Tag: Anonymous

Hi! Sorry if i’m being dumb but, that lighting mod you use, I installed it to my game but.. There’s no changes? :( Like, all the lighting is the same, there’s no dawn or dusk, I don’t know what I’ve done wrong, do I have to start on a new lot to see the changes?

Hmmm, I’m not really sure. Did you make sure to rename the file to “lighting.txt”? (Spookymuffin’s comes with a different name, you have to rename it yourself because the game will only recognize “lighting.txt”. This enables you to rename the Maxis lighting to something else and you can just keep it in your folder as a backup.) 

Are you using the Ultimate Collection? The install path looks a bit different than what’s listed in the GoS thread. For example, mine is in K:Program Files (x86)Origin GamesThe Sims 2 Ultimate CollectionDouble DeluxeBaseTSDataResLights. 

The only other suggestion I have is to make sure your game is closed, reinstall the file, then restart. 

I’m sorry if any of this came across as condescending, I don’t mean for it to. D: I just literally went through everything step by step myself to make sure I wasn’t missing something. I hope you’re able to get it to work, anon! 

Does anyone else have suggestions that I might’ve missed?

Hi! Could you please share the floorplan of the apartment complex Sheila lives in? I’d love to recreate it in my game. 😜

Hi anon! Here you go: 

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There are five units – the first and second floor have two apartments each, and the top floor is one large apartment (2 bed, 2 bath). The apartments on the second and third floors have balcony access. 🙂 For reference, I gave Tabitha the left apartment on the ground floor, and Sheila has the right apartment on the second floor. 

A few words of warning if you plan to rebuild it yourself: the only means of transportation between floors is a single elevator, which causes a lot of route failures and is most definitely not up to code. (I was clearly going for appearance and not efficiency. :P) If Sims are being annoying and getting stuck, I just use move_objects and move them myself, but I realize this may be a pain. 😛 Also, I was not smart about the layout of the adjoining bedrooms and Sims might be awoken in the middle of the night by noisy neighbors. D: 

Well, this is only the third apartment I’ve ever built, so – learning experience! 

I’ve been playing the sims forever and I still don’t know how to get that “selfie” interaction that you used on your graduation pictures. Help?

Hi! Unfortunately, it’s not really an interaction. 😦 It’s actually part of the graduation cut scene that happens after your sim throws a graduation party after finishing their last semester of college. (Maybe it also happens even if you don’t throw a party? I’m not really sure.) Anyway, did you ever toggle an option to disable cut scenes (first woohoo, first kiss, etc.)? That might be why it’s not showing up for you.

Hello! I just saw your post on which lighting mod you use and I was wondering if you’ve used the Gunmod’s one. Which one looks better in your opinion? Thanks

Hi there! I used Gunmod’s for a long time, actually, but I don’t really remember it too well (it was awhile ago!). I think I remember the dark lighting being a little too dark? 😡 I’m not really sure! I just remember seeing keoni-chan post a picture with some really awesome lighting and I read that she used Spookymuffin’s mod. I decided to give it a try, and then I just never switched back. :3