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A Maxis Match Lighting Mod Tweak!

As requested by @jellymeduza I'm sharing my tweak of @dreadpirate's fabulous Maxis Match lighting mod. This makes the unlit rooms during dawn and dusk a bit brighter (closer to how they appear at nighttime) and tweaks the colour-cast a bit too. The photos above are all four time of day states including with my tweaks - but nothing about day or night was actually changed from the original MM lighting mod.

Below are all the before and after pictures for dawn/dusk next to each other - before is the MM lighting mod "out of the box" and after is with my tweaks.

How to install:

Download the Maxis Match lighting mod exactly as per dreadpirates instructions. (don't worry about the part on enabling or disabling dawn and dusk states, that will be included in my edit)

Replace your lighting.txt file with mine included in this download - this will be in your base game install folders, for the UC the file path is "Double Deluxe/Base/TSData/Res/Lights" and you'll be overwriting the lighting.txt file in there with mine.

Enjoy! :)

Download (SFS) | Download (MF)

Edited to add: If you downloaded the Maxis Match lighting mod after March 2, 2025 these fixes are not required - @/veronavillequiltingbee has incorporated them into the main lighting mod files.

🧼Cleanbot & Hydrobot Roomba defaults 🧼

Hi all! I know I've been MIA for so long but this idea stuck to my head a few weeks ago and I just HAD to make it! So lo and behold: Cleanbot & Hydrobot defaults as TS4 Cats & Dogs roombas!

Cleanbot replaced with Cats & Dogs Robot vacuum & Hydrobot is replaced with High-end Robot vacuum! They both come in their respective 6 colors and the charging station comes in combined 12 colors to accomodate both!

Obviously these are not perfect, but I am satisfied with them, so please read this description before downloading! Because the model is much simpler as the original cleanbot/hydro bot, the animations are not perfect (especially hydrobot). You can see screenshots below the cut! I also had to raise the platform of the original TS4 charging station so the roombas won't float in the air. I think it still looks alright, albeit not being the most realistic, but still better than those ugly stations! :D Another thing is that they park "sideways" into their charging stations, this was the only way I could figure out how to make it look okay while being repaired. Screenshot also under the cut!

Download @ sfs / mediafire

I also want to thank @deedee-sims for teaching me how to change bones in MilkShape a while ago because otherwise this could never happen! ❤ I hope you'll like it and happy simming! (❁´◡`❁) @sims4t2bb

I thought elders could use some randomness in their final fate. Made 3 semi-random events for them:

live longer

die early

get sick

Early death branches into:

sudden "heart attack" followed by - death by fright, or - death by drowning if they happened to be swimming at the time

decreased age duration followed by death of old age the next day or so

At first, it was going to be sort of a coin flip once a day deciding whether a playable elder dies prematurely, or gets an additional day of life, or keeps living for the allotted time. Turned out a little more detailed and configurable

Sickness is not as impactful, just something to highlight old age problems. It's a maxis style disease curable by soup and rest (thinking of realistic medical conditions made me sad and I stopped)

Undecorated: Simlogical's School Changer as 4t2 Notes Landing / Homeschooling Edit

🐸 DOWNLOAD: SFS / MIRROR

This is a mesh replacement of Inge's School Changer because I would like more decorative objects to be made useable. Hence, "undecorated"!

No Change in Function - only aesthetic change 🎨

4t2 MESH: converted, edited and recolored by Linacheries (all swatches) - Notes Landing from TS4 Discover University.

📦 OBJECT INFOS:

Name: School Change Notes Landing Price: 15 Found in: General / Miscellaneous Compressorized. Recolors are separated.

🌟 OTHER INFOS:

🎓 NOT for BASE GAME, any EP 🎓

Credits: SimPE, Inge from Simlogical (base mod), Linacheries (mesh conversion + recolors), EA Maxis (original mesh)

Conflicts:

original Inge's School Changer - just replaces with mine if you like the new look

LordCrumps' 3T2 Boarding School Mod, which is another edit of Inge's School Changer. EDIT: After some testing - you can still use this mod but replace their ijSchoolChanger with mine for the new look. The options for boarding school will still show up.

🎁 Additional Edit: Homeschooling

ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵗⁱⁿᵏʸ ʷᵉʳᵉʷᵒˡᶠ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵃᶜᵏᵍʳᵒᵘⁿᵈ 😭

🐸🎁 DOWNLOAD: SFS / MIRROR

This is a VERY VERY simple name change for Inge's Flexi School into "Homeschooling" which I think is more appropriate for my personal gameplay. They basically do the same thing - keep your kids home!

Delete ijFlexiSchool_AL if you already have it and replace it with my additional edit file ijFlexiSchool_AL_swbbEDIT

🎓 You’ll need AL EP 🎓

You'll also need:

ijSchoolChanger_swbbEDIT from above (needed to select school options)

MISE À JOUR DU PACKAGE DU ACR - Controller - Main

Veuillez le réinstaller. Quelques ajustements pour corriger les incohérences de texte, un meilleur emplacement et le respect des noms d'action de la version française du jeu.

Merci à @barbiepinklady de m'avoir signalé la situation.

TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE MODS ET CC

Sul sul !

S'il y a bien quelque chose que nous savons, c'est que Les Sims comportent beaucoup de mods intéressants qui modifient grandement l'expérience de jeu. Cependant, un manque existe dans la communauté française des Sims 2 : la traduction des mods et contenus personnalisés en français.

Je déposerai désormais sur ce post des mods et contenus personnalisés entièrement traduits en français, afin que plusieurs puissent en profiter.

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Mods et CC traduits dans leur entièreté:

Vous retrouvez un fichier Google Drive comportant plusieurs mods et contenus personnalisés traduit et classé par créateur juste ICI.

Ce que le fichier comporte:

Mods par twojeffs

Le Sim Blender [Maj - 18/02/25]

Visitor Controller

ACR (Uniquement le fichier ACR - Controller - Main) [Maj - 22/05/25]

Mods par ??? (Si vous connaissez les créateurs, merci de le partager pour les crédits de leur création)

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En cours de traduction:

Mods par J. M. Pescado

ffdebugger, tout simplement appelé la Batbox. [95%]

Mods par Sun&Moon

Makin' Hay [100%]

The Ultimate Fruit Collection [75%]

Wild Berry Bushes [75%]

It’s A Trap - Animal Trapping Stations [75%]

Wooden Wonders - Woodworking Set [100%]

Barnyard Bash - Ultimate Livestock and Poultry Collection [0%]

Forging On - Metalsmithing Station [0%]

Pottery Party - Functional Pottery Making [0%]

Mods par Lazy Duchess

Story progression [0%]

Contenus personnalisés d'Anouska

Les toiles d’Anouska [100%] ainsi que les conversion TS3 [10%]

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Notez que le document est sujet à des modifications régulières. De nouveaux mods seront ajoutés dans les prochains jours, mois et années à venir.

Merci de m'aviser d'erreurs potentielles, je tacherais de mettre rapidement à jour.

Mod: Return of The Veg Out Interaction

I want to thank @freezerbunny-sims for mentionning that this was a thing in the Base Game. Thank you!

This mod re-enables the Veg Out and some other sofas/loveseats interactions. Even works with CC ones. It’s similar to Squinge’s Veg Out enabled mod, but mine doesn’t remove the personality restriction and also have fixed sub-interactions related to this.

To be able to Veg Out, Sims must be extremely lazy (no more than 1 Active point or 2 if you have @dreadpirate’s Personality Please! mod).

While vegging, Sims can :

Find a snack. It’s a sub-interaction available when clicking on the couch. This will make the selected Sim pull out a bag of cookies and eat. Hunger will slowly go up. Normally, you need a fridge for this interaction to appear, but I removed that restriction since it didn’t work properly.

Nod off. It’s basically the same as the Nap interaction, just with different animations.

Sims won’t autonomously do these interactions since Maxis set them like that and making these autonomous will be a pain to do and won’t be compatible with CC sofas/loveseats.

Knows Issues: These interactions were a mess to edit since they were broken in many places. I did the best I can do, but there are two problems remaining:

Sims’ social motive will go up while vegging out if other Sims are sitting in the same room. I suppose it’s because sitting Sims are supposed to talk together, but the Veg Out interaction doesn’t allow Sims to have a conversation.

In the French version of the game, Maxis made a translation error that I can’t fix for some reason. L'interaction “Find a Snack” devient “Chercher une cacahuète”, ce qui ne fait pas vraiment de sens.

Required EPs: None

DOWNLOAD | Alternate

Finally, it's because of GUNMOD'S RADIANCE LIGHTING SYSTEM 2.5: now with 100% less blue nights! Once removed, no more pink flashing.

Ladies and gentlemen, Pink Flashing in the Legacy Edition!

3 Toddler Beds Functional for The Sims 2

These are 4to2 conversions from Wondymoon, Chicklet and Soloriya, low poly. They are cloned from Themediocresulk Toddler Beds as Pet Beds and work in the same way. The beddings are slaved to the original game ones so they will take all the recolors too. Found in the bed section of Buy Mode.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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Here is my own edit of Lindasims solarium, sims will lie down inside and after some time emerge with a tan and it lights up. Don't send them back in if they already have a tan! It will start a fire!

I edited the mesh down from 14k polys to just over 7k so it's not as smooth as Linda's but I wasn't bothered by that, I also remapped it so it now has one main 1024x1024 texture instead of 4(!) so texture quality has also been lost but again, I wasn't bothered by that. The two aqua trim retextures are my own, I wanted to make a gaudy gold one too but haven't gotten around to it yet.

I also added a small amount of fitness enthusiasm gain after getting a tan, but it's much lower than exercise equipment because, well, you're lying down :p but maybe your bodybuilders/health nuts will appreciate it :)

Costs 3000 simoleons and is found in plumbing/misc and electronics/misc, all compressorized.

I'm gonna say it requires BV for the tan overlay and FT for the enthusiasm but Linda didn't really go into requirements...

Credits: Lindasims and I'm gonna credit Numenor because I suspect she cloned his original tanning bed or at least used his lighting for this.

PHEW! DOWNLOAD

all Gamestar Sims 2 CDs for download!

Its finally done! ive finally finished uploaded the stuff thats on these CDs! and you can get everything for yourself just like that :D

March 2005

July 2005

January 2006

March 2006

July 2006

March 2007

June 2007

All links lead to simfileshare, CEP is required for a lot of the items, and using clean installer on all builds and sims included is recommended!

these are all gamestar sims 2 cds that exist TO MY KNOWLEDGE, if you know of any more than these please let me know! finding information on these is not easy!

Have fun! :D