Aquarium corals

Hopefully the last contribution to custom aquarium sets :). Decorative corals of various shapes and colors. I wasn't really trying to be true to mother nature. its hard enough to create organic shapes in 3D. Make them look realistic is even harder. So I hope you can accept some looking nearly like corals objects, lol!

Pebbles for aquariums

I just uploaded a set of small stones, various shapes and colors. The idea is to use them together with my custom built aquarium set, but the stones can work well in gardens. Release date - July 13 :) And here is funny addition to the aquarium set - swimming cat wallpaper, lol! You can see the full size picture here.

Work in progress - custom built aquarium

New decorative set I'm working on - custom built aquarium. Build any size you want, populate it with fish and sharks, add some seaweeds at the bottom, scatter some trasure and you all set :). I'm bringing back some objects from my Shark Lagoon, modified for this new function. As well as adding some new ones, just finished a pearl clam for example. Please don't ask if fish swim, they do NOT! Deal with it! lol!

Please! Read the rules before asking!

I'm getting really tired of answering the same question over and over again. Can your objects be used in the houses submitted to other sites? No. Why not? See TSR rules, a link to the rules is prominently displayed at the top left of every download page. You cannot upload meshes made by featured artists to any other site, even if you package them with houses. There are few windows by me posted at MTS2, those were exceptions and only those can be used.

You do have another option however, upload your house to TSR! Not only you can use ANY mesh made by me in your houses, you can also benefit from many more creations made by TSRAA members!

Can't get enough of Helios windows?

I know I can't! lol! I am working on new doors and windows, Helios style. There are so many already that I had to split them into two sets. But first make sure to download some updates. I have fixed a small bug in sliding doors that caused difficulty picking up the windows from the wall next to those doors. Also fixed a glass color of 2-tile diagonal window that I missed before, the glass now matches the other windows from the set. And now the new windows :). What's coming? 3-tile wide windows, 2-tile round window, new frame designes with railing, new glass colors, matching doors. What's special? Curved windows! You will be able to build round corners or use them for shoping windows, your choice :). I'm also experimenting with new high gloss glass recolors. Just watch my calendar for July

To refresh thumbnail previews

The ability to refresh the thumbnail previews in the game catalog is very useful, especially if you are a creator. It is well known, generated thumbnail views are stored in My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails\ folder. If you delete all the files in there, the game will recreate them again.

Here is a new trick to refresh thumbnail previews in BodyShop. I was working on hair mesh when I traced the previews to the file called cigen.package. The file is located in My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\ folder. Delete the file and run the BodyShop, the file will be recreated and all the previews generated anew.

Coming up - default replacements

A new kind of creations from me - default replacements. They are not really new to me, I've been playing with them for the last couple of months, even posted some at MTS2. But they are new to TSR. Some people call them hacks, I guess they should be classified as hacks just to be on the safe side. But I prefer to call them "defalut replacements", since they don't really affect the game or change any behavior of the sims, which makes them quite harmless. If you downloaded my Baby Diapers, then you already using one of my default replacements . Now its time for some more. The next one to come out is Kids Pjs Fix, it changes the shape of default kids puffy pajamas into a better looking (I think) straight pants and longer sleeves. Followed by OFB Flowers Shadow Fix, that replaces those really dark shadows of crafted flowers from Open For Business with more natural light shadows. Expect even more in the future if all goes well

Oops!

I forgot about my original glass garage door and named the new door exactly the same way! When you download it, it overwrites the older one. My bad! Meh, it wasn't all that great anyway I renamed the older file already, please redownload it if you want to keep it in your game.

New look of Rosewood set

I made a new version of my Rosewood set. The original windows were with metal mesh insert, these new ones come with clear glass. Hope this will make the windows more versatile. The set will also include new 2-tile and 3-tile windows, archway, and even a small privacy window. All the meshes use the colors of one main window. To be released on June 28th.

MAJOR Update!

I got new computer with better graphic card and discovered that some of custom objects I made before appear shiny in the game while they weren't suppose to be: like chicken and cows, reindeers, window awnings, etc. Turns out my older graphic card wasn't supporting something, thats why I didn't notice any shine effect before :(. I have removed shine effect from several dozens of my objects, click here to see complete list of them. If you wish them to look the way they are in my original screenshots, please downloads all the files again. I also decided not to update few of my objects, like Japanese Lucky Cat for example, since they do look fine in shiny version :).