FollowGift Part 3 ;; Elder Clothes TS3

Giddy Gaddy's Bowl-o-Rama: CC-Free Bowling Alley

Inspired by older bowling alleys, I closely referenced one that's in my hometown which was originally built in the 1950s.

Unfortunately they've sinced greiged out all the fun colors & patterns, but that's what TS2 is for - Gaudy colors & patterns!

There's 7 bowling lanes, 2 bathrooms, and a sports bar/grill type thing with the diner food stand, bartender, and pool table.

You may spot a gap above the bowling lane, where it meets the wall. That's because I lowered the ground where most of the lane is placed, but I did not lower the ground on that edge row. If I had lowered that part of the ground, the sloped section would be visible outside. The way I did it here actually makes it so the sloped part of the ground on that side of the lot is invisible (because that's where the bowling lane is).

Ground / 1st Floor

Value: §147,473 | Size: 30x20 | Zone: Community

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MF

А для начала...

Начальный пост. Точка отсчета. Поехали.

I was alerted to the existence of these womrat recolours by @andrevasims which I'd somehow missed for 18 years??

But as they pointed out, the texture sizes were teensy tiny, and I noticed this in my game too - the eyes should be much beadier than that!!

So I replaced them with the correct texture size (same as the existing in game womrat breeds) and thought I'd share them in case anyone else wants them.

Yes, including the little crispy guy.....

Enjoy!

Download (SFS) | Download (MF)

Feverfew Poster

Feverfew is my love at first sight. The reason why I play The Sims 2. I like to pretend that my Sims in The Sims 3 have visit Feverfew by bringing souvenir posters from Feverfew.

Feverfew is a very charming British style village created by Criquette-was-here: Post

Feverfew posters and British Railways posters from Pinterest. All posters are in Simlish.

And of course, All textures/graphics credits belong to the original creator of Feverfew @criquette-was-here.

T.O.U. - Don't upload to paysite/adf.ly

Download: Simfileshare

What We Need Is... More Books

After long last I realized that instead of battling with the constant urge to swap my book defaults, I could just give my sims more books to read.

This mod combines both of mine + iSimChi's book defaults and makes the game randomize between those for each genre. So instead of 7 books, there are 21 ✨

I made my older covers use the pages of my newer ones since they have more details.

The mod also fixes the following book behavior:

Books placed outside of bookshelves will no longer turn upwards when a lot is loaded

The 'read to sleep' interaction (that was added in Apartment Life and appears on minors who are in bed but haven't yet fallen asleep) will use children's books instead of the skilling one

This mod consists of two files. In addition to the mod file, there's a texture file that includes the needed book defaults.

If you want to use the mod with some other defaults, simply replace the textures from the texture file. You can also use that file as a base for making your own default set of 21 books.

📚 Download (SFS) (alternate)

Free Time is required. Conflicts with other book cover default replacements, remove those before using these. Also conflicts with ftminifixes by Pescado, if you want to use both make my mod load last (you'll lose the golden book that ftminifixes brings back to the reward bookcase since this mod randomizes textures for that bookcase too).

⚠️ A replacement for novel icons isn't included. You'll probably want to get the one from my newer defaults, as those covers will be used for the novels with the included texture file.

Many thanks to @isimchi for the permission to use their awesome textures 💜 for full credits, please see the original posts.

Update (11.11.2024): The covers are now also randomized for the bed/hammock reading interactions and for the film & literature reading while walking hobby idle. For all of these, sims can now also pick books other than skilling and will show an individual taste in books based on the sim's interests, hobbies, and aspirations, as well as on 3t2 traits* if those are used.

*Includes trait checks for bookworm, computer whiz, dramatic, hopeless romantic, natural cook, and perceptive.

All the books have 512x512 textures and use a 64x64 specular map. The mod file includes improved material definitions that also fix some lighting issues for the drama and the scifi books.

Mostly all 4t2 curtains

Well, this took awhile. From starting in June to accidentally deleting the files permanently then rebuilding them, I'd say that this was a true pain in the rear. But, it's done so now I give it to you.

I did include some of LordCrumps' curtains as some of mine are repo'd to his. There's a note in the download that gives basic information on the files. Also not pictured are the newest curtains from the Storybook Nursery Kit, but they're included as well.

For the 1.5 and 2 story windows, I would recommend using OMSPs to move them up and down. Or get rid of them lol.

This set might require LordCrumps' 4t2 Shadow File so if you don't have it, grab it here! You only ever need one in your game ;)

Download - LC | MF

THE SIMS ⤳ Old Town at night

💡 Improved Sofa Bed and Chair Bed

These are functional pull-out sofa and chair based on Ikea Ektorp set. I created them long ago, and now, having more skill, decided to give them a refresh. Let me know if I made it worse! 😁

Fixes:

No more waiting in Live Mode for newly bought beds to become fully functional

No more untimely unhiding in visited neighbors' apartments

No autonomous unfolding without sleep

Fixed pie menu texts for some languages

New features:

Quarter tile and off-grid placement enabled (if placed off tile, you have to adjust bed part by hand to align it with its seating part)

Both bed and sofa/chair are visible in Buy Mode upon placing the object so that you can recolor sheets and adjust placement right away (one of the parts will hide in Live Mode)

Sleep interaction shortcut -- unfold and go to bed in one click (sleeping autonomy and user directed sleep are the same as for other beds; if you have a global mod that changes conditions, it'll apply to these beds as well)

Option to temporary disable autonomous sleep

Other changes:

Can sell unfolded beds

Can place chair bed next to a wall

Bed unfolds in "made" state even if no one made it before folding

Sell old beds and buy new ones in game for best experience (I kept GUIDs and filenames the same)

Known Issue: it's possible to make cheaty money using undo button, I'm not saying how 😛

Download:

Sofa Bed + Chair Bed + Cushion recolor * IKEA required, AL/M&G maybe too Notes for creators on how to update

94 Road to Nowhere Makeover

Download on SFS / MediaFire

Requires the Life Stories bundle

Costs 513,546; includes outdoor and indoor pool, gym, spa, and restaurant

More pictures under the cut

Floor plan

Happy holidays everyone! Glad I managed to (almost) finish the Strangetown lots before the year's end. Let me know if you have any thoughts on what you'd like to see me build on the empty lot next to this one :)

Greetings from West Arbor!

It took ages, but after tons of tweaking and bug-fixing I've finally finished my first Sims 3 custom world!

West Arbor is a coastal town surrounded by forested hills and open water with rural, suburban, and urban areas. It has plenty of lots and activities for all sorts of gameplay, including clubs, coffeeshops, parks, resorts, stables, and much more.

Info:

-145 total lots (52 residential, 66 community, 27 empty) -2048x2048 world size -Populated and unpopulated versions -Populated version has 16 households (56 sims and pets) -Required expansions: World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Supernatural, Seasons, Showtime, University, Island Paradise (All of them except Into the Future) -Recommended stuff packs: Town Life & High End Loft (Neither are necessary and are just used for décor) -Store content used: Rim Rockin' Basketball Hoop -CC Free

Special thanks to my playtesters for helping catch all the issues and oversights I completely missed, and to mariesimming and Cawster for your Create-A-World resources.

Download:

Sim File Share

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Thanks to everyone who downloads my world, I hope you enjoy playing in it!