee on 2010 January 07, 10:05:48
Adele updated her site with an awesome new kitchen! http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=objects


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Nimbus on 2010 January 07, 10:56:07
:O I've been checking back for that set for about a month now, haha. Shame it doesn't include appliances and a collection file but it's awesome.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2010 January 07, 13:27:49
I don't care about the collection file issue it is easy enough to fix.  I have D.J's collection Creator - not a problem, and I tend to use EA's appliances with CC kitchens anyways to ensure that they are up to date for the latest EP/SP- runs away with the shiny goodies.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 January 07, 17:19:17
I've been waiting for this kitchen for awhile, thanks for posting that she has it out now! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2010 January 07, 17:50:38
I just finished a recolor set for this- downloaded first thing when it came out.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: paperbeth on 2010 January 09, 07:46:08
Adele updated her site with an awesome new kitchen! http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=objects

Simply gorgeous. It took my breath away the moment I saw it. Must have.

:O I've been checking back for that set for about a month now, haha. Shame it doesn't include appliances and a collection file but it's awesome.

I almost always end up using the appliances from "The Basic Kitchen", by buggybooz. They seem to go with everything, plus they are updated to work with all EP's.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 January 09, 16:31:34
*pokes head out of game for a short time* Same here, but still wish there could have been matching whatevers just because I love the look of the sets she makes and lately I have this weird thing about wanting it all to match. Oh well, life do go on, now doesn't it? :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rapture on 2010 January 09, 16:34:06
I use maxis too, but I do have a couple non-maxis fridges.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 January 24, 08:59:51
Buggybooz has updated with an oven to match her Shakerlicious kitchen (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/01/shakerlicious-style-cookin.html).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 January 24, 20:15:19
I grabbed it! SQUEE! (You did not hear that come out of me, nope nope nope, I don't squee.)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: bollyknickers on 2010 January 25, 16:10:11
Buggybooz has updated with an oven to match her Shakerlicious kitchen (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/01/shakerlicious-style-cookin.html).

'Zis is vvonderful. Thank you for sharing!  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2010 January 26, 12:49:37
I hadn't seen anyone post this before, and I just found it today. On Adele's site, if you go to the donate section, she has a gift hidden there as a thank your for donating, but its free for everyone, even the people who don't donate.

(http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/nate1678/Sims%202/ornateBox.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 January 28, 12:10:07
Buggybooz updated again, with some extra cabinets and shelves for the Shakerlicious and Basic kitchens. (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/01/shakerlicious-extras.html)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: bohemianalyse on 2010 January 28, 15:38:46
     Thanks for posting the box from Adele, I love her stuff.  ;D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 January 31, 09:05:42
Another Buggybooz update: a buffet, round table and stool to go with the Shakerlicious kitchen (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/01/shakerlicious-extras.html).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: TapThatBooty on 2010 February 03, 20:13:26
My apologies if this has been put up before, but I couldn't see anything for it. Layana has gone and age-linked all the hairs in the game from toddler to elder from all the EP's and SP's. It's an oldie, but someone might get use out of it now.

I have linked directly to the "hair" section on her page at MTS2 so everyone can choose which they want or get an overview for them.

http://modthesims.info/browse.php?f=372&showType=1&gs=0&showAll=1&u=1826877 (http://modthesims.info/browse.php?f=372&showType=1&gs=0&showAll=1&u=1826877)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dusdeedawn on 2010 February 03, 21:58:20
Ooo. I didn't download anything for 5 months, and Buggybooz was the first thing I caught up on. ;D
Thanks for that link, TapThatBooty, never seen that creator before and those will come in highly useful.

Ya'll should check out Aelia's new shirts (http://aeliaa.livejournal.com/22353.html). They go lovely with those skirts she put up on her Advent Calendar of Fail (http://aeliaa.livejournal.com/19315.html).


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 February 14, 09:02:16
Another Buggybooz update: a new fridge. (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/02/shakerlicious-style-cooling.html)

By the way, if you're getting bored with my Buggybooz updates, feel free to tell me to stop.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2010 February 14, 15:41:27
Well, the squealing does get on my husband's nerves after a while.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: oolongteadrinker on 2010 February 15, 02:06:00
Another Buggybooz update: a new fridge. (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/02/shakerlicious-style-cooling.html)

By the way, if you're getting bored with my Buggybooz updates, feel free to tell me to stop.

Gah, don't stop! I sometimes forget to check buggybooz's blog until I see a post here about an update!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 February 18, 13:28:55
Something non-Buggybooz related this time. BPS is celebrating its first birthday with an extremely large amount of mesh and recolour sets and lots. (http://www.blackpearlsims.com/forumdisplay.php?510-Happy-Birthday-BPS!!!!)

Edit:

Buggybooz updated again, with lots of new parts for her kitchen sets. There's new counters, sinks, and a bunch of deco objects. (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 March 20, 10:16:51
I know that double posting is forbidden, but I edited my previous post from over a month ago to anounce Buggybooz updating 5 days ago and nobody noticed, which is why I'm doing this in a new post. Feel free to cat me or something, but I think it's worth it.

Adele has updated with a new build set! (http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=objects) It has doors, arches, windows, fencing, a fireplace and a bunch of recolours!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 March 20, 15:30:51
I noticed that you put the Buggybooz update in it, where do you think I've been the past few days, aside from getting ready for the two new additions to my household in RL? :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 March 20, 16:01:49
Ah ok, I thought nobody would check a thread without new posts. I guess that's not true!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 March 20, 17:27:18
I've noticed that when someone edits a post like you do, that post shows as new, so I check it out. It keeps me from stressing about other things when I play my game, so new shiny stuff is always good. I've been pretty quiet lately because of the coming members to my existing family, getting room cleared for them and re-arranging and wondering if I'm too old. No, not having twins, getting things in place for my daughter and her husband to move in due to the economic crunch. Family helps family, after all. :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 March 20, 18:10:12
Oooh that I did not know! Obviously I couldn't see that on my post.  ;D

Do you look forward to having your daughter back at home? I guess it must be a bit strange for the both of you. And even stranger for the husband ... but it might be nice having them close to you. My mother's already stressing about empty nest syndrome, and I'm not even moving out for at least another 3 years.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 March 21, 17:46:45
I am really looking forward to it, to be honest! I'm one of those odd ones that enjoys taking care of other people, so long as they help with the dishes! :D


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 March 23, 09:35:07
Ah well, in that case, enjoy the company!

Something else you might enjoy: the newest Buggybooz update, 15 framed paintings slaved to her Basic kitchen, the BV travel poster (but also useable for those who don't have BV) and 3 basegame paintings.
http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/03/feast-of-frames.html


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: fway on 2010 March 30, 17:33:46
I'm in stiches right now I love this idea!

Click (http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=397201&c=1&ht=0&page=2&pp=10#startcomments)

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk221/hekkahekkawhat/MTS2_Aya20_1076736_thumbnail.jpg)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: lewisb on 2010 March 31, 01:34:18
My most favorite Sims 3 creator does it again! Sarah at Awesims (http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/2010/03/30/ts3-midmod-bath/) just released this simple and gorgeous bath set:

Mid/Mod Bathroom

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/MidMod-Bathroom-01.jpg)

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c278/mailchaser40/Pictures%201/The%20Sims%203/MidMod-Bathroom-02.jpg)

Look at the fabulous stuff you can have for FREE!  I am in Sim Heaven! Squeeee


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scurvy Cat on 2010 March 31, 07:12:53
Yeah, I snarfed Baba Yaga's Hut right away.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: rum nate on 2010 March 31, 07:21:17
Adele has a new Architectural Set!

(http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/nate1678/Sims%202/bode.jpg)

http://adelevk.com/sims/?page=objects


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: dstar on 2010 March 31, 11:28:23
I have already tried this and it looks amazing in game as well.


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: fway on 2010 April 05, 00:14:14
I absolutely love this (http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=397995) Nouk hair retexture by AlfredAskew.

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk221/hekkahekkawhat/MTS2_AlfredAskew_1078559_brownhair1.jpg)



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 April 05, 15:35:54
Woah, I need that for my game! *grabs and runs*


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Scylla on 2010 April 13, 06:53:07
Here's a shabby chic dresser for clutter (http://www.ludwigs-allerlei.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=138). It's called Kommode Hertzel and it's a new mesh. It's sort of cutesy, but it would be a good object for someone to grunge up.

I had not seen this site before and I was looking for something else and found this site in this evenings travels (I still haven't found what I'm looking for). I like the look of the nifty shinies on the site. Maybe you'll enjoy it too (although you all probably know about it already :P).

BTW: site is mostly in German. Google Translate is your friend. The fish thing is very distracting too.



Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 April 14, 08:59:18
Buggybooz has updated her plant pots and included some new ones. (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/04/bb-planters-revisited.html)

And now she has uploaded a whole new garden set! (http://buggybooz.blogspot.com/2010/04/enchanted-garden-set.html)


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: Paden on 2010 April 16, 16:24:36
My downloads folder just belched at me and glared, is this a bad thing?? :D They look lovely and can't wait to try them out in my game, thanks for sharing!


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: RubyRedJess on 2010 April 20, 06:10:03
EDIT: For my noob mistake


Title: Re: Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)
Post by: eefje on 2010 April 20, 07:45:51
Isn't that set for TS3?