Claim Painting
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- Fixed error that would occur when clicking on a painting hanging on the wall
- Added compatible version of iCad's mod to allow visitors to use the easel, see Hack Compatiblity
- Removed extraneous BHAV from the iCad mod now that MTS accepts packages containing only TTABs
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Renumbered some BHAVs to prevent conflict with Crammyboy's easel usage fix
Have you ever had a sim die in the middle of painting an important still life or portrait? With this hack, you can have another sim claim the painting and continue working on it. The original painter does not need to have died in order for the painting to be claimed, but the claiming sim does need to have at least as much creativity as the original painter had when they began the painting. After the painting has been claimed, either by clicking on the painting itself or the easel, options should appear for the claiming sim to continue it.
Game Compatibility
This should be compatible with all game configurations.
Hack Compatibility
This might conflict with other hacks that add interactions to either the easel or sim-created paintings (either while they are being painted, or after they have been hung on the wall). These conflicts will probably not be detectable by standard hack conflict detection utilities. This hack conflicts with TwoJeffs' Paintings Stay Viewable hack. If you use that one too, download claimpainting+paintingsstayviewable instead and make sure it loads after TwoJeffs' hack. This also conflicts with iCad's mod that allows visitors to use the easel. I've included a compatible version of that mod, iCad_AutoOverride_MaxisEasel+claimpainting, which requires claimpainting and should load after it.
See the attached pictures for overridden resources.
| Filename | Type | Size |
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| claimpainting.zip | zip | |
| claimpainting.package | package | 80000 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| claimpainting+paintingsstayviewable.zip | zip | |
| claimpainting+paintingsstayviewable.package | package | 80398 |
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claimpainting+paintingsstayviewable.zip
| Compatible with Paintings Stay Viewable
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Uploaded: 28th Feb 2026, 11.8 KB.
536 downloads.
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claimpainting.zip
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Uploaded: 28th Feb 2026, 11.7 KB.
1,499 downloads.
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iCad_AutoOverride_MaxisEasel+claimpainting.zip
| Version of iCads hack compatible with claimpainting
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Uploaded: 20th Nov 2021, 534 Bytes.
366 downloads.
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Install Instructions
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Mac: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
- Mac x64: /Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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