This post and upload was originally released on my tumblr. 

Back in 2016, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory posted a series of poster designs meant to reflect and celebrate their current research interests.  As I have a bit of a thing for vintage travel posters, I immediately made these into posters for the game.  I loooooove the images, especially as I’m also a bit of a space programme fangirl.  
   
However, someone over at MTS beat me to it and I never uploaded them anywhere so I thought I’d belatedly upload them here.  I confess <whisper it> I’ve always preferred my own recolours of these (I think I framed them better).  <ahem> There are fourteen as follows:

Solar Planets
   
Moons and Dwarf Planets
   
And Extra-Solar Planets
   

They’re on the  Pineapple poster and you will need the CEP and Nightlife.

Attached Files

  max_NASA-JPLTravelPosters.rar (Size: 865.45 KB / Downloads: 822)

This post and upload was originally released on my tumblr.  
   
Becks made a cow for neighbourhood decor - a long time ago now too since it was posted in 2010 - which was a great idea and I liked it.  BUT it was scaled much larger than Sunni’s excellent neighbourhood horses which I love with all my heart.  Here's a comparison picture, the original cow is on the left.  I was going to shrink the mesh but - busy - and then Shastakiss told me she’d already done it (hurrah!) so I thought I’d do some recolours.  Well, there starts a story.  I thought a simple colour replacement to start and then realised the original texture is … not so good.  And then the shadow is bad (as you can see) and the cows have the neighbourhood decor floating issue (common enough).
   
So I did some full on recolours using real cow hide!  Plus I removed the shadow and moved the mesh down a little to get their little hooves onto solid earth.  I got carried away and made some:

Friesians
   
Ayrshires
   
and Jerseys
   
plus the random black bull there.  As you can see I also fiddled with the mesh a bit to get a bull (moved down the stomach a bit, thickened the neck, reduced the udders - look I wasn’t willing to model bull balls so that’s the compromise) and some calves.  The calf mesh was thinned and shrunk, obviously, but also I changed the stomach a little, removed the udders and made the head slightly bigger in relation to the torso.  Also, I shrank the body front-to-back a little in an attempt to get more of a calf shape and lengthened the legs.  The bigger one is called ‘teen’ in the file name.  


There’s also one more version of the Ayrshire in the rar file because when I totted it up originally there were thirteen files - and we can’t have that.  So 14 files altogether. They’re not perfect - the mapping is a little rough in places but I wasn’t up for remapping as well as retexturing and I’m not the world’s best mesher but I hope you like them.  I’m quite pleased with the textures and - bizarrely - I love that black bull.



I put them under Flora in the neighbourhood decor catalogues and they can be placed on lots.


Finally, what they look like from the neighbourhood view:
   
Thanks also to GreatCheescakePersona and Criquette for some lovely background stuff to set them off.

Attached Files

  max_NeighbourhoodCattle.rar (Size: 1.45 MB / Downloads: 1685)

These are one of the oldest sets of walls I ever made.  They're a very straightforward recolour of the in-game Splash of Sage tile - most useful in bathrooms.  They are found under wall Tiles and cost $7 just like the original wall covering.
   
Although these are several years old now, I have consistently used these throughout my gaming history with TS2 and have always found them useful for public bathrooms on community lots.  There are a lot of public bathrooms in Little Carping and surrounding areas with this wall treatment.  I think the council must have had a job lot contract.

So I offer them here (they were originally uploaded to T$R - hissssss).  Don't expect too much of the texture.  They really are a pretty simple recolour.  A swatch:
   

Attached Files

  maxon_WallTiles_SplashofColour.zip (Size: 72.55 KB / Downloads: 750)

You said post a thread here about this so here it is.  Do you know why the shrub (01) from katvip's Stalker objects doesn't appear properly on lot or seems to get replaced by something else?  Link: http://kativip.ucoz.ru/load/kativip/sets...s/5-1-0-10

So as my inaugural upload to this site - new content not available elsewhere, here are some wallpapers I was working on before Christmas based on some really attractive and bright and cheerful floral patterns (for sources, see below).  
   
The papers are seamless when on the walls and have my commonest crown and skirting board (yeah, I have a collection!).  The crown is placed on the texture to fit under a ceiling properly.  Without a ceiling, you'll see a blank section of wall at the top. They are all found under Wallpapers and cost either $7 or $8.

Here's the swatch for the complete set:
   
And a picture showing all the papers over a few wall tiles - you can see they are seamless patterns.
   
I love working with colours and patterns and must have 100s of wallpapers and floors I made for the game.

Credits: Red Bouquet is from The Fat Strawberry; the Bellfield and Sanderson papers are from those wallpaper/fabric manufacturers; the Poppy patterns are from African Fabric Co.

Attached Files

  max_Wallpapers_FloralSelection.rar (Size: 451.27 KB / Downloads: 874)

So I was talking to a user over at MTS (http://modthesims.info/t/617800) about a missing recolour for this set.  The original creator had missed recolouring the easy chair in the blue recolour texture set.
   
It was a relatively easy fix to make a new texture for the chair so here it is for anyone else who would like it.
   

Attached Files

  EloiseSet_BlueChairRecolour.rar (Size: 181.35 KB / Downloads: 827)

I opened this site to host my CC uploads for Sims 2 - it was not my primary intention to create a forum website for Sims discussion but as a host for my uploads.  However, if you want to talk, chat or ask questions, please feel free to post here.  

So here's my intro:

I am the site owner - maxon - and I've been playing the game since it was released and have been making stuff for it pretty much since then.  I made stuff for TS1 too (I might just upload some of that stuff too eventually) and have even made stuff for TS3 as well (unreleased).  I made this site because I have a lot of stuff uploaded here, there and everywhere and I wanted - late in the day perhaps - to create a space where I could assemble everything together so I could keep it in order and update files easily should I need to.  Though I have quite a lot of stuff up on the net (here, there and everywhere), I have also amassed over the years a huge amount of unreleased stuff - so will be reviewing some of that and perhaps uploading those files as well.  Or some of them anyway.

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