BodyShape Organization Kit

Thetigerking83 suggested I host his BodyShape Organization Kit, and here it is!

Thetigerking83's post from BackAlleySims follows; his words, not mine.  I do agree that this is the most important thing he ever made!

 

Too many shapes scattered randomly throughout the clothing catalog? Can't figure out what bodysize that dress is for? Well those can now be problems of the past.

With this kit you can update your clothing to be arranged in order of approximate size from smallest to largest and each size/shape/group will get an icon to let you know what it is!

This is hands down the most important thing I have created, it was a lot of work and planning, but could completely change the way people look at bodyshapes. Because now you could have 30 bodyshapes and STILL find what you're looking for when shopping. This makes multiple bodyshapes manageable--no, downright simple.

Credit goes to Chis_Hatch for discovering how this could be done, I just organized it and did all the work.

ALSO: If anyone wants to host this off site, miros1 for example since her site already has all kinds of sims tutorials and what not, please post here and let me know. While there are ADULT shapes, the project itself is not adult in nature, and is too useful to be hidden away. The more creators adopt this the more useful it will become.

ZIP CONTAINS:
A Product ID list that is to be the standard
Creator Color Key (Tells you what color icons represent which creator)
A PDF of this Post.
A Tutorial for updating clothing files.

All current Icons are included in the "Bodyshape Icons.package"

EDIT to quote HobbesED:

Updated to include BobbyTheHacker's new Bootylicious shape.

Baby Clothes

Baby clothes by the Wooden Simolean!

Uses meshes by BlooM, hacked by Chris Hatch to be girls-only.

Children's Clothing

Girls' clothing by Miros for The Wooden Simolean.

Clothing Sets

Clothing sets by Miros for the Wooden Simolean.

All my adult clothing has been "elderized," which both saves having two versions of a garment and gives your elder Sims a nicer appearance by using the adult mesh.

Since the Maxis elder meshes have a bit of a pot belly, you should pair elderized tops with elderized bottoms to prevent gaps or overhangs at the waist.

The concept of elderizing clothing was created by Hairfish of Mermaid's Cove, unfortunately now closed.

Zebra Outfits for Ladies of All Ages!

Dress to match in zebra print tanks and jeans with side pleats!

Maxis mesh.  Zebra swatch by Miros.  Toddler outfit and child separates fit boys too.  Women's separates fit Young Adult through Elder.  First picture also shows elder version, which I no longer recommend.

Warning: "Elderized" tops should be worn with an "elderized" bottom to prevent gaps or overhangs at the waist. 

Men's Clothing

Men's Clothing by Miros for The Wooden Simolean.

All my adult clothing has been "elderized," which both saves having two versions of a garment and gives your elder Sims a nicer appearance by using the adult mesh.

Since the Maxis elder meshes have a bit of a pot belly, you should pair elderized tops with elderized bottoms to prevent gaps or overhangs at the waist.

The concept of elderizing clothing was created by Hairfish of Mermaid's Cove, unfortunately now closed.

Teen Girls

Clothing for Teen Girls from the Wooden Simolean!

Toddlers' Clothing

Dress your toddlers in style with these great outfits from Rose/Miros for the Wooden Simolean!

Assorted Dresses

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Assorted toddler dresses from the Wooden Simolean.

Dresses are for toddler girls only.  Maxis meshes.
Click the pictures to download!

Fabric swatches from Born To Quilt
Fabric swatch from Cia's Palette	Lili Gaufretti Lafrange dress from Pout (now offline)
Chipie Barin dress from Pout		Inspired by Il Etait dress from Pout, swatch from The Internet Wallpaper Store

Matching dresses for bsby girls

Attachment	Size
MirosTodDress-Florentine1.zip	174.19 KB
MirosTodDress-Florentine2.zip	128.71 KB
MirosTodDress-Florentine3.zip	176.58 KB
MirosTodDress-Florentine4.zip	129.42 KB
MirosTodDress-Dots1.zip	132.46 KB
MirosTodDress-Dots2.zip	136.08 KB
MirosTodDress-PoppyDot.zip	137.06 KB
MirosTodDress-Lapin.zip	81.32 KB
MirosTodDress-Chipie.zip	70.19 KB
MirosTodDress-ChipieBlue.zip	70.3 KB
MirosTodDress-PoppyBorder.zip	88.35 KB

Outfits for Boys and Girls

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Seven outfits for toddler boys and girls!

Fabric swatch from Craft Connection	Fabric swatch from Stitchin' Post
Swatches from The Internet Wallpaper Store

Two piece outfits are for boys and girls.  Maxis meshes.
Click the pictures to download!

Attachment	Size
MirosTodPolo-MovinOn3.zip	73.1 KB
MirosTodOutfit-Seeds.zip	77.61 KB
MirosTodPolo-Safari.zip	73.26 KB
MirosTodPolo-Dragon.zip	74.26 KB
MirosTodOutfit-BluePlaid.zip	79.8 KB
MirosTodPolo-Bear.zip	54.47 KB
MirosTodPolo-Shark.zip	71.19 KB

Scooby Gang Outfits

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Your toddlers can pretend to be members of the Scooby Gang in these outfits. Characters property of Hanna-Barbera. Outfits are unisex -- they fit both boys and girls!

Scooby

Fred

Shaggy

Daphne

Velma

Attachment	Size
MirosTodOutfit-Scooby.zip	72.23 KB
MirosTodOutfit-Fred.zip	72.6 KB
MirosTodOutfit-Shaggy.zip	64.13 KB
MirosTodOutfit-Daphne.zip	70.6 KB
MirosTodOutfit-Velma.zip	64.2 KB

Superhero Outfits

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Your toddlers can pretend to be Superman and Batman in these new outfits!

Characters and logos property of DC Comics.  Outfits are unisex -- they fit both boys and girls!

Batman

Superman

Attachment	Size
MirosTodOutfit-Batman.zip	72.9 KB
MirosTodOutfit-Superman.zip	70.29 KB

Women's Clothing

Women's clothing by Rose/Miros for the Wooden Simolean.

All my adult clothing has been "elderized," which both saves having two versions of a garment and gives your elder Sims a nicer appearance by using the adult mesh.

Since the Maxis elder meshes have a bit of a pot belly, you should pair elderized tops with elderized bottoms to prevent gaps or overhangs at the waist.

The concept of elderizing clothing was created by Hairfish of Mermaid's Cove, unfortunately now closed.

Four Sparkly Dresses and Matching Tops

Dance the night away with a Sim lady wearing one of these sparkly dresses or tops!

Maxis meshes; dresses are from AL and the top is base game.  Fabric swatch from Fabric.com.  Fits Young Adults through Elders.

Warning: "Elderized" tops should be worn wtih elderized bottoms to prevent gaps or overhangs at the waist.

 

Sheba's Peignoir and more!

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Over on the Hullabaloo, Sheba suggested that she needed a filmy white peignoir... Then I thought it would be cool to make a cheetah patterned one... and while messing around with the bikini to make the undies, I blundered into a cool looking swimsuit... so here they are!

 

Model is wearing Anna's beautiful dark gold skintone from ArtSimz, now closed.  Blue Demi-Widow created by Greg Bennett and originally posted on the Hullabaloo!

Outfits fit Young Adults through Elders and require Grizzelda's "long robe" mesh available at TS2 Creations.

Attachment	Size
MirosAFPeignoirBlue.zip	654.44 KB
MirosAFPeignoirCheetah.zip	520 KB
MirosAFSwimsuit-Red.zip	67.8 KB

Elders' Clothing

Clothing for elder men and women on Maxis elder meshes.

I don't use these anymore since I discovered "elderizing" and the hiders for the Maxis elder clothing.

3 Lipsticks for Aliens from the Wooden Simolean

No self-respecting copper-blooded woman would wear pink lipstick!  Try these shades of green!

Eyes by SimMage.  Maxis skintone and hair.

Chess Team Booster "Blush"

Kill-Frankie asked for this over at Garden of Shadows -- I hope it's what she had in mind!

Alien Eyes by Strangelv

Strangelv created these eyes for your Alien Sims!

Bedding

Bedding to bring your Sims sweet dreams!

Decorative/Misc

Various recolored items found in the Decorative/Misc catagory.

Wall Lights

Wall lights and other light up things that hang on the walls to enliven your Sims' home!

Comfy Coffins

MikeD and I were discussing my coffin recolors, and he said to me, "I'd be less interested in recolors and more interested in finding the comfy coffins I used to have."

Well, apparently, the coffins are long gone, so I made a little file that changes the Comfort of the Maxis coffin to 7.

I'm running M&G, but I suspect this will work with any EP/SP combo that includes Nightlife.

Special installation instructions: You must unzip this file and place it in My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Defaults. You may have to create this folder. (Thank you, BlooM, for the information on how to hide the Custom mark.)

Should not conflict with Lord Darcy's Higher Comfort and Energy for Maxis Beds.

Walls and Floors

Wall coverings and flooring from the Wooden Simolean!

Anais

Another plump face, with knowing eyes.

All Maxis content, but not sure which EPs supplied components.

Bryce

Bryce was created to model my Fall Shirts collection.

Capp

Capp was created to model my bright colored men's shirts.

Cherie

Cherie is my attempt to make a face suitable for Warlokk's RenGal, Frannie's Momma Lisa, and Netra's Thick Madame.  I think I've produced a plump face without severe distortions.

The male version could be used for a body builder, if you want a "babyface on steroids" effect.  As a toddler of either gender, this face has "chipmonk cheeks," so you might want the father of Cherie's babies to have a far slimmer face.

Hope

Hope's information will be added soon....

Tanisha

I was goofing around in BodyShop to get a model for my sweater outfits and Tanisha suddenly appeared on my screen! I think her face is quite striking.

Tanisha's hair is from Holiday Stuff 2006 or the Minipack.

Taylor

Taylor was created to model my More Shirts collection.

Handy Dandy "Stylizer" Utility!

This program uses the XML output file from Delphy's Download Organizer and its own XSL files (attached) to create formatted reports.  Since it's a Java program, it will run on Windows, Mac or other operating system supporting JRE 1.6 or later.

• The hair-recolors.xsl file produces a list of hair meshes and their recolors.  If all or most of the recolors have the same color bin after them, they probably need to be binned. 
• The mesh-texture-crossref.xsl file produces a list of all Body, Clothing, and Hair meshes and their recolors. Replaced by mesh-texture-crossref2.xsl, a newer, faster version.
• The skintone-bodymeshes.xsl file produces a list of Skintones and the custom meshes they use.  If you use default replacement meshes or ski, they'll be listed too. 
• The object-mesh-texture-crossref3.xsl file produces a list of object meshes and their associated textures.  This may run slowly until I optimize it.

Rough instructions: 

1. Unzip to a folder (not in C:\Program Files if you use Vista).
2. Copy PackageDB.xml from the Download Organizer folder to the Stylizer folder.
3. Run the program. 
   1. Choose one of the XSL files that came with Stylizer.
   2. Choose the PackageDB.xml file.
   3. Type a filename to receive the HTML output.  You can use the same filename prefix as the XSL file, but be sure to change the suffix to html!
4. View the HTML file to learn about your downloads!

If you get bizarre error dialogs, post a picture and I'll try to figure out what happened.

For technical people: This program can be used to apply any XSLT file to any appropriate XML file.  Enjoy!

Warning!  This program operates on the PackageDB.xml file produced by Delphy's Download Organizer.  If you don't have DDO, this program won't do much for you!

SimText

I wrote this handy little utility program because I was tired of Windows 98 taking several minutes to repaint the folder windows when I dragged multiple package files into Downloads.  In addition, I had to make folders for each site to place the package files in, leading to more time spent and introducing potential misspellings.

An artist I really liked tended to name her wallpaper files oh so creatively "white1," "blue3," etc.  I got very tired of opening the files with SimPE so I could look at the descriptions, so SimText acquired the ability to read the TXT descriptions and allow you to change the filename to the description!

My answer: SimText! 

Installing SimText

To install SimText, simply unzip it and place it on your hard drive in a convenient location.  Double click its icon, and you'll see this dialog:

Yes, I really started writing this program in 2006!  Anyhow, here's what the buttons do:

• Set Menu Options -- Adds several options to the context menu for package files, including a best guess at where your My Documents folder is located.  If  you uninstall SimText or install a newer version of SimPE, you may have to run SimText and choose this option again.
• Advanced Options -- Allows you to navigate to your My Documents folder before adding the options to the context menu.
• Clear Menu Options -- Part of the uninstall process, you must run SimText from its icon and click this button before deleting the SimText executable.

Advanced Options

Normal Operation of SimText

• One Click Install -- The workhorse of SimText.  It will grab the name of the folder where the package file currently is, such as XMSims or Wooden Simolean, create a folder with that name in your Downloads folder, and move the package file into it.
• Rename Using STR# Resource -- This powerful function of SimText displays the STR# and CTSS resources found in the package file and helps you compose a new file name from them.
• Sims2 Disable -- Allows you to quickly disable groups of package files for testing and mod conflict resolution.

One Click Install

This option seamlessly moves all selected files into a subfolder of your Downloads folder with the same name as the folder they are currently located in. 

If this folder does not exist, you will be asked if SimText should create it for you.  For this reason, you may want to install just one package file first, then install en masse.

If this option seems to do nothing, there will be an error log created in the same folder with the SimText executable.  Check that file for helpful information.

Rename Using STR# Resource

In this particular case, the creator chose a good filename!  However, if you have a files with names like Hair01-1, SimText will greatly simplify giving them more meaningful names by showing you the ToolTip text assigned by the creator.  Just click in the upper entry field where you want the ToolTip text to appear, select the line in the lower list box, and click the Insert button.

Sims 2 Disable

This option changes the suffix of the file name from .package to .packagedisabled.  This should prevent your game from loading that piece of custom content the next time you play.  To reenable the custom content, just right click again and choose Sims2 Enable. 

Oops, I Didn't Mean to Do That!

All of SimText's operations can be reversed by choosing Undo from the Edit menu of any folder window. 

Uninstalling SimText

You must follow these directions to uninstall SimText, or unusable menu items will be left in your context menu!

1. Run SimText from its icon.  Choose Clear Menu Items.
2. Delete the SimText executable and its log file from the folder you placed it in during installation.

Compatibility

Works perfectly with Win98 and WinXP.  Modified to work with Vista, but I don't have that operating system, so it's untested.  I have people testing under Win7 and will report back!

Warning: If you uninstall or update SimPE, you will need to run SimText from the prompt again.  This is because SimPE assumes that it "owns" all associations with the "package" suffix, deletes all of them, and recreates just the ones it needs.  SimPE is a lot of things, but sometimes, it just isn't a good Windows citizen!

Theme Handler from Ancient Castaways

AncientHighways created a script to automate maintenance of theme games.  We proudly present his work here!

Instructions for configuring the script are included in the zip file.  Please read this, and ask before doing anything which could damage your existing games!

AncientHighways gave permission to redistribute his work when he closed Ancient Castaways.

A really nice $170k 3Bed

I had this one sitting on ice for a very long time, so long that I forgot where I found the plans. But I had to wait for Seasons in order to make this house the way I wanted it.

Floorplan:

When I created this lot I had Uni, NL, OFB, Pets & Seasons installed. Along with Celebration and FFS. I forgot to install the Holiday/Christmas Party Pack when I reinstalled.

It is beyond all doubt that you will need NL (driveway etc), OFB (windows) and Seasons (skylight and greenhouse) to install this house.

Cleaned with clean installer.

Fully furnished.

Note: One of the kitchen counters needs to be moved back into place in front of the 3 tile window or into the nook, it's one that slipped through the cracks when I replaced the original custom windows before uploading. The counter is there, just in the wrong place. If you don't move it, your sims wont be able to reach the hot chocolate, and far more importantly, the trash compactor.

• Sims2Pack Size: 3051 kB
• Zipfile Size: 2223 kB
• Rarfile Size: 561 kB
• Lot Size: 3 x 6
• Lot Price: $170,566
• Bedrooms: 3
• Bathrooms: 4
• Parking: Offstreet x 2 (I don't think you can do parallel parking with this house)
• Fireplaces: 2
• Skylight, hottub, pool with slide, greenhouse and orchard.

Unfurnished version to follow.

Forested Lot

A lot I made for screenshots with many trees for the background.  I've heard comments that my pictures looked like catalog photographs!

High-End Residence Club

This is a high end residence club not a flop house (wait till you see the rents). For a start you will need all EPs and SPs, and to make the cook appear you will need the "Cafeteria Worker For Apartment Lots" fix from Simwardrobe (Click "Sims 2" then "Fixes" then "Apartment Life Fixes" and scroll down to the bottom of the page) or click this link Cafeteria Worker For Apartment Lots

I suggest using the 4 rear apartments for playable sims, as they connect to the garages.

• Rent range: $694 to $1924.

Maxis Ocean Waves Lots

Maxis did some nice lots that are frequently not available due to site outages, so I thought I'd share them here.

MikeD's 8x2 Bedroom Multiplex

Installed expansions Uni, NL, OFB, Holiday Pack and FFS. Patched with the June 16th 2006 patch.
The garage door, driveway, driveway extension, exterior walls and interior wooden floors all require Nightlife. You must have TS2, Uni, NL, OFB, Holiday Pack and FFS installed to use the main download. I also recommend the June 16th 2006 patches.

Zip-File size: 1,657,564 bytes
Sims2Pack size: 3,966,998 bytes
Price: $202,673
Lot size: 6 x 5
No custom content.
No hacks.

There is now a TS2 and NL version of this lot. This version was made in a game with only TS2 and NL installed. There are some fairly minor differences, the main one being that the driveway on the extreme right had to be replaced with a driveway extension. It's a little cheaper, but not enough to avoid money cheats. Zipfile size: 1316071 bytes.

This building was originally inspired by the plans at http://www.coolhouseplans.com/details.html?pid=16048

I've tried to capture the character as best I could while modifying it from a 4 x 3 bed to and 8 x 2 bed Multi-Plex.

Click the following thumbnails to see larger images
Front

Back

Basement

First Floor

Second Floor

If you want to use the lot as 8 apartments you could get away with MyneDoors and the Antipedestrian Garage Door from dolphin26 at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=117170

If you want to be able to put more than one sim in any one unit, then I recommend Inge Jones Security System (formerly Apartments) these days available from http://www.nectere.net/smf/. Scroll down the page and click on "Simlogical Stuff" then "Sims 2" then "The Simlogical Security and Dresscode system". I can't deep link as they use session IDs. The site was quite slow when I last checked it, so be patient.

Update: security system now available from Simlogical again!

The lot is unfurnished and only contains cheapo plumbing, lights and kitchen cabinets. Yes, I removed almost everything you see in the pictures, even the exterior lights and that silly little restaurant in the basement (do with that as you will).

Even so, it comes in at an hefty $202,673 so it may be only for more established sims, you know, the ones that have been motherloded or alternatively you could use
familyFunds [familyName] [value] to set the amount of funds, or Use
familyFunds [familyName] [+/-][value] to add/subtract from current funds.

MikeD's Council House Lot

This lot, as it stands, requires both University and Nightlife.
Filesize: 956787 bytes
Price: $195,233

No custom content.
No hacks.

In real life this would actually be a pair of semi detached 3 bedroom council houses. Council houses are the British and Irish equivalent of projects in the US. Although the neighborhood picture (bottom right) is similar to the rowhouses in many American cities, these units are semi-detached, with 2 units in a block.

Unless you have Apartment Life, If you want to use the lot as 2 houses, then I recommend Inge Jones Security System (formerly Aparments) available from http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Apartments.htm

Both halves of the lot are fully furnished so the lot is priced at $195,233. Not exactly a starter lot. Naturally in real life the unfortunate tenants get to move in to an empty shell lacking everything apart from the bathroom and the kitchen sink, not even lightbulbs. Having said that, probably 90% of these houses are now in private ownership.

For those interested, this lot is actually based on the houses you can see in these photos  http://www.megalithicireland.com/Ballybrack%20Dolmen.htm

Original Downtown Lots

Original Maxis Downtown lots, in case one gets corrupted or deleted somehow...

For some reason, I couldn't get Gothier Greens or House of Fallen Trees to package, even after slighting modifying the lot and resaving it.

Unpopulated G001 Lots

I've packed up the lots from Riverblossom Hills (G001), the Maxis made Seasons neighborhood, thinking they might be useful for people who use the "Scorched Earth" approach from my No More Ugly Townies!  tutorial.

All lots are unpopulated and contain only the "lotsegmentforupload" file.

Unpopulated Strangetown Lots

Unpopulated original Strangetown lots. A friend of mine had 88 Road to Nowhere become corrupted, so I thought other people might be able to use these packaged lots to fix their games.

Lots have nothing but the lotsegment, so they're tiny!

Winterized 225 Main St.

MikeD likes this house, so I winterized it  also!  I couldn't resist the urge to tweak it just a little, but you can easily reverse that if you don't like it.

As  you can see in the original layout below, a large piece of the flooring on the second floor was missing, which allowed the snow to fall all the way through the roof into the downstairs bathroom!

After filling in the floor, the real problem became obvious -- there are two missing wall sections between the upstairs hall and the "storage" area under the eaves!

After adding an attic floor, I couldn't resist tampering with the layout.  The front bedroom simply isn't usable with a double bed, and Sims like lots of corners anyhow!

The new 1x2 room beside the stairs could be used as:

• a secret passage between the bedrooms 
• a toilet only half bath for either room
• split to form a closet for each bedroom (single tile walk-in closet available at SIMply SIMilicious)
• a trap for Bluebeard's wives
• opened to the stairway as a plant shelf (no water plants only)
• opened to the stairway and the room below to recreate the original "atrium" concept

Winterized 58 Focaccia Place (Sharpe Residence)

Zephyrzodiac asked to have the Sharpe house from Academie La Tour winterized.  It ain't pretty, but it shouldn't snow on the drums!

This house needed some tricky work.  It needed two walls parallel to the peak the whole width of the house and flooring added over the porch and the protruding section of the kitchen, as well as flooring added over the now enclosed second floor room, the end walls replaced with normal walls, and the small triangles at the very peaks replaced by "reroofing" the third floor attic.  To get the new upstairs interior walls complete, I had to move the stairs out into the yard, then use the "move_objects on" cheat to put them back where they belonged.  The last step was to match up that funky 60s wall paper!

Again, warnings: do not remove the roofs and do not remove triangular wall sections shorter than a normal wall section.

This house is based on the Bonny Bungalow from the base game, so you might want to consider using it instead of the Bungalow.

Note: ZZ doesn't have AL, which caused to the lot to crash in her 'hood, and I accidentally left the phonehack in, so she kindly provided me with a more backward compatible version.  Thanks ZZ!

Winterized Craftsman's Pride

I love the Maxis Craftsman's Pride lot -- but post-Seasons, it snows in the attic!  I've fixed it and offer it here for your enjoyment.

Tutorial available to help fix your favorite lots!

Miner 49er

A hood intended for hermits, loners and "Miner Forty-Niners."

You will most likely need Boatnana's "Change Max Slope Value" hack.  Don't forget to install it into your most recent EP directory!

As it appears in SC4:

Sprawl

A great big flat neighborhood with streets in a grid pattern.

More details to follow.

Place the contents of the zip file in your My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/SC4Terrains folder.

Somewhere I have a bunch of residential lots specifically built (and or rebuilt) for populating this terrain. I seem to recall using at least 16 house types.

Concrete:

Desert:

Dirt:

Lush:

Hemali Family

A great, easy to play, brother and sister family!

The Hemalis were created using the dark gold skintone from ArtSimz, which is no longer available.  I've played this family since SimsHost closed, and the game simply chose a different skintone for them.

Playtest info:

I've played this brother/sister pair all the way to elderhood, and they are not your average Sims!

I put them on a vacant lot expecting the usual wants... toilet, refrigerator, shower, etc.

The Hemalis promptly wanted... a bookcase and an easel! I got those for them figuring the normal ones would come up... nope! In the course of their first day, they wanted (not in any particular order) a piano, a guitar, a 600 simolean game, a car, a living room chair, two 600 simolean living room chairs, a rug, 4 sculptures, a bar, a table, a recliner, a bass, a tv, a painting and a 600 simolean table. They also wanted several 1500 simolean items, which they just didn't get, but they got spun away by purchasing something else in their wants. So they've got a 3x1 lot full of stuff... and no bed, no fridge, no toilet, and their needs are getting low.

However, at this point, Sahil, the brother, had 15,000 aspiration points! I promptly bought them the Energizer machine, and built a couple free standing wall sections for the paintings, a toilet stall, a no-privacy shower and a mirror. Without the need to sleep, Sahil promptly maxed his creativity in the first couple days, and the sister, Pazia, maxed her cooking and cleaning.

Pazia, being a family Sim, starting throwing thought bubbles about babies and/or adoption. Silly me didn't wait for her to actually get a Want to adopt, and had her call the adoption agency. At this point, they had to buy a fridge and a bed and baby items and the lot started looking more like a normal habitation-without-walls. Time to pack up all the expensive stuff and get a house!

Sahil, with his 10 creativity, started spinning up "Write Great Novel" and "Sell Masterpiece" wants. Technically, he could have just quit his job and just painted masterpieces, but his LTW was Chief of Staff, so I had him stick it out to retirement. He didn't get Chief of Staff tho, so no platinum gravestone for him!

After retirement, the Hemalis became a sort of foster home for neighborhood teens in need of a more nurturing place for them to prepare for college, with the assistance of the TOLAD Placement Service. So far, they've turned around 2 failing students and sent one of them to college where he's on the Dean's List (and engaged to the older of their adopted daughters). With a little more prep, the second will follow and they'll take in another foster child or 2. There are no dumb Sim kids, just poor parents!

Since they can still adopt as elders, I'm thinking Pazia might actually get her 3 Children Married LTW!

Hope Family

Mom has moved out and left her teen daughter with Grandma.

This family has been "played" for 2 Sim hours. They had to wait for the paper to get there and the mom to move out. All other actions and reactions were initiated by the Sims themselves.

I believe a fragmentary version of the mom is in the packed lot too. Her name is Mattea Hope.  I do not recommend attempting to make her a playable character.

Six Pre-Made Families

MikeD asked me to make him some Sim families that are ready to play!

Fernley	Holmes
Hubert	Paloma
Sesheta	Tabor

You Can't Do That in CAS!

These Sims have been minimally modified by SimPE to get the relationships I wanted. Only the Family Ties resource and the relationship and memory sections of the SimDescription resources have been changed.

The Marin family has adult and teen siblings.

The Redley family has an adult with child and toddler siblings.

The Raine family has an elder husband and an adult wife.

Warning: the Raines' are likely to have babies with very narrow, receding chins, which change to better proportions as they grow up.