EDIT: Disregard this post.  Found someone to make the skin.  Thank you for your time.


Well, I've picked up The Sims 3 and several of the expansion packs.  And I happen to be a fan of the now cancelled TV show and still running MMO game Defiance.  So, I decided to start work on doing a sim character based on one of the races of the show.  The race I chose is Indogene, which are a race that are primarily bald, pale skin and have a hexagonal skin pattern.  Here is a picture of Trenna Keating as her character Doctor Meh Yewll from the show:





Eren Niden from the game:



As you can see from the pictures, the hexagonal pattern for the Indogenes.  However, if none of those are hard to see the skin, here's a link to another picture of Ms. Keating as Doc Yewll:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1544/24614026945_feec2a4f7f_o.jpg


So, from what I'm looking for is either a hexagonal skintone or a full body hexagonal tattoo pattern so to make the Sim for both male and female sims (Yes, there are male Indogenes in the show's universe).  I will admit, I've looked into possibly making the skintone or tattoo pattern myself, but if its already been done, I'd rather download that and get it done without the hassle.  Thank you for your time.  

I'm not sure how many people remember these from the original Sims game, but I'm putting a request for a VR helmet or VR glasses.

Okay, my original request has long since been removed.  So, I figured I'd go for it again in hopes that maybe I can get it done.

I'm requesting a Sim of actor Dean Stockwell.  Many people recall him from "Quantum Leap" as Al, the invisible guide to Sam.  But for those who have seen him in the recent (and recently concluded) "Battlestar Galactica" may know him as Cavil.

Forward picture:


Profile:


3/4s Profile:


Link to my Photobucket for pictures of Dean Stockwell (as shown above, plus two more).  If anyone does this and needs more pictures of Mr. Stockwell, please let me know.

Okay, before I begin, here is the game and EPs I have that are installed:
Base Game: "The Sims 2"
EPs: "University", "NightLife", "Open for Business", "Pets", "Seasons" and "Bon Voyage".

Now, here's the problem: I have begun looking into the boolProp cheats that many Sims 2 machinima makers have used.  After following the instructions, which was to hit Control+Shift+C to bring the command console down and then type in the cheat code (even the one to enable the cheats), I keep getting a message that looks like this:

ERROR TSCheatSystem: ERROR IN CHEAT: Expecting at Least 2 arguments in command '(name of cheat code)'. OnErrorClearParserTempState called.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?  If so, what is it and how can I correct it?

I'm not sure how many people remember the VR glasses in "The Sims" (I can't remember if it was an actual in-game object or if it was a custom content object, but I remember having it in my game).  I tried to do a search for "VR glasses" in the search for Insim, but I kept getting "sunglasses" and the words that include the letters "v" and "r together.  So, I figured I'd post this WCIF in case someone else has found them.

So, does anyone know where I can find VR Glasses or a VR helmet for my Sims?  This can be an actual object with animation or this can be an accessory or a hair, just as long as they are VR glasses or a VR helmet.

Now, as you know, I'm a "Battlestar Galactica" fan.  And I have been looking for some necessary items for "The Sims 2" that are based on the show, to which I hope to get before I can begin work on my machinima comic book fan fiction series and hopefully before "The Sims 3" comes around and we lose a lot of Sims 2 Content makers.

So, what I need, as a hair (or as an Accessory if doing it as a hair is not possible) that is the space flight helmet normally seen in the show.  This particular helmet is seen in Season 2 in the series through to the series finale. The following link has some good pictures of a replica of the helmet.  If you need further pictures, let me know and I'll see if I can get some good screencaps from the BSG DVDs in my collection.  I should point out that whenever an actor or actress wears the helmet, the padding within the helmet keeps from actually seeing their hair.  The glass of the visor may be difficult and may have to be done separately as an accessory, but from what I've seen with other examples, it's not impossible to do.  But I figured I'd give a heads up

Link with pictures of helmet: http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=9329

I hope that someone takes this on.  I would love to have it and use it for my Sims.

**Admin note: Please share pictures via photobucket, imageshack or whatever 3rd party site you like. Do not upload pictures to the server.**

Now, I have opeu's and HystericalParoxysm's tutorials about how to make realistic Sim skins for Sims.  I was wondering if there are any other tutorials on how to make realistic Sims skins if you recommend it.  Just let me know, guys. 

Hey guys!  I figured I'd post this Sim I made a while ago.  For some time, this particular Sim was only available on Mod The Sims 2, so I've decided to post some of my "blast fro the past" Sims here. as well.  Enjoy!

Original Text:
Hello again, Simmers and Simmakers, it is me again bringing another Sim for you.

I am going to admit a guilty pleasure here for you guys: The movie “Basic Instinct” happens to be one of my favorites (it’s right underneath Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”).  And I am really stoked and patiently awaiting for the U.S. release of “Basic Instinct 2”, which is set to be released at the end of this month.  So, I figured, why not go ahead and celebrate, putting together a Sim before a lot of other people get the chance to do so after BI2 gets released?  So, I went ahead and did so.

For those who are unfamiliar with “Basic Instinct”, it follows a story that similar to “Vertigo”: A jaded cop falls for a mysterious blonde.  But the twist about “Basic Instinct” is that it is a murder mystery where the mysterious blonde may have killed someone.  The film itself is rated R for the content of sex, drugs and murder.

Catherine Tramell is the female lead of the story, played by Sharon Stone.  Catherine Tramell is a writer and the girlfriend of a rockstar who was brutally murdered (which is seen at the beginning of the film).  Tramell, as she states in the trailer for “Basic Instinct 2”, writes about “the sexual, the violent… the basic instincts.”  She has written three novels (“The First Time”, “Love Hurts” and “Shooter”) and she has a “risk additction” (as also stated in the trailer for the upcoming sequel).

The dress she wears was my attempt at recreating the one she wears in the infamous “interrogation room” scene from the first film.  It may not been 100%, but it was the closest I could get with using the in-game dresses available.  Hope you enjoy having Catherine in your Sims neighborhood.  Just remember to keep her away from ice picks, amongst other things…

NOTE: Recently updated, readjusting the face and nose a bit.  Thanks to all who gave their feedback. 


Parts info:
Skin tone by thesimssi2
Eye color (Deep Eye) by SimCribbling (aka Louis)
Hair color and mesh by Maxis (in-game)
Dress recolor by me, dress mesh by Maxis (in-game)
Makeup and Eyebrows by Helaene (Eyebrows: 722 Brow - Dark Brown, lipstick: helaene_goodnight, eyeshadow: natural beauty 1)
Eyeliner by Maxis (in-game)

Looking to see if anyone can make the Orpheum Theatre that's in Vancouver, Canada or knows where I may be able to download it.  I need the Theatre to be a Residental lot, since I plan on featuring it and I need only the Sims I plan on using in the lot (without neighborhood Sims involved).

Wikipedia Page on Orpheum Theatre, including photos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheum_%28Vancouver%29

Outside Sign:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/1144271763/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/squeakymarmot/1539413038/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonez007/3086798384/

Lobby:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragile/2644831/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mykatya/303638744/

Theater:
http://vancouver.ca/theatres/graphics/Orph5.GIF
http://vancouver.ca/theatres/graphics/Orph6.gif
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkq/499407316/

Ceiling & Chandelier in Theater:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragile/2644831/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggunson/47361380/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12231952@N06/1474588020/


Floor Plan in The Theatre: http://vancouver.ca/theatres/pdfs/OrpheumSeating.pdf

As I have done before with my ideas for the "Sim Custom Skin Advisor" and the "Gun Pose Hack/Object", I have another idea for something Sim related.  Now, I'm not trying to say we should, but this is only an idea and just thought about getting it out of my head.

As a part of my DVD Collection, I have a movie called "Somewhere in Time".  Currently, I'm reading the novel of the same name that the film was based on (Note: The original novel was titled "Bid Time Return") by Richard Matheson (known for many classic shorts such as "Duel", "Steel", "Terror at 10,000 Feet" and "Little Girl Lost", as well as classic novels such as "I Am Legend").  The premise of both the novel and the film is that a writer name Richard Collier falls in love with an American actress name Elise McKenna.  The drawback of this romance is this: Elise McKenna is dead, and Richard fell in love with her after finding her portrait in a "Hall of History" in a hotel he is staying in.  Becoming obsessed with her, he discovers a way that he can be with her: through the use of self-hypnosis, he is able to travel back in time to be able to meet and fall in love with her.  I know, it sounds cheesy, but it's a good movie and, so far from reading, and excellent book.

Anyways, I got to thinking about this, and I had thought about posting it as a "Somewhere in Time" competition, challenging custom content creators to make items and Sims of the characters from both the book and the film.  But there is a twist, which I will reveal in a moment.  I decided not to go with that kind of theme, and decided to make it something more open.

In the book, the entire story takes place at the Hotel del Coronado in San Deigo, California and in two seperate periods of time (1896 and 1975), in the movie its set at the Grand Hotel, also in two periods (1912 and 1979).  The reason why the Hotel del Coronado wasn't used in the film was because the director and production designer found it impossible to film there due to all the modern changes made to the hotel.  So, this got me thinking and here is what I am suggestion:

"Then and Now - A Classic/Modern Sim Content Contest"
Premise (and here's the twist): Make two different items (outfits, objects or lots) that reflect two seperate periods of time, but hold a similar, yet different design, almost as if one was like something out of the "good old days" and the other looking like an updated version of it.
For example:
Let's say you make a lot of a building, and you went with an 1930s Art-Deco design, filled it with objects of the 1930s.  For your modern lot, it should hold the same design as much as possible but updated (like how some buildings of the past retain their original appearance, but much of the inside or a little bit of the outside is changed) and filled with objects from now (or another period of time of your choosing, as long as its after the previous timeframe design, at least a 15 year difference.

Of course, you can use real world examples, but nothing that's really obvious that everyone knows that's its a reworking (i.e. the 1965 and the 2005 Ford Mustang).

Anyways, just an idea.  Don't know if anyone would go for it.  But if anyone ever wants to use it, by all means, don't be afraid to use it.  If it's already been done, than I apologize for bothing you and this would serve as a reminder to use the search option again.  Thank you for your time.   

Okay, here's the whole situation.  I recently am having problems with my Sims 2 game.  There's two major ones that I can tell: 1.  In one of my neighborhoods, I have a Servo by itself (a custom content install, in case your wondering) that isn't responding to any of my mouse click actions (when I click "Dig for Treasure", it doesn't act, it just stands there.  When I have my custom content disabled and try it, the Servo works).  2. In another one of my neighborhoods, my human Sims' animation is freaking out.  If I tell a Sim to walk from one spot to another, it walks past the spot I tell it to stop at and then when they go to stop, it jumps back to where I had told the Sim to stop and the animation jerks in the progress.

What I know: It's obviously one of the many custom content files I downloaded, but I cannot figure out which one.  Before this, I had to disable a couple of hacks using Delphy's Download Organizer, which fixed a problem where my Sims' control bar wasn't showing up (and the game wasn't responding to key commands) and the Servo in the different neighborhood wasn't showing up the way it was suppose to (after using Delphy's program, the Sim showed up the way it was suppose to, looking like a Cylon Centurion from "Battlestar Galactica").  So, whatever is causing the Servo in one neighborhood to not respond to mouse click commands and is causing the animation jerking must be one of the files underneath my downloads.  And Delphy's Download Organizer and the Sims 2 Content Manager (and even tried Paladin's Hack Confliction Detector, which didn't pull up any results).

So, has there anyone else that has had this problem?  And if so, how did you fix it?  And is there any other way for me to get this fixed without of having to delete all of my downloads and uninstall&reinstall my game and EPs?  And are there any other programs that might help shed light as to which file is causing these problems for the game?

As Quint passed the line of police officers and drew near the Mercedes, Vivienne looked up at him with outsized brown eyes.  There was something about her that made him think she wasn't from Hawaii, more likely somewhere in Southeast Asia, maybe even Vietnam.  She was, in a word, elegant."

The above is from the Richard Hoyt novel, "Vivienne."  It is one of my favorite novels and I have been meaning to get around to doing a sim representation of the title character.

Here's some basic info on Vivienne Lambert.  In the novel, Vivienne is married to Colonel Del Lambert, an Army Intelligence office.  She is an artist (she is seen in several scenes in the novel painting several works of art), has a brother and a sister (the sister looks pretty close, if not "more beautiful" than Vivienne) and lives on Tantilus Drive in Hawaii in 1968.  Her name comes from the word vivre, which means, to live in French.  I can't give any more away without spoiling the book.  But if you are looking for something to read, I recommend the book.  Never the less, I was trying my best to make a Sim that looked like she could be from Vietnam (don't know if I succeeded, so I'll let you be the judge).

Creating Vivienne was a bit of a challenge.  Vivienne is Vietnamese, but when it comes to her she's described in two different sentences" 1. "Racially, she's basically a Malay, as are all women in Southeast Asia."  2. "You're looking at a little Chinese, a touch of Khmer, some Burmese."  So, for a little bit of inspiration, I looked at a couple of pictures of Malay women, the woman on the cover of the book and watched "Full Metal Jacket" and paid attention to the three "major" women featured in the film to at least get an idea on smaller details about their nose, hair and skintone.  One of the things I definately tried to avoid was to have any similarity to Lucy Liu (because my dad saw me read the book and he thought it was Lucy Liu on the cover.  And as a result, after that moment, I only saw Lucy Liu as Vivienne).  Needless to say, what came out is who I see Vivienne as.


I wish to extend my thanks to the Content Creators whose Work is being use for this Sim.:
Eye Color by LyricLee of www.3dconsortium.com
Eyebrow, Blush, Eyeliner and Eye Shadow by Helaene
Lipstick by Sandy of www.aroundthesims2.com
Idolatry of Flesh Skintone by Hysterical Paroxysm
K Fashions 60s Chic 2 Dress by K-030
In-Game Hair by EA/Maxis

Requires
Base Game: The Sims 2
EP: University, NightLife, Pets, Open for Business, Seasons and Bon Voyage (I listed all of these  just to make sure that the Sim runs, since I have all of these expansion packs installed and its hard to tell what is what for when I created the Sim)

Hope you enjoy the download.  

I'm wondering, are there any particularly noticable Sims 2 trends that users do or don't do that you've noticed?  I figured I'd ask this as a fun and friendly topic.

When I say "trends", I mean in Sims and Objects that you've noticed being made or not made.  For example, a while back I made a post about the overabundence of Angelina Jolie sims that I noticed.  Another example is that I've noticed how there is really a small amount of Sims that are suppose to be robots.  And another is that I've noticed that there are more Sims, Outfits and Objects based on "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" than any other Science Fiction TV show/movie/book inspired Sims 2 downloads.

How about you?  Have you noticed any Sims 2 object/outfits/Sim trends that you've noticed and like to point out?

You know, I kinda wish there was some sort of "Sims 2 Ideas" section, where people could post ideas for Sims 2 stuff they had in mind, stuff that are just ideas and not requests.  But that's another topic all together.

Now, not too long ago, I came up with an object (+hack) that was inspired by some of the Sim posing hacks for storytellers and movie makers by Jixs and decorgal22572.  So, I figured I'd post the idea here and see what people think about it.  I must point out, I'm not an object maker and this is only an idea.  I have to say this because I sent a PM asking the opinion of an object/hack maker and that person thought I was making a request due to the massive detail of it.  But that's how I am (I come up with one idea and it just grows).  


Now, I've seen the typical holdable items, and how they are one handed carrying items with their arm bent "at the waist" as it were. This is okay when it comes to carriable handguns (like VampCat's guns), but even with a single handgun, it still doesn't look right when people are trying to make it look like their Sims are firing guns because of the fact that the Sims carry them close to the waist.

So, the idea I had is for a "Gunplay Pose Object" that can be used by Movie-Makers and Storytellers. Basically, it actually allows poses for gun objects that look like actual gun play. For example, there'd be the options like these:
(For handguns)
The Tea Cup Gun Hold- Basically the typical police officer two handed gun hold. Where you hold the gun in one hand and cup the other hand under that, like this.
One Handed Gun Hold- The typical pointing a gun at someone, as seen here (Warning: Big Picture Size).
John Woo Double Hand- Basically, the gun in each hand, both pointing forward (sometimes pointing at two different targets at once). See "The Matrix", the scene where Neo shoots at the Agent while on the roof of the Goverment Building (just prior to his "bullet dodge") and "A Better Tomorrow" as examples.
Old-Style Western Holdup- This is also two-handed, basically where a person has one gun extended out to take aim at a target while the other one is at their waist, ready to fire. Kinda like in this picture.
(for machine guns, shotguns and rifles)
One-Handed Hold-out- Typical for smaller weapons, like an Uzi, where one hand can be used (similar to the one handed gun hold above). This can apply to other machine guns that are typically held with two hands, but often depicted in films as "getting one more shot off before starting to run" (see "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", where the Terminator takes one last shot at the T-1000 as he begins to head for the elevator)
Two-Handed Hold- Typically for the bigger weapons, like an M-16 automatic machine gun, shotguns and other weapons designed to be held with two-hands to aim and fire, typically with the shoulder brace against the shoulder.
John Woo Machine Gun Style- Like the "John Woo Two Hand Hold" described above, but for the automatic machine guns, shotguns and rifles.
(and for all)
A Standby Posture- Basically, for the holding a gun with both hands, where the Sim will be in a holding posture, being ready for action. I'm going to use a Halo 2 picture to help explain two "standby postures". The first one will be holding a rifle, which can apply to machine gun too. For Handguns, it would be like the tea-cup hold, only with the gun aimed down.

So, what do you guys think of the idea?   Good, bad, ugly?  Useful, useless?

I'm going to need some help now.  Right now, my game keeps crashing as the it loads (I've got the base game with Uni, NL and OFP EPs).  When at the load screen it gets to "Frying Bacon for (can't remember the rest of it)" and then a window pops up saying, "This program has crashed.  Windows will now close program." (or something along those lines).  I've used the programs suggested by in the WCIF section when I asked, but nothing turned up to determine what it was causing the crashing.  I don't know what else to do except uninstall everything and then reinstall everything again (and then copy all the files under the EA file in My Documents, which includes the downloads, projects, neighborhoods, etc).  Has anyone else had this problem?  What should I do?