Sims 2: This Post is ON FIRE
Jul. 2nd, 2010 12:30 pmTime for more Sims!
( Read the rest of this entry » )Sims 2: baby stuff
Jul. 1st, 2010 02:13 amSo, time for Steve Ehrengard: THE BABY.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Sims 2: We Call Our World Steve
Jun. 28th, 2010 11:36 pmTrying to keep a semi-steady schedule with these. We’ll see how I do.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Sims 2: The Bunker
Jun. 25th, 2010 10:00 amLast post, I promised pregnancy, and not only do you get that, but you also get… a community. Because no test is complete without seeing what does and doesn’t work on a community lot.
So, without further ado, welcome back to
Edit: There was supposed to be a cut here. Sorry about killing your reading lists with Magical Vanishing Cut.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Around here I decided to stop using the built-in capture feature of the Sims 2 and start using the built-in capture feature of Mac OS 10.6. It’s a little more involved than just hitting C during the game (F10 to make the menus vanish, Command+Shift+4, spacebar, click on the window, F10 to bring the menus back), but if everything’s ready and the game is paused, there’s really no excuse when the result is guaranteed to be higher res, if nothing else.
There’s probably a better way to do it than that. Hence the test legacy: I can try out anything I want to, whenever I want to.
Speaking of the test legacy…
( Read the rest of this entry » )Mirrored at Sheelal in the Sims 2.
I had meant to enlarge these to 640×480 with SmillaEnlarger, but unfortunately, the enlarged versions looked absolutely terrible. Anyway, this “legacy” is really just for testing things out, so I suppose figuring out how to screenshot nicely is part of the testing process. Also, I am lazy.
Our test founder, Babette Ehrengard, got her name from Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard, which is right behind us, cleverly disguising a stack of thin cd cases. Includes the short story Babette’s Feast, it says, so… there you have it. Babette, rhymes with rabbit, I guess, but you can call her babe-ette and I won’t care! Even her appearance was completely generated by the CAS randomizer, because I was lazy and this is a test.
Anyway, on to the terrible screenshots.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Mirrored at Sheelal in the Sims 2.
Sims 2 / Silent Hill 2: Believer
May. 16th, 2010 10:26 pmSomething besides a download now: a Silent Hill 2 dance video made with the Sims 2! Born out of a silly conversation with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dotchan which involved James trying to pass in a room of Pyramid Heads with a traffic cone on his head. (Alas, I could find no traffic cone hats.)
( Embedded video under the cut, in case your reading list HAETS FLASH )
It's available in 720p HD and blocked in Germany, because Sony Music Entertainment hates Germany or something.
"Believer" was actually finished May 6th, just in time for The Triumphant Return of GOS From Beyond The Grave, but I've been sitting on the completed video for ten days. So it's a bit late, but better late than never.
dotchan which involved James trying to pass in a room of Pyramid Heads with a traffic cone on his head. (Alas, I could find no traffic cone hats.)( Embedded video under the cut, in case your reading list HAETS FLASH )
It's available in 720p HD and blocked in Germany, because Sony Music Entertainment hates Germany or something.
"Believer" was actually finished May 6th, just in time for The Triumphant Return of GOS From Beyond The Grave, but I've been sitting on the completed video for ten days. So it's a bit late, but better late than never.
Pooked Zecutime Cityside Sofas & Loveseats
Apr. 9th, 2010 12:59 pm
Yes, that's right. Pooked furniture.
Basically, I was annoyed with the color selection for the Zecutime Cityside Sofa, and the matching loveseats, and at the same time, I was recoloring and binning some very old Rose hair. When I took a look at the Maxis textures for the sofa, I thought the yellowish leather sofa looked a little like Volatile, so tried out one of
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pooklet's fabulous actions on it, and... kept going with all the colors, because I liked the results.( One sample screenshot of how the sofa looks in-game, not posed. )
There are no frame recolors, because I discovered that got very unmanageable with how many colors there are: 9 naturals, 15 customs/neons, for a total of 24 sofa colors.
Sofa Naturals: Box.net (alternate)
Sofa Customs/Neons: Box.net (alternate)
Loveseat Naturals: Box.net (alternate)
Loveseat Customs/Neons: Box.net (alternate)
Known issues: I noticed some doubling in my game, where recolors show up twice for both the sofas and the loveseats when I have both sofa and loveseat recolors installed; this is probably because they both use the same base textures. You'll likely only need to download for the sofas or the loveseats to get both sofas and loveseats recolored; but just in case I have that wrong, all four packages of the recolors are up for download.
Feel free to poke around in them and change things. I don't mind! Most of the credit should go to
pooklet for the awesome actions, anyway.
