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The Imperial Palace (Download)

Early follower’s gift to celebrate my first anniversary on tumblr…

Have you ever dreamed of being not just an ordinary monarch but an emperor? Well, during Middle Ages that title mostly went to a German. But this comfortable residence allows you to catch the feeling of imperial power:

Imperial Palace

It’s no castle because medieval Emperors did not settle at a permanent residence. Instead, they travelled across their gigantic realm and used so called palatia (sg. Palatium or Pfalz in German). This lot is modelled after these great residences (especially from the 10th century). I tried to stay faithful to Romanesque architecture (excuse the Gothic windows) and because this is set in an early period you won’t find too much lavish decoration.

The great Hall with the royal apartments…

The chancery where books and diplomata are produced…

The Emperor’s throne in the cathedral…

Inside the Cathedral…

Queen’s apartments…

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Great Hall…

Medieval Pit-houses behind the palace…

Inside those houses…

Royal chimney…

Courtyard for training…

Monastery’s courtyard…

DETAILS:

Lot Size: 64x64

EPs used:

World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Seasons and Pets

Store content:

Midnight Hollow

Dragon Valley

Indulgent Living (only Candles)

Castle Interior Set

CC used:

Medieval Chimney from Khanysims

Medieval Bassinets by Omega Star

Medieval Benches by Omega Star

Medieval Chairs by Omega Star

Medieval Bathtub by OmegaStar

Medieval Tapestry (first one) by Mackat

Medieval Concersions I by Jennisims

Medieval Conversions II by Jennisims

Castle Lore III by Cyclonesue

Castle Lore II by Cyclonesue

>>DOWNLOAD  (at Mediafire)

Please tag me, if you use it in your story. I’m curious to see what you come up with. Hope you like it!

YOU ARE HYPERREAL - TS3 Normal Map Replacement

I edited Buhudain’s "You Are Real" face and body default replacement normal maps to make the details pop even more on the skin. First, can we talk about the impact these mods made? When I discovered them I was blown away, they immediately became an essential. Buhudain truly changed the game with these.

What I tweaked:

I edited Buhudain's 2048 px sized textures 

More visible pores and skin texture 

More defined muscles and veins (intensity controlled by the muscle definition slider in CAS) 

More light-reflective, shinier skin (intensity changes with the muscle definition slider in CAS) 

Sims with no muscle definition will still have slightly more glow to the skin and more detailed pores/texture up close

No bump map on the male body’s nipples so they won't conflict with nipple placements on any skins (female body has them though)

Includes naughty bits

The effect looks stronger on darker skin, I'm not sure why

I think you’ll be able to appreciate the texture if you use a HQ mod and you take a lot of closeup photos of your sims like I do. I think it still looks normal enough for regular gameplay, although you’ll have to decide that for yourself after you try it out.  

Photos were taken with bright lights, the effect is subtler in normal lighting.

If you already use Buhudain’s You Are Real mods, you must remove them from your Mods folder first before installing mine. 

You can put these files in your Overrides or Packages folder. 

What’s in the zip: 

My edits of You Are Real for the male and female body (young adults to elders) 

My edits of You Are Real for the male and female face (young adults to elders)

If you only install the body files, your sim’s faces will not be affected. 

If you want to install the face files to look consistent with the bodies, you can choose between the version which has EA’s wrinkles on the adult face, or the version which does not have EA’s wrinkles on the adult face. Only install one, not both!

Download: simfileshare / mega

Info and download under the cut

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TS3: Better Greet

Here’s a brand new script mod for you! I got sick of seeing all Sims greet each other with handshakes, so I made this mod to fix and expand upon one of EA’s most annoying oversights in my opinion.

Better Greet overhauls the visual aspect of the Greet social interaction and allows Sims to play diverse greeting animations under different circumstances. See more details on all its features under the cut! 👋

Overview

In the vanilla game, greetings are limited almost exclusively to handshakes, with the only exceptions being the cultural greetings from World Adventures and the Proper greetings from Supernatural, as well as a rare ‘wave’ greeting that takes place when one of the involved Sims is carrying a baby or an object.

This behavior seems to be an oversight by the developers, as the Social Data for the Greet interaction includes some rules that in theory would allow Sims to use different animations when greeting friends, romantic partners and so on, but the actual script that handles greetings completely disregards these rules.

This mod aims to solve that and expand upon the possibilities by making Sims’ greetings also take into account things like personality traits, social group and relationship status.

Features

There are a host of new conditions under which Sims can perform the new greeting styles. Some aspects of these conditions can be edited in the mod’s Tuning resource, such as the relationship level or social group level required for a greeting to be performed. By default, the mod is tuned in a way that strangers, acquaintances, friends and romantic partners all greet each other differently.

Though there are no hard requirements, many of the greeting styles rely on expansion packs for their animations or to fulfill certain requirements, such as: World Adventures, Showtime, University Life, Island Paradise, Into The Future. The mod can still be used without any of these packs, the corresponding greeting types will simply not be available.

If UL is installed, Socially Awkward Sims have a chance of performing some greetings awkwardly. The reaction to these greetings depends on the target Sim's traits; friendlier Sims won't mind and will turn an awkward greeting into a successful one.

An optional “Euro” mode can be enabled, which adjusts the rules of the Double Cheek Kiss greeting in order to mimic the customs of parts of the world where giving a kiss on each cheek is a common greeting. This can be mixed and matched with the Check Gender tuning, which can restrict this greeting to be performed only with female Sims if enabled.

Acquaintance Greetings

Wave: By default, Sims will introduce themselves with a Wave instead of a Handshake. If their LTR is -20 or below, they will always use this greeting, with special animations if LN is installed.

Handshake: Sims will greet with a Handshake if at least one of the Sims is an adult, or if one of the Sims is a Workaholic. If WA is installed, two Workaholic Sims will greet with a Fast Handshake.

Double Cheek Kiss: If WA is installed and Euro Mode is enabled, Friendly Sims can greet with a Double Cheek Kiss as long as the target is not a Loner.

Friendly Greetings

Friendly Hug: Sims will greet with a Friendly Hug if their LTR is at least 40. If one of the Sims is a Loner, their LTR must be at least 60.

Shaka Bra: If IP is installed, Sims who share the Loves to Swim trait and have a LTR of at least 15 will perform this greeting.

What's Up: If SHT is installed and the actor has the Social Butterfly trait, they will perform this greeting with other Sims if their LTR is at least 10. Uses the Trait Bonding animation. If SHT is not installed, the required trait is Schmoozer.

Double Cheek Kiss: If WA is installed, Sims who share either the Snob or Diva (SHT) traits will perform this greeting if their LTR is at least 25. If Euro Mode is enabled, the trait requirement is skipped.

High Five: If UL and ITF are installed, Sims who share a Social Group can greet with a High Five as long as their influence level is at least 1, and they have a LTR value of at least 20.

Old Friend Hug: If ITF is installed, Old Friends can perform this greeting. Uses the Hug Long Lost Descendant animation. 

Romantic Greetings

Amorous Hug: Romantically involved Sims will perform this greeting if their LTR value is at least 60.

Shy Kiss: Romantically involved Sims will perform this greeting if they have had their first kiss before and the actor is Shy and their LTR is at least 70.

Amorous Kiss: Romantically involved Sims will perform this greeting if they have had their first kiss before and their LTR is at least 80. Shy Sims can perform this greeting if their LTR is at least 90.

Dip Kiss: If ITF is installed, Romantically Involved Sims will perform this greeting if the actor isn't Shy, is a Hopeless Romantic, has had their first kiss before and their LTR is at least 90.

Tuning

To edit the mod’s tuning, open the .package file with s3pe and edit the Tuning XML resource in a text editor of your choice.

There are lots of different tunables as I've tried to make the mod as customizable as possible, but adding them all in here would make the post even longer than it already is 😅. I've tried to organize them as neatly as I could in the XML so hopefully you'll be able to make changes easily!

Compatibility

This mod will conflict with any other mod that replaces the social_greet jazz script in JazzData.

Download: SFS / MTS

Place the .package file in your Packages or Overrides folder.

Credits & Thanks

Battery’s Script Mod Template Creator: Getting started with scripting quickly.

nraas: I studied their code and used parts of it to work out how to replace the Action Data of a social interaction, as well as inject the tuning of one interaction into another.

dnSpy: Peeking into the game’s files.

Visual Studio 2022: Writing the script.

s3pe: Exporting/Importing resources, creating the package file.

Adobe Photoshop: Creating and editing the preview image.

Thanks to @lazyduchess for helping me with scripting!

Thanks to @misspats3 and @probablyzora for testing and giving feedback!

Thanks to the lovely community at TS3 Creators Cave!

Hey bb girl mwah!

“Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.“

— James Earl Jones

Updated Decrap Store Fixes

This is a continuation of the fixes for decrapified store content. To Install, extract the files to Mods\Overrides. If you have the ContentPatch file in your Overrides folder, delete it.

Download (SFS)

Resolved issues: Fixed the never-ending loading screen after using the buyDebug cheat, removed duplicates and blank tiles in build/buy mode and CAS.

Fixes Included:

Decrap Store Fixes by KT, notouching, Capitaine Marie, and Clara.

KT’s fixes for the Edwardian Kitchen countertop and the Infinite Flow Hot Tub.

Nona’s complete ccmerged.package file.

Decrapped EA’s ContentPatch v2.2 (without CASP and OBJD patches).

Fixes for the Happiest Dunk Tank Hot Tub, Tropical Fountain, and Faire Frog Fountain by sydserious.

Stencil fixes by MrHawk and Bily_jednorozec (provided in the userPresets file as custom presets).

Fixes for snow thickness on fences in winter.

Non-Decrapified Store Content

As an alternative, you may consider using my non-decrapified conversions of store content into package files that do not require the fixes above. EA patches and other important fixes have already been applied. Keep in mind that all decrapified store items in your saves and lots will be replaced with base game items after switching to non-decrapified store content.

Google Drive

The instructions and notes are provided in the ReadMe.

Converted to DBPF2 and extracted using Pescado's Recompressor tool, Sims3Pack CommandLine Extractor by MarkJS and S3PackageViewer by AnriRS, merged using g0kur's Sims 3 Mod Organizer.

Fixes applied:

EA’s ContentPatch v2.2.

Updated ITUN & XML resources from the GameplayData.package.

Nona’s ccmerged file resources.

KT’s Store Fixes.

Stencil/texture fixes by Clara, KT, Havelock, HugeLunatic.

Categorization fixes for build/buy and CAS items.

Fixes for snow thickness on fences in winter.

All Baker's Station recipes are available without installing additional premium content via the launcher.

The Black Armored Dragon can hatch without installing the Duke of Bows Renaissance Faire Venue via the launcher.

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

VIDEO TOUR OF URANESIA (HD)

Here’s the longer video I said I was working on! In it you can see an overview of the different areas of the world.

Hope you enjoy it :)