Sims 2 Programs

Tons and tons of outside programs to help with your designs and gameplay. http://www.simprograms.com/

Aussie's Topenders

Some really decent hacks here. Big highlights are the traffic-inducing traffic shrub and the Easy Sims 2 Cheats (with quick boolprop commands via F keys!)

The Boolprop Easy Sims 2 cheats program is amazing and a very small program (no install).

Invisible

Invisible objects are pretty cool. Here's a tutorial on how to pull it off.

Invisible Door

Invisible Sphere

Invisible Stool

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Want to have your sim use a one-more-slot package so that you can pose them on top of furniture. Don't have OFB EP? Try this instead, I hope it helps.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter thread to links with good versions of almost all the characters...

Weird Skins

Robot Skins

Zombie Skins

Devil Skin

Invisible Skintone

Enalya's Demons

Transparent Skintone


k I don't see a whole lot more....

Wall Size Mirrors

Wouldn't it be great to have an entire wall be a mirror? Well it's already been made. Check the downloads out here. Oh no, its a pay item! Well get it free here

A Few Selected Hacks from this Week

A few select hacks that i found and may up downloading and using:
no relationship decay
community block parties
teen adoption
always bring a friend home from school
remove plumbob and though balloons (pre-Open for business) under NO BALLOONS PATCH
working beer keg and here
elders can dress younger
gender preference adjuster
no more party crashing police
no family size limit
romance mod (easier breakup)

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Before I forget I have to mention the biggest and most well known hacked object. The Insimenator (under which a whole forum was named after). All kinds of thing are possible with this device. Age changes (physical), abortion, independent teens, family tree editor, relationship editor, polygamy, teen marriage, and almost anything you could edit in Simpe.

The big list of well know hacks

Sims 2 Graveyard

Have you ever found a creation you liked and found out you had to go download the mesh from another site, only to find that site no longer exists, making the creation useless?

Or you found a picture of a great creation and went searching for the creator to see if they made other great work and found that you were too late -- they had completely disappeared?

Or maybe your computer crashed before you had a chance to back everything up, then when you went back to your favorite website to redownload everything, it's gone?

The only place's to find all of Christianlov 's hacks. Including the

christianlov's skin changer

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Accessories

Add some more dimensions and details to your sims.

All Ages Glasses

Ribbons

Bangles

Barrettes

Bows

Devil Skin and Horns and many more Horns

Gags, whips, strap-ons and other fetish gear (under downloads>extras-fetish)

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Some of these may be need to be adapted to fit your Teen and Adult Sims. Give them a whirl or search for adaptions.
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MTS's accesories and

TSR's accessories download page

TS2 Creations

Might as well link this site. Home of Grizelda and Neptune Suzy (bitch) ther are plenty of fashions and meshes here. Check them out. Link

Top TSR Artists

Quite a few great artists highlight the TSR (the sims resource) community. Most of the ones on this list have free content. Give them a look over. Link See material from the paysite part you want? Go here

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By the way, my blog has now hit 1 million hits!! My counter is resetting (can only do 6 digits) but I wanted to track it here!!

Ballerina, Cheerleader, and Princess Leia Slave Girl

Teen ballerina tutu
Pointed toe adult
Pointed toe teen
Pointed toe child
Pink ballet dress-child
Tutu (adult)
Another ballerina tutu for adults:
With The Mesh

Schoolgirls
Goth Cheerleader
Cheerleaders

Leia and other Star Wars
Some More

Here's the Skinny

Ok so there's fat meshes for our Sims, how about thin, less chesty ones? Well there are plenty of options made by others:

http://www.skinnysims.co.nr/ had meshes but the site is gone.

Ghanima Pre-Teen Set
Melody 9's Slim mesh (and see the left side)
Varicev Designs
Bailelizabeth Skinny Designs

For our money I would avoid all these and go with the expert's version which would be the Warlock A Cup. Available for teens and adults. Maxis default by nature is a B-cup so it is a nice downgrade if that is what you are after.

Sapphire Sims

Themed downloads, Fantasy characters and sets. From Demons to Angels, Goth to Anime, Pirates to Midevil. If it's not a standard download you'll find it here.

Cleaning out NPC's, Default Faces, Random Generators, and Signs

MATY Face Templates
More Face Replacements (see further down for additional replacements).

SaraMK's tutorial how to permanently clean out your new neighborhoods

Jordi's tutorial how to customize your new neighborhoods

Pescado's 'No townie regen' hack (prevents automatic spawning of townies)

Pescado's 'Antiredundancy' hack (spawns 1 NPC per type, instead of 3)

For outfit changers, there are others, but I recommend the DMA object (looks like a red burglar alarm and is found in Misc/Misc) that comes with DMA's woohoo set: http://valdea.com/board/index.php

Randomize your astrological signs, aspirations, likes and dislikes
Random character generator
Name Generator (online version)
Romantic Compatability Chart
While we are at it, Community items in residential lot

Captive & Crappy

Smartdoor- lock in people, change outfits
Other security doors

Trashed Set
Pixelhate sets
Filthy Kitchen
Broken Doors and Windows
Cositrash set
Asylum Wallset
Abandoned Shack Walls
Weathered Doors
.....and more

More poses and picture taking hacks

Hula Dance & More by Squinge
Toddler Poses by Squinge
Prop Attachment Hack by Jixs
Dance Animations by Jixs
Idle Animations by Jixs
Sitting Talk/Conversation Hack by decorgal21572
Standing Talk/Conversation Hack by decorgal21572
Shaklin's Model Animation Changer by Shaklin
(works great in combination with the Hula Mod poses)
GunMod's Camera ModYAFSScreen
GunMod's Radiance - A Lighting Mod
Weather Atmosphere
Visible Ceiling Tiles
Extracted Accessory Cheat - Pets Required
Sisaly's Contest Picture Tutorial
Activating 'AllMenus On' Cheat
Using Overlay
TS2 Studios - A Sims 2 Machinima Production Tool
Aaron's Ambience Mod
One More Slots with Tutorial
Aikea's 'Animation Painting of Chaos and Doom'
Aikea's 'Animation Painting of Bedlam & Catastrophe'


more help, HP's Taking Totally Bitchin' Pics Collection
and even more poses and hacks

Shop at home coat rack (get more outfits!)
No zzzz's while sleeping
Giant wall windows
Dimmer Switch
Photo Studio Lamp
Photostudio -backdrop+camera
Videocamera

Packaging and Downloading Sims and Lots

It is fairly important that you use Sims2Pack Clean Installer to delete unneeded recolours and objects from the lots you want to share. You can download and read about it here.
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Here is a guide on how to package your lots.
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Prior to Pets, you had to be very cautious about the Lots you uploaded because the game was down-right obsessive compulsive about including every recolour of every item you used (and may have even deleted from the lot during design) when it packaged the lot for sharing. You can opt not to add these additional content to your game when adding a downloaded lot.
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Also make sure to have up to date patches and add lots one a time if you run into lots not showing up in your game.

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When you package a sim, are his/her body meshes packaged with him/her?

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Only with Pets. If you have the expansion pack before that you will need to include them seperately. If the mesh is not there it go to a maxis default.
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The version of Body Shop that installs along with the Pets expansion contains certain flaws that cause most of the content made with Pets Body Shop to work incorrectly for users without Pets. Items will show up as naked full body sim thumbnails regardless of type, and will not work properly.
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Maxis has released a patch which fixes this problem, making it so any further items created in Body Shop will be fixed. You can get the patch here: http://thesims2.ea.com/help/index.php?pid=Help

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The patch will correct the problem after its installed. Pre-patch creations can be fixed with Simpe.

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So how do I package Sims made in bodyshop?

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Here are the instructions.

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So how do I package lots?

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Here are the instructions.

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When you package a sim, do you get the entire wardrobe in the package, or only the clothes they are wearing when you package them?

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Only the 1 outfit they are wearing.

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When you package a house or business lot, are the meshes included in the package too?

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Yes, and generally a lot more. If the lot was in use when it was packaged you may even get that player's sims as well. Make sure to take them out of the install when clean installer detects them (or especially before they were uploaded in the first place). In-game Sims cannot be copied as they will bring all severed relationships and will either crash the game or create duplicated characters who were part of the original neighborhood.

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So again with Lots take out any sims, hacks, and any custom content that should not be included before the upload. Downloaders have to double check after the install with clean installer as they are adding the content and take out anything they don't want to add.

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In-game Sims can be cloned and packaged the safe way through Simpe. All others again need to be designed in bodyshop for easier packaging and sharing

Pimp my Sims

Another good site with a few great downloads. All kinds of stuff to check out. Give it a shot.

Digital Perversion

Great punk & goth hair and outfits for your Sims. They look great. Link.

Lots and lots of Website Links

Might as well show you almost everything that I may or not ever get around to posting here. Go nuts!!!! Let me know if I'm missing any great sites here. The comments button does work!

Gay Sims

Well I've highlighted a lot of great downloads and mods for your female sims. We might as well highlight the other side which is also an active part of the gaming community. Gays Sims 2 is a rather thriving forum with 15,000+ members (gay and lesbian).

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The biggest modders there and at Insemenator would be Marvin and Beosboxboy who have done all the bodymeshing you've seen by member's like Warlock except for the male sims.

As with the Sims, gay and lesbian sim attractions and interactions are completely available to your game.

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Simmergirl is another great site that has also added Trans and Trannie meshes and outfits to your game. Now your guys can be "girls" if you wish them to be.

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Here's a transexual man from Elenya you may want to download.

Kami Kitten

Wow some great makeup available here at Kami's. A few bits of clothing but its the makeup that's making me link it here. Link