They had made a new mesh or tweaked the existing one in a 3D program to fit an adult body. Only an experienced modder would know how to do that. I wouldn't have a clue.

Editing or creating meshes in Blender is a completely different skillset than creating Sims 2 mods. A lot of people can clearly do both well, but just because you're good at one of those things doesn't mean you're good at the other.

Semester timer in a vanilla game progresses in university community lots because those allow skill building. That's the trade-off, broke college students can use community skilling items, but they have to sacrifice their semester time for that. Other community lots don't have skilling enabled because that balances out the clock resetting when sims return home.

Secret hobby clubs are an open loophole to exploit in an unmodded game. You can learn skills, but neither grow old, nor decrement time left in grading period. They lack strong coffee or sleep to replenish energy, and you need go to a commlot to buy coffee. Or do tai chi walking if you've got an exercise plan. Every new expansion pack has made things easier. In University, you didn't have coffee outside of college yet, and couldn't go to other subhoods yet.

The continuously advancing time in college was in some ways nice. Suddenly gyms were useful and more realistic than building a home gym for everyone. But it also pressured to maintain efficiency when I was used to commlots functioning as a free vacation, a personal pocket plane to teleport to and refresh. And it required one to synchronize the time among multiple family members if he cared about that.

There are multiple ways of doing things and achieve similar results. Maybe they just didn't know how to do the other methods, or there was a reason they didn't do it the other way(s).

Most likely they used a recolor as the textures, instead of either repoing the outfit to the original textures, or using the LIFO files as the texture base (a bit less chance of quality loss than a Bodyshop recolor).

Just because someone can convert an item, doesn't mean they're automatically the master of everything outfit related.



You don't have to be an experienced modder/creator to convert clothes. It's often one of the first things people start out with because there are a ton of tutorials on how to do it.

Making a mesh from scratch, or making significant tweaks to a mesh usually does require a bit of skill, though. It's when you can combine the knowledge from tutorials with your own experience and creativity you start getting good at things.

Modding and meshing/texturing are quite different skillsets - a skilled modder doesn't necessarily know how to make objects and/or CAS items (both tend to require meshing and texturing skills), and just because you can use SimPE for making CAS stuff and/or objects doesn't mean you can make mods for the game.

What sort of work would be required to adjust a teen clothing to fit an adult body without any gaps? A teen seems to be noticeably skinnier. I'm just curious, as I don't aspire to be able to do it.

If they put the texture and a mesh in the download, does it mean that the clothing is standalone without needing the base EP it was made from? The author writes that the EP is needed though.

I would argue hobby lots are balanced by having to earn the invite. Which sure it's easy as hell in an unmodded game because you gain hobby enthusiasm from everything, but I still see the vision. TS2 has a suprising amount of balancing that sounds really well thought out on paper. Like how a free needs refill sounds like a good reward for keeping your sims happy, but is trampled a bit by the fact that it's so easy to keep sims happy.

Maybe the hobby clubs could be balanced if you had to continuously pay for a membership to join them. What gives you a free needs refill? I've never heard of it. It must be an Apartments thing.

Mostly it's resizing the mesh (it would be slightly skinnier from the resizing), reshaping some areas, possibly fixing the neck gap (+ midsection gap for tops/bottoms) and morphs.

A few tutorials, in case you want to check it out:


Putting the texture in the download means the clothing item is standalone. Some creators tend to offer both a repo'd and a standalone version of age-converted clothes, mostly so people can pick if they want all the ages, or just some.

If the item is EP-dependent, repoing is usually a better option for small filesizes and such, though if the texture is included the item technically might not be EP-dependent any longer (depends on a few other things, though).

At a community lot I heard an alarm followed by sirens. But I coudln't find any emergency vehicles. Any idea what happened?

EDIT: It was a song on the pop speaker, lol.

When I go into CAS and create a sim or a few, and then press Cancel Family, is the creation completely undone, or does a mark remain in the neighborhood?

I think April Black's video had it so that the Sims Character Creation Index, basically a number of how many sims were created, is increased (it maxes out at over 32,000). But the created character files get deleted, I observed this myself.

When you start to create a Sim in CAS, the game creates a character file for them. It deletes these files if you click on Cancel Family. If you have CAS open with (partly) created Sims in it, and your game (or your computer) hangs/freezes, those character files are still in your game. You can see them in Windows Explorer (or File Explorer or whatever it's called this week!). I presume you can also see them in the equivalents of File Explorer in MacOS and Linux. But when you start up the game again, it deletes these character files. I'm fairly sure that the Character Creation Index is not increased until you click on Accept Family and save the family to the game.

Is there any way to move songs from one radio station to another, aside from workaround of exporting them and dumpiing them back into the music folder? The Indie Wave has so few songs that I'd like to put those ones in with College Rock.

I assume this also happens if you play a household and sims are created/born, but you don't save. Because I've done that plenty of times and those unsaved sims have never shown up anywhere in my files after exiting the game (haven't checked the character folder while I was playing, but maybe I should the next time I'm testing out some stuff).

Yes, I once did some tests where I copied out the newborn baby character files and then quit without saving in order to open them in SimPE

Insane how this thread has been ongoing for 10 years now!