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krabbysims · 13 hours
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Some areas of the uni housing I've been working on. Heavily inspired by one of my favs; @peonypyxels!
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krabbysims · 15 hours
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food help
me and my family are constantly having trouble buying enough food. me and my brother are on food stamps but food is SO fucking expensive that we always run out by the 15th, and this is with VERY minimum extravagant purchases (like ice cream or chips).
a couple years back i added a food wishlist to a post and got a lot of help so i'm doing this again because i'm struggling.
here is a link to my food wishlist. if you could purchase ANYTHING for me i would be SO appreciative. even just one jar of peanut butter.
thank you all so much!!
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krabbysims · 4 days
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find rug design you like, trace with rocks, ???, profit
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krabbysims · 13 days
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krabbysims · 19 days
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Resource: extracted ts3 fabrics
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I extracted a bunch of fabrics from ts3 a while ago to use them on clothing textures, to give them a little more texture / depth, y'know? Lately I realized I could share it in case they'd be useful for anyone else 😊
They're pretty well-sized for use, and they're of course, seamless. I literally just extracted them from ts3 so no need to credit me or anything.
Download - Alternate
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krabbysims · 21 days
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Anti-aliasing for Bodyshop?
I'd been using my GPU to override it but for some reason last year my GPU won't save game profiles. So now Bodyshop looks fine but the edges are crunchy.
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krabbysims · 23 days
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Tips on how to avoid and reduce the Pink Flashing - "Masterpost"
Look here for other masterposts!
⚠️ THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE ""GUIDE"". I won't be updating this post and I've explained why here. In this post I only wrote some advice, so you won't find an entire research on Pink Flashing. Please read other REAL guides if you are interested in that. Unfortunately, deleting the post wouldn't make sense since the reblogs would remain.
What is the Pink Flashing?
The Pink flashing, also called Pink Soup, is a graphical error that occurs when the game thinks it has reached the limit of its memory capacity to read the game's textures even if your PC is much more powerful and the configurations made to the game itself are very high and can hold much much more.
When this arrives, gradually an object or sim will start flashing pink and purple or even EVERYTHING will start flashing pink.
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This type of error can occur both in game and on Bodyshop, and as many people mistakenly think, it is NOT a symptom of corruption. And it's not even a hardware problem of your PC. It's not your PC's fault, it's not dying, it's simply the game that's unstable.
What should I do when this occurs?
First of all, DON'T PANIC, it's nothing serious. The only thing you need to do is save the game before it crashes (because yes, it usually crashes after the pink flashing occurs), close the game and reopen it. When you reboot it, the pink flashing will be gone.
AND don't worry if some previews of your sims remain pink. They will update as you play (the fastest way to update them is to have your sim change clothes or change their appearance in the mirror)
@2fingerswhiskeysims added that another method is to minimize the game, leave the PC to rest for a few hours and then reopen the game. The pink flashing should then go away on its own (I would just recommend saving before doing so, because it's not a method that works for everyone. For example it often crashes immediately after the pink flashing appears or even just minimizing it makes it crash if it's like my game that even if you look to it by mistake it crashes)
Is there a way to increase the graphics capabilities of my game?
Yes, there is, and you should do it regardless of the pink flashing, to make your game more stable. This will NOT eliminate the risk of pink flashing, but will reduce it and make the game crash after hours and hours of play rather than after a few minutes or half an hour as happens to some.
What you need to do is make your own graphic rules that adapt the game to your video card and install the 4GB patch. This guide from Pleasantsim explains how to install both (as well as providing other tips for stability and improving graphics)
Another tip that many give is to use the Sims2RPC Launcher by LazyDuchess, as many say it has made their game more stable, while others say it has increased their Pink Flashing, so I think it's very subjective whether using this launcher is better or worse.
Is there a way to eliminate it or avoid it?
There is no fix for this problem and there is no way to eliminate it, although LazyDuchess is doing some research to see if it can be done. BUT I can give you some advice on how to avoid it for as long as possible (it will still appear after a few hours, but I can tell you what to do to be able to play safely for as long as possible)
From my personal experience, I understand that pink flashing occurs when the game needs to read a lot of thumbnails (of hairs and clothes expecially) and when you visit too many lots in the same game session or you visit a single huge lot full of objects. So, what you need to do is:
Save before changing your sims appearance (whether it's a change of hair or clothes) because the game almost always tends to crash after a long or sometimes even short makeover session. (It depens on how many ccs you have)
Avoid changing your sims hair if you don't have to. One of the causes of pink flashing is reading all the thumbnails of the hair in the game, especially if you have a lot of cc hair and getting to the last page or halfway through is very tiring for you and for your game that have to read all the thumbnails. It doesn't matter if the game already has them cached, pink flashing doesn't care.
Avoid changing your sims clothes if you don't have to change them (so avoid needlessly looking at all the clothes you have, in your wardrobe or in shop mode as if it were your closet at home). Just like with hair, pink flashing is triggered by reading too many thumbnails, especially if you have a lot of cc clothes. As with hair, it doesn't matter if the game has already cached thumbnails of all the clothes you have. Pink Flashing doesn't care. BUT unlike hair, for clothes I found a solution (which I hope is not a coincidence that only works for me). Unfortunately this took away the pleasure of going to the shops to buy clothes, but it avoided crashes and Pink Flashing. Basically, I discovered (and I don't know why) that if I use Pescado Clothing Tool, for some mystical reason the game doesn't crash and doesn't trigger pink flashing (I can even spend hours scrolling through all my many ccs and it doesn't annoys my game at all)
Last but not least, pink flashing can also be caused by reading too many thumbnails in buy mode or visiting too many lots during the same gaming session. Unfortunately there isn't much to do here, my only advice is to save very often when you edit lots, and to avoid visiting different lots too much if you don't need to (don't worry, your sims don't suffer from claustrophobia and can stay in their homes very well). If you have to edit a lot of lots, use a game session ONLY for that, because changing lots and scrolling through the buy mode there will be a lot of pink flashing very soon, at some point. At least you will have the knowledge that it will arrive any moment and you won't have to stress while you are in live mode.
To summarize, pink flashing is triggered by:
Scroll too much hair pages in "edit appearance" mode.
Scroll too much clothes pages in "change clothing" mode.
Scroll too much furnitures in "buy/build mode"
Open/go in many different lots in the same game session.
Use very big lots with a lots of objects.
Apartment lots (these ones are a hell for PF)
AND the snow. Yes, when the terrain change in "snowy" mode, this trigger the PF a lot. You can disable the snow with mods if you want or simply save the game before the terrain changes and hope that it will not happen.
@brandinotbroke added that the shaders trigger Pink Soup. But when it comes to shaders this time it also depends a lot on the hardware capacity of your PC, and it's not just a game problem. Both the game's shaders themselves, additional shaders and default replacement shaders downloaded from the internet could cause problems. If you think this is the problem, the solution is to use the "userShader off" cheat. BUT this doesn't always mean that your computer can't handle that particular shader. Often some shaders need to be downloaded in their version to be compatible with other shaders. So try to differentiate the difference between an unsupported shader and a shader that is not compatible with another, always read the description of the creator's post carefully. (For example: the "Better Night Life" shader conflicts with Voielle's water shaders and for this reason there is a BNL shader compatible with Voielle's water. IF you used the normal shader instead of the compatible one, any object that works with BNL shaders will be affected by Pink Soup.)
@goingsimcrazy added that many hood deco, high quality setting, high DOF and lot impostors can trigger pink flashing. However, this is a mix between "your PC's hardware capabilities" and basically...player luck. Sometimes players with latest generation gaming PCs cannot handle the hood decos and players who play with toasters play surrounded by hood decos, so here isn't very clear how The Sims 2... decides its capacity and compatibility criteria. But anyway, if you think that your hood deco, lot impostors, high graphics qualities and DOF (distance of field) are TOO MUCH and that your PC cannot support them, simply deactivate and lower the graphics settings from the settings!
BUT @goingsimcrazy also pointed out a detail that I wanted to add too but forgot. Basically, deleting the thumbnails cache is of no use, it doesn't solve the pink flashing problem, in fact it makes it worse. I won't give you a computer lesson but in simple terms I'll explain it to you like this: caches are used to store information so that when you open a software, the software takes information from the cache file and speeds up its reading capacity. If you delete the thumbnails cache every two days what you are doing is practically punching yourself, because not only are you slowing down the game, but by doing so you force it to regenerate the thumbnails every single time, thus causing crashes and pink flashing. Delete the thumbnails ONLY if you have changed a huge number of default replacements and need to update the previews OR press CTRL + right click of the mouse on the individual preview you want to refresh.
@fireflowersims also added this, that it's very important, please read!
Small clarification to finish:
Sometimes pink flashing is also caused by very long gaming sessions (so even if you don't do any of the things listed, at some point it will still happen, but I'm talking about more than 4/5 hours of gaming).
Many of the things listed may be stupid and already known, many of you will be reading and thinking "the genius has arrived", but I have seen many people suffer from pink flashing, not understanding what trigghed it and doing A LOT of the things that trigghed it the most. (I watched a lot of gameplay on YouTube where this happened).
So...I hope I helped someone and if someone know other things that trigger PF let me know, I'll add it to this post!
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krabbysims · 23 days
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krabbysims · 23 days
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alfixes Replacement Project - Extracted Fixes and more!
Tired of the many conflicts with alfixes? Can't put up with Pescado hiding features in his mods? Then this might be of your interest.
Alfixes is something that has bothered me for a while, ever since I found out that it deletes date cards. No wonder I've barely seen them in game!
With Charity's documentation on the topic, we now have a compiled list of mods to fully replace the few documented (cough) features that weren't already fixed by EAxis in Mansions & Gardens/later patches/Ultimate Collection. What you'll need to download is...
(List under the cut. Also stick around for my own extracted features, which I haven't found corresponding mods for.)
Tunaisafish's Enthusiasm Overhaul (which among many other things, also stops the hobby enthusiasm from decaying when playing in other households);
Simler90's Matchmaker Fix (she will behave properly when showing up at community lots);
AncientHighway's Love Potion Restock Fix (the game does not incorrectly restock it as a nice potion);
Gummilutt's M&G Physiology Fix (no longer maxes out the Body skill when working out after learning the skill);
BoilingOil's Skill While Tinkering (NOT included in alfixes, but mentioned/linked in Charity's thread).
Tunaisafish's Get Parents Fix (NOT even mentioned in Charity's thread, but this an essential corruption fix to a problem that got even worse in Apartment Life. alfixes DOES address the bug, but I didn't need to extract it because Tuna already did a much better job, from scratch).
Even then, the thread failed to address (at least early on) the missing 3 documented features, only included in the .txt file for the mod. Those are:
17. Orphaned 6s and 12s no longer error returning from school.
18. Apartment door locks now work!
19. Urnstones in apartments no longer disappear or teleport to the curb.
Thankfully, these were pretty easy to identify, so I managed to extract those and other features (except the 17th, since Tuna's GPF already does that). Here's the link: https://simfileshare.net/folder/143255/
I'd like to thank SimPE and it's creators for allowing me to extract all the junk from alfixes, Charity for all their hard work in manually testing the bugs, Amairani for mentioning the missing 3 undisclosed features in the thread (4 for you Glen Coco, you go Glen Coco!) and none for Pescado Wieners, bye.
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krabbysims · 24 days
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Sims 2 Tools - Repository Wizard
Repository Wizard
The Repository Wizard is a utility for automating the repository technique for objects and clothing.
Object Mode
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This mode of the Repository Wizard automates the process described by HugeLunatic in their Repository Technique tutorial.
Clothing Mode
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This mode of the Repository Wizard creates new re-colours for a new/modified mesh based on an existing mesh with its own set of re-colours.
This is NOT the simple approach to the repository method of linking the dependant's TXMT resource(s) to the donor's TXTR resource(s), but a new, more advanced, approach of linking via the 3IDR resource.
See the application’s web page for extensive details about both modes.
If you do not know what the repository technique is, or why you would want to use it, this application is not for you!
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krabbysims · 28 days
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Differences between DXT5 / DXT3 / DXT1
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The images above are all imported with SimPe's Built DXT... option, and then exported for previewing. The short version is:
You can't go wrong with DXT5 :)
I'll go through the differences under the cut.
DXT5
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Supports transparency (alpha channel)
Preserves texture details well
Smooth gradient transparency
Filesize of the vase texture: 25 KB Filesize of the plant texture with gradient alpha channel: 26 KB Filesize of the plant texture without the gradient part: 20 KB
Useful for: textures that are solid or have a complex alpha channel.
Shouldn't be used for: –
DXT3
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Supports transparency (alpha channel)
Preserves texture details well
Causes stripes on alpha channel gradients
Filesize of the vase texture: 25 KB Filesize of the plant texture with gradient alpha channel: 20 KB Filesize of the plant texture without the gradient part: 19 KB
Useful for: textures that are solid or have a well-defined alpha channel.
Shouldn't be used for: textures with alpha channel gradients.
DXT1
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Doesn't support transparency (no alpha channel)
Pixelates texture details
Filesize of the vase texture: 21 KB Filesize of the plant texture: 14 KB
Useful for: solid one color textures with no details.
Shouldn't be used for: detailed textures, textures with transparency.
Both textures l used are 256x256. They came from TS4, thanks to @tvickiesims for extracting the textures! I added the gradient bit to the plant one.
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krabbysims · 28 days
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Simlish Graphics Set
Hi everyone! I decided to put together a set of simlish graphics that I've been using over time. Feel free to use them all as you please and if wanna tag me, I definitely love to check that out! As always, have fun!
Additional information:
▪ Includes 70 graphics with a mix of simlish texts ▪ Includes .psd & .png files so you can pick and choose graphics you'd like to use!
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krabbysims · 29 days
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Red's Diner
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krabbysims · 29 days
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Desert Scenery.
I use this hood for my BACC, but because I am into weird building mood I think about moving my 1950s MCM homes to desert and building this into Retro futuristic 1950s inspired hood.
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krabbysims · 29 days
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Took a month off from Sims. No tumblr, no spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was making me irritable and scrolling through my feed stopped being fun. I still don't feel like coming back. Starting back up feels like too big a chore. The other day I was actually thinking about playing my game, so that's an improvement. Still not there yet though. Really just popping in to see what simblr thinks of the ai fuckery that tumblr is pulling. Feeling anxious about where the community will go if not tumblr. I've had this blog for nine years. My other account is older. Feels weird to think that tumblr might not be home base anymore, or that my online experience is about to get smaller.
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krabbysims · 29 days
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krabbysims · 29 days
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Finally making use of these arcade machines, @shastakiss :-)
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