The curtains that came with the Desert Luxe kit are everyone's new favourite build item, and for good reason. The neutrals they come in are great, and work in all types of rooms, but come on... they needed more swatches, right?
I've recoloured the curtains in Image Spectra and in my 2022-10-19 21:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post
--- Part of my Oasis Springs rebuilding project ---
Despite there being rarely a passing car on this quiet Oasis Springs road, Pebble Motors always seems to do good business.
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The only custom content used was my Shiftable Mirrors (which lets y...
2022-10-06 22:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post
--- Part of my Oasis Springs rebuilding project ---
Just an innocent old concrete electrical station in the desert. Nothing to see here. Aliens? Who mentioned aliens? Not me.
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The only custom content used was my Shiftable Mirrors (which lets y...
2022-09-30 21:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m rebuilding Oasis Springs, one lot at a time! I’ll update this post with links to each lot as I complete them.
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--- Part of my Oasis Springs rebuilding project ---
Far away from the suffocating surroundings of his childhood, Johnny Zest lives a simple but happy life in a more modest area of Oasis Springs, determined to pursue his dreams.
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The only custom content used was my 2022-09-23 22:51:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Once owned by legendary entertainers Frank Simatra and Simmy Davis Jr, The Solar Flare was THE place to be. Sadly, times change, and a series of scandalous (and grizzly) stories saw the famous hotel and lounge fall into disrepair. New owners have tried to bring The Solar Flare back to its former glory, but it can't quite shake its dark reputation.
The only custom content used was my Shiftable Mirrors 2022-08-18 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
ThrifTea is actually two stores in one. On the left is the bubble tea shop, a cosy, intimate setting for good conversation and excellent beverages. On the right is the thrift store, a maximalist clutter heaven with everything your thrifty Sims need.
Above the bubble tea shop is a fully-featured apartment, and above the thrift store is an old, dusty storage space. The storage space isn't currently accessible, but you could put in a door between it and the apartment if you wanted to use i...
2022-08-06 14:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Lockers are great items for lots of builds, not just schools, and they deserve to come in many more colours!
I've recoloured the single, double (interactive), triple, and quadruple lockers in both of my Deco Revival palettes (DR & DRX), as well as Dream Pop (DP), w...
2022-08-03 15:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my favourite of the stone/brick walls that came with High School Years. It already comes in the same colours as my Deco Revival palette, so I recoloured it in the 32 tones from Deco Revival Extended. They all mix and match really nicely with the original colours (in the screenshot above, the peach on the second storey is one of the original colours, and the other two are from t...
2022-08-03 14:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to put my Deco Revival palettes to good use, so I recoloured a bunch of walls and floors so we have more choice when building our art deco spaces (or for any other space, of course!). I added in the standalone wainscoting from the Decor to the Max kit, because it's such a useful item.
You can pick and choose what you want below. You'll need the corresponding pack for them to show up. The...
2022-08-02 22:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I was building an art deco building with the new build-buy items from High School Years and getting frustrated that there weren't more wall options that matched the window colours. I decided I had to make some myself (I do love my walls), and that meant creating a palette that matched.
Deco Revival has 12 swatches that match the colours on the High School Years windows, as well as walls like Hallway Stone. I'm recolouring and making lots of walls (and some floors, and maybe some more wi...
2022-08-02 20:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The lighting in the Copperdale world that came with High School Years has very harsh, black shadows at midday, as well as a strong teal-green tint to the overall lighting. I've made a MultiLUT shader that tries to make the shadows less intense, and also neutralises that green tint.
This ISN'T a full ReShade preset. It is one shader that you can use with any of your regular presets (ReShade 4 and above). If you place this MultiLUT shader ABOVE your other effects in the ...
2022-07-30 20:45:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Llama Noodle Park has everything you need - if what you need is a noodle bar and a park!
This lot is set as a park, but has everything you need for a restaurant. It also has a small living space, but that is just for show (to look nice through the windows from outside) and so some of it is inaccessible.
You can hire your own chef, caterer, and stall vendor so your sims can buy lovely food even if you don't have the lot set to a restaurant.
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There is no custom conten...
2022-07-23 20:26:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking a quick look at what items have come with the most recent packs since I've been away, there was one in particular I had to recolour.
The Truly Fearless Wainscoting is perfect for adding detail to all sorts of walls, and considering I've recoloured so many in Image Spectra and Dream Pop I needed these to match.
I'm going to be doing a lot of (mostly) cc-free building in the future, but you know I can't resist my walls and floors. I don't think I'll ever stop making them!
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Thank you for your patience waiting for me to come back and update Shiftable Mirrors.
I've added the mirrors from Werewolves and Decor to the Max. I think those are the only packs since I've been gone to add new mirrors. If there have been any others, for example any that were added for free to the base game, please let me know.
2022-07-14 15:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I was asked over on my discord server if I'd ever recoloured the Sunlit Stone walls from Cottage Living, and I hadn't! So here they are.
They come in both Image Spectra and Dream Pop, and each has the plain brick, as well as four wood panel options. You...
2022-02-12 23:18:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s [MAYBE NOT*] safe to update, your presets should all still work.
* In-game shadows seem to be broken with 5.0. I’ve finally been able to update and test them. I asked over at the ReShade discord and they know the new version works strangely with TS4. They don’t know why, and don’... 2022-02-05 17:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I want to apologise for my quietness recently. I haven't lost interest in The Sims 4, nor in making cc, ReShade presets, or building. My PC has been getting more and more troublesome over a number of months now, and I think it is likely to fail completely sometime this year. I'm trying to do what I can to ward off that failure, which in part means not pushing it too hard too often.
One problem is that its repeated gpu crashes make it difficult for me to do a lot of the things I'd really...
2022-01-25 18:01:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Drift was made for one of my lovely Patreon subscribers. My starting point was a handful of sample pictures they gave me that had a muted, sepia, dreamlike feel. The brief was something more for taking screenshots than for everyday gameplay, which is always music to my ears. The result is Drift.
As with all of my recent presets, Drift's foundation is a series of LUTs that contain all the colour grading information. In practice, I only ever really stuck with one of them (02), but in the ...
2021-12-23 18:18:33 +0000 UTC View PostQuite a few people are reporting problems with depth buffer effects like MXAO flickering on and off since the Neighbourhood Stories patch.
It hasn't affected me, so it's taking me some time to properly troubleshoot it, as I'm reliant on others testing lots of things in their games.
Two people so far have said that limiting their fps to 30 fixed it for them, but for many others that didn't work.
One thing I'd like people to test for me if they're having this problem is to go ...
2021-12-06 15:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally owned by Abigail Harrington and her husband, Samuel, the Salt Block was built at a time of great prosperity and glory. After Samuel's passing, Abigail had to sell off the building part by part, until only the corner basement apartment remained, which is where she still lives today. The rest of the building has been repurposed into a mixture of commercial and residential properties, and is a bustling hub for the people of the Spice District.
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There is an album burstin...
2021-11-20 18:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I love the simplicity of the wardrobe and hallway table that were created by peacemaker and added to the base game. I often want a wooden textured version, so set about making one! They come in my Dream Pop palette, as well as Image Spectra (Image Spectra has lots of lovely wood tones that go nicely with the wood texture). I also recoloured the plain version, because options are important!
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2021-10-22 13:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post
More CAS goodies! I saw these cool overalls by Brianitesims and thought they were quite unusual with their contrasting straps, and wanted to have them in lots of different colours, and so I got to work!
There are 4 packages to choose from (or you can have them all).
I've reached a bit of a follower milestone on tumblr, and although I don't usually mark those kinds of things I thought this time I would do something a bit out of the ordinary for me -- some CAS cc!
I've recoloured all the nail shapes (except the special version by Ebonix) that currently come with both the base game and the Spa Day refresh, and also the toenails.
All come in the three palettes I use: 2021-09-30 17:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't always take requests, but when I received one over at tumblr to recolour the floors from Journey to Batuu I couldn't resist -- first, because I love recolouring floors and walls because I'm strange like that, and second because they really are some of the best floors in the game and it's criminal they only come in 2 colours each.
They all come in Image Spectra and Dream Pop, and have custom specular maps that reduce the ridiculous shine of the originals (but don't get rid of it ...
2021-09-18 21:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been 5,000 years since I last recoloured a floor. I was unsatisfied with the range of wood tones in the Cottage Living wood floor. Thankfully, the Image Spectra palette has a nice range, plus a whole bunch of other beautiful colours too. And Dream Pop has the funky bright colours, because options are good.
TOU, requirements, and credits: Share and use as you wish, but please do so freely and always allowing others to do the same with your resulting content. Require...
2021-09-14 13:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post
In the heart of the cool and creative Arts Quarter in San Myshuno, the Casbah Gallery is an art centre focused on modern green architecture, blending the sleek, minimal industrial with a wild eco-sensibility.
There are several discrete areas featuring different exhibits, as well as on the top floor a bar with a musical performance stage, and a fully-featured creator space for your Sims to brush up on their painting and woodworking skills. Outside sees the sometimes brutal concrete...
2021-09-07 21:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostMy apologies for being quiet this past week. I rescued a stray cat who was sleeping rough on the car lot opposite my house, and she's been quite ill and required a lot of care. (She's had 3 vet visits and already cost me nearly £200!) I've been trying to answer as many ReShade questions over on tumblr and discord as possible during that time, but haven't been able to focus on creating the things I want to continue to create!
2021-08-21 10:47:06 +0000 UTC
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Someone contacted me to say that when using my Shadows for Days camera tweaks they had problems trying to take screenshots of Sims close up, because they'd disappear.
I think this is due to clipping distances that are set in the GraphicsRules.sgr file. I use edited clipping distances, so this wasn't a problem for me when I was creating the mod, and I missed it entirely.
One solution see...
2021-08-21 10:29:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I grew up watching BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Poirot, and both hold a very special place in my heart. When Cottage Living was announced and I started seeing early footage I realised Finchwick was basically St Mary Mead, which is where Miss Marple lives.
A project was born!
The best Miss Marple is objectively (don't fight me) Joan Hickson. She lived in a cottage called Danemead, the exterior of which was filmed using Dane Cottage in Nether Wallop (yes, tha...
2021-08-11 18:23:27 +0000 UTC View Post