Though I don't think I would play with those lots, finding such unexpectedly makes my day.

If you remember Monique's old hacked bookcases, you'd like this: https://midgethetree.tumblr.com/pos...gift-heres-some

Ooh, she has a bunch of goodies in there! But yes, I especially appreciate you pointing out the bookcase-enabling for those sculptures, LFact. Finally, finally a way to have studying from a books object that isn't a bookcase.

Also check mutske's Maxis decoration addon set and other extracted decos:
https://www.thesimsresource.com/art...base/id/733380/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/art...ooks/id/722914/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/art...-ons/id/800707/
(includes extracted books working as bookcases. I'm sure there're updated version of books...)

Thank you, LFact! Yeah, I didn't realize those were out there either.

Though what I especially liked about what midge did (from your earlier post today) was that she made Maxis stuff functional, so I don't have to add more items to my catalogs...I hate when I can't find stuff, argh, and so I have a low tolerance for an overstuffed catalog. (I'm a huge fan of default replacing for CAS stuff too.)

Ooh, speaking of mods and modded objects that can help reduce catalog clutter, Nopke has a new time/weather controller on the "unpublished" area of his site.

I've been using it in my game and can recommend it. In addition to finally being the one object that simultaneously can replace both the Day Setter and Paladin's (SimWardrobe's) Season and Weather Controller (only available link is to an SFS archive because SimWardrobe is closed), it also does at least two things that I don't believe any of our other hacked objects do:

• sets game time to the minute and
• sets outdoor temperature in 20-degree increments.

Plus it has some batbox/Blender-like ability to set type of precipitation and amount of accumulation.

I can't wait for these unpublished mods of Nopke's! There's a few that I am really, really interested in. Hopefully they will be made, courtesy of Nopke! :lovestruc

Thanks for sharing, I never knew of this "unpublished" site thing of Nopke's.

You don't have to wait - they've already been made, and they're available for download on that link.

@Fyren5 You're very welcome. But actually, the news gets even better: you can download all of those "unpublished" mods of Nopke's already!

I should have clarified that although he calls them unpublished, he seems to mean simply that they are not yet uploaded anywhere other than his own site and that (I assume) he considers them still in testing. (So you can leave him direct feedback using the box underneath his list of the unpublished, and I'm sure he'll appreciate it if you find any bugs or just have observations about how they work, or if there are ways in which they don't.)

So you can just head right back to his "unpublished" page and look near the top. There's a hotlink that reads, "Unpublished packages on Sim File Share." Click that, and you'll see that there's a whole SFS page with each of the unpublished mods listed and clickable for download.
(But I know, yay, right? He's got some great ones!)

ETA: sooo ninja'd by omglo, lol.

Thank you both so much!! I'll be grabbing them right now!! :lovestruc

'Practice writing' global mod(for normal computers) and custom importable resource package for Monique's hacked computer: https://midgethetree.tumblr.com/pos...n-to-requests-i
(I don't know if it can raise writing skill point? If you want to check hidden skills such as writing, dancing... check this: https://modthesims.info/d/208176/sh...-of-wisdom.html)

Recently I was fixin the memories of one of my hoods. That got me thinkin it would be nice if there was a list of the memories to be able to see them easier than just in SimPE. So if anyone else was thinkin of tweakin memories here's a listin of them to help ya out. I know it's helped me

*Mind .. these are just the EAxis memories and not any CC ones.

Witcher 3 bathtub set: https://hodgekiss.tumblr.com/post/1...tcher-3-bathtub
Barrel Shower Redux and more by Fracturedmoonlight: https://fracturedmoonlight.tumblr.c...hower-redux-new
Animated beddings?: https://davinaojeda.tumblr.com/post...tured-moonlight

And for fun: https://fracturedmoonlight.tumblr.c...s-like-the-sims

Have more fun
https://sickaddiktions.tumblr.com/p...ingwithscissors

Well, after trying Midge the tree's 'Study all skills from books': I can say it will work for any bookcase, vanilla or CC, for it is a global mod. Con is, looks like this mod removes life skill study menu(FT&AL) from bookcases(modded books like this won't be affected at all).

Mods and CCs for faster skill learning:
https://modthesims.info/d/329089/st...lls-faster.html
http://affinitysims.com/index.php?/...38-turbo-easel/
http://affinitysims.com/index.php?/...or-al-versions/
Of course, there's always Easy Computer. Rebecah updated it for later EPs.

CtfG's 'Magic~' object series is mostly outdated, but the mirror will raise your charisma point faster if it works: https://modthesims.info/d/198495/ga...update-ssn.html
(I think there's no enthusiasm for 'practice speech')

If you want cheat: https://modthesims.info/d/293562/bo...02-09-2009.html

I'm sure that wasn't intended. You should let MtT know, so it can be fixed.

Yes, ^ Midge or @Radium will want to know about that.

Thanks for @ing me, Jo! @LFact do you mean the study fire safety/parenting/etc interactions? Because I still see those in the bookcase pie menu in my game with the "study all skills" mod in place. Is it possible you have some mod that is conflicting with "study all skills"?

I don't have any other global mod for bookcase, but I have some skill-related mods, such as 'Community lot skilling'. But it can be anything I've never expected.

Thought it might be the easiest way.



I haven't tried this mod of MTT's but most people use CLS so I doubt its that.
A couple of other mods that deal with books is the group toddler and child read a story mod and the one that makes books more autonomous.

Yes, exactly - the concern with conflicts is more with mods that affect bookcase/books rather than those that affect skilling, since the mod only overrides semiglobals that affect bookcases/books and only bookcases/books, so CLS is safe but other book/bookcase related mods might not be. I included a version that's autonomous and said to use it and make sure it loads after mrclopes's mod if you want enabled autonomy for reading books and all the other autonomy adjustments from mrclopes's mod, but the "read a story" mod is one I didn't think to check and you're right that it probably conflicts with study all skills as well.

I know you said you have no other bookcase-related mods, but it doesn't hurt to run the HCDU just to be sure, if you haven't already. Since I haven't been able to replicate your problem in my own game I'm not sure what explanation there could be other than mod conflict, unless it's an issue that only affects one of the versions but I double-checked them all in SimPE and everything seemed to be in order.

I had a conflict with the toddler group read to mod and auto read mod and the creator of the toddler one made another version. Sorry, I can't think of the name of the mod or creator. (even though I can picture her avatar on Tumblr) I know it's in my mods folder but yeah... that really needs some better organization as I don't know where in there I filed it.

The other thing is the traits project and I wonder how all of those will play with existing mods. One reason I have yet to use more than a couple.

Unfortunately, Simwardrobe utilities never worked for me, IIRC.(Maybe they don't like Korean Windows )
Instead of conflict report, all I can see is error report with 'unrecoverble error'(nevermind the folder names):

Sims 2 Hack Conflict Detection Utility - Version 2.00.03

Error: 5
Invalid procedure call or argument

Module: modSimsPackage
Procedure: gsOpenPackageFile
Location: 5000

Install Path: E:\Game\Sims2Util
Data Path: C:\Users\W10HomeMain\Documents
Sims Path: E:\Game\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Double Deluxe\Base

Additional Error Data:
Filename = C:\Users\W10HomeMain\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\downloads\Fix\CJH_housekeeprFix.package

Omglo/EarlyPleasantview?

Yep, and the Listen to Story mod edits the pie menu functions and strings for books (but not bookcases).

Yes, Early Pleasantview I went and looked through my follows. Is Early Pleasantview Omglo?

Funny, I am already working on that as my next thread to start, since I've got most of the traits mods in my game and did a bunch of troubleshooting to get them all working. (There were many, many HCDU-reported conflicts with my existing mods; however, load order fixed the majority of them, so I'm planning to give the details for each in the thread.)

Should have that thread up by the weekend, if not earlier---will love having others report their experiences, and hopefully the whole thing will be helpful to all the modders actively working with traits. (I will link to/from it also from our main existing thread on traits for TS2, to keep all that info together.)