Tutorial - Changing the textures on a Base Game Hair - Texture Default Only.

Tools you will need:

1. SimPE
2. DDS Utilities (You don't need an Nvidia card to use them)
3. The textures you wish to replace with.
4. Default replacement packages of the thing you want to update.

If you haven't installed the DDS Utilities - Follow this tutorial to do so

Installing NVIDA DDS Utilities

Installing NVIDIA DDS Utilities

Tools you will need:

1. SimPE
2. DDS Utilities (You don't need an Nvidia card to use them)

• Download the DDS Utilities from the link above.

• Click on the installation and follow the instructions.

 Notes - 

• (1) You need an organisation name - It can be anything, it doesn't matter.
  After you put in an organisation name, tick the box that says "No Thanks" when it talks about subscribing or not - that way you don't have to put in an email address. It will then go away and register the product.
• (2) Take note of the directory - for my machine it is
  C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\DDS Utilities
  You will need to know where you put it, because you will need to tell SimPE where it is.

Around the Sims - Modernline Kitchen (2015) - Repository

In 2006 - Sandy made the Modernline Kitchen as a part of a full house set. You can download the original here - Around the Sims - Modernline Kitchen.

I loved that kitchen because it was nicely modern, and also because the Modernline set was one of my most used sets in Sims 1.

Tutorial - Repository Part 1 - Linking back to EA textures (Simple)

This is the start of a number of tutorials that I'm creating around repositorying things to minimise textures in your game.

WHY have repository:

This is useful to downloaders because

1. It allows you to have things matching in a much more complete way.
2. It minimises the number of textures that you have loaded into graphics memory - reducing the opportunity for pink flashing.
3. Makes it easier to remove some things from the game - don't want that slaved table? remove it, and don't worry about the recolours - you don't need to go searching for them.  Note: if you want to remove a master - don't. Instead go into Simpe, and untick it's catalog sorts in the OBJD segment. Commit, Save. And it's gone from your game, but still retains the recolours for your other pieces.
4. You don't have to have hundred's of recolours in game to match up your sofa pieces with your armchair, etc.

This is useful for creators because:

1. You don't have to recolour all umpteen million pieces to have a matching set.
2. If everything is mapped correctly, you only need to test your recolours on the master object.
3. It allows you to have an expanded set, with less work.

So that's the why: Under the cut - the How

N99 August Goodies 2017 - Day 2 - Recycling

A small and strange little offering for day 2. Recycling bins and posters for a recycling plant. Posters come in Simlish and English, and are on the Night Life Grilled Cheese poster (using add-on for Display purposes).
Bins are Fairywitches FDD bins. (I can't remember where I got the meshes, so I've uploaded them here with the original recolours).

Grilled Cheese Posters in English
Grilled Cheese Posters in Simlish
FW Recycling Bins Recolours
FW Recycling Bins Meshes

Sims2Play - Bath - Avanti and Recolours

Part of N99 August Goodies - 2017. Day 2 - Avanti Bath and Recolours

You can get it  in EA Woods (thanks to Amythestfenix)  and Pirate Woods (thanks to Shastakiss). I used Shasta metals plus my own extras.

Rugs and Collections - August Goodies 2015 (Day 7)

I've always admired Bibi's talents in Sims 1, and was sad that although she did walls and floors and lots and sims in Sims 2 - she never did objects. In particular she had some beautiful floor tiles to use as rugs that were never converted to rugs to be used elsewhere. So... Now they have.