Rest in Peace Mootilda! In addition to creating this tool and a few others, she was so helpful and active in the forums right until the day the Cancer took her. It's because of her that we have so many of these advanced building techniques, not to mention all the help she gave other modders. I can only imagine if she was still alive today what cool new things she would have figured out about this game. Who knows, maybe we'd even have a true OpenSims2? RIP Mootilida! 😔
@@snake135 A team of sims modders headed up by Lazy Duchess are working on recreating The Sims 2, which they have called Open TS2. Essentially they are attempting to recreate / re-write the underlying game engine and keep everything else the same :) You can find out more on Lazy Duchess's Patreon page
I didn't know about this.. I've been using her mods for years, a real legend, a very important person to a small but close community.. rest in peace mootilda
Tip for making sure you resize/move your lot of the right amount: make a note in the lot name! For example, when I want to shrink my “Wild cottage” lot by 5 tiles from Left and Right and by 10 tiles from the Back, I’ll rename it “Wild Corttage -5LR -10B”. This way you can see it directly when you open LotAdjuster! Hope it helps
Me literally just ignoring most of the options - nods 😅 it does get a little more complicated if you're adjusting lots that aren't on flat terrain, that's when you might want to use some of the extra terrain options. But the basics are fairly easy!
Youre a Genius. For years I've been trying to set up a playable planning department specializing in home redesign and Architecture. (Kind of like Sims 3 or 4 Decorator Careers) i could get them drafting, and emailing and writing proposals. Using Hatch's Community Time Mod, they can visit clients and give a quote. But your tips for expanding Business and Houses is gonna change everything and make the career actually have visable effects on my city. Thank you so much, ❤
Ooh I all my terraced houses have holes at the side of the roof, I had never thought of doing the second roof thing! Game changing! Also yes they look like a suburb in England! That's a cute and fun vibe that I enjoy/grew up in!
Liking the video before I even watched because you just know it'll be good Going to download the portal flamingo now and start messing around with moving stuff off road for the first time
Omg Beth!!! This was incredible 😱❤ I can't get over the beauty and diversity of your adjusted lots: what artistry! Thank you so much for making this ❤ you make such great tutorials- they are always so easy to follow and straight to the point with clear visualisations and examples. This couldn't have come at a better time for me as I start my Downtown renovations - I have many ideas for city buildings but I haven't tried using the lot adjuster for much in the past. This made it all super clear so thank you again ❤ Just a question: if I delete a portal is it possible to get it back again? Will it respawn if I move the lot in hood view perhaps, like you showed at the beginning to reset the roads? (Also I LOVE the thumbnail 🥰 PROPS!!! 🎉)
Hi Ani! Thank you so much! Ohh I hope this does come in handy with your downtown renovations, some brownstone rowhousing or something maybe?? 👀👀❤️ When you download the portal revealer and it appears in build mode / double height windows, buyable versions of the portals also appear in the same section of the catalogue. The thumbnails are just invisible so you can't see them - but yes absolutely you can just buy them back 😊💕💕 PROPS make the best thumbnails!!! Lol
I’ve always wanted to use this program but could never find a good tutorial that wasn’t over complicated, so never did in fear of busting the game. You have changed my life with this video! Thank you so much!
I'm glad you have done a tutorial on this. I thought I had stuffed some lots by making them too big and I couldn't shrink them again. Now I know I can! 😁 Thanks for the tutorial! 👏
This was amazing! I've known about Lot Adjuster for a while now but never really played with it because I was worried about messing something up. You made it less scary, that's for sure. Maybe I'll finally make those row houses I've always wanted to do.
Thanks for all the tea on lot adjuster Tea!😆 This was really informative and helpful, I've learned a lot. I've only dabbled with Lot Adjuster in a basic way, and pretty much just to make lots bigger, and I've always found the lot elevation and lot edges settings to be such trial and error - ended up with far too wonky lots and far too flattened lots haha! I've never moved a lot off a road before and you've made some absolutely stunning things by doing that. Seeing your medieval hood really makes me miss watching your streams - I mostly blame daylight savings so I hope to start catching more again soon! The stuff you've done with the mining and cave lots built into the side like that is incredible.
Aw thanks so much Gabby! Definitely tricky to get the lot elevation and lot edges settings right, I still mess that up sometimes haha. Honestly, moving lots off of roads is actually one of my favourite things to do right now! I'm using it more and more to create some really fun and unique lots, I highly recommend giving it a go! Completely understand the struggle to make streams, don't worry about it! Very soon, Daylight Savings will be switching us all around all over again and I'll have to reasses stream times again, so keep an eye on Discord for updates 😊❤️
This video is awesome! I started to play the sims 2 again and your videos are helping me a lot to rebuild the game 💗 can you show us with more detail how do you make the lot on the beach? Looks amazing ✨
You just follow the moving lot bit, but move it so part of the lot is in the neighborhood water. You get a little bit of a texture seam on the land edges left and right, but you can cover that with plants or something like she has. You can even add modded objects to allow fishing so it looks like sims are fishing in the water!
I didn't know you could do that! There are some spots in my Pleasantview that don't allow lots to be placed there for some reason so that will surely help. Thank you!
Such good info! I always avoided lot adjuster since I knew you had to reload the game, and until a couple years ago I had a computer that took 30-45 mins to load it 😂 so that was just not in the cards and I never bothered learning it! But now I see so many useful applications for it I just might give it a whirl sometime!
Glad you enjoyed the video! 😊 If you still struggle with load times, you can always do your builds & lot adjusting in a test folder with no cc, build the frames and then port it over to the full folder once you're happy 😉 I've definitely done that a few times haha
Great video, this was really interesting to watch. You have some amazing looking and creative builds in your game! 😍❤ Really loving your tutorials in general, you explain things very clearly. 😊 And happy I got to see your quarry/mining lot! 😄 It looks absolutely beautiful. ❤ I recently moved the portals on my settlement lot and it was so good to finally see them walking out of the lot instead of into the fence. 😂 Watching this video reminded me that there is one thing I would like to do, but it seems impossible: having a different road in certain subhoods, than the roads used in the main hood. So far, I think that is impossible, since road defaults apply to the entire neighborhood. Have you ever tried to do something like that?
Hey! So glad you liked the video 🥰 and yes my mining lot was 1000% inspired by yours haha!! I think the road thing is possible using SimPE but I'm not an expert. Lord Crumps in our discord might be able to help you out with that if you like? One thing you can do is set road type per terrain type. So theoretically, you could have a subhood that is the "dirt" terrain (but it still looks like grass, using defaults), and then have a different road type attached to your dirt terrain hoods. I know that is possible, because again with Lord Crumps, his road defaults vary per terrain type and you can pick and choose! I have even seen someone use simPE to have two different road types within the same hood, but I have literally no idea how that is done haha sorry!
@@TeaAddict Ah! Using a different terrain in a few of the hoods is a smart idea, I hadn't thought of that. I'll see if I can make it work using that. And thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
@@StoriesNStrategy no problem. If you want more help with it, honestly do try pinging Lord Crumps in discord or let me know and I can DM him. He is always super willing to help out (and is very good at creating road defaults and terrain defaults if there's something in particular that you want). I currently use some dirt roads by him in my Medieval hood
WoW! Love it! Thank you! Going to try them out in my neighborhood. One more question though: Can I "copy and paste" portals and place more of them on a lot? ... I have an idea and it would make things more realistic if I have that option.
I'm not sure sorry! You might be able to... More pedestrian portals should work fine? It's not something I have tested yet but I know that you can put down multiple of the same portal 👍🏼
Thank you! I'll test it out 🙂Have an idea for these connected houses as lots, but for beaches, where I'd make the foundation at the back behind the building, next to the beach, as a pathway for sims too to pass by. I think it would be a nice, realistic touch.
Very exciting tutorial ! Sims 2 restricted, what about Sims 3 ? When moving lots does the original roadside cordinates prevent any other lots being placed as technicaly there need to be a atachement ? What about neighbourhood road expansion by moving lots form a new grid ? Initial when a neighbourhood is exported to Sims 2 you can´t add roads physicaly aftherwards ? Great !
Sims 3 is a different kettle of fish unfortunately, little tools like this don't really exist for that game but you do get create-a-world, if you can use that! You can't add actual roads to TS2 after the fact UNLESS you use a different little tool call hood replace, which I might do another tutorial on in the future 😉 but you can download decorative roads and add them, and then use lot adjuster to make it look like your lots sit on the decorative roads 😊
I've been watching your videos for awhile now. I wanted to ask how do you balance the sims2 game plays and a newborn? I just become a mom but would love to get back into gameplays specifically with sims2 and building
@@cheynobi it's honestly really challenging, I try to play while she sleeps but creating content requires hours that are very hard to come by. For the first couple of months I barely touched my games at all and then as we settled into routines and nighttime sleep improved I had more time :)
hi, i have a question if someone now about it. Is there any way to move the lot back? That is, create with LotAdjuster an additional space between the sidewalk and the lot, making the lot larger but in front and not just behind.
I increased back tiles by 10 but i didnt like it so i decreased it to 5 instead and added 5 tiles to the front. When i loaded the game, the pool that i had on the backyard appeared glitchy(?). I removed the pool and now i have a see through ground😭 cant put tiles on it but can put objects
Hi! Thank you for your amazing tutorial! Now I'm using Lot Adjuster and I'm creating really cute lots, perfect for the roads and terrain of my neighborhood! By the way, I wanted to ask you about the mod you mentioned around the minute 18:00... something about higher resolution lot imposters. I tried to search for it but I couldn't find it... could you please link it to me? Thank you!
Hi! Thank you for this lovely comment, and absolutely I can link you to how to get better lot imposters. It is a feature of the RPC launcher by LazyDuchess, which you can check out here www.tumblr.com/lazyduchess/631915230388158464/sims2rpc-mod-launcher-for-mansion-garden?source=share This provides a separate launcher for Sims 2 with some handy optional mods and fixes, I suggest reading up on it and then deciding if it's something you want for your game. I've been using it for years 😊
@@TeaAddict Oh my, this mod fixes the first born syndrome! That's amazing! No more rolling the pacifier or having to use the batbox! I'm totally downloading this mod! Really, thank you so much! (And I'm subscribing! ♥
I'm having a consistent issue with the neighborhood view. The loaded lot looks fine, but the build in hood view is off and clipping with builds next to it. What may be causing this and how do I stop it from happening?
@@robertsimpson9010 make a small structural change on the lot, save, exit to neighbourhood - something like adding a wall or fence - then go back in and undo it if you want to and see if that fixes it
@@robertsimpson9010 haha no worries at all, I probably should have mentioned it in the video if I didn't 😅😅 when you use Lot Adjuster it does tell you to do it too but I often forget 🤣
Only if you want to play them as rented apartments vs owned lots. Sims 2 apartments can be very tedious and buggy, and there are lots of places in the world where row houses exist and are owned by individual families 😊 you could absolutely build apartments if you wanted to but I also like this method a lot for versatility
I tried this on my lot but I can't add a roof to any room I've placed where I expanded my lot, which is really strange. It's tells me that it can't support the weight. I'm able to add a roof to rooms made on the original lot tiles, though, but where it was expanded it doesn't seem to register the second floor at all. Any ideas?
@@_swesters_ so you expanded the lot? Or shrunk it? You can't place a roof that's 1-tile in from the edge of the lot after you've shrunk it, only before? Otherwise try hitting the "flatten lot" button in terrain tools, sometimes when you use lot adjuster it can think that the lot is uneven when it's actually not?
@TeaAddict I've expanded the lot. If I add any rooms on the expanded tiles, it won't allow me to add a roof. It tells me that it can't support the weight, and there is no grid for the roof in the first place. I've tried redoing the process a couple of times all with the same results, and tried some of the other options in lot adjuster like flatten lot edges, update neighborhood terrain elevation, as well as the default. I tried the flatten lot option in game as well and it doesn't help either. Occasionally it'll give me only a few grid tiles but not enough for a full roof. Auto roof apparently works though? But I'm trying to do a greenhouse, so I can't use that. I can't find anyone talking about this issue so I'm pretty confused. Oh and I have tried constrainfloorelevation false, which someone recommended, but it doesn't change anything.
@@_swesters_ when you set constrainfloorelevation false, level out beneath your walls and above your walls - like drag it from one corner to the other of the room. If that doesnt work, use floor tiles and create a roof of flooring, then put on your greenhouse roof, then delete the floor tiles. Let me know if that works. I would show you a picture if I could
@@TeaAddict update: we can but pedestrians will walk though walls if the distance between the portals is too big 😁 I tried to put two opposite directions for the cars and it looks like drive-by cars go only one way and the playable cars go another
If I was EA I would keep this game alive. Imagine a remaster/remake of TS2 Complete Collection and the announcement of a brand new expansion pack lie Superstar, Makin Magic, Farming... Idk but It would be so cool, if we keep playing these games why not have them updated? I don't want what they made to TS4, but..
@@TeaAddict I tried leaving a direct link, then just the name of the site, but YT didn't allow either. If you search for the name, you'll find it easily enough.
Rest in Peace Mootilda! In addition to creating this tool and a few others, she was so helpful and active in the forums right until the day the Cancer took her. It's because of her that we have so many of these advanced building techniques, not to mention all the help she gave other modders. I can only imagine if she was still alive today what cool new things she would have figured out about this game. Who knows, maybe we'd even have a true OpenSims2? RIP Mootilida! 😔
She was such a legend!!
OpenTS2 is being worked on... But yes with her maybe it would have been here already!!
@@TeaAddict What is Open Sims 2 please ? I just read the page about this but I don't know what it is
@@snake135 A team of sims modders headed up by Lazy Duchess are working on recreating The Sims 2, which they have called Open TS2. Essentially they are attempting to recreate / re-write the underlying game engine and keep everything else the same :) You can find out more on Lazy Duchess's Patreon page
@@TeaAddictThanks 😋
I didn't know about this.. I've been using her mods for years, a real legend, a very important person to a small but close community.. rest in peace mootilda
Wow these lots are awesome, its very cool to see people push the limit in a almost 20 year old game
Tip for making sure you resize/move your lot of the right amount: make a note in the lot name! For example, when I want to shrink my “Wild cottage” lot by 5 tiles from Left and Right and by 10 tiles from the Back, I’ll rename it “Wild Corttage -5LR -10B”. This way you can see it directly when you open LotAdjuster! Hope it helps
i only ever shrink/expand lots because there are SO MANY options and i have no idea how to use them 😭. thank god for this tutorial!
Me literally just ignoring most of the options - nods 😅 it does get a little more complicated if you're adjusting lots that aren't on flat terrain, that's when you might want to use some of the extra terrain options. But the basics are fairly easy!
Thank You so much for these how-to tutorials! - They really help a lot in showing how to install and use these great mods 🙂
Another super useful tutorial! Definitely will come back to it whenever I need to adjust my lots. 👍🏻
Amazing video, thank you for being so detailed and showing so many cool features! Totally side eyeing my hoods for improvements 😂
The row houses … game changer !
Youre a Genius. For years I've been trying to set up a playable planning department specializing in home redesign and Architecture. (Kind of like Sims 3 or 4 Decorator Careers) i could get them drafting, and emailing and writing proposals. Using Hatch's Community Time Mod, they can visit clients and give a quote. But your tips for expanding Business and Houses is gonna change everything and make the career actually have visable effects on my city. Thank you so much, ❤
Yesss this will be perfect for that! 😊
WHAT!? This is amazing!! I was just wondering about my game and how to make it better, you just made it! thank you!!
Ooh I all my terraced houses have holes at the side of the roof, I had never thought of doing the second roof thing! Game changing!
Also yes they look like a suburb in England! That's a cute and fun vibe that I enjoy/grew up in!
Liking the video before I even watched because you just know it'll be good
Going to download the portal flamingo now and start messing around with moving stuff off road for the first time
oh wow this is a fresh fresh upload! thank you for your tutorials.
The wall to wall business is honestly wonderful!
Omg Beth!!! This was incredible 😱❤ I can't get over the beauty and diversity of your adjusted lots: what artistry! Thank you so much for making this ❤ you make such great tutorials- they are always so easy to follow and straight to the point with clear visualisations and examples. This couldn't have come at a better time for me as I start my Downtown renovations - I have many ideas for city buildings but I haven't tried using the lot adjuster for much in the past. This made it all super clear so thank you again ❤ Just a question: if I delete a portal is it possible to get it back again? Will it respawn if I move the lot in hood view perhaps, like you showed at the beginning to reset the roads? (Also I LOVE the thumbnail 🥰 PROPS!!! 🎉)
Hi Ani! Thank you so much! Ohh I hope this does come in handy with your downtown renovations, some brownstone rowhousing or something maybe?? 👀👀❤️
When you download the portal revealer and it appears in build mode / double height windows, buyable versions of the portals also appear in the same section of the catalogue. The thumbnails are just invisible so you can't see them - but yes absolutely you can just buy them back 😊💕💕
PROPS make the best thumbnails!!! Lol
I just watch other people play the Sims nowadays, but it was very cool seeing the amazing things you can do with lots!
I had no idea this existed for the Sims 2 what a game changer! thank you for making this tutorial!
Your creativity with lots is super inspiring! I really appreciate the helpful explanations, thank you!
I’ve always wanted to use this program but could never find a good tutorial that wasn’t over complicated, so never did in fear of busting the game. You have changed my life with this video! Thank you so much!
I'm glad you have done a tutorial on this. I thought I had stuffed some lots by making them too big and I couldn't shrink them again. Now I know I can! 😁
Thanks for the tutorial! 👏
You know, I've never used the Lot adjuster for anything except making Row houses! Saving this video for later!
This was amazing! I've known about Lot Adjuster for a while now but never really played with it because I was worried about messing something up. You made it less scary, that's for sure. Maybe I'll finally make those row houses I've always wanted to do.
Wow, thx for this tutorial. I was too chicken to try this mod, but after this video and trying it out, I foud out , it is super practical. :)
Thanks for all the tea on lot adjuster Tea!😆 This was really informative and helpful, I've learned a lot. I've only dabbled with Lot Adjuster in a basic way, and pretty much just to make lots bigger, and I've always found the lot elevation and lot edges settings to be such trial and error - ended up with far too wonky lots and far too flattened lots haha! I've never moved a lot off a road before and you've made some absolutely stunning things by doing that. Seeing your medieval hood really makes me miss watching your streams - I mostly blame daylight savings so I hope to start catching more again soon! The stuff you've done with the mining and cave lots built into the side like that is incredible.
Aw thanks so much Gabby! Definitely tricky to get the lot elevation and lot edges settings right, I still mess that up sometimes haha. Honestly, moving lots off of roads is actually one of my favourite things to do right now! I'm using it more and more to create some really fun and unique lots, I highly recommend giving it a go!
Completely understand the struggle to make streams, don't worry about it! Very soon, Daylight Savings will be switching us all around all over again and I'll have to reasses stream times again, so keep an eye on Discord for updates 😊❤️
This video is awesome! I started to play the sims 2 again and your videos are helping me a lot to rebuild the game 💗 can you show us with more detail how do you make the lot on the beach? Looks amazing ✨
You just follow the moving lot bit, but move it so part of the lot is in the neighborhood water. You get a little bit of a texture seam on the land edges left and right, but you can cover that with plants or something like she has. You can even add modded objects to allow fishing so it looks like sims are fishing in the water!
@@anachibi ooh you´re right! i´m very dumb with mods like this but i'll try it today 🥰 thanksssss
I've just discovered your vids and they're so incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Very clear explanations and I love your builds! thank you!
I'mma try that wall to wall! Wish me luck!
You've got this!
Thank you so much, I am going to try this out, especially the shrinking 😊
This was a great refresher. Love your vids!
I didn't know you could do that! There are some spots in my Pleasantview that don't allow lots to be placed there for some reason so that will surely help. Thank you!
Such clear explanations
shes good at that!
Such good info! I always avoided lot adjuster since I knew you had to reload the game, and until a couple years ago I had a computer that took 30-45 mins to load it 😂 so that was just not in the cards and I never bothered learning it! But now I see so many useful applications for it I just might give it a whirl sometime!
Glad you enjoyed the video! 😊 If you still struggle with load times, you can always do your builds & lot adjusting in a test folder with no cc, build the frames and then port it over to the full folder once you're happy 😉 I've definitely done that a few times haha
*dances excitedly* lot adjuster, lot adjuster!
This is so helpful thank you!
Another awesome video so soon
Hi! Thanks for the video, it is very useful and well explained 💟. Do you have a tutorial on how to create objects from scratch?
No I don't sorry, it's only something I've done once so I'd need a lot more practice at it before being able to make a tutorial on it. Maybe one day!
Great video, this was really interesting to watch. You have some amazing looking and creative builds in your game! 😍❤ Really loving your tutorials in general, you explain things very clearly. 😊 And happy I got to see your quarry/mining lot! 😄 It looks absolutely beautiful. ❤
I recently moved the portals on my settlement lot and it was so good to finally see them walking out of the lot instead of into the fence. 😂 Watching this video reminded me that there is one thing I would like to do, but it seems impossible: having a different road in certain subhoods, than the roads used in the main hood. So far, I think that is impossible, since road defaults apply to the entire neighborhood. Have you ever tried to do something like that?
Hey! So glad you liked the video 🥰 and yes my mining lot was 1000% inspired by yours haha!!
I think the road thing is possible using SimPE but I'm not an expert. Lord Crumps in our discord might be able to help you out with that if you like?
One thing you can do is set road type per terrain type. So theoretically, you could have a subhood that is the "dirt" terrain (but it still looks like grass, using defaults), and then have a different road type attached to your dirt terrain hoods.
I know that is possible, because again with Lord Crumps, his road defaults vary per terrain type and you can pick and choose!
I have even seen someone use simPE to have two different road types within the same hood, but I have literally no idea how that is done haha sorry!
@@TeaAddict Ah! Using a different terrain in a few of the hoods is a smart idea, I hadn't thought of that. I'll see if I can make it work using that.
And thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
@@StoriesNStrategy no problem. If you want more help with it, honestly do try pinging Lord Crumps in discord or let me know and I can DM him. He is always super willing to help out (and is very good at creating road defaults and terrain defaults if there's something in particular that you want). I currently use some dirt roads by him in my Medieval hood
@@TeaAddict I will, thank you, really appreciate it. 😊
WoW! Love it! Thank you! Going to try them out in my neighborhood. One more question though: Can I "copy and paste" portals and place more of them on a lot? ... I have an idea and it would make things more realistic if I have that option.
I'm not sure sorry! You might be able to... More pedestrian portals should work fine? It's not something I have tested yet but I know that you can put down multiple of the same portal 👍🏼
Thank you! I'll test it out 🙂Have an idea for these connected houses as lots, but for beaches, where I'd make the foundation at the back behind the building, next to the beach, as a pathway for sims too to pass by. I think it would be a nice, realistic touch.
Very exciting tutorial ! Sims 2 restricted, what about Sims 3 ? When moving lots does the original roadside cordinates prevent any other lots being placed as technicaly there need to be a atachement ? What about neighbourhood road expansion by moving lots form a new grid ? Initial when a neighbourhood is exported to Sims 2 you can´t add roads physicaly aftherwards ? Great !
Sims 3 is a different kettle of fish unfortunately, little tools like this don't really exist for that game but you do get create-a-world, if you can use that!
You can't add actual roads to TS2 after the fact UNLESS you use a different little tool call hood replace, which I might do another tutorial on in the future 😉 but you can download decorative roads and add them, and then use lot adjuster to make it look like your lots sit on the decorative roads 😊
Very impressive!
I've been watching your videos for awhile now. I wanted to ask how do you balance the sims2 game plays and a newborn? I just become a mom but would love to get back into gameplays specifically with sims2 and building
@@cheynobi it's honestly really challenging, I try to play while she sleeps but creating content requires hours that are very hard to come by. For the first couple of months I barely touched my games at all and then as we settled into routines and nighttime sleep improved I had more time :)
These are hella coooool
hi, i have a question if someone now about it. Is there any way to move the lot back? That is, create with LotAdjuster an additional space between the sidewalk and the lot, making the lot larger but in front and not just behind.
I increased back tiles by 10 but i didnt like it so i decreased it to 5 instead and added 5 tiles to the front. When i loaded the game, the pool that i had on the backyard appeared glitchy(?). I removed the pool and now i have a see through ground😭 cant put tiles on it but can put objects
Hi! Thank you for your amazing tutorial! Now I'm using Lot Adjuster and I'm creating really cute lots, perfect for the roads and terrain of my neighborhood! By the way, I wanted to ask you about the mod you mentioned around the minute 18:00... something about higher resolution lot imposters. I tried to search for it but I couldn't find it... could you please link it to me? Thank you!
Hi! Thank you for this lovely comment, and absolutely I can link you to how to get better lot imposters. It is a feature of the RPC launcher by LazyDuchess, which you can check out here www.tumblr.com/lazyduchess/631915230388158464/sims2rpc-mod-launcher-for-mansion-garden?source=share
This provides a separate launcher for Sims 2 with some handy optional mods and fixes, I suggest reading up on it and then deciding if it's something you want for your game. I've been using it for years 😊
@@TeaAddict Thank you so much! ♥
@@TeaAddict Oh my, this mod fixes the first born syndrome! That's amazing! No more rolling the pacifier or having to use the batbox! I'm totally downloading this mod! Really, thank you so much! (And I'm subscribing! ♥
I'm having a consistent issue with the neighborhood view. The loaded lot looks fine, but the build in hood view is off and clipping with builds next to it. What may be causing this and how do I stop it from happening?
@@robertsimpson9010 make a small structural change on the lot, save, exit to neighbourhood - something like adding a wall or fence - then go back in and undo it if you want to and see if that fixes it
@@TeaAddict WOW I wish I asked earlier. I would have saved myself SO much time tonight! THANK YOU!
@@robertsimpson9010 haha no worries at all, I probably should have mentioned it in the video if I didn't 😅😅 when you use Lot Adjuster it does tell you to do it too but I often forget 🤣
18:00 But wouldn't it be easier to just build those houses as apartments in a much larger lot, rather than 3 separate lots?
Only if you want to play them as rented apartments vs owned lots. Sims 2 apartments can be very tedious and buggy, and there are lots of places in the world where row houses exist and are owned by individual families 😊 you could absolutely build apartments if you wanted to but I also like this method a lot for versatility
I tried this on my lot but I can't add a roof to any room I've placed where I expanded my lot, which is really strange. It's tells me that it can't support the weight. I'm able to add a roof to rooms made on the original lot tiles, though, but where it was expanded it doesn't seem to register the second floor at all. Any ideas?
@@_swesters_ so you expanded the lot? Or shrunk it? You can't place a roof that's 1-tile in from the edge of the lot after you've shrunk it, only before?
Otherwise try hitting the "flatten lot" button in terrain tools, sometimes when you use lot adjuster it can think that the lot is uneven when it's actually not?
@TeaAddict I've expanded the lot. If I add any rooms on the expanded tiles, it won't allow me to add a roof. It tells me that it can't support the weight, and there is no grid for the roof in the first place. I've tried redoing the process a couple of times all with the same results, and tried some of the other options in lot adjuster like flatten lot edges, update neighborhood terrain elevation, as well as the default. I tried the flatten lot option in game as well and it doesn't help either. Occasionally it'll give me only a few grid tiles but not enough for a full roof. Auto roof apparently works though? But I'm trying to do a greenhouse, so I can't use that. I can't find anyone talking about this issue so I'm pretty confused. Oh and I have tried constrainfloorelevation false, which someone recommended, but it doesn't change anything.
@@_swesters_ when you set constrainfloorelevation false, level out beneath your walls and above your walls - like drag it from one corner to the other of the room. If that doesnt work, use floor tiles and create a roof of flooring, then put on your greenhouse roof, then delete the floor tiles.
Let me know if that works. I would show you a picture if I could
How does your computer handle a lot of cc without crushing ?
It doesn't 😂
Totally appreciate this video!
Can we jam several pedestrian portals on one lot or only 1-entrance and 1-exit? 😮😍
I haven't messed with them that much, you could always test it out in a test hood!
@@TeaAddict update: we can but pedestrians will walk though walls if the distance between the portals is too big 😁 I tried to put two opposite directions for the cars and it looks like drive-by cars go only one way and the playable cars go another
@@hellofwinnie oh interesting!! Haha fun testing good on you
If I was EA I would keep this game alive. Imagine a remaster/remake of TS2 Complete Collection and the announcement of a brand new expansion pack lie Superstar, Makin Magic, Farming... Idk but It would be so cool, if we keep playing these games why not have them updated? I don't want what they made to TS4, but..
@@Windenberg me too!! That would be amazing
Can you place the portals diagonally? 🤔
Also those swamp houses are amazing 😍
I would imagine the pedestrian portals could go diagonally but the car ones might go a little funky 😅
Where can I get those slanted windows seen at 36:00?
Alpine windows & doors, found here: www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims2-sets-objects/title/alpine-windows/id/676747/
@@TeaAddict Thanks, and just to reciprocate in kind, are you aware of the Immlegacy 3t2 clearstory windows?
@@robs5688 Oh no I hadn't seen those! Thank you for the tip!
@@TeaAddict I tried leaving a direct link, then just the name of the site, but YT didn't allow either. If you search for the name, you'll find it easily enough.
@@robs5688 all good yeah RUclips will nerf any comments from viewers with links but I found it with a Google!
Idk why i didn't think to create a folder for my sims 2 tools. I just dump them individually in my "games" folder
I got the idea off someone else too! Before that mine were just floating around lol