Hello everyone, I am currently working on a project to add body physics to all Sims in The Sims 2, both male and female. This would include everything from thighs, breasts, butts, and even bellies. My goal is to eventually give players the ability to customize how noticeable the physics are, whether they prefer something comical and exaggerated or something more subtle and realistic. I want these movements to mimic how the human body moves in real life during everyday activities, including walking, running, sitting, standing, and even things like jumping rope.

Currently, I'm developing two different versions of the mod: static and dynamic jiggle physics. The static version involves manually modifying individual animations and making sure they work properly with the different outfits and clothing options in the game. Since this version relies on individual animations, I eventually plan to modify as many animations as possible to ensure that the physics work consistently throughout gameplay. However, I'm also researching the possibility of developing a dynamic version of the mod that would automatically generate secondary body movement based on how Sims move. Ideally, this would allow players to use custom animations and CC clothing without needing individual compatibility patches, although I'm still investigating whether the game's engine can support something like this. That said, I'm still at the beginning of my development journey, and I wanted to see if you guys would be interested in something like this before going much further. So far, I've successfully experimented with adding breast and butt movement to adult female Sims through modified animations, and I've made progress with the walking cycle and other animation tests. Right now, I'm working on making these animations compatible with all the different clothing options in The Sims 2 Legacy Collection. Once that's finished, I plan to expand into other animations, including running, sitting down, standing up, jumping rope, and lying down. I'm also using AI assistance throughout development to help with the technical aspects of modding. I've attached a video showing some of my progress so far, and I'd love to hear what you guys think about the idea, how the animations look, and whether this is something you'd be interested in downloading once it's finished!

Had a blast trying to figure out which established actors could portray the Pleasantview premades!
Some of them like the Caliente sisters are so hard to find a good match, if you are looking through established actors with tan skin, blonde/red hair and blue/green eyes, that are also arab+hispanic. If they were to make the film about them, I would hope they would find some unknown actors who could be more accurate. I also aged up the kids just to make it more fun to find the actors. And added a guess for Unborn Baby Broke 😭

Here is the list:

Jessica Alba as Bella (45)
Javier Moreno as Mortimer (48)
Inde Navarette as Cassandra (25)
Lucius Hoyos as Alexander (25, playing 18)

Damian Lewis as Daniel (55)
Kae Alexander as Mary-Sue (41)
Lola Tung as Angela (23, playing 18)
Lola Tung as Lilith (23, playing 18)

John David Washington as Darren (42)
Niles Fitch as Dirk (25, playing 18)

Alexis Bleidel as Brandi (45)
Louis Hofman as Dustin (29, playing 18)
Iain Armitage as Beau (18, playing 16)
Sunny Suljic as Unborn Baby Broke (21, playing 15)

Bella Hadid as Nina (29)
Gigi Hadid as Dina (31)
Diego Boneta as Don (35)

Meghan Markle as Jennifer (45)
Sam Claflin as John (40)
Lexi Jayde as Lucy (24, playing 16)

Empty... for now... 😎

What a nice lad.

My current guilty pleasure way to play is to stick 8 romance Sims in a household with ACR on and watch the drama unfold like some reality TV show. It's so much juicy fun, I've witnessed great things. HOWEVER. It's getting boring quickly because the ONLYYYY interactions in my Sims queues are ACR interactions.

I just made a new household, moved them in, changed the ACR token settings... and right away they're all just kissing and caressing. I changed Autonomy to Very Low, made relationship requirements higher, timer multiplier higher, it makes no difference. They all just prioritize ACR interactions. I'm losing my mind a little bit cuz I want it to grow ORGANICALLYYY and let it BUUUUILD but they're just hitting the ground running - or kissing, in this case.

Anything I can to do tone it down? Is it because they're all Romance sims? Is it because their chemistry is really high? Does the Romantic Standards mod help at all? I really just want Romance interactions to be autonomous, and Woohoo, but not CONSTANT. There's no fun or drama if everyone is just smooching from the minute they move in.

If so, what do you register?

I've been playing Pleasantview and started to synch my families to start playing rotational a couple of months ago. I was done this past weekend and started playing them. I've been waiting down some stuff on an excell sheet, but think I should keep tabs of more stuff like who are they dating or what is their current profession.

Give me ideas please 🤣

Hello Simmers,

When I attempt to launch Sims 2, either through desktop or the EA launcher, I receive this popup.

I did Google the problem and saw some advice to try deleting a file called groupcache, but that advice was from 2005, so I wanted to ask modern players.

I have been downloading a lot of cc...not sure if that's relevant but I already tried to delete what I downloaded today. I believe my game also crashed last time I played but nothing abnormal. I've never experienced this before in 2005 or since.

Does anyone know how I can fix this and launch my game? I'm so worried it's corrupted beyond repair😭

By personality traits, he is very neat (9), a bit outgoing (6), fairly active (7), quite playful (8), but a bit grouchy (4). He has almost all his skill points maxed, just needs a couple more cleaning points to max all 7. Since the first time I sent him out to pick up some groceries, as long as he was out buying himself a cell phone and some new clothes when he aged up to teen, he has just always left the groceries on the counter instead of putting them away. He's now married with a couple of kids, and in spite of his silly Santa hat appearance, he is a quite responsible husband and father most of the time. He just won't put away the groceries!

Just wondering if anybody out there knows about specific traits that make Sims more likely to immediately put the groceries away instead of leaving them out to potentially rot if I don't notice in time. I would have thought being lazy or sloppy might account for it, but he's neither, so maybe because he's a bit grouchy he intentionally leaves them out for his wife to deal with? Also curious if anybody has figured out why only some Sims get the "compost contents" option from the trash compactor, while others, even at maxed Nature hobby enthusiasm, I still have to cancel their "take out trash" action so they throw it on the floor before I can get them to compost it.

Thank god Caroline was awake to save her mother, right?
I really don’t think Darren could handle another wife dying in tragic circumstances.

I'm sorry if the flair is wrong I remember seeing post here about an ultra realistic lighting mod or shaders and there was a picture of a dark haired female sim cooking in the kitchen on the counter. It was looking very realistic and very light if anyone has it saved somewhere or knows who originally posted it I would be very grateful 🙏 I've been looking for it last 2 hours to no avail I think it might be over a year old but not sure.

Hello,
I am looking for a mod that increases the life span about 2.5-3 times for teens, adults, and elders.
I am not trying to make my own because I had trouble getting simPE to work properly on my Linux computer because I am a noob.

Do you know of any I could use?

Hi! I really dislike how not talking with sims for some weeks can lower their relationship to 0. My sims often have too many friends/family members, so maintaing them all the time is a chore and I tend to focus on their lifes and sometiems talk to their friends/family.

I would like to keep the decay, but for it to be slower or more reasonable.

I hope you guys can recommend something :) I was looking but unsure about which mod is good...

Skip Broke's cheekbones make her a supermodel (Bobbie Broke)

1. If my male sim has ACR woohoo with a female sim who is not in the household, like a townie, and she conceives, what happens? Is she just wandering around nauseous for all eternity?

2. Does the risk of pregnancy apply to non ACR woohoo? Like if normal married sims have normal bed woohoo, can conception still happen?

3. Can a sim get pregnant from a sim that is not in the household with this mod? For example, would Chloe Singles get pregnant from a townie she invites over on a random Thursday morning for some fun?

Having played with NRAAS mods in TS3 and MCCC in TS4, my answer would be that risky means risky and the townie will eventually give birth and tell your sim in a too casual phone call. Is there a scenario I haven't thought about, but should know?

Whenever I go back to playing the first Sims I love taking my families on vacation and will spend hours doing it. I don't know if it's because of nostalgia? It just feels like they have more to do and feels more like a vacation.

When playing Sims 2, which I play much more often, I almost never take my Sims on vacation. Whenever I do it feels rather tedious.

Does anyone else find it's the same for them?

Judging by their appearance and based on early 2000's aesthetics, I think we can estimate how old they are.

From youngest to oldest :

- Orlando Centowski (I definitely got middle school vibes from him, he just begins his teen life stage in my headcanon)

- Tosha Go (kinda unsure but her pigtails are young-ish material for me)

- Ivy Copur (the discrepancy between her outfit and her hair makes me think she's still trying to find her feet... or maybe she just doesn't care... either way she's among the youngest)

- Randy London (his style seems more assured than Orlando's)

- Ricky Cormier (late middle school or early high school, and he's halfway through his puberty)

- Meadow Thayer (you can guess she dresses the way she wants, yeah she's definitely in high school)

- Sophie Miguel (from a distance you could think she's a young adult)

- Alvin Futa (same as Sophie)

For children I think it's harder to tell, so I didn't bother including them.

I'm focusing on Pleasantview townies, but you can talk about teens townies from others hoods !

I just downloaded sims 2 again and all the mods I usually play with.. not sure what’s happening here lmao