Studio updates for Businesses & Hobbies patch

Hi All, as many of you are aware, the patch for Businesses & Hobbies disrupted several of Studio's functions, including CAS, Build, & Tuning features. Star (Windows) & Aurora (Mac) are both updated to fix these problems. Thank you to all who reported issues.

Choose your version to download HERE

Main Menu Mods

Hey all :-) while updating my UI mods and playing around with the new main menu file, I got a couple ideas and decided to put up a new post since I'll be separating the main menu overrides from my UI recolor mods, as well as putting up smaller mods for you to download.

Small Mods

most of these can be used with other main menu overrides!

#1 - Hide News in Main Menu

#2 - Remove Clutter from Main Menu (w/ several options) 

#3 - Sketchy UI 

Main Menu Overrides

// Chalk'd UI

~ more on the way (will have its own post when i upload more :-))

📂 download & file details @ patreon

I love you, thank you!! :')

Trait Based Sim Bust Thumbnails

This mod is an alternative to "No Macabre Pose in UI" - pick one.

A few people wondered if I can make a mod similar to "Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails" but for in-game UI thumbnails.

Here's why I didn't want to do this initially:

Anyways I figured I could do an option that is a bit more subtle and still accomplishes a similar goal:

This mod will work for adults (teen-elder) and kids (for traits that are shared by kids and adults).

⬆️Update: 

Updated the mod for the new trait Grouch that was added with patch 1.111.102 for the Cozy Celebrations Event (the trait will be only available to you if and when you complete(d) the respective part of the event, I just added in the references). 

Mod: Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails

So this is somewhat of an experiment still, but I wanted to put it out there, tell me what you think 😄

For the Life and Death expansion pack a trait based pose for the new Macabre trait was added - weirdly enough EA did this for this trait only which makes no sense to me (not sure what future plans hold) and I also wasn't quite happy with the way this was done.

On the one hand this pose is all over the UI (mod for it here) looking very out of place, especially being the only trait based pose.

But I like the idea of poses matching the personality style of the sims and wish they had done this one properly. So I expanded on the idea making use of the new feature by adding more trait based poses. I focussed here on portrait thumbnails (Household pictures) only though. I originally wanted to put this to use for custom (group) poses made for the Gallery but sadly, to make this work, I need to override traits which flags sims as CC. This renders the whole enterprise rather useless for the Gallery :'( Still nice for in-game though, I think.

⬆️Update: 

Updated the mod for the new trait Grouch that was added with patch 1.111.102 for the Cozy Celebrations Event (the trait will be only available to you if and when you complete(d) the respective part of the event, I just added in the references). 

Also added some kids poses, mostly by remapping existing portrait poses that suit the traits.

Birds (Part 1)

Today I present you my first CC pack for The Sims 4 Life and Death

More Packs will come!

I startet with 5 birds:

I used the original wood and added 3 more colors: black, white and transparent.

The Idea of the transparent texture and bb.moveobjects was that you can placed the animals in other postions.

CF: https://legacy.curseforge.com/sims4/build-buy/birds-part-1

SFS: https://simfileshare.net/download/5143979/

They function like the original crow. I thought to remove some features but I think its more fun with all the opportunities.

I hope you like it!

Thank you so much for this!

Mod: Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails

So this is somewhat of an experiment still, but I wanted to put it out there, tell me what you think 😄

For the Life and Death expansion pack a trait based pose for the new Macabre trait was added - weirdly enough EA did this for this trait only which makes no sense to me (not sure what future plans hold) and I also wasn't quite happy with the way this was done.

On the one hand this pose is all over the UI (mod for it here) looking very out of place, especially being the only trait based pose.

But I like the idea of poses matching the personality style of the sims and wish they had done this one properly. So I expanded on the idea making use of the new feature by adding more trait based poses. I focussed here on portrait thumbnails (Household pictures) only though. I originally wanted to put this to use for custom (group) poses made for the Gallery but sadly, to make this work, I need to override traits which flags sims as CC. This renders the whole enterprise rather useless for the Gallery :'( Still nice for in-game though, I think.

⬆️Little update: EA updated the cheerful trait with last weeks update to exclude the macabre trait. I updated the files correspondingly.

Enhancing Sims Thumbnails 🖼️🔍👀

So I have received some questions regarding this post and had another look at the ThumbnailConfig.ini file to see if there is anything else worth tweaking to enhance sims thumbnails.

I also decided to share my settings (though not sure if this is a good idea, I'll see how it goes). Disclaimer, that what works well for me/on my screen, might not be the best solution for you and you might be better off with the default settings. Also remember that generating higher resolution thumbnails can slow down your game. I think that visually the settings (only) make a big difference if you play on a larger screen and/or with an upscaled UI (game accessibility settings).

You can try my settings or use the info shared below (I might update it in the future) to experiment with the settings yourself. You can find examples on how to edit the file in my previous posts here and here and you can use any text editor like Notepad or Notepad++ to do so.

Download and details below the cut ⤵️

⬆️Updated the config override file I shared here. Noticed that a new configuration for the Memorial picture/thumbnail was added for the Life & Death pack:

The config file is overriden by the game whenever necessary, so if you ran the patch, it will have the changes automatically. But you'll need to redownload my file (or update your customized version correspondingly) if you want to keep using it with the pack.

Status for Patch 1.110

⬆️Updated:

✅Clearing my mods for Gallery poses. False alarm, these mods do not need an update and I'm leaving them as they are. Explanations below.

(I'm currently looking into making proper use of this new feature though, and might be adding another mod to the mix.)

✅Also clearing my remaining mods.

👉Note that the XML injector by Scumbumbo and lot51's Core Library have been updated for the patch. Make sure to download the new version if you use any mods that depend on them. (I'm using the XML injector for my Posing Interaction for Babies and lot51's Core Library for the Cat Whisperer career.)

So a follow-up and information for Gallery Poses after the pack dropped:

Status for Patch 1.110

⬆️Updated:

✅Clearing my mods for Gallery poses. False alarm, these mods do not need an update and I'm leaving them as they are. Explanations below.

(I'm currently looking into making proper use of this new feature though, and might be adding another mod to the mix.)

✅Also clearing my remaining mods.

👉Note that the XML injector by Scumbumbo and lot51's Core Library have been updated for the patch. Make sure to download the new version if you use any mods that depend on them. (I'm using the XML injector for my Posing Interaction for Babies and lot51's Core Library for the Cat Whisperer career.)

Final status above.

CAS Mod - No Make-Up & No Accessories on Randomized Sims

This mod disables make-up and accessories (incl. tattoos and hats) when randomizing a sim in CAS. As a bonus, from my understanding & testing, the same game mechanic is then also applied for any randomly generated townies in-game (not including NPC outfits).

As someone who spends countless hours in CAS and gets quickly frustrated with randomized townie outfits, I felt like this could be useful 😃

You can use this mod simultaneously with my presets mod for randomized sims.

Keep reading

⬆️Updated for patch 1.110.

The more poses you make as a pose creator, the more things you learn and the more things you see. 

Maybe you have seen my former post, maybe not. But I want to address again that stealing is not OK. 

I use and see a lot of poses almost everyday, I reblog and maintain the poses masterlist (@ts4-poses), I am a sims-storyteller that loves to pose with poses from other creators for my story and ofcourse, make my own poses to share. But also...

I recognize my flaws in my own poses, my poses are not perfect, I learn everyday, that's why I knew this pose was mine. But by now, we have found 15 posecreators that have been done the same to, by Simsulani. And maybe you have seen in Toys of Dukeness their patreon post there is possibly another pose creator KD89 doing the same to them. What led to them deleting all of their content in our community. And seeing something leave the community over this, is sad. We lost already so many talented creators due to this.  

You have to know, Simsulani @hellosimsulani has around 20k followers on her patreon and about 200 people that support her by paying money to her. No, I'm not jealous, I share my poses because I want you to use my poses in-game. I'm not here in any way to have any financial gain. And I know this is the case of many others on the list down here that were affected. We want to make you happy, to be able to tell your story. 

But this money (maybe even your money) that she is earning over other people's creations that she adjusts, is not earned in a fair way. 

She violates many of the other posecreators TOU's. 

Besides taking poses and adjusting them, she adds accessories to the patreon post instead of linking to people's pages. (@simmisstrait her letterboard in this post) That's okay if it’s deleted, but doing so when this creator is still active? That’s not ok (only if it's okay stated in their TOU)

In her own TOU she even states that you can't take her poses and re-upload somewhere else. But clearly it's okay to do it if she does it?

After finding out about Toys of Dukeness and Acha-games, I found out my own pose got stolen and adjusted, and after that I got a lot of messages and pictures. People started helping investigate their own poses. These are the things we found. Thanks to @theserenadeofshadows her detective skills and her super SUPER hard and dedicated work this weekend (she is one of these 15), she made this amazing doc with the proof she and others found. At least a few posepacks are not her poses entirely. If we had more photographic memory skills and time, who knows what we could find out more. 

THE PROOF DOC 

NOTE: IT'S HEAVY UNDER INVESTIGATION STILL, but we wanted to show the proof we already have found! See and judge for yourself.

If you are a pose creator, please check if maybe one of your own poses got stolen, though she is very good at camouflaging it. It is incredibly hard to notice the stolen poses at first glance, it is a real frankenpose fiasco. @theserenadeofshadows tried to dissect the poses and find the original creators, and we found this stated in the doc, but know it is a slow and tedious process, so we can't find every pose and or posepack.

Groups and couples got split up and merged. Places in groups got swapped and/or rotated. Normal couples or single poses suddenly got a kid or partner (or both). Some expressions were made clownesque, exaggerated or the eyes closed. To make it even harder, she added accessories or removed them. She changed the body anatomy (resulting in broken poses sometimes) to make it appear different.

You can spot some weird clipping or gaps in the previews sometimes. 

We are not out to cancel someone, we stand for creativity and hope Simsulani will think about her actions and start making her own poses from scratch. Not stealing someone else's time because you need to create for your patrons. I know myself Patreon gives you a certain pressure to create for the people who pay for you, because you don't want to let them down. 

But doing this by stealing and putting it behind early access to earn a quick buck because you have no time or are too busy? 

Not OK. In no way. 

Thanks to everyone sharing and spreading the word and please keep doing so ❤️