Mod The Sims; https://modthesims.info ================================================================================ : Random Item at Leefish : 15th Apr 2012 at 9:08 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=6065 ================================================================================ I made this a LONG time ago -it is a very small simple thing, and I decide to upload to leefish. http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/35250_120415040722thumb640x480.jpeg You can download it at leefish.nl Simple Grate ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Anniversary : 19th Jul 2011 at 3:34 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5602 ================================================================================ 18th July 2008 - the day I joined MTS :) After a couple of weeks wandering about the forums and downloading everything I found some "heroes". HP - for being incredibly funny and making handy small fixes Plasticbox - the houses - I was in awe - near as damnit every window I ever made was made because of her. Fanseelamb - my male sims could actually look suave and smart and not like Maxis losers. She also seemed like "the nice one" (which she is) Of course, I never thought that I would actually get to speak to them ever - them being heroes and me just a shy simmer. But anyway, I DID get to meet them, and today, on my 3rd anniversary I am proud to be in a modding group with fanseelamb. We called it fanseefish and our upload is - a urinal . Yea. Can't have it ALL. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Interesting stuff about wall overlays : 5th May 2011 at 5:27 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5475 ================================================================================ A few people know I have a little website of my own, leefish.nl. I share it with with dal and cmo and BoilingOil and armiel- we have a few uploads there and just hang about. We have a small wiki there as well, and today BoilingOil added a new entry. http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/wiki.php?minor-changes-to-wall-overlays-.html If you would like to read it. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : OMG - I got promoted : 2nd May 2011 at 12:04 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5470 ================================================================================ BIG event today in my simming life - I got promoted to administrator here on MTS. Its a big honour (IMO) and I will try very hard to help out on the site as much as I can. Of course, I won't be doing any coding or anything like that, but I will be able to help Whitey and HP and Delphy with the little things that take time and don't need a coder. I will be keeping an eagle eye on the blue ribbon thread and hanging around in Creator issues waiting for worlds/hoods that need to be moved to the downloads areas. OMG - I have a red name.... :luff: ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Table code : 25th Apr 2011 at 8:46 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5462 ================================================================================ I like to make my posts pretty if I can and I always hated the way polygon counts and things looked - all listy and not pretty. Now I am going about updating my uploads that have several files with the groovy new table code: Option 1, Option 2,Option 3 x,what,1 y,who,2 z,where,3 Its really pretty and its sortable. Easy to use CommaSeparatedValues goodness +JQuery awesome Here is how to do it: take the code below and wrap it in table tags Option 1, Option 2, Option 3 x,what,1 y,who,2 z,where,3 Neat, huh? A table tag is ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Learn Something new Everyday : 16th Apr 2011 at 11:59 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5445 ================================================================================ Yes well, its new to me. I have been busy making centred doors for the base game - imagine my horror when I discovered that the base game colonial diagonal was BROKEN....sims walking through walls on the left side. I did a bit of searching - hoping to find a fix - which I did, but I found it a bit of a strange fix on another site. I had a look what it was - and indeed adding an EP flag and a load BHAV should actually BREAK a basegame door not fix it. It doesnt but it seemed very odd to me. Second problem - there is only one door in the whole of the TS2 run that has this functionality - centred on two tiles. (AFAIK) But its a glass door and Maxis (bless their hearts) put a light in it. Well thats good right? Until you have light BLAZING out of a doorway with a solid wood panel. So the quest began......after several hours of smashing things I found these interesting learnings: DELETING the LGHT file will break the base game functionality. Bad plan. So its better to turn the light OFF. Where? In the cres. All set to zero in the transform node, so the light might be there but you can't see it. Yay for breaking lights........ The diagonal - Do I look like the sort of fish who would spend HOURS making BHAVs to fix stuff? Um yea, I did. Am a foolish fish........... its in the text strings..... set routing to 0 instead of 1 in entries 3 and 4. Fixed. SADLY - Had just finished all the base game doors with flawed clones (these are NOT tears, I just have something in my EYE.......). Um. Start AGAIN.....gah gah gah ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Fixing stuff : 10th Apr 2011 at 2:22 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5436 ================================================================================ Ok, I fixed a couple of windows. I fixed them because the first one was my first TS3 item, the other two because the person I made them FOR asked me to. Just a comment on those others - I know how to fix em - I just cannot be bothered.... When I have to re-make something in TS3 it feels like a tedious chore - I make things for me and share them if I like. Those three were special and made for a different reason so I fixed them. Since I dont play TS3 I don't have a lot of motivation to make things as a result of playing. I am curious about a couple of mechanics of making objects, so I will probably play about with that, and if anything comes out of it I will upload it. So - for those who got this far - I know HOW to fix those other windows and door, I just don't feel the urge to do so - please do not pm me here or on LeeFish.nl giving me links/advice on how or friendly creators who can "help" me....... ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Welcome to my Guestbook : 8th Apr 2011 at 12:31 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5430 ================================================================================ Welcome to leesester's guestbook. Feel free to say hi. No requests for TS3 thank you. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Get a grip : 8th Apr 2011 at 12:29 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5429 ================================================================================ Time for me to stop wandering about feeling sorry for myself. I have "fixed" three window sets today - took me about two hours - most of which was me whining about how I hate TS3. Yea. I am NOT a fan of TS3 - no idea why. Anyway, gotta clean up the old stuff, in the process you never know - I might find there is something I want to make. I may never fix those cottage windows though cos to be honest - I really do NOT like them. And I make these things for me. So. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Creating - TS2 vs TS3 : 1st Oct 2010 at 2:15 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5105 ================================================================================ This is an interesting thread, its making me ask myself WHY I make stuff for either game.... I know how I got started for TS2 - I wanted to make an item to upload to MTS as my "payment" for all the great free stuff I had downloaded. It was just going to be one thing, then I got some requests - and it snowballed. I no longer played TS2 - I just made things. It had got to the point that, for me, making things WAS playing. Then Sims3 came along - I was so excited, on release day I was out there waiting on the shop doorstep to get my game. I thought my laptop might struggle but I installed it anyway - then I spent a lot of time hanging around in TS3mod, watching developments, waiting for the modding tools to be available. I made some stuff - one thing was badly borked and caused blue lots. That hit me hard - I was so ashamed - I made a thing that was THAT badly broken. I started using TSRW because I hated the decompiler. I found myself being treated like a second class creator for using it. Whatever. Then my laptop got stolen. So I was not able to create stuff for TS3, I could still make things for TS2 though. So I did. And I remembered how much I loved TS2, and there you go. That's why this creator makes stuff for TS2 - because the things it makes are stable and you can't break peoples games with it. Because people don't look down on you for using SIMPE. Because TS2 downloaders actually take the time to press the thanks button. (Yes, I have stats - TS2 downloads get more thanks per download than TS3 ones, at least on my scorecard.) Its nice to have someone say thanks. Because I like making things. I have a new PC now - its a high end machine, runs like a dream. I hope to get some TS3 EPs for my birthday. I was building a house in TS3 - some missing windows annoyed me. No doubt I will make some add-ons etc. I will PROBABLY use TSRW and S3PE combined. Maybe I will give up on TS2 - I don't know, it depends really on what game I am building my houses in :) ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Whoa - Journal Entry : 5th Aug 2010 at 12:08 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=5026 ================================================================================ Its a long story, but to cut it short - PC got stolen, had to wait for new one, old one can't run TS3. So I went back to TS2.....again. Anyhoo, for me creating is playing, so I made a desk actually TWO - will put them up on LeeFish and/or MTS. Not sure. Pic http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/22165_100805130651office-UPLOAD.jpg Desks are mirrored and have three deco slots ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : New window and a bottle of beer!! : 18th Oct 2009 at 12:21 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=4405 ================================================================================ Well, I NEARLY retired - I had lost all interest in sims3, no one seems to care about sims2 anymore...I love playing sims2, but mainly so I can make stuff. BUT - I dunno, I took a little holiday (a break from Sims really) and came back all inspired. This is gonna be my next upload - a centralised version of the little round sash window from TS3. In my version the brick surround recolours (thanks to Q who believed I could) and I rather cheekily redid the EA original to match mine.... http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/13911_091017191924Example.jpg a bottle of beer will be included in the upload. Why? Because I'm celebrating! ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Sims3 Troubles.... : 8th Oct 2009 at 10:52 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=4365 ================================================================================ Well, I bought sims3. I installed it on my elderly laptop, and after a few weeks I noticed poor old lappy was not enjoying sims3 at all. My game is running slow, I can't build, I have my settings super low so the graphics look awful. Not fun. So no more sims3 for me until I get a new PC. Which means I have gone back to TS2. And gosh how I love that game, I think my heart will always belong to TS2. Anyway, for me, playing is fiddling about with meshes and things so I can have my game look like I want it, and I always wanted to build a bookshop, but the book cases always looked so creepy. I spent the last week EMPTYING the billy bookcases from the IKEA set and then making deco books to fit (madness....) so I could get the look I wanted. The deco books are linked to plasticboxes amazing recolours - and well, see the pic. Is that cute or what? http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/leesester/zoom.jpg Yes I will upload these on MTS, some more fiddling to do yet. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : When I'm making Windows (ukelele not included) : 9th Aug 2009 at 10:59 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=4143 ================================================================================ Well, what a week it has been. But I did it - I made a window for TS3 and I am so happy and proud. Here he is.... http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/2/1/6/8/9/9/0/MTS2_leesester_980256_window-upload.jpg ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : The big 100.... : 27th Jun 2009 at 9:51 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3997 ================================================================================ Ulp, I am so excited.....the big 100,000 Downloads mark is here..... I joined the site last July, and I have to admit I NEVER thought that I would be a creator, let alone so many downloads and nice comments. When I posted my first window I thought I would get MAYBE 100 downloads of that item, so I was stunned when I reached that number in the first 2 days. And now, here I am; Featured, 100k of DLs, prize in the creator challenge. Its all a bit surprising as I am just an ordinary simmer. Anyway, I have met a lot of nice people and I really love this site and I never had a hobby before - its FUN. I will probably move to sims3 creation, but in the meantime, I will continue to be happy here, creating windows for sims2. Thank you MTS!! ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Mansion and Garden : 9th May 2009 at 4:19 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3833 ================================================================================ Well, I bought the stuff pack, and I have to say I am quite disappointed with it. I see EA did try to make sets - but have not quite got the idea of what a set is to a player. Also, a lot of the new stuff is NOT wellmade and would not have made it through the moderation queue IMO. So, I made a start - http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/leesester/mgwindow.jpg This window has a glitch - see if you can see it; it is because the original window has a glitch too..... I will work on a set of these. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Animated windows (sort of) : 19th Apr 2009 at 7:23 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3771 ================================================================================ I was attempting to build a warehouse for my game - and I wanted some nice windows. I was going to make an open set and a closed set of privacy sized windows to fit the style of the AL Gearhead windows. But then I looked at my build catalog and thought, meh, so many custom windows make stuff hard to find. So I made a sort of animated window - has two states; open and closed and goes via a piemenu. Check out the video link below, and watch the little window......It opens and closes - you can make it stay in either state. Click on the pic below and see the window in action! http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/leesester/th_movie003.jpg Will be uploading end of this week I hope. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Train station : 20th Mar 2009 at 3:07 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3647 ================================================================================ Well, I have been working on this forever; it is a train station, set in the 1930's - 1940's. It is a community lot and is nearly finished - the biggest pieces of custom content are the clock from on the site and special train tracks I made. The lot has a cafe, restaurant, bar (poker and darts) many toilets and seats and a newspaper kiosk. Here it is - Simton station, circa 1938 http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/2/1/6/8/9/9/0/MTS2_leesester_894665_tracks_final_copy.jpg I am working on a few more bits of custom content, but it is practically finished EDIT: is now uploaded, and is one of my Personal picks because I LOVE this lot. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Missing File - please help? : 15th Mar 2009 at 12:54 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3617 ================================================================================ Hi well, as a fairly new creator everything I had uploaded was gone from MTS2 after the crash. I had 80% of the files still, and I got 3 back from some very helpful people, thank you, but I am missing 1 file. Does anybody have a non played in (ie sat in the lot bin, or even better the rar file) version of my Blue Cottage? It is this thread http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=308649 Maybe not the greatest house in the world, but I would be sad to lose it. If you have it, please can you attach the file to the post incomments and I will reupload. While here, I would just like to say how amazed and impressed I am that so many people have stepped forward to help after the crash. It certainly refutes the claims that the sims2 community is bitchy, which is something I have never seen, and just convinces me more to stay around and create stuff, maybe even for sims3 - who knows? ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Back to creating : 1st Feb 2009 at 2:27 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3458 ================================================================================ Well, I started a new job in January, and it is going well, still got a lot to learn, but I am getting back into creating - but now as part of a group. I joined the simnation modding collective and so I am busy with the group projects right now. I still have a few bits of unfinished business of my own though - here's a list of my current projects; Monticello door - 90% done Socialite set from AL - 50% done, I have one half of the windows completed Smitty classy expansion from AL - only 1 door and 1 window so far. I think the socialite set will be finished first. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Leesester News : 2nd Jan 2009 at 3:16 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3324 ================================================================================ Leesester News This will be my last upload for a while because I have a new job and I have a lot to learn, so I will not be creating for the next month at least. I know I have a couple of requests, and I will work on those, but not in a speedy way, I hope you will understand. I will still log in, so keep those comments coming, but I have less time for creation right now ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Current projects update : 16th Dec 2008 at 9:27 AM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3252 ================================================================================ Current Projects Mauritania Set This is a big project to make a matching set of windows and doors for the Mauritania door. The doors are finished, I am struggling with the stained glass for the windows, but I think I can do it. http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/leesester/Mauritaniatransomtypes.jpg More 2 tile doors in Process I will make a couple more 2 tile doors - the doors I have chosen are the value just a door and the walnut door ================================================================================ ================================================================================ : Current projects : 27th Nov 2008 at 11:44 PM : https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&e=3166 ================================================================================ Current Projects Apartment door model changer Nearly finished This is an object mod to make apartment doors look like normal doors from the base game. it is in the upload queue right now and I need to "tweak" it a little before finally approved. I have a test model up on Inge Jones' site simlogical - www.simlogical.com in the testers forum, but this is just the test version and is not released Privacy windows Will finish over the weekend I am working on making a set of privacy windows that match the existing base game windows colonial and breeze easy. They are at UV mapping now, but as they are repositories are taking a while - also superseded in priority list... Creator challenge kids Now in panic mode I have one BIG idea and it is an object mod with animations; if that doesn't work out in time I am also working on some nursery windows to match the crib with teddy bears on the glass..... More 2 tile doors I will make a couple more 2 tile doors - I will try Numenors tutorial on adding a tile and changing placement as that is a very elegant method of adding and removing tiles for objects 1 tile door on 2 tiles FINISHED - uploaded to MTS2 ideal for smaller houses witha step up from the garden or street - first one will be a straight 'rip off" of the existing colonial door. I will make a set of recolours to match the colonial window set as the EAxis version doesn't......grr ================================================================================ : ---End File---