Requests P40 - More Earrings

Deaderpool's Discord is On a Break

The depth of bad behavior from Simmers we've witnessed on this patch has made me ashamed of a LARGE portion of our community. 

Harrassing Lumpinou was just the beginning. 

Refusing to lift a finger to help yourselves, refusing to read ANYTHING we gave you to prepare for the patch either ahead of time, or after it landed, just made things worse. 

Burying our support channels in repeat demands for help from our volunteer staff without testing your patched game with no mods or custom content in was just one more nail in the coffin. 

But the thing that takes the cake, by far, was the abuse some of you heaped on people in the Sims After Dark discord, especially Meg. NO ONE deserves to be talked to the way she was, and especially not by entitled brats who don't want to read, who expect us to magically force their games into working, with no effort from them.

I was already upset about what happened to Lumpinou, so when SAD decided to take a well deserved break to decompress, Deaderpool's discord also closed. If you're a member, you can see Shino's announcement, here: https://discord.com/channels/285367261374447616/461584055532519426/1086800831971590305 

The epidemic of people STILL not reading continues, too. Several of us have received DMs since yesterday asking about what's going on, when it was CLEARLY laid out in the above announcement post, in which everyone was pinged. Please don't be that person, not now, and especially not after we re-open our servers, probably sometime Tuesday... depending on how SAD's relaunch goes.

People's behavior will determine how long we STAY open. If we immediately start seeing more of the same crap that led us to close for this break, we will take another one. Don't be the reason people can't have nice things. Behave like you have some common sense, and we will do our best to help you with your issues. 

Be aware we are not going to let ourselves be run over. Our tolerance for bad behavior as a whole has run out. We're much more likely to just ban troublemakers on the spot, and move on to the more cooperative people who genuinely appreciate our support. 

Just in case you end up needing it, the process for appealing a ban is here.

Thanks for reading.

EG for Deaderpool's Discord  

Just yesterday I was thinking about what dimensions it has assumed. As soon as they can create, texture and upload a simple cube, they already have "Buy me a coffee" or "Become my patron". But it does not bother me. You will not see any money from me or a monthly subscription? Never ever! I like to use good CC as long as it is free. I can also make objects myself if I feel like it and have time for it. And then I like to share it with the community. But for me it is a hobby and not a commerce. So I also offer it for free. I do not need patrons, I would enslave myself because I would always have to deliver content. But as already said, they should do it. But what really, really upset me is the users who use foreign content to beautify their Sims or their homes and either share it with the CC and / or even want get paid for it. That's where my tolerance stops! When I create a sim or build a house in the game, it's in my eyes the gameplay. So they want get money for playing the game? What's wrong in their heads?

Something Bothering Me - Message Addressed to Sims CC Patreons

I don’t have issues with Sims CC creators desiring to get some kind of payback for the work they do.

I’ve dealt with ad.fly (grudgingly–it’s an awful experience and could infect others for barely any return)

I have tolerated and reblogged in the past those who want donations (again, not a huge issue, can be annoying if spammed

I support those who want to put their items on TSR and earn income by those who either download cc from there or buy a monthly pass.

And now there is Patreon. Which has seen an upsurgence in the S3 and S4 community.

While I have no inherent issues with people allowing others to support their work via any of these formats, I do have issue when it comes to gatekeeping content by means of putting CC behind a paywall.

And before I hear “people can do what they like”, yes they can, this is my opinion as a Former/ Retired CC creator and converter.

It’s alienating to many of the community, many young teens and adults. That demographic can maybe afford to support one or two creators, cannot pay $1-3/ avg per creator. It’s not feasible for many.

It’s also manipulative because it’s waving usually very popular content in front of others faces (by those that can afford it) and pretty much saying that unless you buy Into me ($1-2 for maybe one or two pieces of content) you’re getting screwed.

There is no way I’d pay $1-3 for one piece of virtual clothing/skin/whatever for any game, let alone Sims. Yet in this community exclusive cc, particularly clothing shared between friends or ‘popular’ simblrs brings status and further rebloggability for the simblrs they bestow it unto. It’s manipulative.

I have no issue with Patreon or giving money to creators. I have issue when it’s abused.

So the question can be asked, well what do you do instead to get more money in a less gatekeeping/paywall manipulative manner?

I will not say names, but one Simblr in particular has a good idea of how to encourage others to engage and participate in their Patreon but also not gatekeeping the creme Brûlée of their content: Timed Exclusives

Timed exclusives allows those who are willing to give a bit of money upfront to get the content sooner and therefore a slight advantage – the Patron still gets benefit. While those who are unable to pay but want to enjoy the content can still participate and download the content from their favourite creators.

I’ve never believed for myself that I deserved money for my creations (whether original or conversions) but I have tolerated and supported those when I could and support the choice of being able to be paid When it’s fair.

This message is not meant to shame but as a means of saying, Hey maybe consider the alternative of Timed Exclusives instead of gated content.

The only other alternative other than that is others taking your gated content and reuploading somewhere else – I’m old enough to remember the pirate booty during the S2 era.

Instead of leading people to desperation, keep an open mind and maybe consider this point of view

- from a former S3CC creator

WIP

Add On 1 to ‘Mix’n Match Curtain Set vol.1′

Hi All 🙋‍♀️ 

Today I bring you an Add On to my started curtain-set project.

As can be seen, it includes 8 half-turned curtains at different heights, even for the two higher walls. Hope, you like it too. Then enjoy and have fun!  ❤️

Download MERGED

Download Separated

Folder with all versions

It’s all on SimFileShare without adf.ly, short.est or whatever!

You can visit me on this page too: annigo’s Manufacture at Sims4Studio

TOU:

You have the permission for recolor my objects, but don’t offer my meshes but rather set a link to my side. Don’t load up my meshes on other pages and give them as yours!

And Simsdom, if you become aware of me, don’t offer and hide my creations behind from paysites, ad.fly or what ever. My stuff is free and you doesn’t have the right to make money with that!

Guys, I need your opinion.

Looking around I see lots of beautiful highpoly* cc, and seems like people really enjoy it. In the meantime creating smth I spend 70% of time to make lowpoly versions of my highpoly meshes. And as an inevitable result my stuff is quite handy for playing the game, but looks not so nice as it actually could.

* - for those of you who is far from all that technical details. Highpoly meshes increases the load on your graphics card and other resources of your PC/laptop. If there are lots of highpoly content on your current lot [ including your sims and what they’re wearing ], you may encounter certain troubles, such as different graphics anomalies, lags, crashes, game or even operating system freezes and so on. However, many people have quite powerful computers nowadays, so they don’t experience any listed problems, if they’re not turning their TS4 game into 3D rendering show with extremely highpoly cc [ my favorite example was a small cake of 215k polys, and even that cake is used by lots of ppl, at least I often see it on various screenshots ].

So saying “highpoly” I do not mean decor objects of 100-200k polys, of course, or a simple clothes of > 50k polys. But since my own PC is quite perfomant, I’m fine with the furniture of 10-20k polys, detailed cars [ 90-150k polys ] and cas stuff up to 150k polys [ for some very complicated outfits or hairstyles, not for ordinary shirts or simple dresses ].  

Now to the textures. Usually I either link textures for smaller file sizes of the packages without quality loss [ storage space on your hdd/ssd is not endless, you know ]  or use 1024 size. But I can make them larger so your close-up screenshots would look much more glamorous, regardless of file size, but in less number of swatches [ otherwise there would be sets of 600-800 Mb each ].

So. The question is simple - maybe my efforts to reduce polycount and keep average file sizes is just a waste of time and no one actually need that?

I would be most grateful if you join the poll HERE.

Since I've just discovered again that my meshes are simply redistributed on Youtube, here again in capital letters: I DO NOT WANT MY OBJECTS ON OTHER SITES AND IN HOUSES TO BE DISTRIBUTED! IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? 😠

annigo’s Floating Island Lounger

Hi Guy’s, here is a functional floating island lounger. Hope, you like it. Have fun! :)

Island Living is required!

DOWNLOAD  sfs (without ads)

You have the permission for recolor my objects, but don’t offer my meshes but rather set a link to my side. Don’t load up my meshes on other pages, don’t share it on youtube etc. and give them as yours!

And SIMSDOM, if you become aware of me, don’t offer and hide my creations behind from paysites, ad.fly or what ever. My stuff is free and you don’t have the right to make money with that!

A Simlish “Wow” Sign

Hi Sims-Fans! 🤩

I'm just digging through the "My Meshes”- Folder and found this sign that I designed for myself some time ago. And remember what I did it for. I had built a restaurant in San Myshuno instead of the fitness center and wanted to have a new sign for it.

Hihi, because you have a stunning view from there, if your sims sit on the terrace, the name finding was not difficult for me, very simple: “Wow” in simlish font. I used the fantastic font CherryVanilla by Franzilla. 

You can find it here on MTS.

Many thanks for that Franzilla. 💗

I thought, maybe someone will find it useful for their own Sims-Business. However, you need the GP "Dining Out" to use the shield. It comes in 16 swatches and can be mounted on the wall and/or on the charts intended for that.

Have fun! 😘

DOWNLOAD (SFS no ad.fly)

Guys, do not download on Simsdom, but directly at the creators!

simsdom

So I was informed that some of my content came up at simsdom. Without even mentioning my name anywhere in that context btw.

I just want to let you know that none of you has to wait for the 120 seconds or so to get the download link. 

Just go to TSR directly as there is no point in getting my stuff from simsdom in the first place. Or browse my CC blog instead where I keep you informed about new stuff as well.

Also, the link provided by @simsdom is a direct download link which skips the description page but not the waiting time at TSR. The item description is there for a reason. There is no benefit from skipping that page.

Luckily they provide an additional link right below the preview picture which redirects you to TSR. Click that. 

More DHD Cupcake Lights Please!

Sometimes I don't understand the creators at EA. Sometimes they make a ceiling light in 3 different heights and sometimes not. Why? Then why the hell did they give us 3 different height walls? So that pendant lights that are too short look ridiculous?

Anyway, I think the cupcake lights are so cute, I had to have them in several heights. Even though I usually just play with the normal wall height, I love playing with the heights and making the lights smaller if necessary, as you can see in the next pictures.

The lights come in every original Swatch, of course, and a few Recolors, though not 100 or so, just a few that suit my taste. There is an extra recolour file for the original lights. As you can see, I have a fable for lilac shades. Feel free to create your own recolours and delete mine if you don't like them.

By the way, on the last picture you can see only my recolours.

Download: SFS (without ads)