Happy 20th Birthday, The Sims 2! May We Keep Having Fun For Years To Come!!

Well, I can officially say that yes, it’s indeed possible, and not only is it possible, but it is done: Download it here So I recommend everyone who downloaded the original, to download that one

The Coffeesmith Project - Mod Blend º1 - Barista Plus

Hey long time no see, how is everyone doing! So this was something that was on the works for a while before It evolved into it’s own mega project, So for those that don’t know, I’m a bit of a coffee appreciator, and I like to have options for my simmies, so it became a separate project of its own. Mod Blends are just that - Mods that enhance the experience of having some of these objects within your game, as I’m about to show you, right now this is the only Mod Blend, but depending of how much I start to mess with things, others will come in the future. So, what does Barista Plus do?

Well, why don’t I show you.

this is a version of the Game without Barista Plus

this on the other hand, is a version of the game with Barista Plus In a nutshell, it allows for custom espresso bars to spawn their own Baristas in unowned community lots!!!! It has been something that has been bugging me since I found out that custom Espresso Bars didn’t have this functionality. But why didn’t they work, you might ask. Short Version: EAxis’s Spaghetti Code at it again. Long Version: It’s not that they didn’t work, they clone just fine, however, the Barista NPC Template has this unique BHAV called “Get My Stand”, basically this BHAV is the one that does the detection for the espresso bar, and io and behold, it only detects one GUID from the Uni Espresso Bar, nothing else, hence why none other custom espresso bar couldn’t spawn a Barista.

So what this does is expand the number of GUID’s the BHAV can detect, which allows for them to fully function in an unowned community lot. Right now, it detects: -Around the Sims 2′s Tea Shop Cart -Vitasims’s Victorian Tea Espresso Cart -linegud’s Elegant Espresso -All Espresso Bars I’m about to release. “But wait!” you might ask “are there any Free GUIDs I can use that are natively compatible with Barista Plus” Of course there are, I saved some from my GUID book specifically for this: 0x0093BBF0- 0x0093BBF1- 0x0093BBF2- 0x0093BBF3- 0x0093BBF4- 0x0093BBF5- 0x0093BBF6- Feel free to use any of them, but please do give me a heads up when you use them, I don’t want people taking GUID and accidentally making objects conflict. How to use them: Make it the GUID for the 0,0 Object Data, that’s it, that’s as simple as that. If you know of any other espresso bars on the wild or if you have your own already on the works with GUIDs and anything, please do tell and I’ll update the mod accordingly. And without further ado: Download Hope you enjoy it! Version Status: 1.0 - Initial Relase Special thanks: MidgeTheTree for setting me in the right direction, Fireflower, Frac and probably a lot of people from The Keep who gave me help and support for doing this.

ATS3 Update | Ilona likes IKEA: the nursery

Another IKEA set, this time, that’s the little Matylda’s bedroom, the nursery!

It includes the TROGEN bed that I have also shrinked into a crib; PS 2012 shelves that are stackables, the PS SURRIG bumbleebee armchair where you can put also stuff on the “wings”; the BESTA shelves, that are shamefully simple, but so very efficient! The full one has a slot, the empty one has two. You can adjust them along the wall as you want. Did you know that you could move up and down very precisely an object against the wall with the ALT key?

I still need more IKEA furniture to complete the house, with desks and bookcases, and then, I should be done. I’ll make a big Collection file for the whole theme when it’s completely done. But I had so much fun with this theme that I’ve decided to make an IKEA advent calendar this year! ;)

PS: I’m completely behind my Tumblr browsing, and this time, I won’t even try to catch up! I’m a bit busy with RL and all my free time goes into meshing! *facepalm* I can’t prevent myself! Anyway, thanks for sticking with me, even if I’m soooooooo silent! I MISS YOU!

It took me the entire day to reinstall the game on my new computer, to make all the adjustements for it to work on Windows 11, find the right settings with the Graphic Rules Maker, and… my game loads twice faster from Windows to neighborhood view, then it loads at least TEN TIMES faster to enter a lot, everything runs so smoothly, even in very heavy CC lots and neighborhoods, with all settings at high, Origin downloading the Sims 4 at the same time, talking to my best friend on Discord, recording a video… like… IS THIS HEAVEN ?! I’m about to cry. Tears of joy of course. But still !

I think the next week (or maybe even the next month) will be about enjoying my game and nothing else. I’m so, so, so happy, you can’t even imagine !

ATS3 Update | Ilona’s Kitchen Accessories

Finally the last part of the Ikea kitchen, with accessories, and tiny pieces of furniture, like kitchen cart or step tool (both usable at surfaces). Next time, I’ll probably make the bathroom. And then… well, it might depend on how you’re fed up or not with that theme! ;D

Update of the Eco-Café Counter

Silly me had tested that counter with the only sink that caused no problem with, but with any other sinks, ugly pieces of the counter showed up. It’s now fixed. I’m sorry about that!

You can redownload directly the counter from here.

I hope you’ll enjoy! :)

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Sandy, you'll always keep being a godess no matter what, it looks amazing!

It seems we're gona have a Sims 3 IKEA stuff pack! (By Sandy, not by EA)

ATS3 Update | Ilona’s Dining-nook

I wonder if I haven’t started here the new saga of the summer… Do you remember that I’ve been releasing grocery sets during all the summer 2012? Well, Ikea might be my theme for the summer 2013! :D A new Sims family is moving to my town, and while I was looking at an Ikea catalog, I stumbled on a kitchen picture and thought it HAD to be the kitchen of that new family. So, I began to mesh a couple of objects: the dining-nook, to start with, but I’d like to do more kitchen stuff. Then, the bathroom… and maybe other rooms, if you (and I) aren’t too fed up with that theme? We’ll see how it goes! ;)

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I've got to remember that it's perfectly okay to only share one or two things at a time. I don't need to release a freaking Stuff Pack of clothes or hair in one go.

So someone said to me that you can never meet a good person off the Internet. I want to prove them wrong. Reblog if you've met someone from the Internet and they've turned out to be one of the best people to ever exist.

A Gift for the 20th Anniversary of The Sims 2

Well, this would normally be the part where I just uploaded a picture of what it is and a link to the download, but I decided to bring back me going on verbose tirades, if not for just a tiny bit This game has been in my life for very long time, 20 years huh, next year the game will legally be allowed to drink in all countries, xD So what did I decide to make to celebrate this special location, something related to Iconic things like the freezer bunny, llamas, cowplants? No, I decided to celebrate what could have been.

This is an early screenshot for The Sims 2 prior to release, for a while, we knew that at a point in development, jewelry was added to the game, only for it to be completely dropped before the game went gold.

What we can see in this screenshot, is what I suspect to be where you would be able to buy said jewelry in a community lot, this being one of the two pictures where you can see said displays (The other picture having slightly worse visibility of said displays)

I've always wanted to see these displays in full glory, but considering how much we've digged out of the game files already, nothing related to these displays remains in the game files

So, I decided to try my luck to recreate them

I knew coming into this project that they would never bee a 1 for 1 recreation (proportions might be wrong, can't really see how the jewelry in the displays looks like in detail), so I decided to at least recreate the overall shape of the stands and fill them with jewelry that ended up shipping with Boy Voyage, and a bit from the Prism Art Studio jewelry display as well for good measure. I am happy with my work, but feel free to try and fill the stands in your own way, that was decidedly my worse struggle with this, just give me credits.

and now without further ado! Download Here - Neocities

And Happy 20th Birthday The Sims 2!!!

Maxis Match Buffet Platters and "Grand Rotunda" Banquet Table

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

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and now, for the context

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

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

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

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

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